- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, May 23, 2013
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Richard Cotovsky's life on the fringe, rewarded
After four decades in Chicago theater, the artistic director of Mary-Arrchie gets a special nod from the Jeff Awards.
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, May 16, 2013
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Do we really need the Great Chicago Fire Festival?
The city wants a festival that'll enhance its global image; Redmoon is planning an exorcism.
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Apr 22, 2013
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Lucky Plush, Blair Thomas & Co., and Eighth Blackbird go three to a
sleeping bagThe local arts groups band together to address that necessary evil, fund-raising.
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Apr 8, 2013
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Twentieth-century glamour, on auction at Leslie Hindman
Vintage gowns by Scaasi are among the finds on the block at the nation's largest couture department.
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Mar 25, 2013
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Silk Road Rising's "Mosque Alert" enlists the global community
A play in progess finds six characters in search of a conversation.
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Mar 11, 2013
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Heroes of civil disobedience: Gandhi, Rosa Parks, Aaron Swartz?
A Northwestern prof argues that the late "hacktivist" did the right thing.
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Feb 25, 2013
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Our good friend, Pablo
"Picasso and Chicago" showcases the artist's connection to a city he never set foot in.
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Feb 14, 2013
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Under a new general director, Chicago Opera Theater aims to seduce
Andreas Mitisek shakes things up, beginning with Philip Glass's The Fall of the House of Usher.
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Jan 28, 2013
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Being Jack Unterweger
John Malkovich channels Austria's infamous Hooker Killer.
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Jan 15, 2013
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"Whose idea was this?"
A judge's dismissal of the Prentice preservationists' case leaves a window open.
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Dec 28, 2012
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After the Newtown shootings, another tragedy revisited
Victory Gardens Theater revives The Warriors
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Dec 5, 2012
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At Victory Gardens, a bitter uprooting
The city's playwright-driven theater weeds out the old
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Nov 20, 2012
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Not so fast, Northwestern
Prentice's reprieve from the wrecking ball allows a look at NU's tear-down rationale—and the alternatives
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Nov 5, 2012
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Prentice Hospital gets landmarked, then axed
After a remarkable display of political theater, Bertrand Goldberg's building is going down
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Oct 24, 2012
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Your vision, your plan, your pop-up
The final version of the Chicago Cultural Plan 2012 arrives as a photo op
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Oct 8, 2012
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Expo Chicago: wait till next year
Taking stock of the international art fair's latest reboot
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Sep 25, 2012
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Toward a quieter, gentler campus
Northeastern Illinois University pursues some chilling legal strategies
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Sep 10, 2012
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Save Prentice or save lives
Northwestern's demolition campaign stoops to conquer
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Aug 27, 2012
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Rahm's no-brainer
The right move on Prentice makes Rahm a hero
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Aug 13, 2012
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The Albany Park library puts on a disappearing act
There's a "big vision" for the neighborhood branch, but it includes shutting down for two years
