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Mick Dumke journeys into west Humboldt Park to find out how drugs are affecting the neighborhood's residents. Ben Joravsky remembers Bill Lavicka , a restorationist who wasn't afraid to stand up to City Hall.
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Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons has won the National Council on Crime and Delinquency’s PASS Award for Literature.
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1. Seeing a bug, then losing track of it and becoming a paranoid prisoner in your own home. 2. Hearing loud slams and bumps while you’re in the shower and imagining it being some type of killer who you’ll have to fight off, soaking wet and butt naked.
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Brad Pike (b. 1988) first started seriously writing at eleven years old when he produced a 114 pages manuscript about a cocaine dealer who pilots a spaceship to a distant planet where he leads an insurrection of beetle people against their cyborg lizard overlords. He was poetry editor for the North Texas Review and sometimes reads poetry around Denton, Texas dressed in a wizard costume. He also writes short fiction, draws comics, paints, blogs, films things, and struggles with an addiction to tropical flavored energy drinks.
Pete’s good buddy, up-and-coming hilarious comedian Chris Thayer, comes by to make it weird and weird it gets made. Seriously a great dude, a hilarious dude, and some of the… more
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This is a revised version of AI Memo No. 616, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
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Making Plans for Infiniti
The roads were empty as I drove to the airport. It was nearly 5 in the morning, and I’d been awake since 9 the day before. I listened to some terrible suspense novel-on-tape, one filled with international politics and awkward descriptions of love making.Every month over 2.5 million readers engage with the editorial created by Republic Publishing.
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Calories: 1668, Alcohol units: 2, Cigarettes: 0, but some secondhand smoke from the Europeans, Column Ideas: -5 11:20a.m. Have realized column is... more...