Nora Brank

The Skeleton News presents &quot;A Dark Vision of the Future.&quot; Features on: Chicago's first megachurch, Willow Creek, at the Auditorium Theater and defining evangelicalism; nutrition and public health issues including types of fats and perspectives and conspiracy theories on AIDS/HIV; ubiquitous computing, GPS, and RFID and their implications in surveillance, health, and everyday living; survivalism and species integration; the solitude of mathematician Dr. Grigory Perelman; being transgendered or androgynous in Chicago; book reviews; the loss of identity in American cities; unessential albums; and Ulysses S. Grant.<br />

A defiantly "amateur: newspaper that seeks to inform on what's happening, what isn't and what should be, featuring a broad range of contributors and topics. In this issue: News on the Circle Line, HIV Testing, Grocery shopping in Pilsen rated, photos from Alaska, Chicago winters in the context of Sir Walter Scott's Antarctic journey, owning and borrowing cars, Pluto gets demoted from a planet, and interview with Andy van Slyke, analyzing baseball data using Pyhtagorean differentials, the Apocalypse according to the Mayan Calendar, paper consumption, including lyrics with liner notes, and predicting the future using old Science Fiction books, including robots and artificial intelligence.

"The Skeleton News is a free monthly newspaper made by non-professional journalists, comic artists, and general revelers working in the grand tradition of of independent publishing. We reject the notion of objectivity in journalism, a delusional luxury that only the most powerful corporate media can afford, and instead delight in our subjective approach to the stuff of our lives and communities." This is the one-year anniversary issue.

"The Skeleton News is a free monthly newspaper made by non-professional journalists, comic artists, and general revelers working in the grand tradition of of independent publishing. We reject the notion of objectivity in journalism, a delusional luxury that only the most powerful corporate media can afford, and instead delight in our subjective approach to the stuff of our lives and communities."

A news, arts and cultural publication covering wide-ranging topics.