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Victor Garcia trumpets a new septet at emerging Logan Center
When Chicago trumpeter Victor Garcia picks up his horn on Friday night, he'll be making news in at least two ways. He'll be leading a new septet, and he'll be introducing listeners to a potentially major new room: the performance hall at the University...
Tags: Festive Events, Concerts, Big Band (genre), Green Mill (club), Arts and Culture
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Fall jazz preview: From Esperanza Spalding to Ravi Coltrane, a lively lineup
The fall seasons looks so rich for jazz and related genres that these must be considered the highlights of the highlights: Victor Garcia The rising Chicago trumpeter leads a septet for the 2012 Hyde Park Jazz Festival Gala. 6 to 9 p.m. Friday (with...
Tags: Festive Events, Concerts, Michigan Avenue, Volo, Arts and Culture
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Judith Stein is the hardest-working woman in jazz
If you've ever attended a major jazz event in Chicago, there's a good chance you've met Judith Stein. She's the enthusiastic woman perpetually doling out postcards for the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, urging everyone to come to the South Side for what has...
Tags: Music, Columbia College Chicago, Festive Events, Jazz Institute of Chicago, Entertainment
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How to awaken a sleeping jazz festival
Two months ago, the Chicago Gospel Music Festival made a bold move, presenting performances for the first time on the South Side of Chicago, in Ellis Park. Throngs turned out. Next month, the World Music Festival will take a bold step, for the first time...
Tags: Festive Events, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance, Green Mill (club), Arts and Culture
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Goodman Theatre adds artistic associate
The rising stage director Henry Wishcamper has become a member of the Goodman's artistic collective. These artistic associates are closely involved with the life of Chicago's biggest non-profit theater. Wishcamper has moved to Chicago to take up the gig;...
Tags: Animal Crackers, Goodman Theatre, Horton Foote
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Cornet player Josh Berman explores past, future with a host of bold collaborators
Fascinating music constantly bubbles up from the caldron that is Chicago jazz, the latest example coming from the horn and pen of Josh Berman. The very fact that he plays cornet, an instrument largely relegated to the history books, and collaborates with...
Tags: Old Town School of Folk Music, Music, Jazz (genre), Music Theater, Human Interest
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Chicago plaque marks site of Obama's first kiss
KIAHPlaques usually mark places of great importance or commemorate their significance to humanity. The moon landing, the Kennedy assassination and now there’s one marking the spot where the first couple shared their first kiss. The plaque placed...Tags: John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963), Ice Cream, Foods and Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Marker placed at Hyde Park shopping center where Obamas shared first kiss
She was an attorney at a big Chicago law firm. He was a Harvard Law student who landed a job there as a summer associate. He was immediately smitten. She wasn't so sure. But he won her over, and the couple sealed their budding romance with a kiss at the...
Tags: Barack Obama, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ice Cream, Tourism and Leisure, Travel
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Chicago's rap pack
Kiara Johnson did not plan on a rap career. In fact, she had never before rapped on record when her cousin, Donta Moye, 23, who produces music under the name Block on da Trakk, asked her to record a track at his house last summer. Johnson, then 18, of...
Tags: YouTube, Music, Nicki Minaj, Entertainment, Bleep (euphemism)
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MTV drama-series shooting in Chicago
Some Chicago residents should expect disruptions in the coming weeks as MTV shoots a new scripted dramatic series, titled 'Underemployed', throughout the city. In a slight departure from the network's usual reality series, the Chicago-based show will...
Tags: Drama (genre), MTV (tv network), Boss (tv program), Entertainment, Television
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NU police officer charged with firing gun during July 4 celebration
Tribune reporterAn off-duty Northwestern University police officer is accused of firing a gun into the air while celebrating the Fourth of July holiday on the South Side, according to Chicago Police. Wesley Jackson, 30, of the 5400 block of Hyde Park Boulevard, was...Tags: Prosecution, South Shore, University of Chicago
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Fore!
When lawmakers fled Springfield on May 31 without fixing the state's pension crisis, Gov. Pat Quinn said he would bring them back "as soon as possible" to vote on a solution. One week. Two weeks. Three weeks. Four weeks and counting. The leaders are...
Tags: Politics, Democratic Party, Pension and Welfare, Kwame Raoul, John J Cullerton
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