Archive for the ‘HEADLINES’ Category

Interview with Tauqeer Fatima Bhutto, Provincial Minister for Women Development in Pakistan

As the Provincial Minister of Women Development in Sindh, Pakistan, Ms. Bhutto is in a unique position today – a position from where she not only has a clear view of the problems women face in a patriarchal society, but also the ability to address these problems within the larger political framework. Disclaimer:...

April 10th, 2010 | HEADLINES, INTERNATIONAL, PUTTING IT IN PERSPECTIVE, VOICES | Read More

The do-or-die American, part 1

by Dahlia Rizk Every once in a while, and especially in this great city of Chicago, you’ll hear someone talking about the American Dream—on the subway, in a café, at Saks Fifth Avenue. You’ll hear it manifest in many forms, ones which may not seem very obvious at first, but will all, upon reflection,...

April 10th, 2010 | A Moment for Better Living, HEADLINES, ISSUES, LOCAL | Read More

The “Diskord Bump”

Pictured here: MySpace pageviews for The Webelos, courtesy of Next Big Sound In case you have ever hesitated to take the call of a Diskord reporter … check out the awesome peak in site stats for The Webelos on March 22, the day the Diskord article “Making It As A College Band” went up. Now,...

April 9th, 2010 | HEADLINES, LOCAL | Read More

[CultureBeat] The Art of Iranian Food

by Marybeth Tamborra In honor of Persian New Year … Even as a child in a photograph taken 58 years ago she still has those same careful, pensive and protective eyes. In the black and white image, the textured field in which she and two other girls lie is grey. She wears a white, chiffon dress that...

April 9th, 2010 | HEADLINES, LIFE & STYLE | Read More

Stories of a Patchwork Coup

The events read like exerts from a spy novel: secrecy, mass deaths and corruption coupled with guiltless decadence. Guinea is an impoverished country in West Africa with virtually no industry or infrastructure. It suffers from the paradox of plenty. It has vast natural resources including gems and petroleum,...

April 3rd, 2010 | HEADLINES, INTERNATIONAL, VOICES | Read More

Entrepreneurship Panels Winter 2010

The U. of C.’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship hosted multiple entrepreneurship panels in Winter 2010, with excellent turnout. Here’s a quick mash-up of the highlights: Exploring Entrepreneurship: Innovations in the Midwest Education Industry Best Talk: Provider of online learning K12...

March 13th, 2010 | HEADLINES, LOCAL | Read More

Climate Rhetoric Heats Up: The Rest Versus the West

In late January, Usama Bin Laden made an extended statement expounding on the reality of climate change and its effects on the world: “The effects of global warming have touched every continent. Drought and deserts are spreading, while from the other floods and hurricanes unseen before the previous...

March 11th, 2010 | HEADLINES | Read More

All My Friends Are Funeral Singers

by Sue Khim Just returned from watching the band Califone, one of Chicago’s own, play a live soundtrack to their Sundance-selected film All My Friends are Funeral Singers at Lincoln Hall. The film lives in the world of the supernatural, with superstitions lingering on the screen (e.g. It’s...

March 10th, 2010 | HEADLINES, LIFE & STYLE | Read More

Eye on Conakry, Guinea: Poverty

Guinea is a country heavily burdened by poverty. The population sells anything possible. Drugged dogs can be purchased on roadways, from the comfort of your car, if you’re lucky enough to have one. Almost all food is imported. My friend tells me that, “you can’t look at prices when go to grocery.”...

March 2nd, 2010 | HEADLINES, ISSUES | Read More

Diskord Panopticon Road Trip

Do you enjoy visiting prisons? Join the Diskord staff at the Stateville Correctional Center to visit one of the few facilities in the world modeled after Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon. It’s a long road trip, yes, but on the way we will read from trip-related classic Kafka’s The Castle...

February 10th, 2010 | HEADLINES | Read More