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Music, Music Feature Apr 4, 2019
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John Cage’s treasures are hiding in plain sight

The influential experimental composer’s largest archive lives in a library at Northwestern—and it goes a lot deeper than its famous Beatles lyric sheets.
- By Justin Curto
- Tags: Music Feature, John Cage, Northwestern University, John Cage Collection, Notations Project Collection, Correspondence Collection, new music, experimental music, Greg MacAyeal, UIUC, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 4’33”, HPSCHD, William Brooks, Lecture on the Weather, Beatles, Deering Library, Special Collections Reading Room, Note-o-Gram, Don L. Roberts, D.J. Hoek, Notations, Ryan Dohoney, Beatles, Yoko Ono, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Pierre Boulez, Second Piano Sonata, Steve Reich, Piano Phase, Morton Feldman, The King of Denmark, Music of Changes, Danger Musik for Dick Higgins, Fluxus, Nam June Paik, Robert Moran, Sketch for a Tragic One-Act Opera, Philip Corner, Mississippi River South of Memphis, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Marshall McLuhan, Kenneth Patchen, The City Wears a Slouch Hat, Roaratorio, Good Morning, Mr. Orwell, John Cage Research Grant, Rothko Chapel, Water Walk, Saving Abstraction, John de Menil, Dominique de Menil, Paul Sacher Foundation, Charlotte Moorman, A Feast of Astonishments, Block Museum of Art, Dick Higgins, Something Else Press, Jan Herman, Scott Krafft, Sound & Silence, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 20, 2016
This 'Beatles PhD' schooled kids who believed John, Paul, George, and Ringo were from Florida

Jack Murphy's students "couldn't believe we were going to spend a whole year on this one band that they'd either never heard of or only knew from a Target commercial."
- By Anne Ford
- Tags: News, Chicagoans, Music, Anne Ford, Chicagoans, Jack Murphy, Beatles, Rubber Soul, Please Please Me, Revolver, Sister Mary, Saint Gregory the Great, Andersonville

Blogs, Bleader Jan 20, 2012
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"Every boy will walk tall, when he wears a holster and pistol . . ."

A look at toy guns, both before and after the modifications were enforced
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Paranormal, Media, We're Old, toy gun, Mattel, airsoft, paintball, cap gun, Nintendo, Entertech, commercial, lazer tag, Zapper, Federal Toy Gun Law, imitation gun, revolver, tommy gun, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 31, 2011
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The dB's rock again

The brilliant guitar-pop band reunites for a new album and tour in early 2012.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Music, The dB's, R.E.M., Revolution of the Mind, Falling Off the Sky, Stands for Decibels, Black and White, Peter Holsapple, Chris Stamey, Revolver, Repercussion, Like This, The Sound of Music, Christmastime Is Here, Mavericks, Here and Now, Hideout Block Party, House of Blues Back Porch Stage, Will Rigby, Gene Holder, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted, jangle pop, new wave, guitar pop, rock music, Video

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature May 13, 2010
The Best New Restaurant in the Midwest?

Peoria, IL: Drawing on the same farms that supply Chicago's best, a homegrown chef has the culiscenti parachuting into Peoria.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Peoria, Josh Adams, June, Vie, North Pond, Raymond Sokolov, hiramasa sashimi, Peoria Heights, Homaro Cantu, Grant Achatz, Henry's Farm, Kilgus, Caveny, Living Earth, Lyndon Hartz, Hartz Produce, Charlie Trotter, Lessons in Excellence, Matthias Verge, Illinois Central College, French Culinary Institute, Paul Virant, Heston Blumenthal, Pierre Gagniare, Ferran Adria, Stephane Reynaud, Alinea, Brasserie 8 1/2, Revolver

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John Cage’s treasures are hiding in plain sight

The influential experimental composer’s largest archive lives in a library at Northwestern—and it goes a lot deeper than its famous Beatles lyric sheets.

This 'Beatles PhD' schooled kids who believed John, Paul, George, and Ringo were from Florida

Jack Murphy's students "couldn't believe we were going to spend a whole year on this one band that they'd either never heard of or only knew from a Target commercial."

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"Every boy will walk tall, when he wears a holster and pistol . . ."

A look at toy guns, both before and after the modifications were enforced

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The dB's rock again

The brilliant guitar-pop band reunites for a new album and tour in early 2012.

The Best New Restaurant in the Midwest?

Peoria, IL: Drawing on the same farms that supply Chicago's best, a homegrown chef has the culiscenti parachuting into Peoria.

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Video John Cage’s treasures are hiding in plain sight

The influential experimental composer’s largest archive lives in a library at Northwestern—and it goes a lot deeper than its famous Beatles lyric sheets.

This 'Beatles PhD' schooled kids who believed John, Paul, George, and Ringo were from Florida

Jack Murphy's students "couldn't believe we were going to spend a whole year on this one band that they'd either never heard of or only knew from a Target commercial."

Video "Every boy will walk tall, when he wears a holster and pistol . . ."

A look at toy guns, both before and after the modifications were enforced

Video The dB's rock again

The brilliant guitar-pop band reunites for a new album and tour in early 2012.

The Best New Restaurant in the Midwest?

Peoria, IL: Drawing on the same farms that supply Chicago's best, a homegrown chef has the culiscenti parachuting into Peoria.

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John Cage’s treasures are hiding in plain sight

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"Every boy will walk tall, when he wears a holster and pistol . . ."

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The dB's rock again