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Lyric sets world premiere of new opera based on Ann Patchett novel for 2015-16 season
Lyric Opera of Chicago has shied away from commissioning any new operas over the last decade, at a time when other major American opera companies such as the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera and Los Angeles Opera have...Tags: Arts and Culture, Civic Opera House, Theater, Entertainment, Victory Gardens Theatre
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When profiling becomes a real menace to society
Some media found the possibility that foreign terrorists bombed the Boston Marathon to be too tantalizing of an explanation to pass up, even when it snares the wrong suspects. On the day of the Boston Marathon bombings, for example, the New York Post...
Tags: NPR, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Journalism, ABC (tv network), The New York Times
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Judy Blume to appear at Printers Row Lit Fest
Children's/young-adult author Judy Blume and graphic novelist/cartoonist Art Spiegelman will be honored as part of this year's Printers Row Lit Fest, which runs June 8 and 9 in the South Loop. Blume, the author of such beloved works as "Are You There...
Tags: Nathan Englander, Libraries, River North, Authors, Harold Washington Library Center
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An obit for a local news seller, and an ode to the local paper
Newspapers ran through Roni Frye’s blood, first as a linotype operator at papers in her native Ohio, then as the owner of MacCarthy’s, a Fort Lauderdale newsstand on Las Olas Boulevard (next to The Floridian diner) that she ran for nearly...Tags: Obituaries, Media Industry, Entertainment Events, Newspapers, Kentucky Derby
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An obit for a local news seller, and an ode to the local paper
Newspapers ran through Roni Frye's blood, first as a linotype operator at papers in her native Ohio, then as the owner of MacCarthy's, a Fort Lauderdale newsstand on Las Olas Boulevard (next to The Floridian diner) that she ran for nearly three decades....Tags: Obituaries, Entertainment Events, Media Industry, Kentucky Derby, Newspapers
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Rand Paul gets schooled at Howard
Rand Paul did just fine at Howard University, thank you very much. Or at least, that's how he remembers it. Paul, GOP senator from Kentucky, told the Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday that his recent visit to Howard didn't go so bad at all. He...Tags: Education, Howard University, Republican Party, Teaching and Learning, Lyndon B. Johnson
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Play based on a life becomes a story that touches all
"Write about your own life" says many a writing teacher to many a young scribe. Confronted with that authoritative solipsism, the young writer tends to worry about two things. First, that my life is not interesting enough to write about, especially not...
Tags: Celebrities, Wars and Interventions, The Happiest News!, Goodman Theatre, Arts and Culture
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Rachel Patron: If you want to be bored, just tune in the news shows
We in the print media, temporarily under siege — will not be castigated in this article. Lets concentrate on the medium watched by most Americans: cable and network news. Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Florida senator Marco Rubio was...Tags: Freedom of the Press, Meet the Press (tv program), Politics, Television Industry, ABC (tv network)
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Ignoring the real, fighting the imaginary
It should've been the shot heard around the world. Chances are, you didn't hear it. An ominous sort of history was made last week near Austin, Texas, but it seems to have largely escaped notice. There was some media coverage, yes, but less than, say,...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, The Miami Herald, Entertainment Events, Industrial Production, Lindsay Lohan
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Camerata Chicago a small orchestra with big dreams
Camerata Chicago is the best local chamber orchestra you've probably never heard of. But pay heed: The group is celebrating its 10th anniversary this season, is about to release a new recording and is preparing for its first European tour next month....
Tags: England, Yehudi Menuhin, Chicago Cultural Center, Arts and Culture, NBC (tv network)
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Chicago-style 'Virginia Woolf' cuts deep on Broadway
NEW YORK - In an unusual throwback to how Broadway operated when Edward Albee's booze-soaked George and Martha first prowled the boards in 1962, the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's naturalistic, emotionally intense, Chicago-style take on “Who's Afraid...
Tags: Amy Morton, Celebrities, Arts and Culture, Heart Surgery, Theater
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Cry of 'Oh, my God' resounds nationwide
Soon after the explosions, there appeared on the website of The Boston Globe a video of the moment. Runners in the city's iconic marathon are jogging across the finish line and everyone is cheering, when there is a clap of thunder and an orange bloom of...
Tags: The Miami Herald, Entertainment Events, Running, Religion and Belief, The Boston Globe
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