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- News & Commentary, The Arts, Jan 28, 2010
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Who Can Make Art Blogging Pay?
Kathryn Born thought Chicago Now might be able to make art blogging pay.
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Jan 14, 2010
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Party Crashers
When a commie showed up insisting she'd been invited, the Ethical Humanists called in the cops.
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Jan 7, 2010
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The Endangered Coyote
After a disappointing benefit, the Around the Coyote arts org contemplates extinction.
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Dec 31, 2009
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How to Get Gigs
Roberta Brown not only plays the Walnut Room at Macy’s for free—she bought the piano.
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Dec 10, 2009
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The Conservative Menace
Is an influx of neocon board members threatening Shimer College’s egalitarian tradition?
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Dec 3, 2009
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Chapman Kelley’s Mutilated Garden
The Seventh Circuit is set to decide if the Park District had the right to destroy an artwork.
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Nov 26, 2009
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Who Wants to Be Hollywood East?
An expert in government subsidies for film production says it's a "race to the bottom."
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Nov 19, 2009
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Is a Soundstage a Sound Investment?
Word was that construction had already started on a new film studio at the Ryerson steel plant on the west side. But the deal is still in the discussion stage, and Cornell University professor Susan Christopherson suggests it may not be a boon for Chicago if it goes through.
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Nov 12, 2009
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Her War
After suspended prof Zafra Lerman charges discrimination, Columbia College pulls funding from her Middle East peace conference.
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Oct 28, 2009
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Ghosts of Christmas Carols Past
Kevin Von Feldt, the producer behind the Dickens classic at the Civic Opera House, has a colorful track record—and a rap sheet for false advertising.
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Oct 22, 2009
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The Stars in Todd Stroger’s Eyes
Cook County Board president Todd Stroger wants to set up a Cook County Film and Entertainment Commission.
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Oct 15, 2009
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Pit of Unrest
The union representing Lyric Opera orchestra members says its options are "narrowing" in negotiations over a new contract. The union charges that its members are being asked to take too much of the brunt of economic hard times, and that management's plans will "diminish the product."
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Oct 8, 2009
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Everyone Is Implicated
My Kind of Town, John Conroy's unforgiving new play about the Chicago police torture scandal, gets a reading at the Chicago Writers' Bloc New Play Festival.
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Sep 24, 2009
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They Didn't Think of the Children
D. Bradford Hunt's study of the Chicago Housing Authority, Blueprint for Disaster, argues that public housing projects like Cabrini-Green failed because they put too many children in hard-to-access towers.
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Sep 17, 2009
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The Olympic Myth
A European report concludes that the games do more harm than good for local tourism.
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Sep 10, 2009
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Chicago's Olympic Bid: What's In It for the Arts?
Why Chicago's cultural institutions are lining up behind a bid the people aren't sure they want.
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Sep 3, 2009
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Who Wants to Be the Future of Arts Journalism?
Entrants in a national competition, including two local groups, hope to be chosen as models of the future of arts journalism.
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Aug 20, 2009
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Ushered Out of the Saints
The Saints board takes disciplinary action against several members--including Deborah Granite, drummed out after 24 years--exposing a schism in the organization that supplies ushers and grants to nonprofit theaters in the Chicago area.
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Aug 13, 2009
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Pilsen's Ailing Arts District
As 4Art Inc prepares to leave its Pilsen location, John Podmajersky III's Chicago Arts District looks more and more like a ghost town. Also: the Chicago Artists Coalition loses its recently appointed executive director in the wake of a Web site crisis.
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Aug 5, 2009
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If Treasures Could Talk
Painter and musician Mary Barnes-Gingrich donates a suite of four canvases, The Four Seasons, to the Recycled Art benefit at the Art Center in Highland Park. Paintings from the Como Inn restaurant and studies by Tricia Vail are also among many items for sale at the benefit.
