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Few art festivals stretch to encompass both the jazz of Louis Armstrong’s and Bix Beiderbecke’s and prose about ’80s skinheads. But diversity is one great strength of Columbia College, the Loop school specializing in visual, media and performing arts. The five-day “The Art of Columbia College” opens Wednesday with the college big band’s “Bix and Louis” concert, continues Thursday with Prof. Don De Grazia reading from the skinhead-chronicling novel “American Skin” and runs through March 4. (The 2.5-hour ARTwalk 2001, a tour of eight galleries and one museum, begins at 5:30 p.m. Thursday.) Costs and locations vary. 312-663-1124 or www.column.edu (click on “Special Events”).
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