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MacArthur: $1 million for international projects
The Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation said that it plans to make an additional $1 million available to Chicago-area arts groups. The money is designed to help local non-profits "increase their international connections." A spokesman for the foundation...Tags: International Travel
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Self-styled 'arts crusader'
Chicago's newly appointed Commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events happens to be one of the city's most influential jazz advocates.
But Michelle Boone's impact extends far beyond the music she has championed in the job she'...Tags: Politics, Regional Authority, Culture, Chicago Loop, Music
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Reconstructed columnist makes good
Change of SubjectLongtime readers may remember my distance-running duels in the late 1990s with Elmhurst Press columnist Jack Zimmerman. Well, he left journalism many years ago to become subscriber relations manager for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, but continued writing in... -
New poll: Americans want to standardize elections
Change of SubjectThis news release from the McArthur Foundation today underscores the point of my column today: Eighty-eight percent of Americans who voted in last week’s election support establishing national standards for voting, including the hours polls are... -
Election fantasies: 9 ideas to ‘fix that’
Change of SubjectPretend for a moment — and I know this is crazy, but stick with me — but just pretend that we want it to be easy for every eligible person to vote, and for the results of elections to reflect...... -
Dispatch from a climate-change convert
Change of SubjectRichard A. Muller, a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former MacArthur Foundation fellow, writes in the New York Times: Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw...... -
Gov. Jerry Brown names two to Cal State board
L.A. NOWA corporate attorney and the founder of California’s first migrant worker bilingual radio station were appointed Friday to the California State University Board of Trustees, the governor’s office announced. Gov. Jerry Brown appointed Hugo... -
Duke Foundation creates nation's biggest artist-grant program
Culture MonsterThe Doris Duke Foundation has announced a new $50 million funding initiative for jazz, contemporary dance and theater, which includes the nation's biggest charitable grant program for individual artists. On top of that, the Duke Foundation says it will... -
Post-9/11 blather amnesty offer tendered
Change of SubjectI’ve come to grant blanket amnesty for whatever came out of your mouth or keyboard from September 11 through, say, December 31, 2001....Nancy Nall I'll take it. For those of us who paid to have something original to say, those...... -
Jeanne Gang is first architect in 11 years to win MacArthur grant
Culture MonsterJeanne Gang, the 47-year-old founder of Studio Gang Architects, joins 21 other MacArthur Fellows this year; each of them will receive a $500,000 cash prize from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation that famously comes with no strings... -
MacArthur 'genius' grants go to cellist, architect, jazz musician
Culture MonsterAlisa Weilerstein, Jeanne Gang, Dafnis Prieto among recipients of MacArthur genius grants... -
Poet Kay Ryan among the geniuses
Jacket CopyKay Ryan, a Pulitzer Prize winning poet and a former U.S. poet laureate, is among this year's recipients of MacArthur Foundation "genius" grants....
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