Photograph by BWChicago
- Dave Eggers reviews Look at the Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut for the New York Times, and talks about the time he read all of Vonnegut's books in one month.
- NewCity talks to Chicago cartoonist Paul Hornschemeier about his comic "Life with Mr. Dangerous."
- LaShawn Williams interviews Messiah Equiano, filmmaker and founder of Operation Safe Passage.
- f news features SAIC's Therapeutic Arts and the Global Alliance for Africa.
- The Newberry Library reminds suburbanites of the awesome power of reciprocal library cards. If you have a card from your participating suburban library, you can get a Chicago Public Library card -- for free!
- The NYTimes profiles Kumail Nanjiani and his rise from his start in Chicago to his current success.
- The Green Lantern Press and threewalls are releasing The Artist's Run Chicago Digest, a document of artist run spaces in Chicago in the last ten years, this Sunday at the Hyde Park Art Center.
- Bad at Sports has a new look!
- A spam comment on Theater for the Future's blog has spurred a conversation about appropriate promotion policies.
- MartinJon reviews The Calumet Region: An American Place, the new book of photographs by Gary Cialdella.
- The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning just announced a new photography contest for images of Northeastern Illinois.
- Heading to SOFA this weekend? ChicagoArtMap can get you started.