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Charity events keep spring social season hot
Chicago socialites had a difficult decision to make Saturday, with three celebrity-hosted galas taking place at the same time around the city. But for the see-and-be-seen crowd, this was likely a good problem to have. Those who attended the 26th...
Tags: Steve Carell, Beverly Johnson, United Center, Entertainment Events, Brandon Bollig
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Anchee Min on her memoir, "The Cooked Seed"
In “Red Azalea,” her best-selling 1994 memoir, Anchee Min told the compelling story of her childhood and early adulthood in China during the Cultural Revolution. The daughter of former teachers who were reassigned to jobs as manual laborers in...Tags: China, Authors, Sesame Street (tv program), Newspaper and Magazine, Entertainment Events
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'The Walk' showcases designs by students
Techno music played as models glided down the runway in cutting-edge designs by students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago at its 79th annual fashion show, "The Walk." More than 250 innovative creations were presented to almost 500 attendees...
Tags: Sage, Awards and Prizes, Entertainment Events, Fashion Shows, Millennium Park
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Fast fashion: SAIC fashion pop-up shop opens May 10
Runway looks, particularly those created by students, seldom see the light of a storefront. But this year, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago will be selling its student designers' garments in a bigger way after its May 3 annual fashion...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, Education
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Five books by Lit Fest presenters
About 150,000 people attend Printers Row Lit Fest each year to wander the book fair lining Dearborn Street and to listen to authors speak about their work. For a handful of the 200 or so authors who will appear this year, the event will be a homecoming....
Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Authors, Hugh Hefner, Entertainment Events, Heart Attack
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826CHI 826CHI is a nonprofit writing and tutoring center dedicated to supporting students ages 6-18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students. 826chi.org Tom Acitelli Tom Acitelli is author...Tags: Rod Blagojevich, Jack White, Authors, Arts, Philosophy
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Mollie Michala Lyman, model and artist, 1926–2013
As a girl, Mollie Michala Lyman, created paper dolls with custom wardrobes, illustrated her own daily newspaper and drew with crayons on an iron radiator because she liked the way the colors melted in the heat. "Even as a child she was unconventional,"...
Tags: Arts, Photography, Artists, Marshall Field, South Side
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Gender-bending rapper Mykki Blanco is Chicago through and through
Before Michael Quattlebaum was going glamazon in the pages of Vogue, being christened the most exciting thing in the downtown party scene by The New York Times, before he was boasting about being Jay-Z's natural-born legatee in song — which is to...
Tags: Nicki Minaj, The New York Times, Chicago Loop, Pilsen, Artists
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Going the distance, with careers in 2 cities
Sandra Smith was starting her first day as a sales trader in Chicago. Leaving her second post-college job at a hedge fund in New York, she was back in the city where she grew up and where several members of her family had worked in the financial trading...
Tags: Arts, Chicago Board of Trade, Television Industry, CME Group Inc., New York Mercantile Exchange
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Teaching compassion
Margie Huff, a second-year medical student at Northwestern University, picked up a drawing pencil and carefully sketched the upper border of an eye socket. Huff then peered at her own reflection in a small cosmetics mirror and made a couple of small...
Tags: The Pennsylvania State University, Northwestern University, Internists, Health and Medical Professionals, Drugs and Medicines
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Benjamin Lytal on 'A Map of Tulsa'
If Chicago author Benjamin Lytal were the typical writer of semi-autobiographical fiction, his first novel would have been the story of a young man who escaped his hometown in the interior of the country to become immersed in the colorful characters and...
Tags: Bern (Swiss Confederation), Authors, Newspaper and Magazine, Periodicals, Book
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Romeoville woman charged with DUI in fatal O'Hare crash
A Romeoville woman admitted she had been drinking when she fatally struck a motorist — the longtime boyfriend of a well-known Chicago jazz singer — as he stood on the shoulder of Mannheim Road after his car ran out of gas, according to Cook...
Tags: Prosecution, Drunk Driving, Music, O'Hare International Airport, Entertainment
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