Dec 17 Conversation: Harold Ramis and Bernard Sahlins on Second City’s 50th Anniversary By Tom LeGro On a cold December night in 1959, The Second City opened in the Old Town section of Chicago in a small space that had been previously been a hat shop and Chinese laundry. Fifty years later, Second City stakes claim… Continue reading
Dec 17 Everyone Smile and Say, ‘Democracy!’ The old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words may indeed be true, but photographer Joe Sohm has found that it has taken him thousands of pictures to capture just one word: democracy. Continue reading
Dec 16 Two Exhibits Gaze Upon Man Ray’s Afterimage Art history knows him as Man Ray, the witty surrealist artist who helped legitimize photography as a medium of high art. But two recently-opened exhibits are changing his historical "afterimage," so to speak. Continue reading
Dec 14 Weekly Poem: ‘From Here to There’ Brad Leithauser is the author of several books of poetry, including most recently, "Curves and Angles" (2006). He has received many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship, and teaches at Johns Hopkins University. Continue reading
Dec 11 Conversation: David Byrne Rides and Writes By Arts Desk "I've been riding a bike, in New York mainly, for almost 30 years, just as a way of getting around, starting off just getting around downtown to the clubs, art galleries, dinner with friends," says musician, artist and culture connisseur… Continue reading