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George Clooney is distant cousin of Abraham Lincoln
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Aunt Rosemary was not George Clooney's only famous relative. You can add a certain Civil War American president to the Oscar-winning actor's family tree. Politics has apparently run in the activist actor's blood for centuries,...
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Day-Lewis, Steven Spielberg, George Clooney, Wars and Interventions
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First take on Kanye West's 'Yeezus': dark, defiant, polarizing
Los Angeles Times Pop Music CriticOne of the most striking metaphors for the tension within “Yeezus,” the new album from rapper Kanye West, arrives nearly 25 minutes in during a song called “I’m in It.” It involves a Martin Luther King Jr. quote. “Thank...Tags: Music, Entertainment, Kanye West, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Kanye West's 'Yeezus' an uneasy listen
3 stars (out of 4) Kanye West’s sixth studio album, “Yeezus” (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam), is the latest affront from an artist who keeps inventing ways to tick people off. At first listen, it is hostile, abrasive (both sonically and...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Beyonce, Chief Keef, Music, Entertainment
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NAACP hosts Juneteenth celebration in El Centro
Staff Writer, Copy EditorThe commemoration of Juneteenth returned to the Valley on Saturday after having taken a short hiatus. Although the event did not attract the crowds organizers had hoped for, they expressed confidence it would improve with each passing year. “...Tags: Juneteenth, NAACP
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Review: "Every Boy Should Have a Man" by Preston Allen
Genre mash-ups are de rigueur these days. Of course, writers like Margaret Atwood have been tight-roping the misty border between literary fiction and speculative fiction, fantasy and mystery for years. But a new outcropping of younger upstarts, such as...
Tags: Customs and Tradition, Arts and Culture, Literature, James Baldwin, Michael Chabon
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YEEZUS! Kanye plans more Chicago 'projections' Saturday
RedEyeYeezus, we have a leak. Along with the (conveniently timed?) illegal availability of Kanye West’s album “Yeezus” Friday, the Chicago-raised rapper announced a round of new “projections” slated for locations across the...Tags: Arts and Culture, DuSable Museum of African-American History, Wrigley Field, Millennium Park, McCormick Place
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Review: "Silver Star" by Jeannette Walls
An Oscar Wilde quote prefaces Jeannette Walls' new novel, "The Silver Star": "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."¯ Despite the epigraph, truth has never been simpler than in Walls' first foray into pure fiction. Having written...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Chicken Pot Pie, Literature, Pies and Tarts
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Kanye West's 'Yeezus' leaks, Internet goes crazy
Los Angeles Times Pop Music Critic"Yeezus," the highly anticipated new album from Kanye West, leaked online on Friday morning, resulting in immediate Twitter trending and sending less-ethical fans all over the world to various illegal download and mirror sites to get a free copy. The...Tags: Entertainment, Music, Kanye West, Twitter, Inc., Frank Ocean
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'Game of Thrones' recap: Season finale is mother of all episodes
In contrast to the gut-wrenching carnage of last week’s “Game of Thrones” –- in which Robb Stark (Richard Madden), his bride Talisa (Oona Chaplin), mother Catelyn (Michelle Fairley) and loyal banner men were slaughtered –-...
Tags: David Bradley, Charles Dance, Liam Cunningham, Marriage, Peter Dinklage
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Local Voices: Palos Heights, Orland Park, Tinley Park, Palos Park
Letters to the editor from Palos Heights, Orland Park, Tinley Park and Palos Park residents. Gas-price mystery Here we go again. We, the Chicago-area lemmings, who rely upon gasoline for our daily lives, again face insane prices. Reports suggest...Tags: Elections, Petroleum Industry, Voting, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Interior Policy
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Did Tall Ship Amistad Sail Off With $1.4M In State Money?
State Rep. Diana Urban spoke for all Connecticut taxpayers this week when she demanded a full accounting of the millions of state dollars that have been invested in the tall ship Amistad. The Day of New London reports that Amistad America Inc. of...
Tags: Mystic Seaport, The Amistad, New London (New London, Connecticut), North Stonington, Internal Revenue Service
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Robert Fogel dies at 86; economic historian won Nobel Prize
Robert Fogel, the University of Chicago economic historian awarded a Nobel Prize for his data-driven reconsiderations of how railways and slavery influenced U.S. economic history, has died. He was 86. Fogel died Tuesday at Manor Care Health Services...Tags: Productivity, Science and Technology, Health Insurance Cost, Travel, Social Issues
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