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Nov 4, 2024

Don Hall

I Believe… [Too Much Absence]

Nov 4, 2024

Don Hall

...that some absence makes the heart grow fonder; too much absence makes the heart forget.

Nov 4, 2024

Don Hall

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Nov 18, 2024

BUGHOUSE!

Nov 18, 2024

It’s BACK! Chicago’s most entertaining debate show—Six debaters, three topics, the art of the dialectic!

Five bucks at the door (Cash or Venmo)

Haymarket Pub & Brewery, 737 W. Randolph (the corner of Randolph & Halsted)

Nov 18, 2024

ARCHIVE OF ARTICLES

Contributing Writer 6/10/22 Contributing Writer 6/10/22

The North Star

Guest User 8/25/19 Guest User 8/25/19

Weeping in the Dentist's Chair — Four Poems Featuring Teeth

In either case you’re pretty lucky. Your ache is not as bad as the ache-ache-bleed-bleed of some others who need constant medicine and other means to help ease and regulate the symptoms.

Sheri Reda 8/23/19 Sheri Reda 8/23/19

God Makes an Omelet

Morning has broken.

First me, then you, then the country

strewn left and right, spoiled

Sheri Reda 7/14/19 Sheri Reda 7/14/19

Cal Embraces the Death Penalty

“You know what I want to get her, I mean, if I don't break up with her?

I want to get her one of those stun guns you can get at Walmart—”

Guest User 5/17/19 Guest User 5/17/19

Hey, Girl, Hey, It's the Month of May — Three Poems

Buying luck with soft licks of cash
Exhilaration alone empties your stash.
Planes cruise overhead, the planet turns
Palm tress sway, but no one learns
It’s all about love in these years.
So, how about love in these years?