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By Penn Bradley/Howler Media
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I’m reaching out as we’ve just launched a feature film called The Last Champion on iTunes for pre-orders. The film is starring Cole Hauser (from Yellowstone and Dazed and Confused) and is set for official release on December 8th. Here’s our trailer:
Posted on November 30, 2020
By The Art Institute of Chicago
“In this episode of Playing Favorites, Sam Ramos, Associate Director of Innovation and Creativity, tells viewers about an artwork he loves – a painting by Rembrandt van Rijn – and explains why he might be afraid to have the artist create his portrait.”
Posted on November 22, 2020
By The United States Naval Academy
The Commandant of Midshipmen announced the spring semester midshipman leadership positions Friday, which includes the selection of the Naval Academy’s first African-American female brigade commander, Midshipman 1st Class Sydney Barber, of Lake Forest, Illinois.
The brigade commander is the highest leadership position within the brigade, and is the only “six striper” – a reference to the collar insignia worn on the midshipman uniform, the rank of midshipman captain. The semester-long position is currently held by Midshipman 1st Class Ryan Chapman and is selected through an application and interview process by senior leadership from the Commandant’s staff.
Posted on November 12, 2020
By McDonald’s
McDonald’s Corporation announces a new growth strategy, Accelerating the Arches, which encompasses all aspects of McDonald’s business as the leading global omni-channel restaurant brand. The strategy includes a refreshed purpose to feed and foster the communities McDonald’s and its franchisees serve around the world, updated values that guide actions and behaviors, and growth pillars that build on McDonald’s competitive advantages.
The growth pillars, which are rooted in the Company’s identity, MCD, build on historic strengths and articulate areas of further opportunity. Specifically, the Company will animate the MCD in the following ways:
Posted on November 11, 2020
By Cory Doctorow/The Electronic Frontier Foundation
Since its founding in the 1930s, Hewlett-Packard has been synonymous with innovation, and many’s the engineer who had cause to praise its workhorse oscillators, minicomputers, servers, and PCs. But since the turn of this century, the company’s changed its name to HP and its focus to sleazy ways to part unhappy printer owners from their money.
Printer companies have long excelled at this dishonorable practice, but HP is truly an innovator, the industry-leading Darth Vader of sleaze, always ready to strong-arm you into a “deal” and then alter it later to tilt things even further to its advantage.
Posted on November 8, 2020
By The Hyde Park Art Center
Hyde Park Art Center, the renowned non-profit hub for contemporary art located on Chicago’s vibrant South Side, is proud to announce a solo exhibition by Chicago-based artist and educator Cecil McDonald Jr. on view in the Art Center’s Kanter McCormick Gallery from November 15, 2020 – March 7, 2021.
The exhibition of predominantly lens-based work presents a collection of the artist’s most recent body of work birthed from his 2018 residency at the Art Center, which embodies photomontages to metaphorize the complicated histories between America and African Americans, and subvert the racist representation of Black artists from history.
Posted on November 4, 2020
