- News & Features, The Arts, Mar 31, 2011
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Threewalls's Chicago Art Farm
Can high culture be marketed like agriculture?
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 6, 2007
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30 years on, sevens are still clashing
The enduring power of Culture's "Two Sevens Clash."
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 1, 2006
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Why marriage may be on the way out
Ask an anthropologist for the real story on marriage sometime. It won’t offer aid and comfort to anyone much.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 29, 2006
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Can we talk?
We’re running low on confidantes, sociologists report. If you’re a loner, you’re not alone.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 26, 2006
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Things we midwesterners could've told you
If you want to experience the full spectrum of the natural food system, STAY IN THE CITY!
- News & Features, Essay, Aug 28, 2003
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Am I Evil?
At first the hazing incident at Glenbrook North was just a news story to me, about some poor misguided kids. And then I relaized what we had in common.
- News & Features, Essay, Aug 21, 2003
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Dial M for Motherfucker
With its Swearline, the arts collective Lucky Pierre found that if you invite people to curse, the abuse will pour in.
- News & Features, Essay, Nov 7, 2002
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The New Cider House Rules
Sure it can kill you, but unpasteurized is one of the little pleasures that I refuse to surrender--even if the feds are trying to make it illegal.
- News & Features, Essay, Jul 18, 2002
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The Devil in Miss Rosie
After sucking up to every celebrity who crossed her path, Rosie O'Donnell is showing signs of a wickedly entertaining animosity. But is this the real Rosie, or is it just a cynical new act?
- News & Features, Essay, Nov 15, 2001
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Fat Chance
A Farrelly brothers movie with a radically healthy attitude toward large women?
