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Reawakening the ghosts of Skokie
To me, a kid growing up in the 1960s and '70s, Skokie seemed like any other suburb, its tidy houses sitting on impeccably manicured lawns. Sure, on Friday nights and Saturday mornings you'd sometimes see Hasidic Jews strolling to and from synagogue....Tags: Religion and Belief, Howard Reich, Arts, Skokie, Richard Speck
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Field Museum and Oriental Institute launch bird exhibits
Taxidermy is not front and center at the Oriental Institute Museum's new ornithological exhibition That art form is better observed to the north, at the Field Museum, where the institution's Ronald and Christina Gidwitz Hall of Birds has recently been...Tags: Arts and Culture, University of Chicago, Egypt, Arts, Education
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At the MSI, it's the Charlie Brownest
Following in the footsteps of its very popular — and not particularly scientific — Dr. Seuss and Jim Henson exhibitions, the Museum of Science and Industry now gives Chicago a show devoted to comic artist Charles Schulz and his great, enduring...Tags: Museum of Science and Industry, Arts and Culture, Charles M. Schulz, Arts
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Digest: Four Navy seniors invited to All-Star football games
Navy football Four seniors invited to All-Star games Navy seniors Brandon Turner, Gee Gee Greene, Tra'ves Bush and Keegan Wetzel have been invited to postseason All-Star games. Turner was invited to both the Casino Del Sol All-Star game on Jan. 11...Tags: College Basketball, Major League Soccer, Football, Entertainment, Ceremonies
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A peek inside the H&H building
I went in search of a place recently named the Bromo Tower Arts and Entertainment District and found myself inside one of its most prominent addresses. But like so many places in Baltimore where artists live and work, you have to be introduced or know a...
Tags: Walters Art Museum, Customs and Tradition, Arts, Station North, Artists
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An art to solving Detroit's debt
Late last month, the Detroit Free Press ran a major article on a problem that seems unthinkable: the likelihood of the precious artworks in the Detroit Institute of the Arts being sold to help pay the crippling debts of the City of Detroit. "It is an...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Art Institute of Chicago, Mark Rothko, Freedom of the Press, Arts
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Artists to gather to celebrate late poet Gwendolyn Brooks
Haki Madhubuti met the late, great poet Gwendolyn Brooks in 1967 in a South Side church where she was teaching poetry writing to members of the Blackstone Rangers street gang. Back then, Madhubuti was a young, published poet who wasn't in a gang, just...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Carl Sandburg, Poetry, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events
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Oils, glass and beeswax
We have a new art venue in the Mills/50 neighborhood near downtown Orlando. Quantum Leap Winery opened in October, but its first artist reception is Friday, Jan. 25, 6-9 p.m. Madeliene Abling paints oil on canvas using only pallet knives, which are the...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Rollins College, Orlando, Entertainment, Music
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See the forest for trees — and the art shows
Jack and Denise Gallagher went out for a winter walk, and ended up at an art opening. After a hike at Ryerson Woods near Deerfield they stopped for a drink of water at Brushwood, the headquarters and arts center hub of Friends of Ryerson Woods. And...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson Incorporated, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
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In search of hidden treasurers
By Rebecca Massie Lane Special to The Herald-Mail American author and humorist Mark Twain describes the human urge to treasure hunt in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer": "There comes a time in every rightly-constructed boy's life when he has a raging...Tags: Hobbies, Values, Vehicles, Religion and Belief, Arts
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Visit to Ringlings' mansion offers echoes of a 'Downton Abbey' world
I'll admit I'm a bit obsessed with television's "Downton Abbey," returning to PBS tonight (Jan. 6) for its third season. I've learned a lot from the show about life in England's "stately piles" in the World War I era. (In Season 3, we're roaring into...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Orlando, World War I (1914-1918), Arts, Manufacturing and Engineering
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A hot start to the new year
Why not start your new art year with fire? A live bronze sculpture pour is the star of the show at Crealde School of Art's Winter Open House on Saturday. The event, 5-8 p.m., includes live music, demos, kiln firings, hands-on art projects and...
Tags: Crealde School of Art, New Smyrna Beach, Arts, Mennello Museum of American Art, Entertainment
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