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"The (Con) Temporary Art Chicago Guide is a map of Chicago, showcasing some of the city's best cultural offerings during the spring art season. The territory includes prominent art institutes and initiatives, several annual art festivals and fairs, independent art spaces and other culturally significant projects. We created the guide to help us experience the city as a space for contemporary art, to reflect on the need for and vulnerability of these cultural presentations, and to celebrate art: day and night, inside and outside, high and low."

In These Times is an alternative newsmagazine published 26 times a year by the Institute for Public Affairs in Chicago. ITT is a member of the Alternative Press Syndicate.

In These Times provides left-leaning analysis of politics and culture.

"In These Times" is a magazine dedicated to exploring the social justice, political issues, and current events that the United States faces these days. Published in Chicago, the magazine's articles are written by staff, that explore issues facing all U.S. citizens. Kurt Vonnegut and Barbara Ehreinreich are contributing editors. In this issue, Guanatanamo Bay, torture, education reform, a guide to political correctness, immigration, Barack Obama's ability to reach out to the black community, Dennis Kucinich discusses the Iraq War.

This is an instructional booklet for actors that covers character development, monologue and dialogue techniques, speech and phonetic training, and auditioning tips. It contains excerpts of monologues, poems, and plays, as well as exercises for actors.

Ira Bach describes architectural walks "selected to present Chicago as a great cosmopolitan city as well as a collection of local community areas, all tied together by an intricate web of transportation that makes them accessible to the pedestrian for a closer view."

Illustrated reference book that presents facts, historical material, and myths about the clitoris.

"The dramatic story of 50 turbulent years in 2,000 pictures, 100,000 words...a permanent record of all the important national and world events..."

A collection of educational lectures, workshops and other educational opportunities taking place in June 2010.

"The most famous highway in America starts in the center of Chicago. For over 2400 miles it winds west through little towns, plains mountains and deserts, all the way to L.A., California. The first few miles of the journey zigzag down busy streets of the city. Here and there are old roadside businesses dating from the picturesque days of auto tourism along the Mother road. Read the story of this historic travel route in the enclosed booklet, and see the sights along the way in three-dimensional photographs."