RT @Passionweiss: Tomorrow night in Chicago. Andrew Barber, Meaghan Garvey, Tal Rosenberg and I discussing the death of the millennial dre….

RT @LAReviewofBooks: Alexander Chee meets a likely killer at Denny's, while @talrosenberg puts ANORA (2024) in conversation with MARTHA (19….

RT @Longreads: "For all its problems, the L holds great significance for Chicagoans. It’s more than a means of moving people around — it’s….

RT @_ManuelRamos_: This quote is stunning on so many levels to me. Great CTA story on the what went wrong with the L. From @talrosenberg….

RT @streetsblogchi: A very deep dive by @talrosenberg in @ChicagoMag : "Doors Closing: With ridership lagging and a fiscal reckoning loomin….

With ridership lagging and a fiscal reckoning looming, the L train is in trouble. What is its future? I wrote about all of it — how we got here and where we might be heading — for the May issue of @ChicagoMag. The story is online today and on newsstands now. (Link below).

RT @WBEZ: Soul Music of Illinois,’ edited by local collector Dante Carfagna, is an exhaustive visual survey of our state’s crucial role in….

For @WBEZ I wrote about Soul Music of Illinois, an insanely comprehensive visual and discographical survey of the state’s soul music from 1960-1990, compiled and edited by Dante Carfagna for @numerogroup

Here’s a playlist of what I’d say is the “essential” John Martyn. I like the 80s and even the 2000s stuff too but this is purely an intro.

I wrote about John Martyn’s Solid Air, a perfect album, for Pitchfork’s Sunday Review. “There’s a piece of my heart that’s dying to fly.”

RT @pitchfork: For today's Sunday Review, we're revisiting John Martyn’s dazzling 1973 album, an astral-folk masterpiece that embodies the….

Joined a bunch of fellow goat cheeseballs to eulogize Vanderpump Rules, one of the best shows of the past decade, for @meaghan_garvey #1 vibes-based newsletter.

RT @girinathan: Over 20 years I saw Rafael Nadal so many different ways - an intruder, a sage, a way through my own pain . Farewell Rafa. h….

If you're remotely interested in planets outside our solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope, or my own crippling fear of the universe (least likely option), I humbly beseech you to read my profile of U of C astrophysicist Jacob Bean. #longreads.

RT @MarkRichardson: love this record, and a great piece on it from Tal.

I wrote about one of my favorite albums, Rod Stewart’s Every Picture Tells a Story, for Pitchfork’s Sunday Review

RT @ChicagoMag: Why We Love Winter in Chicago, Reason No. 14: Soups that will warm your soul. @talrosenberg has tasted soups across the ci….