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Spellbound

“There is a longing for reality that has something to do with our frustration with fairy tales. We want stories that we can relate to, stories that seem real, that seem complicated, that are messy, but also stories of confronting danger or difficulty, as memoirists do, and overcoming them. Stories of triumph.” Happily ever after.

Renaissance scholar Armando Maggi, PhD’95. Read more here.

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Bond Chapel #uchicago (Taken with instagram)

UChicago: The Birthplace of the Point Spread

Charles K. McNeil was a history major at the University of Chicago, but his real talent was with numbers. After graduating, McNeil taught math at a New England prep school, then returned to Chicago to work as a securities analyst at a bank. To supplement his small income, McNeil bet on baseball, basketball and football games, first with friends in the stands, then with bookies. McNeil was such a shrewd bettor that he was able to quit his bank job and live on his winnings. But he was a little too shrewd for his own good: he beat the house so often that his bookie put limits on his action.

McNeil responded by opening his own sports book — and coming up with a bet that put his old bookie out of business. Instead of offering odds on football games, he offered a point spread.

Read more here.

FOTA presents a cabaret at the Performance Penthouse at the Logan Center for the Arts. (Photo by Jason Smith)

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Sunshine and waves at the Point.

(Photography by Mary Ruth Yoe)

In Bloom

Chicago is getting an Elevated Park, similar to the New York City High Line. The Bloomingdale Trail will be 2.7 miles of rail-to-park conversion, incorporating bicycle lanes, and will run through four different Chicago neighbourhoods of diverse socio-economic levels. The scheduled completion date is 2014. Woop!

MODA’s Secret Garden Party

UChicago’s student fashion organization threw a party in the Ida Noyes Courtyard last week to celebrate the launch of their Summer Magazine. Read all about it here, on the blog.

Boating in Hangzhou, UChicago Study Abroad.

The Lion In Winter

Ohmygoodnessthisissocool. “The Lion In Winter is the story of King Henry II of England, his wife Eleanor, and their family, as they gather together for a Christmas court in December of 1183. This family is the epitome of dysfunction, with every individual familial relationship constantly shifting between love and hatred. The manipulative, despondent, and diseased relationships that exist between the various players in the drama eventually reach a breaking point, leading to a final confrontation over the future legacy of the entire lineage.”- Tom Murphy

10th Week, May 31st- June 2nd
Thursday and Friday 8pm
Saturday 3pm and 8pm

Logan

Photo from Stagg Field, 1936

40 Reasons To Love Being A Chicagoan

The Huff Post recently published a list of the very best parts of living in the Windy City. We will give you five of our favorites:

Reenacting scenes from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off while at the Art Institute or going to there or the MCA on free days and pretending like I know what I’m looking at. (Sometimes, Kandinsky, I think you just might be fucking with me, and I fully expect one day to look over at the title of your piece and see: “JK, LOL.”)
When you can walk down a street in Andersonville, Roscoe Village, Albany Park or Lincoln Square and momentarily forget you are in Chicago or walk through Pilsen, Greektown, West Loop or Uptown and feel so connected to its rhythms.
The milkshakes at Chicago Diner. Even if you aren’t vegan or are a total Ron Swanson-esque carnivore, they are the most delicious things in the world.
Defending the Chicago theatre scene. Steppenwolf. The Goodman. Over half of the storefront theatres on the Northside. Done. If you are still unconvinced, I will fight you.
Trying to figure out exactly why the tourists like the Bean so much. What do you see in there? Is there free candy inside?