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...Faust admires the floor-length portrait of former University president Charles W. Eliot...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: Lunch with President Faust | 4/14/2009 | See Source »

...prior ties to Coval, who mentored Olivarez through the group Young Chicago Authors. Olivarez was the sole audience member to volunteer to share his poetry in the open-mic segment of the evening, reading his own poem, “Walls.” Coval then took the floor and performed several pieces on themes ranging from the Chicago sunrise to growing up as a Jewish-American in the Chicago suburbs. “I’m down for a difficult conversation,” Coval said during the event, “because that?...

Author: By Malin S. Von euler-hogan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Open-Mic Event Addresses Israeli Conflict | 4/14/2009 | See Source »

Housewife Graciela Martinez, 44, complains that the smell of her bathroom - used by her family of eight - had forced them all outside. "We have got no toilets, I can't wash my children, I can't cook, I can't clean the mess off the floor," Martinez says, trying to find shade from the sweltering sun. "And the worst thing is, we have got almost nothing to drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dry Taps in Mexico City: A Water Crisis Gets Worse | 4/11/2009 | See Source »

...have no idea what that’s about,” Biggers says). On the other, a piece of brown wrapping paper lists some of Biggers’ current projects: a multi-venue installation in Philadelphia that will trace locations from the Underground Railroad, a sculpture and floor design for a new high school in the Bronx, a series of dance vignettes based on a performance Biggers presented to the Dalai Lama.It’s no surprise that Biggers has been called a sculptor, a performance artist, a video artist, and an installation artist—or that...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Multifaceted Artist Biggers Dodges Simple Interpretations | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...Home If there is one region in South Africa on which the ANC might have focused its efforts to build democracy and progress, it is the Eastern Cape around East London. Drive out of the city and after an hour you descend into a steep, forested canyon along whose floor snakes the River Kei, the old boundary between white-run South Africa and the rolling prairies which apartheid authorities designated the black "homeland" of Transkei, meaning "across the Kei." During apartheid, the Transkei was a place of destitution: thousands of mud-walled, grass-roofed huts where people lived without running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why South Africa's Over the Rainbow | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

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