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Chicago enters final day of NATO protests

Mon, 21 May 2012 14:54:48 +0000

Chicago braced for more demonstrations Monday, with protesters vowing to march to the Boeing Corp. headquarters a day after police clashed with a group of demonstrators at the end of a march protesting the NATO summit. Many downtown businesses have told their employees to stay home during the second and final day of the summit — where world leaders are discussing the war in Afghanistan,…

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Why Chicago needs bigger place on world’s stage

Fri, 18 May 2012 14:48:00 +0000

At its 25th summit in Chicago this weekend, NATO will be preoccupied with the tricky business of how to advance its various institutional priorities — like global security and the building of stability — even as its member nations are more worried about local recession and red ink. Austerity may abound across Europe and beyond, but NATO still says it intends for the Chicago summit to be the place where philosophical decisions taken at the Lisbon summit 18 months ago are turned into actual programs and initiatives.

In Second City’s 100th revue, money talks and hilarity rules

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 05:00:00 +0000

THEATER REVIEW: “Who Do We Think We Are?” at Second City ★★★½ THEATER REVIEW: “Who Do We Think We Are?” at Second City ★★★½ … Of the previous 99 mainstage revues at the Second City, almost all have offered the audience a chance to shout out suggestions. This time, the chance to dictate an improv scene is sold to the highest bidder.

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C2E2, aka Chicago Fashion Weekend

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:00:00 +0000

Costumed comic book conventioneers put drama and whimsy on full display The Vision could not see.

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Burton, Depp go retro in ‘Dark Shadows’

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:57:00 +0000

LONDON — There’s a night and day difference between the soundstages of Tim Burton’s “Dark Shadows” and his previous movie, “Alice in Wonderland,” and, no surprise, this is a filmmaker far more comfortable in the darkness.The digital ambitions of “Alice” required numbing weeks of work in a green-screen chamber, and by the end of it Burton was desperate to get back to his roots — building a cinematic house and then haunting it with his unique brand of cemetery cabaret.

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Pianist Keith Jarrett: What happened in ‘Rio’

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:18:00 +0000

Though Jarrett’s free-ranging solo concerts have earned him a loyal following – as well as resistance from those who have found his keyboard musings self-indulgent – ‘Rio’ stands in a category by itself. Last November, pianist Keith Jarrett released one of the most pristinely beautiful solo recordings of his long and prolific career, the double-CD “Rio” (ECM).

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Richie gives his ‘I love you’ a Southern accent

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:00:00 +0000

1980s R&B superstar teams with top country acts on ‘Tuskegee’ When it comes to romantic songs, Lionel Richie found the key to fans’ hearts long ago. “I’ve been doing this for 37 years of songwriting,” he says, calling from Austin, Texas, before an appearance at the South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival. “I found a subject that will never go out of style. These three words, ‘I love you,’ is all they want to hear. Those three corny-ass words.”

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Album review: Madonna, ‘MDNA’

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 23:24:00 +0000

3 stars (out of 4)

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Extra Extra: Hundreds Of Chicagoans Protest Trayvon Martin Killing

admin — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 22:00:00 +0000

A man was killed in a hit in run this morning, Chicago plans to expand its IB program, and other news. [ more › ]

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Power to the people

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 05:00:00 +0000

Don Draper and the new season of ‘Mad Men’ see women, minorities and the young taking more control After 17 months, “Mad Men” returns to AMC, television and the universe Sunday. I have seen the fifth season’s two-hour opening episode. There is a party in it. I can say no more.

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