- Gapers Block is teaming up with Rockford-based arts purveyor Wall Blank to host a visual arts competition. Four winners will be featured on GB and have prints offered for sale on Wall Blank during "Chicago Week" in August 2009. Get the details in A/C.
- In other contest and funding news, Theatre in Chicago introduced a new auditions listing, and the CityArts deadline is apporaching.
- Stuart Dybek, Carolyn Alessio and Kathleen Rooney are among the winners of the 2009 Literary Awards from the Illinois Arts Council.
- If you were a world-class art collector in Chicago, your name would be on this list.
- La Bloga says The World in Half by local author Cristina Henríquez should be on your summer reading list.
- Noah Vaughn found hundreds of photographs from the 1893 Columbian Exhibition on flickr.
- Looking for a bite-sized sketch comedy piece to read? Joe Janes is writing one every day for a year.
- It's a bird; it's a plane; it's Barack the Barbarian: Quest for the Treasure of Stimuli, and reviewers love it.
- Katherine Raz caught up with Max Grinnell, author of Frommer's 24 Great Walks in Chicago and got tips about everything from the mural Living 2007 to underappreciated restaurants.
- Quinn Dombrowski has taken more than 700 photos of graffiti at the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago. [via]
- Chicago may not have a "Main Street," but there are at least eight in the Chicago region. Join the Mapping Main Street project and help document them.
- The Gropius in Chicago Coalition continues to document the status of the Michael Reese Hospital campus, this time by detailing the demolition and abatement bid process. Here are the contract details.
- Recordings by Chicago classical music performers such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Grant Park Orchestra and plenty of others are available for free through Chicago Classical Music.
- Steppenwolf wants to know "what motivates you to come to the theater: our theater, or to theater generally. What is it that you seek in coming to theater? What makes you choose live theater? And what theater experiences have you had that really delivered your wish?"
A/C: Barack the Barbarian, GB's Art Competition, Library Graffiti
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