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Brian Dugan — the romance of remembered evil
In her later years, my mother was given to pronouncements. One concerned South Africa — more specifically the noisy campaign to treat apartheid South Africa as a pariah nation by shunning its sports teams, disinvesting in its industries, and refusing to recognize its all-white government.
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Blind Justices?
The prosecutors who sent police torture victims to prison are now the judges who keep them there.
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A Lesson Before Dying
A play about racism and wrongful application of the death penalty may not be the most upbeat way to spend a summer evening on Lake Michigan, but A Lesson Before Dying is worth it. Originally performed as part of Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s Arts Exchange program, Romulus Linney’s fleet stage adaptation retains the power, humor, and […]
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The Return of Larry Eyler
When he was sentenced to death for the murder of an Uptown boy prostitute, police and prosecutors thought they had brought an end to a long series of gruesome homosexual murders. But the killing hasn’t stopped, and now Eyler is returning to court with a s In a Rogers Park alley on August 21, 1984, […]