I love Chicago. I also love New York. One of my favorite pleasures in both cities is street food – fresh mango slices dusted with chili powder, steaming hot dogs with hot peppers and slices of dill pickle on steamed poppy-seed buns, the sweet melt of coconut paletas dripping down their flat little wooden handles, raspberry Italian ice dyed bluer than anything in nature. One for my favorites, fresh chestnuts, are roasted by vendors on the streets of New York City, but alas, not on the streets of the Windy City.

Book review
"Putting the Arts in the Picture: Reframing Education in the 21st Century"
edited by Nick Rabkin and Robin Redmond, 2004, Columbia College, Chicago.
http://www2.colum.edu/center_for_arts_policy/putting_arts_picture.htm

"Putting the Arts in the Picture: Reframing Education in the 21st Century" is an important book -- a breakthrough document that cogently explores the role of the arts in innovative educational practice and school-improvement policy in the contemporary world. What makes it a break-through book?