Hyde Park
Pillaging Hallowed Grounds
Something was wrong at the Reynolds Club. The late Saturday sun hadn’t quite set, and passersby on 57th street turned their faces up towards the second floor coffee shop with varying degrees of concern, curiosity, and confusion. The perpetrator? The noisily melodic wails and screams of Divinity School student Daniel Wyche, a man who... »
In the Business of Art
The best art collection on campus is also the least publicized, as it’s housed in an unlikely place. The Booth School of Business—known less for its artistic ventures than for its history of turning out successful CEOs—is home to over 300 works of art by approximately 75 artists. “When we moved into the building,... »
Worth a thousand words
“I’m not really a superhero person,” announces Deirdre Jones, a member of First Aid Comics’s graphic novel discussion club as she snacks on Skittles. On a weekday, Jones might be in First Aid buying Spiderman comics for her six-year-old son—the ones that feature Miles Morales, an African-American and Latino boy trying to get into... »
Written in Stone
Last Saturday morning, 20 adults, many patrons of the Glessner House, converged in the lobby of Hyde Park’s Oriental Institute. Emily Teeter, a curator for the museum who specializes in Egyptology, stood front and center to guide the group through an architectural history of the museum. The tour began at the beginning: at the... »
Out of Context
“Intimate,” comments Orron Kenyetta, standing in the front room of the Southside Hub of Production (SHoP) on a sunny Sunday afternoon. »
Coming to Terms
“It’s complicated.” That was how Bryant Jackson-Green, chairman of the libertarian UofC student organization Students for a Free Society, summed up his position on the Occupy movement for an audience member as he made his way up to the podium at last Thursday’s debate. Billed as a discussion on what role Occupy should play... »
A Conservative Prognosis
Short, round in the middle, and balding on the top, William Kristol resembles nothing if not an aging torpedo. A torpedo that is, perhaps, past its aerodynamic prime, but still not something you want fired in your direction. As his introduction noted, Kristol has, in a variety of capacities, been involved in “every political... »
After the Millennium Approached
Roy M. Cohn is not a homosexual. As the high-powered lawyer explains in part one of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America,” yes, he sleeps with men, and, yes, he appears to have AIDS (heretofore to be referred to only as “liver cancer”), but, he says to his doctor, “Homosexuals are not men who sleep... »
