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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For Columbia College students, staff and faculty only… for now. Columbia College student, Ashley Badgley is a Senior Journalism major is asking for your help as she examines the campus’ carbon footprint.
Her final independent project is focusing on how to make Columbia a more sustainable campus. In order to calculate the carbon footprint of...
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Volunteers are needed on Thursdays from 3:45-5:00 p.m. at Perspectives Charter School, 8131 S. May St., Chicago. These mentoring sessions include a coordinator from the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, so you can learn how to mentor better if you are interested, but don’t know where or how to start. There are opportunities to...
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This is not your father or your mother’s opera. Get out of your comfort zone and give this form of multimedia entertainment a try: Chicago Opera Vanguard reimagines Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential play “No Exit” as an opera.
For this modern morality play, director George Cederquist has gathered an impressive ensemble of singing actors, musicians and visual...
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Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 Summer Olympics. The International Olympic Committee today chose Rio as the host city, marking the first time a South American city has been chosen, as Chicago was eliminated in the first round of voting.
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama spoke on behalf of Chicago during...
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Gmail went out around 3 p.m. CST on September 1, 2009. I was in the middle of sending an email, so I turned to Twitter to see if it was me or my computer, or was it affecting other people, too. I had been using Wordle, too, so I set up a Twitterfall search...
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This is a visualization of our content in September 2008 and September 2009. Interesting way to review a year of content.
Wordle – chicagotalks.org. in 2008
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We are looking for stories about Chicago. We need reviews of music, shows, and art you see.
Our news items are just that, written by reporters or citizen journalists, or they are phoned in from the streets.
Image via Wikipedia.
We would like to publish fiction, poetry, photography, and highlight short video work about Chicago, too.
There...
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Be good to Mother Nature without leaving city limits. Friends of the Parks (FOTP) is asking for volunteers to Spicebush Woods on Saturday, August 1 at 9 a.m. to help with the second cleanup of the summer. Rebecca Blazer, Director, Forest Preserve Initiative, at FOTP said the aim of the clean up is to...
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Thirty thousand people are expected to walk, bike, roll, dance and play along eight miles of Chicago streets this Saturday for Open Streets. The streets will be closed to car traffic between 8:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Participants will be able to enjoy all kinds of activities along the way including yoga, basketball, dancing,...
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