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The Coyote art show is coming back home this weekend. No, it’s not the original Around the Coyote. Those folks moved the art festival and found that they couldn’t sustain the thing without the built-in support of the artists in the Flat Iron Building.

So the artists themselves have worked to return the tradition back to the neighborhood.

There will be 150 artists in the blazing hot maze of the Flat Iron, plenty of musical performances, and cheese and wine galore. I’m looking forward to it. There just isn’t another cultural event like this.

$10 suggested donation for all three days.
1579 N Milwaukee Ave
September 10 to September 12

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Look what my awesome Chicago artist boyfriend gave me for Valentine’s Day!

Here’s a photo of Thunder dog. You can see in the painting just how much more gray he has around the muzzle now. The poor guy is getting really curmudgeony for all his cuteness. He’s grumbling more and finds puppies annoying. I’m sure he’d tell the punks to get off his lawn if he knew the cliche.

Thunder has an arch-enemy in our building. The boyfriend did a holiday art commission of that dog and commented how much they are really built alike. We people have always known that, but somehow the two dogs believe they are worlds apart.

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Alice Brozofsky is the February guest artist at Gallery 203. I’ve showcased her work before (Family Portrait and Exhile), but I these chalk pastels are something new entirely.

The above is called Barnyard and the one below is Untitled. They’re pretty great and were a very pleasant shock when I walked into the show.

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