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    May 20, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  1. Meadville teen wins prestigious art competition

    Erie Times-News, Pa.
    John O'Laughlin dreams of a career as a lead designer for an automotive company like General Motors or Chrysler. The Meadville native recently took a big step toward fulfilling his dream by redesigning something much smaller -- a lawn mower. In April,...

    Tags: Automotive Equipment, Google Inc., Manufacturing and Engineering, General Motors Corp., Arts

    2. May 17, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  2. Being numb to it all no longer big shock

    Sometime in the next few weeks, if you're walking down Fullerton Avenue around DePaul University and have 15 minutes to spare, duck into the tidy brick building alongside the CTA station. Here you will find the DePaul Art Museum, an institution so humble that only "Art Museum" is spelled across its modest facade. The admission is free, though the lessons offered in its first gallery, at least through June 16, feel priceless.
    Sometime in the next few weeks, if you're walking down Fullerton Avenue around DePaul University and have 15 minutes to spare, duck into the tidy brick building alongside the CTA station. Here you will find the DePaul Art Museum, an institution so...

    Tags: Bars and Clubs, Fiction, Artists, Millennium Park, Goodman Theatre

    3. May 11, 2013 |Story| Herald Mail

  3. Pre-Raphaelite art is a reminder of Mom's influence

    My mother made me a journalist. And a musician, an artist, a poet and a playwright.
    chrisc@herald-mail.com
    My mother made me a journalist. And a musician, an artist, a poet and a playwright. I realized this recently while taking in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. —“The Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design,...

    Tags: Music, England, Artists, Charles Darwin, Fine Artists

    4. May 26, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. Summer brings out much of the best in Chicago area

    Every now and then I make a list of nine things I've liked lately. Here's one for the approach to summer. 1. Lake Michigan I love the lake in its lonelier seasons, too, but now, when the warmth comes back and the people come out, the lakefront reminds...

    Tags: Scandal (tv program), Steppenwolf Theatre, PBS (tv network), Netflix Inc., Jeff Perry

    5. May 9, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. 'The Cooked Seed' details Anchee Min's fraught immigrant saga

    By the time Anchee Min made it to America in 1984, she was "considered a 'cooked seed' — no chance to sprout." As she explains in her new memoir, "I was 27 years old and life had ended for me in China. I was Madame Mao's trash, which meant I wasn't worth spit."
    By the time Anchee Min made it to America in 1984, she was "considered a 'cooked seed' — no chance to sprout." As she explains in her new memoir, "I was 27 years old and life had ended for me in China. I was Madame Mao's trash, which meant I wasn'...

    Tags: Immigration, Chinese Restaurants, Literature, Culture, The Washington Post

    6. May 24, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. Gerard Pawlicki, 1921-2013

    Gerard Pawlicki was just out of DePaul University when he joined Enrico Fermi, Walter Zinn, George Weil and other seasoned scientists as they lifted their paper cups filled with Chianti wine, celebrating the first controlled nuclear chain reaction under...

    Tags: DePaul University, Museum of Science and Industry, Merchandise Mart, Manhattan (New York City), University of Chicago

    7. May 7, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. CSO series explores connections between nature and culture

    For ages, mankind has been fascinated by rivers, not simply as natural resources and avenues of commercial conveyance, but also as symbols, metaphors and ideas. Countless artists, composers, writers and thinkers have pondered the significance of these wondrous bodies of water and how they impact on culture, society, geopolitics and, closer to our own time, the very future of our planet.
    For ages, mankind has been fascinated by rivers, not simply as natural resources and avenues of commercial conveyance, but also as symbols, metaphors and ideas. Countless artists, composers, writers and thinkers have pondered the significance of these...

    Tags: Concerts, Music, Artists, Chinatown (Chicago, Illinois), Fine Artists

    8. May 20, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. Cerna 'Chickie' Alter, 1939-2013

    Cerna "Chickie" Alter was not a brilliant artist, but she knew great art when she saw it, friends said.
    Cerna "Chickie" Alter was not a brilliant artist, but she knew great art when she saw it, friends said. Mrs. Alter studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago, and then in the 1960s started a corporate art consulting business with a fellow art-...

    Tags: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Mexico, Ovarian Cancer

    9. May 24, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. The creative process behind Edward Hopper's paintings

    NEW YORK — As 1938 came to a close, painter Edward Hopper was a man on a mission.
    NEW YORK — As 1938 came to a close, painter Edward Hopper was a man on a mission. Again and again, he would pick up his sketchbook and head for a cluster of New York City movie theaters. Sometimes it was the Republic or the Palace, other times the...

    Tags: Painting, Artists, Lobbying, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fine Artists

    10. Apr 26, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  10. "A Nearly Perfect Copy" by Allison Amend

    In the gifted hands of Allison Amend, the international art world is so full of intrigue and makes for such a smart page turner that when one is finished with the delicious novel "A Nearly Perfect Copy," a trip to the Art Institute of Chicago is in order....

    Tags: Manhattan (New York City)

    11. Apr 18, 2013 |Story| Tribune Media Services

  11. Taking the kids to Chicago

    The hardest thing about visiting Chicago is deciding where to take the kids first &mdash; Chicago's famous Lakefront where you can ride bikes and in-line skate, or Lincoln Park where you can visit one of the few free zoos (<a href="http://www.lpzoo.org">http://www.lpzoo.org</a>) in the country. (Kids especially love the polar bears.)
    The hardest thing about visiting Chicago is deciding where to take the kids first — Chicago's famous Lakefront where you can ride bikes and in-line skate, or Lincoln Park where you can visit one of the few free zoos (http://www.lpzoo.org) in the...

    Tags: Willis Tower, Millennium Park, Field Museum of Natural History, Navy Pier, Arts

    12. Apr 18, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  12. 'Oklahoma!': Gemze de Lappe here to bring out true colors

    &ldquo;It's not &lsquo;rah, rah, rah,'&rdquo; Gemze de Lappe says in explaining how you sing &ldquo;Oklahoma!&rdquo;
    “It's not ‘rah, rah, rah,'” Gemze de Lappe says in explaining how you sing “Oklahoma!” The 91-year-old de Lappe hops up from her chair and stoops, bowing low and dusting the air with her hands as if foraging through...

    Tags: Civic Opera House, Music, Dance, Poetry, Music Theater

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