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In the Garage with Post Office Winter: On Responding to the Storm With a Fire
Songs for a Scientist is an album born from the merciless Chicago winter. As the city sat under cozy wool blankets, Post Office Winter toiled away at their debut album. The band, comprised of Charlie Johnston and Will Huffman both 16, wrote, recorded, and mixed the record entirely out of Charlie’s garage. They huddled over a single space heater, warming their numb hands between takes; the wind bouncing off the walls. “My mom made us keep the garage door open because of COVID,” says Charlie.
DePaul students find new life in the outdoors amid global crisis
Eli Schmitt , Contributing Writer|May 31, 2021 Eric Henry FILE-Residents out on the Lakefront Trail as temperatures reach 54 degrees in Chicago following weeks of bitter cold and heavy snowfall. It’s the first warm day of the year and the park is empty. DePaul freshman Camelia Verni-Patron sits on a blanket beside the North Branch of the Chicago River, quietly looking out towards the opposite bank. The Metra whizzes by, and they wave, though no one is waving back.
Chicago arts non-profit fights to capture public attention amid pandemic
Eli Schmitt, Contributing Writer|October 25, 2020 Eli Schmitt Homeroom arts non-profit put on a show called “Water Music on the Rocks.” Dreary, rainy weather failed to deter patrons of Homeroom’s return to in-person art performances on Oct. 3. There in the sand, 50 people huddled on socially distant black circles and witnessed a piece called Water Music on the Rocks. Covid-19 restrictions meant they comprised a sold-out audience at Hollywood Beach on Chicago’s North Side.
#occupywallstreet
When I got off the train in the Financial District two Saturdays ago,1 the first thing I did was accidentally walk into a policeman. He and fifteen or so other policemen were standing in front of a barricade that had been set up to prevent anyone from entering Wall Street.
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