"Mystere" (Treasure Island). ★★★ 1/2 The most family-friendly of the Cirque shows -- created when Las Vegas was still branding itself as a family destination -- this 16-year-old production brilliantly encapsulates the blend of narrative sophi... »
posted by chicago pop[Source: Chicago Tribune, "Friends and family fund for aldermen," Thursday, November 19, 2009]When you live in Chicago, you get used to bodies popping up in rivers.So to speak.You also get used to Aldermen reassuring us t... »
Physicist Albert V. Crewe, inventor of the scanning transmission electron microscope and former director of Argonne National Laboratory, died Wednesday from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 82. The scanning transmission electron microscope ... »
President Robert Zimmer updated students on the University’s finances in a Student Government–sponsored forum Thursday, in a discussion that touched on faculty expansion, Harper Court development, and the University’s endowment. Zimmer said the cuts we... »
Zaleski and Horvath MarketCafé (Z&H) will open a second location on 57th Street and Kimbark Avenue this spring, replacing University Market. Z&H, which currently operates on 47th Street between Greenwood and Woodlawn Avenues, is a specialty gro... »
The U of C may have dropped out of the Big Ten, but it can count itself in the Ivy Plus Society (IPS), a business—and dating—networking club for alums of elite colleges across the country. Alumni of Ivy League and other prestigious colleges, universiti... »
A U of C professor and a Renaissance Society curator were both nominated for the Ordway Prize this month, an award honoring contemporary artists who have not yet received widespread recognition. Tania Bruguera, a visual arts professor and performance a... »
Food, music, and environmentalism came together Monday evening at the Reynolds Club for the second annual No Trash Bash. The event, organized by the Green Campus Initiative (GCI), offered students a chance to get information about the numerous groups ... »
Congratulations to Julie Walsh for her 16 years of presenting fascinating art that offers us an insight into Asian cultures and provides a foil for us to better understand our own taste and visceral responses. »
The gruesome murder of 19-year-old gay man Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado in Puerto Rico last week has shone new light on the potentially life-threatening dangers facing those who do not easily slide into our society's conventions of gender. He, and 1... »
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