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Winter books preview: Radiant heat of words fights chill
Chicago will loosen winter's gloomy grip by exerting some powerful literary muscle. In the next three months, award-winning Chicago-based writers such as Don De Grazia, Nami Mun and Stuart Dybek will give readings. And don't miss a local mystery author...Tags: Religion and Belief, Fringe Festival, Elizabeth Taylor, Delorean (music group), Michigan Avenue
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Top chefs have 'A Taste for the Arts'
Special to Tribune NewspapersStudent performances and Top Chef stations were the main attractions at "A Taste for the Arts" benefiting the Chicago Academy of the Arts. More than 350 attended the free performances by students and alumni May 10 at the Harris Theater. The show opened...Tags: Takashi, Tony Mantuano, Dale Levitski, Rick Bayless, Heather Terhune
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Chicago Forward: Future of art in Chicago
The conversation crackled after Wednesday night's Chicago Forward program on the future of the arts in Chicago. “I thought this was an especially auspicious panel with views you don’t often hear,” Tribune arts critic and co-moderator...
Tags: The Second City, Rick Bayless
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A potluck kind of year
If only it were so easy to pithily proclaim 2012 as the Year of the (fill-in-the-blank). But there's really no one thread that neatly ties together the Chicago restaurant scene these last 12 months. A restaurant that put Chicago on the culinary map 25...Tags: Sixteen, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Kevin Pang, Richie Farina, Chicago Hotels
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Winter agenda: Events for the season
STAGE The Christmas Schooner Have yourself a City of Big Shoulders Christmas at the Mercury Theater, the current home of the beloved Chicago musical, “The Christmas Schooner.” Created by John Reeger and Julie Shannon, “Schooner”...
Tags: Bars and Clubs, Star Wars (movie), Chicago Hotels, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Material Science
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Behind two useful arts and dining sections this week
There were two days this week where the Chicago Tribune featured great dining and culture roundups. I like reading those kinds of sections, because I always feel like my cultural incursions are so widely spaced that I'm always starting from scratch....Tags: Chicago Tribune, Kevin Pang, Arts and Culture, Facebook, Chicago Restaurants
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Top Chef Week 12 Recap: Haikus for our fallen samurai chef
Tribune reporterIn honor of our fallen samurai chef, a series of haikus for Chicago's most lovable molecular gastronomist: Chris Jones of Moto You're Padma's "Lovable Nerd" Melding science, food We've bonded with you You're sodium alginate We're calcium salt ...Tags: Kevin Pang
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Top Chef Week 10 recap: The most insufferable recap yet
Tribune reporterTen weeks into these Top Chef recaps, as I once again sputter out a few hundred words on the show, I find myself writing less about the competition itself and more on philosophical matters. (Pardon the pretension, allow me to sew a leather elbow patch...Tags: Talk Shows (genre), Beverly Kim, Kevin Pang, Television, Music
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'Top Chef: Texas' recap: Episode 6, 'Game On'
It's a pretty well known fact that I want to go out drinking with the “Top Chef” contestants. Whenever the cheftestants are in the stew room or come back tired and beat from an elimination challenge, I want to jump through my TV and pound some...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Game, Top Chef (tv program)
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'Top Chef: Texas' recap: 'Don't Be Tardy for the Dinner Party'
Welcome back Top Cheffers! I missed you all last week, but I was too busy baking pumpkin whoopie pies for Thanksgiving to recap "Top Chef: Texas." But two things happened last week that you need to know.
Firstly, everyone's favorite couple, Chris...Tags: Top Chef Masters (tv program), Pies and Tarts, Bravo (tv network), Appetizers, Travel
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Top Chef Week 5 Recap: Over and done
Tribune reporterProbability, you fickle law. Here we are to think more Chicago chefs competing means a greater chance a Chicagoan would be crowned Top Chef, and we forget its inverse, that Chicagoans also have a greater chance of being eliminated. Four weeks ago, the...Tags: Chuy Valencia, Kevin Pang, Gail Simmons, Entertainment, Richie Farina
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Top Chef Week 8 recap: Karma police
Tribune reporterDo you buy into the idea of karma? I don’t. I’ll tell you what I do believe: Television works best when packages come delivered tied up with perfect bows. Because on Wednesday's "Top Chef" installment, as soon as Beverly Kim (Aria) said,...Tags: Kevin Pang, Beverly Kim, Beef Stroganoff, Heather Terhune, Television
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