November 13, 2003

Cubs still can't win

Cubs pitcher Mark Prior came in third for the NL Cy Young award, announced today. He lost out to Dodgers closer Eric Gagne and the Giants' Jason Schmidt. He's also getting married this Saturday; I'm sure I'm not the only one a little sad about that news. [Trib login: gapers/gapers]

- kv | 13.11.03 ~ Sports/Recreation

100 Bullets for Batman and Superman

Local comic writer Brian Azzarello, author of the acclaimed "100 Bullets," is taking a turn writing for DC Comics classic Batman and Superman comics. (via TMN.) [Trib login: gapers/gapers]

- ah | 13.11.03 ~ Arts/Architecture

Support Arab Cinema!

The Gene Siskel Film Center is hosting an Arab Film Series. The series took a lot of doing to get together, including the hard work of a lot of highly placed cultural attache types, but attendance is threatening to be low, and emails circulating around the academic/arts community are urging people to come on out. So if you're interested in the art behind America's favorite Global Hotspot, be sure to check it out.

- ag | 13.11.03 ~ Film

Ceci n'est pas un movement.

The Surrealist Movement in the United States is headquartered in Evanston? How surreal.

- ah | 13.11.03 ~ Arts/Architecture

Bookslut in the Reader

Jessa Crispin, creator of the literary weblog and e-zine Bookslut, is on the cover of the Chicago Reader this week talking about her blog and her experience with incurring the wrath of writer Dale Peck. Jessa recently moved to Chicago from Austin, and we're thrilled to have her. This is also the Reader's Fall Books issue so run out and grab a copy.

- am | 13.11.03 ~ Weblogs

Baby Face Nelson

Lester M. Gillis, aka "Baby Face Nelson," was one of Chicago's most famous gangsters. Few people realize, however, that he was killed not in the city but actually just outside Barrington, at what is now the intersection of Routes 14 and 22 in Fox River Grove.

- ah | 13.11.03 ~ History

Windy City?

You wouldn't know it if you've been outside today, but those pesky East Coast Bostonians claim Boston, not Chicago, is the windiest city in America. Much of New England's wind comes from the west. But the region is subject to many complicated weather patterns that give Boston an annual wind speed of 12.4 miles per hour, higher than any other major American city. Chicago, in fact, barely makes the top 10. Sure didn't seem like it this morning, though.

- eh | 13.11.03 ~ City Life/Cultural

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