...a life-size cardboard cut-out in the center of a patch of red carpeting, behind a knee-high pile of tabloid newspapers titled Celebrity Artist. The front-page photo was the same couple from Lazerhappy. The headline said, “Dominique’s Secret! What she’s keeping from him may end in more heartache.”

Heartbeat Swap's altruistic priorities benefit disadvantaged Chicagoans. Heartbeat SWAP (Salon for Waking Altruistic Priorities) began in the wake of a field trip to the Chicago Center for Green Technology, a building on North Sacramento Boulevard that was designed and functions using green technology, and that rents space to companies providing environmental services and products.

While F News was hard at work on the April issue, one of our staff members mentioned off-handedly that he’d heard SAIC mentioned on independant radio station Democracy Now. Turns out they were discussing not the School of the Art Institute, but a California-based Fortune 500 company called Science Applications International Corporation (www.saic.com), the nation’s largest employee-owned R & D firm.

If you’ve ever wondered what a handmade couture belly-dancer would look like, the opportunity is fast approaching. Ruby McNeil’s and Chi-Lai Cherry Yuen’s freshly-started student group At Home Worldwide Fashion Society will hold a fashion show extravaganza on April 30 in the Siragusa Gallery at 162 North State Street.

Italian prosecutors continue to present evidence against former Getty curator Marion True, who was charged last year with knowingly trafficking in illegally obtained antiquities.

Dear Internet, What can a pathetic and persistently single female college student do for fun on a Friday night in Chicago, Illinois?

People always slow down when they walk past SAIC buildings. They gawk at each outfit. They examine each hairstyle. Then they invariably look upward, for the words on the building to tell them whence came this conspicuous assembly.

Dave Hickey is a popular guy. So it’s no wonder, with articles in countless publications, two art school must-read books, and a MacArthur Genius award to his name, that over five hundred people showed up for his October 11 “Art After Criticism” lecture at the museum.