chris smith

63rd Street Beach Drummers, A Woodlawn Staple For Over 50 Years, Shut Out Of Longtime Space

Drummers + more have met daily at a painted circle there since '70. The music stopped recently after their circle was sectioned off by Park District fencing.
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Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV? The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?

I gave an in-depth interview with my hometown Chicago Tribune about what’s going to happen to NPR and PBS, and how cutting public media is part of a broader anti-democratic ideological project.

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Global Tetrahedron Logo Shirt

Spend. Never ask why.
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Returning raspberry

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Late September balcony

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Late September

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Late August

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Backyard container sich from early summer

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Arugula has spread to the cracks in the concrete at the downstairs container garden

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