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    Jun 19, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. Museums

    Adler Planetarium 1300 S. Lake Shore Drive; 312-922-7827, adlerplanetarium.org Ongoing: "One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure": Big Bird, Elmo and their friend from China, Hu Hu Zhu, take visitors on a journey to learn about the Big Dipper, North...

    Tags: Entertainment Events, Morton Arboretum, Travel, Arts and Culture, Science and Technology

    2. Jun 9, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. Judy Blume discusses the joys of writing at Lit Fest

    Flannery O'Connor once observed that, "Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay." One can imagine quite a few poets, playwrights, memoirists and other nonfiction authors nodding their heads at this pungent description of the writing life.
    Flannery O'Connor once observed that, "Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay." One can imagine quite a few poets, playwrights, memoirists and other nonfiction authors nodding their heads at...

    Tags: Entertainment Events, Illinois Institute of Technology, Arts and Culture, Festive Events, Fiction

    3. Jun 2, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  3. Judy Blume comes to a theater near you with 'Tiger Eyes'

    "Someone came to us and said, 'Hey kids, do you want to make a movie?'" Judy Blume said with a laugh when I spoke to her by phone last month about the upcoming release of the film adaptation of "Tiger Eyes," based on her 1981 novel. "No, that's not what they said. But they had funding to adapt a couple of books into movies, and they asked us (Blume and her son, Lawrence Blume, a film director) which one we would like to do, and we didn't hesitate for a second. Because we always knew which one."
    "Someone came to us and said, 'Hey kids, do you want to make a movie?'" Judy Blume said with a laugh when I spoke to her by phone last month about the upcoming release of the film adaptation of "Tiger Eyes," based on her 1981 novel. "No, that's not what...

    Tags: Entertainment Events, Media Industry, Movies, The Descendants (movie), eBay Inc.

    4. Jun 2, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  4. A proposal for the books

    In the beginning, Jason Methner was the impatient one.
    In the beginning, Jason Methner was the impatient one. After meeting Molly Lipsitz at a mutual friend's birthday party in Wicker Park, Methner, 27 at the time and in a master's program at Northwestern University, was eager to accelerate the...

    Tags: Libraries, Arts and Culture, Wicker Park, U.S. Congress, Personal Service

    5. May 25, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  5. Art Spiegelman's art obliterates category

    "Who's got a gag for me today?"
    "Who's got a gag for me today?" Early on in "CO-MIX: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics and Scraps." Art Spiegelman's upcoming career-spanner that's due out in September, we see a drawing of a much younger Spiegelman saying this to four tiny characters...

    Tags: Entertainment Events, France, New York City, Arts and Culture, Pulitzer Prize Awards

    6. May 25, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. Review: "Aesthetics" by Ivan Brunetti

    Although Ivan Brunetti has crafted many graphically striking comics and illustrations over the last quarter-century, perhaps the most telling inclusion in his new book, “Aesthetics: A Memoir,” is the worst looking. While attending the...

    Tags: Hobbies, Colleges and Universities, Lifestyle and Leisure, Fine Artists, Education

    7. May 23, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  7. Chance the Rapper leaves little to chance

    Chance the Rapper is going to make sure he gets this right: rap music, a pop-star ascent from Chicago, a record deal, that whole fame thing — and on his own terms.
    Chance the Rapper is going to make sure he gets this right: rap music, a pop-star ascent from Chicago, a record deal, that whole fame thing — and on his own terms. Chance, whose full name is Chancelor Bennett, has been drawing increasingly large...

    Tags: Humboldt Park, Fine Artists, Kanye West, Arts and Culture, Music Theater

    8. May 17, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  8. 'Hold Fast' by Blue Balliett

    <em>Hold fast to dreams</em>
    Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Those words from "Dreams," a Langston Hughes poem, infuse Blue Balliett's newest novel. At the start of the book, Balliett notes that by the end of the 2012...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Literature, Langston Hughes, Chicago Tribune

    9. May 16, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  9. Sting added to Printer's Row Lit Fest

    Having introduced the world to such colorful characters as a prostitute named Roxanne and a stalker who monitors &ldquo;Every Breath You Take,&rdquo; Sting will help launch a new Chicago-based storytelling initiative when he appears at the Chicago Tribune&rsquo;s Printers Row Lit Fest next month.
    Having introduced the world to such colorful characters as a prostitute named Roxanne and a stalker who monitors “Every Breath You Take,” Sting will help launch a new Chicago-based storytelling initiative when he appears at the Chicago...

    Tags: Republic of Ireland, Arts and Culture, Festive Events, Awards and Prizes, Authors

    10. May 11, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  10. Review: "Power to the People" edited by Geoff Kaplan

    One of Chicago's treasures is the microfilm archive of alternative newspapers housed in Harold Washington Library. I'm particularly fond of exploring the Seed, the Chicago periodical that helped Mayor Richard J. Daley's less loyal subjects prepare for the 1968 Democratic National Convention. I've marveled at the content (pot dealers advertising their street corners of choice, Huey Newton clip-n-collect cards), but thanks to the splotchy black-and-white microfilm, I was never enchanted by the graphic design. Seeing the magnificent Seed covers reprinted in full-color glory in Geoff Kaplan's coffee-table book "Power to the People" was eye-opening (literally &mdash; my eyes actually widened).
    One of Chicago's treasures is the microfilm archive of alternative newspapers housed in Harold Washington Library. I'm particularly fond of exploring the Seed, the Chicago periodical that helped Mayor Richard J. Daley's less loyal subjects prepare for the...

    Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Book, University of Chicago, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Democratic Convention (1968)

    11. May 8, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  11. Mom of slain teen: 'You can do all the right things and still come up with the same outcome'

    Just before Ebony Ambrose went to bed about 10 p.m. Tuesday, her son Kevin Ambrose asked her if she had made the spinach gnocchi and apple cider pork like she had planned for dinner.
    Tribune reporters
    Just before Ebony Ambrose went to bed about 10 p.m. Tuesday, her son Kevin Ambrose asked her if she had made the spinach gnocchi and apple cider pork like she had planned for dinner. Kevin Ambrose, 19, was hanging out with a friend and had not eaten...

    Tags: Chicago Police Department, Entertainment Events, Mother's Day, Arts and Culture, Hospitals and Clinics

    12. Apr 12, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  12. Culture clash: New history of Chicago taps into our malaise

    "The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream" has an elegant, unflinching, non-nostalgic clarity about Chicago that you rarely see in books about Chicago.
    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: Woody Allen, Racism, Illinois Institute of Technology, Fine Artists, Museums

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