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A holiday gift guide for that special traveler in your life
Los Angeles TimesYour face says it all: You are starting to panic. Don't. If you're shopping for a traveler, you might just find the answer to your gift-giving conundrum in these pages. Our team of travelers has tested items large and small, pricey and affordable, and...Tags: Apple iPad, Martha Graham, Trips and Vacations, Marilyn Monroe, Skype
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Maurice Merlin paintings and prints on display at Huntington Library
We've heard lately that America is trying to rise up from "the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression." While economists, political scientists and historians will debate that point, an exhibition of paintings and prints by Maurice Merlin at...
Tags: Artists, Fine Artists, Libraries, Arts, Arts and Culture
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The Fall Creek is an update of the early prairie home
Frank Lloyd Wright is the acknowledged master of the prairie home, one of the few indigenous American styles. The Fall Creek is an update of that early 1900s style. Its characteristic features include a hipped, low-pitched roof that extends out in... -
Art Works Offering Gift Advice For Men
Our Town CorrespondentMen who never know what to buy their wives or girlfriends for Valentine's Day are in luck this year: Art Works is hosting an event that will make shopping easy and women happy. “My Art Belongs to You!” is catered toward men but gets their...Tags: Artists, Arts, Arts and Culture
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Preservation efforts net 'hometown award' for Park Ridge
In 2011, the volunteer Kalo Foundation led the charge to preserve a piece of Park Ridge's history and at the same time it made history, winning the city its most recent Governor's Hometown Award. The award from 2012 was presented recently to those who...
Tags: Executive Branch, Midway, Politics, Government, Lobbying
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Proposed tower for Phoenix resembles Apple Maps' drop pin
An observation tower that has been proposed as a landmark for downtown Phoenix is being dubbed the "Big Pin" because of its likeness to that of the drop pins used in the iPhone's Apple Maps app. The tower would be 420 feet tall, and at the top, it would...
Tags: Guggenheim Museum, Apple iPhone
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More Than a Book Club
More Than a Book Club Our book club began almost accidentally at a Mary Kay party in 1994. Someone at the event suggested we begin one, and before we knew it we were reading "A Thousand Acres" by Jane Smiley and meeting once a month at each other's...
Tags: Willa Cather, Clubs and Associations, Lifestyle and Leisure, Nora Ephron
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Prairie modern
Following a migration pattern of many couples starting families, Corine Graham and Patrick Scanlan left their modern condo, with its open floor plan and sleek B&B Italia sofa, and moved into a traditional prairie-style home in an oak-leafed suburb,...
Tags: Genres, Billy Idol, Robert Allen
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Ada Louise Huxtable dies at 91; renowned architecture critic
Ada Louise Huxtable, the architecture critic who in two decades of writing for the New York Times became a powerful force in shaping New York City and was better known than many of the architects she was covering and certainly more feared, has died. She...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Pritzker Architecture Prize, Entertainment Events, Washington, DC, Italy
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Letters: But is it art?
Re "Billboard garden project funded," Dec. 13 For just a few dollars, Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso painted masterpieces worth millions today. Even now an artist can produce an extremely large painting for just a few hundred dollars with the same...Tags: Republican Party
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Wheaton artist responds to Newtown tragedy with gift of personal art work
When Les Barker, a web designer for Wheaton College and a resident of Aurora, learned a parent/teacher group in Connecticut had made an appeal for paper snowflakes, he felt a connection. Les has been making snowflakes since he was a child. Through the...
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Elementary Schools, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Japan, Schools
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In the Pipeline: Hidden monument to the people
Since the New Year starts off with my 300th In The Pipeline column, I thought we'd go back to the beginning for an update. Column No. 1 involved a mysterious landmark, a black, granite tombstone at Springdale Street and Warner Avenue, in the bushes...
Tags: Authors, Human Interest, Architecture, Book, Petroleum Industry
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