Despite stiff competition and slim odds, four filmmakers from Columbia College Chicago were selected to showcase their work at this year’s Cineyouth International Film Festival.…
Columbia College filmmakers represent at international festival
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MoCP exhibit brings 1963 Birmingham into modern context
On Sept. 15, 1963, four girls were killed in a church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama by white supremacists. Fifty-six years later, photographer Dawoud Bey finds…
Exhibit examines Underground Railroad in different light
At first glance, the exhibit inside Chicago’s Art Institute is a gallery full of identical black pictures lining the walls, but as viewers get closer…
Lincoln Square printmakers make, display, educate on art
As patrons enter the doors of Lincoln Square’s Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, they are welcomed by shelves stacked with materials used in printmaking—like brushes, inks, and…
Historic Maxwell Street Market shifts focus toward becoming food mecca
For over 100 years Chicago’s Maxwell Street Market in Little Italy has been showcasing the city’s most prominent ethnic cultures. Today, the market once known…
Edwin Carl: A childhood baseball dream continues despite health adversity
Legendary Los Angeles Dodgers Manager Tommy Lasorda once said, “There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it…
Music Box Theater showcase ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ experience
The night began with an extensive line going down Southport Avenue in front of the Music Box Theater. Young adults sporting teased hair and an…
Chicago Cubs honor Jackie Robinson with #42 in Cubbie blue
The grass and ivy decorated along the outfield wall at Wrigley Field was as green as ever on this sunny afternoon. The crowd in the Budweiser Bleachers anxiously…