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Tag: American Indian Center
Posted inMusic
Let the bird take the wheel on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by Chicagoland graphic designer Mereya Lachel Goetzinger-Blanco, incorporating art by Frederick McDonald.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Field Museum’s Native North American Hall starts to ask who it represents
A renovation scheduled to be completed in 2021 reflects new-found efforts to engage Native communities.
Posted inBlogs
Angered by homicides, activists leave coffins at Rahm Emanuel’s home
“Behind each of these deaths is a failure,” activists said.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
What will be the legacy of street artist Chris Drew?
An eavesdropping law has been ruled unconstitutional, but the city’s strict peddling regulations remain on the books.
Posted inMusic
An oral history of the Green Mill
The Green Mill has more stories than any tavern in town. Here are a few from the past three decades.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
The Accidental Poster Child
Drew failed to consider the … Illinois Eavesdropping Act—the violation of which can result in a first-class felony charge carrying a possible 15 years in prison. Now he’s the poster boy for a cause he didn’t know existed when he was taken into custody.
Posted inBlogs
The Only Good Indian
A bounty hunter who has renounced his Cherokee heritage (“Avatar’s” Wes Studi) tracks an escapee from a reeducation school for Indian teens in David Willmott’s “The Only Good Indian,” screening Friday 5/14 at Trickster Gallery
Posted inArts & Culture
The Shirt on His Back
After years of nursing his Uptown Multi-Cultural Art Center through rocky times, Chris Drew is looking for a way to smooth out the road ahead.
Posted inNews & Politics
Shirt Tale/Campaign Games
Shirt Tale “I made an appointment with the Cook County neurologist on April 29th,” Mike Bradley was saying. “Do you know when my appointment is? August 25th! And until then I take 48 aspirin a day.” But we hadn’t tracked down Bradley to hear his troubles. Information reached us that Bradley–who made himself known to […]