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Pot busts of the week
Image indy_slug via Flickr/Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Mick Dumke usually does these posts, but he reached his marijuana news quota a few days ago, so I’m taking over this week. Let’s find out how America’s limitless tax dollars are being used!
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Rahm Emanuel hanging out with classic rockers again
The Other Jim Messina Just got an email saying that Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s going to attend the Obama Victory Fund 2012 Summer Rooftop Reception—a campaign fund-raiser that also stars Jim Messina. Guess Chicago‘s playing a funnel cake festival out in the hinterlands that night?
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What’s your favorite state politics blog?
The Washington Post needs your help updating its best state political blogs list.
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Culture Vultures: The Stonewall Uprising, Nick Cave, Pilsen, and more
Kevin Harris, community relations director at the Marin Foundation, watched: Stonewall Uprising by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner Since we just had the Pride Parade, I just watched this documentary on PBS’s website. It gives context to the parade and where it came from, and provides insights on the history of the Stonewall riots of […]
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Self-taught artists put it in writing in Intuit’s You Better Be Listening
Curator Matthew Arient says that text often takes on a “literal aspect” in the work of self-taught visual artists. They may have a specific religious, personal, or philosophical message to convey, and words are the simplest and surest way to get it across to viewers. Other untrained artists are more interested in the visual uses […]
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Wiretaps are increasing
Law enforcement agencies are using wiretaps more than ever, mostly for drug investigations.
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Hot Dogs Poll American Tweeters About Freedom
When packaged meat products ask questions, people answer.
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The Baffler’s back again! (This time for real)
A new editor/publisher, a new hometown, and a plan.
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Culture Vultures: Summer in the city
Eddie Torres, artistic director of Teatro Vista, read: My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King by Reymundo Sanchez A thrilling book. Set in Chicago and based on a true story, My Bloody Life chronicles the transformation of an individual’s rise and fall in the notorious Latin Kings street gang in Chicago. The book’s […]
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A regular guy inspires This Is Paul Halupka
A Sound Foundation by Alberto Aguilar and Mary Lou Zelazny—that focus on different aspects of Halupka’s life, from the places where he played as a child to his logo-designing skills. “I call it relational portraiture,” Cochran says, “because it involves depicting the same person in a layered way.” By concentrating on an average Joe, she […]
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Hooray for abysmal labor conditions—we’re getting Walmarted
People who are so excited about Walmart’s growth in Chicago aren’t thinking about what it really means for workers.
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Auctioned Warhol Mao painting has Chicago connections
Image by Tracy O via Flickr/Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Despite all the crumbling going on with America’s economy these days, our high-end art market is doing quite well(as it can ensure the safety of money during the crisis), as the New York Times reminds us today in an article about Christie’s latest contemporary art sale. […]
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Don’t do cocaine or your ears will fall off
A veterinary drug mixed with cocaine is causing ghastly side effects.