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Redmoon harvest: A Harvard fellowship is letting a local theater artist take five
As you read this, Jim Lasko and his family, which includes his wife, two children and a dog named Beckett, are in a car heading east. Or they might have already arrived and are now unpacking boxes of clothes and all the other things that will fill their...
Tags: Artists, Harvard University, Pilsen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Music
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Pulitzer Prize winner sheds light on the walls that shape our world
On a recent morning walk, my heart sank as I passed a massive pile of boards, the remains of a two-story wooden building that had stood for almost a century. It was the last of the Orlando houses dubbed the "Lake Eola Five" to succumb to the bulldozer....Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Lake Eola, Entertainment Events, Museums, Rollins College
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St. James Church gathers its faithful
An unforgiving icy wind blew across the three dozen — young and old, black and white, rich and poor — gathered on Palm Sunday in front of the ancient and shuttered St. James Catholic Church in Bronzeville. It was a cold morning for the...
Tags: Human Interest, West Loop, Old Town (Chicago, Illinois), Religion and Belief, Religious Festivals
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Housing project preserves quality in time of tear-down
Jonathan Fine was walking through the old housing project looking for the right words. Georgian art deco fusion? Georgian eclectic with art deco thrown in? Colonial Revival? Whatever the right words are, they're not ones typically associated with...
Tags: Housing and Urban Planning, Interior Policy, Public Housing, Politics, Chicago Housing Authority
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Happy hour ahoy!
Chicago's various cruise lines ply the waters of Lake Michigan and the Chicago River pretty much year round (until the river freezes over, at least) during the day, evening and even midnight. But when the long nights of summer arrive, an additional option...
Tags: Beverage Industry, Defense, Viniculture, Alcoholic Beverages, Grant Park
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Wealthy homebuyers in China embrace the McMansion
An American export has turned out to be a surprising hit in China: the McMansion. Though "McMansion" may not be the kindest term for this Chinese architectural phenomenon, that's the case: Wealthy locals in Beijing and other cities have become smitten...
Tags: Condos, Real Estate Buyers, China, Downton Abbey (tv program), Beijing (China)
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Simplified approach to home design
LAS VEGAS — If you're planning to build or remodel a kitchen, you'll be right on top of the trends if you choose white cabinets. No, wait, make that dark brown. Attendees at separate events at the recent International Builders' Show here were...
Tags: Judges, Lifestyle and Leisure, Consumer Confidence, Crime, Law and Justice, Consumers
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Yale's Architecture Echoes Past In Present
The Hartford CourantLike many Connecticut residents who didn't matriculate at Yale, I know the university in bits and pieces — a lecture at the law school, a play at the Rep, a dinner at the Commons. I don't have a good sense of how the whole place fits together, yet...Tags: Yale University Art Gallery, Yale Center for British Art, Arts, Arts and Culture, Henry Ford
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Drawing insight into Google's Doodles
SAN FRANCISCO — Google.com is the most visited online front door in the United States. According to Alexa, a longtime Internet statistics firm, it is also the second most visited home page in the world behind Facebook.com; roughly 40 percent of...
Tags: Soccer, Father's Day, Hudson River, MTV (tv network), Computer Science
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Forgotten Chicago keeps city's bygone parts alive
A building is not, of course, a living thing, and so, unless it's the one you work in, live in or visit with some regularity, you probably take most of the city's thousands of other buildings for granted. There are, of course, the stars, those...
Tags: Water Tower, Wrigley Building, Rogers Park, Bridgeport (Chicago, Illinois), Tribune Tower
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Harris: Digital push builds to rectify 1991 Pritzker Prize omission
Denise Scott Brown has worked side by side with her husband, architect Robert Venturi, since the early 1960s, joining his firm and marrying him in 1967 and becoming the firm's principal in charge of planning in 1969. In 1991, Venturi won their...
Tags: Human Interest, Robert Venturi, Entertainment Events, Zaha Hadid, Chicago Hotels
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Barclay: a promising neighborhood with strong ties to city's history
While chatting with a neighbor this week, I learned she was planning to move to the 2200 block of Guilford Ave. She earned my respect for her decision to move to one of the newly renovated North Calvert Green homes, the sales name for fine 1890s rowhouses...
Tags: Real Estate Buyers, Energy Saving, Roman Catholicism, Rentals, Religion and Belief
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