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By The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“Videos of patient testimonials sent to doctors in the late-1990s reveal how marketing trumped science as more and more prescriptions for chronic pain were written. The patients and their families speak out then and now.”
Posted on September 28, 2018
By The National Veterans Art Museum
The National Veterans Art Museum is proud to announce Original Warrior, an exhibit created to explore the complex Native American relationship between warrior and community, warrior and war, and warrior and service.
Native American nations have a long tradition of honoring and welcoming veterans back into their community after a time of war. Even now, pow wows have kept their focus on celebrating community and culture traditions while evolving fabrics, colors and songs emerge throughout the years.
Many of the artists in the exhibit are military veterans who weave the experiences they had while serving into their current cultural perspectives as Native Americans.
Posted on September 19, 2018
By The Chicago Cultural Alliance
The World Dumpling Fest returns to Chicago on Sunday to celebrate dumplings of the world from 10 neighborhood-based ethnic restaurants in the Chicago region, in conjunction with World Music Festival Chicago at Navy Pier’s Polk Bros Park Performance Lawns.
The 2017 inaugural event, held at Millennium Park drew more than 6,000 people and sold out of dumplings in the first few hours.
The featured dumplings:
Posted on September 18, 2018
By J.J. Tindall
The Single Greatest Cab Ride in the History of the Free World
When you work there
On busy summer weekends,
The best thing
About Navy Pier
Is leaving it.
Posted on September 17, 2018
By The American Foundation For Suicide Prevention
The Illinois Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention is co-sponsoring the Illinois Suicide Prevention Summit on Friday, September 21, at the Loyola Medical School campus in Maywood.
The summit will cover the four strategies of AFSP’s Project 2025: the prevention of suicide in health care systems, in emergency departments, in the corrections system and by firearm owners.
Posted on September 13, 2018
At The Parliament Of The World’s Religions
“More than 2,500 delegates and 250 speakers from over 60 countries participated in the three-day World Hindu Congress on 11 September 125 years ago, Swami Vivekanand delivered a powerful speech in Chicago at the Parliament of World’s Religions.Through his speech, he introduced Hinduism to the world. To commemorate 125 years of the historic speech, the second World Hindu Congress was organised from September 7th-9th, in Chicago.”
Posted on September 11, 2018
By The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service
Caito Foods, an Indianapolis establishment, is recalling approximately 242 pounds of fully cooked chicken salad product due to misbranding and an undeclared allergen. The products contain tree nuts (walnut), a known allergen, which is not declared on the product label.
The ready-to-eat, fully cooked, not shelf stable chicken salad products were produced on August 31, 2018. The following products are subject to recall:
Posted on September 7, 2018
By J.J. Tindall
The Hate Song of Walt Price-Friedham
What price freedom?
If God shan’t prevail
Perhaps democracy itself
Has failed, like a patient
Upon a table etherized.
How shall I presume?
How shall I wear my hair
To declare my attitude
About the high American noon?
Posted on September 5, 2018
By Julie Grace/WisContext
Craft beer fans seeking different flavors are accustomed to hitting the road to taste offerings from breweries both near and far from home. Special releases of new and limited-run creations are a big draw, but so too are the breweries themselves.
As the craft beer industry has blossomed over the past decade, so too have options for such visits. The Brewers Association, a national trade association for craft beer-related businesses, reported that in 2017, craft consumers visited three-and-a-half breweries near their homes and two-and-a-half breweries within two hours’ driving distance on average.
“Beer tourism” is one label for the phenomenon of people planning getaways around visiting craft breweries, as is the punchier “beercation.” In 2016, Travelocity established a “beer tourism index,” which identified the top destinations for craft beer in the United States. (Chicago didn’t crack the top 20.)
Posted on September 3, 2018
