What's wrong with being sexy?
As a media critic, I respect Robert Feder about as much as I respect anyone in the field; he and Phil Rosenthal are the best examples in Chicago of how it should be done. But this week, I think Feder's trying to have it both ways in criticizing some local news personalities who appeared in an upcoming photo exhibition at a local art gallery.Last week, in a post on his Vocalo blog, Robert Feder criticized a photo shoot that appeared in in Michigan Avenue

Playing catch-up on Chicago media
Disclosure: I've had past business or personal interactions with most of the people or entities named above and plan to have them in the future. To the best of my ability, I try not to let the above color my opinions. Where such interactions might cloud my judgment on an issue, I tend to avoid writing about the topic altogether or confess to a specific bias or association so the reader can judge for him or herself.Between work-related matters and our impending move to the South Side, I haven't had much brainpower or free time to spare here. But there have been some significant events in Chicago's media landscape recently so I figured it made sense to do

The best thing I've read all week
I might be biased thanks to my line of work but this spoke to me:"The women are also dressed in period threads, and many have big Afros. I am happy to say it brings back an element sadly missing in recent movies, gratuitous nudity. Sexy women would "happen" to be topless in the 1970s movies for no better reason than that everyone agreed, including themselves, that their breasts were a genuine pleasure to regard -- the most beautiful naturally occurring shapes in nature, I believe. Now we see breasts only in serious films, for expressing reasons. There's been such a comeback for the strategically positioned bed sheet, you'd think we were back in the 1950s." - Roger Ebert, "

When online ads attack
This unholy mess is on People.com* right now:(Click to embiggen)I hate rollover ads to begin with since they inevitably (purposely?) cause the user to accidentally expand the ad, covering the content of the page (where the real value resides). But this

Stephen Colbert sums up the Chicago music scene
So THAT'S why we didn't get the Olympics: