- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Mar 25, 2013
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Silk Road Rising's "Mosque Alert" enlists the global community
A play in progess finds six characters in search of a conversation.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 1, 2012
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Once again, it's fútbol, not football, at Soldier Field
What did the the Mexico-Bosnia soccer game at Soldier Field have to say about a nation of immigrants?
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Mar 9, 2012
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This week's Chicagoan: Peter Spizzirri, tuxedo shop owner
"I was working here when I was seven, eight years old. They probably broke a few child labor laws.”
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 15, 2011
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The Zany Newt Scrabble contest
Gingrich may be zany and yappy, but what words starting with X or Q fit him?
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 25, 2011
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Nafissatou Diallo and Tiawanda Moore
Repercussions of the dropped sexual-assault charges.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 8, 2010
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9500 Liberty
Coffee Party founders Annabel Park and Eric Byler's documentary "9500 Liberty," about the Prince William County, Virginia's short-lived anti-immigrant law, opens Friday at Piper's Alley.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 25, 2010
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Free Help Applying for U.S. Citizenship
The Logan Square Neighborhood Association is offering free assistance to people applying for U.S. citizenship.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 21, 2010
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Lithuanian Film Festival in Chicago
"The Bug Trainer," a documentary about stop motion pioneer Ladislas Starewitch, opens the the Lithuanian Film Festival in Chicago, which runs 1/21-1/26.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 21, 2010
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Never the Twain Shall Meet
Every day he asks five bigots, picked at random, a leading question
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 28, 2009
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The Feds: Protecting Us From Dangerous Genre Fusion
It seems to be easier for terrorists to obtain visas than foreign music groups.
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 11, 2009
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Which Way Home
Rebecca Cammisa's documentary "Which Way Home," screening Friday 12/11 at Chicago Filmmakers, rides along on a train roof through Mexico with unaccompanied boys stowing away into the United States.
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 17, 2009
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- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 17, 2009
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International Music News, Bad and Good
WBEZ drops Afropop Worldwide; the U.S. government grants visas to Cuban musicians for the first time in six years.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 20, 2009
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Sergent Garcia returns to Chicago
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 8, 2008
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Down with the Wall Street pigs!
The City Council did more than privatize an airport Wednesday--it issued its own critique of bourgeois sovereignty.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 25, 2008
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It seemed like a good idea . . .
It's hard to explain why you're supporting a resolution when you don't know yourself.
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 22, 2007
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Punkin' chunkin' in the pumpkin capital of the world
Morton, Illinois: the Pumpkin Capital of the World.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 13, 2007
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Nori Tanaka's forced departure
Nori Tanaka, one of the most dynamic jazz drummers in Chicago, is forced to return to Japan.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 5, 2007
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The window-washer pipeline
The Mexican village that washes Chicago's windows.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 22, 2007
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Are you sure you want to immigrate to America?
Are black people who move to the U.S. at risk for mental illness?
