Page Three
49th Street Shipwreck
On July 15, 1914, two hundred University of Chicago students stood on the shore of Lake Michigan to watch a ship pull in. Or perhaps they were on board the ship itself—nautical history lends itself to fantastic lore. Either way, the unfortunate Silver Spray was never to reach her port. Run aground in the... »
Doppleganger
Jack Clark is early. He hovers around the well-stocked bar, looking to quell his anxieties about the lighting at Jimmy’s. Dmitry Samarov arrives soon after. Bearded, tattooed, dressed in 501’s and a pair of beat up wingtips, he looks part hard man and part St. Nick. Samarov situates himself at a table perpendicular to... »
Growing SMALL
At Bridgeport’s Co-Prosperity Sphere this past Friday, two DJs occupied the center of the room, trading off tracks from a stack of Beastie Boys LPs in honor of MCA, the group’s recently deceased co-founder. Yet neither the avid scratching of the turntablists nor the recorded shouts of the legendary New York City rap crew... »
Reverend Wyatt
After Wyatt passed away last month at 88 years old, a crowd of hundreds, including former Illinois Senator Carol Moseley Braun and the Reverend Jesse Jackson, packed into Wyatt’s church to pay respects to this legacy. »
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... »
Sex-positive party
It was a conservative pundit’s worst nightmare. In a fit of ecstatic tolerance, sexual discrimination, gender binaries, and the heteronormative hierarchy disappeared. Out of the remaining wormhole came free HIV testing, drag shows, dancing, and wholehearted acceptance—such was the scene at the Rhythm and Queers Dance Party last Friday night. The resplendent fundraiser was... »
Dispute of Good Repute
A knockout ring girl skimpily clad in black, fishnets down her legs, strutted through a crowd of energized members of the Chicago Police and Fire Departments. No, this wasn’t the debut of a new uniform. Rather, it was the scene at the 10th annual Battle of the Badges, a charity boxing match between Chicago’s... »
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... »
