What you missed during the debate... if you weren't on Twitter

Oct. 8, 2008
If you're not on Twitter yet (and not following us, tsk, tsk) election season is the time to join! Following last night's presidential debate on Twitter added to the coverage and helped create some worthwhile distractions if the candidates' exchanges got a little lengthy and off topic.

What you missed during the debate... if you weren't on Twitter

Oct. 8, 2008
If you're not on Twitter yet (and not following us, tsk, tsk) election season is the time to join! Following last night's presidential debate on Twitter added to the coverage and helped create some worthwhile distractions if the candidates' exchanges got a little lengthy and off topic.

Students project veep debate outdoors

Oct. 3, 2008
Debates this election season have given many Americans perfect excuses to throw a house party. West Side bureau contributor Ian Fullerton reports that about 75 hipsters in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood took the house-party ritual to a new level during last night's vice-presidential skirmish.

Painting through the VPs

Sep. 25, 2008

Cloutwiki charts politics, Chicago style.

Sep. 24, 2008
Cloutwiki just launched as a website providing "an unbiased history of how Chicago's leaders got started and who they're friends with."

Obama on Eight Forty-Eight

Sep. 17, 2008
We apologize for not posting this sooner, but Steve Edwards just reminded us that he interviewed Barack Obama back in 2004 when he was still attempting to become the Democrats' candidate for Senate. Enjoy! Obama on 848

Vote Skywalker!

Sep. 12, 2008
Working to change the political climate of the universe and overturn the imperial foreign policies of the dark side.‚ Via.

Barack Obama wearing his professorial hat

Jul. 30, 2008
There was a great article in the New York Times yesterday about Barack Obama's time as a faculty member at the University of Chicago Law School.‚  The timing was uncanny for me, as I had recently pulled some CD's out of our archive room and been listening to some appearances that Obama made as a gue

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