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Monumental mistakes
Paul GreenbergThe surest reflection of the present is its view of the past. History turns out to be the most contemporary of the plastic arts. For we're always remaking it in our own image. Which may explain the great wave of mediocrity now sweeping over Washington...Tags: Architecture, Human Interest, Arts and Culture, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Washington Monument
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Perfectly contained
Tribune NewspapersThe next time you visit a garden center, check out the containers waiting for new homes. They come in all shapes, sizes, colors and materials. Do you have your heart set on glazed pot with orange and pink flowers painted on it? Look around. You'll...Tags: Hobbies, Gardening, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Secretary Clinton can help us all become 'untired'
Arianna HuffingtonWe don't yet know what big challenge Hillary Clinton will take on next, but that she will bring her considerable talents to something big and worthwhile is not in question. Whether or not that challenge is trying to become the first woman president, she'...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Diseases and Illnesses, Health Organizations, Arianna Huffington, Diabetes
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DIY futurism
Designers, celebrities or just plain folks -- everybody wants to tap into the zeitgeist. Or create it themselves. These days, nothing moves faster than a trend. The social-media-fed frenzy enables our access to the latest in fashion, interiors,...
Tags: Fashion Shows, Media Industry, Fashion Trends, Arts and Culture, Pottery Barn
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A New York state of mind
NEW YORK — Wandering through the darkened auditorium of Broadway's Cort Theatre here on a recent Saturday morning felt a lot like a tour of Chicago's off-Loop theater. Michael Shannon, the former denizen of the Chicago fringe turned TV and movie...
Tags: Chris Jones, Music, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago Children's Choir, Arts and Culture
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Frank Gehry pays a visit to old stomping grounds — Columbia
Forty years after Frank Gehry completed a series of buildings in the then-fledgling "new town" of Columbia, the current master developer wants him to come back and design more. The Dallas-based Howard Hughes Corp., which in 2010 took over as lead...
Tags: Architecture, Lou Gehrig's Disease, Howard Hughes, Media Industry, Arts and Culture
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Pressed to find classic duck dish
Q: Many years ago I was dining in a restaurant in Chicago's Chinatown. I ordered pressed duck. It was served in a deep fried form about 6 inches in length, 4 inches wide and about an inch or so thick. The vegetables were pressed together with the duck and...
Tags: Media Industry, Onions, Crime, Law and Justice, Ginger, Almonds
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Whole Foods to open in Columbia
The longtime headquarters of the Rouse Co. will become home to the first Howard County branch of Whole Foods Market under a $20 million plan to renovate one of the community's most prominent landmarks and draw new residents downtown.
The Howard Hughes...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Property, Howard Hughes, Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., Ken Ulman
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Time can be an ally for preservationists
Time is the enemy of old buildings, breaking them down just as it breaks people down. But time can save them as well as provide the attractive patina of age. Time — or, more accurately, the passage of time — can upend the economic assumptions...
Tags: Northwestern University, Restructuring and Recapitalization, Elections, Arts and Culture, Hospitals and Clinics
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Columbia reborn
The Columbia of my childhood, then known as "The Next America," was a place of innovation and excitement. It was known across the country as the herald for the next generation of great American communities. My parents and many others moved here in...
Tags: Howard Hughes, James Rouse, Whole Foods Market
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Whole Foods Market seen as stimulus for more development in Columbia
Developer James W. Rousewas a pioneer at recycling other people's buildings for new uses, including Faneuil Hall in Boston and parts of the South Street Seaport historic district in Manhattan. Now one of the most prominent buildings he constructed from...
Tags: Architecture, Howard Hughes, Ken Ulman, Arts and Culture, Financially Distressed Companies
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An insult to Ike
The present controversy over the proposed Eisenhower National Memorial centers on the relationship between the meaning and significance of Dwight David Eisenhower's service to the nation and architect Frank Gehry's scheme to commemorate that service. Does...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Human Interest, Architecture, Arts and Culture, West Point
Apr 9, 2013
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Mar 22, 2013
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Feb 6, 2013
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Jan 13, 2013
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Oct 5, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune - Hold from PM
Oct 4, 2012
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Aug 21, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Jul 25, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jul 29, 2012
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Jul 29, 2012
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Aug 12, 2012
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Jun 11, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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