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Goodman Theatre's upcoming season to highlight a Mary Zimmerman take on 'Jungle Book'
![Mary Zimmerman will premiere her new stage-musical version of "The Jungle Book"in Chicago, as part of the Goodman Theatre’s 2012-13 subscription season, the Chicago theater announced.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2012-02/228376500-27143017.jpg "Mary Zimmerman will premiere her new stage-musical version of "The Jungle Book\"in Chicago, as part of the Goodman Theatre’s 2012-13 subscription season, the Chicago theater announced.")
Mary Zimmerman will premiere her new stage-musical version of "The Jungle Book"in Chicago, as part of the Goodman Theatre’s 2012-13 subscription season, the Chicago theater announced.
"The Jungle Book," a Goodman production enhanced by the...Tags: Bare (music group), Arts and Culture, Music, Goodman Theatre, Entertainment
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Flutist Nicole Mitchell's welcome return to Chicago
The great flutist-composer Nicole Mitchell moved to Chicago – and launched her international career here – in 1990. More than two decades later, in August of 2011, she left the city for California, yet it's still impossible to think of...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Howard Reich, Buddy Guy, University of California, Irvine, Columbia University
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Rosenthal: Fighting Chicago's violent crime has become business of business
Jim Reynolds, who grew up in Englewood and is among this city's business elite, always has known that side of Chicago. He also knows the jolt that comes when someone, especially someone who has grown up here, first has their eyes opened and the city's...
Tags: Sports, Tom Wilson, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago City Hall, Environmental Issues
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Author George Saunders maps the origins of his writing
We sped south on Cicero Avenue. Through Oak Lawn, Alsip, Crestwood, a flat, aging strip-malled landscape of crumbling pizza joints and ancient tanning parlors, fast-food chains, tile-supply stores and — "Wow!" I shouted, "Look! The Brazen Head!"...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Bill Clinton, Authors, Skype, Entertainment Events
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'Book of My Lives': Aleksander Hemon's remarkable tale
Aleksandar Hemon landed in the United States two decades ago, January 1992. He was 27, a young Bosnian journalist from Sarajevo arriving on a one-month visa, arranged through a cultural exchange program sponsored by the State Department. Just after he...
Tags: Sports, Loyola University Chicago, Newspaper and Magazine, U.S. Department of State, Hopleaf
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Confronting artist Kara Walker
Kara Walker will be difficult. This gets whispered to you by enough people in the art world and you start to believe it: She's humorless! Confrontational! Intimidating! David Mamet intimidating! And this week, before the Thursday opening of “...
Tags: Gold Coast, Arts and Culture, Arts, Mark Twain, Barack Obama
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Good Pitch Chicago forum will connect documentary filmmakers with supporters
Chicago's documentary film industry is getting its own high-profile Demo Day. Running concurrently with the Chicago International Film Festival, a group of corporate and nonprofit executives will showcase up to eight unfinished documentary films at a...
Tags: Sundance Film Festival, Hoop Dreams (movie), PBS (tv network), Netflix Inc., Chicago International Film Festival
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MacArthur grants go to Chicago arts groups
More than $500,000 will go to 13 Chicago non-profit cultural organizations from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s International Connections Fund. The resources will enable recipients “to conduct collaborations with arts...Tags: Arts and Culture, Culture, Jonathan Miller, Arts, Catherine T. MacArthur
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$50,000 bounty to quiet robocallers
Game on, "Rachel from Cardholder Services," wherever you are. The Federal Trade Commission has announced it will award $50,000 to the person who comes up with the best technological solution to the problem of increasingly crafty robocallers who pepper...
Tags: Sports, Arts and Culture, Baseball, Fine Artists, Mary Schmich
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Dylan C. Penningroth sheds light on slavery in America
Conventional wisdom suggests that slaves in America were deemed property and, therefore, couldn't have possessed property of their own. Dylan C. Penningroth, 41, a history professor at Northwestern University, has altered that notion with research...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Slavery, Wars and Interventions, Judges, Social Issues
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'Genius grant' winner Ken Vandermark gets nod from Chicago Jazz Festival
The most intriguing work at this year's Chicago Jazz Festival, running Thursday through Sunday, may come from the horn of MacArthur "genius grant" winner Ken Vandermark. As this year's artist-in-residence, the hyperinventive Chicago reedist-bandleader-...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Concerts, Music, Entertainment, Michigan Avenue
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Apocalypse Not: Ingenuity Thwarts Doomsday
The Hartford CourantSometimes the news is that something was not newsworthy. The United Nation's Rio+20 conference — 50,000 participants from 188 nations — occurred in June, without consequences. A generation has passed since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, which...Tags: Population and Census, The New York Times, Demographics, Barack Obama, Conservation
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