"I get up every morning and think today I'm going to end capitalism," said Ayers. more ›

Bill Ayers will speak about his Super Bowl dinner with recently deceased conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart at Paper Machete at Horseshoe bar in Lincoln Square on Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m. more ›

A month before his death, Andrew Breitbart had dinner with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn at their Hyde Park residence. more ›

Conservative Fox News correspondent and bow-tie enthusiast Tucker Carlson bid $2,500 to have dinner with Bill Ayers, the 60s-era radical turned educator turned Republican punching bag. more ›

Chances are, no matter who you are, if you write a book and dedicate it to the man who assassinated a Kennedy, you won't be very popular. And if you're the controversial Bill Ayers, it'll cost you your emeritus honor. Ayers co-wrote the 1973 manifesto Prairie Fire which was in part dedicated to Sirhan Sirhan, the man who shot and killed Robert Kennedy in 1968. But RFK's son, Chris Kennedy, chairs the board at the University of Illinois-Chicago where Ayers was up for emeritus status. Not surprisingly, Kennedy took umbrage with the honor and moved to block it. Said Kennedy at a meeting yesterday: more ›

About a month back, we mentioned a celebration to commemorate the 50th anniversary of William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch and to raise money for a new Burroughs documentary, William S. Burroughs: A Man Within. The event is upon us and if you're still looking for something cool to do (that also supports the arts and several local artists involved with the film!), tickets for the event will still available at the door. The celebration gala will feature Peter Weller, star of the film version of Naked Lunch, alongside Warhol Superstar Penny Arcade, SNL musical director Hal Willner and Dr. Bill Ayers. more ›

Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and Bill Ayers paired up Sunday to lead community activists, clergy, and residents in Oak Park on an annual walk to rally for a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The two drew over 400 people to a forum before the walk held at the First United Church of Oak Park and urged a new perspective on the Mideast conflict more in line with the President’s. According to the Tribune, The Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine, the organizers of the event, said Ayers and Wright were invited for their work on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, not their political notoriety. more ›

• In puppy news, dogs seized in a puppy mill raid on the south side have all been adopted.
• The University in Chicago Medical Center is in trouble after an audit found the hospital violated federal law when an emergency room patient died. Perhaps this has a little something to do with why a highly criticized plan to move the ER has been temporarily tabled.
• A principal in Wisconsin has had his school fight song changed because it contained the word "fellow," which he felt was sexist.

• Our thoughts and prayers with the family of Chicago's Staff Sgt. Roberto Andrade who was killed in action this weekend in Baghdad from injuries sustained when his vehicle struck an IED.
• A Calumet City resident found an unpleasant surprise when shoveling snow today: a dead body.
• Two teens have been charged in the shooting of another student outside Collins High School last night.

While their relationship just might be a tempest in a teapot -- or in Obamaspeak, a "distraction" -- is the fact that Obama is once again downplaying a friendship really the bigger deal? After all, this is the same guy that originally tried to claim he hardly knew Tony Rezko, and had only performed a few hours of legal work for him. Where's that famous Obama transparency? This is a "new kind of politics"? [S-T] more ›

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