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    • From the Editor’s Desk—Sally Rand’s Fan Dance
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A train rushes past the Montrose CTA brown line in Chicago
A long crowd of people walking cover the sidewalk on Fifth Avenue in NYC.
South Side Chicago in 1970. Vintage cars are driving down a road with business marquees on the sidewalks.
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  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Submit to the City
  • Essay, Memoir, & Lyric
    • SECTION 1—Walkers in the City
    • SECTION 2—Intimate Graffiti
    • SECTION 3—Bicycles, Trains, & Automobiles
    • SECTION 4—Textual Burlesque
  • Report & Eyewitness
    • SECTION 5—All the City’s a Stage
    • SECTION 6—Urban Fabric
    • SECTION 7—After Slag
    • SECTION 8—Strangers Here Ourselves
  • RANT & REMEDY
    • SECTION 9—The Living Grid
    • SECTION 10—Mean Streets
    • SECTION 11—Letter From Another City
    • SECTION 12—Continuous City
    • From the Editor’s Desk—Sally Rand’s Fan Dance
  • INTERVIEW & HAPPENING
    • Slag Glass Happenings
    • The Slag Glass Interview
  • Contents of the City
  • Slag Glass Tumblr
Essay, Memoir, & Lyric

What are the songs of the city?

Vertical polaroid shot of brick building. Different time. Different era.

Buffalo Trace: A Threefold Vibration

A large building covered entirely in tiny, square windows.

IT IS NOT WASTE ALL THIS, NOT PLACED HERE IN DISGUST, STREET AFTER STREET

Sunset with telephone poles.

Be Here Now

A man walks behind a construction sign that reads "ROADWORK ON SIDE ROAD" on a busy city street.

Brickscape

A woman in a red dress with a child tied to her back walks alongside a road. She is balancing a purple basket on her head.

City People

South Side Chicago in 1970. Vintage cars are driving down a road with business marquees on the sidewalks.

Narrow Places

Poster from 1937 Columbia Pictures film Paid to Dance. The women in the poster are leaning towards the camera and not smiling

Reconstructing V

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