the scowl

As someone with an interest in a lot of what’s happening in Chicago arts-wise right now, Jim DeRogatis’s coverage of the proposed promoter’s ordinance there as is well worth a read. From where I’m sitting, it sounds pretty ominous to me, especially given that (assumably) the reading I took part in last summer (sponsored by a literary broadsheet; band playing throughout) would probably not have happened under those conditions.