Pete Russell

Expect the Spanish Inquisition from Red Tape Theatre

Pete Russell

Dog in a Manger works less as a play and more as a two-and-a-half hour polemic.

Campaign bursts with pop culture humor

Pete Russell

Campaign Supernova, The Second City’s latest improv show, asks an important question: How many democrats does it take to lose an election? A bitingly funny reflection of the Democrats’ weariness as...

HPAC busts a move for 24-hour bash

Pete Russell

Look out for pyromaniacs, rollerblading painters, and everything New Age in a van this weekend, when the Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC) hosts its much-anticipated Creative Move: Moving Mountains. This...

Black is a lot more than a color at the Ren Society

Pete Russell

Black Is, Black Ain’t is an apt name for the most recent Renaissance Society exhibition, which explicates the issue of race in modern American culture. Just like Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

Kitsch mistaken for counterculture

Pete Russell

My trip to see the new exhibition at South Union Arts started out like a horror movie. I strode up and down the same few desolate blocks in the cold rain looking for the place and finally resolved ...

Donnelly conceals hidden treasure in spartan set

Pete Russell

At her first opening in New York, Trisha Donnelly rode into the Casey Kaplan Gallery on a horse, wearing a Napoleonic outfit, and made a declaration of surrender that would have saved the emperor f...

Jazz club moonlights as slam poetry haven

Pete Russell

Every Sunday night for the past 21 years, poets have gathered at Chicago’s most venerable jazz club to celebrate a different sort of sound: the spoken word. On any given night at uptown’s Green...

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The Maroon is on hiatus

The publication of the Maroon will resume January 9, at the beginning of winter quarter. Check chicagomaroon.com for breaking news updates.

Early applications to the College decrease by 15 percent

Michael Lipkin

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Sharat Ganapati

The College received 15 percent fewer early applications than it did during last year’s record-high, according to admissions office figures. Admissions officials attributed the decline to several factors, including the current fiscal crisis and the College’s increased selectivity, a potential deterrent to “casual applicants.”

President Zimmer asks admin for contingency budget cuts

Michael Lipkin

President Robert Zimmer and Provost Thomas Rosenbaum have asked deans and University officers to develop scenarios that decrease spending in their departments by up to nine percent in response to the recent economic downturn.

Economics professor Austan Goolsbee appointed to two Obama committees

Alison Sider

Chicago Booth economics professor and self-proclaimed “Chicago guy” Austan Goolsbee will be leaving Chicago for Washington, D.C., this January, President-elect Barack Obama announced last week. Goolsbee will request a leave of absence from the Chicago Booth, where he has served since 1995.

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