Why Chicago’s cultural institutions are lining up behind a bid the people aren’t sure they want.
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Fall Arts Guide 2009 Best Bets: Heartland
Curators from the Smart and the Netherlands’ Van Abbemuseum trekked out to backwaters like Detroit and Kansas City to find out what sort of art those crazy middle Americans are up to; the resulting exhibit opens October 1 at the Smart.
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Chicago winners in the Recovery grant game
Who’s getting NEA Recovery Act money? Here are Chicago’s winners.
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The Point — something new to read in Chicago
Three University of Chicago grad students who believe it’s a bad time for serious ideas launch The Point, a new journal where they’ll find a haven.
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5/20 — Stuart Dybek Talk
A free Stuart Dybek lecture tonight at the University of Chicago
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Doc Films cancels “City of Sadness” screening
Hou Hsiao-hsien’s “City of Sadness,” scheduled to screen tonight at Doc Films, has been replaced by Edward Yang’s “A Brighter Summer Day.”
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Tom Gunning on the celluloid Lincoln
Noted U. of C. professor Tom Gunning lectures on cinematic portrayals of the 16th president at Loyola next week.
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2/11 — Free Aleksandar Hemon reading
2/11 — Free reading by Aleksandar Hemon at the University of Chicago
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11/20 — Tariq Ali on Pakistan
Tonight: Tariq Ali talks about Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the region’s importance to global security at the University of Chicago’s International House.
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The Works
I know it’s wrong to gloat, but residents of Hyde Park showed the University of Chicago a thing or two by voting the 39th precinct of the Fifth Ward dry in an Election Day referendum. With the vote to “reinstate prohibition,” as an editorial in the student-run Chicago Maroon put it, the residents effectively killed […]
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The U. of C. and U of I join HathiTrust
The U. of C. serves as one of the first gateways to the giant new HathiTrust digital library.
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No comment
Should there be a right to “homosexual sodomy”? Hell if Antonin Scalia knows.
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Lipinski Lands on Her Feet
Ann Marie Lipinski is named vice president for civic engagement at the University of Chicago.
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Andrea and the king of Siam
Reader contributor Andrea Gronvall will teach this fall at the University of Chicago.