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“For this project, I wanted to recreate a historical moment in some way. After going through a number of famous art pieces, this one really stood out as a perfect moment in time,” Bentel said. “Being a product designer, I see products as storytelling objects. The idea that the hundreds of objects that you use every day, like your toothbrush, your cup, your computer are utility, yes, but they also tell a story at the end of the day. They tell a story about aesthetics, the time place you’re in, the materials, and how they were made.”
But I also heard, almost immediately, from folks I had little in common with on paper. Different backgrounds, different realities, different futures, most likely. But their lives looked a way they weren’t expecting, and they saw some of that in my writing, and they wanted to talk about it.
She should narrow down her list. She can send individual emails, or a group email and blind copy everyone, saying something like: “Please forgive the awkwardness, but I am trying to sort through the wedding gifts and packages we’ve received. One package which was shipped has no identification. If you sent a gift and your gift hasn’t been acknowledged, please let me know. We’d love to solve the first mystery of our marriage.”
The ensemble of Black and Latinx string players brings their instruments to the scenes of tragedy — shootings, usually. But also suicides, overdoses, car accidents. They play concerts around the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. They play a song for each stage, plus a sixth song for what Hallmon calls a sixth stage of grief: faith. They set up away from the crime tape, out of the way of the police, but close enough for the neighbors to hear them.
Jo Franco in the “Best of Bali” episode of “The World’s Most Amazing Vacation Rentals.” The series showcases unique destinations and stunning vacation rentals around the world while providing valuable tips and expertise in real estate, travel and design. The show premieres on Netflix June 18. The series hosts are Megan Batoon, Jo Franco, and Luis Ortiz. (Netflix)
Even though you deny what you have been accused of saying, you seem to be issuing a “non-denial denial,” a concept popularized by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to describe the evasion and equivocation by Nixon’s Attorney General during the Watergate scandal. (Please, don’t be like John Mitchell.)
Chicago officials declared the city fully reopened on Friday, ending a requirement that people wear face masks in most indoor places and lifting capacity limits intended…
Thirteen-year-old Nikolas Jacob talks with Ashvin Lad while playing catch outside Blaine Elementary School on June 16, 2021, in Chicago. Jacob’s mother, Carmen Cruz, posted in a Lakeview neighborhood Facebook page to ask if anyone would play catch with her son and Lad jumped at the chance. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
Children open a box filled with Surprise Powerz Dolls at an event on East 61st Street in Chicago organized by Urban Explorers, a mobile early learning classroom that focuses on STEM learning, on June 9, 2021. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
Dear Confused: People with responsibility for sick family members don’t always get a lot of advance notice that they’re needed at home. Certainly, the pandemic accelerated many such decisions; last year, with the growing awareness that as the country was basically shutting down, they knew their own ability to travel and relocate might be severely restricted.