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Watchdogs or Lapdogs?

Paul Elitzik -
Illustration by Alexandra Westrich Tamed alternative papers join mainstream media's hunger for profit What you have in your hands is part of a dying breed. This...
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George Lucas at SAIC

Tara G. Walker -
George Lucas is giving an informal lecture and question-and-answer session on November 5 at the Rubloff Auditorium, Art Institute of Chicago, at 5:30 p.m.
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Bruce Noel Mortenson

Natalie Edwards -
Acrylic visual clutter flows across Mortenson's canvas like salmon ramming into each other as they stream the wrong way to mate, resulting in the same confusing fervor.
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School Food Review

Jesse Stein -
Free food always tastes better, but $1.50 for a fruit salad? $5.75 for a pound of fresh salad? Yeesh.
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Fluxuations

Monica Labelle -
This fall, SAIC’s Betty Rymer gallery is doing all this in literal and figurative ways for fluXspace, a series of projects and exhibitions that force the question: What is a gallery?
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Creative Dissonance

Jesse Stein -
The implicit and explicit rules, regulations and mores of the art institution—be it a school or a gallery—are always present.
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Ernesto Pujol

Monica Labelle -
Mourning, that typically private emotional act, will go public in Pujol's performance Memorial Gestures: Mourning and Yearning in the Rotunda at the Chicago Cultural Center at 10 a.m. on October 9th.
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Alternative space: Lasso Gallery at the Butcher Shop

Jesse Stein -
"The work we show attempts to negotiate a dialogue between artists and audience, about social issues, in ways that other traditional (and even non-traditional) galleries do not."
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This is not a self-portrait

Tara G. Walker -
What, exactly, makes something a self-portrait, and why are we so drawn to them?
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Focus: MFAW program hires Ruth Margraff

Gregory Kiewiet -
Her travel experience and her love of eclectic music might help explain why she often refers to her written work as world folk opera.
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Short Reviews

Paul Elitzik -
The phrase “Good coffee in Loop” is something of an oxymoron.
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Waste time the smart way

Rowland Saifi -
We have all been there: staring at a blank page, checking email, rechecking email, doing 'research' on myspace.
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No sympathy for abysmal Fridays

Natalie Edwards -
I had a friend in town from central Florida when the show opened, so naturally, wanting to strut my city's stuff, I took him to the MCA's much-hyped birthday kick-off First Friday.

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