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Local Voices: Highland Park and Deerfield
Letters to the editor from Highland Park and Deerfield residents. Deerfield trustee I am writing in support of Mary Oppenheim for her second term as trustee of the Village of Deerfield. Throughout her years of service as a member of the District 109...
Tags: Referenda, Elections, Travel, Career and Workplace, Gardens and Parks
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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: Soccer, Immigration, U.S. Department of State, Loyola University Chicago, Saul Bellow
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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: Bill Clinton, Gage Park, The New York Times, George Saunders, David Foster Wallace
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Carl Woese dies at 84; evolutionary biologist
Before Carl R. Woese, science divided the living world into two types of organisms: bacteria and everything else. But the University of Illinois professor and colleagues in the 1970s discovered that microbes now called archaea look like bacteria but...
Tags: Pancreatic Cancer, Applied Physics, Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), Nobel Prize Awards, Biology
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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: Arts, Whitney Museum, Woody Allen, Gold Coast, Artists
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UCI professor selected for national honor
A UC Irvine sociology professor has been elected to the National Academy of Education for his work studying students in immigrant families, the university announced Tuesday. Rubén Rumbaut is the second UCI professor to be selected for the academy, which...
Tags: Immigration, U.S. Department of Education, Migration, University of California, Irvine, Arts and Culture
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Anna Deavere Smith wins $300,000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize
Anna Deavere Smith, famed for creating one-woman, documentary theater pieces about taut social issues in which she portrays multiple people she’s interviewed, has won the $300,000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, one of the most lucrative awards in...
Tags: Ornette Coleman, AIDS, Frank Gehry, Awards and Prizes, Crown Heights
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Our Laguna: Music scoring big with Laguna Beach Live!
Music has always been a part of Laguna's art culture, but it has a hit-or-miss history. Lyric Opera Co. was founded here, leading to the formation of Opera Pacific, which moved out of town. The Laguna Chamber Music Society presented concerts at the...
Tags: Arts, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Artists, Museums, Music Theater
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Arts groups to benefit from grant
Tribune reporterOn Tuesday at the headquarters of the Yollocalli Arts Reach program in Pilsen, Alex Aguilar was hunched over a piece of 8-by-11 paper, carefully outlining the word “Chicago” in cursive. He drew the city skyline rising from the tops of the...Tags: Arts, National Museum of Mexican Art, Arts and Culture, Steppenwolf Theatre, Pilsen
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Classically Trained: From Handel to hand bells, a packed December
December is going to be a busy month for the Pacific Symphony, which will play favorites of both the holidays and the classics in the coming weeks. Acclaimed American cellist Alisa Weilerstein is the featured soloist Dec. 6 through 8 for Dvorak's...Tags: Music, John Alexander, Dance, Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events
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Reconstructed columnist makes good
Change of SubjectLongtime readers may remember my distance-running duels in the late 1990s with Elmhurst Press columnist Jack Zimmerman. Well, he left journalism many years ago to become subscriber relations manager for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, but continued writing in... -
New poll: Americans want to standardize elections
Change of SubjectThis news release from the McArthur Foundation today underscores the point of my column today: Eighty-eight percent of Americans who voted in last week’s election support establishing national standards for voting, including the hours polls are...
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