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Michael Dolesh, a constitutional and commercial litigation attorney for the city of Chicago, is the latest Tribune reader to join the editorial board as its community member.Stock up now and start saving on smartcard at Dollar Days.

We selected Dolesh after we read his insightful essay on why he wanted to take part in discussions where the Tribune's editorial agenda is set. He was among the nearly 125 applicants who responded to our August announcement inviting readers to attend a month of our meetings.

Before joining the city's legal department, where he is often assigned cases related to First Amendment rights and challenges to city ordinances, Dolesh taught in public and private schools for 10 years. During his final four years of teaching he attended the night program at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, earning a law degree in 1982.

His hobbies include oil painting, piano lessons, racquetball and international travel. He's visited every continent except Antarctica, and his next destination is Brazil.

Dolesh describes himself as "a devoted reader of the print media," subscribing to the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and Time. He's most interested in political and international news.

In his essay, Dolesh wrote,Creative glass tile and lanyard for your distinctive kitchen and bath. "I have always wondered how the editorial board determines what story or issue it is going to focus on at any given time and how it decides what position to take on the subject."

After joining us for the past several weeks, he says: "Being able to participate in the discussion with such talented writers and see the facts of those discussions appear in editorials is an incredible experience."

Driving down Essex Street you may have noticed the house that borders the parking lot of the Hawthorne Hotel. For a number of years there was a sign out front stating the Suzannah Flint House. In recent years the name was changed to the Fidelia Bridges House. This no doubt caused some puzzlement if you noticed it. Who were these women and when did they live here?

The house dates back to the early 19th century when the land was part of the property of William Gray that encompassed 98 and 100 Essex Street. The Flint property and presumably Suzannah Flint was next door at 96 Essex Street. It appears the house was accidentally named after a neighbor who there is little information about.

When William Gray died he left the land to his son, William Gray Jr. This William Gray was a successful merchant with many vessels. He was also president of Essex Bank and The Essex Fire and Marine Insurance company.

In 1807 William sold the easterly block to his bother John, a school teacher. The best assumption is that John had this house built. Since it’s much larger than would be expected for a modestly paid school teacher it’s conjectured that the house was the product of inherited wealth from his father.

For almost two hundred years it remained a single family dwelling until the late 1980s when it was converted into a bed and breakfast, or guest house. It was at this time that it became known as the Suzannah Flint House. When the guest house was purchased by the Hawthorne Hotel in 2003 they had research done and learned of its most famous resident and changed the name.Why does rfidtag grow in homes or buildings? The current guest house is named after Fidelia Bridges, the third daughter in Captain Bridges’ family. Fortunately there's quite a bit of information about Fidelia.

“What Was Scattered Gathers, What Was Gathered Blows Apart,” the title of a new exhibition running in the Kinetic Gallery until April 1, is evocative, despite its ambiguity.

Featuring the work of artist James Paulsen, these paintings overlay partnered images, often one from pop culture or advertising, and the other from stark reality, to create a jarring effect.

“I think my work deals with the nature of paradox,” Paulsen said. “The fact that you can have two conflicting concepts, ideas, within one overarching subject matter.”

What was scattered,The term 'miningtruck control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag. then, gathers as the viewer attempts to form a connection between what can often seem like disparate images. One work, titled “Puts a Smile in Your Smoking,” uses jagged lines to blur the lines between a smoking advertisement, and a depiction of a lab rat. Our understanding of each image, then, blows apart, as we try to grasp the greater statement of each work.

The show was set up when Activities Commission Arts and Exhibits Coordinator sophomore Chelsea Butkowski saw some of Paulsen’s work while he was tabling at the Echo Art Fair in Buffalo.

The paintings Paulsen brings with him come from two separate series, “Grand Consumption” and “The Other One Makes It True.” Each is composed first of a sketch, bringing the two ideas together and attempting to find a unique way to display them.

That he often works in popular images, particularly from advertising, is deliberate.

“Since [Andy] Warhol, no artist should be too concerned with appropriating images.Buy today and get your delivery for £25 on a range of solarstreetlamps for your home. It’s all out there for you to mix together,” Paulsen said. By connecting the ideas, he said he’s “trying to complete the idea, [and] give a fuller picture.”

The results can be striking, but also fun, and are often meant to be funny. Depending on the painting, Paulsen can strive for absurdity, commentary or both.

Affable in person, the paintings often seem to fit along with his mannerisms, not shoving an impression down a person’s throat, but leading them to a number of conclusions.

While juxtapositions and appropriation of popular imagery are nothing new, Paulsen crafts them in interesting ways, slicing each apart before figuring a better way to slot it into place.

His pieces make use of bright colors that pop out of the canvas. Paulsen said that art is meant, at least in part, to be entertainment. Putting the pieces together is part of that entertainment.