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    Apr 4, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. Ebert showed how to die with grace

    Roger Ebert was a hot trend on Google's top 10 trends earlier this week. As of Wednesday, more than 50,000 people had searched for his name, an impressive display of his influence. He wasn't quite as hot as North Korea or Jay Leno, but he was running...

    Tags: Social Media, Apple MacBook Pro, Twitter, Inc., Carl Sandburg, Arts and Culture

    2. Apr 4, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. Schmich: Ebert reflects well on Chicago

    <em>This column originally ran in the Chicago Tribune on Oct. 21, 2011</em>.
    This column originally ran in the Chicago Tribune on Oct. 21, 2011. Some years ago when I was new to Chicago, I spotted Roger Ebert in the frozen-foods aisle of a grocery store. He was famous by then, and I did what any normal person does at the sight...

    Tags: Gene Siskel, Studs Terkel, Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), Mike Royko, Celebrities

    3. Mar 15, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  3. Nicholas Tremulis book 'For the Baby Doll' celebrates life and love

    It may not rank with literature's greatest opening lines &mdash; &ldquo;Call me Ishmael&rdquo;; &ldquo;It was a pleasure to burn&rdquo;; or &ldquo;Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice&rdquo;* &mdash; but the first sentences of Nicholas Tremulis' new 10-page memoir are undeniably arresting: &ldquo;When I was 4 years old, I wanted to be music. Not play it. Be it.&rdquo;
    It may not rank with literature's greatest opening lines — “Call me Ishmael”; “It was a pleasure to burn”; or “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant...

    Tags: Music Industry, Columbia College Chicago, Entertainment, Chelsea (Staten Island, New York), Chelsea (Manhattan, New York)

    4. Feb 26, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  4. David Hernandez: Poet of Chicago streets, classroom inspiration

    This is David Hernandez:
    This is David Hernandez: "I grew up here "I know the streets like the back of a passenger's head on the subway train." Yes, he did: Puerto Rican by birth, he was a Chicagoan by virtue of his passion, upbeat personality and the power of his poetry....

    Tags: Grant Park, Entertainment, Heart Attack, Human Interest, Poetry

    5. Feb 1, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  5. Starting at the beginning

    On a recent January night, about 100 people gathered in the Tribune Tower to discuss the art of the short story and to kick off the 2013 Nelson Algren Short Story Award contest. Five Algren Award winners &mdash; David Michael Kaplan, Joe Meno, Billy Lombardo, Baird Harper and Jeremy T. Wilson &mdash; read and dissected the opening paragraphs of their award-winning pieces. The writers educated audience members about place, intent, character, setting and the tenuous balance between humor and drama. While all the authors have different writing procedures &mdash; starting with outlines or not, continuously editing a piece or setting it away for a bit &mdash; they stressed the importance of just putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard). As last year's winner, Wilson, said: "The most important part of writing is just allowing yourself to wander around in the story."
    On a recent January night, about 100 people gathered in the Tribune Tower to discuss the art of the short story and to kick off the 2013 Nelson Algren Short Story Award contest. Five Algren Award winners — David Michael Kaplan, Joe Meno, Billy...

    Tags: Awards and Prizes, Michael Kaplan, Tribune Tower

    6. Feb 1, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. Rick Kogan on Carl Sandburg's 'A Revolver'

    You have, no doubt, heard about the new Carl Sandburg poem.
    You have, no doubt, heard about the new Carl Sandburg poem. Perhaps you have read it too. It is titled "A Revolver," and it was discovered a few weeks ago by Ernie Gullerud, a former professor of social work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-...

    Tags: Electronics, Libraries, Mike Royko, Poetry, Science and Technology

    7. Jan 31, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. 'Minsk, 2011' finds sexual heat in totalitarian chill

    THEATER REVIEW: "Minsk 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker" by the Belarus Free Theatre at Chicago Shakespeare &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
    In these free, privileged United States, the phrase "Sex in the City" conjures up a premium-cable experience of hot nights, cool fashion, heavy appetizers and relationship angst so light it might fly away on the West Village breeze. But whither real sex...

    Tags: Belarus, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Minsk (Belarus), Arts and Culture, West Village

    8. Jan 28, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. The 2013 Algren Award contest, and a glimpse of our short story celebration night

    A Storify gallery of a fun evening in the Tribune Tower, as witnessed by our visitors.
    A Storify gallery of a fun evening in the Tribune Tower, as witnessed by our visitors. Heads up: This gallery is running nicely for me in Firefox and Chrome, but not in Internet Explorer. Trying to find a fix here on our web staff. Meanwhile, anybody...

    Tags: Tribune Tower, Chicago Tribune

    9. Jan 21, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. Nelson Algren contest 2013: Celebrate short story writing; join the ranks

    The Nelson Algren contest has discovered writers, including Stuart Dybek and Louise Erdrich, who have gone on to distinguished careers. This year, we&rsquo;ve also expanded the awards to 10, with plans to publish these new stories in Printers Row Journal.
    The Nelson Algren contest has discovered writers, including Stuart Dybek and Louise Erdrich, who have gone on to distinguished careers. This year, we’ve also expanded the awards to 10, with plans to publish these new stories in Printers Row Journal....

    Tags: Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Kaplan, Chicago Tribune

    10. Jan 20, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  10. 10 things you might not know about signatures

    Jack Lew, nominated for treasury secretary, uses a series of loops as his signature. Which is fine for him personally, but may appear odd on U.S. currency. President Barack Obama said Lew "assures me that he is going to work to make at least one letter legible in order not to debase our currency." Examining Lew's signature, some experts theorized that he might be hiding something or that he was "the cuddly sort." Let's get beyond speculation and put 10 facts into ink:
    Jack Lew, nominated for treasury secretary, uses a series of loops as his signature. Which is fine for him personally, but may appear odd on U.S. currency. President Barack Obama said Lew "assures me that he is going to work to make at least one letter...

    Tags: William Shakespeare, John Hancock, Steve Martin, Superman (fictional character), Internal Revenue Service

    11. Jan 18, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  11. Nelson Algren Short Story Awards: A look back at a rich history

    An honor like the Nelson Algren Short Story Award can be a boon to a writer. It can give him or her the confidence to slog through rejections and trudge forward with literary endeavors. When we asked former Nelson Algren Award recipients what winning meant to them, validation for their work came up in almost every writer's answer.
    An honor like the Nelson Algren Short Story Award can be a boon to a writer. It can give him or her the confidence to slog through rejections and trudge forward with literary endeavors. When we asked former Nelson Algren Award recipients what winning...

    Tags: Christianity, Awards and Prizes, Religion and Belief, Teachers, Hockey (music group)

    12. Jan 4, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  12. 'Searching for Zion' details Emily Raboteau's quest for home

    If home is a concept a child might visually articulate in, say, six quick lines, by adulthood it's a notion much more diffuse — a shape-shifter, a Rorschach blot. In her frank and expansive new memoir, "Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in...

    Tags: Travel, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Religion and Belief, Ghana, Human Interest

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