Notes on the STarbucksings of art cinema.
Author Archives: Susan Stahl
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 […]
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 […]
True to His Roots
Bud Overholzer’s obsession with Michigan’s decimated trees lives on in his strange and wonderful Shrine of Pines.
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 […]