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Project Runway: Guess who's coming to dinner? Tim Gunn!
Reality CheckWell kids, I'm Kevin Van Valkenburg, sports writer in my spare time, but Project Runway blogger at heart. And as my favorite cheesy Swedish heavy metal band, Europe, would say...It's the final countdown! (Da da da daaaaa! Da da da......Tags: Barack Obama, Hugh Jackman, Armed Forces, Tom Selleck, Cindy McCain
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2011 Holiday Guide
Like the creeping tinsel at the mall, holiday shows in Chicago seem to start earlier each year. This season, it was “White Christmas” at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire even before the trick-or-treaters had ventured forth from their...Tags: Miley Cyrus, Culture, Oriental Theater, Ebenezer Scrooge (fictional character), A Christmas Story (movie)
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A very full load of nominees for this year's Equity Jeff Awards
Apparently confronted by a plethora of riches in the past season of Chicago theater, the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee offered up not the traditional four or five nominees one finds at the Tony Awards, for instance, but a bevy of nominees for its...
Tags: Rooms and Sublets, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Jackie Wilson, Goodman Theatre, Tony Awards
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The art of good writing
WASHINGTON -- When asked to explain the brisk pace of his novels, Elmore Leonard said, "I leave out the parts that people skip." You will not want to skip anything in William Zinsser's short essays written for the American Scholar magazine's website and...
Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Malaria, Authors, Punishment, Periodicals
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Voice of America
Paul GreenbergDear Fellow Fan, It was wholly a pleasure to get your video of Kate Smith singing "God Bless America" as only she could -- and did. It rekindled childhood memories of listening to the Kate Smith radio show every schoolday morning at 9 in Miss Hinkle's...Tags: YouTube, Music, Frank Sinatra, Social Organizations, Youth Organizations
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Joan Curto celebrates the genius of Cole Porter
Cole Porter died nearly half a century ago – in 1964 at age 73 – yet his songs remain as ubiquitous today as they were then. Which helps explain why one of Chicago's top cabaret singers, Joan Curto, this week is launching an evening-length...
Tags: George Gershwin, University of Chicago, Green Mill (club), Music, Harold Arlen
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3 Oscar-worthy performances
I'm pretty sure we can account for three of the best-male-actor nominees when the Academy Awards lists come out on Jan. 10. I've just seen a trio of excellent performances: Denzel Washington in "Flight," Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln" and John Hawkes in...Tags: Shirley MacLaine, Helen Hunt, Netflix Inc., Cher, Movies
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Fat Babies rekindle the Jazz Age in Chicago
Out on the dance floor, young couples are throwing off dance steps right out of the Roaring Twenties: the Charleston, the fox trot, the shimmy. Just inches away, up on the bandstand, youthful musicians you'd sooner expect to find covering Radiohead or...
Tags: Theater, Entertainment Events, Coldplay (music group), George Gershwin, Concerts
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Light Opera Works announces 2013 slate
The Evanston-based Light Opera Works has announced its 2013 season of shows. For its summer season at Cahn Auditorium on the campus of Northwestern University, Light Opera Works will stage W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's "H.M.S. Pinafore" (opening...Tags: George Gershwin
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Neighbor leaves cherished memories
My friend Mildred "Neale" Baltz died last month, just weeks shy of her 103rd birthday. Despite our 40-year age difference, we shared a lot in the nearly two decades that we were next-door neighbors. I wrote a story about Neale in 2005 — its...Tags: Columbia University, World War II (1939-1945), University of Virginia, New York City, Dance
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Horror movies: Halloween's sweet spot
Countdown to Halloween: five days. I don't like wearing costumes, I'm not into haunted houses, candy corn is too sweet, and I prefer pumpkin pie to pumpkin carvings. But I do like horror movies — just not the kind with umpteen sequels. I saw...
Tags: Culture, American Horror Story (tv program), Haunted Houses (attractions), Horror (genre), Movies
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Marcus Roberts and Bela Fleck transcend an 'Imaginary Divide'
What happens when two formidable soloists from seemingly remote worlds of music decide to share a spotlight? At worst, chaos. At best, something close to what happened Monday night before a standing-room-only crowd at Evanston SPACE. It would be fair to...
Tags: Theater, Frank Sinatra, Spider (music group), Gold Coast, Entertainment Events
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