Rick Kogan

@rickkogan

Chicago, IL

Joined January 2015

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Rick Kogan@rickkogan · Jul 19

Mean every word of it too

MMark Kriegel@MarkKriegel · Jul 18

From @rickkogan in the @chicagotribune

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Rick Kogan@rickkogan · Jul 9

Famous for being lost and for the year she spent living here, Amelia Earhart soars back into the headlines in great new book, 'The Aviator and the Showman,' which also gives us a husband who was a shrewd master manipulator and an absolute jerk. chicagotribune.com/2025/07/09/ame…

rickkogan's tweet image. Famous for being lost and for the year she spent living here, Amelia Earhart soars back into the headlines in great new book, 'The Aviator and the Showman,' which also gives us a husband who was a shrewd master manipulator and an absolute jerk. chicagotribune.com/2025/07/09/ame…

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Rick Kogan@rickkogan · Jul 9

rickkogan's tweet card. “The Aviator and the Showman” by Laurie Gwen Shapiro is an exciting new book about Amelia Earhart that has already created buzz.

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Rick Kogan@rickkogan · Jul 8

Of fighting and surviving, 'Baddest Man' is a soaring biography of Mike Tyson. Author Mark Kriegel writes, “Glory is a long shot in any boxing story … Even as Tyson became boxing’s greatest-ever attraction, his doom seemed a lock." chicagotribune.com/2025/07/08/bad…

rickkogan's tweet card. “Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson,” moves from the boxer’s birth in 1966 to 1988, what writer Mark Kriegel calls “the year of (Tyson’s) first public crack-up.”

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Rick Kogan@rickkogan · Jul 3

Is this the future of music? Former Chicagoan Champ Clark's new creative road has him writing songs and letting AI help him make CDs. "All the words and music are mine. They don’t change. It’s the performance that is AI, carefully controlled by myself.” chicagotribune.com/2025/07/03/cha…

rickkogan's tweet card. Champ Clark’s musical career recently came back to life and the reason is artificial intelligence.

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Rick Kogan@rickkogan · Jul 2

With the support (artwork and driving skills) of wife Bonnie Koloc, Robert Wolf has been gathering stories from the quiltwork of our country. Think of his latest, 'Coyotes and Stars,' as another chapter in what he calls an “autobiography of America.” chicagotribune.com/2025/07/02/coy…

rickkogan's tweet card. Author Robert Wolf aims to create what he calls an “autobiography of America.”

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Rick Kogan@rickkogan · Jun 25

As Mike Royko's son David says, "Dad was the first rabid Pee-wee Herman fan I knew.” There were millions who knew and loved Pee-wee Herman and a fine new documentary dives into the complicated life of Paul Reubens, the man who was Pee-wee. chicagotribune.com/2025/06/25/pee…

rickkogan's tweet card. In a compelling, two-part, three-hour-long HBO documentary, “Pee-wee as Himself,” we hear from fans and friends, but mostly from Paul Reubens himself.

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Rick Kogan@rickkogan · Jun 25

From Promontory Point to the lily pool in Lincoln Park to another stunning space overlooking the Mississippi River in Dubuque, it's time to visit and enjoy one of the spectacular creations of Alfred Caldwell? chicagotribune.com/2025/06/24/alf…

rickkogan's tweet card. He worked closely with Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe and others, but you may not know his name. He created some of the most stunning outdoor spaces in the city.

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Rick Kogan@rickkogan · Jun 21

Terrific @KoganAfterHours 5-7 pm Sunday @WGNRadio has Sebastian Maniscalco on starring in podcast, “Easy Money: The Charles Ponzi Story,” apple.co/EasyMoney; music from Champ Clark; @JuliaBachrach on “The Prairie School Legacy in Iowa Symposium,” Alfred Caldwell. Tune in

rickkogan's tweet image. Terrific @KoganAfterHours 5-7 pm Sunday @WGNRadio has Sebastian Maniscalco on starring in podcast, “Easy Money: The Charles Ponzi Story,” apple.co/EasyMoney; music from Champ Clark; @JuliaBachrach on “The Prairie School Legacy in Iowa Symposium,” Alfred Caldwell. Tune in

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Rick Kogan@rickkogan · Jun 18

A couple guys raised in the suburbs--Sebastian Maniscalco and Will Manalti--bring us a spectacular podcast series that tells the fascinating story of Charles Ponzi and his fascinating twist on the American Dream. chicagotribune.com/2025/06/18/pon…

rickkogan's tweet card. “Easy Money: The Charles Ponzi Story” is produced by Northbrook’s Will Malnati, starring Sebastian Maniscalco as the famous swindler.

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Rick Kogan@rickkogan · Jun 17

Rich Cohen's 'Murder in the Dollhouse' is a great book about love and hate in the world we live in. But there’s another world below, where a subterranean river rushes by in darkness. Once you’ve learned to see that world, nothing ever looks the same. chicagotribune.com/2025/06/17/col…

rickkogan's tweet card. Author Rich Cohen was recently in Winnetka to sign copies of his latest book, set in the wealthy town of New Canaan, Connecticut, and all about the famous disappearance of Jennifer Dulos.

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Rick Kogan@rickkogan · Jun 11

For more than 40 years, sketch artist Andy Austin captured the activities, antics, boredom, rare joy and frequent heartbreaks of the dramas that play out in the courtrooms of our city, vividly capturing their characters and crimes. chicagotribune.com/2025/06/11/cou…

rickkogan's tweet card. As a resident of Astor Street in the Gold Coast, she was an unlikely figure to be a courtroom artist, but her sketches illustrated Chicago-area trials for decades.

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Rick Kogan@rickkogan · Jun 4

Frank Ferrante has been playing Groucho Marx to great acclaim for 40 years--40!!!!!!--and 3,500 shows--3,500!!!!!!--give or take. And he'll be here one night only at Teatro ZinZanni in the Loop chicagotribune.com/2025/06/04/col…

rickkogan's tweet card. The actor and comedian Frank Ferrante, who has played Groucho for years on stage, is bringing “Groucho” to Teatro ZinZanni.

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Rick Kogan@rickkogan · Jun 3

Thar she blows! Chicago artist and writer Dmitry Samarov brings 'Moby-Dick' back to vivid life chicagotribune.com/2025/06/03/dmi…

rickkogan's tweet card. He’s illustrated a new edition of Herman Melville’s novel, now in the public domain. It begins with a striking image of a whale on the cover in black and white.

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Rick Kogan@rickkogan · May 27

Jazz singer Elaine Dame tried the theater world in L.A. and here for a while, before finding a lively, nurturing musical world and now she embarks boldly on a new road with her third album 'Reminiscing' chicagotribune.com/2025/05/27/col…

rickkogan's tweet card. The Chicago artist’s career has spanned multiple albums as well as theater acting, both here and in Los Angeles.

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Rick Kogan@rickkogan · May 24

Full @koganafterhours 5-7 pm Sunday @WGNRadio has Anthony Mateos, on book, “Who We Are: Stories from the Chicago Streetwise Community”; one and only @CandidCandace; Gary Houston/Roger Rapoport on film version of Peter Ferry’s novel "Old Heart” @oldheartmovie screening June 4

rickkogan's tweet image. Full @koganafterhours 5-7 pm Sunday @WGNRadio has Anthony Mateos, on book, “Who We Are: Stories from the Chicago Streetwise Community”; one and only @CandidCandace; Gary Houston/Roger Rapoport on film version of Peter Ferry’s novel "Old Heart” @oldheartmovie screening June 4

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Rick Kogan@rickkogan · May 20

Marc Malnati's honest and entertaining book 'Deep Dish' tells the stories behind the Malnati pizza empire, including some dark and difficult ones chicagotribune.com/2025/05/20/dee…

rickkogan's tweet card. “Deep Dish: Inside the First 50 Years of Lou Malnati’s Pizza” is a surprising book in that it has a welcome lack of recipes but also because it is self-aware.

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Rick Kogan@rickkogan · May 14

Andrew and Kelsey McClellan came here from Colorado more than a decade ago and found a broad canvas for their art work, sign painting and gold-gilding the town in ways that echo the city's glory days as a sign painting center. chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/sig…

rickkogan's tweet card. Andrew and Kelsey McClellan, owners of Heart & Bone Signs, have been painting the town for more than a decade and also work to preserve the “ghost signs” of Chicago’s past.

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Rick Kogan@rickkogan · May 13

So many people enjoy devouring our celebrities and it's made easier thanks to an ever-expanding gossip industry. The celebrity spotlight, brighter than ever, still shines on Tiger Woods, and now his new gal pal. chicagotribune.com/2025/05/13/tig…

rickkogan's tweet card. Professional golfer Tiger Woods’ new girlfriend has the gossip machine rolling again with another bit of recent “news.” What is it about celebrities that draws our attention?

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Rick Kogan@rickkogan · May 7

Chicago Reader "Hot Type" columnist and so much more, Michael Miner was not only the 'conscience of our profession,' but a terrific husband, fun-loving father and friend but a lousy tennis player. Dead at 81 chicagotribune.com/2025/05/07/chi…

rickkogan's tweet card. He wrote a story for the first issue of the Chicago Reader and was a journalist for the Sun-Times and Chicago Journalism Review, among other publications. He never wanted the story to be about hims…

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