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Politicians looking for a hotline to Middle Australians, the battlers whose dreams and disappointments can determine an election, need look no further than the 17 short stories of Tim Winton's The Turning (Picador; 317 pages). In this trailer park of a collection, characters move from the suburbs to the coast and back again, serial sea-changers in a state of transcontinental drift. There's caravan dweller Raelene, beaten senseless by her craypot-lugger husband, who looks for God between the bruises (The Turning). And teen tomboy Agnes, who spends her evenings wading the shallows for catfish after her drunken...
...Athletic Department has banned U-Hauls from parking on any of its fields, citing the wanton destruction visited on its precious sod during the 2002 Game. Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd backed up this sorry excuse—the fields were destroyed in 2002 because they were still wet from heavy rains the previous days—by citing the risks of dancing on top of U-Hauls and “terror concerns.” Cars and SUVs, however, are still allowed to park on the fields. U-Hauls may be heavier and slightly more...
Here's an insiders' guide to enjoying it all, even if you've got only a short window between meetings. The newest attraction for Chicagoans--and your first stop--is "the Bean": a 66-ft.-long, 110-ton quicksilver blob in Millennium Park, the new $475 million addition to the city's famous museum row. The reflective stainless-steel sculpture (which its British creator, Anish Kapoor, calls Cloud Gate) distorts North Michigan Avenue like a fun-house mirror. Weather permitting, you can check out architect Frank Gehry's dynamic bandshell at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion. (If you need to check...
From there, the options widen. If culture is your thing, pop across the street from Millennium Park to the Art Institute of Chicago, where you can see some of the world's most famous paintings, including Grant Wood's American Gothic and Georges Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. If it's shopping you crave, check out a classic downtown department store, Carson Pirie Scott or Marshall Field, where if nothing else, you can pick up a box of famous Frango mints...
...EDWARDS Oak Park...