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May 2011
Race, Segregation, and Dot Mapping in Chicago
By Whet Moser
Yale prof Bill Rankin uses dot maps to show the diversity and lack thereof in Chicago and the Bay Area. Chicago is as segregated as you'd expect, but the far north side along the lake looks to be as diverse as any big-city neighborhood in the country. Read more
The Blagojevich Sequel Drones On
By Carol Felsenthal
If the first trial had a certain excitement and air of unpredictability, Monday’s edition of the retrial seemed just worn and wan—much like the defendant. Still, there was a special poignancy because while Blago II droned on at the federal courthouse on Jackson and Dearborn, some blocks east and north at Millennium Park, Rahm Emanuel—“that little [expletive]” in Blago’s taped words—was being inaugurated as mayor... Read more
Design for a Living World
By Jan Parr
Last week The Field Museum opened Design for a Living World, the inaugural show of the museum’s new Gary C. Comer Family Gallery... Read more
Rahm Emanuel's First 100 Days: A Preview
By Whet Moser
The first new mayor in 22 years takes over for real today. Here's a sampling of what to look out for, from school days to beat cops to searchable budgets. Just don't ask him about tampons. Read more
Where to Go This Weekend: Empire, Michigan
By Catey Sullivan
Empire, Michigan—population 400—may be tiny, but, when its residents join forces each year to honor the humble asparagus, the result is impressive. This weekend, the picturesque burg on the Leelanau peninsula celebrates the fiber-rich stalks with a party that MSN ranked in its top 10 list of the World’s Weirdest Festivals, sandwiched between South Korea’s Boryeong Mud Festival and the Monkey Buffet Festival in Lopburi, Thailand. Here are three ways to explore Empire’s annual vegetable-based bacchanal... Read more
Chicago Craft Beer Week Preview: New Brewery 5 Rabbit Launches in Chicago
By Jennifer Wehunt
You read it here first (in English, at least): A new Chicago brewery, 5 Rabbit Cerveceria, will preview its beer lineup during the second-annual Chicago Craft Beer Week, which kicks off Thursday and runs through May 27 (check The 312 on Friday for photos from the opening-night party at Garfield Park Conservatory)... Read more
Weekend Photos: Porkchop
Dion Antic—Remember him? Iggy’s? Harry’s Velvet Room? The more recent but shorter-lived Shady Lady?—is back with a new nightspot, Porkchop, in the West Loop... Read more
Dream2O
By Jan Parr
The new Brizo/Delta showroom in the Mart, called Dream2O, may be the only showroom in the country that has running water on all its displays... Read more