This week, we’d like to give a big new housewarming welcome to our friends at the Chicago Underground Library. On January 30, they reopen their doors at a brand new location. If you’re passing through town and want to see the best collection of Chicago based DIY media, the CUL is the place.

I’ve been reading Nick Turse’s “The Complex: How the military invades our everyday lives” today, which is a fascinating look at just how many corporate entities and products we consume on a daily basis have ties to the military, mostly through contracting with the DoD. More on that at a future date. Something struck me [...]

In a Pittsburgh Post Gazette interview, president Obama said that he would be open to looking at the Newspaper Revitalization Act, a bill proposed to help bail out fledgling papers by restructuring them into non-profit organizations. Search anywhere on the internet and you can find any number of supporting and critical articles of the bill. [...]

The ultra conservative right wing kicked off the Values Voter Summit today in DC promising to “take the country back” from – well, anyone who’s not an ultra right wing conservative. If the world didn’t seem filled with so many hot headed gun toting neocons today, I might look at this as a great comedic [...]

If John F Kennedy were still alive today, he’d be one of the worst leftist commie nazi’s residing in America. JFK’s real assignment during WWII As we march further towards the Glorious Future of Freedom, right wing all stars like Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin lead the charge to battle every time our current dictator [...]

Billy, Kate and I have been having various discusses among ourselves over the past few weeks on the nature of zines, what’s changed over the past few years, and the direction of where they might be going in the future. We decided to take some of the finer points from our conversations and write them [...]

If you’re from or familiar with Chicago, you’re probably familiar with the recent battle between drivers and the city over parking meter rates. In case you’re not blessed with the chance to feed the city a quarter every 8 minutes for the privilege to park your car downtown, I’ll give you the quick rundown. Many [...]