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Thursday, 21 January 2010 03:36 |
By Eve Brownstone
Mom and I were there together in Washington. We made the 20 hour journey on the bus with our favorite Congressman. (Mom spent the previous two years tirelessly volunteering at the Obama Headquarters and criss-crossing the country knocking on doors.) The road to the Inauguration was exhausting and cold but our hearts were warm and our spirits embraced each other and our new President.
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Monday, 11 January 2010 18:31 |
By Michael Madill
There is a countdown clock on the official website for the 2010 World Cup. As I write this, the clock is passing one hundred fifty-four days, four hours and thirty-seven minutes. I can hardly wait. What’s the World Cup? Who cares? Typically American questions. You see, we don’t really get the World Cup here. That’s because we don’t really get football. Not the real kind, anyway.
Football is played with the feet. That’s why it’s called football. The ball is round as balls should be. The game is simple. It’s played in every country in the world. In this country, the collision of armored refrigerators who grapple for an oblong inflated pig’s bladder with their hands every autumn weekend is a mire of rules, diagrams and instant replays. It’s more like rugby. Attempts to interest the rest of the world in our version always fail. There might be strategy involved in American football, but it will never be much to look at.
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Wednesday, 09 December 2009 23:02 |
 By Julie Saltzman
Come on a lyrical journey.
With drinks, food, and live music in a cozy candle-lit booth, 2nd story hopes you will be inspired to tell your tales after hearing theirs, without ever leaving Rogers Park.
2nd story, a hybrid performance event combining storytelling and live music produced by the Serendipity Theater Collective, is coming to the Morseland restaurant and bar (1218 W. Morse Ave., 773.764.8900) on the last Wednesday of every single month.
Kicking off the series, will be a preview performance on December 16, a remount of their recent presentation at the Bagdad Theater and Pub in Portland, OR, as part of the Woodstock Literary Festival.
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Thursday, 07 January 2010 15:59 |
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By Chris Drew
One moment I'm an artist selling art-patches for $1, the next Chicago Police Officers are leading me in hand-cuffs to a burgundy sedan to whisk me off to jail. Two days later, I'm trying to get out of Cook County lockup held on a first-class felony charge, just one step down from murder. How did this happen?
I've been organizing artists to show their art in locations around Uptown, Edgewater, Lakeview and Ravenswood communities for twenty years. For fifteen years I've taught artists the basics of screen printing for free. When the Iraq war came I began printing opinion patches on 100 percent cotton fabric and offering them to the public with a safety pin for immediate use. I started my blog in July of 2006 – Street Artist Adventures – the Free Speech Artists' Movement.
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Thursday, 03 December 2009 19:59 |
 By James Ginderske
For many Chicagoans, the original panics and tragedies of the HIV/AIDS pandemic seem almost ancient, as a new generation comes of age amid steadily progressing treatment options, prevention initiatives, and fading social stigma among people they know.
But such optimism is fragile when it pertains to such a pernicious disease, and utterly dependent, according to the World Health Organization and smaller agencies on continued organized efforts to end its presence.
One of those local actors is Chicago House, whose work on behalf of housing, health care, and employment for HIV/AIDS patients goes back decades, to the beginnings of HIV in Chicago.
To its CEO Reverend Stan Sloan and the volunteers and staff at Chicago House these are challenging times that hold new hope, great concern, and tremendous opportunity.
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