Chicago Gang-Violence Documentaries Online

By Whet Moser

The Interrupters hits the Web courtesy of PBS's Frontline. Plus: The Heart Broken In Half, an old doc by Taggart Siegel and the late Dwight Conquergood; and the eerie, low-budget Great American Youth, a quasi-encomium to the Gaylords. Read more

Authenticity, Romney, and Mittloads of Money

By Whet Moser

The GOP frontrunner has been the subject of criticism and derision for his gaffetastic relationship to his vast wealth. It's hard out there for the authentically wealthy. Read more

The History of House Music and Other Things to Watch

By Whet Moser

Sonali Aggarwal follows up "Whatever Happened to Hip Hop?" with a documentary about Chicago dance music; Jeanne Gang at the Chicago Humanities Festival; William Gibson on the decline of cyberspace. Read more

More on Air Pollution: A Sliding Scale Over Time

By Whet Moser

Chicago has made great progress in cleaning up its skies. But the more we learn about air pollution, the more there is to address. Read more

Chicago Coal-Fired Power Plants Will Close to Combat the Smoke Horror

By Whet Moser

After years of protest and politics, the Fisk and Crawford plants will close even earlier than expected. But will it help Chicago's high asthma rates? Outdoor pollution isn't the only form we have to worry about, and it may not be the most important form. Read more

Jeanne Gang Breaks Open the Bungalow to Save Cicero's Housing

By Whet Moser

Studio Gang was invited to address the housing crisis in Cicero. Following the lead of its immigrant residents, Gang and her team (which included Theaster Gates) broke up the bungalow into its component pieces and re-envisioned it as the Recombinant House. Read more

Black Composer Florence Price, Rediscovered Again

By Whet Moser

The New Black Music Repertory Ensemble of Columbia College plays the work of Florence Price, the first black woman to have a composition performed by a major symphony orchestra. Read more

Mapping Lies and Truthiness on Twitter

By Whet Moser

Indiana University researchers develop Truthy, a system that follows Twitter memes with an electronic eye towards what's fake and what's real: sort of a CDC for viral media. Read more

Traffic and Class Conflict: The Rich Are Worse Drivers Than You or Me

By Whet Moser

A study out of Berkeley's Institute of Personality and Social Research set out to look at social class and unethical behavior. So they started with how we drive. Read more

For Fans of Street Photography, All the Charles Cushman You Could Wish For

By Whet Moser

For years, the Chicago businessman traveled the city and country documenting America (and some of its attractive women) on impossibly vivid Kodachrome. Now Oxford University Press has a celebration of his vast work. Read more

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