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- LaShawn Williams interviewed Brian Williams, founder and executive director of Step Afrika, and Lane Alexander, founder and director of the Chicago Human Rhythm Project, both of which are involved with the Harris Theater's Global Rhythms.
- Open Books is celebrating the grand opening of its bookstore this weekend. New City has an interview with Literacy Director Erin Walter.
- Garrison Keillor's recent visit to the Art Institute seems to have reminded him how much he likes women.
- Given we are in Chicago, Anthony Elms is "suspicious of geographical or cartographic readings of cultural production."
- The Chicago Public Library now has an outpost in the City's Visitor Information Center at the Water Works on Pearson.
- Marisa Wegrzyn won the third annual Wasserstein Prize for her play HickoryDickory.
- Designs for a reworked Northerly Island suggest something pretty spectacular.
- The folks behind Hyde Park's Home Gallery are embarking on a pop-up of their own, Op Shop, and its looking for submissions.
- The Northwest Herald talks to Arlene Lynes, the owner of Woodstock's indie bookstore, Read Between the Lynes.
- The FBI kept tabs on Studs Terkel for more than 40 years.
- "Next time you're among friends, mention liking Dave Eggers. At least one of them will recoil as though you've just confessed a fondness for drowning puppies."
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- If you haven't gotten a chance to view the Museum of Contemporary Photography's Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary Material Culture, New City Art would like you to go.