Notes on the STarbucksings of art cinema.
Author Archives: Susan Stahl
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Spinning Your Wheels
Dear Carlos Pecciotto [Letters, September 10], As a fellow bicycle commuter, I fully appreciate the car-culture-versus-cyclist problem. My husband was a Chicago bike messenger for three years and nearly got killed doing it. However, I was totally put off by your cynical tone and personal attack on the author of “Joy Riders” [August 20]. After […]
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Art People: the curious case of Jennifer Friedrich
Murray Gilbert was born with an elbow that bent the wrong way. Edith Murrock, the wife of a successful 19th-century surgeon specializing in physical deformities, made Gilbert a jacket with a special sleeve to accommodate the errant arm–or so Jennifer Friedrich would have you believe. Friedrich, an artist who manages Columbia College’s experimental photography and […]
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True to His Roots
Bud Overholzer’s obsession with Michigan’s decimated trees lives on in his strange and wonderful Shrine of Pines.
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You Can Get There From Here
Cairo, Illinois To get to Cairo, at the southern tip of Illinois, just north of where the Ohio River meets the Mississippi, take I-57 south about 375 miles, all the way through Illinois to exit 1–right off the ramp is a relatively clean and cheap Days Inn (618-734-0215) if you decide to stay. Take a […]