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Founder of Comic-Con dies at 76
Sheldon "Shel'' Dorf, the man who founded the now- world famous San Diego Comic-Con International, died Tuesday. He was 76.
Dorf, a resident of Ocean Beach, succumbed to diabetes-related complications at Sharp Memorial Hospital, according to The San...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Death, Health, Television, Entertainment
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Museums
ARC Gallery and Educational Foundation 2156 N. Damen Ave. (new location); 773-252-2232, arcgallery.org The nonprofit gallery and foundation ARC strives to bring innovative and experimental visual art to a wide audience and to provide a place for...Tags: Cloud Gate, Max Ernst, Concerts, Jasper Johns, Colleges and Universities
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Authors H-L
Alyson Hagy In conversation with Eric Banks and Susan Nusser, 12:30 p.m. Saturday, University Center/River Room. Panelist, with Jonathan Evison, Larry Watson and Terese Svoboda, moderated by Steve Mills, 4 p.m. Saturday, Grace Place/2nd Floor. Alyson...Tags: Concerts, Colleges and Universities, The Drawing Room, Nelson Algren, Chicago Humanities Festival
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Spring brings new crop of salad offerings
Unbeknown to many, including a small sampling of Chicago chefs, May is not only National Salad Month, but also the annual tribute to salads launched by the Association for Dressings and Sauces. Today, the traditional Caesar, Cobb and Waldorf salads have...Tags: Onions, Asparagus, Salads, Gemini Bistro, Salt
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Pick of the week
"Entre Nous: The Art of Claude Cahun," is the first U.S. exhibition devoted to Cahun, known for her self-portraiture, photomontages and prose texts made between 1920-1940. Her work is considered a precursor to feminist exploration of gender and identity...Tags: Michigan Avenue
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Photography shows are all the rage in Chicago
Special to the TribuneWhen the photograph first began to work its way into museums and galleries, it was a hotly debated art form. What makes it so special? What makes it art? Those questions have been answered over the decades thanks to photographers whose artistic visions...Tags: Salt, Walker Evans, Irving Penn, Arts, Photography
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Festival keys in on piano music
Music festivals typically invite listeners to regard familiar pieces in different contexts and perspectives, seek out musical connections between scores, and discover new things about works they may have long taken for granted. That is as good a...
Tags: Concerts, Colleges and Universities, Arts and Culture, Music Industry, Artists
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2 more NATO protesters charged with felonies
Two more people have been charged with felonies stemming from NATO protests over the weekend. Christopher French, 21, of Wisconsin, was charged with aggravated assault of a police officer for trying to break through a line of officers on bicycles at...
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Protesters rally outside Art Institute
Hundreds of protesters gathered outside of the Art Institute of Chicago on Michigan Avenue late Sunday night. They started gathering around 8:30 p.m. Some sat down in the middle of the street. Meanwhile, First Lady Michelle Obama was holding a NATO...
Tags: Michelle Obama, Michigan Avenue, Activism, NATO, Politics
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Trying to go about their business
While police and protesters kept wary eyes on each other on the eve of the NATO summit, people around Chicago tried to go about pursuing their own agendas. There were lifelong commitments to be made, baseball scores to settle, sights to see and fish to...Tags: Camp David, Architecture, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Arts
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Making Chicago more than a dateline
Thousands of journalists from around the world have swept into Chicago to cover the NATO summit, putting the host city atop the international news headlines for the weekend. But for many of the 2,200 or so credentialed journalists, Chicago is merely a...
Tags: Journalism, Gold Coast, Buckingham Fountain, Starbucks Corp., Old Town (Chicago, Illinois)
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NATO weekend calendar
SUNDAY •First day of NATO summit at McCormick Place. •Anti-war protesters to rally at Petrillo Music Shell and then march to McCormick Place. Adler Planetarium, Shedd Aquarium, Field Museum and Art Institute of Chicago closed through...Tags: Metra, Arts, Arts and Culture, NATO, NATO Summit
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