Loyola Today: 5 little-known facts about Millennium Park from a Loyola history professor

Harvard Magazine: Inclusive Design, Incisive Art Amy Yoshitsu's vision for change

Better: 

• Penelope Steiner's Lifelong Love of Film Sparks $2M Gift, Fueling the Chicago International Film Festival's 60th Year and Beyond
• Determined to Prove a Villain': Paralympian Katy Sullivan Takes on 'Richard III' at Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Block Club Chicago: 

• This Family Has Visited 364 Chicago Parks (And Counting). Here Are Their Top Picks
  
• Frog And Toad' Adaptation Brings Much-Loved Characters To Chicago Children's Theatre
• Chicago Children's Theatre's 'Mesmerized' Teaches Entertaining But Valuable Science Lesson

AV Club:

• "Better Late Than Never? It's a Wonderful Life"
• TV Club Advent Calendar: "30 Rock" Christmas Episodes
• (Everything else I ever wrote at the AV Club lives here.)

Curbed: Meet Marion Mahony Griffin, Frank Lloyd Wright's best frenemy

UChicago Arts: 

• It's Not What It Is, It's Where It Is: Welcoming a New Richard Serra Installation to Campus
• The Life Cycle of Art: What happens when the Teen Arts Council takes the wheel
  

Chicago Health: Surgery Through Art: A unique view of Chicago's International Museum of Surgical Science, at the crossroads of art, history, and medicine

New York Magazine/The Cut: Thank You for Talking About Your Botox

The Red Bulletin: Creative disruption: In Chicago, an inventive dance troupe is overcoming snobbery and prejudice to redefine what it means to be a ballerina

Vulture: 

• How Sesame Street's Mr. Noodle Teaches Kids, Annoys Grown-ups
• Selina Meyer's Love Affairs on Veep, Ranked

Vice: I'm Not a Child Molester, I Just Play One on TV

LA Times:

• 'Dexter': John Lithgow talks about life as the Trinity Killer
• "On A New Kind Of Spree":  Michael C. Hall is up for a SAG award and Golden Globe for 'Dexter.' He promises not to hurt anyone if he doesn't win.
• An interview with Tim Gunn: 'Project Runway': Tim Gunn carries on (to Season 7)
• 'So You Think You Can Dance': Chatting with Cat Deeley
• Miscellaneous television recaps and writeups, including the time I drove to Scranton for 
  "The Office" convention, for the LA Times Showtracker live here.)
• Contributor to Favorite signatures: from Ginsberg to Sedaris"

Decider: 

• Breaking Down The Fashion of 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt' (Yes, Including Lemonade!)
• 'Author: The JT Leroy Story' Turns The Page On The Greatest Literary Hoax Of The 21st Century
• 'Voyeur' On Netflix: Filmmakers Josh Koury and Myles Kane Explore The Strange Bond Between Journalist Gay Talese And A Sketchy Motel Operator In Denver

Emusic: My collection of audiobook reviews (wherein I got paid to listen to celebrity memoirs!) lives here.

Next Avenue: NPR's 'Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!' Panelists Tell All

Radar: Read in the Face -- From Barbara Walters to Dan Brown, the embarrassing books they wish we'd forget

Thrillist: Elephants Have Women Issues & Other Things I Learned Rewatching 'Dumbo'