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Night of the lifeless dead
Theater-Hikes’ open-air production of “Night of the Living Dead,” which ran last weekend in Hyde Park on a patch of land on the southwest corner of 58th Street and Woodlawn Avenue, could have used a little more chaos and a lot more gore. »
Illustrious circus
The overcast Chicago sky had made good on its threatening appearance, showering the crowd of around 200 as they hurried through the doors for the production “Illustre”—the culmination of a year’s work for the University of Chicago circus troupe Le Vorris & Vox. »
Jane Goodall speaks (to humans)
Her white hair pulled back in a signature low ponytail. On the road for 300 days a year, she travels with a bodyguard and a personal assistant. Anthropology professors and college students pay her equal homage. She’s won seemingly every award and honor. At 76, Jane Goodall is on top of the world. At... »
Righting Wongs
Dropped stitches in knitting are mistakes; they create gaps and destroy the integrity of a garment. And if they aren’t fixed when noticed, dropped stitches will unravel, producing more problems than solutions. Christina Wong used this metaphor of knitted mistakes in her performance of “Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” at Rockefeller Chapel this... »
Happy Birthday Darwin
“Classrooms and labs, loud boiling test tubes, sing to the Lord a new song!” the congregation sang during the processional hymn of the service held in the University of Chicago’s Rockefeller Chapel Sunday morning. Several hundred people gathered for a religious commemoration of the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin, with biological anthropologist Russell Tuttle... »
Most Wanted: The Black Panther comes to the Gray City
“Who knew so many people would want to come out for an old radical?” said the elderly woman in front of me to no one in particular. “We thought there’d be no one here but old folks like us.” Her husband nodded in agreement. Despite the fact that I was in the foyer of... »
MLK Day at the Rock
Despite the nearly empty campus on Monday afternoon, students and community members slowly flocked to Rockefeller Chapel for a service to celebrate and revive the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. As soon as peaceful organ music had lulled the audience into silence, an intense harmony coming from the back of the chapel pierced... »
