By The National Veterans Art Museum

The National Veterans Art Museum is proud to announce “The Lost Children of Chon Thanh,” our upcoming exhibition of then-and-now photographic portraits by Bob Shirley and Reed Young.
In 1969, U.S. Army medic Bob “Doc” Shirley worked in a temporary clinic in the village of Chon Thanh, providing medical care to the local people. During that time, he captured poignant images of some of the children he treated.
Over 40 years later Larry Johns, curator of the current exhibition, saw Shirley’s haunting portraits and began to wonder whether any of these children had survived, and what their lives were like now. Johns had lost a brother who was serving at a remote artillery post near Chon Thanh and had been trying to seek out people who might have had a connection with his brother during the war.

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Posted on July 11, 2018

By The Arts of Life

The Arts of Life, a Chicagoland non-profit arts studio for adults with and without disabilities, will be having their Annual Studio Sale on Friday, July 27th from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at 2010 West Carroll Avenue.
The talented group of artists who make up The Arts of Life have been featured at galleries and museums around the city and country, including most recently Heaven Gallery, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Andrew Edlin Gallery, and the Chicago city clerk’s office.
Don’t miss out on the chance to own a piece of work by one of our esteemed artists! The Annual Studio Sale only happens once a year and is a wonderful opportunity to find a work of art that you love while supporting a local cause. Stay for a drink and learn more about The Arts of Life.

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Posted on July 9, 2018

By The U.S. Postal Inspection Service

“‘Show up with a hat and tie.’ Those were the instructions given to law enforcement officer applicants in 1971. The applicants were always men. Janene Gordon changed that. As one of the first female postal inspectors and first to achieve a law enforcement retirement, she broke through many barriers. Watch and listen to some of the trials and tribulations of blazing a trail for women in federal law enforcement. Her remarkable career paved the way for the women who followed.”

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Posted on July 3, 2018

By J.J. Tindall

A Garland of Moons
I conjured a garland
Of moons, like a garland
Of garlic
To resist the
Vampyric gales.
Fat, full moons
Which dissolve
Into the great, black lake.
All because I insist
On existing.
And I exist
to resist.

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Posted on July 2, 2018

By Magnum Independent Pictures

Episode 2.
I guess you’ve had enough to this world, chief.

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Posted on June 28, 2018

By J.J. Tindall

The Mind is a Leopard
The mind is a leopard
in repose, elongated on a branch
of an acacia tree, lithe tail dangling
in the humid breeze, swatting
at giant mosquitoes and bloated bottle flies.
She scans the horizon for enemy and prey,
listening, inhaling, sensing energies
that men often portray as minor gods.

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Posted on June 25, 2018

By Scott Gordon/WisContext

Wisconsin’s decision to let Foxconn draw water from Lake Michigan may set a precedent for water use that resonates across the Great Lakes region and beyond.
But an emerging challenge to it is really a battle over how to interpret the Great Lakes Compact, the 10-years-young eight-state agreement that governs access to one of the world’s most voluminous supplies of freshwater.

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Posted on June 20, 2018

By J.J. Tindall

The pot shops in Los Angeles have the kind of punny names that make the monikers of barbershops – and pornos – such a delight: Hollyweed. Best Buds. Rolling Stoned. Green Mile. Wake & Bake. Exhalence. The Pottery. Hollywood High Grade. Mile High Club. The Green Team. Litt. Cannajuana Releaf. The Reefinery. Cannacierge. Stone Age Farmacy.
After googling which one of these glorious establishments was most geographically desirable to the day’s activities, we tasked the mission to secure legal pot to our pal Cool Breeze, so named as an homage to Tom Wolfe, who had just kicked the Electric Kool-Aid Bucket. We came up with MMD, quite possibly the lamest name among all of LA’s dispensaries (MMD standing for Medical Marijuana Dispensary, though to be sure Cool Breeze was buying recreational marijuana, legal in California since January 1.) Now it’s true that MMD was recently named one of the area’s best pot shops by High Times magazine, but for our purposes the key data point was that it was 305 feet from Amoeba Music, where the rest of us would cool our heels scouring the record racks while Cool Breeze did the deed.
I should probably explain what I mean by “we” at this juncture. We are “The Men of a Certain Age Crew” Crew, ages 56/7, met in high school in Illinois when 16/7, now gathered in LA for a weekend reunion. Not used to buying pot legally. Not having ever bought pot legally.

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Posted on June 19, 2018

‘Genuine, Bona Fide, Teslafied’

Well, sir, there’s nothing on Earth
Like a genuine, bona fide
Teslafied, airport Elonorail
What’d I say?
Elonorail
What’s it called?
Elonorail
That’s right! Elonorail
Elonorail
Elonorail
Elonorail

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Posted on June 18, 2018

By The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service

WASHINGTON – Winter Sausage Manufacturing Co., an Eastpointe, Michigan establishment, is recalling approximately 28,346 pounds of poultry, pork and beef products due to misbranding, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The poultry products were slaughtered under religious exemption, which is not declared on the product label.

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Posted on June 15, 2018