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A visitor's guide to a place we call home
Tribune staff writerWeek after week, in the pages of Travel, we tell readers about every place in the world they can visit -- except Chicago. We're not tourists in our own town, editors think, so Chicago isn't a travel experience; it's home. But not for every Tribune...Tags: Palmer House Hilton, Chicago Board of Trade, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Tribune Tower, Water Supply
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PLANNER OUR CRITICS' CHOICES
MOVIES `THE BLUE ANGEL' A newly restored version of one of the great classics of movie eroticism is now at the Music Box: Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings 1930's "The Blue Angel." Jannings was regarded as the best film actor of his day when he...Tags: House of Blues Chicago, Mike Watt, Entertainment, Opera (genre), Civic Opera House
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Reading frenzy
The exterior of the Chicago Public Library's Chinatown branch blends in with the colors and pagodalike architecture of its Wentworth Avenue setting. The patrons of this, the most used of the city's 76 branches, enter through a door flanked by Chinese...Tags: Entertainment, Martin Luther King Jr., Chicago Bulls, Libraries, Chicago Public Library
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Humanities Festival: Tribune critics provide a road map
Tribune criticsTo help you sort through the dozens of offerings of the Chicago Humanities Festival, Tribune critics offer a few suggestions. "Powder Her Face": Chicago premiere of British composer Thomas Ades' widely praised opera, "Powder Her Face," based on the...Tags: Abbas Kiarostami, Entertainment, University of Chicago, Culture, Marilyn Horne
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Staying in step
With the active dance scene in Chicago, there's much to see. Options range from classical ballet (tutus and "Swan Lake") to post-modern dance (black leotards and angst), so surely something will speak to your inner dancer. At least there'll be something...Tags: Entertainment, Culture, Dance, Columbia College Chicago, Ravinia Festival
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Cruising for culture
Chicago's most famous museums such as the Field Museum, the Shedd Aquarium, the Museum of Science and Industry and The Art Institute of Chicago are architectural monuments built well before access for people with disabilities was a consideration. Grand...Tags: Museum of Science and Industry, Art Institute of Chicago, Labor Day, Holidays, Adler Planetarium
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Art review, Sept. 11 show at Gallery 37
Tribune art critic"The September 11 Photo Project is a massive, ever-growing exhibition that has come to the Harold Washington Library Center to commemorate the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. It originated as a way to preserve...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Air and Space Accidents, Transportation Accidents, Arts and Culture, History
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Dance review, Chicago Moving Company at the Harold Washington Library
Tribune chief criticChicago Moving Company's Friday and Saturday programs in the Harold Washington Library Theatre found this 29-year-old modern dance troupe at the peak of its form, creatively forging music, stage design and choreography into striking dance pieces....Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Dancing, Lollapalooza, John Adams, Companies and Corporations
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Art review, 'Let Children Be Children: Lewis Hine's Crusade Against Child Labor'
Tribune Art CriticPhotographer Lewis Hine once wrote: "I wanted to show the things that had to be corrected; I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated." The 55 photographs at the Harold Washington Library Center all from Hine's archive at George Eastman...Tags: Documentary (genre), Labor Legislation, Arts and Culture, Career and Workplace, Harold Washington
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Music review, Lionel Hampton tribute at Harold Washington Library
Tribune arts criticLionel Hampton died barely three months ago, but the tribute concert that drew a huge crowd to the Harold Washington Library over the weekend did not unfold like a hastily arranged affair. On the contrary, with no less than vibists Stefon Harris and...Tags: Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus, Death, Harold Washington, Lionel Hampton
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Art review, 'Out of Time: Designs for the 20th Century Future' at the Chicago Public Library
Tribune art criticVarious exhibitions at the dawn of the new millennium compellingly treated how the hopes and fears of humanity take shape in visions of the future. Inevitably, such visions had less to do with how "the future" turned out than the times in which they...Tags: Science and Technology, Harold Washington, Drama (genre), Chicago Public Library, Science
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Art review, 'A Nation's Conscience: Paintings by William Gropper,' at H. Washington Library Center
Tribune art criticWilliam Gropper was one of those 1930s artists who became classified as an "American Scene" painter, which put him in the company of such figures as Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry. Unlike the others, however, Gropper was a...Tags: Entertainment, Cartoons, George Grosz, Harold Washington, Grant Wood
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