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About winning story "My Thoughts While Cooling Down on the Hotel Veranda"
While isolating himself on a Las Vegas veranda during his honeymoon, Edward remembers a summer of his youth spent in California, visiting the grieving family of his deceased pen pal — a boy killed by bees, or perhaps something worse. In...Tags: California
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The Palme d'Or goes to an Art Institute alum, and other news from Cannes 2010
Talking Pictures"Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives," top prize-winner at Cannes 2010. Noting the “quiet, reflective nature” of the pictures competing at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, jury president and “Alice in Wonderland” director Tim Burton,... -
Art Gives Strength to Group With Mental Illness
Chicago TribuneA week into his hospitalization at the Elgin Mental Health Center in Illinois, Jeffrey Eppard was given pencils and paper and invited to draw anything he wanted. The subject he chose was his left arm. He outlined it in a blur of charcoal, then filled...Tags: Entertainment, Painting, Happiness (state of mind), Illinois, Hospitals and Clinics
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Q&A: Jasmin Shokrian on her sophisticated spring collection
All The RageL.A. native Jasmin Shokrian launched her eponymous collection in 2002 after earning her degree in film, painting and sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Twelve collections later, she's definitely hit her stride, creating chic,... -
Art review: Nick Cave at Fowler Museum
Culture MonsterI imagine that wearing a dance costume designed and fabricated by Chicago artist Nick Cave would be like transforming oneself from a ragpicker into royalty. You wouldn't leave behind the earthy spirit of making do with whatever you can scavenge,...... -
The Lucky Dragons: Droning, collectively
Pop & HissThe Los Angeles band blends performance, music and visual art Near the end of "Live Sprawl," the Lucky Dragons' performance at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA last month, a sly, silly orgiastic scene broke out, like something lifted from Woody...... -
Doing right by Wright too costly
Tribune staff reporterDepending on whom you asked in 1952, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Avery Coonley estate in Riverside was an aging landmark or a developer's gold mine. But to Carolyn Howlett and her husband, both driven artists who admired Wright's flair, it looked...Tags: Property, Finance, Illinois, Metal and Mineral, Death
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Chicago ties lost in a small world
Tribune National CorrespondentOh, Chicago, a native son seems forever lost in the fantasyland that's "the happiest place on earth." Fifty years after Chicago-born Walt Disney changed American culture yet again by opening the Disneyland theme park, hardly anyone remembers where the...Tags: Walt Disney, Entertainment, Missouri, Disneyland Park, American Red Cross
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Movie review: 'Lipstick & Dynamite'
Tribune staff reporter2 stars (out of 4) "Virile" isn't a word one usually ascribes to women, but for the young, athletic, leotard-clad wrestlers who are the subjects of the documentary "Lipstick & Dynamite," words like "built" and "energetic" just won't do. "Sexy," of...Tags: Entertainment, Wrestling, Movies, Documentary (genre), Sports
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April 21, 2009
Staff reporterGreg Adamski, Adamski & Conti 312-332-7800 www.adamskiandconti.com ******************************************* Ginger Zee, NBC5 NOT A HEMLINE, A "HEMP-LINE" Exotic, Eco-Luxe Fashions and TV Star Will Headline Special Tea Event WHAT:...Tags: Entertainment, Weather, Weather Reports, Festive Events, Tickets
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Millennium Park's spouting faces
Tribune staff reporterWho are the everyday Chicagoans whose glowing, 50-foot-tall faces peer out from the Crown Fountain's twin steel and glass towers, slowly blinking and smiling at the city like benevolent giants? Good question -- and more on that later. But another...Tags: George Lucas, Entertainment, Local Government, Utah, Politics
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Volunteers who lent faces demonstrated `leap of faith'
Tribune staff reporterBeing one of the Crown Fountain faces may be considered cool these days, but back when it was time to create that particular sub-community of Chicagoans, Mery Palarea-Lobos, 34 -- who is from Guatemala and recently graduated from the arts administration...Tags: Millennium Park, Immigration, Local Government, Politics
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