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Fun Facts About Governor Brown
Edmund Gerald Brown, Jr. - also known as Jerry Brown - takes office as governor of California on January 3, 2011, replacing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Brown, born in San Francisco in 1938, served as governor from 1975 to 1983. He defeated Republican...Tags: Linda Ronstadt, Crime, Law and Justice, San Diego (San Diego, California), San Francisco, White House
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Kelsey Grammer as Chicago mayor in 'Boss'
RedEyeApparently Chicago politicians are hot—at least the fictional kind. They appear in Fox’s “The Chicago Code,” CBS’ “The Good Wife” and, this fall, in “Boss,” a new Starz series that will begin filming...Tags: Kathleen Robertson, Television, Drama (genre), Tom Kane, Kelsey Grammer
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Good news for Gary
![Last August, Gordon "Big Daddy" Biffle arrived in Las Vegas with no expectations, a man who a year prior was working in East Chicago carrying 50-pound pieces of sheetrock in steel-toed boots. Now, actor Michael Clarke Duncan and reality TV personality Omarosa were onstage at the Mandalay Bay Theatre, name-checking his business. This was the Hoodie Awards, Steve Harvey's annual ceremony recognizing black-owned businesses and organizations. The production-value-relative-to-awards ratio is impressively high, the glitziest presentation of best church choir or best fried chicken you've ever seen.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-03/60347803-23115501-187105.jpg "Last August, Gordon "Big Daddy\" Biffle arrived in Las Vegas with no expectations, a man who a year prior was working in East Chicago carrying 50-pound pieces of sheetrock in steel-toed boots. Now, actor Michael Clarke Duncan and reality TV personality Omarosa were onstage at the Mandalay Bay Theatre, name-checking his business. This was the Hoodie Awards, Steve Harvey's annual ceremony recognizing black-owned businesses and organizations. The production-value-relative-to-awards ratio is impressively high, the glitziest presentation of best church choir or best fried chicken you've ever seen.")
Last August, Gordon "Big Daddy" Biffle arrived in Las Vegas with no expectations, a man who a year prior was working in East Chicago carrying 50-pound pieces of sheetrock in steel-toed boots. Now, actor Michael Clarke Duncan and reality TV personality...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Anthony Anderson, Television, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Chinese Restaurants
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Printers Row Lit Fest: highlights from Rick Kogan
![It's easy to interview living authors, and I have three such people lined up at Saturday's Lit Fest: Jonathan Eig, author most recently of "Get Capone"; Barbara Ehrenreich, author of more than 20 books, including the best-seller "Nickel and Dimed"; and Charles Osgood, a photographer actually, but also a man who likes to talk. Then, at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the auditorium of the Harold Washington Library, I'll be "interviewing" a writer who died in 1997. I plan to do my best to bring Mike Royko back to life - in his words, my anecdotes, some special guests and one not-to-be-missed video.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-10/56720674-12180907-187105.JPG "It's easy to interview living authors, and I have three such people lined up at Saturday's Lit Fest: Jonathan Eig, author most recently of "Get Capone\"; Barbara Ehrenreich, author of more than 20 books, including the best-seller \"Nickel and Dimed\"; and Charles Osgood, a photographer actually, but also a man who likes to talk. Then, at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the auditorium of the Harold Washington Library, I'll be \"interviewing\" a writer who died in 1997. I plan to do my best to bring Mike Royko back to life - in his words, my anecdotes, some special guests and one not-to-be-missed video.")
Tribune reporterIt's easy to interview living authors, and I have three such people lined up at Saturday's Lit Fest: Jonathan Eig, author most recently of "Get Capone"; Barbara Ehrenreich, author of more than 20 books, including the best-seller "Nickel and Dimed"; and...Tags: Harold Washington Library Center
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What to see at Printers Row Lit Fest
Sunday
Memoir writing: How do you turn a life story into something more than a slog through boring facts? Perhaps Carol LaChapelle has an answer. 11 a.m., University Center/Multimedia Room
— Judy Hevrdejs, reporter
Tavern recipes: Susan and Drew...Tags: Millennium Park, Pakistan, History (tv network), Human Interest, Pete Hamill
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Goodbye, and thanks for all the years
Mayor Richard Daley's final City Hall open house Monday took on a different tone than others he's hosted over the years, as hundreds of guests came mostly to thank him for decades of service rather than to seek the favor of Chicago's powerful chief...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Gays and Lesbians, St. Patrick's Day, Joseph Berrios, Politics
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Richard M. Daley, Chicago mayor, boss and Obama mentor, calls it quits next year
Top of the TicketBig-city Democratic boss retires after 21 years, setting off a political succession scramble including White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.... -
Another little-known fact about Mike Royko: He was an atheist
Change of SubjectYesterday, Neil Steinberg's Sun-Times column discussed the little-known fact that the late, legendary columnist Mike Royko was an opera buff (as is Steinberg). His main source, Royko's son David, 51, followed up with an extended blog post, "Yes, Dad... -
History lesson: Why Jerry Brown is called 'Moonbeam'
Top of the TicketIn 1976, a Chicago newspaper columnist wrote that Jerry Brown would get "the moonbeam vote." The writer was Mike Royko, who then started referring to the then-38-year-old Brown as "Gov. Moonbeam." Royko was suggesting that Brown was attracting California'... -
Burke's bodyguards: An issue worth revisiting
Change of SubjectRahm Emanuel's glancing mention during Monday night's debate of the exensive bodyguard protection afforded to finance committee chairman Ald. Ed Burke, 14th-- "The City Council has to share in the sacrifice because the residents will be sharing in... -
Nelson Algren: The original Chicago hipster
Bucktown / Wicker ParkSome said he was a bum and troublemaker, arrested once for stealing a typewriter and a second time for possessing marijuana.... -
From the archives: Carol Moseley Braun and Nigerian trips/Kgosie Matthews
Change of SubjectMore background from the Tribune archives on the mayor's race. Click here for the full series Braun says report clears her campaign manager December 7, 1992 U.S. Sen.-elect Carol Moseley Braun said Sunday an independent inquiry she ordered has cleared.......
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