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'Variety' coffee-table book displays the evolution of an iconic magazine
As it says here, on page 64 of the glossily fascinating coffee-table book "Variety: An Illustrated History of the World From the Most Important Magazine in Hollywood," Al Capone, interviewed in his Chicago home, told Variety he was approached often to...Tags: Periodicals, Russia, Fainting, Elvis Presley, Entertainment
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No word on Mexican drug lord Guzman after gun battle in Guatemala
MEXICO CITY -- Guatemalan authorities said Friday they had not yet recovered the bodies from a gun battle between Mexican drug traffickers in a remote part of the country where one of the world’s most-wanted fugitive kingpins is known to operate....
Tags: Guatemala, Mexico, Drug Trafficking, Mexico City, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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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, Holy Name Cathedral, New York City, Civic Opera House, Frank Lloyd Wright
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Mike Piazza goes from baseball to ballet
Mike Piazza, the former major league baseball player, is taking on an unconventional post-retirement job. The athlete is teaming up with Miami City Ballet and will perform a role in the company's production of George Balanchine's "Slaughter on Tenth...Tags: Miami Marlins, Baseball, Entertainment Events, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres
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Mike Piazza to perform with Miami City Ballet
Mike Piazza, who looked so good in pinstripes during his half-hour as a member of the then-Florida Marlins, will put on similarly fashionable stripes when he takes the stage May 3 in Miami City Ballet’s production of George Balanchine’s...
Tags: Miami Marlins, Dance, New York Mets, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Organized Crime
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Narco gun battle reported in 'Chapo' Guzman's Guatemala territory
MEXICO CITY -- Intense gun battles were reported late Thursday in a remote jungle region of northern Guatemala where Mexico's top drug lord, Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman, is known to operate. The firefights involved a convoy carrying suspected...Tags: Guatemala, Mexico, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Conflicts
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Ald. Lingonberry could get famous driving the Cubs from Wrigleyville
If there's one surefire way for a lowly Chicago alderman to surpass the worldwide fame of Michael Jordan and Al Capone, it's this: All the alderman has to do is help drive the Chicago Cubs out of town into the waiting, trembling arms of suburban...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Sports, Chicago Cubs, Baseball, Ann Sather
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Finalists face one another at Washington County Free Library's Battle of the Books
alnotarianni@aol.comThere were eight teams of fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders, each armed with a large pad of paper, a marker and everything they could remember about 20 books they had read. Finalists who had been reading and practicing since November faced one another in...Tags: Museum Dioramas, Museums, Teaching and Learning, Arts and Culture, Human Interest
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Marijuana legalization bill may threaten fabulous Prohibition II profits
With Valentine's Day still fresh in our minds, thoughts naturally turn to retired Army Gen. John T. Thompson of Newport, Ky., who helped give America one of its most vivid memories of that holiday. After serving in two wars, Thompson saw a need for a...Tags: Holidays, Crime, Law and Justice, Montgomery County (Pennsylvania), Organized Crime, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Cardinal Mahony's removal not enough, church critics say
L.A. NOWLos Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez's decision to relieve Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of all public duties over his mishandling of clergy sex abuse of children decades ago does not go far enough, some abuse victim advocates said Friday. David Clohessy,...... -
Connecticut Small-Batch Distilleries Are Making Award-Winning Vodkas, Brandies and Whiskeys
Margaret and Louis Chatey are turning pears and apples from Ledyard and Middlefield into award-winning brandy in a barn off an Ashford country lane. Over in East Hartford, Adam von Gootkin is hunting for Connecticut corn he can transform into what he...
Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Wines, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Apples, Dining and Drinking
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Deirdre Capone softens a notorious icon
What's in a name? If you're a Chicagoan and your surname is Capone, everything. There is perhaps no more notorious name associated with the city (except perhaps Gacy, or for a time, Bartman). Growing up, Deirdre Marie Capone lived what she calls a "shame-...
Tags: Desi Arnaz, Boardwalk Empire (tv program), Wrigley Field, Star Trek (movie, 2009), Leonard Nimoy
Feb 23, 2013
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Mar 16, 2013
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