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Album review: Iron & Wine's 'Kiss Each Other Clean'
Pop & HissThereâs a graduate thesis waiting to happen in exploring the strangely beatific air that surrounds the music of Sam Beamâs Iron & Wine. With poetic songs that unspool like oblique parables and a lush beard that would make naturalist John...... -
Monster Mash: L.A. Philharmonic announces new season; Olivier nominations; Kevin Spacey's Middle East theater school
Culture MonsterArts news including LA Phil announces 2011-12 season; Olivier Award announces nominations; Kevin Spacey's plans for a Middle East theater school and James Franco's "Three's Company" play... -
Tracy Letts, after the dog days of 'August: Osage County'
Chicago TribuneJones is drama critic of the Chicago Tribune. CHICAGO -- When playwright Tracy Letts walked into New York rehearsals for the touring production of his "August: Osage County" earlier this summer, he did not find the fellow Steppenwolf Theatre Company...Tags: Mass Media, Awards and Prizes, Arts and Culture, Death, Strikes
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Aragon, Riviera face building code complaints
Two key venues in the city's plan for an Uptown entertainment district are due for consideration in court Wednesday, and their owners could end up paying hefty fines for allegedly violating the city's building code. The city filed complaints earlier...
Tags: Entertainment, Arts and Culture
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Stingray Touch exhibit opens for summer at Shedd Aquarium
The surprise isn't that the Shedd Aquarium now has an exhibit where visitors can touch stingrays as they glide by, but rather that the most popular aquarium in the U.S. hasn't had one before now. Usually called something like Stingray Bay or Stingray...
Tags: Brookfield Zoo, Shedd Aquarium
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Ambitious Beethoven fest wants listeners to feel the 'love'
Ludwig van Beethoven was forever pushing boundaries, and the annual Chicago festival that bears the composer's name continues to do the same, even more so than in the past. “Beethoven Festival: LOVE 2013,” as the third edition is titled,...
Tags: Pilsen, Music, Fine Artists, Entertainment, Music Industry
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Is it curtains for Central Park Theatre?
In a sea of empty lots in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood sits a faded relic that is one of the most historically significant American movie theaters still standing. When it opened in 1917, the red-brick, three-story Central Park Theatre was...
Tags: Maxwell Street, Arts and Culture, Religion and Belief, Central Park, Architecture
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Farmers markets after dark: Coming to Logan Square & Uptown
RedEyeGet ready to head over to two new Chicago farmers markets set to open soon with night hours. Chicagoans will be able to buy fresh fruit, vegetables and flowers at the markets weekly in Logan Square and Uptown, according to the mayor’s office,...Tags: Gold Coast
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Annoyance Theatre on the move
The Annoyance Theatre, a venerable Chicago comedy theater, is on the move. Jennifer Estlin, the theater's owner and executive producer, said Wednesday that it will exit its Uptown digs on the same block of North Broadway as the Uptown Theatre and move...
Tags: Entertainment, Theater, Arts and Culture, Annoyance Theatre, Broadway Theater
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Police question man in Wrigleyville shooting
Tribune reporterAuthorities are questioning a parolee in connection with a shooting in the Wrigleyville neighborhood over the weekend, police said. No charges have been filed as of Monday afternoon, police said, but authorities are questioning a 26-year-old man who...Tags: Wrigleyville, Chicago White Sox, Addison, Wrigley Field, Shootings
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A screen's-eye view of Chicago
Chicago has been involved in filmmaking since the technology's very beginnings in the early 1900s, when some of the world's first movie studios operated here. From those early days, when neighborhood kids would sneak onto the Selig Polyscope Co. lot at...Tags: Movies, Edgewater, Rupert Everett, Jake Gyllenhaal, Bobby Cannavale
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Depression-era artwork returning to public display
For 38 years, a 6-foot-by-20-foot mural sat rolled up in a local history teacher's home, an all-but-forgotten remnant of a Depression-era effort to bring art directly to the people. But a four-year community fundraising campaign and a yearlong...
Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Arts and Culture, Libraries, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Chicago Loop
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