by Claudine Isé | Apr 2, 2010 | Blog
One of my favorite BoingBoing contributors, Cory Doctorow, provides this week’s most memorable rant: Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t either). I certainly don’t agree with everything he says, but it’s well-argued....
by Claudine Isé | Apr 2, 2010 | Blog
Bad at Sports’ own Tom Sanford, along with Guillermo Creus, Marcel Hüppauff , and Photios Giovanis, have put together a giant, grand-slam of a two-day only Pop Up painting show in Brooklyn, NY! The details: BUSHWICK SCHLACHT! Half Germans, Half Americans –...
by Christopher Hudgens | Apr 1, 2010 | Blog
In yesterdays Jeopardy episode #5887 for Tuesday, March 30th during Double Jeopardy contestants Manny, Stacy & Emily were presented with a category titled “Podcasts” in which the $1200 question was: Score some points with this Chicago based podcast...
by Claudine Isé | Mar 31, 2010 | Blog
Harold Arts, a nonprofit, Chicago-based artist residency programs, is now accepting applications for Summer 2010. Sounds heavenly. Application details can be found below. The Harold Arts Residency Program is an opportunity for artists and musicians to further their...
by Meg Onli | Mar 30, 2010 | Blog
Threat Level and the Nightingale will be presenting CHANNELING: an invocation of spectral bodies and queer spirits curated by Latham Zearfoss and Ethan White. Doors 7:00, Screening 7:30 $5-10 sliding scale 1084 N. Milwaukee via CHANNELING CHANNELING is an entryway...
by Meg Onli | Mar 30, 2010 | Blog
For this week’s pick we bring you some silent footage of Mark Twain at his home in Stormfield, CT, in the early 1900’s. This film was shot by Thomas Edison and shows Twain walking around his estate and playing cards with his daughter.