Sexual harassment is hurting women’s career ambitions and driving them away from the areas where they’re most needed—science, technology, engineering, and math—the STEM fields, as they’ve come to be called. We spoke to teenage girls participating in these programs about the possibility that their careers could be empowered instead of imperiled. Bailey, an Afro-Latina who wants to be a pilot, says she’s glad to know the nuances of when to call someone out....

Doug McGray started out as a magazine writer, which meant that he mostly knew other magazine writers and editors. Then about five years ago, he did a story for This American Life on NPR and met another breed of journalists: radio people! He discovered that he and the radio people had a great deal in common, but they never got to talk and share ideas because they had no common space to meet....

Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Wednesday, January 25, 2016. Man sentenced to nine months in prison for role in hacking nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, and other celebrities Southwest-side resident Edward Majerczyk has been sentenced to nine months in prison for his role in the 2014 “Celebgate” nude-photo hacking scandal. Majerczyk allegedly used a phishing scam to “illegally gain access to more than 300 Apple iCloud and Gmail accounts from November 2013 to August 2014, including at least 30 belonging to celebrities in the Los Angeles area,” according to the Tribune....

Hell must have frozen over last year, because Riot Fest managed to convince Glenn Danzig and Jerry Only to tolerate each other long enough for a partial reunion of the original Misfits. This morning the festival made its first lineup announcement for 2017, and it’s pulled off another triumph in the improbable-reunion category: Jawbreaker, who broke up in 1996 after guitarist-vocalist Blake Schwarzenbach and bassist Chris Bauermeister got into a fistfight....

Late last month the New York Times published a piece on the rise of “NPR Voice,” a peculiar speech pattern that’s ballooned on the radio and podcasts and is characterized by an informal and slightly conversational style. Writing about its pregnant pauses and colloquialisms, Teddy Wayne noted the curious nature of a style of radio storytelling that’s meant to appear authentically casual: “The irony is that such presentations are highly rehearsed, with each caesura calculated and every syllable stressed in advance....

There had been a change in my life. She’d begun to tell a story. The meaning of this story is not entirely clear to me. Delores, the small room we shared amidst the vast structures, the downcast eyes of the stone saints in the city lot. So much time has passed. So much time has passed, but some days something brings her back—the dark hole, say, of a single window missing on an office building’s face....

One reigning camp queen remembers and pays homage to another in Hell in a Handbag’s production of The Artificial Jungle, the final play written by Charles Ludlam, the patron saint of queer comedy, before his early death in 1987. A la Double Indemnity, a hunky drifter (David Lipschutz) colludes with a stir-crazy pet-shop clerk (Sydney Genco, in fabulous female drag) to commit insurance fraud, murder her simpleton husband (Ed Jones), and escape the control of the family business’s high-haired matriarch (David Cerda, naturally)....

Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Monday, January 23, 2016. Why some Chicagoans are disappointed that “Public Enemy No. 1” El Chapo was extradited to New York El Chapo Guzmán was the first person since Al Capone to be named “Public Enemy No. 1” by the Chicago Crime Commission. Guzmán’s Sinaloa cartel allegedly wrecked havoc on the streets by “brutally dominating Chicago’s booming narcotics trade—a market that has been linked to the city’s problems of gangs and shootings” and by using the city a distribution center for drugs, according to the New York Times....

Brooklyn’s Ben Greenberg is always busy making new music, and everything he keeps himself busy with is usually great. Currently playing in punishing industrial noise-rock duo Uniform, Greenberg’s explored weird sounds from all over the place, having also done time in alt-rock outfit the Men, noise-punk trio Pygmy Shrews, and free-jazz weirdos Zs. This week he released the demo for yet another endeavor, Beat Depression. These six songs are supermelodic, punk-leaning rock, with some tracks raging on a double-time stomp and others laying back with acoustic guitar and mellow rhythms....

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I’ve written here about my grandma Goldberg before. She was the family aphorist who used to say “Marry a Christian, one day she’ll wake up and call you ‘dirty Jew.” And “Scratch a goy, you’ll find an anti-Semite.” And of course, “Go to sleep with a young shiksa, wake up with an old goya.” (No, not the Spanish painter. She didn’t know from Spanish painters.) Meanwhile, Nancy’s best friend, Grace, has her own bedtime issues....

Just when I thought the mayor’s race couldn’t get any weirder, into the fray jumps a Daley. If this keeps up, the Tribune may have to rewrite its recent story about how tough it is to run Chicago. If being mayor is so “grueling,” how come so many want to do it? As such, Bill Daley was working for SBC when, in 2001, it sold a company called SecurityLink to GTCR Golder Rauner, a Chicago-based investment firm....

It’s been more than two years since Mayor Rahm Emanuel ignited protests around the city by closing six mental health clinics in low-income, high-crime neighborhoods. He didn’t hold any hearings before he proposed the closures. He didn’t initiate a study or put together a task force. And let’s face it: people who depend on public mental health clinics—because they’re too broke to pay for private service—aren’t exactly movers and shakers in this city....

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Lenny Gonzalez Aram Shelton Next week former Chicagoan Aram Shelton makes one of his regular return visits, but this time he’s employing local players to bring to life projects he developed in the Bay Area, where he moved in 2005, rather than doing things the other way around. He’s clearly settled into his life in California, developing a strong network of associates, presenting live music regularly, and writing with fresh concepts in mind....