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Passing on the torch of local arts
It was a great experience being arts editor in Howard County the past 25 years. This was a dream job for a guy like me and I can't believe I'm walking away from it this week with nary a kick nor a scream.
I'll always treasure the opportunities the job...Tags: Arts, Hippodrome Theatre, Frank Zappa, The Lion King (movie), Culture
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Arts
One area Howard County can certainly boast about is its vibrant arts scene, with an abundance of choices that include theater, music and dance companies, as well as free outdoor concerts at Lake Kittamaqundi, Centennial Park and Columbia’s village...Tags: Arts, England, Theater, Arlo Guthrie, Dancing
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175 years of memorable, horrible, humorous and remarkable events that shaped Chicago
On March 4, 1837, exactly 175 years ago, Chicago was incorporated. Not that Flashback needed a reason, but we took this occasion to compile a very long list of events, year by year and decade by decade, that helped shape this great city. Some events...
Tags: Railway Transportation, Arts, Chicago Blackhawks, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Daniel Burnham
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Christopher Hitchens dies at 62; engaging, enraging author and essayist
Christopher Hitchens, the engaging and enraging British-American author and essayist whose polemical writings on religion, politics, war and other provocations established him as one of his generation's most robust public intellectuals, has died. He was...Tags: England, Gore Vidal, Periodicals, Human Body, Defense
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Chicago Live! comes home to Old Town
On the opening night of Chicago Live! Thursday, in its new home at Pipers Alley with The Second City, the show didn't feel new: It felt like a homecoming. No one from Chicago would feel out of place.
Rick Kogan needed no script to talk about the 43rd...Tags: Concerts, U.S. Cellular Field, Facebook, Ghosts (supernatural entities), Networking
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Old Norwood Park book club
We all live in a unique neighborhood called Old Norwood Park on the city's far Northwest Side. All 11 members live within walking distance of one another. We have been meeting at each other's homes almost every month for five years.
Our meetings begin...Tags: Clubs and Associations, The Other Boleyn Girl (movie), Norwood Park, The Hunger Games (movie), Wallace Stegner
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Recommended events
Saturday Cook Memorial Library District will host a "book club extravaganza" with appearances by authors Frances McNamara and Joan Naper, 10 a.m.-noon at the Sullivan Center, 635 N. Aspen Drive, Vernon Hills; free. Registration is required. webres....Tags: Libraries, Irving Park, Clubs and Associations, Harold Washington Library Center, Saturday Night Live (tv program)
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King, Beattie books among new crop
Fiction "The Lost Memory of Skin" (Ecco) by Russell Banks. Coming Tuesday. Banks, one of our finest and most adventurous novelists, is not afraid to tackle big, tough topics that persistently bedevil the human species, and with his 17th book, he has...
Tags: Ann Beattie, Emily Bronte, Julia Keller, John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963), Edward Gorey
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Nobel for Dylan would be all right, Ma
Change of SubjectStory: According to Ladbrokes, Bob Dylan is the odds-on favorite to win the Nobel Prize for literature (which will be announced Thursday morning). The British betting house has Dylan as the top possibility, running at 5-to-1 odds, ahead of Japanese...... -
Seth, Daniel Clowes think inside the box
If you can imagine a bricklayer who's had it up to here with bricks, or a pastry chef who's frankly a little ambivalent about the whole flour and sugar deal, then you get Daniel Clowes.
He works with words and pictures, but he's pretty suspicious of...Tags: Julia Keller, The New York Times, Artists, Colleges and Universities, Television
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Chicagoland literary events: Oct. 15 - 22
Saturday Anderson's Bookshop's mother-daughter book club will discuss "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry at 2 p.m. at Anderson's Bookshop in Downers Grove, 5112 Main St., Downers Grove; free. 630-963-2665, andersonsbookshop.com. Franki Elliot will host...Tags: Chicago Cultural Center, Libraries, Elie Wiesel, John Green, Clubs and Associations
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'Love and Shame and Love' by Peter Orner
Special to Tribune NewspapersLately, I've been trying to cure myself of my packrat tendencies and have been sorting through boxes of papers and mementos I've amassed over the years. In the box I most recently opened, I found an old Comiskey Park ticket stub from a Sox game I attended...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Harold Washington, John Marshall, U.S. Cellular Field, Colleges and Universities
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