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Situations – A Logan Square Diy-Venue Goes Off-Line Permanently After 9 Years Of Dedicated Underground Punk Service To The North Side Of Chicago
  • Charles Joseph Smith
  • Community, Issue #14
  • July 15, 2021
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Situations – A Logan Square Diy-Venue Goes Off-Line Permanently After 9 Years Of Dedicated Underground Punk Service To The North Side Of Chicago

all photos by Sarah Marie Coogan

Basement at Situations

I went to Situations many times. You had to walk through a door in the alley opening to the venue’s rear garage that hugs the elevated tracks of the CTA’s Blue …

“Seeing You”: Film Sheds Light on the Struggle Against Chicago’s Migrant Child Detention Centers
  • Noah Jones
  • Community, FIlm, Issue #14
  • July 15, 2021
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“Seeing You”: Film Sheds Light on the Struggle Against Chicago’s Migrant Child Detention Centers

“Remember when you don’t see hope, hope is seeing you”. This line caps the last verse of José Orozco’s “Hope is Seeing You”, a song telling the story of his time spent as a youth mistreated and imprisoned in a …

WEAR YOUR ART ON YOUR SLEEVE: The Works of Earwig H. Airplug
  • The Sick Muse
  • Issue #14, Visual Art
  • July 15, 2021
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WEAR YOUR ART ON YOUR SLEEVE: The Works of Earwig H. Airplug

Works by Earwig H. Airplug

As proclaimed on their website, “Earwig H. Airplug is a reclusive flesh and spirit tangle alive in Chicago IL.” And this is true, although one may quibble that their reclusivity was compromised when, at

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Dead Self
  • Adele Hink
  • Comics, Issue #14
  • July 15, 2021
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Dead Self

https://www.hink.club/

IG: @hinkstink

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Grandma Knows Life
  • Brian Young Jr.
  • Issue #14, Poetry
  • July 15, 2021
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Grandma Knows Life

Edited by Sarah Roderick

Grandma sing
Gospel
Contralto low
rasp
Mahalia take
my hand high c crescendo
               “her vibrato quickens”—
flip pork-chops
in lard
feet fixed to
white-ish,
brown floor tile 
of home
 

Grandma sang
to church
Etta James 
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Jesus The Redeemer
  • Gabriel Shestack
  • Issue #14, Poetry
  • July 15, 2021
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Jesus The Redeemer

I checked the news on my phone and saw that a new verse in the bible had been discovered. It was found in a sealed pot of honey half buried in a cave near the tomb of Jesus Christ and 
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Collage #8
  • Brian Judge
  • Comics, Issue #14
  • July 15, 2021
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Collage #8

Collage #8 by Brain Judge

Comic artist and book maker and Brian Judge is an excavator. He mines the bins at comic shops for the most startling images he can find, and breathes new life into these images, combining images …

Weakness and Wheatus
  • Camille Sprocket
  • Issue #14, Musings
  • July 15, 2021
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Weakness and Wheatus

Wheatus is a rock band mostly known for their 2000 one-hit wonder “Teenage Dirtbag.” They have five albums: Wheatus (2000), Hand Over Your Loved Ones (2003, released in America as Suck Fony in 2005), Too Soon Monsoon (2005), Pop Songs …

Meshes of the Afternoon
  • Annie Chantraine
  • Issue #14, Poetry
  • July 15, 2021
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Meshes of the Afternoon

Glassy eyes, seeing only dark figures,
bête noire, ne vois pas,
seulement toi, toi seul tu verras
Blades of steel and ocean point to
repetition of repetition of repetis.
The afternoon’s sun is cold.
You stroll, you swallow. The flower 
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SOUNDTRACK OF 2020: Cordoba’s Specter
  • Sarah Thomas
  • Album Releases, Issue #14
  • July 15, 2021
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SOUNDTRACK OF 2020: Cordoba’s Specter

Photo by Ayethaw Tun. Members of Cordoba. From left to right: Eric Novak, Brianna Tong, Cam Cunningham, Khalyle Hagood, Zach Bain-Selbo, Zach Upton-Davis.

Anything feels possible as of late. If a zombie apocalypse were to happen, I’m sure that …

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