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Bankruptcy aint no thing….
Owner of the Chicago Reader, Tampa-based Creative Loafing, filed for bankruptcy recently, but says don’t worry, the Reader will be on the stands, as usual, on Thursday. According to Creative Loafing CEO (as quoted on Chicago Public Radio), Ben Eason, no one should be troubled: “All the sort of business pieces of [...]

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There have been little paper flyers stuck up around Logan Square lately - a method of neighborhood activism that is quite interesting in it’s low-tech nature and subtlety (and probable lack of impact). I’m interested in these little covert neighborhood actions. This one is sponsored by Neighbors for Responsible Development, a group that is behind [...]

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This is a bit cheeky, but I’m going to give it a go to see what happens.
When I was in a park yesterday, having lunch in the Loop, I overheard a conversation between a group of young women (who may or may not have been SAIC students), and one girl was complaining quite audibly about [...]

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The upcoming October issue of F Newsmagazine will have a more substantial article about the upcoming Rat City Parade, so i won’t give away too much now, but I know that SAIC alum Ben Fain is looking for participants, so if you’re stumped for a Halloween costume, and you like crazy rat suits (who doesn’t?) [...]

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I don’t make it a habit of posting press releases on this blog, but this sound entertaining - a film screening on Friday, presenting Lee Kazimir’s documentary about his journey - by foot - across Europe. Blisters in sympathy, anyone?
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FILM ABOUT CHICAGOAN’S WALK ACROSS EUROPE HAS FIRST LOCAL SCREENING ON FRIDAY, 9/26/08
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Friday, September [...]

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I’d like to put forth a number of questions about the concept of the “Artist talk” - to see what the general feeling is about such a thing. I think there are a number of problems in terms of expectations and communications with these sorts of public lectures … of course there are hundreds of [...]

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Monotonix provides a plentitude of fruit for every man and his digital camera

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Overly enthusiastic people are hard to handle. Particularly when they attack you from the back, patting you roughly on the shoulder and saying
“THAT DRESS! IT’S GORGEOUS! THAT MUSTARD COLOR IS DIVINE! … BUT OH NO NO NO NO NO NO NO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THAT HIDEOUS ORANGE PURSE! IT SPOILS THE WHOLE OUTFIT!” [...]

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This blog is appropriately titled This Photo Sucks, and it discusses all those bad photos you can find on the Internet. It might be a short, undeveloped little blog, but the idea has so much potential. I’m loving it.

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At a recent party, I set up a whiteboard and pen, and wrote the words PALIN IS: at the top. The results were interesting, albeit not particularly intelligent.

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I wanted to express my sadness at the death of David Foster Wallace - but I don’t want to be overly effusive with cliché and soppy proclamations, as I don’t think he would have approved.
Instead I will forward you on - if you’re interested, - to the appraisal of Wallace by Michiko Kakutani in the [...]

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Chicago is soon to have a new art and culture review website. There may be something of a glut of these sorts of things, but this one is by SAIC alums and will have current SAIC students as contributors, and the mock-up looks pretty. It’s going to be nerdybynature.org — not online quite yet, but [...]

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SAIC Free Radio Station Manager, Pippa Possible, has a weekly DJ gig.
It’s at the weirdest time, a Wednesday night, at The Continental on Chicago and California, from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m., but I reckon Wednesday night is just that weird that it might make for a great night out. I mean, Wednesday is like [...]

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Well, the Fall semester has commenced, and the best way to describe the looks on everyone’s faces is … it looks like everyone has been thwacked hard in the face with a soggy, old phone book. The best thing to do now is to get used to that crazy - i-have-a-million-things-to-do feeling, to assimilate this [...]

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I borrowed this from New Matilda, it is by Fiona Katauskas.

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On August 24 I fell off my bike, as one does when they are a novice at these sorts of things…
I tore out a rather large chunk of skin from my hand.
Here is a photo from August 25. Feral.
I then used these crazy sticky skin healing bandage things, apparently they’re called “Johnson & Johnson First [...]

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Here is a website that has been set up to help coordinate relief efforts for Gulf Coast residents affected by Hurricane Gustav.
Also, I just received this update from the non-profit group Common Ground about current conditions:
9/1 - 2:00 pm CST
Despite water sloshing over the west side of the Industrial Canal wall, the Corps of [...]

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