by Mary Vuk If you happen to be driving along the highway next summer and spot a young man on a motorcycle, talking into a microphone attached to his helmet, chances are you have come across one of your Riverwest neighbors: Eddie Kilowatt. Kilowatt wants to travel the whole country by motorcycle and digitally record […]
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The 411 on FYI
By Michael Timm Homelessness, poverty, crime, unplanned pregnancy, sexual abuse, and underemployment are very real threats to thousands of young people nationwide who age out of the foster care or other out-of-home care systems. Upon turning 18, they are cut off from the state support system. If they have not been prepared for social and […]
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Tis the Season for Buying Local
by Belle Bergner A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. Edward O. Wilson, Harvard Biologist Tis the Season, friends to spend money. And if you […]
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Edwin Bandurski
by Ellen C.Warren, photograph by Melody R. Carranza Some people just like it where they are. I was born October 14, 1921 downstairs, in the bedroom, Edwin Bandurski reports with a little chuckle. This month he will celebrate his 85th birthday upstairs from the Polish flat where he first entered this life in the house […]
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