Dec 18, 1997 · N-I-G-G-E-R. I’ll never forget the first time I accidentally used that word in mixed company. It was 20 years ago at the University of Missouri, and I was engaged in lighthearted chitchat with ...

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Dec 23, 2024 · No one denies it: F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror is still the gold standard for Dracula onscreen.This 1922 silent German expressionist film—an unauthorized riff on Bram Stoker ...

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Jan 10, 2025 · Leor Galil (he/him) started writing for the Chicago Reader in 2010. He joined the staff in 2012 and became a senior staff writer in 2020. Galil mainly covers music, with a singular focus on ...

Dec 26, 2024 · Writer Grant Pick died suddenly in 2005 of a heart attack. By that time, Pick had written for the paper for more than 20 years. As former Reader editor and columnist Michael Miner wrote in a ...

Nov 20, 2024 · A sturdy exhibition of photographs and objects born of the sprawling practice of Frank Lloyd Wright has opened at the Driehaus Museum.

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