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Gov. Jerry Brown names two to Cal State board
L.A. NOWA corporate attorney and the founder of California’s first migrant worker bilingual radio station were appointed Friday to the California State University Board of Trustees, the governor’s office announced. Gov. Jerry Brown appointed Hugo... -
Goodman Theatre's upcoming season to highlight a Mary Zimmerman take on 'Jungle Book'
![Mary Zimmerman will premiere her new stage-musical version of "The Jungle Book"in Chicago, as part of the Goodman Theatre’s 2012-13 subscription season, the Chicago theater announced.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2012-02/228376500-27143017.jpg "Mary Zimmerman will premiere her new stage-musical version of "The Jungle Book\"in Chicago, as part of the Goodman Theatre’s 2012-13 subscription season, the Chicago theater announced.")
Mary Zimmerman will premiere her new stage-musical version of "The Jungle Book"in Chicago, as part of the Goodman Theatre’s 2012-13 subscription season, the Chicago theater announced.
"The Jungle Book," a Goodman production enhanced by the...Tags: Scott Rudin, Arts and Culture, Bare (music group), The Jungle Book (movie), Music
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Johns Hopkins professor shares Nobel Prize in physics
A phone ringing at 5:30 a.m. can rattle anyone, even a professor immersed in the universe's mysterious dark energy. Adam Riess, an astronomy professor at Johns Hopkins University, learned in an early morning call from Stockholm Tuesday that he was one...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Johns Hopkins University, Space Programs, Nobel Prize Awards, Stockholm (Sweden)
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Fundraisers focus on home and art
Special to Tribune NewspapersThe National Public Housing Museum's April 15 benefit, "An Afternoon of Good Times," honored three nationally renowned humanitarians for their commitments and contributions to inner-city housing and empowerment of its residents. Steve Pemberton, author...Tags: Arts and Culture, Awards and Prizes, Housing and Urban Planning, Jane Addams, Winston Churchill
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Exploring Boo's Mumbai
When Katherine Boo won the MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant 10 years ago, the citation praised her as one of the most influential journalists writing about contemporary social conditions. It noted her "expansive research, elegant...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, Asha, Entertainment Events, Globalization, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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MacArthur 'genius' tackles concussions in football
Kevin Guskiewicz, one of the winners of the MacArthur Foundation award announced Tuesday, was long a thorn in the side of the National Football League.
Since 1999, he has wired the helmets of about 700 college football players with accelerometers to...Tags: Radio, Awards and Prizes, Concussion, Alzheimer's Disease, Health
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Elouise Cobell dies at 65; Native American activist
Elouise Cobell, the treasurer of the Blackfeet tribe who tenaciously pursued a lawsuit that accused the federal government of cheating Native Americans out of more than a century's worth of royalties, resulting in a record $3.4-billion settlement, has...Tags: Trials, Minority Groups, U.S. Military, Regional Authority, Judges
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Philanthropist gives away more than $331 million with hands-on approach
Tribune staff reporterAnn Lurie isn't very good at being merely a name etched in granite. Take the coming fundraising gala to celebrate the completion of the new Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, a 1.25 million-square-foot facility in Streeterville with...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Health, Millennium Park, Health and Medical Professionals, Gold Coast
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MacArthur Foundation exec built her career from a mix of public, private experience and dashes of chance, risk
Tribune staff reporterWhen Robert Gallucci arrived in Chicago to take the reins at the MacArthur Foundation in mid-2009, he found himself besieged by new "friends." "They had great ideas on how the foundation could spend its money," he said. The onetime diplomat and...Tags: Chicago Mayor, Georgetown, Corporate Officers, Economy, Business and Finance, Housing and Urban Planning
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Adrienne Rich, poet, essayist, feminist, provocateur
Adrienne Rich, one of the country's most honored and influential poets, whose finely tuned verse explored her identity as a feminist, a lesbian and an agent for political change, died Tuesday at her home in Santa Cruz, Calif. She was 82. She died of...
Tags: Literature, The New York Times, Awards and Prizes, Arts and Culture, The Washington Post
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Three to be honored
Gloria Zigner, Douglas Rankin and Elizabeth Turk move in different worlds but have, in their own ways, made a mark on the Orange County arts scene. Come September, all three will be recognized at the 13th annual O.C. Arts Awards in Costa Mesa as...Tags: Charlie Sheen, Arts and Culture, Hospitals and Clinics, Helena Modjeska, Health
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Review: 'Detroit: A Biography' by Scott Martelle sees ruin, hope
Special to the Los Angeles TimesDetroit: A Biography Scott Martelle Chicago Review Press: 288 pp., $24.95 In February 1863, Thomas Faulkner, a Detroit saloon owner of mixed-race background, was arrested on the charge of raping a 9-year-old white girl. Despite his protestations of...Tags: Waterford, Saturday Night Fever (movie), Prisons, Biography (genre), Punishment
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