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Heartland Love Story: This Is What Your Government Would Tear Asunder
By Lisa Applegate When she stood behind the podium and began reading from her one-page speech, Kathy McGroarty-Torres felt more than just her usual jitters about speaking in public. The paper she held quivered in her hands. Her voice choked and she blinked away tears. She had written this speech late the previous night in [...]
Shopping List: Love Thy Neighbor and Shop Local
Newcity’s “Chicago Looks” photographer-columnist Isa Giallorenzo went shopping for a wide range of possible gift recipients, and did so by sticking to a local focus. Gifts for brainiacs and cool people in general MCA Store (mcachicagostore.org) Wanna show how smart you are? Bring something from this creative shop. Handmade accessories—from here and beyond—will surely please any design freak. [...]
Free Will Astrology
By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Ten percent of all sexually suggestive text messages are delivered to the wrong number. Take precautions to make sure you’re not among that ten percent in the coming weeks. It will be extra important for you to be scrupulous in communicating about eros and intimacy. The stakes will [...]
Checkerboard City: Can Indy Rock?
By John Greenfield If I had to sum up Indianapolis in one word, it would be “Underrated.” With a population of 829,718, the Hoosier State capital is the second-largest Midwest city. But despite its size it’s known as “Naptown” and “India-No-Place” due to its reputation as a bland, suburban-style metropolis with few attractions besides the Colts, [...]
Dime Stories: Body of Work
By Tony Fitzpatrick It is amazing how easy it is to be the kind of guy women don’t like. Get caught laughing at an off-color joke, or worse yet, making one. Be observed staring a little too long at a pleasant ass or pair of breasts, and you’re a pig, a cur, a Cro-Magnon misogynist—and [...]
Free Will Astrology
By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): In North America, a farmer who grows wheat gets only five percent of the money earned by selling a loaf of bread made from his crop. When my band recorded an album for MCA, our contract called for us to receive just seven percent of the net profits. [...]
9/11+10: Remembering a Day We Wish We Could Forget
9/11/01 Was a Tuesday. Anyone who’s ever worked at Newcity knows what that means: deadline day. Starting Friday on this site, you can read about that day at Newcity, and read our resulting coverage. Meanwhile, many civic and arts organizations will be commemorating the tenth anniversary of that dark day in American history this week. [...]
Gang Green: Election night with the soon-to-be formerly “established” third party of Illinois
Fifty to sixty Green Party supporters and a few of the candidates themselves, gathered at Cole’s Bar in Logan Square election night to watch the results come in, and the news was not good. They had gotten trounced in their races for Illinois Comptroller, Cook County Board President and Illinois 4th Congressional District, to say [...]
Fall Forward: The Guide to the New Season 2010
In trying economic times, the American narrative goes, we band together and lend each other a helping hand. This spirit of collaboration seems to be a prevailing theme this fall season, whether it’s the Redmoon-MCA project “The Astronaut’s Birthday,” or the Dance Center-Harris-MCA teaming up to bring a seminal Butoh dance company, Sankai Juku, to [...]
Chicago Hype Exchange: Charting the Capricious Contours of Celebrity
This Week’s Biggest Gainers: 1 Desiree Rogers Once-floundering Obama social secretary took gig as CEO of now-floundering Johnson Publishing. 2 Gabi Gregg youngfatandfabulous.com blogger won a six-figure gig as MTV’s first-ever Twitter jockey. Apparently, the network is striking a blow for full-figured women everywhere, as long as they stay on the computer and off-camera.
