Wow, a 2025 study found you could connect Craigslist entering a city with a decline in local newspaper staffing, leading to a decline in politics coverage, which in turn led to a decline in readership, which they connect to more partisan voting and extreme candidates.
@sonik0909 Do you enjoy spending time this way? Engaging with people you’ve never met for a debate that won’t change your mind? If you died tomorrow, would you have considered this a good use of your time on earth?
We'll Never Stop Living This Way: A Ghostly International Catalogue (GI-500)
- the first monograph of Ghostly's 25+ years of music and art.
Published by @hatandbeardbks
Designed by @practise
484 page mirror-coated hardcover
Pre-order at link in bio for Nov 21 delivery
Here’s a playlist I made of all the OG samples on Resurrection available on streaming. Nowadays I probably listen to this even more than the album itself. https://t.co/f7Bty6pqNK
There is a lot going on in the world, but I am popping back in this space to share a yearlong investigation we published today about a hospital on Chicago's Northwest Side that some call the "Death Hospital."
Here's why: https://t.co/sLTI4aYlyG
Alexander Chee meets a likely killer at Denny's, while @talrosenberg puts ANORA (2024) in conversation with MARTHA (1974) for LARB Quarterly's two new columns, available only in print. Get yours and read now at https://t.co/FAlNvaiXhr
"For all its problems, the L holds great significance for Chicagoans. It’s more than a means of moving people around — it’s integral to the city’s character."
@talrosenberg for @ChicagoMag: https://t.co/EuVm5BFhue
With ridership lagging and a fiscal reckoning looming, the L train is in trouble. What is its future? I wrote about all of it — how we got here and where we might be heading — for the May issue of @ChicagoMag. The story is online today and on newsstands now. (Link below)
Soul Music of Illinois,’ edited by local collector Dante Carfagna, is an exhaustive visual survey of our state’s crucial role in the genre.
https://t.co/m2WY6xZy7i
For @WBEZ I wrote about Soul Music of Illinois, an insanely comprehensive visual and discographical survey of the state’s soul music from 1960-1990, compiled and edited by Dante Carfagna for @numerogroup https://t.co/82qns6bsFm