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Bob Koester's six decades of jazz and blues, Chicago style
Let's raise a glass to Bob Koester, the single-minded Chicagoan who this weekend celebrates a remarkable anniversary: 60 years of producing jazz and blues recordings. Koester's Delmark Records may not be the biggest indie in the country – or...
Tags: Old Town School of Folk Music, Inventories, Artists, Newspaper and Magazine, Arts and Culture
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The Goodman Theatre celebrates a decade of drama
When the new $46 million Goodman Theatre opened its doors on Dec. 11, 2000, with the inaugural performance of August Wilson's "King Hedley II," the Loop was beset by a blizzard. Ever cognizant of the political perils of Chicago snowstorms, Mayor Richard...Tags: Entertainment Events, Goodman Theatre, Celebrities, Bank of America Corp., Richard M. Daley
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Sculptor shares vision for activist's tribute
It's astonishing the way the award-winning Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt makes stainless steel seem light and fanciful. His sculptures appear to defy gravity as they soar into the heavens. Hunt's large-scale public art projects can be found throughout...
Tags: Arts, Crime, Law and Justice, Martin Luther King Jr., Artists, Justice and Rights
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Watercolor artists strut their stuff
Like many of their fruity brethren, pears and strawberries have provided the subject for innumerable watercolor still lifes in the past — yet most of these earnest efforts have produced middling if not worse results at best. But not so with the...
Tags: Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Arts, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Customs and Tradition, Pears
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Arts Incubator space revitalizes troubled youth, neighborhood
When Gregory Harden and his family moved into the Washington Park neighborhood in 2005, he was 16 and his mother didn't want him going anywhere near the stores on the southeast corner of 55th Place and Prairie Avenue. A once-pristine-and-stately 10,000-...
Tags: Greater Grand Crossing, Arts, University of Chicago, Artists, Arts and Culture
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CSO's Citizen Musician seeks right note
A little more than two years ago, the curtain lifted on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra-led Citizen Musician initiative, and CSO Association President Deborah Rutter told an overflow crowd at the Chicago Cultural Center: “All of you are citizen...
Tags: South Shore, Artists, Edgewater, Woodlawn (Bronx, New York), Chicago Children's Choir
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Phil Vettel: Two stars for Embeya; One for Jellyfish
Two Asian restaurants with impressive credentials opened exactly one day apart: Embeya, a West Loop Vietnamese restaurant made its debut Sept. 11; and Jellyfish, a Gold Coast pan-Asian opened on the 12th. They're ideal for their neighborhoods; Embeya...
Tags: Coconut, Restaurants, L2O, Phil Vettel, Peanuts
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From the historic to the nascent
The Maitland Art Center has so much going on, I could easily fill my column with all the happenings at that historic institution. Here's a shorter version: The center is bringing back its artist-in-residency program started by founder Andre Smith in...
Tags: Bok Tower, Personal Service, Saint Petersberg (Russia), Bank of America Corp., Artists
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Richly stocked Beethoven Fest is city's best-kept cultural secret, so far
Although the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birth won't arrive until 2020, George Lepauw isn't about to wait eight years to celebrate the German composer's titanic musical achievement, or the profound influence his music has exerted on the...
Tags: Chicago Children's Choir, Bradley Center, Uptown, Music, Entertainment
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Ambitious Beethoven fest wants listeners to feel the 'love'
Ludwig van Beethoven was forever pushing boundaries, and the annual Chicago festival that bears the composer's name continues to do the same, even more so than in the past. “Beethoven Festival: LOVE 2013,” as the third edition is titled,...
Tags: Pilsen, Uptown, Music, Artists, Entertainment
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CSO series explores connections between nature and culture
For ages, mankind has been fascinated by rivers, not simply as natural resources and avenues of commercial conveyance, but also as symbols, metaphors and ideas. Countless artists, composers, writers and thinkers have pondered the significance of these...
Tags: Genres, Mother's Day, Artists, Arts and Culture, Culture
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First Fridays in Orlando, Eustis
I've been going to the monthly First Fridays at FAVO since its inception in 2011, and it has now grown to 19 once-upon-a-time-motel rooms full of artists. The quality of work has increased, too, with some professional artists in the lineup now. This month...
Tags: Arts, Winter Park, Rollins College, Music, Entertainment
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