Arts and Culture
Written in Blood
On a punishing day in late July, 40 years before the advent of air conditioning, four black teens plunged into Lake Michigan some insufficient distance north of 29th Street. At some point, the boys drifting carefree on a makeshift raft strayed passed an invisible border into a customarily whites-only beach and were greeted by... »
A Timely Conversation
Norma van der Meulen says that she is getting old, that she can’t quite remember as well as she used to. She is modest, seated in front of a pot of tea in her Hyde Park apartment. Her eyes come alive behind her glasses. Opera comes from WFMT in the background. A small-town Ohio... »
Head Pieces
The artist Theodore Homer slides impishly across the floor of Slow gallery, his polar-fleece footie pajamas providing little in the way of traction. »
Elevated Taste
At EL ideas, the food hints at elements of modern, experimental, and local cuisine, irreducible to a single identity. The dinner served on the night of November 23 resists simple characterization, the elements falling together in a way that is easy to describe, yet difficult to define. »
Rose Tinted
The genesis of the “Pink | Space” exhibition was a simple question. Noyes asked herself, “What is my space?” To come to an answer, she looked inside humanity for something we all share: the color pink. »
A Thousand Ships
“An Iliad” tells the story of the last few weeks of the war, when the Acheans Agamemnon and Achilles are fighting over a woman, Briseis. Achilles loses Briseis and refuses to fight in the war. As the struggle within the Achean ranks unfolds, the war wages on outside the walls of Troy. »
Old Jokes
At the Woodlawn Tap, a group of performers begins to reimagine the first performance of the 1950s Hyde Park sketch comedy troupe, the Compass Players. »
Egypt reels
“I find it outrageous that the corporate-sponsored media are saying things like ‘people in Cairo are tired of all the protests,’” said a red-haired lady, looking genuinely affronted as her voice cut through the hush of a retrofitted Victorian living room. »
