Conscious Choice: Features

June 2007

Features

Wring Tone
Cell phone carriers like Sprint, Cingular, Verizon and T-Mobile are bullying and ignoring customers with legal impunity. by TODD SPENCER

Shakeup in Neo-Bohemia
With Bank of America displacing a popular Wicker Park coffeehouse, corporate gentrification is threatening to consign Chicago’s artist enclave to the history books. by MIKE DRATH AND CHARLES SHAW

Full Spectrum Gentrification
After experiencing a decade-long building boom of staggering proportions, Conscious Choice invited eight local photographers to try and capture the essence of Chicago’s ongoing transformation. by HEIDI DIETRICH AND CHARLES SHAW | TEXT BY CHARLES SHAW

Standing Loud, Standing Proud
Documentary filmmaker Suree Towfighnia carries forth Chicago’s great storytelling tradition by KERI LYNCH

Conversations: Lou Reed
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Lou Reed discusses health and wellness, tai chi, his new meditation album and why he’d like to run for president.
Interview by ELIZA THOMAS

Departments

Choice News
Inspiration Café: Transformation Served Daily; Chicago’s Appleseed Fund Invests With Values; Let’s Get Vertical; The Doctors Are IN

Love the Landscape, Lose the Lawn
by JENNY ROUGH

From the Commish
Take the City’s Environmental Pledge
by SADHU A. JOHNSTON

A Pound of Flesh
by CARLY MILNE

Body Talk

Prison Practice
by ALISON CLARE STEINGOLD

Conscious Dining
Uncommon Ground’s Sweet, Sustainable 16
by TANYA FRITZ

You Can’t Be Deceived
by BRAD WARNER

Our Forgotten Future
by DANIEL PINCHBECK

The Lucifer Effect
by PHILIP ZIMBARDO

Reviews
Books, Music, Film/DVD

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