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Marston House: Right at home in this San Diego charmer
This 16-room Arts and Crafts masterpiece on the edge of San Diego's Balboa Park was the home of George and Anna Marston and their five children. Marston, a philanthropist, civic leader and owner of the city's premier department store, commissioned...
Tags: Labor Day, Memorial Day, Booker T. Washington
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Rosenbaum House: Frank Lloyd Wright in Alabama
In the depths of the Depression, architect Frank Lloyd Wright developed a housing style called Usonian. These middle-class homes were meant to be affordable and connected to their setting. They blurred the distinction between indoors and out, featuring...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Architecture
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History lives in the Yucatán
YUCATÁN PENINSULA, Mexico — What's the Mexican drug-war body count now? 47,000? Ever since the killings began to escalate in late 2006, I've been visiting the country less and choosing spots more carefully. But the Yucatán Peninsula was an easy...
Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Tourism and Leisure, Travel, U.S. Department of State, Travel Alerts
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Hyde Park Jazz Festival transforms a neighborhood – with music
What does a great Chicago jazz festival look like? Sound like? Feel like? Overflow audiences found out over the weekend, when the sixth annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival unfolded in unconventional, richly appealing venues across the South Side neighborhood....
Tags: Hyde Park, Festive Events, Arts and Culture, Arts, Entertainment
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Hyde Park Jazz Festival roars into its sixth season
Of all the jazz soirees that crowd the calendar in Chicago each year, none uses the urban environment as creatively as the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, which runs Saturday and Sunday in multiple locations. At what other time of the year, after all, are you...
Tags: Festive Events, Midway, Concerts, Culture, Entertainment Events
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Ecologically advanced Smart Home at Museum of Science and Industry redesigned
They weren't kidding when they named the modular house just east of the main Museum of Science and Industry building the Smart Home. Not only does it incorporate a bevy of ecologically friendly features, it is now entering its fifth year as a special MSI...
Tags: Museums, Museum of Science and Industry, Arts and Culture, Ceremonies, Culture
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Pedro E. Guerrero dies at 95; fine arts photographer
Pedro E. Guerrero, a photographer whose early work with architect Frank Lloyd Wright sparked a long, distinguished career in the worlds of fine art and glossy magazines, died Thursday. He was 95. Guerrero died at his home in Florence, Ariz., said his...Tags: Arts, Periodicals, Fine Arts, Alexander Calder, New Canaan
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Sighting: Stars come out for Springsteen shows at Wrigley Field
You probably already know Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder and former Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello made surprise appearances on stage with Bruce Springsteen Friday and Saturday at The Boss’s concerts at Wrigley Field, but there were...
Tags: NBC (tv network), Brian Campbell, Pearl Jam (music group), Wrigley Field, Duncan Keith
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Frank Lloyd Wright archives heading to New York
The archives of architect Frank Lloyd Wright have found a new home -- two homes, to be precise -- in New York. The archives have been jointly acquired by the Museum of Modern Art and Columbia University. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation said it will...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Museum of Modern Art, Architecture
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Find one-of-a-kind cultural items Chicago's museum stores
More years ago than I'd like to say, I moved into a charmless cinder block dormitory on the campus of a land-grant university about eight hours away from my suburban Chicago home. To assuage homesickness and spruce the place up a bit, I hung a print of...
Tags: Fine Artists, Michigan Avenue, Artists, Arts, Culture
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Remembering what Tammy Zywicki would have liked
On Thursday, in honor of the anniversary, JoAnn and Hank Zywicki went to their daughter's grave. They'd driven up from their retirement development in Florida, all the way to Pennsylvania, to a little town near where they and Tammy had been born. Did...
Tags: FBI, Pennsylvania Turnpike, Colleges and Universities, Northwestern University
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Marker placed at Hyde Park shopping center where Obamas shared first kiss
She was an attorney at a big Chicago law firm. He was a Harvard Law student who landed a job there as a summer associate. He was immediately smitten. She wasn't so sure. But he won her over, and the couple sealed their budding romance with a kiss at the...
Tags: Barack Obama, Hyde Park, Tourism and Leisure, Ice Cream, Lifestyle and Leisure
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