The Shigeyama family, a Japanese theater troupe, performs for free tonight at 7 PM at University of Chicago’s International House.
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Hyde Park & Kenwood Issue: Dance for Your Rights
Hyde Park was a bastion of the Stonewall-era gay-rights movement in Chicago.
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Hyde Park & Kenwood Issue: The Cradle of Chicago-Style Theater
Both Chicago improv and the off-Loop theater movement have their roots in Hyde Park. Sheldon Patinkin was there.
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Hyde Park & Kenwood Issue: Movies
Doc Films and the University of Chicago Film Studies Center
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Hyde Park & Kenwood Issue: Expelled From the Garden
The U. of C. wants to park bulldozers on a Woodlawn community garden, and it won’t take “let’s talk about this” for an answer.
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Hyde Park & Kenwood Issue: Beyond Robie House
A tour of some of the neighborhoods’ lesser-known architectural gems
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Hyde Park & Kenwood Issue: An Island in the Swamp
For decades now, most of Chicago’s political independents have emerged from Hyde Park and Kenwood.
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Hyde Park & Kenwood Issue: Performing Arts
Where to go in the birthplace of off-Loop theater
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What Sort of Woman Reads Playboy?
By day Peggy Wilkins runs Unix servers at the U. of C. By night she tends her apartment-size collection of Playboys, moderates the Playboy Mailing List, builds Playmate databases, and even sends free advice to Hef.
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Can a Bad Neighborhood Give You Cancer?
According to current and former University of Chicago researchers, quite possibly.
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Films by Joseph Cornell 1937-1965
Doc Films shows short films by New York surrealist Joseph Cornell on Tuesday 1/12.
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Alexi’s Albatross
Can Alexi Giannoulias shake off the problems plaguing his family’s bank to win Obama’s old Senate seat?
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“After the Olympic Bid: What’s Next for Chicago?” Panel Discussion
Panel on Chicago’s future at Roosevelt University.
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The Murder of Fred Hampton
“The Murder of Fred Hampton” screens Wednesday 12/2 as part of “The Black Panther Party in Retrospect” conference at the University of Chicago.
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“The Hidden History of the University of Chicago”
Free tour of the dark history of the University of Chicago; part of the Pocket Guide to Hell Tour Series