A Lysistrata for Chiraq
Spike Lee adapted Aristophanes’ comic masterpiece Lysistrata to address a 21st...
Category Archives: Satire
A Downtown Pompeian Villa
In the 1950s the luxurious Congress Hotel on South Michigan Avenue...
Fake Latin Inscription at the Playboy Mansion
“Si Non Oscillas, Noli Tintinnare,” translated immediately as “If you don’t...
Daley as Caesar? Mike Royko’s Boss
Was Mayor Richard J. Daley a metropolis-molding tyrant of Caesarian proportions?...
Political satire invokes ancient sex worker
Satirical magazine Puck published this cartoon, “Phryne before the Chicago Tribunal,”...
