
Joshua Lerner owns every Poor Righteous Teachers cassette. Today at school, I erased the dates of January from my dry-erase calendar and put in new ones for February. I thought about the 41 homicides we saw in Chicago last month, an 11-year record. Most think the murder rate will drop with the temperature as summer and autumn slide into winter. I’m sure Mayor Emmanuel was banking on it. But the murders have continued. Kids are getting gunned down on their front porches. Last week, 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton was shot and killed in Kenwood, not a [...]
Chance links up with Austin Vesely on visuals for "Brain Cells."