Chicago is Most Segregated City in America. Or, How to Make Jokes About Unfunny Things
I’m a semi-regular contributor to Paper Machete, a live news magazine that happens (for FREE!) every Saturday at the Horseshoe Lounge here in Chicago. Basically, what it is is a bunch of mostly funny people getting together to perform short pieces about the news of the week, plus some cultural commentary and musical acts. The [...]
Talking about (shhh…) R-A-C-E
In February 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder said this: Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards… By creating what will admittedly be, at first, artificial opportunities to engage one [...]
