Your Tax Dollars at Work/ October 1, 1997

• by Cate Plys
• Tags: Our Town, City Council Follies

Police Scanner

• by intercepted by Jeffrey Felshman

Kicked off the School Paper/ Police Brutality

• by Michael Miner
• Tags: Media, Hot Type

Can This Neighborhood Be Changed?

All the activism in the world won't help Roseland if the people who live there are just biding time till they can get out.

• by Kristin Ostberg

Hedges Contributions

• by Anne Beck

Savage Beating

• by Bruce Mirken

Pilsen Politics

• by Raul Vargas

The Straight Dope

• by Cecil Adams

Welcome to Shoehorn Estates

A developer finds his niche on a slier of land overlooking the Kennedy

• by Ben Joravsky

Street Hassle

No one is spared in the city's crackdown on buskers.

• by Neal Pollack

Positivity Pays Off

Common/ Beats the Gangsta Rap

• by Peter Margasak

Grifters

• by Peter Margasak

Maurizio Pollini

• by Ted Shen

Jacky Terrasson Trio

• by Neil Tesser

Slaid Cleaves

• by Peter Margasak

Freddy Cole Quartet

• by Neil Tesser

Fall of a Legend

• by Joshua Green
• Tags: Music Review, Rock Etc

Main

• by Peter Margasak

Continental Drifters

• by J.R. Jones

Peter Kubelka Presents His Metric Cinema

• by Fred Camper

The End of Violence

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Alive

• by Adam Langer

Lecture Notes: speaking of animals

• by Renaldo Migaldi

Ballet Theater of Chicago

• by Laura Molzahn

Chi Lives: the birth of a Blue Man

• by Justin Hayford

Chicago International Children's Film Festival

• Tags: Festival, Sidebar: movies

Borders Puts It in Writing/ Aron Packer Leaves the Building/ Film Fest's Comeback Trail

With a new contract in hand, Borders union team members Dave Helland and Chris Grant find security among the stacks.

• by Lewis Lazare

Days of the Week

• by Cara Jepsen

Chicago International Film Festival

• by Lisa Alspector, Zbigniew Banas, Meredith Brody, Peter Brunette, Don Drucker, Pat Graham, Joshua Katzman, Kave Kehr, Patrick McGavin, David Overbey, Gerald Peary, Reece Pendleton, Bernice Reynaud, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Barbara Scharres, Ronnie Schieb, Alissa

Not Dead Yet

With a respectable number of must-sees and one central location, the Chicago International Film Festival seems to be on the right track.

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum
• Tags: Festival, Film Fest Intro

As You Like It

• by Lawrence Bommer

Tricks and Treats

• by Jack Helbig

The Sum of Us

• by Nick Green

From the Mississippi Delta

• by Lawrence Bommer

Life and Limb

• by Adam Langer

MacBett

• by Mary Shen Barnidge

Low-Key Charisma

• by Justin Hayford

Blank Screens

• by Fred Camper