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The Double Cupp Diner, now open for some real business
Even a warm, fun, country-rock night at the Double Cupp Diner — home of the "Pump Boys and Dinettes" — must come to a close. So the authors of this familiar, honkey-tonk musical revue helpfully provided a number — "Closing Time" —...Tags: Theater, Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Music Theater, Apollo Theater
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Schmich: Ebert reflects well on Chicago
This column originally ran in the Chicago Tribune on Oct. 21, 2011. Some years ago when I was new to Chicago, I spotted Roger Ebert in the frozen-foods aisle of a grocery store. He was famous by then, and I did what any normal person does at the sight...
Tags: Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), Gene Siskel, Chicago Public Library, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune
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Mundelein man awarded for longtime devotion to community theater
A longtime Mundelein resident who founded the Kirk Players Community Theatre in the village nearly 50 years ago received a national award last week in honor of his history of volunteerism. John Lynn was given the Robert G. Gard Superior Volunteer...
Tags: Mundelein, Awards and Prizes, Arts and Culture, Local Government, Human Interest
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Studs still speaks
Special to Tribune newspapersStuds Terkel was a magnificent and mighty human being. He was unfailingly generous. He loved people and made their lives better by listening deeply to what they had to say. He found poetry in the words of everyday folks, and was himself one of the great...Tags: New York City, Good Friday, Chicago Tribune, Grand Central Terminal, Concourse
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The Wine Club with a Reading Problem
Our book club started in March 2008 when a few Brookfield-LaGrange Park friends and a trio of sisters decided that we wanted to have a way to talk about the books we were reading — and a regular excuse to socialize. We meet every four to six weeks...
Tags: Bars and Clubs, Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure
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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: Arts, Entertainment, Chicago Cultural Center, Buddy Guy, Columbia College Chicago
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175 years of memorable, horrible, humorous and remarkable events that shaped Chicago
On March 4, 1837, exactly 175 years ago, Chicago was incorporated. Not that Flashback needed a reason, but we took this occasion to compile a very long list of events, year by year and decade by decade, that helped shape this great city. Some events...
Tags: Harold Washington, Science, Newspaper and Magazine, Pacific Garden Mission, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Art Institute review: When Picasso met Chicago
In 1913, the Art Institute did something astonishing. It opened its hallowed halls to an exhibition so radical that it would forever alter the course of art-making in the United States. The event was the International Exhibition of Modern Art, better...
Tags: Arts, Painting, Marcel Duchamp, Fine Artists, Michigan Avenue
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Hans Massaquoi dies at 87; wrote of growing up black in Nazi Germany
Hans Massaquoi, a former managing editor of Ebony magazine who wrote a distinctive memoir about his unusual childhood growing up black in Nazi Germany, died in Jacksonville, Fla., on Saturday, his 87th birthday. He had been hospitalized over the...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, World War II (1939-1945), Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Germany, Liberia
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Nelson Algren Short Story Awards: A look back at a rich history
An honor like the Nelson Algren Short Story Award can be a boon to a writer. It can give him or her the confidence to slog through rejections and trudge forward with literary endeavors. When we asked former Nelson Algren Award recipients what winning...Tags: Entertainment, Anglicanism, Newspaper and Magazine, Sports, O. Henry
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Rick Kogan rediscovers Norbert Blei
The last time the name Norbert Blei appeared above a story in the Chicago Tribune was June 2, 1985. He wrote about the Clearing, a folk arts school founded in 1935 in Door County, Wis., by renowned landscape architect Jens Jensen when he was 75. ...
Tags: Jens Jensen, Newspaper and Magazine, Authors, Chicago Tribune, Architecture
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