Generally, I like to tell a joke or two in these columns, looking to underscore the absurdity of politics with a little dark humor. But no joking this time. On Saturday, an 18-year-old white supremicist armed with a semiautomatic rifle walked into a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, and started shooting people. Black people, […]
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The fight for the future
Congresswoman Mary Miller’s apology is almost as bad as her original “Hitler was right” remark.
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The Owl’s Legacy is the best symposium on ancient Greece you’ll ever sit in on
Chris Marker’s multipart essay film screens all month at the Siskel Film Center.
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The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt tells the story of the philosopher’s life and thoughts in pictures
Or how gag cartoonist Ken Krimstein took the plunge into midcentury philosophy.
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The time Chicago skinheads beat up a Nazi
Yes, Chicago does have a history of punks who’ve shown Nazis what’s what.
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Gubernatorial candidate Jeanne Ives’s ad offends both sides of the aisle, and other Chicago news
Also, attorney general candidate Scott Drury believes Madigan thought he was wearing a wire during a meeting.
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‘Otto Neumann: Modern Degenerate’ shows an artist struggling through the hopelessness of 20th century Germany
Two new exhibitions shed light on an artist who dealt with tragedy in his own way.
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Emanuel slams Trump over Charlottesville: ‘Members of the neo-Nazi and the KKK think they have a friend in the Oval Office,’ and other Chicago news
Also, Rauner isn’t happy with the state senate’s override of his school funding veto.
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Illinois senate overrides Rauner’s amendatory veto of the school funding bill, and other news
Also, hundreds of Chicagoans gathered Sunday to denounce racism and bigotry after the violence at a white supremacist march in Charlottesville.
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Four Trump protesters charged after chaotic Friday night and other Chicago news
Also, the latest tragic turn in the gang war that killed Tyshawn Lee.
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What we learned at the 2014 Chicago Humanities Festival
Here are the nuggets wisdom and trivia we gleaned from the Chicago Humanities Festival.
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Photojournalist Ruth Gruber, 102 and still ahead of her time
For pioneering photojournalist Ruth Gruber, words and pictures are tools to inspire others to act.
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The story of the diary of Anne Frank
Rinne Groff’s Compulsion tells the tale of a writer whose evangelical zeal for Anne Frank turned to bitter infatuation.
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In “Destroy the Picture,” a violent attack on the canvas
A new Museum of Contemporary Art exhibit collects abstract artists’ impassioned responses to World War II.
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Burning down the house
Trap Door Theatre’s The Arsonists works pretty well, considering its lack of drama