Multidisciplinary artist Sol Patches left Chicago a few years ago to study at New York University, but our city remains embedded in her work. She opens her new album, Vivid Image (self-released via Sol y Chaski), by throwing her voice at a skittering beat that borrows the frenetic energy of footwork, and her rapping glides […]
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Posted inMusic
Disharmony at the Old Town School
The Old Town School’s new union fears the administration is treating teachers like commodities, not inspirations.
Posted inNews & Politics
The problem with the “public health” approach to ideological violence
The Countering Violent Extremism program is meant to stop terrorism and hate crimes before they happen, but critics say it’s yet another excuse to spy on Muslims.
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IPRA reopens investigation into 2014 fatal police shooting of a 19-year-old, and other Chicago news
Also, J.B. Pritzker’s health-care plan involves letting anyone buy into Medicaid.
Posted inFilm
Israeli filmmaker Joseph Cedar comes to New York City to make a movie divorced of time and place
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer has the moral dimensions of a Jewish folktale.
Posted inArts & Culture
Tseng Kwong Chi, downtown New York’s photographic ambassador
The Block Museum hosts a retrospective of one of the most overlooked artists of a vibrant era.
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Burroughs lays bare the notorious author of Naked Lunch
This 1983 documentary gets Burroughs right between the eyes.
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“Rising Up”: Hale Woodruff’s murals on a northern tour
“Rising Up”: Muralist Hale Woodruff’s scenes of black history take a northern tour.
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Pseudoscience in the New York Times
Fanciful scientific claims fire up neurons in the corpus credulous, which controls e-mailing.