The mirror behind the Mohawks inside stage produces an oddly unsettling effect. The frosted glass reflects another world, one paralleling its own wood and brick reality. The audience stares dumbed upon themselves, and the performer is left naked and open in the hindsight. Seated before the full room with only her acoustic guitar Wednesday night, it seemed an appropriate environment for Nina Nastasia.

The New Yorkers songs have always exposed an unnerving intimacy, her powerful voice confidently pitching high and whispering soft in a confessional paradoxically strengthened in her own insecurities. Yet there was also an easy reciprocation from the crowd, who seemed largely her friends, in the discarding of hard stances, the following of her intimations through the looking glass.

Lubavitch Chabad defers its dream

For months, people living near the southwest corner of Clark and Chestnut wondered about the hole in the ground. The owner, Lubavitch Chabad, planned a Center for Jewish Life on the site, but couldn't raise the money.

The property is part of a planned development that requires any developer to obtain the consent of neighbors before building. Talks are under way, Weissberg said, noting that downtown Ald.

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Here's another option, maybe it's time for us humans to think about decreasing our population. That would help solve almost all of our problems with energy, pollution, poverty, war...I think we hit our limit at around 4 billion. Current estimates put world population at well over 6 billion. We can check our own population growth, or Mother Nature will do it for us. .