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'Big Fish' writer chats with the minnows
A group of influential screenwriters will converge on Chicago this weekend, including Lucy Alibar (whose script for "Beasts of the Southern Wild" was nominated for an Oscar this year) and Bob Gale (who wrote all three "Back to the Future" films). They'...
Tags: The Second City, Ansell Limited, Steven Spielberg, Tony Goldwyn, The Hangover (movie)
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Culture clash: New history of Chicago taps into our malaise
Thomas Dyja looked at me with abject horror, then humor, then, as his face crumbled in defeat, resignation. A face that said, "See? This is why I wrote a 412-page cultural history of Chicago at midcentury that — as much as it pulls together...
Tags: Artists, Illinois Institute of Technology, The Second City, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Elizabeth II
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Sam Jameson dies at 76; former longtime L.A. Times correspondent
Sam Jameson, a former longtime Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent with a deep knowledge of and close personal affinity for Japan, his professional and personal base for half a century, died Friday at a Tokyo hospital. He was 76. The cause of...
Tags: Stroke, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Tokyo (Japan)
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Straddling the worlds of high finance and community activism
In 1972, Jim Reynolds was less than two months shy of graduating from Chicago Vocational High School, with plans of becoming a television repairman. Raised in Englewood on the city's South Side, he had been studying the trade for two years when his...
Tags: Banking, United Center, Mathematics, Conservation, Colleges and Universities
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Northwestern students write for 'All My Children'
Two decades after she honed her writing skills at Northwestern University, Chicago native and soap opera pioneer Agnes Nixon created “All My Children.” It ran on ABC from 1970 until it was cancelled in 2011, but it relaunches online next...
Tags: All My Children (tv program), Hulu, ABC (tv network)
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Is it jazz, classical, Western, Eastern? Simon Shaheen defies labels
For more than three decades, the Palestinian oud virtuoso Simon Shaheen has relentlessly championed his soft-spoken instrument across America and beyond. He has penned solo works, pieces for oud with wind quintet and string quartet and compositions...
Tags: Music Theater, Concerts, Theater, Entertainment Events, Colleges and Universities
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826CHI 826CHI is a nonprofit writing and tutoring center dedicated to supporting students ages 6-18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students. 826chi.org Tom Acitelli Tom Acitelli is author...Tags: Fine Arts, Periodicals, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The New York Times, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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Taking the less-known route
If you can't get in — or can't afford — a top business school, is an MBA from a lesser-known school worth it? The answer depends largely on the student. Those gunning for the top of the organizational chart, and without the networking...
Tags: Illinois Institute of Technology, Bradley University, Mortgages, Chicago Mortgages, Eastern Illinois University
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Floral shop includes charity in its arrangements
For RedEyeThe phrase "two guys opened a floral shop" sounds like the punch line to a bad joke. But helping low-income students in Chicago is a serious mission for entrepreneurs Steven Dyme, 22, of Wilmette, and Joseph Dickstein, 23, of the West Loop. The...Tags: Chicago Loop, West Loop, Chicago Public Schools, Indiana University, Schools
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Northwestern receives $12 million grant to aid research on aphasia
More Americans suffer from aphasia — a brain disorder in which a person loses the ability to understand or express words — than Parkinson's disease or muscular dystrophy. But few in the public have heard of the disease. Thanks to a major...
Tags: Stroke, Muscular Dystrophy, National Institutes of Health, Medical Research, Parkinson's Disease
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Exploring the job market
The job market is beginning to improve for MBA graduates as global companies start to focus on growth following a few years of hiring caution. To be sure, this isn't the job market of the early 2000s, when the jobless rate held between 4 and 6 percent,...
Tags: Chicago Loop, Students, Labor Markets, University of Illinois at Chicago, Employment Opportunities
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Getting an MBA: Your business. Your decision.
Chicago TribuneAdmissions consultant Andrea Sparrey uses two numbers to startle prospective business school applicants. She tells them the average price of a home in the United States in 2010 was $273,000. And then she tells them the average price of an MBA from a...Tags: Illinois Institute of Technology, Consumer Confidence, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Realty
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