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~fiction~~live fire~(coming soon)Two days ago Jet was thinking about clever, yet tactful, ways to break up with Kelly...ways that would make it clear that he was no longer interested in her, but in a caring way. ~freelance~~"so who are you?" a review of returns~Joshua Casteel, a former Arab linguist and interrogator at Abu Ghraib, delivers the first English words in his play "Returns." "What was it like?" James (Casteel) asks a prisoner (David Blum) he is interrogating. ~drummer's paradise~ You can't hear it standing out against the side of the building staring across at the wreckage of the incinerated George Diamond building, but just walk inside and follow the sound of the drums. ~classical music isn't dead, it's hiding: chiara quartet~ "You know the definition of a string quartet?" Beaver, at one point, joked with the audience, "They spend half the time tuning and the other half playing out of tune. I think we've got it down to about three-fourths tuning." After the last piece the applause and calls for more didn't end until the quartet sat down for an encore. ~several chicagoans forget that it's winter~ It might be fair to call this kind of thought callous, but doesn't it seem like people who walk in fundraisers called "The Walk for This" or the "The Walk for That" just don't seem to be trying that hard?... The Chicago Polar Plunge is unlike most other fundraisers... ~how to put a bookslut notch in your belt~ For those unaware, a Bookslut reading may sound like a bunch of scantily clad, promiscuous librarians fawning over the written word. Actually, it's a... ~don't read this book drunk~ This book is not for those who are susceptible to car sickness, motion sickness, ocean sickness, for those that are drunk, for those who feel the compulsive need to see commas and quotation marks on a page, or for the squeamish. ~science and technology: future friend or foe~ While "Dr. Frankenstein's Footsteps" sounds like a B horror movie, it's actually the name of a presentation being put on during the upcoming Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF) by Dan Dinello, an independent filmmaker, television director, author and professor at Columbia College. ~nerd's night out~ Just steps from the jock-ridden confines of Wrigley Field, the nerds are gathering. ~the makings of an exchange program~ Columbia College Chicago and Bath Spa University in England are in the midst of a second round of visits respectively to each school. Steve May, Director of Creative Writing at Bath Spa, and four third-year (seniors) students (Felicity Crenstil, Debra Frogley, Lyndsey Melling and Elizabeth Henley) arrived in Chicago March 5. ~academic~~indigenous literature as a study of survival~(coming soon) |