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    Jan 8, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. Field Museum team helps uncover T. rex of the sea

    Research and planning are often key factors scientists cite when they make a great discovery. Only rarely does being out of shape play a role.
    Tribune reporter
    Research and planning are often key factors scientists cite when they make a great discovery. Only rarely does being out of shape play a role. But Field Museum scientist Jim Holstein said being dog-tired after a long day of trekking through a Nevada...

    Tags: Science, Pancakes, Lifestyle and Leisure, Fossils, Arts and Culture

    2. Jan 2, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  2. This year's upcoming museum exhibits

    Glowing fish, giant dinosaurs, plasticized animals and more. That's not a description of the toy aisles at Target, or at least it's not only that. It also spotlights what's coming up in the new year at the area's family museums and zoos. Here are some of the events we are anticipating in 2013:
    Glowing fish, giant dinosaurs, plasticized animals and more. That's not a description of the toy aisles at Target, or at least it's not only that. It also spotlights what's coming up in the new year at the area's family museums and zoos. Here are some...

    Tags: Brookfield Zoo, Politics, Museum of Science and Industry, Freedom of the Press, Arts and Culture

    3. Dec 19, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  3. Field Museum to cut staff and research, refocus mission

    Battered by the recession and a high debt load, the Field Museum on Tuesday announced plans to cut staff, overhaul its operations and limit the scope of its research.
    Tribune Reporters
    Battered by the recession and a high debt load, the Field Museum on Tuesday announced plans to cut staff, overhaul its operations and limit the scope of its research. A comprehensive plan being drawn up by museum officials also could include changes to...

    Tags: Science and Technology, Science, Finance, Museums, Financially Distressed Companies

    4. Dec 17, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. Making a bet on Chicago's Italian heritage for 2013

    Silvio Marchetti, who has silver hair and a dry sense of humor most atypical for an attache, tells a story about meeting the late Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago, in the mid-1980s. Marchetti, who now heads up the Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago, had come from Italy and requested a mayoral audience to talk up the cultural riches of his native country.
    Silvio Marchetti, who has silver hair and a dry sense of humor most atypical for an attache, tells a story about meeting the late Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago, in the mid-1980s. Marchetti, who now heads up the Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago,...

    Tags: Washington, DC, Chicago Mayor, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Arts, Italy

    5. Dec 12, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  5. Museums offer holiday gift options

    We all know that the holidays are commercialized. For those looking for an alternative to the mass pandemonium of the malls, gift shops at Chicago museums offer presents with local interest as well as artistic and educational panache. And in many cases, shopping the museums not only helps support these cultural institutions, it provides income to artisans and designers around the globe.
    We all know that the holidays are commercialized. For those looking for an alternative to the mass pandemonium of the malls, gift shops at Chicago museums offer presents with local interest as well as artistic and educational panache. And in many cases,...

    Tags: Art Institute of Chicago, Arts, Frank Lloyd Wright, Arts and Culture, Michigan Avenue

    6. Dec 11, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  6. Adler Planetarium names Michelle Larson new president

    Michelle Larson's faculty page at Utah State University displays a picture of her cozying up to a bust of Albert Einstein. Lego Albert Einstein.
    Michelle Larson's faculty page at Utah State University displays a picture of her cozying up to a bust of Albert Einstein. Lego Albert Einstein. That combination, science with a populist face, is a pretty fair summation of what she'll have to bring...

    Tags: Science, Adler Planetarium, Research, Teachers, The Pennsylvania State University

    7. Dec 5, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. For Paul Salopek, a 7-year, 30-million-step journey

    What is surely one of the most ambitious, audacious journalistic projects ever attempted will begin in January with a footstep headed out of Ethiopa's Rift Valley, just like one early humans took 50,000-70,000 years ago.
    What is surely one of the most ambitious, audacious journalistic projects ever attempted will begin in January with a footstep headed out of Ethiopa's Rift Valley, just like one early humans took 50,000-70,000 years ago. And those footsteps will...

    Tags: Museums, Journalism, Petroleum Industry, Arts and Culture

    8. Nov 25, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  8. Pizza, piano, a poem

    I occasionally make a list of things I've liked recently. Here's one for the holidays.
    I occasionally make a list of things I've liked recently. Here's one for the holidays. 1. Gift idea: a pizza stone My colleague Kevin Pang, culinary savant, told me I had to put this on the list. His testimonial: "This $45 slab of rock has changed...

    Tags: Old Town School of Folk Music, Whole Foods Market, Music, Williams-Sonoma Inc., Entertainment

    9. Nov 11, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. Winter agenda: Events for the season

    <strong>STAGE</strong>
    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: Black Friday (shopping), Concerts, Awards and Prizes, Dining and Drinking, Trips and Vacations

    10. Oct 31, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  10. Gaming grows up: A video game revolution

    The video game is 40.
    The video game is 40. Its exact birthday is arguable. Cultural historians likely would date its origins further back, roughly a decade or two; prototypes of arcade games flourished in university computer labs in the 1950s. But “Pong,” the...

    Tags: Games, Citizen Kane (movie), Newspaper and Magazine, Music Industry, Michael Bay

    11. Oct 30, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  11. Trail camera captures rare photo of cougar

    After Mark Cobb and his 12-year-old son Matthew finished an early morning deer hunting trip Sunday, he sat at the kitchen table and checked pictures from one of his two trail cameras, hoping they would show a prized buck he could track.
    Tribune reporter
    After Mark Cobb and his 12-year-old son Matthew finished an early morning deer hunting trip Sunday, he sat at the kitchen table and checked pictures from one of his two trail cameras, hoping they would show a prized buck he could track. As Cobb, 50, of...

    Tags: Roscoe Village, Hunting, Springfield, Southern Illinois University, Lifestyle and Leisure

    12. Oct 24, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  12. 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: Apple iPad, Museums, Arts, Egypt, The Oriental Institute

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