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Jampacked weekend will run gamut from avant-garde to boogie-woogie
We're about to begin a remarkably lively jazz weekend, even by Chicago standards. Among the highlights: The Engines: This enterprising ensemble has been offering a stylistically free-ranging music for nearly a decade, but this weekend's engagement...
Tags: Wynton Marsalis, Arts and Culture, Concerts, Allen Toussaint, Green Mill (club)
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'The Greatest Story Ever Told' for Easter
Staff writer"The Bible," History's 10-hour miniseries, concludes its run Easter night. The final two hours, starting at 8, depict Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection as well as the lives of the early disciples. The production from Roma Downey and Mark Burnett has...Tags: Carroll Baker, Angela Lansbury, Fred Astaire, Roma Downey, Nicholas Ray
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Passover and Easter on video
In home video's 1980s and '90s heyday, Easter emerged as a prime selling holiday. Religious epics, holiday-related classics and children and family holiday specials were marketed as "basket stuffers." As with Christmas and Thanksgiving, Easter (as...
Tags: Val Kilmer, Arts and Culture, Bunny (music group), Animation (Movie Genre), Fred Astaire
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The art of good writing
WASHINGTON -- When asked to explain the brisk pace of his novels, Elmore Leonard said, "I leave out the parts that people skip." You will not want to skip anything in William Zinsser's short essays written for the American Scholar magazine's website and...
Tags: Punishment, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Manhattan (New York City), Periodicals, Malaria
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COLUMN: The art of good writing
WASHINGTON — When asked to explain the brisk pace of his novels, Elmore Leonard said, "I leave out the parts that people skip." You will not want to skip anything in William Zinsser’s short essays written for the American Scholar magazine&...Tags: Punishment, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), The Washington Post, Manhattan (New York City), Washington, DC
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Al Jolson tribute at Cinema Paradiso in Fort Lauderdale
Staff WriterAl Jolson can still pack them in the theater, 86 years after ushering in "the talkies" and 63 years after his death. At least that's the idea with the tribute by The Broward County Film Society (also called FLiFF) to the man billed as "The World’s...Tags: Arts and Culture, Dean Martin, Religion and Belief, Frank Sinatra, Weston (Broward, Florida)
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Rob Winn Anderson wins new-play award
Orlando resident Rob Winn Anderson has won the 2012 Christopher Brian Wolk Award from New York's Abingdon Theatre Company for "The Tenth Son." Anderson will be presented with his award, which comes with $1,000, on Monday, Dec. 10, in New York City....
Tags: Arts and Culture, Eric Bogosian, Eugene O'Neill, June Havoc, Celebrities
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'Irving Berlin's White Christmas' hits holiday spot at Kennedy Center
Anyone interested in time travel need not settle for an episode of “Dr. Who.” You can be whisked back to the 1950s in a flash just by catching the production of “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas” at the Kennedy Center. You...
Tags: Theater, World War II (1939-1945), Music Theater, Vera-Ellen, Religious Festivals
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They conduct classical, but they love pop and rock too
Ever wonder what longhairs listen to when they let their hair down? Once upon a time, when conductors were regarded as remote intellectual titans, no one would have thought to ask. Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony, once described...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Louis Armstrong, Entertainment, YouTube, James Taylor
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Joan Curto celebrates the genius of Cole Porter
Cole Porter died nearly half a century ago – in 1964 at age 73 – yet his songs remain as ubiquitous today as they were then. Which helps explain why one of Chicago's top cabaret singers, Joan Curto, this week is launching an evening-length...
Tags: Arts and Culture, University of Chicago, Harold Arlen, Geography, Lower East Side
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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett dies at 76; composer had 3 Oscar nods
This post has been corrected. See note below for details.Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, a prolific British composer, arranger and pianist whose film scores were nominated three times for Academy Awards, has died in New York City. He was 76. Bennett died Dec. 24 after a brief illness, his publisher Novello & Co...Tags: Paul McCartney, World War II (1939-1945), United Kingdom, Entertainment Events, George Gershwin
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A baseball lecture on Super Bowl Sunday at Congregation Solel
Is nothing sacred? Super Bowl Sunday is the holiest day of the year for NFL fans. But on Feb. 3, Congregation Solel in Highland Park kicks off the day with a lecture about, of all things, baseball. "Baseball: The Great Jewish American Pastime" will...Tags: Baseball, New York Giants, Super Bowl, Jackie Robinson, National Football League
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