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Farouk Mustafa, U. of C. faculty member
Farouk Mustafa spent an entire career building literary bridges between the Arabic and English worlds. Thanks to his work as a translator, Arabic readers have been able to laugh at the antics of Falstaff in William Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Part 1" and...Tags: Hyde Park, England, Literature, University of Chicago, Arts and Culture
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Storytelling in Chicago is a nightly affair
As opening night glitches go, this was a good problem. The back room at Lakeview gastropub The Dog's Bollox was jammed with people squeezing in for the debut of Story Sessions, yet another yarn-spinning event to add to Chicago's already-packed...
Tags: Chicago Public Schools, Stand-up Comedy, University of Chicago, Green Mill (club), Wicker Park
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Mari D. Terman, 1935-2013
Mari D. Terman, a longtime hospital administrator who was active with the League of Women Voters, successfully ran for a seat on the Wilmette Village Board when she was 69 because she thought the body was too conservative. "She felt a more liberal...
Tags: Hyde Park, Rush University Medical Center, Local Government, University of Chicago, Hospitals and Clinics
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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: Museums, Arts, Field Museum of Natural History, University of Chicago, Arts and Culture
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Indiana Jones: Mystery of University of Chicago package solved
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comThe origins of the mysterious package that showed up Wednesday at the University of Chicago admissions office addressed to Henry ...... -
Language offers rare insight into ancient Egyptians
Long before Facebook posts and tweets, long before letters with postage stamps, ancient middle and upper-middle-class Egyptians scrawled notes on pieces of clay pots and handed them to children who ran across the village to deliver the messages. The...Tags: Culture, University of Chicago, Marriage, Arts and Culture, Family
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Sticking with the apostles
Meet another member of South Florida's many-sided faith community. This week we're talking with the Rev. Michael Thomas, spiritual leader of Heart of Jesus Maronite Catholic Church in Fort Lauderdale. Q: If someone asked "What's a Maronite?", what...
Tags: Roman Catholicism, Christianity, Fort Lauderdale, Religion and Belief, Rome (Italy)
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Hyde Park: Grand buildings, grander sense of community
Tribune reporterThese days, it seems the South Side neighborhood of Hyde Park has been put on the map as the stomping grounds of President-elect Barack Obama. There are walking tours that show off his favorite restaurants and coffee shops, magazine and newspaper...Tags: Hyde Park, Condos, Barack Obama, University of Chicago, DuSable Museum of African-American History
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