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A loaded question for you: Are you happy?
The other day, somewhat on a whim, I walked around downtown Chicago for a while and stopped random strangers and asked if they were happy. I carried a notebook and identified myself as a reporter and wrote down what they said, and though I've done my...
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New artistic chief charts daring new directions for Chicago Opera Theater
In contrast with the greatest hits programming Lyric Opera has announced for next season, the alternative opera schedule with which Chicago Opera Theater is inaugurating the Andreas Mitisek era, beginning this weekend, promises to be anything but safe and...
Tags: Music, Astor Piazzolla, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Arts and Culture, Pilsen
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Ravi Shankar's impact went beyond the Beatles
The Fox News Web headline Wednesday morning captured something in the air despite its utter wrongness: "Beatles' sitar player Ravi Shankar dies at 92." Well, first, the Beatles' sitar player was George Harrison. Shankar, who died Tuesday in his...
Tags: Ravi Shankar, Music, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Concerts, Arts and Culture
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'Samsara' a study in contrasts ★★★
Gorgeous and a tiny bit bubble-headed, full of ancient ruins and marvelous faces and time-lapse landscapes of crazed LA freeways in action, "Samsara" takes its title from a Sanskrit word that translates, roughly, to "the ever-turning wheel of life."...
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Why Chicago needs bigger place on world's stage
At its 25th summit in Chicago this weekend, NATO will be preoccupied with the tricky business of how to advance its various institutional priorities — like global security and the building of stability — even as its member nations are more...
Tags: Stephen Merchant, International Organizations, NATO, Artists, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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What Chicago can learn from Toronto
TORONTO — Luminato, the festival of arts, culture and ideas that just concluded in Canada's largest city, has only been held for four years. But this citywide extravaganza already attracts a collective audience in excess of 1 million and spends...Tags: Leonard Cohen, China, Music Theater, Twitter, Inc., Derivative Securities
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East Winds quintet lively and colorful at Zoellner
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGUnlike a string ensemble with its homogeneous sonority, the woodwind quintet wears a suite of many colors. On Sunday afternoon at Zoellner Arts Center, the East Winds Quintet flaunted more shades than mere red, white, and blue in an all-American concert... -
Where to watch 9/11 anniversary programming
Channel Guide MagazineAs we come upon the 11th commemoration of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, there are several notable new and returning documentaries, specials and movies on television recalling the events and their impact on our nation from various perspectives... -
Monster Mash: Louvre is most popular museum; Hockney vs. Hirst
Culture MonsterThe Louvre Museum in Paris is once again the world's most-visited museum, with a record 8.8 million visitors last year. David Hockney has criticized Damien Hirst for relying on assistants to create his art work.... -
Philip Glass, 75, has an iTunes hit with his Ninth Symphony
Culture MonsterA recording of the Glass Symphony No. 9 is available on iTunes as played a month ago by the Bruckner Orchester Linz. It debuted on Tuesday, and as of Thursday was No. 15 on the iTunes top albums chart. (At No. 16 is the recent Coldplay album).... -
Dance review: Diavolo's 'Fearful Symmetries' at the Valley Arts Center
Culture MonsterReview by Jean Lenihan of Diavolo's current U.S. tour of "Fearful Symmetries" at the Valley Arts Center...
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