The Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media at Columbia College presents a reception, screening and community discussion of the film, February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four. The film looks back at how four African-American college freshmen took a stand for justice by...
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Imagine a community of 80,000 people living in a diverse residential area of young families, empty nesters and seniors, with good housing stock, lots of local businesses, but no newspaper. There could be opportunities in all those eyeballs, according to Mike Fourcher and Patrick Boylan, and they are out to capitalize on some of...
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The Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) was created in 1987 through funding provided by the Illinois Arts Council Access Program. The goals of CAAP are to discover, nurture and expand Chicago’s multi-ethnic artists and nonprofit arts organizations, and to foster new and emerging individual artists and arts groups by providing grants for professional, artistic...
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Cook County Board President Todd Stroger has spent the majority of his time over the last year clearing up what he considers misinformation about his platform and defending himself from what he said are daily attacks by the media, as well as attacks by his Democratic competition.
Stroger, who was elected as board president on...
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Along a frozen Michigan Avenue, amongst towering skyscrapers, a Bird’s somber whistle fills a golden trimmed wood cathedral. This Bird, however, is not of the feathered flock.
Just a few years ago you may have heard him whistling down a Logan Square street, yet this year alone he’s played grandiose venues around the city, from the Civic...
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UPDATE: Why should you care if the FCC is coming to town, or about how Internet is regulated? Start here with help from Chicago Media Action:
“The Internet Must Not Become a Segregated Community”
“Network Neutrality, Universal Broadband, and Racial Justice”
Are you planning on attending the meeting? Send us your impression of the meeting,...
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The local group OpenGovChicago is having a Hackathon on December 13 at Columbia College. The details are still being hammered out. To start with, “hackers” aren’t “bad guys or pirates. They’re passionate pragmatic craftspeople who relish doing interesting work and doing it with style,” writes Joe Germuska of the OpenGovChicago about the upcoming “Hackathon.”
At...
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“This isn’t going to be worth it.”
I grumbled to my roommate as we sat in our apartment. He, an Italian, is unfamiliar with Bill Simmons and has little interest in American sports. I, on the other hand, am an aspiring sportswriter and a hot-dog-eating, apple-pie-munching, red-blooded American sports fan.
Simmons, a nationally recognized member of...
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Media Democracy Day — Chicago, 2009
SATURDAY AFTERNOON, NOV. 7, 2009, 1pm-4pm
If you plan to attend, please take some photos and call in a report about how the conference is going. Call 312 436-1820 (our Google Voice number.) and leave a message about the conference, speakers, and media and democracy.
$10 general adm. / $5 sr...
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Teens are making news in ChicagoTalks, owing to a couple of journalism-related efforts that combine news know-how, education and the voice of teenagers about problems they face. At Marquette School, located at 6550 S. Richmond St. in Chicago, they are kicking off a new curriculum focused on news literacy. In the loop, Columbia College...
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