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Monday, October 13, 2025

Tony Fitzpatrick, a Chicago treasure: 'You notice how lucky you are'

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Tony Fitzpatrick examining a newly-completed painting at his Wicker Park studio in 2024.       "I'm playing with house money, pal,...
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Sunday, October 12, 2025

Flashback 2012: You always cut the one you love

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"The circumcision," by Giovani Bellini (Metropolitan Museum of Art)      With RFK Jr. drawing circumcision into his pantheon of bo...
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Saturday, October 11, 2025

Flashback 1987: Circumcision — The procedure, the controversy

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"The circumcision of Christ," by Giuliano Traballesi (Met)      Circumcision is back in the news, unfortunately, now that Donald T...
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Friday, October 10, 2025

Trump administration's immigrant crime math is for the birds

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"Sparrow and Hibiscus" by  Utagawa Hiroshige (Metropolitan Museum)      In crazy times, do the math. The circumference of a circle...
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Thursday, October 9, 2025

A lovely day in the city

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Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2025       I'm not a spot news kind of guy. Not anymore. My years of racing to a breaking story are long past — the pa...
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Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Patricia Smith, a Chicago poet 'who writes screams'

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Patricia Smith      A great poet forges a world, then invites you in. Open "Leaves of Grass," and Walt Whitman grabs you by the sh...
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Tuesday, October 7, 2025

'It can all end today'— Chicago's Israeli consul general on the war in Gaza

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Cain killing Abel, by Johann Sadeler (Metropolitan Museum of Art) I initially declined an invitation to talk with the new Israeli consul gen...
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