This week’s issue is out in print and online now, and here are some of the highlights: we found out the story behind the Great American Cheese Collection (mentioned here a few posts ago). Dream Theatre Company’s new play, “The Black Duckling,” opens tonight. Pianist Amy Briggs performs a work written for two hands and a nose this Saturday as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival’s Hyde Park kick-off this Saturday. Three University of Chicago seniors and one alumna have founded an online magazine to give Chicago the New Yorker it currently lacks. In this week’s Perspectives, Helenmary Sheridan argues that urban agriculture isn’t just a faux-rustic pastime; in the food deserts of the South Side, it can mean “a well-tended and organically-grown ‘fuck you’ to those who would keep even bread from the people. And the University of Chicago’s Department of Visual Arts is collaborating with the Hyde Park Jazz Society and others to bring back the jazz that once made the neighborhood a musical destination.