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Eastern Illinois University The Keep The Post Amerikan (1972-2004) The Post Amerikan Project 8-1-1997 Volume 26, Number 4 Post Amerikan Follow this and additional works at: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/post_amerikan Part of the Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication Commons, Journalism Studies Commons, Publishing Commons, and the Social Influence and oliticalP Communication Commons Recommended Citation Post Amerikan, "Volume 26, Number 4" (1997). The Post Amerikan (1972-2004). 210. https://thekeep.eiu.edu/post_amerikan/210 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the The Post Amerikan Project at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Post Amerikan (1972-2004) by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. "Uranium should stay in the ground" Citizen Wayne & the Bio-Vamp ·. BLOOMINGTON /NORMAL . NUMBHill4\H',f:l~ · · AUGUST/ SEPr.EMBER 1'997 }{o~'T t.A~1 Jo51 $ 9·~5 !I · f...ONGr f! 11-iA!S RLGH) (;E1YouR5 J"U5f S9.~ !! ~oDAY !! (;ot..t.y[ I'M NoT 5uF$ E.xf.c:rLY WaAT -THoSE. ~RE ~ ... 'Bur AT THAT ?RJC,E, Wf. Bt.T1tR BvY ,-wo! ~Ol ~911 'UOJ6u!WOOIB ZOL: I9 11 'uo,~u!woom 89~ 'ONJ!WJad ZS17£ xog iJ~!JJO lSOd P!Bd a61QSOd ·s·n ~OL ~9 11 'UOl6U!W0018 UP'f!JiJW\f lSOd 8JBt:llii"B . UO!PiJllO:) SSiJ.lpP\f U!BII'J 'N OOl 1 Alatoos IB~!JOlS!H ·oa uea1~1N ------------ BLOOMINGTON /NORMAL VOLUME 26 NUMBER4 AUGUST I SEPTEMBER 1997 In this Issue: Page 16--"Uranium should stay in the ground" Page 17--Citizen Wayne & the Bio Page 2--What you are lookin' at Page 10--Welcome to the Dollhouse Vamp & Lavenders cartoon Page 3--Community News; Letters review Pages 18-19--Seeing Red by Steve Page 4--McLean Co. AIDS Task Force Page 11--Execution of Innocence Eckardt Page 5--Mental Illness Awareness Page 12--Road trippin' readin'. 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I'm hoping some of my other friends here - here in Bloomington-Normal. It is great to see contact you. I especially enjoy Marcee Murray's coverage on local artists doing their thing that and the Native American sections and the would otherwise be ignored by the Pantagraph. environmental news. I really appreciate it. Love, Thanks again for your consideration and Sue support. Classy Fried Ad P.S. I saw the web site-- it looks good! easily yours, Starving artist needs work! Murals , sponge Dan Knestaut painting, anything creative. Please call Lori @ (309) 827-5491 The exhibition contains 92 prints, and will be Heel of the Boot: Prints supplemented by a showing of historic political prints and drawings, including work by bySueCoe Daumier, Goya, Grosz, Wojnarowicz, and Kollwitz. HEEL OF THE BOOT was curated by August 14 through September 21, 1997 Marilyn Zeitlin and Jean Makin at the Arizona Sue Coe lecture and reception: Tuesday, August State University Art Museum. Partial 26®7PM exhibition support is provided by the Illinois Panel discussions on domestic violence, animal Arts Council, a state agency. rights and other topics will be held on WRITE YOUR TEXT Tuesdays: September 2nd, 9th, and 16th at 7 PM For further information in the gallery. contact us at: 1 .......... 2 .......... 3 .......... 4 .......... 5 ......... 309.438.5487; fax309.438.5161; or vi~it our University Galleries is pleased to announce the website at 6 .......... 7 .......... 8 .......... 9 .......... 1 0 ....... opening of HEEL OF THE BOOT: PRINTS BY http: I I www .orat.ilstu.edul cfal galleries SUE COE, our first exhibition of the 1997-98 1 1 .......... 1 2 .......... 1 3 .......... 14 ......... season. HEEL OF THE BOOT is a comprehensive retrospective of Sue Coe's 15 .......... 16 .......... 17 .......... 18......... lithographs, monotypes and photo-etchings 19.......... 20 .......... 21 .......... 22 ......... from 1979 to the present. The Good, The Bad 23 ........ 24 .......... 25 ......... Arriving in New York from England in 1972, Coe quickly found work as an Op Ed page illustrator for The New York Times, and also contributed and The Ugly THE DETAILS political drawings to publications such as • Mother Jones, Penguin Books, Discover, and in condensed version FOR SALE RAW.