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Smorgasbord for the soul
Lately I've been having some excellent lunches downtown. One day I had a fabulous repast of Poulenc and Prokofiev. Another time, I enjoyed several delicious servings of Georgia O'Keeffe. And on Friday, I chewed over some Heidegger. I've been on a kick...
Tags: Music, Arts, Music Industry, University of Chicago, Entertainment
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SAIC spearheads citywide performance festival
For RedEyeThe School of the Art Institute is partnering with the city of Chicago to host a three-month performance art festival that is shaping up to be one of the biggest citywide, multivenue performance festivals of its kind. The IN>TIME fest, which kicked...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Arts, Columbia College Chicago, Festive Events, Education
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Zigzagging along the Chicago Cultural Mile
At first glance, the Chicago Cultural Mile ("Where Culture & Commerce Meet") resembles nothing so much as a gerrymandered congressional district. According to its website, this officially arty and mercantile stretch begins at Michigan Avenue and the...
Tags: Arts, Cultural Development, Starbucks Corp., Arts and Culture, Field Museum of Natural History
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Citywide Expo Art Week announced
Tribune reporterSeveral of the city's major cultural institutions announced plans Tuesday to join together this fall for a "citywide celebration of arts and culture." Dubbed “Expo Art Week,” the event is set to encompass museum and gallery exhibitions,...Tags: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Arts, Spiaggia, Cultural Development, Sepia
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Why the Chicago Jazz Festival left Grant Park
For decades, the defenders of the status quo have insisted that the Chicago Jazz Festival must remain anchored in Grant Park. They said the dreadful acoustics there were just fine. They said the dilapidated Petrillo Music Shell served the fest well....
Tags: Music, Arts, Old Town School of Folk Music, Jazz Institute of Chicago, Concerts
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Chicago Jazz Festival moving to Millennium Park
After more than three decades at the Petrillo Music Shell in Grant Park, the Chicago Jazz Festival will be leaving the venue for Millennium Park, according to the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE). Though in recent...
Tags: Music, Arts and Culture, Chicago Jazz Fest, Cloud Gate, Millennium Park
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Monday Night Live: A tiny cabaret with big surprises
Monday nights in the Loop would be a lot less lively if it weren't for "Monday Night Live." The popular series marked its fifth anniversary in September, and judging by the most recent installment, the concept still has plenty of life in it. At around...
Tags: Music, Theater, Music Theater, Howard Reich, Entertainment Events
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Alzheimer's musical surprises and moves
As a subject for a musical comedy, Alzheimer's disease can be a tough sell. Even Avrum Krause, director of the Time of Your Life Players, who came up with the idea of writing a musical comedy about a rock guitarist who develops early onset Alzheimer's,...
Tags: Music, Diseases and Illnesses, Alzheimer's Association, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Prostate Cancer
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Update: Epic Sound's Jada-Amina Harvey makes it to semifinals, Kuumba Lynx wins finals
The words and rhymes of 12 high school poets competing in the individual finals of the Louder Than a Bomb slam poetry festival echoed off the marble walls of the Chicago Cultural Center Wednesday night. Jada-Amina Harvey, a member of Kenwood Academy's...
Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mayor, Arts and Culture, Palace Theater, Victory Gardens Theatre
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Plotting out another great Story Week
It is a pleasurable thing to have drinks with Randy Albers and we have done so over the years at such saloons as, of course, the Billy Goat, as well as Stefani's 437, the Underground Wonder Bar and some joint in the South Loop whose name escapes me at the...
Tags: Music, Arts, Jane Hamilton, Columbia College Chicago, Buddy Guy
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Will Penny Pritzker become the next U.S. commerce secretary?
In late 2009, President Barack Obama appeared on "60 Minutes" and said "fat-cat bankers" were smothering his efforts to craft new rules for Wall Street. As soon as the reforms cleared Congress six months later, the president's top advisers launched a...
Tags: Graduation, Realty, Gaming, Economy, Business and Finance, Environmental Issues
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Chicago Underground Film Fest finds a fitting home
Nearly 20 years after it was founded, the Chicago Underground Film Fest remains (perhaps appropriately) a relatively underground event. Two decades is a milestone, though, especially if you're talking about a fest that brands itself as the home of...
Tags: Music, Oblivion (movie), Dr. Seuss, Republic of Ireland, Vincent Gallo
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