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'Hell is in the future for those thieves of innocence'
We live in a small town in Illinois, not untouched by today's tragedy. Being that we express ourselves with words, we'd like to share our thoughts. Zach writes: where i was little town, far away from where the twins fell, chaos in my mind, nowhere...Tags: Justice System, Chicago Public Schools, George W. Bush, Judges, Travel
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Recent openings: 'Scapin,' 'Front,' and 'Landscape of the Body'
Special to the TribuneA bawdy farce by Moliere that brims over with blues, gospel and rap music, along with slapstick and shtick? That kind of rambunctious revisionism marks Court Theatre's "Scapin," which opens Saturday, Nov. 2, at the Chicago Center for the Performing Arts...Tags: Blues (genre), John Guare, World War II (1939-1945), Comedy (genre), Steve Scott
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'Seabiscuit'
Life, it's been truly said, has more imagination than we do, and the astonishing story of Seabiscuit proves that absolutely.
No novelist or screenwriter would dare come up with the phenomenal incidents and flabbergasting twists of fate that marked the...Tags: Photography, Horse and Harness Racing, Animals, Elizabeth Banks, William H. Macy
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'The Weight of Water'
Times Staff WriterDirector Kathryn Bigelow has always seemed an uneasy fit with the American movie industry. Part of this discomfort is the chilliness of her touch, the almost aggressive lack of emotional heat we expect in our movies. Then there's the fact that the film...Tags: Drama (genre), Ciaran Hinds, Sarah Polley, Josh Lucas, Career and Workplace
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Reliving 9/11
Courant TV CriticIf a secondary intent of last year's terror attack was spreading fear nationwide through the inevitable round-the-clock TV replay, broadcasters certainly complied. The indelible images of national symbols incinerating and imploding was rerun...Tags: ABC (tv network), John Ashcroft, Armed Forces, George W. Bush, Walter Cronkite
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Violence, horror set the stage in 'Medea'
Tribune theater criticANN ARBOR, Mich. It happens so rarely in the theater: A bravura performer gets her hooks into a great role and finds a directorial soul mate in the bargain, so that everything on stage unfolds like one person's fever dream. The results can haunt your own...Tags: Tom Cruise, Michael Phillips, Music Theater, University of Michigan, Euripides
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Movie review, 'Monster's Ball'
"Monster's Ball" is a serious movie made by seriously talented people, and I never quite came 'round to it. Part of the problem is that it throws so much tragedy at you in its first half, you figure this is one of those Southern gothic tales where a...Tags: Monsters (legendary creatures), Chicago Tribune, Peter Boyle, Cinema Industry, Lee Daniels
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Theater review, 'Antigone' at First Folio Shakespeare Festival
Tribune arts reporterOutdoor classically based theaters invariably worry about making performances sufficiently accessible for fresh-air audiences packing snacks, swatting mosquitoes and sitting on blankets. Great plays like Sophocles' "Antigone" are remarkably resilient... -
24 hours on the A train
This story was reported by Lindsay Faber, Nia-Malika Henderson, Deborah S. Morris, Tania Padgett, Luis Perez, Joshua Robin, Ray Sanchez and Glenn Thrush. It was written by Sanchez. Beginning at 3 a.m. on Sept. 22, eight Newsday reporters and four...Tags: Career and Workplace, Wages and Pensions, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Society, Bus Accidents
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'Coarse' is a smooth spoof
Special to the TribuneAcross Chicago's sprawling tundra of off-Loop theater, where most artists are determined to put on a show at all costs, audiences get to experience their fair share of sublimely truthful and abysmally amateurish productions. Shakespeare's Motley Crew, a...Tags: John Webster, Herman Melville, Jane Austen, England, Celebrities
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Illness lingers, loyalty wanes
Dressed in khakis and a dusty green canvas jacket, Rich Richmond enters the medical center with an easy gait and bright countenance, like a country gentleman returning from a brisk jaunt in a wintry woods. Certainly no one in the waiting room would...Tags: Rubber Products Industry, Anthrax, Career and Workplace, Mail Order Industry, Transportation
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From Bookworm to Victorian Oprah
"Unfortunate is the hen who hatches a duck but she must make the most of it." - Harriet Beecher Stowe in an 1864 letter Even in a family of eccentrics, young Harriet Beecher was considered a bit odd. Brilliant, but odd. One minute she was lethargic,...Tags: Connecticut River, Bars and Clubs, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Personal Service
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