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1096-6919. Website. chicagoreader.com. The Chicago Reader, or Reader (stylized as ЯEADER), is an American alternative newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, noted for its literary style of journalism and coverage of the arts, particularly film and theater. The Reader has been recognized as a pioneer among alternative weeklies for both its creative ...
The Straight Dope was a question-and-answer newspaper column written under the pseudonym Cecil Adams. Contributions were made by multiple authors, and it was illustrated (also pseudonymously) by Slug Signorino. [1] It was first published in 1973 in the Chicago Reader as well as in print syndication nationally in the United States, [2] and on a ...
Robert A. "Bob" Roth (born March 19, 1947) is an American publisher and art collector who lives in Chicago. He was the founder and publisher of the Chicago Reader, one of the most influential and successful newspapers of its type. [1] He was also one of the founders and the first president of Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art ...
Author, journalist, film historian, film critic, curator. Years active. 1974–present. David Kehr (born 1953) is an American museum curator and film critic. For many years a critic at the Chicago Reader and the Chicago Tribune, he later wrote a weekly column for The New York Times on DVD releases. He later became a curator within the ...
Ed Zotti. Ed Zotti (born 1951) is a journalist and urban transit planner in Chicago, Illinois. He is credited as being the "editor and confidant" of Cecil Adams, the pseudonym of the writer of the column "The Straight Dope" (published by the Chicago Reader and nationally syndicated from 1997 to 2018).
Chicago Herald-Examiner, 1918–39 (became Herald-American) Chicago Journal, 1844–1929 (absorbed by Chicago Daily News) Chicago Mail, 1885–1894. Chicago Morning News, 1881 (became Chicago Record) Chicago Morning Herald, 1893–1901 (became Record-Herald) Chicago Post, 1890–1929 (absorbed by Daily News) Chicago Record, 1881–1901.
The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper", [2][3] a slogan from which its once integrated WGN radio and WGN television received their call letters. As of 2023, it is the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area ...
Cecil Adams. Cecil Adams, affectionately known to readers and fans and sometimes refers to himself as Uncle Cecil or Uncle Cece, is the pseudonymous author of The Straight Dope, a popular question and answer column published in the Chicago Reader from 2 February 1973 to 2018. The true identity of Adams, whether a single individual or a group of ...