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NBC finishes strongly with closing ceremony ratings
WatchdogSunday's closing ceremony from Beijing attracted 15.2 percent of U.S. homes, the best for a non-domestic Summer Olympics since 1976. That's an impressive accomplishment in this era of ever-diminishing ratings on broadcast networks. Overall, the Olympics...Tags: Arts and Culture, Multi-Sport Events, Summer Olympics, Sports
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"Shea haunts you to the end"
On the Mets beatThat was Mike Piazza, wearing his No. 31 in royal-blue pinstripes, talking about driving to Shea yesterday morning in the driving rain. I was chatting with Piazza in the back of the press box, and he was recalling those rainy......Tags: Miami Marlins, Arts and Culture, Major League Baseball, Mike Piazza, Carlos Beltran
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Tom Seaver pitches in dark in '65, sends off Shea in '08
WatchdogThis is ridonkulously cool, and weird. It's footage of Tom Seaver pitching for the Alaska Goldpanners in the 1965 Midnight Sun Game, the Fairbanks tradition in which a game is begun at 11 p.m. or so around the summer......Tags: Miami Marlins, Arts and Culture, Tom Seaver, Fairbanks, New York Mets
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Closing ceremonies off
On the Yankees beatSo the closing ceremony for Yankee Stadium, which had been slated for Nov. 9th, is off. That was reported today by the Daily News and amNY. Yankees spokesperson Jason Zillo said on the cancellation: "The Yankees were considering having a......Tags: Arts and Culture, Derek Jeter, Sports
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Barack Obama: America's 'first tourist'
The Swampby Mark Silva Our friends and colleagues traveling with President Barack Obama this week have an interesting take on "America's first tourist'' - all eyes as he entered the Great Pyramid, all ears as he joked about how much an......Tags: Barack Obama, Arts and Culture, Monuments and Heritage Sites, National Government, Trips and Vacations
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Bush: 'Move past old grievances'
The Swampby Matthew Hay Brown In the last major address of his trip to the Middle East, President Bush plans to urge the region's leaders to "move past old grievances" and toward economic and political reforms. Bush, who has visited Israel......Tags: Society, Arts and Culture, National Government, Globalization, George W. Bush
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New pope, old question: Can you appreciate and object at the same time?
The white smoke had barely wafted away from the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday when my friend Courtney, to my surprise, posted on Facebook, "We got a new Pope!" I bumped into her a while later. "Are you Catholic?" I asked. "No." "But you're excited...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Roman Catholicism, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Family Planning, Papal Conclave (2013)
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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: Arts and Culture, Strawberries, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Fine Artists, Artists
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Tomorrow looking bright for 'Annie'
Everyone's first "Annie" should be at a venerable venue like the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, which opened for business in 1931, right when "Little Orphan Annie" mania was at its peak. The historic theater on the Fox River was built just one year after...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Animals, To Kill a Mockingbird (movie), Chicago Tribune
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Lyric's passion must extend to musical theater
In 2008, New York's Lincoln Center revived a Broadway warhorse: "South Pacific." At the beginning of the overture in the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the lip of Michael Yeargan's setting, which had the outline of a tropical island, began to move backward,...
Tags: Culture, Arts and Culture, Mary Poppins (musical), Poetry, Lincoln Center
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It's the sound of angels singing
This year, women are very much in charge of the Congo Square Theatre's annual production of "The Nativity." Starting with the new director, Ilesa Duncan, and extending all the way up to Gabriel. That archangel is played this year by Alexis J. Rogers,...Tags: Arts and Culture, Congo, Goodman Theatre, Entertainment Events, Music Theater
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Sinfonietta reaches out to city's Latino community with new concert series
The Chicago Sinfonietta, long a national model for promoting diversity and inclusiveness in orchestral performance, is reaching out to whet the cultural appetite of the city's Latino community with a promising new series of concerts in various venues on...
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