Archive for the ‘LIFE & STYLE’ Category

Califone at Lincoln Hall

by Sue Khim Just returned from watching the band Califone 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 bad luck to say ‘pig’...

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

For your pleasure … Lady Robot

by Dahlia Rizk The year’s technology: hands-on and hassle free. This past week the streets of America have been abuzz with technological news regarding items that until recently, we never knew we needed, but now, will never be able to live without. One such item has been the Apple iPad—the iPhone...

February 3rd, 2010 | HEADLINES, LIFE & STYLE | Read More

Oh my god, we’re back again.

by Dahlia Rizk You’ve seen them onstage, you’ve played and rewinded their cassette tapes—yes, I said cassette tapes—on your tape player. You’ve cried when said cassette tape got stuck in your player or when your parents refused to get you their latest lunchbox or bookbag. Things were good in...

December 4th, 2009 | LIFE & STYLE, [blog] musings on the state of this here society ... | Read More

Mega-Development at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Micro-Development at the Graham Foundation

by Alexander Naylor The theory and practice of urbanism find themselves in fairly different places today. While the urban planning discourse of the United States and Europe is full of responses to the environmental challenges of climate change (and other threats), most of the world’s actual urbanization...

December 2nd, 2009 | LIFE & STYLE | Read More

Silvio Berlusconi: now we’ve seen it all

by Dahlia Rizk A self-made man, rising up from a middle-class family to become a media mogul who today owns every major printed news and television outlet. And I’m not talking about Rupert Murdoch. No, this time, the age-old American tale of pulling yourself up by the bootstraps happens in none...

November 6th, 2009 | LIFE & STYLE | Read More

Chicago Artists Month: Interview

I clicked away on my camera as Ted Harris wove through his large, high-ceilinged West Side warehouse studio stacked bottom to top with musty, junk-like matter. “Photographers love the clutter,” he grinned. The warehouse featured an open-door crawl this past Sunday, inviting in the public...

October 26th, 2009 | LIFE & STYLE | Read More

Photo Blog: Thrift Stores for Dorm Décor

By Danbee Kim Photos by Danbee Kim Thrift stores are conveniently plentiful in Lincoln Park, and are a budget-conscious way to add finishing touches to dorm décor with recycled goods. On a recent trip up to the north side, I snapped pictures at a couple of personal favorites — Clothes Optional,...

October 9th, 2009 | LIFE & STYLE | Read More

Married to Myth: Polygamy in America

Captivated by the images of women wearing prairie garb and mountainous coiffures, the mainstream media readily ate up last month’s news of a raid on a polygamist compound in Eldorado, Texas. The 416 children removed on April 5 are still in state custody. The normally isolated women and children of...

September 16th, 2009 | LIFE & STYLE | Read More

Pretty American Girl: An American Girl’s Week-Long Holiday in Sarajevo

by Andrea Fjeld (from the March 2007 print edition) At six a.m., Sarajevo was bleak and sullen. Recent rains had slicked the pavement and puddles leaked into my cowboy boots with each misstep; the few trucks that passed soaked my bare, white legs. None of the directions I had worked out the night before...

September 16th, 2009 | LIFE & STYLE, LOCAL | Read More

So the Story Goes: Five Photographers and Their Selected Lives

by Sam Cate-Gumpert (from the January 2007 print edition) Art photography is a highly subjective, selective medium. What we as spectators see is not some objective truth of life or art; rather, we see the artist’s truth: what he or she chooses to present us. Yet this is not a wholly one-sided process....

September 16th, 2009 | ART & CULTURE, LIFE & STYLE | Read More

Califone at Lincoln Hall
March 10, 2010 09:03
Climate Rhetoric Heats Up: The Rest Versus the West
March 5, 2010 03:03
Eye on Conakry, Guinea: Poverty
March 2, 2010 01:03
Grenada’s Imaginary Subversives
February 22, 2010 07:02
Diskord Panopticon Road Trip
February 10, 2010 15:02

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