Art

BEVERLY ARTS CENTER - 2407 W. 111th St., Chicago, (773) 445-3838. Original works by emerging and established artists, rotating monthly, are on display in the East Gallery and the Atrium Gallery. Hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays to Fridays, 10 a.m.

Young artists show their work

HAMMOND | Art lovers don't have to travel to Chicago to find interesting artwork on display.The seventh annual High School Art Show is on exhibit through the end of the month in the Bernard Gallery at Calumet College of St. Joseph, 2400 New York Ave.One hundred students from Bishop Noll Institute and Crown Point, Hammond, Hanover, Hebron, Highland, Lake Central, Mount Carmel and Portage high schools participated in the event.Amanda Cimaroli, of Hebron High School, won first place in best of show for her piece, "I'm Not Usually Narcissistic."Other best of show winners were Brittney O'Keefe, of Bishop Noll, for "Breaking Through," which was second; Amanda Unnock, of Lake Central, for "Seen In Color," which took third; Kenton Pratt, also of Lake Central, for "Rhino," which was fourth; and Alejandro Zamora, of Hammond High, for "Fierce Eyes," which took fifth place.Sculpture award winners were as follows:First - Ben Boshoven, et.

AUB finds new president after year-long search

The American University of Beirut's board of trustees has unanimously voted to elect Peter F. Dorman as the 15th president of AUB, the university announced on Friday. Dorman is professor of Egyptology at the Oriental Institute and in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Dorman will succeed John Waterbury, who has served since 1998. The announcement follows a year-long international search that solicited the input of consultants, faculty, staff, students, and alumni worldwide, the statement said. "The search demanded intense coordination of our constituencies and a unique understanding of AUB, its goals and future needs. I would particularly like to recognize the diligent work of the presidential search committee led by Board of Trustees vice chair Philip S.

To Celebrate the Publication of CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN POETRY: AN ANTHOLOGY, a Bilingual Reading With Evgeny Bunimovich, ...

The Poetry Foundation announces a bilingual poetry reading in celebration of CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN POETRY: AN ANTHOLOGY, featuring Evgeny Bunimovich, Elena Fanailova, and Yuli Gugolev, with translations read by distinguished American poets. The event is co-sponsored by the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Center of Chicago, and Dalkey Archive Press.

Admission is free.

Pain 'boot camp’ - Program treats three fronts to lessen hold on sufferers’ lives

Gayle Parseghian, a 55-year-old ballet teacher from Toledo, Ohio, goes through stretching exercises at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago during a four-week "boot camp" program to relieve her chronic back pain. Before starting the program, Parseghian tried herbal patches, vitamins, injections, prescription narcotics and a battery-operated device that sends electrical impulses to the body to block pain. She said nothing worked.
Photo by M. SPENCER GREEN/Associated Press .

Sport and democracy in classical Athens

Male dancers (above) form the Olympic circles with olive branches during a rehearsal for the lighting of the flame in Ancient Olympia, where the Olympics were born in 776 BC. Actress Maria Nafpliotou (left), in her role as the high priestess at the actual ceremony on Monday, holds up the Olympic Flame after it was lit using the sun�s rays.

By Dr David Pritchard

In spite of this, the vast majority of the citizens, who as poor men were very critical of the aristocracy, actually lavished time and public money on sporting competitions and facilities, esteemed elite sports stars above all other public figures and handed international victors the metaphorical keys to the city.