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Music
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Music Review
Mar 1, 2021
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Chicago rapper Sol Patches makes daring choices feel welcoming on
Vivid Image
By Leor Galil
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Sol Patches
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Vivid Image
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Sol y Chaski
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rap
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New York University
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synths
,
gender abolition
,
Recommended
Music
,
Music Feature
Nov 5, 2020
Disharmony at the Old Town School
The new teachers’ union fears the administration is treating them like commodities, not inspirations.
By Mark Guarino
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Music Feature
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Old Town School of Folk Music
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Old Town School
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Bau Graves
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union
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contract
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Illinois Federation of Teachers
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Lincoln Park
,
Lincoln Square
,
Armitage
,
Robert Bruno
,
Labor Education Program
,
University of Illinois at Chicago
,
Jim Newcomb
,
Dave Zibell
,
National Labor Relations Board
,
Boeing
,
C.J. Hawking
,
Arise Chicago
,
Dona Benkert
,
Chris Walz
,
Richard Beasley Maloney
,
New York University
,
Renee Nanzer
,
Lindsay Weinberg
,
Mike Warner
,
Franczek
,
Ernest Dawkins
News & Politics
,
Feature
Dec 10, 2018
The problem with the “public health” approach to ideological violence
The Countering Violent Extremism program is meant to stop terrorism and hate crimes before they happen, but critics say it’s yet another excuse to spy on Muslims.
By Maya Dukmasova
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Junaid Afeef
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Targeted Violence Prevention Program
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Nicole Nguyen
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UIC
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Stevan Weine
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Brennan Center for Justice
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New York University
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Bridge Initiative
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Georgetown University
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Kristin Sekerci
,
public health
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George W. Bush
Blogs
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Bleader
Aug 4, 2017
Video
IPRA reopens investigation into 2014 fatal police shooting of a 19-year-old, and other Chicago news
Also, J.B. Pritzker's health-care plan involves letting anyone buy into Medicaid.
By Kate Shepherd
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Did You Read __________?
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Medicaid
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Wyndham Lathem
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Film
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Movie Review
Apr 26, 2017
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Israeli filmmaker Joseph Cedar comes to New York City to make a movie divorced of time and place
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
has the moral dimensions of a Jewish folktale.
By J.R. Jones
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Joseph Cedar
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Footnote movie
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Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
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Michael Sheen
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Charlotte Gainsbourg
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Steve Buscemi
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Richard Gere
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Dan Stevens
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Lior Ashkenazi
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Jun Miyake
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Sep 29, 2016
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Tseng Kwong Chi, downtown New York’s photographic ambassador
The Block Museum hosts a retrospective of one of the most overlooked artists of a vibrant era.
By Tal Rosenberg
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Tseng Kwong Chi
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Tseng Kwong Chi: Performing for the Camera
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Mao
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Keith Haring
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Chrysler Museum
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Block Museum of Art
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Charlotte Moorman
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A Feast of Astonishments
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New York City
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AIDS
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HIV
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Your Program of Programs
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Kestutis Nakas
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East Meets West
,
The Expeditionary Series
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Movie Review
Nov 12, 2014
Recommended
Burroughs
lays bare the notorious author of
Naked Lunch
This 1983 documentary gets Burroughs right between the eyes.
By J.R. Jones
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Howard Brookner
,
Burroughs: The Movie
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William S. Burroughs
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the Beats
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Beat
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Naked Lunch
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Kill Your Darlings
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New York University
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Patti Smith
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Terry Southern
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Ted Morgan
,
Literary Outlaw
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Saint Louis
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Central West End
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Joan Vollmer
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Art Review
Mar 15, 2013
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"Rising Up": Hale Woodruff's murals on a northern tour
Six paintings by the Harlem Renaissance artist leave the south for the first time since their installation—over half a century ago.
By Janet Potter
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Art Review
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Talladega College
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Harlem Renaissance
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Hale Aspacio Woodruff
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Amistad
,
Underground Railroad
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Diego Rivera
,
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,
France
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Atlanta University
,
Cairo Illinois
,
Works Progress Administration
,
Spelman College
,
Clark University
,
New York University
,
High Museum of Art
,
Savery Library
,
Chicago Cultural Center
,
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Bleader
Feb 25, 2013
Pseudoscience in the
New York Times
Fanciful scientific claims fire up neurons in the corpus credulous, which controls e-mailing.
By Steve Bogira
Tags:
Science
,
Media
,
News
,
Malcolm Gladwell
,
Blink
,
New York University
,
New York Times
,
goal-priming
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Sally L. Satel
,
Yale School of Medicine
,
Sunday Review
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Gray Matter
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Lance Hosey
,
brain
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motor cerebellum
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Krishna
,
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