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At the MSI, it's the Charlie Brownest
Following in the footsteps of its very popular — and not particularly scientific — Dr. Seuss and Jim Henson exhibitions, the Museum of Science and Industry now gives Chicago a show devoted to comic artist Charles Schulz and his great, enduring...Tags: Arts and Culture, Arts, Museum of Science and Industry, Museums
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'Charlie Brown and the Great Exhibit': Good, not great, grief
"Charlie Brown and the Great Exhibit" is a big, reasonably well-stuffed celebration of one of the great achievements in American popular culture, the "Peanuts" newspaper comic strip by lachrymose Minnesotan Charles Schulz. In section after section of...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Arts, Museum of Science and Industry, Entertainment, Jim Henson
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What you should see at Stratford Shakespeare Festival
STRATFORD, ONTARIO — It's not easy for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival to accommodate the beautiful mess. Its costs and budgets are massive, its theaters imposing — in its current configuration, Tanya Moiseiwitsch's famous Festival...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Christopher Plummer, Piracy, Theater, Music Theater
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'Animal Inside Out' is Body Worlds' take on beasts and birds
The last time the Body Worlds people displayed at the Museum of Science and Industry, in a 2011 exhibition showing the development and decline of the human corpus, they included, with seeming incongruity, an ostrich. The flightless — and, in...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Science and Technology, Environmental Issues, James Bond (fictional character), Wildlife
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Confronting artist Kara Walker
Kara Walker will be difficult. This gets whispered to you by enough people in the art world and you start to believe it: She's humorless! Confrontational! Intimidating! David Mamet intimidating! And this week, before the Thursday opening of “...
Tags: Arts and Culture, University of Chicago, David Mamet, Gold Coast, Whitney Museum
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At home with the 'Peanuts' gang at the Orlando Regional History Center
As a kid, I was given a hardcover compilation book of "Peanuts," the popular comic strip created by Charles Schulz. I read and reread those panels, which could be digested in small doses or feasted on, cover to cover. That "Peanuts Treasury" book was...
Tags: Charlie Brown (fictional character), Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Orange County Regional History Center
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What's it all about, Jeffrey Loria?
You want explanations, don’t you? You want clues as to how and why Jeffrey Loria could do something so unspeakably cynical to a sports franchise he holds in public trust. Now that the Marlins owner has pushed the panic button and left South...
Tags: Charlie Brown (fictional character), Vincent Price, Jeffrey Loria, Marlins Park, Sports
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Advice Gov. Quinn didn't ask for
Another collection of dispatches from Somebody Nobody Asked™, America's pre-eminent unsolicited advice columnist. Dear Gov. Pat Quinn: Don't panic about your lousy standing in the Tribune poll published Friday. True, just 26 percent of Illinois...Tags: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Regional Authority, Michael Madigan, Ronald Reagan, Mitt Romney
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'Peanuts' movie coming in 2015
Good grief? Coinciding with the comic strip's 65th anniversary, Charles Schulz's "Peanuts" gang--that's Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy and the rest, if your memory needs a reboot--will hit the big screens Nov. 25, 2015, a press release announced this...
Tags: Charlie Brown (fictional character), Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who (movie), Ice Age: Continental Drift (movie), The Smurfs (movie)
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Get your 'Peanuts' fix at Orange County Regional History Center
Nuts about "Peanuts"? The Orange County Regional History Center is now home to an exhibit that should appeal to devotees of Charlie Brown and the gang. "Peanuts … Naturally" opens Saturday, Sept. 29, at the downtown Orlando museum. It includes...
Tags: Charlie Brown (fictional character), Arts and Culture, Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, Orange County Regional History Center
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Cartoonist Chris Ware is in his own category
If you were building a Chris Ware, if you were constructing the most celebrated cartoonist of the past couple of decades, drawing up the plans for an Oak Park illustrator so routinely referred to as a genius that the accolade is more like fact than...
Tags: Human Interest, University of Chicago, Charlie Brown (fictional character), Fiction, Entertainment Events
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10 museum exhibits for your fall 2012
Here are some shows and exhibits to watch for at Chicago's museums and zoos this fall, roughly in order of appearance: "Kouzina": Annual celebration of Greek and Mediterranean cuisine. 6 to 9 p.m. Sept. 20 at the National Hellenic Museum, 333 S....
Tags: Arts and Culture, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Brookfield Zoo, Arts, Adler Planetarium
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