David Mamet: This is why Chicago was once the marvel of our nation
Chicago’s current marvel is not innovation and prosperity — but murder and crime.
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Commentary: David Mamet: Uncle Henry, two pandemics and the cohesion of family
I get a big kick out of seeing our surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, on TV explaining the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Adams is a vice admiral in the U.S. Public...
David Mamet writes: It all traces back to Stuart Gordon in Chicago
We asked the playwright and screenwriter David Mamet to eulogize Stuart Gordon, the theatrical director who died Tuesday and was an early influence on his work. The following is his...
IN MEMORIAM
Kenny Lilliebridge died Wednesday. He was 62. I spent more time with him than I spent in college and to much greater effect. He ran a junkshop up on Broadway,...
FINE, I GAVE UP CIGARS. NOW CUT THE MUSIC.
I lived two terrible years as a smoker in Cambridge, Mass. Not only was I a smoker, I was a smoker of cigars, and of many of them. I endured...
THE TRUCK FACTORY
I can`t remember the exact year, but it was sometime in the mid-`60s. I was either home from college, or it was the last summer before I went away. I...
CHICAGO`S UNIQUE CULTURED VOICE OF HOME-WFMT
I grew up on the WFMT voice. It was a male voice, and full of calm, reason and-most important, I think-self-esteem. The voice seemed to say: ''This is the way...