Street View, featuring a sartorially daring accountant
Tag: Vol. 46 No. 31
Issue of May. 11 – 17, 2017
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Watch Saint Lou’s Assembly chef Carlos Cruz make a ‘land caviar’ dish that really pops
Challenged to create a dish with tonburi, a seed considered a delicacy in Japan, the chef uses it four ways.
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The graphic novel Imagine Wanting Only This turns comics into poetry
Kristen Radtke’s essay in images explores loss, ruins, and restlessness.
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Queer and proud in a cool protester outfit
Artist Angela Davis Fegan sports a red coverall for a staged protest during the Open Engagement conference.
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The dividing line between the U.S. and Canada
An addendum to Adam Gopnik’s argument that “we could have been Canada.”
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Lewis Klahr’s Sixty Six is a masterful journey through inner space and the American past
The noted collage artist’s latest feature screens this Friday at the University of Chicago Film Studies Center.
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Historians: The Bronzeville Culver’s is being built on the site of a former Confederate smallpox cemetery, and other Chicago news
Also, an auto parts maker is opening a south-side plant that will create about 300 new jobs.
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The party’s getting started on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by local artist and designer Scott Williams.
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Chicago rap hero Bump J passes the torch to Ty Money
Ty Money’s new Cinco de Money 3 features the first appearance by Bump J since his release from prison last month.
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Boy, do we need Jane Jacobs now
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City profiles the author who battled urban expressways and high-rise housing.
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Seeing tomorrow’s subscription season today at Louisville’s Humana Festival
The seedbed for new plays has a winner in Chelsea Marcantel’s Airness.
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Local FBI chief under consideration for interim FBI director job, and other Chicago news
Also, a mayoral aide says that CPS needs $596 rather than $129 million to finish 2016-2017 school year.
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What should the frustrated wife of a man with erectile deficiencies do?
Dan Savage advises a woman in a May-December marriage, and more.
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Jamila Woods’s video for ‘Holy’ embodies black self-care
With her video for “Holy,” soul singer Jamila Woods demonstrates how to show love for your community as well as for yourself.