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    Apr 4, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. Schmich: Ebert reflects well on Chicago

    <em>This column originally ran in the Chicago Tribune on Oct. 21, 2011</em>.
    This column originally ran in the Chicago Tribune on Oct. 21, 2011. Some years ago when I was new to Chicago, I spotted Roger Ebert in the frozen-foods aisle of a grocery store. He was famous by then, and I did what any normal person does at the sight...

    Tags: Chicago Public Library, Celebrities, Chicago Tribune, Mike Royko, Chicago Sun-Times

    2. Apr 1, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. Mundelein man awarded for longtime devotion to community theater

    A longtime Mundelein resident who founded the Kirk Players Community Theatre in the village nearly 50 years ago received a national award last week in honor of his history of volunteerism.
    A longtime Mundelein resident who founded the Kirk Players Community Theatre in the village nearly 50 years ago received a national award last week in honor of his history of volunteerism. John Lynn was given the Robert G. Gard Superior Volunteer...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Human Interest, Local Government, Awards and Prizes, Mundelein

    3. Mar 8, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  3. The Wine Club with a Reading Problem

    <strong>Our book club</strong> started in March 2008 when a few Brookfield-LaGrange Park friends and a trio of sisters decided that we wanted to have a way to talk about the books we were reading &mdash; and a regular excuse to socialize.
    Our book club started in March 2008 when a few Brookfield-LaGrange Park friends and a trio of sisters decided that we wanted to have a way to talk about the books we were reading — and a regular excuse to socialize. We meet every four to six weeks...

    Tags: Bars and Clubs, Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking

    4. Mar 8, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  4. Plotting out another great Story Week

    It is a pleasurable thing to have drinks with Randy Albers and we have done so over the years at such saloons as, of course, the Billy Goat, as well as Stefani's 437, the Underground Wonder Bar and some joint in the South Loop whose name escapes me at the moment.
    It is a pleasurable thing to have drinks with Randy Albers and we have done so over the years at such saloons as, of course, the Billy Goat, as well as Stefani's 437, the Underground Wonder Bar and some joint in the South Loop whose name escapes me at the...

    Tags: Authors, Buddy Guy, Chicago Cultural Center, Allen Ginsberg, Entertainment

    5. Feb 20, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  5. Art Institute review: When Picasso met Chicago

    In 1913, the Art Institute did something astonishing. It opened its hallowed halls to an exhibition so radical that it would forever alter the course of art-making in the United States.
    In 1913, the Art Institute did something astonishing. It opened its hallowed halls to an exhibition so radical that it would forever alter the course of art-making in the United States. The event was the International Exhibition of Modern Art, better...

    Tags: Sculpture, Material Science, Art Institute of Chicago, Miami Beach, Fine Artists

    6. Jan 22, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Hans Massaquoi dies at 87; wrote of growing up black in Nazi Germany

    Hans Massaquoi, a former managing editor of Ebony magazine who wrote a distinctive memoir about his unusual childhood growing up black in Nazi Germany, died in Jacksonville, Fla., on Saturday, his 87th birthday.
    Hans Massaquoi, a former managing editor of Ebony magazine who wrote a distinctive memoir about his unusual childhood growing up black in Nazi Germany, died in Jacksonville, Fla., on Saturday, his 87th birthday. He had been hospitalized over the...

    Tags: U.S. Army, Authors, Germany, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Wars and Interventions

    7. Jan 18, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  7. Nelson Algren Short Story Awards: A look back at a rich history

    An honor like the Nelson Algren Short Story Award can be a boon to a writer. It can give him or her the confidence to slog through rejections and trudge forward with literary endeavors. When we asked former Nelson Algren Award recipients what winning...

    Tags: Southern Illinois University, Students, Texas Tech University , Hockey (music group), Pet Shops, Services, and Supplies

    8. Jan 18, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. Rick Kogan rediscovers Norbert Blei

    The last time the name Norbert Blei appeared above a story in the Chicago Tribune was June 2, 1985. He wrote about the Clearing, a folk arts school founded in 1935 in Door County, Wis., by renowned landscape architect Jens Jensen when he was 75. &nbsp;
    The last time the name Norbert Blei appeared above a story in the Chicago Tribune was June 2, 1985. He wrote about the Clearing, a folk arts school founded in 1935 in Door County, Wis., by renowned landscape architect Jens Jensen when he was 75.  ...

    Tags: Authors, Arts and Culture, Chicago Tribune, Mike Royko, Newspaper and Magazine

    9. Dec 10, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. Accepting Algren submissions

    Why would the Chicago Tribune, where well-documented fact is the basic of everything we do, run a nationally recognized contest for original short fiction?
    Why would the Chicago Tribune, where well-documented fact is the basic of everything we do, run a nationally recognized contest for original short fiction? How did the Chicago Tribune come to run a nationally recognized contest for original short...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Literature, Chicago Tribune, Elizabeth Taylor, Nelson Algren

    10. Nov 28, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Marvin Miller dies at 95; baseball union chief led push for free agency

    Nothing about Marvin Miller seemed feisty or controversial at first glance; the soft-spoken economist was a smallish man with gray hair and a tidy mustache. But as a union leader, it was Miller who took on baseball's establishment in the late 1960s,...

    Tags: St. Louis Cardinals, Unions, Los Angeles Dodgers, United Steelworkers, Anti Trust Crime

    11. Nov 8, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  11. For these stories, you stay up well past your bedtime

    The age-old art of storytelling is undergoing a revival &mdash; and audiences are in the mood to listen.
    The age-old art of storytelling is undergoing a revival — and audiences are in the mood to listen. It is 1998 or '99. Tyler Clark is a pudgy teenager with a secret crush on Janelle Greene, a petite brunette who, like Tyler, attends Kokomo High...

    Tags: Uptown, AOL LLC, Human Interest, Entertainment, Fight Club (movie)

    12. Oct 26, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  12. State of horror

    Zombies. They're everywhere. Television. Movies. Graphic novels. Pub crawls. Burlesque shows. You can't swing a dismembered arm without hitting one. But look out: In Scott Kenemore's new book, "Zombie, Illinois," the walking dead are invading places like South Shore and Logan Square.
    Zombies. They're everywhere. Television. Movies. Graphic novels. Pub crawls. Burlesque shows. You can't swing a dismembered arm without hitting one. But look out: In Scott Kenemore's new book, "Zombie, Illinois," the walking dead are invading places...

    Tags: Al Capone, University of Chicago, George Romero, Fiction, Chicago Mayor

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