Subject: Hamburg

• Burris Preparing to Rest in Pieces

  Roland Burris, the could-be junior Senator from Illinois, is getting on in years. But even when you're 71, it's never too late to stop thinking about the future. And so Burris has created an elaborate tomb for himself in Oak Woods Cemetery on Chicago's South Side.Unlike most people, whose headstones list their dates and relatives and maybe some lovely final thought, Burris has decided to emblazon his with the motto "Trail Blazer" and a complete list of all the things he was the first African-Ame

  January 9, 2009

• The Pope of Pork: In tiny towns across Missouri, old-school hog farming stages a comeback — and at tables across the nation, diners rejoice

  November 26, 2008

• You Had to Be There

  Find your way to New Jewish for Kindertransport.

  December 5, 2007

• East Side, Best Side

  A pub crawl along the Illinois riverbanks

  March 1, 2006

• Go Ask Alice

  June 5, 2002

• The Joy in the Bubble

  May 30, 2007

• Just Say "Yo" to Drugs

  We get trippy with hippies, watch musicians melt and dig a heavy fatwa

  June 15, 2005

• Out Like a Lamb

  Downfall chronicles Hitler's last days with an awkward note of sympathy

  March 9, 2005

• Series/Festivals

  Week of February 23, 2005

  February 23, 2005

• Felix da Housecat

  Devin Dazzle and the Neon Fever (Emperor Norton)

  May 19, 2004

• The Beast With Two Buns

  September 3, 2003

• Film Openings

  Week of January 29, 2003

  January 29, 2003

• Stop Making Sense

  Christian Jankowski's lack of common sense has gotten him far

  September 18, 2002

• Film Openings

  Week of September 11, 2002

  September 11, 2002

• Net Profit

  In this age of shrink-wrapped food and health scares, there are still folks who crave the taste of fresh-caught river fish. Jim Beasley casts his nets every day to feed that hunger.

  July 31, 2002

• Film Feast

  November 7, 2001

• ON SHAKY GROUND

  December 15, 1999