Art

The best thing since sliced bread only, you can't eat it. It's a literary magazine. Sliced Bread has provided a space for University of Chicago students to share their creative work, ranging from short stories and poems to visual ration all its incarnations.

The best thing since sliced bread only, you can't eat it. It's a literary magazine. Sliced Bread has provided a space for University of Chicago students to share their creative work, ranging from short stories and poems to visual ration all its incarnations.

Extensive interview about Dan Peterman's building at 6100 S. Blackstone in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The enormous building was gutted in a suspicious fire and eventually rebuilt and reorganized under the name The Experimental Station. Peterman describes the character and cultural life of the original building and the endless political and bureaucratic challenges that he faced in the struggle to rebuild. A good window into Chicago city politics and the difficulty in maintaining an autonomous cultural practice in Chicago. The Baffler and magazine and the initiative Blackstone Bicycle Works - tenants of 6100 S. Blackstone - are also discussed.

Infinitas Gracias is the first collection of the work of Alfredo Vilchis Roque, one of Mexico's most famous contemporary painters, and his sons. In the tradition of Catholic votives, each painting tells a miraculous tale and gives thanks to the intervening saint. Ablaze with intense color hearkening back to the natural pigment dyes of ancient Mexico, these works portray the kaleidoscope of issues that constitute modern urban existence. With over 200 paintings, from circus adventures to household accidents to adultery, drugs, and prostitution, Infinitas Gracias weaves together a bizarre tapestry of stories, some disturbing, some comical -- all unerringly wrought and profoundly touching.

Exhibit catalog with essays about the work in Spanish and English.

This issue picks up where the previous two left off, by documenting some of the best artists and designers in the underground. But this issue also pushes into new areas as well, covering fashion design, tattoo art, mapmaking, and even someone who uses love as an art form. It's an eclectic mix full of amazing things to look at-and interesting stories to read.

A pamphlet describing the contents to be auctioned off at AREA Chicago's benefit auction that took place on Saturday, December 8, 2007.

A guide on how to be an informed and polite "zine citizen." Written by Liz Mason (manager of Quimby's bookstore) and Carrie. Both of which are seasoned zinesters. Advice largely on navigating consignment zines, zine fest etiquette and trades.

A short comic zine detailing the author's love for and relationship with the 1984 West German fantasy film "The NeverEnding Story."

Short, small zine detailing different components of nature