Nabbed a National Magazine Award nomination for this look at Chicago’s rough-around-the-edges bars.

A monthly feature for Chicago magazine about our local ‘hoods. There’s a video component, too — click the box to the right.

A video exploration of the West Loop. Note: It was freezing when we filmed this.

Did weed really grow in Wrigley Field’s centerfield bleachers? Has a bear escaped from the Lincoln Park Zoo? We solved these Chicago mysteries.

I tried to keep up with a team of obsessed cyclists who spend up to $20k on their bikes. I didn’t last long.

Written for now-defunct ChicagoSide and also ran in the Sun-Times and was deemed “essential reading” by Deadspin.

The bad news: I moved home with my parents when I was 28. The good news: I wrote this article for Details.

Literally 15 years in the making, a chronicle of a band I once deeply loved. Wanted to get them some of the fame that unjustly eluded them.

I interviewed members of Wilco (past and present) for this cover story on their “Sky Blue Sky” album.