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Young Chicago poet Malcolm London speaks up for education on TED show
On Tuesday night, if you tune into PBS' one-hour special "TED Talks Education," you'll see host John Legend and an array of prominent speakers, including Bill Gates, giving impassioned talks about ways to reinvent education. You'll also see Chicago's...
Tags: Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Students, HIV, Human Interest, WTTW
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U-verse first cable provider to pick up new SEC, ESPN network
UF fans could have more opportunities to see the Gators starting in 2014, especially if they subscribe to AT&T U-verse. Officials from the Southeastern Conference and ESPN announced they signed a 20-year agreement through 2034 that also included the...
Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, ESPN (tv network), College Football, Pacific-12 Conference, Media Industry
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Counting down to Lit Fest
(This selection is edited for clarity and length.) Tom Acitelli What do you think of when you think of Chicago? Oddly enough, the 1860 Republican convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln. Who is an author you'd like to meet, dead or alive?...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Apple iPad, Blockbuster, Ernest Hemingway, Literature
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Lyrics Of Unpublished Bob Dylan Anti-nuclear Song Up For Sale
LONDON (Reuters) - The unpublished lyrics of an anti-nuclear protest song written by Bob Dylan 50 years ago are to be sold in London next month after being found in a drawer in Sweden. Auction house Christie's said the song - "Go Away You Bomb" - was...
Tags: Music, Auction Service, Entertainment, Greenwich Village, Bob Dylan
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Taylor Mead dies at 88; underground film legend and bohemian artist
Taylor Mead, an underground cinema legend whose comic charm and sense of the surreal inspired Andy Warhol and other seminal figures in the alternative film world, died Wednesday in Denver. He was 88. A fixture of bohemian New York who was also a poet...
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Md. poet laureate Stanley Plumly comes to Hagerstown
chrisc@herald-mail.comStanley Plumly has received many awards and published many books in his long career in poetry. And for the past four years, the University of Maryland, College Park English professor has been Maryland’s poet laureate. But this particular honor...Tags: Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Students, Human Interest, Barnesville, University of Maryland, College Park
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SPLM's Amum distances himself from dismissal of six members in Aweil
Sudan TribuneThe secretary-general of the South Sudan ruling party (SPLM), Pagan Amum, has distanced himself from the controversial dismissal of six members of his party in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state, saying he did not want to get involved in "political allegations...Tags: France, Sudan
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?An Iliad? spins a classic to modern times
Watertown Daily Times, N.Y.A modern-day interpretation of "The Iliad" at Syracuse Stage connects the decade-long Trojan War and the siege of Troy that's depicted in Homer's poem to conflicts of today. The tale of "An Iliad" at Syracuse Stage, which begins Wednesday and runs...Tags: Wars and Interventions, International Military Interventions, Denis O'Hare, World War I (1914-1918), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Five books by Chicago authors appearing at Lit Fest
In Thomas Dyja's cultural history of Chicago, "The Third Coast," he writes that in Nelson Algren's day, "being Chicago's Famous Writer was like winning the heavyweight title — there was only one at a time, and you kept the belt for as long as you...
Tags: Authors, Literature, Nelson Algren, Arts and Culture, Edgar Allan Poe
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Kevin Powers talks war, writing and 'The Yellow Birds'
Kevin Powers was 17 when he joined the U.S. Army. It was 1998: Sept. 11 was still three years away, and war didn't seem a likely possibility. He was following a path laid by his father, uncle and grandfathers — all of whom had served as well....
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Tribune Tower, U.S. Army
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Styx and REO Speedwagon revive a popular annual ritual
The Kansas City StarThis tour feels like an annual reunion, like a rite of post-winter: a four-hour orgy of songs more than three decades old unleashed upon a huge crowd in the best outdoor venue in Kansas City. REO Speedwagon and Styx returned to Starlight Theater on...Tags: Young Man (music group), Dennis DeYoung, Music, Entertainment, Barack Obama
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The Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman column
The Charlotte ObserverMy college music teacher said the mark of a masterpiece is that we discover something new every time we encounter it. And what I discovered Friday night is how much Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has echoes of the previous eight. I heard the noble, striding...Tags: Arts and Culture, Music, Charlotte, Entertainment, Culture
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