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The Agenda: Neal Pollack reads 'Stretch' at Skylight Books tonight
Brand XPollack is many things: a former reporter for the Chicago Reader, a onetime McSweeney's writer, a dad, a blogger, and now a âyoga dude.â In his latest release, âStretch,â Pollack describes his reluctant journey accepting the meditat... -
Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen sues makers of behind-the-scenes documentary 'Fix'
Pop & HissAl Jourgensen speaks out on lawsuit against "Fix" documentary filmmakers... -
Diana Kennedy, "Top Chef" top James Beard awards
Daily DishDiana Kennedy’s “Oaxaca al Gusto” was the best cookbook of the year according to the James Beard Foundation, at “Top Chef” was the best food television show. The awards were announced Friday night at Espace in New York. The... -
Monster Mash: 'Rock of Ages' headed for silver screen; China suspects looting; Fairey's lawyers may quit
Culture Monster-- Going places: Broadway's "Rock of Ages" is being adapted for a feature film directed by Adam Shankman and scheduled for release in 2011. (Variety) -- Honored: The plays "Ruined" and "The Seafarer" were among the big winners Monday at...... -
Monster Mash: Eli Broad stumps for L.A. culture; French museum strike continues; James Levine returns
Culture Monster-- He's loving it: Eli Broad cites museums, theater, architecture and classical music among his top 10 reasons for loving L.A. (Huffington Post) -- Newly discovered: Etchings by Pablo Picasso that were recently found inside a book that the artist...... -
Chicago Mayor Daley offers to shoot reporter to prove gun ban works
Top of the TicketWhat's the most effective way to demonstrate gun control works? Chicago Mayor Daley offers to shoot a reporter to prove his point!... -
Pages of History
The Daily Mirror"I was seeing Pershing Square, Los Angeles, now for the first timeâ¦the nervous fugitives from Times Square, Market Street SF, the French Quarter -- masculine hustlers looking for lonely fruits to score from, anything from the legendary $20 to a pad at... -
Remembering Los Angeles as a hotbed of alt-weekly comics
In the early 1980s, comics were as much a part of Los Angeles alternative culture scene as independent film and punk rock. That's gone now, but here, comics historian Ben Schwartz takes a look back.
None of them knew each other. They saw one another's...Tags: Matt Groening, Television, Lisa Simpson (fictional character), Newspaper and Magazine, Entertainment
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Truth, and other overrated ideas
Special to The TimesWhen I was a kid, I lied a lot. Lying, for me, was easier than learning to tie my shoes. I could tell lies like my best friend, Dave, could eat French fries — by the fistful. When I was in junior high school, I used to cut class and take the bus...Tags: Animals, Evan Handler, Garrison Keillor, John Cusack, Movies
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'The Lazarus Project: A Novel' by Aleksandar Hemon
The Lazarus Project
A Novel
Aleksandar Hemon
Riverhead Books: 294 pp., $24.95
First, a small historical marker:
On March 2, 1908, Lazarus Averbuch, a 19-year-old Jewish émigré from Eastern Europe, paid a visit -- for reasons unknown -- to the home of...Tags: Photography, Trips and Vacations, Health, Book, Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
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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: Studs Terkel, U.S. Cellular Field, Literature, Steppenwolf Theatre, Jean-Paul Sartre
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Robert Sickinger, pioneer of Chicago theater, dies at 86
Robert Sickinger, a pivotal figure in the development of Chicago's off-Loop theater scene, died Thursday morning at his home in Delray Beach, Fla. Sickinger was 86. His daughter, Erika, said her father died from natural causes. To the extent that...
Tags: Chicago Loop, Jane Addams, Arts and Culture, Obituaries, Hull House
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