- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jun 13, 2013
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Country music's little white myth
The new book Hidden in the Mix details African-American contributions to a genre long associated with whiteness.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Apr 22, 2013
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Hello Kitty blurs the lines of art and commerce
Christine Yano analyzes a Japanese icon in Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific.
- Lit & Lectures, Lit Feature, Sep 12, 2012
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One to watch this fall: Seminary Co-op Bookstore has outlived the superstore assault
Leaving behind the longtime digs graced by Saul Bellow and the president of the Dominican Republic
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Sep 5, 2012
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Blacks and blackface
Darkest America parses the queasy appeal of minstrelsy
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Aug 14, 2012
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Spare them our good intentions
Richard Huzzey's Freedom Burning argues that abolitionism fed imperialism
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Apr 27, 2012
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'52' equals zero
DC Entertainment's new line of superhero comics is more of the same nothing
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Feb 29, 2012
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No Place, U.S.A.
While trying to establish a regional identity, Midwestern Gothic loses itself in time
- Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Aug 11, 2011
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Matt Irie’s deceptive grid paintings, at Ebersmoore
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Aug 4, 2011
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Doing K to 12
In Lockdown High, public school is a prison prep academy
- Music, Soundboard, May 26, 2011
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Soundboard: May 26-June 1
Recommended and notable shows, including Melvins, Reading Rainbow, Radian, Anna Calvi, Sloan, Chrissy Murderbot, and more
- Lit & Lectures, Lit Feature, May 5, 2011
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The double message of Chester Brown's Paying for It
- Music, Music Feature, Apr 14, 2011
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Embalmed Together
Bluegrass patriarch Del McCoury meets the Preservation Hall Jazz Band; sparks fail to fly.
- Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Mar 31, 2011
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Hot Air at Columbia College
In Cape Farewell's Unfold, artists' responses to global warming look an awful lot like the problem.
- Music, Soundboard, Dec 9, 2010
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The List: December 9 - 15, 2010
Critics' Choices and other notable shows: Killing Joke, The Flat Five, Tennis, Clare Burson, Latimore, the Sword, the Nick Mazzarella Trio, Andrew Bird, and more
- Music, Music Review, Dec 2, 2010
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I Am Woman, Hear Me Meow
Can Nicki Minaj break the bitch-ho barrier? On her debut LP, Pink Friday, not quite.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Nov 4, 2010
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Fall Books: Short Takes
More new Chicago-related books
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Oct 14, 2010
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Exit Sandman
There's not much for Neil Gaiman's fans in the best-of anthology he edited.
- Galleries & Museums, Art Sidebar, Sep 16, 2010
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Fall Arts Guide 2010: Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan
Best Bet: Art
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Aug 26, 2010
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Books Good!
Or: How to simultaneously condescend to the masses and sneer at the elitists.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Jul 8, 2010
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When Know-It-Alls Don't
It's not just biblical knowledge that’s faith-based.
