Jennifer Day

Booklover. Michigander. Chicago magazine/Chicago Tribune alum.

[chris borrelli @borrelli]

My profile of Rich Koz - aka, Chicago’s Svengoolie 🧛🏻‍♂️- and the lost tradition of local horror TV hosts. He is the last of a kind, yet still drawing at least a million viewers weekly, with an army of fans (including famous ones, like ⁦@MarkHamill⁩) https://t.co/vhcBM31UyA

[chris borrelli @borrelli]

My piece on a forgotten chunk of Halloween lore - the great (and cheap, and weird, and disposable) Ben Cooper costumes of the Cold War years. Plastic masks and very breakable rubber bands and smocks… https://t.co/vMwAp5z14Q

[Tracy van Straaten @TvS_312]

Author @RL_Stine and @borrelli in conversation with @chihumanities @musicboxtheatre in Chicago.

[chris borrelli @borrelli]

I wrote about what the resilient puppeteers of Sugar Hole - the Irving Park sidewalk ice cream/hand pie/beer shop that uses puppets to take orders - have learned about human nature. https://t.co/eoonIsd8wO

[chris borrelli @borrelli]

I wrote about Steven Mullins, an Evanston man who left behind 8500 Toby jugs - and a museum dedicated to Toby jugs. He died five years ago. Five years later his family still trying to figure out what to do with 8000 Toby jugs https://t.co/fFycmIjxC7

[chris borrelli @borrelli]

My roundup of the best TBRs for the fall book season, a bounty w/⁦⁦@GarthGreenwell⁩ ⁦@jamiattenberg⁩ ⁦@alexispauline⁩ ⁦@jeffvandermeer⁩ ⁦⁦@robsheff⁩ ⁦@LiliAnolik⁩ ⁦@sarahelizalewis⁩ ⁦@misscherrylala⁩… https://t.co/DRiQ8QSCu3

[Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune]

Regardless of your history with Malört, the title of Josh Noel’s upcoming book — “Malört: The Redemption of a Revered & Reviled Spirit” — likely either downplays the caustic thrill of a shot or soft-pedals the depths of your disgust, writes @Borrelli. https://t.co/E0xwjX0Xly

[chris borrelli @borrelli]

As summer ends, I wrote about a curious tourism phenomenon - the letters and boxes of rocks, sticks, shells etc that visitors mail back to national parks, feeling guilty about their small acts of environmental theft https://t.co/KsNTcomNZz

[chris borrelli @borrelli]

Vegemite, anchovies on pizza, haggis… and ⁦@JeppsonsMalort⁩? My column on ⁦@hopnotes⁩’ new book about the scariest Chicago drink, and its place in a world of ⁦@seanseaevans⁩ and weekly internet food dares https://t.co/CpZnTCczci

[chris borrelli @borrelli]

My profile of ⁦@TheRealBuddyGuy⁩, the end of the Chicago blues and the complicated business of playing a legend https://t.co/kH89CTHUOq

[Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune]

Column: The best comedy of the year so far is on YouTube, the breath-stealing brilliance of Chicago’s Conner O’Malley
https://t.co/mIIGjjmRaK

[chris borrelli @borrelli]

I wrote about the “Zombie Bands” of summer - those musical acts down to one, two or no original members but continue to tour under a famous name. The difference between tribute act and real deal is not as clear as it looks. https://t.co/wPqj6QQJ7M

[Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune]

There are at least a dozen pizza farms in Wisconsin, which may be the state’s answer to California vineyards. https://t.co/PJyC1InCFV

[chris borrelli @borrelli]

My short piece on Chicago comedian/provocateur Conner O’Malley’s great unclassifiable special - watchable now on YouTube. As he describes it: “Imagine Joe Rogan without the money.” https://t.co/6uSKWWomr6

[chris borrelli @borrelli]

In honor of NASCAR’s annual road race through Chicago… the biggest, dumbest, most common everyday driving crimes of everyday Chicagoans https://t.co/skGIuLg7kP

[Chicago Tribune Food & Dining @ChiTribFood]

And on this farm we had a … pizza? Why the Wisconsin pizza farm movement is an idea whose time has come https://t.co/3vKYSYXHbe

[Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune]

The Legend of the Bike Whisperer of Beverly began four years ago, during quarantine.
https://t.co/BHq5PdDnWj

[chris borrelli @borrelli]

My profile of Louie Burrel, the Bike Whisperer of Beverly - a very in-demand Chicago bike instructor who has a lot of parents ashamed to be outsourcing this parenting rite of passage (but secretly thrilled he saved them hours and a stroke). https://t.co/qwNGpA6jhd

[chris borrelli @borrelli]

On the occasion of ⁦@musicboxtheatre⁩’s week-long birthday party for Godzilla, I wrote an ode: “At rare times I’m honest with myself, I accept that the longest, least fraught relationship I’ve had in my life is with a 70-year-old Japanese lizard.” https://t.co/QAsGAb9qCR

[chris borrelli @borrelli]

Cicada season in Illinois may be passing its peak, but the shrill song of the cicada lives on - in experimental music, ambient electronica, drone rock. My piece on the links between very loud bugs and buggy, repetitious music https://t.co/ia7vBtt2qi