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Chef Tim Graham talks about coming-soon restaurant Travelle
For RedEyeTim Graham, the former executive chef of Tru and Paris Club, is helming the restaurant at The Langham, Chicago hotel, which is set to open in July. Located at 330 N. Wabash Ave., Travelle will serve Mediterranean-inspired cuisine in a setting that's...Tags: Tru, Hotels and Accommodations, Foods and Beverages, Wines, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Review: '10 Buildings That Changed America' is a rewarding tour
The new PBS program "10 Buildings That Changed America" is nothing if not efficient. In a single breezy hour, it moves from Thomas Jefferson to Frank Gehry, racing in a chronological blur past Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Venturi and a handful of other...
Tags: Highland Park (Brooklyn, New York), Fenway Park, PBS (tv network), Robert Venturi, Architecture
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TV Picks: 'Family Tree,' 'Nashville,' '10 Buildings,' 'The Middle'
Los Angeles Times Television Critic"Family Tree" (HBO, premieres Sunday). Christopher Guest has made you a TV series. Thank him. The director of "A Mighty Wind" and "Best in Show" and one of the forces behind and in "This Is Spinal Tap" -- in which he was Nigel Tufnel, whose amplifier went...Tags: The Office (tv program), Fred Willard, Charlie McDermott, Brad Paisley, Connie Britton
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Museums
Beverly Arts Center 2407 W. 111th St.; 773-445-3838, beverlyartcenter.org The multidisciplinary, multicultural center offers fine-arts education, programming and entertainment, including art, music, dance and theater, as well as exhibitions of...Tags: Photography Supplies and Services, Photography and Video, Adam Scott, Elmhurst, Arts
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LACMA draws up ambitious plans for a $650-million new look
At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, an acclaimed Swiss architect is hoping to pull off what an acclaimed Dutch one could not. Next month LACMA will publicly unveil a $650-million plan by Pritzker Prize winner Peter Zumthor for a dramatic new museum...
Tags: Science and Technology, Pritzker Architecture Prize, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Fine Artists, Architecture
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Designer dollhouses offer miniature life of luxury
Malibu Barbie never had it so good. A Paul Smith rug, curtains sewn from Missoni fabric, LED sconces strung with Swarovski crystals, even a Mies van der Rohe Barcelona daybed cluttered with Rodeo Drive shopping bags — all small enough to fit in...
Tags: Mattel Inc., Literature, Architecture, Auction Service, Media Industry
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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: Marshall Field, Manhattan (New York City), Kraft Foods Group, Inc., Northwestern University, Fine Artists
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Other visions of home at Elmhurst Art Museum
The lobby of the Elmhurst Art Museum is full with a dozen or so miniature wooden houses, perfect for dolls or birds with a taste for culture. The domestic sculptures are the work of the late Don Baum, who sometimes constructed them from mahjongg tiles,...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, Boris (music group), Fine Artists, Chicago Loop, Politics
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100 gifts for under $100
There's art to the gift of giving. Some folks have mastered it; others not so much. It starts with a good eye and an understanding of your own budget. Worried that you might not have what it takes? Not to fret, we're making things easy this season. From...
Tags: Science and Technology, The Sound of Music (movie), GameStop, Urban Outfitters Incorporated, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Reimagining History
When Chicago architect and designer Carlos Martinez, a principal with architecture/design firm Gensler, went apartment shopping with partner and communications consultant Michael Tirrell, they hoped they'd find a vintage unit. After years of living in the...
Tags: Downton Abbey (tv program), Architecture, Arts and Culture, Julia Child
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Architect-photographer Balthazar Korab | 1926-2013
FrameworkBalthazar Korab, an architect-turned-photographer with a wide-ranging eye whose moody, polished images captured the spirit of midcentury modern architecture and celebrated its masters, including Eero Saarinen and Mies van der Rohe, died Jan. 15 in Royal... -
Balthazar Korab dies at 86; architect-photographer with wide-ranging eye
Balthazar Korab, an architect-turned-photographer with a wide-ranging eye whose moody, polished images captured the spirit of midcentury modern architecture and celebrated its masters, including Eero Saarinen and Mies van der Rohe, died Jan. 15 in Royal...
Tags: Le Corbusier, New Year's Day, Hungary, Arts, Architecture
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