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Marston House: Right at home in this San Diego charmer
This 16-room Arts and Crafts masterpiece on the edge of San Diego's Balboa Park was the home of George and Anna Marston and their five children. Marston, a philanthropist, civic leader and owner of the city's premier department store, commissioned...
Tags: Labor Day, Booker T. Washington, Memorial Day
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Rosenbaum House: Frank Lloyd Wright in Alabama
In the depths of the Depression, architect Frank Lloyd Wright developed a housing style called Usonian. These middle-class homes were meant to be affordable and connected to their setting. They blurred the distinction between indoors and out, featuring...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Architecture
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History lives in the Yucatán
YUCATÁN PENINSULA, Mexico — What's the Mexican drug-war body count now? 47,000? Ever since the killings began to escalate in late 2006, I've been visiting the country less and choosing spots more carefully. But the Yucatán Peninsula was an easy...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, Entertainment, Mexico, Peru, Arts and Culture
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Hyde Park Jazz Festival transforms a neighborhood – with music
What does a great Chicago jazz festival look like? Sound like? Feel like? Overflow audiences found out over the weekend, when the sixth annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival unfolded in unconventional, richly appealing venues across the South Side neighborhood....
Tags: Entertainment, University of Chicago, Music, Hyde Park, Arts and Culture
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Hyde Park Jazz Festival roars into its sixth season
Of all the jazz soirees that crowd the calendar in Chicago each year, none uses the urban environment as creatively as the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, which runs Saturday and Sunday in multiple locations. At what other time of the year, after all, are you...
Tags: Entertainment, Hyde Park, Wynton Marsalis, Concerts, Arts and Culture
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Ecologically advanced Smart Home at Museum of Science and Industry redesigned
They weren't kidding when they named the modular house just east of the main Museum of Science and Industry building the Smart Home. Not only does it incorporate a bevy of ecologically friendly features, it is now entering its fifth year as a special MSI...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Culture, Architecture, Ceremonies, Museums
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Pedro E. Guerrero dies at 95; fine arts photographer
Pedro E. Guerrero, a photographer whose early work with architect Frank Lloyd Wright sparked a long, distinguished career in the worlds of fine art and glossy magazines, died Thursday. He was 95. Guerrero died at his home in Florence, Ariz., said his...Tags: Photography, Arts and Culture, Architecture, Newspaper and Magazine, New Canaan
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Sighting: Stars come out for Springsteen shows at Wrigley Field
You probably already know Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder and former Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello made surprise appearances on stage with Bruce Springsteen Friday and Saturday at The Boss’s concerts at Wrigley Field, but there were...
Tags: NBC (tv network), Tim Robbins, Brian Campbell, Duncan Keith, Bruce Springsteen
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Frank Lloyd Wright archives heading to New York
The archives of architect Frank Lloyd Wright have found a new home -- two homes, to be precise -- in New York. The archives have been jointly acquired by the Museum of Modern Art and Columbia University. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation said it will...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Architecture, Museum of Modern Art
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Find one-of-a-kind cultural items Chicago's museum stores
More years ago than I'd like to say, I moved into a charmless cinder block dormitory on the campus of a land-grant university about eight hours away from my suburban Chicago home. To assuage homesickness and spruce the place up a bit, I hung a print of...
Tags: Entertainment, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Banksy, Fine Artists, Arts and Culture
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Carole Nolan, 1932-2012
Change of SubjectFormer WBEZ-FM 91.5 PR director Merillee Clark Redmond has sent over this remembrance Carole Nolan, who transformed the station from a sleepy, part-time classroom-of-the-air outlet to a full-service public radion station, died early this morning at age... -
Chicago Tribune guide to Wright Plus housewalk June 2 in Oak Park
TribLocal - Oak Park & River Forest » NewsLet's face it: If you were planning to have 2,500 of your most intimate friends over to the house, you'd have some serious fixing up …...
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