Part of “On TV, Off TV,” on display at Packer Schopf Gallery
Tag: Vol. 39 No. 8
Issue of Nov. 12 – 18, 2009
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Morning Art: Laurel Delaney
Part of “Myth-Illogical,” on display at Woman Made Gallery
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Tales Designed to Thrizzle Discussion at Challengers Comics
Michael Kupperman’s Tales Designed to Thrizzle is the subject of a discussion at Challengers Comics on Thursday, November 19.
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What People Talk About When they Talk About Architecture
I agree with Blair Kamin that Mies van der Rohe’s Test Cell is ugly. Personally – and I am a rank, uncultured philistine as far as architecture goes – I’m not particularly fond of IIT or Mies van der Rohe, whose buildings I associate with fuck-you money and bureaucracy. Which I know is not his […]
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This Week’s Food and Drink Events
A rare tea dinner, a benefit for the soon-to-open Dill Pickle Food Co-op, cheese from master cheese makers of Wisconsin, and more.
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11/19 — Free A/V Murder Show at the Double Door
Free A/V Murder show at the Double Door on Thursday, November 19.
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Second City Syndrome Part Infinity
If you want to know why Daley wins every time no matter what, this explains it better than anything I could ever write: In the years since then, Chicago has ridden the momentum. It’s made big plans, been boosted by big names. Mayor Richard Daley. Oprah Winfrey. Barack Obama. Now Daley’s grip on power is […]
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In Search of a Non-Dorky Men’s Winter Hat
We consider the style quandary that is men’s winter headgear.
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Things Might Be Looking Up for SYGC, Depending on Your Views on Taco Bell
Recently wrecked band hits fast food jackpot
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About the Thomson Prison Debate
I join Neil Steinberg in condemning Congressman Mark Kirk for the letter Kirk sent President Obama urging him to put those “200 Al Qaeda terrorists” somewhere else, for if they’re transferred from Guantanamo Bay to the state prison in Thomson, Illinois, “our state and the Chicago Metropolitan Area will become ground zero for Jihadist terrorist […]
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Drag City Peers Into the Byways of Marrakech
Drag City celebrates the release of a compilation of Gnawan music on sublabel Twos and Fews with a listening party Thursday at Intuit.