Lake Michigan has served as my compass since I moved to Chicago. I will never forget an old coworker telling me to remember “the lake is always east!” when I described how lost I’d get trying to find my way around the city. It took a few years for it to click, but once I […]
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What does freedom look like?
“Can you see me?” at Weinberg/Newton Gallery intentionally gives a platform to individuals affected by incarceration and to communities that have been deeply cut by the prison industrial complex. What does it mean to listen to a person’s experience while simultaneously considering the depth of change it has on a group, a community, a generation? […]
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Will the Green Line Arts Center help turn the south side into ‘Florence during the Renaissance’?
The new theater in Washington Park is the first performing arts center to open on the south side in 40 years.