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Sun-Times to bolster, business, sports, entertainment content
One day after purchasing the Chicago Reader, Chicago Sun-Times Chairman Michael Ferro outlined a plan for building up the flagship newspaper's business, sports and entertainment content in a bid to increase its subscription base.
Speaking at a City...Tags: Media Industry, Newspapers, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Newspaper and Magazine
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Sun-Times owner completes purchase of Chicago Reader
Wrapports, the owner of the Chicago Sun-Times, said Wednesday that it has completed its acquisition of the Chicago Reader. The deal includes Chicagoreader.com, Straightdope.com and the 41-year-old flagship alternative weekly tabloid. Terms were not...
Tags: Washington City Paper, Chicago Sun-Times, Bankruptcy
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Sun-Times owner buys Chicago Reader
Tribune reporterWrapports, the owner of the Chicago Sun-Times, has closed a deal to buy the Chicago Reader. The acquisition, announced Wednesday, includes chicagoreader.com, straightdope.com and the 41-year-old flagship alternative weekly. Terms were not disclosed,...Tags: Media Industry, Washington City Paper, Chicago Sun-Times, Tampa, Chicago
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Unlikely gathering of Comix legends comes together at U. of C.
Chicago Tribune reporterThe rock scene had Woodstock. The jazz world famously gathered on the steps of a Harlem brownstone in 1958 for Esquire photographer Art Kane. In the 1920s, New York literati met at the Algonquin Round Table. Hillary Chute didn't have quite as legendary...Tags: Colleges and Universities, France, Entertainment Events, Joe Sacco, Columbia College Chicago
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New leaf
To understand why the hiring of Brian Bannon as Chicago's public library commissioner caused a more-than-ordinary stir, let us quote a learned cultural authority. That authority is not Socrates. It is not Shakespeare. It is not Goethe. Nor is it...
Tags: Libraries, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Charity, Gloria Steinem, Phil Jackson
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Sun-Times parent in reported deal for Reader
Crain's Chicago Business reports: The parent of the Chicago Sun-Times reportedly will buy the Chicago Reader for $3 million. Get the full story: chicagobusiness.com
Tags: Chicago Sun-Times
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Blogging myself
Change of SubjectA journalism award for enlivening dull assignments by Michael Miner, Chicago Reader.Nothing awakens Chicago’s eager young reporters to the grim realities of the life they’ve chosen like their second Saint Patrick’s Day parade, when... -
Chicago theater for the week of May 11-17
Friday "[title of show]": Before there was television's "Smash" there was "[title of show]," an off-Broadway musical about the making of a musical. Northlight Theatre has the Chicago premiere. Through June 10 at Northlight Theatre, North Shore Center for...Tags: Music, Entertainment Events, Music Theater, Off-Broadway Theater, Broadway Theater
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Speaking of marriage: Sun-Times + Reader = ?
Change of SubjectFrom Sun-Times parent to buy Chicago Reader for $3 million (Crain's Chicago Business): Wrapports LLC, the parent of the Chicago Sun-Times, is poised to purchase the Chicago Reader as soon as next week for about $3 million, according to sources...... -
'My Kind of Town' picks at still-raw wound
"My Kind of Town," the fine new play by John Conroy with the titular nod to Frank Sinatra, begins with a faux promotional video about the beauties of Chicago, circa 1990. Narrated by the Tribune's Rick Kogan, it's a shot-from-the-air celebration of the...
Tags: Jon Burge, Frank Sinatra, Broken Nose, Nelson Algren, NATO
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Alyson Hagy Alyson Hagy was raised on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She is the author of "Ghosts of Wyoming" and "Snow, Ashes." She lives and teaches in Laramie, Wyo. Half Naked Productions presents "Missed Connections" 8:15 p.m....Tags: Arts, Libraries, Radio, Chicago Humanities Festival, Journalism
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Dawn Raffel Dawn Raffel is the author of the memoir “The Secret Life of Objects” and “Further Adventures in the Restless Universe.” She is books editor at Reader’s Digest and editor of The Literarian at the Center for...Tags: Arts, Lost (tv program), House (tv program), Edgewater, Book
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