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Larry H. Dietz, former vice chancellor for student affairs and enrollment management at Southern Illinois University Carbondale before becoming president at Illinois State University, will receive a Distinguished Service Award following approval by the SIU Board of Trustees today (Dec. 7). Dietz is one of four individuals recommended by SIU Carbondale Chancellor Austin A. Lane for honorary degrees and distinguished service awards.

Deep inside the dingy, fluorescent labyrinth of a North Side self-storage facility, Reid Neuwirth, a bewhiskered Hyde Parker, cautiously makes his way around a unit stacked high with boxes, furniture

This news certainly came as a shock. According to gallery owner Walter Otero, well-known Puerto Rican artist Arnaldo Roche-Rabell died of lung cancer this morning. He was 62 years old. Víctor Torres Montalvo reports for El Nuevo Día. [See original article in Spanish, with related videos and photos at El Nuevo Día.] Roche-Rabell—for many, the…

The artist and former Catholic nun was known for her meticulously constructed, playful multimedia works.

Casting a net for art outside its traditional arenas reveals a city that’s a lot more interesting.