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Elie Wiesel's story endures, empowers
NEW YORK — A slender, silver-haired gentleman steps onto a nearly bare stage, the instantaneous applause continuing long after he reaches the spare wooden table awaiting him. For a moment, amid the din, he studies the audience — young and...
Tags: Authors, Cardiac Arrhythmia, Nobel Prize Awards, War Crimes, Petroleum Industry
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Wild Thing: Maurice Sendak made incomparable art from childhood's monsters
For every kid with a scraped knee, a skinned elbow, a bumped head and a torn shirt — the inevitable result of being very determined not to learn from one's mistakes — Maurice Sendak was your man. For every kid who builds forts out of old...
Tags: Literature, Where the Wild Things Are (movie), Music, Entertainment, Carole King
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A grand weekend for jazz singing
This weekend could be one for the record books, with an extraordinary confluence of major vocalists converging on our stages. Though they span a wide stylistic swath – from blues to jazz to classic pop and beyond – the level of singing...
Tags: Music, Awards and Prizes, Koko Taylor, Entertainment, Marlene Dietrich
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Jazz resolutions for a New Year
A new year brings new hopes for music in Chicago. Here are key resolutions for 2013: Create a concise Cultural Plan. After months of town hall meetings, the city's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events last fall came up with a 48-page wish...
Tags: Howard Reich, Festive Events, Millennium Park, Chicago Jazz Fest, Ramsey Lewis
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Sugar Blue a soaring voice for the blues
Last May, during a conference on "Race, Gender & the Blues" at Dominican University, the master harmonica player Sugar Blue addressed the theme in an impassioned, unforgettable soliloquy. Lamenting that blues increasingly has been expropriated by white...
Tags: Apollo Theater, Music, Tourism and Leisure, The Rolling Stones (music group), Entertainment
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Playing the blues in black AND white
On a recent Wednesday night at Blue Chicago, a long-running club downtown, you had to elbow your way forward just to get past the doorman. Men and women in business suits — collars loosened, beers in hand — packed the place, barely leaving...Tags: Natural Resources, Radio, Chester Arthur "Howlin' Wolf" Burnett, Dining and Drinking, Checkerboard Lounge
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Foundation sells Hemingway’s boyhood home
TribLocal - Oak Park & River Forest » NewsAn Oak Park couple purchased Ernest Hemingway's boyhood home Tuesday and plan to restore the three-flat back to its original use as a single family …... -
Taylor Park renovations reveal climbing boulders, wetlands
TribLocal - Oak Park & River Forest » NewsOak Park's latest green space to undergo renovations recently celebrated a reopening, now boasting a new ADA-accessible playground, a wetlands wildlife area, updated tennis courts …... -
Oak Park residents share variety of views on downtown tower project
TribLocal - Oak Park & River Forest » NewsOak Park resident Ariela Coles sees the need for an apartment highrise in downtown Oak Park after her mom had trouble finding a place to …... -
Ernest Hemingway’s boyhood home for sale
TribLocal - Oak Park & River Forest » NewsThe Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park has placed the legendary author’s boyhood home in Oak Park up for sale for $525,000. Plans by the …... -
Deerfield youth services librarian named one of this year’s top professionals
TribLocal - Deerfield » NewsA Deerfield youths services librarian was recognized this month by a national trade journal that praised her work with special-needs children and teens. Renee Grassi …... -
Dominican University declines option to purchase Hemingway boyhood home in Oak Park
TribLocal - Oak Park & River Forest » NewsWednesday Journal reports: Dominican University has decided to give up property management of the Hemingway Boyhood Home, after two years of fundraising efforts failed to …...
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