Staffer Ryan Smith says goodbye to the Reader
by
Ryan Smith
on
October 18, 2018 at 5:15PM
I've also joined the fray of a French labor riot (and got teargassed in the process), snuck into the quasi-wilderness of Rezkoville multiple times and drank a beer with a homeless couple camped inside of it, speed-dated on the Navy Pier Ferris Wheel, explored creepy caves and cemeteries in southern Illinois, wrote a 7,000 word feature based on a strange AirBnB I stayed in, got elbowed by someone dressed as a T-Rex at a porn convention, and nearly had Stormy Daniels's bra thrown at my face while covering her strip show at the Admiral Theatre on Trump's birthday. I'll be forever grateful to former Reader editor in chief Jake Malooley and associate editor Gwynedd Stuart for taking a chance on someone who was once more likely to end up at Christianity Today than a big-city alternative weekly.