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    Nov 11, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. Wiesel speaks to sanctity of learning, power of memory

    Elie Wiesel didn't need Holocaust deniers to lend immediacy to his discussion about the importance of learning and memory, but there they were anyway, three men standing outside the Symphony Center Sunday morning holding an anti-Semitic banner and barking such nonsense as, "There never was a Holocaust."
    Elie Wiesel didn't need Holocaust deniers to lend immediacy to his discussion about the importance of learning and memory, but there they were anyway, three men standing outside the Symphony Center Sunday morning holding an anti-Semitic banner and barking...

    Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Religion and Belief, Hungary, World War II (1939-1945), Literature

    2. Oct 10, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  2. Chicago is Yo-Yo Ma's cultural soapbox

    The Chicago Public Schools, the Silk Road Ensemble, the Humanities Festival, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Citizen Musician, "cultural entrepreneurship" — Yo-Yo Ma has a way of filling his plate during his now-frequent visits to Chicago.
    The Chicago Public Schools, the Silk Road Ensemble, the Humanities Festival, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Citizen Musician, "cultural entrepreneurship" — Yo-Yo Ma has a way of filling his plate during his now-...

    Tags: Entertainment, Music, Rahm Emanuel, Festive Events, Culture

    3. May 30, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  3. MCA bringing Stew, Handspring Puppet Theatre, Mike Daisey to Chicago in 2012-13

    Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art has announced its 2012-13 season of live performances. The typically expansive, eclectic and inter-disciplinary season includes the following events: - "Imperial Science: Una Opera Muerta" An operatic collaboration...

    Tags: Fine Artists, Entertainment, Goodman Theatre, Steve Jobs, Arts

    4. Apr 23, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. Chicago Humanities Festival lets in the Animal

    In announcing its fall programming theme, “Animal: What Makes Us Human,” the Chicago Humanities Festival provides one answer to the question that, for want of a question mark, it doesn't quite pose.
    In announcing its fall programming theme, “Animal: What Makes Us Human,” the Chicago Humanities Festival provides one answer to the question that, for want of a question mark, it doesn't quite pose. The desire and ability to stage an...

    Tags: Autism, Festive Events, Arts and Culture, Customs and Tradition, Hyde Park

    5. Nov 2, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  5. A view of Occupy Wall Street, Disney and the desert through eyes of Mike Daisey

    THEATER REVIEW: "Mike Daisey: American Utopias" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago ★★½ ... Mike Daisey is a keen cultural observer with a ruthless streak.
    Mike Daisey is a keen cultural observer with a ruthless streak. In "American Utopias," the neo-Spalding Gray's latest monologue, Daisey even takes on the "It's a Small World" ride at Walt Disney World. "It looks like a 1950s game show threw up on itself,"...

    Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Arts, Steve Jobs, Occupy Wall Street, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

    6. Nov 5, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  6. Lyric creative team talks 'Bel Canto,' Ars Viva tackles elusive Sibelius symphony

    No opera company faces a more formidable task than commissioning a new opera, assembling the forces needed to bring it to fruition and nursing it through the long and sometimes painful process leading up to the premiere. But such undertakings are vital if opera houses are not to become museums mired in the musty past.
    No opera company faces a more formidable task than commissioning a new opera, assembling the forces needed to bring it to fruition and nursing it through the long and sometimes painful process leading up to the premiere. But such undertakings are vital if...

    Tags: Entertainment, Music, Festive Events, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis

    7. Nov 7, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. Cursing is no curse for Ian Frazier

    Ian (expletive) Frazier, whose journalism has been a mainstay of the New Yorker for almost four (expletive) decades, whose subjects have included fly-fishing, Native American reservations, (expletive) Siberia, the security detail for hip-hop performers, typewriter repairmen, Don Cornelius, (expletive) meteorites, (expletive) trees, cellphone-sniffing canines and his own (expletive) (expletive) Ohio ancestry, has written his first novel, "The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days." It is inspired by his "Cursing Mommy" columns for the New Yorker. It is the satiric daybook of a tightly wound mom with a terrible family.
    Ian (expletive) Frazier, whose journalism has been a mainstay of the New Yorker for almost four (expletive) decades, whose subjects have included fly-fishing, Native American reservations, (expletive) Siberia, the security detail for hip-hop performers,...

    Tags: Journalism, Authors, Literature, Arts and Culture, Lifestyle and Leisure

    8. Oct 12, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  8. How to ruin an arts panel

    Today is the first day of the Chicago Humanities Festival and last day of Chicago Ideas Week. Not that it matters anymore when one annual celebration of creativity ends and another begins. Somewhere, every day of the year, morning, brunch and night, there seems to be an arts panel, arts seminar, book talk, onstage discussion between a moderator and artist, onstage discussion between a moderator and several artists, onstage discussion between an artist and artist, or discourse on the state of something artistic happening.
    Today is the first day of the Chicago Humanities Festival and last day of Chicago Ideas Week. Not that it matters anymore when one annual celebration of creativity ends and another begins. Somewhere, every day of the year, morning, brunch and night, there...

    Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Entertainment, David Chase, Zach Galifianakis, Festive Events

    9. Oct 8, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  9. Chicago Ideas Week organizers hope talks trigger something great

    Chicago Ideas Week headquarters is a brightly lit, sprawling, open room in a River North office building where scores of workers sit at long rows of desks working the phones, rat-a-tatting their keyboards and keeping the din level high.
    Chicago Ideas Week headquarters is a brightly lit, sprawling, open room in a River North office building where scores of workers sit at long rows of desks working the phones, rat-a-tatting their keyboards and keeping the din level high. Actually, only...

    Tags: Entertainment, Eric Lefkofsky, Rahm Emanuel, Festive Events, Diane von Furstenberg

    10. Nov 28, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  10. Stuart Flack leaving Humanities Festival

    The Chicago Humanities Festival announced Wednesday that Stuart Flack, its executive director since 2007, has resigned and will be leaving the organization Dec. 31. “I've been here for five years, I think we've done great work, built a great team,...

    Tags: University of Chicago, Festive Events, Education, Arts and Culture, Colleges and Universities

    11. Nov 11, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  11. Author Ford's 'Canada' reads like Midwest

    Viewed casually, the event featuring author Richard Ford on Sunday night might have seemed a series of dislocations.
    Viewed casually, the event featuring author Richard Ford on Sunday night might have seemed a series of dislocations. Under a projection proclaiming "America" — the theme of this year's Chicago Humanities Festival — Ford talked about and...

    Tags: Northwestern University, Elizabeth Taylor, Dyslexia, Michigan State University, F. Scott Fitzgerald

    12. Oct 31, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  12. Gaming grows up: A video game revolution

    The video game is 40.
    The video game is 40. Its exact birthday is arguable. Cultural historians likely would date its origins further back, roughly a decade or two; prototypes of arcade games flourished in university computer labs in the 1950s. But “Pong,” the...

    Tags: University of Southern California, Entertainment, Apple iPhone, Video Games, Citizen Kane (movie)

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