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Author Archives: Sergio Barreto

Posted inArts & Culture

Group Efforts: activists join forces to document the march that shut down the Drive

by Sergio Barreto March 11, 2004August 19, 2021

Video producer Linda Beckstrom didn’t take her camera to last year’s antiwar demonstration on Lake Shore Drive, and she left the march just as the standoff between police and protesters started to get ugly–she was with her ten-year-old son and had no interest in getting arrested. But as a member of Peace Pledge-Chicago, one of […]

Posted inNews & Politics

Torture: Saddam’s Weapon of Mass Destruction

by Sergio Barreto February 5, 2004August 19, 2021

An Iraqi Prisoner Who Lived to Tell the Tale

Posted inNews & Politics

Art Underfoot

by Sergio Barreto October 16, 2003August 19, 2021

A painter does her best work in nightclubs, but her audience would rather dance.

Posted inNews & Politics

Preemptive Strike?

by Sergio Barreto July 10, 2003August 19, 2021

A handful of activists planning to disrupt Boeing’s shareholder meeting at the Renaissance Hotel had barely made it out of their room when they were shown the door by a battalion of cops.

Posted inMusic

Time to Go Legit

by Sergio Barreto April 24, 2003August 19, 2021

John Dal Santo/Birthday Bust

Posted inNews & Politics

The Boys of Cell Block E

by Sergio Barreto April 3, 2003August 19, 2021

How a lawyer, a waiter, a teacher,a minister, and a tourist who stepped out of the Cheesecake Factory at the wrong time found themselves sharing a steel toilet.

Posted inNews & Politics

Aldermania!

by Sergio Barreto, Ted Kleine, Linda Lutton, Kari Lydersen, Michael Marsh and Grant Pick February 13, 2003August 19, 2021

We’re Just . . . Visiting The fastest way to get an appointment with 25th Ward alderman Danny Solis may be to hang up one of his opponent’s campaign signs. Margarita Perez (not her real name) put a sign for Ambrosio Medrano in the window of her home and was promptly visited by two Solis […]

Posted inNews & Politics

Rockeros on the Rise

by Sergio Barreto January 30, 2003August 19, 2021

The area is crawling with arena-ready Latin rock stars. Now all they need is to get booked into the arenas.

Posted inNews & Politics

War of Words

by Sergio Barreto and Pier Petersen October 25, 2001August 19, 2021

Faced with anti-yuppie grafitti and a stinging satirical attack, Alderman Eugene Schulter fights back with a lawsuit.

Posted inNews & Politics

Hanging By A String

by Sergio Barreto March 8, 2001August 19, 2021

Operating on the margins of a marginalized art form, Ralph Kimpniss somehow keeps his puppets swinging and his hopes alive.

Posted inArts & Culture

Where the Auction Is: the Shriners empty out the temple

by Sergio Barreto November 30, 2000August 19, 2021

Twenty feet above the Medinah Temple’s main stage, a worker on a scaffold removes the tacks holding up Gustav Brand’s 80-foot rendering of a pilgrimage to Mecca. A Chicago landmark is about to be gutted to house a Bloomingdale’s Home Store, and while the atmosphere is akin to that of a fire sale, the crew […]

Posted inNews & Politics

Self Help

by Sergio Barreto November 2, 2000August 19, 2021

Banker Amrish Mahajan insists that his position on the city Plan Commission had nothing to do with a recent business deal, but the competition isn’t so sure.

Posted inNews & Politics

Snakes in the Grass

by Sergio Barreto September 28, 2000August 19, 2021

The threatened eastern massasauga rattlesnake is finding out the hard way who its friends are.

Posted inNews & Politics

Real Horror Show

by Sergio Barreto August 10, 2000August 19, 2021

George Romero’s experience with the film industry has been as much a bloodletting as any of his infamous features.

Posted inNews & Politics

The Welcome Wagon’s on Blocks

by Sergio Barreto July 27, 2000August 19, 2021

The Old Town School puts on a friendly face as its new neighbors grumble.

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