Chicago Sun-Times

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 2:13pm on Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Roger Ebert Misses Dining, Not Food

As Ebert wrote in The Chicago Sun-Times on January 6, 2010:

"Isn't it sad to be unable to eat or drink? Not as sad as you might imagine. I save an enormous amount of time. I have control of my weight. Everything agrees with me. And so on.

What I miss is the society. Lunch and dinner are the two occasions when we most easily meet with friends and family. They're the first way we experience places far from home. Where we sit to regard the passing parade. How we learn indirectly of other cultures. When we feel good together. Meals are when we get a lot of our talking done -- probably most of our recreational talking. That's what I miss."

The full story:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/01/nil_by_mouth.html

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 2:56pm on Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Did Mike Royko Want Bill Gleason Out At The Sun-Times?

The Chicago Reader reported on January 4, 2010:

"I asked if there was bad blood between him and Royko. "No, there's no bad blood at all," Gleason said. "When he was a young guy, I thought he was interesting, and he's just become a terrible bore, personally....My judgment of Mike Royko — I gave you my judgment of him as a person. But my judgment of him as a writer is professional. I just think he's terribly overrated."

The full story:
http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2010/01/04/bill-gleason-the-interview-that-got-him-canned

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 10:06am on Thursday, December 10th, 2009

December 9, 2009: Matthew A. Saleski is now VP of marketing at the Chicago Sun-Times. He was previously strategic account director at Yahoo.

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 12:35pm on Monday, December 7th, 2009

Sun-Times, Tribune Continue Rivalry By Trading Sports Columnists, Editor & Publisher reported on December 6, 2009:

"The Sun-Times announced on its front pages that it has hired Rick Morrissey away from the Tribune, where he had written the Tribune's venerable "In the wake of the news" sports column since 2000. The Oak Park, Ill., native had been a writer at the Tribune since 1997 after returning to Chicago following 10 years as a sportswriter for the old Rocky Mountain News.

Sun-Times Sports Editor Chris De Luca said, 'Adding Rick Morrissey is a major step forward as we continue to improve what is and has long been Chicago's best sports section. Now we have the best one-two punch in the country with Rick Morrissey and Rick Telander providing their award-winning commentary.''

Morrisey's flip to the Sun-Times follows by less than a week the move of Dan McNeil's weekly column to the Tribune from the Sun-Times. McNeil is a commentator with a local sports-oriented radio station.

''Adding Rick to our already top-flight sports staff shows how serious we are about being the best and staying the best,'' Sun-Times Editor in Chief Don Hayner said. ''Nobody competes in this market as hard as we do. This is our city.''