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One Cedar Rapids man believes that he has been given God’s message for the world and has published his ideas for a new world order.
In his new book, Scott Chally also discloses a diagnosed mental disorder and asks readers to decide for themselves: Is this the Second Coming, or are Chally’s visions mere delusions, brought on by mental illness?
Posted on February 26, 2016
Plus: Hitler, Hoodie & Staten Island
“The political mobilization of gays and lesbians in Chicago relied in part on a fragile alliance with the city’s black community,” Hunter Clauss writes for WTTW.
“That’s just one of many fascinating revelations captured in the book, Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics by Timothy Stewart-Winter, a University of Chicago alumnus who currently teaches history at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey.
“Queer Clout follows the political rise of Chicago’s LGBT community, from fighting against police raids of the city’s gay bars to being courted by the city’s first African-American mayor, Harold Washington.”
Posted on February 25, 2016
As Described – Devastatingly – By Fellow Conservative Jurist Richard Posner
On the occasion of the late judge’s book about how to interpret law, “America’s most prominent conservative judge offer[ed] a blistering assessment of the Supreme Court’s most outspoken conservative justice.”
Posner.
Posted by The Beachwood Reporter on Monday, February 15, 2016
Posted on February 16, 2016
Plus: Pop-Up Poetry & Chicago’s Black Women’s Library
“The National Book Foundation on Wednesday announced that Lisa Lucas would become the third executive director in the history of the literary organization, which presents the annual National Book Awards and has made recent efforts to expand its reach and visibility,” the New York Times reports.
“Ms. Lucas, 36, was previously the publisher of Guernica, an arts magazine with an international and often political focus. Before that, she had worked at other nonprofit cultural institutions, including the Tribeca Film Festival and the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago.”
Lucas is a University of Chicago grad.
Now for a Lucas tweetscene/life lesson:
Posted on February 12, 2016
By Chicago Public Library
Return your overdue books to Chicago Public Library before February 18 – or risk a visit from a library cop who doesn’t like your kind.
Posted on February 5, 2016
Gender, Race, Drive, Ambition, Ego, Obsession!
“All museums are sex museums,” the University of Chicago Press says.
“In Sex Museums, Jennifer Tyburczy takes a hard look at the formation of Western sexuality – particularly how categories of sexual normalcy and perversity are formed – and asks what role museums have played in using display as a technique for disciplining sexuality.”
Unsurprisingly . . .
“Most museum exhibits, she argues, assume that white, patriarchal heterosexuality and traditional structures of intimacy, gender, and race represent national sexual culture for their visitors.”
Posted on February 3, 2016
