Oscar B. Castillo and Wil Sands’s ongoing project “BordersCruzadas: A Collaborative Story,” on view at the new Community Engagement Hub on Columbia College Chicago’s 600 S. Michigan campus, forces viewers to confront ingrained assumptions about American exceptionalism. Part photography, part archival material, “BordersCruzadas” features Castillo and Sands’s documentarian work completed over the past year as […]
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Chicago Theatre Week kicks off
Update February 24: Chicago Theatre Week has been extended through March 5. “If you see our show, that’s at least two spots on your bingo card!” That’s what Jimalita Tillman, global director for the Harold Washington Cultural Center, said at the Chicago Theatre Week kick-off party Monday night at Wicker Park’s Den Theatre. She wasn’t […]
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Piñatta pop-up, The Pay’s the Thing, music, and more
Monday Night Foodball time means a chance to sample wares from some of the latest food purveyors to join Chicago’s sea of great chefs and food pop-ups. Tonight is no exception as the siblings Emilio and Santiago Guererro bring their “plant-based, precolonial taqueria” Piñatta to the Kedzie Inn’s kitchen (4100 N. Kedzie). Read more about […]
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28 years of freedom on the wall
What do Cesar Chavez, Ayn Rand, and Harold Washington have in common? They are among the 69 people featured in Adam Brooks’s public art project Freedom Wall, which has been installed on the building at 325 W. Huron since 1994. The text-based installation, which is viewable from the Brown Line’s Chicago stop, has undoubtedly been […]
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Journalist Danny Fenster’s detainment shows we are living Fahrenheit 451
The Columbia College graduate has been held in Myanmar to the detriment of free speech everywhere.
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Dee Alaba celebrates her authentic self
Dee Alaba seeks collaborators who celebrate and respect identity.
Posted inCity Life
Somewhere in time is here and now
Upcoming events and recommendations from our listings coordinator
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Rebecca Fons leads Gene Siskel Film Center into a new era
The new director of programming prepares for the return to in-theater viewing and beyond.
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Intimacy directors: more important than ever
As theaters and studios get back to work during COVID-19, they provide a roadmap for safe practices.
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Envisioning democracy—in photos—at the MoCP
From literal and data-driven to poetic and hopeful, the galleries curated by Columbia College Chicago professors show what democracy means to them.
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Social Distance Gallery highlights student artists
How canceled BFA and MFA shows are persisting during the COVID crisis.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
At Columbia College, a contested part-time faculty union election
Longtime CFAC president Diana Vallera and her team face a reform slate.
Posted inMusic
Sicangu Lakota rapper Frank Waln chronicles the sounds of the seventh generation rising
Sicangu Lakota rapper, producer, and engineer Frank Waln celebrates and bears witness to the survival of Indigenous peoples in his compositions. Born and raised on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, Waln received his bachelor’s of arts in audio arts and acoustics from Columbia College Chicago and currently lives in Washington Park. He views his […]
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Northbrook Public Library: The best Chicago revival house not actually in Chicago
Some of the choicest repertory cinema in the Chicagoland area screens in 35-millimeter at the NPL.
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Sparking controversy with a pair of leafy pants
A Columbia film student is happy to wear whatever she wants.