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All the world's at 'Stages, Sights & Sounds,' in Chicago May 3-15
The Theater Loop"Stages, Sights & Sounds" runs May 3-15 at Northwestern University and the Museum of Contemporary Art; tickets $5-$11 at 312-494-9509 or chicagohumanities.org. The children's event is curated by the Chicago Humanities Festival. Above, "Baobab" by... -
2010 Heartland Prizes take their inspiration from science
How marvelous that the two books we honor with our annual Heartland Prizes emerge from the world of science. One is by a world-renowned, prolific writer, the other by a first-time author. Rebecca Skloot in "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks"...Tags: Sam Shepard, Science, Human Interest, Science and Technology, Awards and Prizes
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Chicagoland book club
One thing to know about our book club: Our west suburban group is more than a book club; in the past three years we have taken advantage of the literary offerings found throughout the area by meeting authors and attending lectures and live performances,...Tags: West Point, Bars and Clubs, Nora Ephron, Lifestyle and Leisure, Fishing
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Sam Shepard wins Tribune literary prize
The Theater LoopSam Shepard is the winner of the 2010 Tribune literary prize, which he'll receive at the Chicago Humanities Festival on Nov. 13. Shepard will also give a public talk on that date. You can read Mark Caro's report for the...... -
Tribune critics provide a road map
To help you sort through the dozens of offerings of the Chicago Humanities Festival, Tribune critics offer a few suggestions. "Powder Her Face": 8 p.m. Nov. 3 and 7 p.m. Nov. 4, Museum of Contemporary Art (there's a panel discussion of the work 5 p.m....Tags: Jackson Pollock, Abbas Kiarostami, Electronics, Pennsylvania, Wallace Stevens
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`Black, Brown' and bravo!
Tribune arts criticIt takes a bold conductor to champion a work that was unjustly maligned at its premiere (in 1943) and has been mostly ignored ever since. Yet William Russo feels strongly enough about Duke Ellington's magnificent "Black, Brown and Beige" to have invested...Tags: Duke Ellington, Music Industry
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Spotlight on Chicago's legendary South Side
Tribune arts criticThe South Side of Chicago holds a sacred place in the evolution of American music, for jazz, blues and gospel blossomed in this part of the city through most of the 20th Century. Why the South Side? Because great waves of African-Americans migrated...Tags: Bars and Clubs, B.B. King, Gene Ammons, Lionel Hampton, Gospel (genre)
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