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Recognition of community media
Reporters receive awards for reporting on underserved communities
by Kwame Shorter
Contributing Writer
Journalists and editors across the Chicago media landscape gathered for the Studs Terkel Community Media Awards benefit March 10 at the Chicago Cultural Center to praise journalists who ...
Moonset
True/Believer: Critical Encounters’ personal narratives on Fact & Faith
by Marcia E. Lazar
I believe in omens, even if I don’t know what they mean. Take the spectacle of a golden moon setting. I woke up before dawn, before the earliest light ...
If people have ears, let them hear
True/Believer: Critical Encounters’ personal narratives on Fact & Faith
by Gabrielle “Ellie” Werner
Music is huge to me; I am the embodiment of that Hendrix quote, “Music is my religion.” In it, I have faith—faith to move mountains. I believe it will ...
My version of religion
True/Believer: Critical Encounters’ personal narratives on Fact & Faith
Growing up, I was taught to believe in God, accept him as my savior and never question that. Religion was shoved down my throat, with my mother constantly reminding me to live ...
Faith in people
True/Believer: Critical Encounters’ personal narratives on Fact & Faith
by Anne Marie Mitchell
I’ve always put my faith, for better or worse, in people. Think of me as a people person. I talk to the people standing next to me in line ...
Tougher smog standards needed
Any standards that impose limits on air pollution levels are beneficial for citizens
In an effort to improve air quality and protect people with asthma and other respiratory disorders, the Environmental Protection Agency announced on Jan. 25 that it will begin to limit nitrogen oxide, ...
Jewish food
True/Believer: Critical Encounters’ personal narratives on Fact & Faith
by E.J. Greenawalt
Junior, Creative Nonfiction
Food, no lie, is one of my favorite things about Judaism. That’s not the only reason I see myself as Jewish, but I certainly do enjoy it. I ...
Encounters of the third ‘i’
Apple releases new mobile device, mixed reactions from critics
I’m sure most of you, like me, would get a decent case of goosebumps if you were to hold the iPad in your hands this moment. Only a few select people have ...
Spirituality (and foosball)
True/Believer: Critical Encounters’ personal narratives on Fact & Faith
We would usually arrive at church about an hour early so we could get in a few games of foosball—my mom and me vs. my brother and sister. Everyone else would mingle ...
Critical Encounters: Fava beans, faith and science
True/Believer: Critical Encounters’ personal narratives on Fact & Faith
by: Pan Papacosta
I must have been 3 or 4 years old when my grandfather, a Greek Orthodox priest and farmer, showed me how to plant fava beans. These ...
Remembering Jim Sulski
Sulski, 52, an associate professor in the Journalism Department and Chronicle adviser for 15 years, passed away
Jim Sulski, the veteran Columbia journalism educator under whose benevolent but tough-minded tutelage The Chronicle gained national recognition among college newspapers, died on Thursday, Jan. 7.
Sulski, 52, an associate professor in the ...
Combining The Creative Vision
A Turkish bazaar with vivid colors, smells, treasures, meaningful encounters and free-flowing ideas
by Stephanie Saviola
A Turkish bazaar with vivid colors, smells, treasures, meaningful encounters and free-flowing ideas—these are the concepts that artist Laura Shaeffer had in mind when she created the Opportunity Shop in ...
Dill Pickle Food Co-op opens in Logan Square
Chicago’s only food co-op opens after five years of volunteer efforts
By Eleanor Blick
Two days after opening Dec. 5, the Dill Pickle Food Co-op had to close its doors to “rest and restock,” according to it’s Web site. On opening day, aisles full ...
Crosswalk timers increase street safety
The city should not put income before the safety of its citizens
By Eleanor Blick
The Illinois Department of Transportation recently reported that nearly 60 percent of intersections in Chicago equipped with red-light cameras had an increase in accidents since the cameras were installed.
This has ...
Extra credit existentialism
True/Believer: Critical Encounters’ personal narratives on Fact & Faith
On one of the tests in 10th grade biology, my teacher asked us an extra credit question: Is your teacher an evolutionist
or a creationist?
This question would have been forgotten had it not ...
Neighborhood comes out of the closet
by Tony Merevick
A Facebook group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood has built a following so large that it has become an alternative option to the ...