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Wright's Unity Temple gets $10 million grant for face lift
Tribune reporterFrank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple, a pilgrimage site for architectural buffs, will get a face lift, thanks to a $10 million grant from a Chicago-based foundation. Wednesday’s announcement about the striking Oak Park structure comes as...Tags: Religion and Belief, National Government, Christianity, Streeterville, Architecture
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James Turrell shapes perceptions
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Flying a couple of thousand feet above a volcanic field in Arizona near the Painted Desert, it's fairly easy to spot the extinct volcano known as the Roden Crater. It stands alone in the field, apart from hundreds of other...
Tags: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Weather Reports, Fine Artists, Religious Events, Volcanoes
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Review: '10 Buildings That Changed America' is a rewarding tour
The new PBS program "10 Buildings That Changed America" is nothing if not efficient. In a single breezy hour, it moves from Thomas Jefferson to Frank Gehry, racing in a chronological blur past Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Venturi and a handful of other...
Tags: Ford Motor Co., Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Frank Gehry, O'Hare International Airport, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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TV Picks: 'Family Tree,' 'Nashville,' '10 Buildings,' 'The Middle'
Los Angeles Times Television Critic"Family Tree" (HBO, premieres Sunday). Christopher Guest has made you a TV series. Thank him. The director of "A Mighty Wind" and "Best in Show" and one of the forces behind and in "This Is Spinal Tap" -- in which he was Nigel Tufnel, whose amplifier went...Tags: Grey's Anatomy (tv program), Atticus Shaffer, Music, Television Industry, Architecture
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Art Spiegelman's art obliterates category
"Who's got a gag for me today?" Early on in "CO-MIX: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics and Scraps." Art Spiegelman's upcoming career-spanner that's due out in September, we see a drawing of a much younger Spiegelman saying this to four tiny characters...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Fiction, Harold Washington Library Center, Festive Events, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Unity Temple ownership could change hands
Oak Park's Unity Temple could soon see a massive facelift if a fundraising effort that involves a recently announced $10 million grant from a Chicago foundation is successful. The foundation and the temple entered into an agreement that provides the...
Tags: National Government, Government, Politics
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Set Designer Creates Maze Magic For 'Twelfth Night' At Hartford Stage
The Hartford CourantFor set designer Alexander Dodge, it often starts with an image. In the case of the visual inspiration of Hartford Stage's production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," it was the suggestion of a garden maze by director Darko Tresnjak. The result is...Tags: Other Desert Cities (play), The New York Times, Arts and Culture, Westport Country Playhouse, Architecture
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More poor live in suburbs than urban areas, research shows
Bucking longstanding patterns in the United States, more poor people now live in the nation's suburbs than in urban areas, according to a new analysis. As poverty mounted throughout the nation over the past decade, the number of poor people living in...
Tags: South Holland, Environmental Issues, Chicago Tribune, Social Issues, Lansing
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Thomas Demand: A journey in great demand
Special to the TribuneJohn Lautner believed that "architecture should be really odd." To this end the midcentury American architect dotted Southern California with a concrete, glass and copper volcano for Bob Hope's second home, a dwelling that looks like a UFO perched on a...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Frank Gehry, Arts and Culture, The Getty, Architecture
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Wales of a good time planned in Elmhurst
Wales would be the ideal place to learn the Welsh language, but Elmhurst is a lot closer, especially for a group — mostly Americans, who will be in the city this summer to learn the Celtic language and delve into the country's culture, music and...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Entertainment, Music, Elmhurst College, Arts and Culture
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Part 2: History, grown locally
Historical societies perform a balancing act between preserving a community's past while connecting the threads to the current social fabric. This is the second in our two-part series on historical societies in Chicago and the suburbs. Ridge...
Tags: Ku Klux Klan, Tourism and Leisure, Morgan Park, Liposuction, Arlington Park
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Paolo Soleri dies at 93; architect of innovative city Arcosanti
Paolo Soleri, an Italian-born architect who created a visionary prototype for a new kind of ecologically sensitive city in the remote Arizona desert four decades ago, only to watch the suburban sprawl he detested begin to creep near it in recent years,...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Religion and Belief, Norman Foster, Philosophy, Washington, DC
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