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In connection with The Wisdom of Sun Ra, WhiteWalls and John Corbett have teamed up with the Hyde Park Arts Center for an exhibition, Pathways to Unknown Worlds, and series of events, Travelling the Spaceways. The exhibition and events run until January 14th, 2007.

There is simply too much to list here: screenings, curator talks, a symposium, performances, musicians, artists, rock stars.

Learn about Pathways to Unknown Worlds and Traveling the Spaceways at the Hyde Park Arts Center

Learn More about The Wisdom of Sun Ra

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The magisterial proclamations contained in Whitewalls' Wisdom of Sun Ra are garnering interest from Chicago, where the broadsheets were written, to the U.K. at the New Statesman.

Peter Margasak writes in the Chicago Reader:

The Wisdom of Sun Ra includes beautiful reproductions of the dog-eared broadsheets, with full transcriptions in the second half of book. As interesting as the writings are in their own right, they're also offer powerful insights into the personality and philosophy that was central to Ra's later work.

Rachel Aspden is less enthralled with the particularities of Ra's space-mythologies than Peter Margasak, but she still advocates the book as a "fascinating window" into Ra's views:

It's easy to overdose on Ra's liberal use of capitals and frequent invocations of Neptune, but for browsing, John Corbett's selection offers a fascinating window on to the weird world of one of the 20th century's most influential musicians.

Read Rachel Aspden's review in the New Statesman

Read Peter Margasak's Reader blog

Learn More about the Book

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The McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum recently conducted a survey that shows a sampling of the adult population in the United States finds it easier to recall the five main characters from The Simpsons than to name the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment. Approximately one in five adults could name all five Simpsons. Only one in one thousand could name all five freedoms.

Here is the apparently obscure, but beloved amendment:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Visit the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum's Site

Visit the National Archives

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