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    May 22, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. In 'Roadkill' and 'h.g.,' powerful shows for small audiences

    There's nothing new in Chicago about theater in small spaces — that's a crucial part of the city's aesthetic. If you glance at my recommended shows, you'll see several pieces staged in theaters with fewer than 100 seats, including "Rabbit," "Lascivious Something," "In the Company of Men" and the not-to-be-missed production of "The Knowledge" at the Steep Theatre, where, as one of my theater-loving Tribune colleagues recently noted, you are plenty close enough to see the veins bulging in the neck of actress Caroline Neff.
    Tribune critic
    There's nothing new in Chicago about theater in small spaces — that's a crucial part of the city's aesthetic. If you glance at my recommended shows, you'll see several pieces staged in theaters with fewer than 100 seats, including "Rabbit,"...

    Tags: Chicago Cultural Center, Celebrities, Bucktown, Rentals, Arts and Culture

    2. May 2, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. Puppets and fairy tales are part of 'Stages, Sights and Sounds'

    The Chicago Humanities Festival is one of those things that many locals have on their calendar, but let's be clear about this — it's people in a room, standing on a stage, talking about stuff.
    Tribune reporter
    The Chicago Humanities Festival is one of those things that many locals have on their calendar, but let's be clear about this — it's people in a room, standing on a stage, talking about stuff. What self-respecting kid will sit still for that?...

    Tags: Chicago Cultural Center, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Sleeping Beauty (movie)

    3. Apr 23, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

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

    4. Oct 26, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. Larry Wilmore takes shots, not sides

    Larry Wilmore occupies an unusual place for a comedian, an original place. He often seems to be neither here nor there, his vantage neither staunchly one way nor another, neither completely serious nor entirely kidding. Before he went in front of the camera in 2006 and became known as a correspondent on "The Daily Show," he stayed mostly behind the scenes, as a writer on "In Living Color," "The Jamie Foxx Show" and "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," as a producer on "The Office" and as creator of "The Bernie Mac Show," among other positions.
    Larry Wilmore occupies an unusual place for a comedian, an original place. He often seems to be neither here nor there, his vantage neither staunchly one way nor another, neither completely serious nor entirely kidding. Before he went in front of the...

    Tags: Stand-up Comedy, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Elections, African-American History Month, NAACP

    5. Nov 11, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  5. 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: Chicago Tribune, Judaism, Hungary, Nobel Prize Awards, Entertainment Events

    6. Oct 10, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  6. 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: Rahm Emanuel, Arts and Culture, Music, Music Industry, Schools

    7. Nov 2, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. 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), Occupy Wall Street, Amusement and Theme Parks, Atlantic City (Atlantic, New Jersey), Arts and Culture

    8. Nov 5, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  8. 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: Chicago Cultural Center, Culture, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Festive Events

    9. Nov 7, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  9. 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: Literature, Lifestyle and Leisure, Authors, Arts and Culture, Journalism

    10. Oct 12, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  10. 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), Breast Cancer, Harold Washington Library Center, Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture

    11. Oct 8, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  11. 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: United Air Lines, Eric Lefkofsky, River North, Rahm Emanuel, Garry McCarthy

    12. Oct 29, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  12. For film fest, is 'good enough' good enough?

    My own feelings about the Chicago festival, the 48th edition of which concluded Thursday, are necessarily shaped by individual taste as well as equally subjective notions of relevance. Does the event matter? Is it as vital as it could be, should be? Tough queries, tougher to answer.
    Is the Chicago International Film Festival good, good enough or not quite that? This is the question. This is the question to be asked of any festival, every perennial cultural mainstay in every city. It's the way to keep us all honest, whatever dog we...

    Tags: Helen Hunt, Al Pacino, Cloud Atlas (movie), Arts and Culture, Los Angeles Film Festival

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