The Best of Fall. Theater! Music! Books! Art! Podcasts! Dance! That is the cover story for this month's issue of Chicago Magazine. These "best of fall" cultural events include a concert by Ratboys, a ballet that "turns Mexican lore into a metaphor for postpartum depression," and a doomsday podcast, among other can't miss events. Is it just me, or do these best of fall events sound like something to miss rather than attend? Probably just me - I'm old. Much more interesting was French novelist (now an American citizen living in Chicago) Camille Bordas' take on the recent 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which kind of confirmed what I have always thought. Most of the speeches and events were repetitive and boring, and there was very little substance beyond platitudes. The press briefings were mostly uninformative, and there was no reason why the convention could not have been held in one day instead of four, except to generate publicity and television time.
The 312 section of Chicago also had an interesting article speculating on how the city would fare if Trump were elected to a second term. During his first term, he compared Chicago to a Middle Eastern war zone, called its crime rate "an embarrassment to the nation," and sent in agents from various law enforcement agencies as a publicity stunt. Sadly, we very well might find out what he will do during a second term pretty damn soon. On the bright side, I am happy to report that the ads for real estate for sale in Chicago Magazine show quite a few bargains, ranging from $715,000 to 11.7 million. They even have a place on Sedgewick Street, in the Lincoln Park neighborhood, where my sister Susan once lived with 5 or 6 roommates, for sale at a bargain 2.5 million. When I was in Chicago back in 2010, which is when I took the photograph on the right, I did not see that house. Susan suspects it was probably devoured by roaches years ago and collapsed into a pile of rubble.
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