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In politics, Chicago way is American way
The Swampby Frank James Chicago is once again drawing fire from Republicans who have seemingly convinced themselves that they have to run not only against Sen. Barack Obama but against an entire city. Sen. John McCain, for instance, has recently gone......Tags: Tony Rezko, Values, Baseball, Bribery, Corrupt Practices
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Beyond movies, a lesson in dying
Roger Ebert was a hot trend on Google's top 10 trends earlier this week. As of Wednesday, more than 50,000 people had searched for his name, an impressive display of his influence. He wasn't quite as hot as North Korea or Jay Leno, but he was...
Tags: Bill Kurtis, Roger Ebert, Social Media, Twitter, Inc., Carl Sandburg
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At the MCA, Stew serves up tangy observations about Chicago
"Hey broken-nose girl," the redoubtable Stew sang from the stage of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art on Saturday night, addressing Chicago, the commissioned topic of much of his pair of weekend performances. "I hear you're second to none. I don't know...
Tags: Lake Surfing, Arts and Culture, Rahm Emanuel, Disneyland Park, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
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Culture clash: New history of Chicago taps into our malaise
Thomas Dyja looked at me with abject horror, then humor, then, as his face crumbled in defeat, resignation. A face that said, "See? This is why I wrote a 412-page cultural history of Chicago at midcentury that — as much as it pulls together...
Tags: Culture, Fine Artists, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hugh Hefner, Racism
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Ebert showed how to die with grace
Roger Ebert was a hot trend on Google's top 10 trends earlier this week. As of Wednesday, more than 50,000 people had searched for his name, an impressive display of his influence. He wasn't quite as hot as North Korea or Jay Leno, but he was running...Tags: Bill Kurtis, Roger Ebert, Social Media, Twitter, Inc., Carl Sandburg
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Nicholas Tremulis book 'For the Baby Doll' celebrates life and love
It may not rank with literature's greatest opening lines — “Call me Ishmael”; “It was a pleasure to burn”; or “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant...
Tags: Culture, Chelsea (Manhattan, New York), Marianne Faithfull, 401K, Columbia College Chicago
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'Minsk, 2011' finds sexual heat in totalitarian chill
In these free, privileged United States, the phrase "Sex in the City" conjures up a premium-cable experience of hot nights, cool fashion, heavy appetizers and relationship angst so light it might fly away on the West Village breeze. But whither real sex...
Tags: Alexander Lukashenko, West Village, Skype, Arts and Culture, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
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Our town was Wilder's town too
Chicago makes a claim on many writers — Nelson Algren, David Mamet, Ernest Hemingway, Carl Sandburg — even if those scribes spent only a portion of their lives within its sweet confines. But Thornton Wilder, the author of such iconic plays...
Tags: Biography (genre), Arts and Culture, Ernest Hemingway, University of Chicago, Hamden (New Haven, Connecticut)
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On the 'L,' e-books change spy game
Strange as it sounds, reading a book while sitting on public transportation may be what I like best about living in a big city. I would even go as far as to say reading on a train or bus is what urban dwelling is about, a near perfect illustration of...
Tags: Rogers Park, Arts and Culture, Colleges and Universities, Book, Jhumpa Lahiri
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All the kitchen's a stage: Why Chicago breeds great restaurants and theater companies
Over the past 25 years or so, two surging art forms have elevated cultural Chicago on the global stage: theater and fine dining. Is this coincidence or correlation? I mean no disrespect to dancers, musicians or rockers, nor architects, painters, poets or...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Rick Bayless, Lifestyle and Leisure, Fine Artists, Grant Achatz
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Lit Fest holds on to that printed feeling
As obvious as this may sound at first, the 28th annual Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest, which concluded Sunday afternoon and drew an estimated 130,000 attendees and 200 authors to the South Loop on a sweltering, cloudless weekend, was not the kind...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Adlai Stevenson, Hamburgers, Foods and Beverages, Authors
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'My Kind of Town' picks at still-raw wound
"My Kind of Town," the fine new play by John Conroy with the titular nod to Frank Sinatra, begins with a faux promotional video about the beauties of Chicago, circa 1990. Narrated by the Tribune's Rick Kogan, it's a shot-from-the-air celebration of the...
Tags: Broken Nose, Injuries and Wounds, Jon Burge, Chicago Reader, Health
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