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Hey, did you read:
• That Pitchfork column on how rap record sales mean nothing "in this era of gentrified taste and consolidated gatekeepers"? —Mara Shalhoup
• How playwright Bruce Norris pulled licensing for a German production of Clybourne Park when he learned that an African-American character would be played by a white actress in blackface? —Tony Adler
• (or rather, listen to) Chip Mitchell's stirring story about an undocumented immigrant who's fearful of applying for the Obama administration's deportation reprieve? —Sam Worley
• That Hillary Clinton's comment about "whining" working women wasn't about working women at all—it was about Holden Caulfield? —Sam Worley
• Rick Telander's no-bull rant on Cubs philanthropy? —Deanna Isaacs
• Profiles of John Edel and Nance Klehm (both past Reader story subjects) in Utne Reader? —Jerome Ludwig
• Remember that mega-lame band the Vines? Shocking news: the singer just went to court for beating up his own mom! Also shocking: the Vines are still a band, and that this is considered newsworthy. —Luca Cimarusti
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