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27 days: The Real Barack Obama
Longtime readers of this blog may remember the Hyde Park Herald’s special issue about Barack Obama, published when our junior senator first announced his candidacy for president. It was, quite simply,...
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Calling all crazies
Photo: Brian Ngyuen/The Chicago MaroonA veritable can of intellectually insipid inquiries. The most telling statement in Tuesday’s presidential debate may have been one of the most self-evident. Taking...
View ArticlePresidential Debate 2008: Viewpoints columnists react
“It was boring!” declared the pundits. (It was.) “John McCain looked old!” they added. (He did.) These types of analyses are at once true and unhelpful. The implication is that if a debate lacks...
View ArticleRamada Inn immortalized in emotional campaign ad
Tremendous news today, as the Obama campaign released a new ad featuring footage of the Ramada Inn, which in the absence of the Four Seasons Doctors Hospital, is as close as Hyde Park is ever going to...
View ArticleMore Hyde Park Fun: Ayers Force One
UNLV professor David S. Tanenhaus has a piece in Slate today about his friendship with UNREPENTANT TERRORISTS Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, the unrepentant terrorists who once plotted to blow up the...
View ArticleOh. My. God.1
I should start by prefacing that we are all probably going to die, probably by some sort of asteroid careening at a kajillion miles an hour into that new socialist Open Produce store on 55th and...
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Put an end to celebrity endorsements
Photo: Maroon Staff/The Chicago MaroonVapid endorsements at clearance prices! Amid the brouhaha surrounding Colin Powell’s spirited endorsement of Barack Obama Sunday, another endorsement, also by a...
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Pumpkin-demons terrorize Hyde Park
Well, maybe FOX was right. We should question Barack Obama’s associations. This was the scene yesterday, not but TWO HOUSES AWAY from the Obama estate on Hyde Park Boulevard and Greenwood, and HALF A...
View ArticleMore Hyde Park fun: The Babysitter’s Club
Andy McCarthy has a real side-splitter up at the National Review–for the magazine, not the blog–where he spends upwards of 1,000 words pondering why the Los Angeles Times won’t release some video...
View ArticleAnother place to buy a sandwich opens nearby
I was actually pretty excited to see this, because I’m a sucker for places that write their sandwich menu on a chalkboard, and because it’s on 47th street, which was previously bereft of interesting...
View ArticleKay Hagan will take away your Christmas
Maybe you’ve seen this already, but if you haven’t check out Sen. Elizabeth Dole’s astounding attack ad against Kay Hagan, where she calls Hagan “Godless” and suggest that if Hagan is elected,...
View ArticleNate Silver makes us proud
We probably should have blogged about this long ago, back when the site was new and wasn’t attracting zillions of visitors each day, but I would like to duly note, for the record, that U of C alum Nate...
View ArticleThings to do in the neighborhood next week
Long maligned in these parts and elsewhere for its hellacious winters and formerly rotten grocery stores, Hyde Park is actually going to be “hopping” next week, for the obvious reason that our neighbor...
View ArticleTuesday4
Today is now Tuesday, which means it’s election day, which means it’s the biggest thing to happen to Hyde Park, ever. It should be a blast, and we’ll have all/much/lots of the action for you. No word...
View ArticleViewpoints columnists and staff discuss the election
To the other John McCain supporter on campus, I want to use this space to write something encouraging, something to make it worth watching the election results (on FOX!). But if I were to do so, it...
View ArticleObama votes
Well, if you were planning on staking out the Shoesmith Beulah Elementary School to watch the Obama vote, you should probably find a plan B, as he apparently voted first thing this morning. The Tribune...
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Decision ’08: The potato or the cookie
Posters in Stuart Hall–and all over campus–advertising the upcoming Latke–Hamantash debate are taking on a familiar motif. So much for “change versus more of the same.” It should be noted that Obama...
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Candidates of change
If potatoes and cookies aren’t your thing, the Divinity School coffee shop has been offering its own take on the election season, featuring a myriad of compelling races. Here’s Zeus, taking what is...
View Article“Elated!”2
As a quick follow-up to my earlier post about Obama’s voting trip, apparently none other than my geography professor was waiting in line, when the senator showed up and, presumably, cut everyone. The...
View ArticleThe safest block in Chicago1
Over the last 48 hours, the security perimeter around Barack Obama’s slum-landlord-Rezko estate has at least doubled. Hyde Park Boulevard and 52nd Street are closed off from Ellis to University (at...
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The third way
Well, I don’t think anyone thought that Hyde Park was McCain Country, but if this flier at 57th Street Books is any indication, Mac is a third-party candidate in Chicago, behind Obama and “Duck.” Who...
View ArticleHe voted1
Spotted at CVS while picking up batteries and notebooks for tonight’s Grant Park excursion: A middle-aged man with an official Chicago board of elections ballot receipt stapled to the front of his...
View ArticleBecause of Ashley
Well, we survived the exodus from Grant Park on the horribly re-routed (and slow) 6 bus, and just got back to Hyde Park. We’ll be up and blogging shortly.
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The safest block in Chicago
Photo: Chris Salata/The Chicago MaroonAn agent from the Secret Service talks with a Chicago Police Department officer outside the home of Sen. Barack Obama on October 4th, 2008. Photo: Chris Salata/The...
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He voted
Photo: Chris Salata/The Chicago MaroonInsert Caption Here: From The Editors Blog Spotted at CVS while picking up batteries and notebooks for tonight’s Grant Park excursion: A middle-aged man with an...
View Article“Elated!”
From The Editors Blog As a quick follow-up to my earlier post about Obama’s voting trip, apparently none other than my geography professor was waiting in line, when the senator showed up and,...
View ArticleThe Polar Express – The Obama Rally in Grant Park
Well, that’s over with. At approximately 10:02 p.m. central time, Anderson Cooper appeared on the giant television screens by the stage at Grant Park and announced that Barack Obama, the junior senator...
View ArticleA silent majority
Just minutes after the formerly unbeaten, formerly unstoppable New England Patriots lost to the New York Giants last January, I received a text, unprompted, from a friend back in Boston. It was brief...
View ArticleRobert Zimmer is like yeast
He raises the dough. Not too much you can say to that news except…wow. Our take here.
View ArticleWhat we’re reading
In case you haven’t seen it, NEWSWEEK has produced a 50,000-word, behind-the-scenes look at the campaign, relying on previously off-the-record reporting. It’s horribly addictive–if only my readings for...
View ArticleHigh and dry
Well, I guess this was inevitable. From the Hyde Park Herald: “Two teenage boys broke into the vacant Doctors Hospital building on Monday, Oct. 27, nearly escaping with a backpack full of old...
View ArticleA nation of letters
Well, it’s official now. Robert Zimmer, clearly pining for a prime cabinet post or ambassadorship to someplace warm, has written to the president-elect to offer his congratulations on behalf of all of...
View ArticleRichard Epstein sips the haterade
Given the run on newspapers across the country Wednesday, we were hoping something similar would unfold Friday with the Maroon, the morning after the earth-shattering announcement that the GSB was...
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Great moments in money laundering
This is why we don’t get nice things, here in Hyde Park: A few details warrant further examination here, hopefully in Tuesday’s Maroon. First, how can you doctor a $5 bill to make it look like a $100?...
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Obama’s economist
Photo: Tom Tian/The Chicago MaroonProfessor Goolsbee goes to Washington On September 15, after a weekend of anxiety over the rippling credit crisis on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average...
View ArticleThe $40,000 questions
Like everyone else who checks his e-mail at the computers in Stuart Hall, I consider myself an avid reader of the Student Government (SG) home page. When fresh CORSO minutes are posted or airport...
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Homeland insecurity
Photo: The Maroon Staff/The Chicago MaroonTrying his luck. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the likelihood of a terrorist attack occurring right now, or sometime during your...
View ArticlePurpose driven strife
Well, that wasn’t so bad. After all the hullabaloo surrounding the Reverend Rick Warren’s invocation at Tuesday’s inauguration, the Orange County mega-pastor took to the podium on the west entrance of...
View ArticlePurpose driven strife
Well, that wasn’t so bad. After all the hullabaloo surrounding the Reverend Rick Warren’s invocation at Tuesday’s inauguration, the Orange County mega-pastor took to the podium on the west entrance of...
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Deal or no Deal
Photo: The Maroon Staff/The Chicago MaroonMartha sitting pretty. If Sunday was any indication, the United States will be completely out of money—and cufflinks—sometime in the next six months....
View ArticleThe hip-GOP generation
In an interview with the Washington Times last Thursday, newly anointed Republican Party chairman Michael Steele, who coined the slogan “Drill, Baby, Drill” last August, announced, in all...
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Grey City Magazine Video
Photo: Maroon Staff/The Chicago Maroon For previous issues of Grey City, go here.
View ArticleSpeaking to the choir
Former Colorado congressman Tommy Tancredo began his address at Kent Hall last month with a personal tale about his immigrant grandfather. Joe Tancredo, according to his grandson, arrived at Ellis...
View ArticleJungle booked
Last month a team of scientists in Norway announced the discovery of a 50-foot-long prehistoric sea monster named “Predator X.” According to researchers, the creature had a bite 11 times more powerful...
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Searching for a Souter
Photo: Agnes Mazur/The Chicago MaroonSoon-to-be ex-justice Souter Correction Appended Dear Tim, Unless you’ve contracted swine flu and have been quarantined in one of the U of C’s mysterious “secondary...
View ArticlePankow shuts down Northwestern bats, but rain ends game in a tie
It may not signal a return to the glory days of Amos Alonzo Stagg, but for the first time in school history, baseball will finish its season undefeated in the Big 10. Behind a dominating, three-hit...
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Picking off Scavs
Photo: Agnes Mazur/The Chicago MaroonScav: An enterprise unfathomable to all but a few. On a list riddled with indecipherable riddles (“138. 648 5530.”?) and self-referential clues (“59. Camp...
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The new urban renewal
Photo: John VailUrban Renewal Photo: Maroon File PhotoUrban Renewal Project Ann Marie Lipinski came to campus this past fall with a bold but uncertain mandate. Her mission, as outlined in her...
View ArticleRacing to judge
Last November, after the euphoria of Election Day had finally given way to the dull monotony of the transition period, there was one question that seemed to linger on in everyone’s minds: What kind of...
View ArticleTown vs. Gown
Ann Marie Lipinski, vice president for Civic Engagement, came to campus in 2008 with a broad but uncertain mandate. Her mission, as outlined in her conversations with University President Robert...
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