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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
RE Gift Repurpose Paranormal Lit & Lectures Books The art mystery we'll give you $10 to solve
Posted by Asher Klein on 08.16.11 at 12:33 PM
The Chicago Reader receives dozens and dozens of pieces of mail every day. The vast majority of them are PR, with a few periodicals, letters to the editor, and notes from home (hi Mom!) sprinkled in; nothing too exciting. But yesterday an editor received a peculiar envelope with no return address that has some of us trying to wrap our heads around a bona fide mystery—a $10 art mystery, as it's been called, although it could be called the $1,000 art mystery.
- Andrea Bauer
- The contents of the mystery package. The name of an editor has been removed from the large envelope.
robotic cranes dance
in singapore. in taiwan
appears tornadoes!
It was tagged with a scribble that was evidently a tiny tornado. That was it.
What was going on, we wondered. What project? Who's Whose (oops!) stories? Why just give away $10? Easing past the thought that this was a trap laid by some kind of modern-day Devil in the White City, we figured we were holding a kind of puzzle or conspiracy—we didn't know which.
As about an hour on the Internet revealed, the $10 art mystery turns out to be a really sophisticated and as-yet-unfinished narrative fiction experiment that hasn't quite made it out of the underground. We'd still love to figure out the mystery, and since we're obliged not to take the $10 bills due to our editor scolding us "ethics," we'll give you the $10 if you can figure out Chicago's part in the story.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
RE Gift Mediocre Last-Minute Gifts for People About Whom You're Ambivalent
Posted by Lauri Apple on 12.24.09 at 06:35 PM
Yo, it's the day before (War on) Christmas. Have you purchased all of your gifts? How about for those near-stranger aunts and once-a-year uncles who annually give you a major case of the "ugh, I dunnos" when you're shopping for them? Or the coworkers you barely know but feel bad about skipping because they retrieved your mail for you that one time, or always say "hello" in the hallway? We conducted a short recon mission at places likely to be open at the very last minute—like, on Christmas Day—and dug up some ideas that won't cost you much time, effort, or money.
RE Gift Music Make Rock-Star Dreams Come True
Posted by Jessica Hopper on 12.24.09 at 11:28 AM
- photo by Shayla Hason
More ways to support rockin' girls below the jump.
RE Gift Holiday Cookie Recipes Courtesy of the Liberal Elite
Posted by Jessica Hopper on 12.24.09 at 09:30 AM
(Above: polvorones, or Mexican wedding cakes, by Rick Bayless.)
RE Gift Music Post No Bills The Season of Box Sets: Roots & Country
Posted by Peter Margasak on 12.24.09 at 09:00 AM
- Buddy Holly, Not Fade Away: The Complete Studio Recordings and More
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
RE Gift The Americans, If You Can Find It
Posted by Jessica Hopper on 12.23.09 at 04:26 PM
RE Gift Holly GoNightly
Posted by Jessica Hopper on 12.23.09 at 04:13 PM
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
RE Gift You Shoot Chicagoland Give the Gift of Safety
Posted by Whet Moser on 12.22.09 at 12:20 PM
Saturday, December 19, 2009
RE Gift Chicagoland Tickets: The ultimate last-minute gift
Posted by Whet Moser on 12.19.09 at 04:00 PM
As a mild agoraphobe with nontrivial social anxieties, I can promise you that one of the greatest gifts you can give is stuff that makes people leave the house. So I spent awhile browsing local venue calendars for promising shows, obligatory attendance at which might make a thoughtful gift.
Friday, December 18, 2009
RE Gift Chicagoland Media Gifts for Journalists
Posted by Whet Moser on 12.18.09 at 03:20 PM
Lomography Sidekick Canvas Bag ($50). Elegant without looking stuffy; fits a laptop and has a modular camera bag.
