Dave Rempis organizes concerts, mentors young musicians, and connects players from across the States and abroad—modeling the commitment and generosity that keep the jazz scene viable.
Tag: Anthropology
How a mysterious box of photos sent an Evanston couple halfway around the world
For a quarter century, Jerri Zbiral and Alan Teller have been trying to figure out the identity of the photographer behind images from 1940s India.
Artist on Artist: Chaka Khan talks to Jake Austen of the Goblins
Chaka Khan talks to Jake Austen of the Goblins and Chic-a-Go-Go.
How Emily Graslie went from YouTube science star to full-time at the Field Museum
A 20-year-old aspiring artist visited a zoological museum. Four years later, Emily Graslie is working at the Field Museum.
What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival 2013
What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival: Robots, pigs, Bambi, and more
When man met mammoth and painted it (part one)
A preview of the Field Museum’s Lascaux cave paintings exhibit
Jean Rouch in Chicago: An interview with Judy Hoffman and Gordon Quinn of Kartemquin Films, part three
The concluding segment of an interview with two noted Chicago documentarians about the influential French ethnographer and filmmaker.
Jean Rouch in Chicago: An interview with Judy Hoffman and Gordon Quinn of Kartemquin Films, part one
Talking with some of Chicago’s most esteemed documentarians about the great French ethnographer and filmmaker
3/18 — Free Talk on Women and Conservation
Dr. Alaka Wali presents the lecture “Women on the Front Line For Conservation” on Thu 3/18 at 7 PM at the Hopleaf Bar.
Seeing a museum again for the first time
What exactly is the Museum of Science and Industry teaching us?
Why marriage may be on the way out
Ask an anthropologist for the real story on marriage sometime. It won’t offer aid and comfort to anyone much.