The Advocate, a Boston-based magazine, reported last week on the Dig's decision to run a crossword puzzle titled "The Jews." Written by managing editor Eric Solomon, the puzzle includes clues such as "Oy, we killed the (blank) of God!" Solomon tells the Advocate that "I'm Jewish, and I don't think [the puzzle is] offensive." He adds: "If we're not in a society where we can make fun of ourselves, that's sad." Robert Trestan of the Anti-Defamation League tells the Advocate that "some people might find [the puzzle] offensive, but I don't think it's anti-Semitic."

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Creative Loafing's Alyssa Abkowitz gives a blow-by-blow account of last weekend's AAN/Medill Writers Workshop. Speakers included Chicago Reader staff writer Steve Bogira (pictured), who counseled his audience to "take the usual and find the unusual in it." Also on hand were Esquire's Mike Sager, The Stranger's Dan Savage and all manner of alt-weekly editorial riffraff.

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