Detour archives
Smokers Always Welcome
// Mon, Apr 3 2006by Ross Wolinsky
Sin Alma
// Mon, Mar 27 2006by Kimberly Soenen
Modern Hieroglyphics
// Mon, Mar 20 2006by Sarah Hadley
The Third Coast, Excerpt 3
// Mon, Mar 13 2006by Edward McClelland
A Winter Garden
// Mon, Mar 6 2006by Naz Hamid
10 Under $10: Lakeview
// Mon, Feb 27 2006by Veronica Bond
Talking Civic Pride With Ira Glass
// Mon, Feb 20 2006by Dave Elfving
The Third Coast, Excerpt 2
// Mon, Feb 13 2006by Ted McClelland
New Restaurants
// Mon, Feb 6 2006by Anne Holub & Andrew Huff
Chinese New Year 2006
// Mon, Jan 30 2006by Jen Schuetz & Naz Hamid
Coupling in Chicago
// Mon, Jan 23 2006by Jen Schuetz
The Third Coast Excerpt 1
// Mon, Jan 16 2006by Ted McClelland
Then and Now: The Adventures of Augie March
// Mon, Jan 9 2006by Alice Maggio & Brian Sobolak
Gapers Block Top Tens for 2005
// Mon, Jan 2 2006by The GB Staff
Hangover Helper
// Mon, Dec 26 2005by Christine Blumer
Holiday Gift Guide 2005
// Mon, Dec 19 2005by Gapers Block staff
Making Music with Mark Greenberg
// Mon, Dec 12 2005by David Elfving
Chi Cross Cup
// Mon, Dec 5 2005by Jen Schuetz/Naz Hamid
House on the Rock: Come for the Fish, Stay for the Four Horsemen
// Mon, Nov 28 2005by Brandon Heckman
Review: Everybody Loves Pizza
// Mon, Nov 21 2005by Andrew Huff
A Call for Submissions
// Mon, Nov 14 2005by The Editors
Ask Sour Bob, No. 1
// Mon, Nov 7 2005by Sour Bob
Cohabitation
// Tue, Nov 1 2005by Jill Dorothy Summers
Interview: Davy Rothbart
// Mon, Oct 24 2005by Veronica Bond
When the Roses Bloom Again
// Mon, Oct 17 2005by Laura Park
Local Director Gets His Hands Bloody
// Mon, Oct 10 2005by Chelsea Voulgares
Introducing the GapersBlock Podcast
// Mon, Oct 3 2005by David Elfving
New Television Networks
// Mon, Sep 26 2005by C.M. Sienko, Wendy McClure & Sour Bob
The Ass That Goes POW: Michelle "Toots" L'Amour
// Mon, Sep 19 2005by Shylo Bisnett
To animate again
// Mon, Sep 12 2005by Melissa Weimer
The Antisocialite
// Mon, Sep 5 2005by Dave Elfving
Bringing Life to the Underpasses
// Mon, Aug 29 2005by Craig Berman
StoryCorps: Chicago's Voices, America's History
// Mon, Aug 22 2005by Matthew Peck & David Elfving
Rolleicord Portraits
// Mon, Aug 15 2005by Nick Campbell
Review: Looped
// Mon, Aug 8 2005by Veronica Bond
Opinion: Out With the Old, In With the New?
// Mon, Aug 1 2005by Peter Eriksson
Lisa Labuz
// Mon, Jul 25 2005by David Elfving
Awkward
// Mon, Jul 18 2005by Ian Dingman
"It Has to Mean Something"
// Sun, Jul 10 2005by Ramsin Canon
Illinois Seems Like a Dream to Me Now: An Interview with Sufjan Stevens
// Mon, Jul 4 2005by Matthew L. Peck
The Ice Cream Scene
// Mon, Jun 27 2005by the Gapers Block Staff
The Critic: Local Festivals
// Mon, Jun 20 2005by Jenny Peaseblossom, Dee Stiffler & Matthew Peck
A City Saturated
// Tue, Jun 14 2005by Jennifer Brown
A Three Hour (River and Lake Architectural) Tour
// Mon, Jun 6 2005by Dee Stiffler
A Day in the Life: Memorial Day
// Wed, Jun 1 2005by Various Photographers
Talking Power and Architecture with Lee Bey
// Mon, May 23 2005by David Elfving
Sticking To the Dream
// Mon, May 16 2005by Matt Wood
Human Nature/South for Winter
// Mon, May 9 2005by Debbie Carlos
Captions Without Photos
// Mon, May 2 2005by Peter Anderson
Review: I'm Not the New Me
// Mon, Apr 25 2005by Veronica Bond
Sam Prekop
// Mon, Apr 18 2005by David Elfving
Of Elephants and Accidents: The Truth About Showmen's Rest
// Mon, Apr 11 2005by Wendy McClure
Beautiful industrial
// Mon, Apr 4 2005by Jen Schuetz
Wendy McClure: Live and in Person
// Mon, Mar 28 2005by David Elfving
Review: Cast of Shadows
// Mon, Mar 21 2005by Veronica Bond
The New Music
// Fri, Mar 11 2005by Jake Brown, Brandon Heckman, Eric Rampson & Rich Sparks
What Are You Dreaming?
// Fri, Mar 4 2005by Matthew Taplinger
A CTA Map for 2055
// Fri, Feb 25 2005by Craig Berman
A Talk with Lonnie Bunch
// Fri, Feb 18 2005by David Elfving
A Tour of the 2005 Chicago Auto Show
// Sun, Feb 13 2005by Paul McAleer
High on LSD and Stuck in Traffic Again
// Fri, Feb 4 2005by Alice Maggio
Chicago Skyline: Above, Below, and Beyond
// Fri, Jan 28 2005by Archie Florcruz
Chicago In Korea
// Fri, Jan 21 2005by David Elfving
CTA Worst Case/Photo Essay
// Fri, Jan 14 2005by Tim Requarth, various photographers
Book Review: The Suburban You by Mark Falanga
// Fri, Jan 7 2005by Peter Zelchenko
Gapers Block Staff Top Tens 2004
// Fri, Dec 31 2004by The GB Staff
Hirsch Street
// Fri, Dec 24 2004by Linda Romero
Last-Minute Local Shopping
// Fri, Dec 17 2004by Gapers Block Staff
Chicago Then & Now
// Fri, Dec 10 2004by Luke Seemann
Collectible Toys
// Fri, Dec 3 2004by Brandon Heckman & Andrew Huff
Planning Parenthood
// Fri, Nov 26 2004by Matt Wood
Photocollages
// Fri, Nov 19 2004by Phineas X. Jones
Neko Case
// Fri, Nov 12 2004by David Elfving
New Music: Fall '04
// Fri, Nov 5 2004by Claire Zulkey & Brandon Heckman
Time Capsules of the Chicago Sun-Times
// Fri, Oct 29 2004by Howard Wolinsky
Fall
// Fri, Oct 22 2004by Various Contributors
Chicago's Comics Community
// Fri, Oct 15 2004by David Elfving
Berwyn's Bank Building Battle
// Fri, Oct 8 2004by Paul McAleer
My Dinner With Gacy
// Fri, Oct 1 2004by Andy Martello
New Boutiques
// Fri, Sep 24 2004by Wendy McClure, Cinnamon Cooper & Anne Holub
The Lake
// Fri, Sep 17 2004by Various contributors
Studs Terkel
// Fri, Sep 10 2004by David Elfving
City of Short Stories
// Fri, Sep 3 2004by Jacqueline Ostrowski
Musicals
// Fri, Aug 27 2004by Shylo Bisnett, Andrew Huff and Alice Maggio
Chicago Botanic Garden
// Fri, Aug 20 2004by Naz Hamid
Early to Bed
// Fri, Aug 13 2004by David Elfving
A Three Hour (River and Lake) Tour
// Fri, Aug 6 2004by Dee Stiffler
Performance Art
// Fri, Jul 30 2004by Jim Coudal, Andrew Huff & Brian Sobolak
Millennium Park
// Fri, Jul 23 2004by Various Contributors
Jay Ryan
// Fri, Jul 16 2004by David Elfving
Hot Town, Ice Cream in the City
// Fri, Jul 9 2004by Jenny Connell
The Critic: Fusion Restaurants
// Fri, Jul 2 2004by Andrew Huff, Shylo Bisnett & Alice Maggio
Photo Essay: Fulton Market
// Fri, Jun 18 2004by Naz Hamid
Summer Reading
// Fri, Jun 11 2004by GB Staff
The Audible City: Tim Tuten
// Fri, Jun 4 2004by Dave Elfving
The Critic: Books Turned Movies
// Fri, May 28 2004by Andrew Huff, Gordon McAlpin and Brandon Heckman
American Girls Gone Wild
// Thu, May 20 2004by Shylo Bisnett & Wendy McClure
Profiles of Local Artists
// Fri, May 14 2004by Alan Jacobson
Spring in the City
// Fri, May 7 2004by Rearview Contributors
March for Choice
// Fri, Apr 30 2004by Cinnamon Cooper & Anne Holub
The Critic: New Music, part 3
// Fri, Apr 23 2004by Nazarin Hamid and Andrew Huff
Where Do We Go From Here?
// Thu, Apr 15 2004by The Editors
The Season Starts Here
// Fri, Apr 9 2004by Jonathan Messinger
Disappeared In The Snow (Pupil's Memoir)
// Fri, Apr 2 2004by Deon C. Sanders
In Control, In Chicago
// Fri, Mar 26 2004by Conrad Lawrence
An Open Letter to Lonely Planet
// Fri, Mar 19 2004by Lacey Graves
The Critic Goes to the Movies
// Fri, Mar 12 2004by Jeff Webber, Andrew Huff, Shylo Bisnett
Cock o' the Block
// Fri, Mar 5 2004by Erin Burke
The Girdered Cathedral
// Fri, Feb 27 2004by Mark W. Anderson
Subterranean City: A Tour of Chicago's Pedway (Part Two)
// Fri, Feb 20 2004by Alice Maggio
Subterranean City: A Tour of Chicago's Pedway (Part 1)
// Fri, Feb 13 2004by Alice Maggio
The Vagaries of Contemporary Rock Crit
// Fri, Feb 6 2004by Brandon Heckman
Poems About God
// Fri, Jan 30 2004by Brian Sobolak
The Critic: New Music 2
// Fri, Jan 23 2004by Shylo Bisnett, Naz Hamid & Brandon Heckman
7:00PM November 18th.
// Fri, Jan 16 2004by Brandon Heckman
An Interview with BCM International
// Fri, Jan 9 2004by Alex Golub
Ten Top Tens and Some Personal Lists
// Fri, Jan 2 2004by The Staff
40 Minutes from O'Hare to Downtown: A Guide to Chicago Traffic
// Fri, Dec 26 2003by Alice Maggio
Holiday in the Holy Land
// Fri, Dec 19 2003by John Gerard McLaughlin
Good to Kind of Be The King
// Fri, Dec 12 2003by Ramsin Canon
Burning Man at the Holidays
// Fri, Dec 5 2003by Brandon Harvey
WLUW: Voice of the Independent
// Fri, Nov 28 2003by Cinnamon Cooper
Shoes on My Feet
// Fri, Nov 21 2003by Francis Raven
Bitch in the City
// Fri, Nov 14 2003by Roni
Fighting SAD
// Fri, Nov 7 2003by Shylo Bisnett
More Goulash, Fewer Excuses
// Fri, Oct 31 2003by Luke Seemann
Disconovascotianostalgisia
// Fri, Oct 24 2003by Mary Fons
The Critic: Signs of the Times
// Fri, Oct 17 2003by Andrew Huff & Nazarin Hamid
Compare and Contrast: Savage Wars of Peace and Virtual War
// Fri, Oct 10 2003by Alex Golub
How to Watch a Marathon
// Fri, Oct 3 2003by Luke Seemann
Riding the Jeffrey
// Thu, Sep 25 2003by Michelle Repp
Going to Ghana, Part 4
// Tue, Sep 23 2003by Jesica Davis
Blueberries and the End of Summer
// Thu, Sep 18 2003by Shylo Bisnett
Call for Submissions
// Tue, Sep 16 2003by The Editors
Driving Lessons
// Thu, Sep 11 2003by Andrew Huff
The Urban Jungle
// Tue, Sep 9 2003by Eric H. Thompson
Going to Ghana, Part 3
// Thu, Sep 4 2003by Jesica Davis
Elephants and Accidents: The Truth about Showmen's Rest
// Tue, Sep 2 2003by Wendy McClure
One Good Meal
// Wed, Aug 27 2003by Cinnamon Cooper
The Critic: Fashion Forward
// Mon, Aug 25 2003by Alejandra Valera
Goonies Forever
// Fri, Aug 22 2003by Nazarin Hamid
Wizard World 2003: A Female Perspective
// Wed, Aug 20 2003by Lacey Graves
Point and Shoot: Dying at Jewel
// Mon, Aug 18 2003by Shylo Bisnett
Late Summer Reading
// Fri, Aug 15 2003by David Elfving
Going to Ghana, Part 2
// Wed, Aug 13 2003by Jesica Davis
The Joylessness of Sex Books
// Mon, Aug 11 2003by Ruthie Hansen
Grocery Store Confidential
// Fri, Aug 8 2003by Eric H. Thompson
Chicago, For a Song
// Wed, Aug 6 2003by Ramsin Canon
Dating The Captain
// Mon, Aug 4 2003by Lacey Graves
I Just Called to Say I'm Sorry
// Fri, Aug 1 2003by Andrew Huff
Ointments I Have Known
// Wed, Jul 30 2003by Alex Golub
The Cowboy Hat Mystique
// Mon, Jul 28 2003by Leigh Hanlon
Going to Ghana
// Fri, Jul 25 2003by Jesica Davis
His Elected Majesty, The Mayor.
// Wed, Jul 23 2003by Ramsin Canon
Gapers' Block Party Wrap-up
// Mon, Jul 21 2003by GB Staff
Searching for the True Chicago Dive
// Fri, Jul 18 2003by Ramsin Canon
Tapped Out
// Wed, Jul 16 2003by Mark W. Anderson. Photography by Leigh Hanlon
Where's Home?
// Mon, Jul 14 2003by Cinnamon Cooper
Summer Reading
// Fri, Jul 11 2003by David Elfving
My Coffee with Cameron
// Wed, Jul 9 2003by Kevin Skomsvold
The Critic: Fireworks
// Mon, Jul 7 2003by Andrew Huff
Remembering the Bunny
// Sun, Jun 29 2003by Nazarin Hamid
Why We Need Both Teams: Considering the Cross-town Classic
// Fri, Jun 27 2003by Ramsin Canon
My Practice
// Wed, Jun 25 2003by Jesica Davis
Country Girl in a Blues Town
// Mon, Jun 23 2003by Shylo Bisnett
Chicago: Retirement Community of the Stars
// Wed, Jun 18 2003by Brian Sobolak
The Critic Goes Gonzo
// Mon, Jun 16 2003by Leigh Hanlon
The Better Chicago Card
// Wed, Jun 11 2003by Paul McAleer
Kirk Unit
// Mon, Jun 9 2003by David Elfving
The Writing Process
// Wed, Jun 4 2003by Alejandra Valera
From Start to Finish: The North Branch Bicycle Trail
// Mon, Jun 2 2003by Shylo Bisnett, Phineas X. Jones
Another year, another DEMF
// Thu, May 29 2003by Jesica Davis
Six Qualities of a Good Diner
// Tue, May 27 2003by Brian Sobolak
The Critic: New Music
// Thu, May 22 2003by Andrew Huff
Major League Relationships
// Mon, May 19 2003by Nazarin Hamid
Caldwell and Devon
// Mon, May 12 2003by Shylo Bisnett
An Unfortunate Instance of Public Art
// Wed, May 7 2003by David Elfving
A dialogue between KISS & ABBA
// Mon, May 5 2003by Shylo Bisnett
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Smokers Always Welcome
Sin Alma
Modern Hieroglyphics
The Third Coast, Excerpt 3
A Winter Garden
10 Under $10: Lakeview
Talking Civic Pride With Ira Glass
The Third Coast, Excerpt 2
New Restaurants
