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- 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.
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Jul 30, 2009
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The New Board at Theatre Building Chicago Has Big Plans—and They Don’t Include TBC’s Longtime Leadership
Executive director Joan Mazzonelli is out as the Theatre Building Chicago board decides to pursue a new direction; artistic director John Sparks leaves in solidarity.
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Jul 16, 2009
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Zaha Hadid's Burnham Centennial Pavilion: A Big Aluminum Hot Potato?
TenFab Design either quits or is fired by the Burnham Plan Centennial Committee when it goes overdue and over budget on building a Zaha Hadid-designed Burnham Centennial pavilion for Millennium Park.
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Jul 16, 2009
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Which One of These NEA Grant Recipients Doesn't Belong?
Why did Neighborhood Housing of Chicago get a grant from the NEA?
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Jul 9, 2009
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A Legal Circus
The board of Circesteem, which uses circus skills to help kids build confidence, has fired its founder, Paul Miller. A second item tells how Donna Gustafsson became the new CEO of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Jul 2, 2009
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The Business: A Museum in Sleep Mode
The Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies makes severe cuts, Powell's Bookstores pares down its brick-and-mortar facilities, and John Callaway is remembered.
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Jun 11, 2009
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Risk-Free Theater
The Driehaus Foundation offers a money-back guarantee on El Grito del Bronx, a joint production of Collaboraction and Teatro Vista.
- News & Commentary, The Arts, Apr 23, 2009
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The Museum as Rainy Day Fund
Should institutions be allowed to sell off donated art to pay the bills?
