Everybody wants to be there to be there to get their picture taken at the ribbon cutting ... and then they disappear. For the Reader, Olivia Hunter Willke documents the shameful neglect and deterioration of James Turrell's Hard Scrabble Sky at UIC.
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We were there 20 years ago when James Turrell's stunning, now neglected, Skyspace was dedicated at UIC. "I wanted to create something that directly connects you to a through that is wordless," said Turrell.
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Hard Scrabble Sky by James Turrell was not only the first free, public Skyspace, but also the first in an urban environment.
Stupid stuff #2 in lieu of aborted bridge lift and sailboats. Whatever's happening at Macy's State Street, it's apparently in a black hole
DuSable Park, 5/4/2026 . . . always the same. Plans come, plans go. Nothing ever happens.
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Stupid stuff #3 in lieu of aborted bridge lift and sailboats. Pigeon romance, senior edition.
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So it seems Wednesday's sailboat run was aborted because no one showed up to open one of the bridges, so I'll just post some random stupid stuff, instead Like, in the case of prosecutorial misconduct in the Broadview 6 case, whoever did the transcripts confuses "mea culpa" with ABBA.
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Unfortunately paywalled, but Heidi Blakes's exhaustive expose is astounding in the depravity it portrays, not just that of Tates, but of the whole of Magaworld, from Tucker to Roger Stone, gleefully complicit and supportive of their cancerous enterprise.
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How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.
