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Steve Johnson is the pop culture critic for the Chicago Tribune and writes the Sunday Web Spin column.
In a 20-plus-year career, Mr. Johnson has written columns for the paper about the Internet and popular culture, the media and family life. Most extensively, he spent almost a decade as the Tribune's TV critic, much of the time spent watching old "Who's the Boss" episodes in preparation for a (still-unpublished) reevaluation of the oeuvre of Tony Danza. He has also been a news and features writer for various sections at the Tribune.
Mr. Johnson was born in Chicago and grew up in New Hampshire, where, in an act that has left him with no residual bitterness, he was not select...
In a 20-plus-year career, Mr. Johnson has written columns for the paper about the Internet and popular culture, the media and family life. Most extensively, he spent almost a decade as the Tribune's TV critic, much of the time spent watching old "Who's the Boss" episodes in preparation for a (still-unpublished) reevaluation of the oeuvre of Tony Danza. He has also been a news and features writer for various sections at the Tribune.
Mr. Johnson was born in Chicago and grew up in New Hampshire, where, in an act that has left him with no residual bitterness, he was not select...
Steve Johnson is the pop culture critic for the Chicago Tribune and writes the Sunday Web Spin column.
In a 20-plus-year career, Mr. Johnson has written columns for the paper about the Internet and popular culture, the media and family life. Most extensively, he spent almost a decade as the Tribune's TV critic, much of the time spent watching old "Who's the Boss" episodes in preparation for a (still-unpublished) reevaluation of the oeuvre of Tony Danza. He has also been a news and features writer for various sections at the Tribune.
Mr. Johnson was born in Chicago and grew up in New Hampshire, where, in an act that has left him with no residual bitterness, he was not selected for his high school's yearbook staff. He nonetheless earned a degree from Brown University and served internships at the Orlando Sentinel and the (New Orleans) Times-Picayune.
In his spare time, Mr. Johnson enjoys Texas music, pickup basketball, and writing about himself in the third person, with an honorific.
In a 20-plus-year career, Mr. Johnson has written columns for the paper about the Internet and popular culture, the media and family life. Most extensively, he spent almost a decade as the Tribune's TV critic, much of the time spent watching old "Who's the Boss" episodes in preparation for a (still-unpublished) reevaluation of the oeuvre of Tony Danza. He has also been a news and features writer for various sections at the Tribune.
Mr. Johnson was born in Chicago and grew up in New Hampshire, where, in an act that has left him with no residual bitterness, he was not selected for his high school's yearbook staff. He nonetheless earned a degree from Brown University and served internships at the Orlando Sentinel and the (New Orleans) Times-Picayune.
In his spare time, Mr. Johnson enjoys Texas music, pickup basketball, and writing about himself in the third person, with an honorific.
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Author John Green wins Tribune's Young Adult Literary Prize
INDIANAPOLIS -- Taping a YouTube video in a rented studio here, John Green explains that Renaissance-era Renaissance man Copernicus didn't do it all on his own, that he actually seems to have had some help from previous Islamic scholarship. "So at...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Colleges and Universities, Human Interest, Arts and Culture, Book
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Farewell party for Lincoln Park Zoo gorilla's move to Brookfield all part of master plan for the species
It's a story that happens thousands of times a year in Chicago: Young male heads west, leaving behind the congestion of Lincoln Park to settle in the suburbs, hopefully have some children. To see this standard sociological ritual enacted with gorillas,...
Tags: Brookfield (Fairfield, Connecticut), Lincoln Park Zoo, North America, Brookfield Zoo, Volleyball
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'Change agent' for the Field Museum
In choosing controversial former University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere as its likely next chief executive, the Field Museum has opted for a "change agent," according to the man hiring him, and a "gentleman with elbows," according to one of...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Arts and Culture, Charity, Teachers, Teaching and Learning
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A Genghis Khan we hardly knew arrives in Field Museum exhibit
In the new Field Museum exhibition "Genghis Khan," there are suggestions of why the 13th century Mongol emperor terrified opponents and won battles: the specialized arrows, some of them whistling, some flaming; the compact horse saddles and stand-up...Tags: Arts and Culture, Mongolia, Museums, Field Museum of Natural History
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'Sex at Dawn' at University of Chicago
Tribune ReporterIt'll be after dusk, but researcher Christopher Ryan will nonetheless discuss his book, "Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality," at 7 p.m. Thursday in a free event at the University of Chicago. Ryan's book, a bestseller praised highly...Tags: University of Chicago, Colleges and Universities, Vegetarian Diet, Gays and Lesbians, Diets and Dieting
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'Bossypants' an entertaining but safe foray into Fey's life
Tina Fey doesn't tell a lot of stories on herself, not really, in her new book "Bossypants," which is actually bits of so many books that it could be placed fairly in Memoirs, Management, Women's studies, Comedy, or that section where they give you book...Tags: Tina Fey, Planned Parenthood, Television, Comedy (genre), Saturday Night Live (tv program)
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Chicago's lord of the riff is king of New Yorker
To anyone who has encountered New Yorkers' maddeningly internalized sense of superiority about their place of residence, a hubris perhaps best expressed in Saul Steinberg's famous New Yorker magazine cover, "View of the World from 9th Avenue," here is a...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Miss America Pageant, Alice Munro, Entertainment, Periodicals
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Ticked-off Sue's eyeing you, bud
It is, apparently, lonely at the top of the list of the world's most intact Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons.
So for the 10th anniversary of Sue's exhibit debut at the Field Museum, the museum has procured some company for her: four life-size, interactive...Tags: Labor Day, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Avatar (movie), Science
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New Simpsons intro boasts HD -- and a shocking continuity error!
Normally, a new intro to a television series wouldn't be news. Television series themselves are barely news anymore, unless they somehow get mentioned on Facebook. And whether they draw notice or not, very few of them these days possess the courage to...Tags: Sculpture, Television, Arts and Culture, Facebook, Entertainment
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Milt Program Guide October 08
Staff reporterWEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1ST THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2ND There will be no shows tonight due to the Cubs playoff games. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3RD ELECTION 08 The night after the Vice Presidential debate, we’ll bring together three astute political observers...Tags: Government, Crime, Law and Justice, Colleges and Universities, Charlton Heston, Robert Gates
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