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10 things you might not know about razed Chicago
Chicago Tribune reportersEver since the Great Fire of 1871, a cycle of destruction and rebuilding has been central to the Chicago story. This month, Northwestern University secured a permit to tear down Prentice Hospital so that it can build a biomedical research facility. Also...Tags: Art Institute of Chicago, Newspapers, Gold Coast, Al Capone, Arts and Culture
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Who's to blame for our politics? Don't ask
There is a classic "Doonesbury" cartoon, published soon after the Vietnam War ended, in which the antiwar activist Mark Slackmeyer is arguing with his pro-war father. They go back and forth, each blaming the other's politics for everything that's wrong in...Tags: Gun Control, Authors, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Nouri Maliki, Government
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Micky Moore dies at 98; director and early Hollywood actor
Micky Moore and Hollywood grew up together. He was a toddler in 1916 when he began his career as a child actor in silent films and sat on the laps of such leading ladies as Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson. As a 5-year-old he worked with legendary...Tags: Cinema Industry, Heart Failure, Celebrities, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (movie), Tom Mix
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Art Callaham: Some more fun facts about our presidents
Early after the first of this year, I wrote a column concerning interesting facts about our presidents, and I promised to write more. That column and this one — and possibly some future ones — are based on a book by Cormac O’Brien titled...Tags: William Henry Harrison, Executive Branch, Zachary Taylor, George Washington, Millard Fillmore
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Centre College President Roush speaks with Stanford Elementary students
ben@theinteriorjournal.comSTANFORD — Centre College President John Roush had a much younger audience than he's probably used to on March 27, when he paid a visit to Stanford Elementary School. Roush, Centre's 20th president, spoke to students about the 16th president of...Tags: Education, Students, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning
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No easy category to put Hershey Felder
Producing theater isn't easy. Solo producing is even harder. But such is the task the redoubtable Hershey Felder has set for himself at the Royal George Theatre. Felder has one more week to go with his unusual but interesting show "An American Story," a...
Tags: Music, Jack Lemmon, Religion and Belief, Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin
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Letters: Crazy about cursive
Re "A different slant on cursive," April 1 The article notes that a study on cursive found that essays written in this form of handwriting received slightly higher scores. Suzanne Asherson of the group Handwriting Without Tears attributes this...Tags: Charles Dickens
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Kirk announces support for same-sex marriage
Tribune reporterWASHINGTON — Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk reversed course Tuesday and announced his support for gay marriage, entering a contentious national debate and providing potential political cover for Illinois House GOP members who may soon vote on the...Tags: Family, Democratic Party, Pat Brady, Christine Radogno, Politics
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The Post Office's salvation can fit on a stamp
In Robert Heinlein's classic novella, "The Man Who Sold the Moon," an entrepreneur raises money for a lunar expedition by warning a soft-drink company that, without its support, he might have to turn to a competitor that will pay him to display its logo...Tags: Authors, Microsoft Corporation, George Washington, Book, Starbucks Corp.
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Arena Stage premieres Tazewell Thompson's 'Mary T. & Lizzy K.'
Tragedy seemed to stalk Mary Todd Lincoln as surely as it did her husband. Long before that Good Friday in 1865 when the Lincolns decided to attend Ford’s Theatre, it was clear that the mental health of the president’s wife had begun to...
Tags: Human Interest, Slavery
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West Virginia's birth detailed in Charles Town author's new book
richardb@herald-mail.comMany who have not studied West Virginia history believe it became a state in the middle of the Civil War because the people who lived in western Virginia objected to Virginia’s vote to secede from the Union. True for some, but the schism between...Tags: Authors, Local Elections, Executive Branch, U.S. House of Representatives, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Oswald's gun and the decline of U.S. politics
Next week marks a much-overlooked anniversary: It will be 50 years since Lee Harvey Oswald, under the name A. Hidell, purchased the Italian surplus Carcano M91/38 rifle with which he would eight months later assassinate President John F. Kennedy. Don'...Tags: Gun Control, Philosophy, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religion and Belief, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
Mar 31, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Apr 5, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Mar 10, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 10, 2013
|Story| Herald Mail
Apr 4, 2013
|Story| Interior Journal
Apr 4, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Apr 3, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 2, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Apr 1, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Apr 1, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Mar 31, 2013
|Story| Herald Mail
Mar 8, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
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