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Stingray Touch exhibit opens for summer at Shedd Aquarium
The surprise isn't that the Shedd Aquarium now has an exhibit where visitors can touch stingrays as they glide by, but rather that the most popular aquarium in the U.S. hasn't had one before now. Usually called something like Stingray Bay or Stingray...
Tags: Shedd Aquarium, Brookfield Zoo
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Ambitious Beethoven fest wants listeners to feel the 'love'
Ludwig van Beethoven was forever pushing boundaries, and the annual Chicago festival that bears the composer's name continues to do the same, even more so than in the past. “Beethoven Festival: LOVE 2013,” as the third edition is titled,...
Tags: Festive Events, Artists, Literature, Pilsen, Arts and Culture
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Is it curtains for Central Park Theatre?
In a sea of empty lots in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood sits a faded relic that is one of the most historically significant American movie theaters still standing. When it opened in 1917, the red-brick, three-story Central Park Theatre was...
Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Judaism, Car Repair and Maintenance Tips, Maxwell Street, Architecture
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Annoyance Theatre on the move
The Annoyance Theatre, a venerable Chicago comedy theater, is on the move. Jennifer Estlin, the theater's owner and executive producer, said Wednesday that it will exit its Uptown digs on the same block of North Broadway as the Uptown Theatre and move...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Annoyance Theatre, Theater, Entertainment Events, Entertainment
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Police question man in Wrigleyville shooting
Tribune reporterAuthorities are questioning a parolee in connection with a shooting in the Wrigleyville neighborhood over the weekend, police said. No charges have been filed as of Monday afternoon, police said, but authorities are questioning a 26-year-old man who...Tags: Chicago White Sox, Addison, Chicago Police Department, Shootings, Wrigleyville
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Depression-era artwork returning to public display
For 38 years, a 6-foot-by-20-foot mural sat rolled up in a local history teacher's home, an all-but-forgotten remnant of a Depression-era effort to bring art directly to the people. But a four-year community fundraising campaign and a yearlong...
Tags: Washington, DC, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Mail Order Industry, Chicago Loop, Fine Artists
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A screen's-eye view of Chicago
Chicago has been involved in filmmaking since the technology's very beginnings in the early 1900s, when some of the world's first movie studios operated here. From those early days, when neighborhood kids would sneak onto the Selig Polyscope Co. lot at...Tags: Billy Goat Tavern, Will Ferrell, Risky Business (movie), DePaul University, Bonnie Hunt
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Purim a favorite holiday for kids
Turtles and goldfish. If you are Jewish and of a certain age, these may be among your most vivid memories of the Purim festival: a riot of costumes, noisemaking and carnivals that are part and parcel of the celebration of the inspiring story of how...
Tags: Festive Events, Judaism, Customs and Tradition, Edgewater, Human Interest
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Meet the commenters: 'AReader'
Change of SubjectPart of an occasional series Commenter ID: AReader Real name: Andrew Gender: Male Age: 36 Occupation: IP attorney, assuming I pass the Bar this summer. Former writer and sociology Ph.D. student. Family info: Never married (yet), but very much in...... -
Tribune archive: The Daniel Taylor case
Change of SubjectHere is an archive, in reverse chronological order, of the Tribune's coverage of the Daniel Taylor case: News story: Criminal justice: Jail alibi doesn't outweigh confession -- Records show Daniel Taylor in jail when double murder occurred, but... -
Big ideas for small spaces
Special to the TribuneWhile she completed her residency in emergency medicine, Sarah Ahmed lived in a spacious two-bedroom, two-bath town home in Quincy, Ill. When she accepted her first job as a physician, in Aurora, she moved to a smaller Woodridge rental. Then she had...Tags: Personal Service, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Condos, Architecture, Apartments
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Consummate outsider artist Fred Burkhart emerges from underground
As you begin to read this story about Fred Burkhart, Fred Burkhart may be dead. That's a shock, I know, but it is what it is. In August, Burkhart was told that the prostate cancer he has been living with and fighting for more than three years had...
Tags: Prostate Cancer, Photography, Arts, Ku Klux Klan, Arts and Culture
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