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Thursday, September 12, 2024

Met Notes #1: "Reframing history."

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Visible Storage at the Met      We visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Monday and popped into what it calls "Vi...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Sept. 11, 2024

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        The New York City subway and the commuter Path line both stop at Cortland Street, and the weird white Oculus mall/hub. So it was nat...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Flashback 2009: 'Losing Mum and Pup' is frank and funny

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The Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art     A long, busy weekend in New York City. Much fun, running around — lunch with a wr...
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Monday, September 9, 2024

'Everybody Needs an Editor.' Always has been true, always will be.

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     Communication is hard. It must be, because we're so bad at it. Many of us, anyway. Sometimes. Often. Not that we tend to be aware o...
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Sunday, September 8, 2024

The opposite of "great."

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Head of Medusa, by Damien Hirst     That the Russians have been pouring money into the pockets of popular Trump influencers comes as no sur...
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Saturday, September 7, 2024

Flashback 2006: Fighting the Middle East war in a Chicago cab

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July 2014 Pro-Palestinian march      Some extra reaction to  my Wednesday column , thanks to Fox News, which did that thing they do where th...
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Friday, September 6, 2024

CTA Blue Line killings a mirror held to society

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An unhoused woman on the CTA Blue Line's Forest Park platform in March, 2021.         The Night Ministry is the last strand in Chicago...
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