Leave it to the University of Chicago to create a pair of Nietzsche-inspired murderers. Nearly eighty-five years ago, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, graduate students at the University, committed the “perfect crime” on the streets of Kenwood, kidnapping and suffocating to death 14-year-old Bobby Franks. The deranged duo was caught soon after the murder, and Paul Durica is happy to tell you what went wrong with their perfect plan. Read the rest of this entry »
Last Saturday, Kenwood Academy—a typical high school with an auditorium and brick-lined hallways—hosted the tenth annual Black Age of Comics Convention. Artists set up tables and displays along the hallways, which would normally be clogged with students, and in the auditorium, where one would expect a podium from which a principal could address his school, there was a screen set up showing anime. By noon, Kenwood Academy turned itself into a sort of conference center, with a crowd of comic fans, collectors, and the curious shuffling from table to table and soaking up the art. Read the rest of this entry »
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