Leor Galil

Has anyone experienced as much of Chicago’s late-night musical offerings the past few decades as Claudio Velez? I interviewed 16 musicians, DJs, and nightlife workers about the Tamale Guy’s relationship with Chicago music for this Reader oral history.

Wish this talked to the people in the debate over human waste in public spaces who are in favor of it

they didn’t think we could do it, but we made it to day 24 of Apple fest

walgreens receipts used to be like this

Can’t imagine a more beautiful start to the 23rd day of Apple Fest

Captain’s log: Apple Fest, day 22

I wrote about @fraxiom.minecraft.lgbt

last month, before That Ad made it to air, I went down to Ohio to figure out why Vivek Ramaswamy seemed to be struggling so much in his home state. the South Asians of Columbus, the bored students of OSU, and the hecklers of the Cleveland 'burbs all helped me understand: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Instagram feeding me a reel about the five best shuttered Chicago music venues made by a law firm that specializes in estate planning, I think we need to shut this thing down till we can figure out what is going on

Very stoked for @marcissist.bsky.social on AnCo’s MPP and Erica Dawn Lyle on Black Flag’s Damaged!

the aqi is terrible for the 21st day of Apple fest

but does he mention the rat hole

Ctrl-F “Laquan McDonald” <Not found>

RIP Sam Chatman

I’m sorry but why do both Siskel and Ebert have their thumbs up in the artist rendering, surely one of them should have a thumb down that’s just canon

Apple Fest gets even better on day 20

Gary Tyler, a quilt artist who spent decades on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum

I wrote about Sleepwalk ahead of their record release show next month

-you there, boy, what day is this? today? -sir, why it’s the nineteenth day of apple fest

I wrote about Sen Morimoto, Interlay, Greg Freeman, and more…

please show the rat hole oh pretty please please please please

Eighteen days of Apple fest already? Time flies

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

Halloween (Taylor’s version)

I wrote about Suzy Sheer

and a good 17th day of Apple Fest to you

The sun rises on day 16 of Apple fest

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

this is Apple fest all over again

Texting my friends “you hitting up Apple fest”

It’s day 15 of Apple Fest

One more time to cap off the week

This is how i found out John Kass is still alive

WaPo photojournalist Heidi Levine, a Jewish American, said violent masked Israeli settlers beat her while she covered attacks on Palestinian olive farmers in the occupied West Bank. “They just kept kicking me… probably 50 times,” she said. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers watched without intervening

[bravely] i wrote about pee

Ok but how many hotdogs could I have purchased with that same $1

time really flies when you get to day 14 of Apple Fest

[rocking back and forth, mumbling to myself] I will not post and dunk on the new rathole story I will not post and dunk on the new rathole story I will not

Whalefall, Squidwinter

I’m stoked to see Circuit des Yeux and Alan Sparhawk perform a live score for the original Nosferatu

A good thirteenth day of Apple Fest to you

This rules and Leor rules!

for the night crowd

Absolute insanity

that’s right!