Douglas's Features
More than Murals: Public Art in the Loop

Art? Who needs art!? So bourgeois... so unnecessary. Until you come to Chicago: The open prairie, the fertile meadow. This is a land that cries out into the night, screaming: Recreate my visage, my torrid emotions by the brush strokes and paint splatterings of subjective imaginings and poetical structuring! So Douglas DuBrin's gonna talk about that.
   
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Singin' in the Pain: Where to Find True Blue Chicago

Ah, the blues. Nothing like the gruff, dejected drawn-out wail of misery. It came from the South. It takes up residence in the fields of the fertile Midwest. Douglas DuBrin callously categorizes his city's jazz joints by geography and calibre. Determine the rightfulness of his delineations in the article which follows.
   
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