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    Nov 29, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. Arts groups to benefit from grant

    Tribune reporter
    On 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: Steppenwolf Theatre, Arts, Pilsen, Arts and Culture, National Museum of Mexican Art

    2. Nov 27, 2012 |Story| Daily Pilot

  2. 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 Industry, Culture, Music, Entertainment Events, Music Theater

    3. Nov 14, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  3. 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: Music, Catherine T. MacArthur, Cultural Development, Englewood, Arts and Culture

    4. Oct 20, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. $50,000 bounty to quiet robocallers

    Game on, "Rachel from Cardholder Services," wherever you are.
    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: Gospel (genre), Music, Robinson Cano, New York Yankees, American League

    5. Oct 12, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  5. At Savage library lab, teens get turned on to technology

    A new space at the Savage branch of the Howard County Library is giving teens the opportunity to experiment with the latest digital technology.
    A new space at the Savage branch of the Howard County Library is giving teens the opportunity to experiment with the latest digital technology. And the HiTech digital learning lab has developed a following, with some students coming every afternoon,...

    Tags: Technology, Music, Teaching and Learning, Howard County, Arts and Culture

    6. Oct 19, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  6. $2 million prize announced for cure for blindness by 2020

    Singer Art Garfunkel, a real estate magnate and an investor are putting $2 million in gold bullion on the line to inspire researchers to cure blindness by 2020, establishing through Johns Hopkins Medicine one of the world's largest prizes for a scientific advancement.
    Singer Art Garfunkel, a real estate magnate and an investor are putting $2 million in gold bullion on the line to inspire researchers to cure blindness by 2020, establishing through Johns Hopkins Medicine one of the world's largest prizes for a scientific...

    Tags: Charity, Conservation, Blindness, Ophthalmology, Research

    7. Oct 1, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. 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.
    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: Wars and Interventions, Northwestern University, Judges, Slavery, Religion and Belief

    8. Oct 2, 2012 |Story| WTXX-LTV

  8. The Punch Brothers Play at the Jorgensen Center in Storrs on Oct. 4

    <span style=&quot;font-size: medium;">This generation is undoubtedly experiencing history&rsquo;s most expansive and diverse collection of musical genres to date. What with the boom of social media and music sharing sites like Facebook and Spotify, it&rsquo;s effortless for an artist to just pick up a mic or instrument and broadcast their ideas to the world. But this phenomenon is also a double-edged sword. Due to the overwhelming amount of music, most musicians find themselves unable to break new ground. Well, that&rsquo;s definitely not the case for the Punch Brothers. Although deeply influenced by bluegrass, the group experiments with different sounds. When asked to describe their music, guitarist Chris &ldquo;Critter&rdquo; Eldridge had to think about what they actually played. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re a string band, a bluegrass band even, that is aspiring to go beyond.&rdquo;</span>
    This generation is undoubtedly experiencing history’s most expansive and diverse collection of musical genres to date. What with the boom of social media and music sharing sites like Facebook and Spotify, it’s effortless for an artist to...

    Tags: Music, Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture, Artists, Genres

    9. Oct 2, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  9. Enoch Pratt hosted MacArthur geniuses

    If you're a regular attendee at the author appearances at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, you've seen a fair share of geniuses. Junot Diaz and Dinaw Mengestu -- who today received "genius" grants from the MacArthur Foundation -- have appeared in recent...

    Tags: Enoch Pratt Free Library, Junot Diaz

    10. Aug 28, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  10. '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 &quot;genius grant" winner Ken Vandermark.
    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: Music Industry, Michigan Avenue, Music, Entertainment Events, Roosevelt University

    11. Aug 17, 2012 |Column| Hartford Courant

  11. Apocalypse Not: Ingenuity Thwarts Doomsday

    The Hartford Courant
    Sometimes 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, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Productivity, Conservation, Computing and Information Technology Industry

    12. Jul 30, 2012 | Chicago Tribune

  12. Dispatch from a climate-change convert

    Change of Subject
    Richard A. Muller, a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former MacArthur Foundation fellow, writes in the New York Times: Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw......
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