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’24 Local Voter Guide
If you’re a sentient being existing in the country right now, you’re probably aware it’s election season. You may even have noticed this particular election...
Welcome to Best Of 2024
“Best Of”s and listicles are everywhere these days, but remember our Best Of dates back to 1996. You can reasonably say our institutional knowledge...
Anti-Rainbow Coalition
An embattled metaphysical shop on the North Side is under attack again.
A far-right North Texas coalition plans to “peacefully” march outside 3-year-old Higher Purpose...
Draining
There’s never been a more stressful time to be a teacher. I say that as someone who worked in K-12 schools for more than...
D&D Night
This happened the other day. Tham, the adventuring party’s blue-skinned, ram’s-horned tiefling rogue, succeeded, against all odds, in two consecutive, improbable feats. Despite his...
Follow the Leader
When the mostly Hispanic cheerleaders from the mostly Hispanic North Side High School went to shake hands with the Arlington Heights High cheer squad...
Fuzzy Math
In 1954, per Brown vs. the Board of Education, segregation in schools was outlawed in the United States. The hope was that Black children...
Quiet Resistance
Just when your average rational person couldn’t respect and admire public school teachers any more, there’s a new alleged “gotcha” video that only reveals...
For the Hope of It All
With the recent conclusion of Taylor Swift’s record-breaking Eras Tour in Europe — and with it, the Instagram livestreams that brightened the afternoons of...
Beyond the Dunderdome
Greetings, fellow dunderheads. And grim tidings.
We’ve been slack, and the repercussions are no longer hiding.
Most of us love us some Road Warrior, or Mad...
