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Comic sans reality
Cosplayers, comic book promoters, and entertainment industry bigwigs stood united at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) this past weekend. »
Final Metal
Physics professor Sidney Nagel held up two forks: one metal, one plastic. “Who would like me to stick this one in there?” Nagel asked, gesturing with the metal fork to a nearby electrical socket. “No one? What about this one?” He held up the plastic fork. “Doesn’t matter, right?” This was the opening exchange... »
The man of stone
Built into the raised divider that separates S. Lake Park Ave. from the Metra, the Hyde Park Historical Society itself is a testament to the bygone. Originally a waiting room for cable cars, the small redbrick building is furnished with dark wood paneling and enough black and white photographs, cloth-bound books, prints, and colorful... »
Bridgeport’s Best Brunch
For the mix of friends and strangers chatting in the charming garden of the Benton House, the only concern is the lack of coffee. The Bridgeport Alliance organized this potluck brunch with a small town atmosphere for the area’s community groups. »
Chasing Andrei
Saturday night’s director event at the University of Chicago’s Film Studies Center could have been called a lot of things, not the least accurate being something like “Trakovsky does Tarkovsky,” or “Solaris Changed My Life—Let’s See Who Else Agrees.” But the FSC went with the sufficiently self-evident, “Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky.” »
Less than vicious cyclists
They sounded like bees. A swarm of bikers careened around the corner, enthusiastically buzzing past in a blur of black and white. The day was March 28, the place was Calumet Park, and the occasion was the Gapers Block criterium series. Calumet Park, located along Lake Michigan in the far South Side neighborhood of... »
Voice of the People
Last Wednesday at ten of three, a small group had already started to gather around the locked doors of an out-of–the way University of Chicago classroom a full forty minutes before vaunted Marxist literary critic Terry Eagleton was scheduled to give a lecture entitled “The Death of Criticism?” Though a quick search for the... »
Good Haunts
When Paul Cornell purchased the land that would become the future site of Hyde Park Township, he had a plan. According to Lee Bey, the architecture critic who spoke in front of the Hyde Park Historical Society last Saturday night, the township was to be “a statement.” It was a place where a university... »
