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Museums
Adler Planetarium 1300 S. Lake Shore Drive; 312-922-7827, adlerplanetarium.org Ongoing: "One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure": Big Bird, Elmo and their friend from China, Hu Hu Zhu, take visitors on a journey to learn about the Big Dipper, North...Tags: Hull House, Services and Shopping, Museum Dioramas, Adler Planetarium, Nobel Prize Awards
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Inside the Huntington story
"Masterpiece Theatre" has nothing on the real-life, rags-to-riches saga that led to the founding of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino. This singularly American story of an extraordinary family dynasty...
Tags: Authors, Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, Arts and Culture, Museum of Natural History, Libraries
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Review: 'Painting in Place' flings open conceptual abstraction doors
Before the 1980s, abstract painting typically embraced pure form — gesture or geometry as something self-contained, insulated from outside contamination. Over the past generation, however, another practice has bumped that insular, aloof idea...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Economy, Business and Finance, Artists, Missing Persons, Fine Artists
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Gold Coast: Gilded age redux
Special to the TribuneMarilyn Perno loves to walk. Really loves to walk. So after raising her family in the Washington, D.C. area, and later living in Naperville, the born-and-bred Chicagoan, as she describes herself, felt it was time for a return to her pedestrian-friendly...Tags: Chicago Loop, Services and Shopping, Realty, Corporate Officers, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Susan Crawford: U.S. intelligence is too dependent on technology
The U.S. National Security Agency's mission is to gather information about foreign terrorists and foreign powers, not to carry out wholesale domestic surveillance. Apparently, however, its technical capabilities have outrun all existing legal constraints....Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Science and Technology, Football, National Security Agency, Saxby Chambliss
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Clark County Public Library collections gets updated, refined and 'weeded'
Clark County Public LibraryWhat’s new at the library this week? Well, just about everything. Over the past few months significant changes and improvements have been made to every section of the library. First of all, the entire collection was “weeded.” That...Tags: Arts and Culture, Libraries, Mark Twain, Newspaper and Magazine
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Hotel Ponce de Leon celebrates 125th anniversary with yearlong celebration
Just like the city it resides in, Hotel Ponce de Leon is full of history and this year it’s celebrating its 125th anniversary with commemorative events throughout 2013. The hotel was built by Henry Flagler and opened in 1888 and since then it...
Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Arts and Culture, Human Interest, Ceremonies, Political Corruption
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Edwardian Opulence on View at Yale Center For British Art
"Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century" On view through June 2, Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St., New Haven, (203) 432-2800, britishart.yale.edu Think of "Edwardian Opulence," an exhibition on view...
Tags: Painting, BBC, Agatha Christie, Arts and Culture, England
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New York Fashion Week fall 2013: Proenza Schouler review
It was a collection of future classics. Spare shapes but decorated and ladylike. Soft in form, texture and color but created using cutting edge techniques. The kind of clothes that delight and surprise. Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez proved why...Tags: New York City, Proenza Schouler, Financial District, Fashion Shows, Entertainment
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New York Fashion Week fall 2013: The Row review
NEW YORK -- Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, named 2012’s top women’s wear designers by the prestigious Council of Fashion Designers of America, presented their fall 2013 collection Thursday morning in the sumptuous rooms of a $48-million Gilded...
Tags: Fashion Trends, Services and Shopping, Diane von Furstenberg, Entertainment, Fashion Shows
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Mix history, art in Palm Beach at the Flagler Museum
If ever a room was aptly named, it's the Grand Hall of the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum in Palm Beach. The 5,000 square-foot reception hall is adorned with almost every conceivable trapping of Gilded Age splendor: A bust of Caesar Augustus atop a...
Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Arts and Culture, Jackson Pollock, Delphi Corp, Museums
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‘Sailor Twain’: Mermaid tale explores murky depths of the heart
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comGraphic novelist Mark Siegel intertwines themes of obsession, loss and redemption in “Sailor Twain: The Mermaid in the Hudson,” a ......
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