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Paperback Writers: Sunlight and shadow in 'Los Angeles in the 1930s'
Special to the Los Angeles TimesCreated by FDR in 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Federal Writers' Project (a small part of the wider Works Progress Administration) was a make-work agency that gave jobs to about 6,500 writers, editors and researchers before closing shop...Tags: Crimes, Photography Supplies and Services, James Robert Thompson, Los Angeles Police Department, Murder
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Nelson Algren's legacy ebbs
The Steppenwolf Theatre feels like a womb. It's warm, dark, soporific, full of voices barely loud enough to be distinguished, a setting beyond time. Outside, the streets of Old Town are laced with spring afternoon snowflakes; on the South Side, at U.S....Tags: Crimes, Chicago White Sox, Death, Poetry, Steppenwolf Theatre
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The Tallest Man on Earth picks five of his favorite songs, plays First Fridays
Pop & HissLet’s just get it out of the way. The Tallest Man on Earth, the nom de folk of Kristian Matsson, sounds eerily like early Bob Dylan. The pre-Newport, pre-electric Bobby D, with a head haunted by crooked streets and expensive...... -
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Alyson Hagy In conversation with Eric Banks and Susan Nusser, 12:30 p.m. Saturday, University Center/River Room. Panelist, with Jonathan Evison, Larry Watson and Terese Svoboda, moderated by Steve Mills, 4 p.m. Saturday, Grace Place/2nd Floor. Alyson...Tags: Concerts, Jane Austen, Harriet Tubman, Arts, Harvard University
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Welcome to the 28th annual fair
We're delighted to welcome everyone to the 28th edition of the Chicago Tribune's Printers Row Lit Fest, the largest annual gathering of book lovers between the coasts. Appropriately, the historic Printers Row neighborhood in the South Loop is again...Tags: Festive Events, Entertainment, Awards and Prizes, Entertainment Events, Chicago Tribune
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Onstage, John Conroy's worthy story lives on
On Monday morning, John Conroy had every right to have a smile plastered across his face, and I am not sure there have been many mornings like that over the past two decades. Though Conroy is a wonderfully affable man, so much of his career has been...
Tags: Broken Nose, Chicago Police Department, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Injuries and Wounds
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'My Kind of Town' picks at still-raw wound
"My Kind of Town," the fine new play by John Conroy with the titular nod to Frank Sinatra, begins with a faux promotional video about the beauties of Chicago, circa 1990. Narrated by the Tribune's Rick Kogan, it's a shot-from-the-air celebration of the...
Tags: Chicago Reader, Broken Nose, NATO, Frank Sinatra, Journalism
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Chicago Live! comes home to Old Town
On the opening night of Chicago Live! Thursday, in its new home at Pipers Alley with The Second City, the show didn't feel new: It felt like a homecoming. No one from Chicago would feel out of place.
Rick Kogan needed no script to talk about the 43rd...Tags: Music, Concerts, Ronnie Woo Woo, Ghosts (supernatural entities), The Second City
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Tweets take their (expletive) place among city's rich literary tradition
Olivia Clemens, Mark Twain's wife, once tried to shock her husband out of his habit of profane tirades by repeating one to him verbatim. Bemused, he replied that he hoped he didn't sound like that because, "You got the words right, Livy, but you don't...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Education, Del Close, University of Chicago, Groupon, Inc.
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Photos from Chicago theater scene, circa 1980s
A young, curly Gary Sinise in a Steppenwolf production. A black-and-white shot of "City on the Make," a play based on the writings of Nelson Algren, by Northlight Theatre in 1984. Through this weekend, an exhibition of photographs from the formative...Tags: James Earl Jones, Gary Sinise, Arts, Chicago Public Library, Laurie Metcalf
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Album review: Lou Reed and Metallica, 'Lulu'
1 star (out of 4)
Lou Reed and Metallica are not only two of the more exalted names in music – pioneers of punk and thrash metal, respectively – they’re among the most perverse.
Though “Lulu” (Warner Bros.), their first...Tags: Concerts, Lollapalooza, Documentary (genre), Heroin, Berlin (Germany)
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Tribune recognizes the word well-written
Literary editorOn Nov. 3, 2002, Arthur Miller stepped up to the Armour Stage at Symphony Center, stood at the podium and read from his book "On Politics and the Art of Acting," in which he explored the American political stage. As inaugural winner of the Tribune...Tags: Culture, Tony Kushner, Concerts, Tom Wolfe, Human Interest
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