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Paterson: Gillibrand first, Ford second
The Swampby Mark Silva It's been one of those years for New York Gov. David Paterson, who replaced the disgraced former governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, who was cavorting with call girls. First the White House tries to talk Paterson......Tags: Local Elections, Executive Branch, Kirsten Gillibrand, Regional Authority, David Paterson
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Kagan: From lawyer to policymaker
The SwampElena Kagan in 1993, when she was a law professor at the University of Chicago. (AP/U. of Chicago.) by James Oliphant The White House during President Clinton's second term was a combustible, ambitious place. While to the public it......Tags: Trials, Interior Policy, Litigation, Crimes, Elena Kagan
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'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close': Post-9/11 film milks viewer emotions with impunity -- 1 1/2 stars
!["Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" transforms the carnage and unruly grief of Sept. 11, 2001, known to its preteen Upper West Side Manhattan protagonist as "The Worst Day," into an occasion for interborough healing and emotional encounters of the cheapest kind. If actors this good cannot overcome their material, then we can only say: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock … Max von Sydow, Zoe Caldwell, Viola Davis, Jeffrey Wright, John Goodman… thanks for your honest efforts in the service of a fundamentally dishonest weepie.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2012-01/67457425-18092338.jpg ""Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close\" transforms the carnage and unruly grief of Sept. 11, 2001, known to its preteen Upper West Side Manhattan protagonist as \"The Worst Day,\" into an occasion for interborough healing and emotional encounters of the cheapest kind. If actors this good cannot overcome their material, then we can only say: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock … Max von Sydow, Zoe Caldwell, Viola Davis, Jeffrey Wright, John Goodman… thanks for your honest efforts in the service of a fundamentally dishonest weepie.")
"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" transforms the carnage and unruly grief of Sept. 11, 2001, known to its preteen Upper West Side Manhattan protagonist as "The Worst Day," into an occasion for interborough healing and emotional encounters of the...Tags: Movies, Kenneth Lonergan, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Tom Hanks, Margaret (movie)
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Actress has made a home here
Kate Arrington seems not a bit actress-y, just interesting.
For one thing, she's not particularly concerned about how she looks. For another, through unlikely serendipity, lifestyle czarina Martha Stewart was an early backer of Arrington's stage career....Tags: David Harbour, Movies, Celebrities, Action (Movie Genre), Steppenwolf Theatre
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Culture clash: New history of Chicago taps into our malaise
Thomas Dyja looked at me with abject horror, then humor, then, as his face crumbled in defeat, resignation. A face that said, "See? This is why I wrote a 412-page cultural history of Chicago at midcentury that — as much as it pulls together...
Tags: Arts, Kraft Foods Group, Inc., Imperial and Royal Matters, Fine Artists, Museum of Science and Industry
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Return of the real, soak-the-rich, class warrior Obama
![In a 2008 debate, former ABC News broadcaster Charlie Gibson asked Barack Obama about his support for raising capital gains taxes, given the historical record of government losing net revenue as a result. Obama persevered: "Well, Charlie, what I've said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness."](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-09/65003255-25153102.jpg "In a 2008 debate, former ABC News broadcaster Charlie Gibson asked Barack Obama about his support for raising capital gains taxes, given the historical record of government losing net revenue as a result. Obama persevered: "Well, Charlie, what I've said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness.\"")
In a 2008 debate, former ABC News broadcaster Charlie Gibson asked Barack Obama about his support for raising capital gains taxes, given the historical record of government losing net revenue as a result. Obama persevered: "Well, Charlie, what I've said...Tags: Georgetown, Washington, DC, The Washington Post, Economy, Business and Finance, Barack Obama
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Pope Francis's beautiful, necessary silence
Shortly after the proclamation of the new pope, a reporter for U.S. television told his audience that the Catholics of Latin America "have waited 20 centuries for a pope to come from this region." Well. There were, of course, no Catholics in Latin...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Christianity, Abraham Lincoln, Religion and Belief, Chess Playing
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The lithe and nimble art of guitarist Bobby Broom
Chicago enjoys an embarrassment of riches when it comes to jazz guitarists, and one of the most distinctive of them brought home the point Thursday evening at the Jazz Showcase. Jazz listeners around the world may know Bobby Broom best for the years...
Tags: Music, Sonny Rollins, Music Industry, Entertainment
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Winter jazz preview: From Dianne Reeves to Sonny Rollins, a hot lineup
A buoyant winter season ahead includes: "Shadowgraph: Octets by Franz Schubert and George Lewis": The innovative thinkers at the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) perform major works by masters from two centuries and genres. The repertoire...
Tags: Chicago Cultural Center, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Sonny Rollins, Vocal Music (genre), Arts and Culture
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Guitarist Bobby Broom turns a page in life and music
The past year was a momentous one for the widely admired Chicago guitarist Bobby Broom. His first album made up entirely of original compositions, "Upper West Side Story" (Origin Records), won richly deserved critical accolades and considerable airplay,...
Tags: Music, North Park, Green Mill (club), Sonny Rollins, Irving Park
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'The Scientists: A Family Romance' by Marco Roth
Woody Allen's Manhattan movies, particularly "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986) inhabit the same liberal, Jewish, Upper West Side life as Marco Roth's affecting memoir "The Scientists," which evokes that world of intellectuals, Oriental rugs and a postwar...Tags: Woody Allen, Science and Technology, AIDS, Manhattan (New York City)
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'Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures' by Emma Straub
When Elsa Emerson, the youngest of three sisters and mascot of her family's Cherry County Playhouse in Door County, Wis., is beckoned to the stage by her director father to toss paper petals out of a little basket, the audience greets her with wild...
Tags: Lena Dunham, Authors, Movies, Celebrities, Noah Baumbach
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