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Time for a teacher's conference with Mr. Boone
Learning last year that Bob Boone, one of my former teachers at Highland Park High School (never mind when), was still teaching creative writing to children and adults filled me with the kind of joy you get when you return to your hometown decades later...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Telecommunication Service, Chicago Tribune, Teachers, Authors
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Getting kids reading is author's goal
“The Man Who Can’t Miss” and “Author of the Year” James Patterson has sold over 260 million books worldwide. Writing novels from middle grade level to adult detective novels, Patterson even has movie deals on his novels. He...
Tags: The Women (movie, 2008), Book, Authors, The New York Times, James Patterson
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James Wood champions realism in new book of essays
There's a certain type of reader — often also a writer, with a leaf-fring'd MFA — who has it all figured out. The realist novel is a scam, a factory producing cardboard imitations of bourgeois life. This is the person at the party who mentions...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, John Ashbery, Authors, Paul Auster, Jane Austen
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Elliott Carter dies at 103; inventive American composer
Elliott Carter, the great American composer who was born in the horse-and-buggy era but whose music persistently looked ahead by reflecting and unabashedly celebrating the intricacies of modern life, died Monday of natural causes at his home in New York,...
Tags: John Cage, Opera (genre), Paris (France), New York City, Leonard Bernstein
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Winter agenda: Events for the season
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: Brookfield Zoo, LEGO Group, Theater, Museums, Trips and Vacations
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Holiday Guide 2012: Dozens more concerts and 'Carols' for your Chicago December
Love 'em or hate 'em, there's no avoiding the holidays, and that's true on local stages as well as the shopping malls. But even the Scroogiest of souls could find something to celebrate in the gifts of theater, dance, and music offered up this season by...Tags: Entertainment Events, Radio, Mary Schmich, Theater, Music Theater
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Gaps in story keep 'The Dead' from ascending
Been invited to any good holiday parties yet? I don’t mean office demi-celebrations or networking opportunities or stop-by-for-a-second obligations. I talk of true gatherings, long evenings of food, drink and conversation, preferably replicated each...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Music, Theater, Concerts, Holidays
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A few whiskeys later, a book
The authors of "The Guys in the Gang: And Other Stories" have the same name as a very famous author, and on the back flap of this book's jacket, there they are in 1999 in Dublin, posing with a statue of the very well known writer James Joyce — who,...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, Authors, Alcoholic Beverages, Periodicals, Dining and Drinking
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Impressions of an American in Paris
PARIS - The Musee du Louvre is ornate, palatial and extremely large.
The sprawling art museum on the Right Bank of the Seine River was one of our first stops on our Paris visit.
It is home to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the No. 1 attraction in the...Tags: Empire State Building, Museums, Tour Operations Industry, Paris (France), Marlene Dietrich
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Emily Skinner To Star in "Mousical" Musical , Directed by Julie Andrews
Hartford CourantEmily Skinner, whose Broadway credits include "Side Show," "Billy Elliott," "Dinner at Eight," "The Full Monty" "James Joyce's The Dead" and "Jekyll & Hyde" will play the diva mouse in "The Great American Mousical," which will receive a "development...Tags: Entertainment Events, Radio, Theater, My One and Only (movie), Julie Andrews
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