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div.article div.byline p.date {display:none;} Nathan Rabin Nathan Rabin is the head writer for The A.V. Club. His books include “The Big Rewind” and “My Year of Flops.” He also collaborated on “Weird Al: The Book.”...Tags: Periodicals, Roosevelt University, University of Notre Dame, Fiction, Entertainment
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More poor live in suburbs than urban areas, research shows
Bucking longstanding patterns in the United States, more poor people now live in the nation's suburbs than in urban areas, according to a new analysis. As poverty mounted throughout the nation over the past decade, the number of poor people living in...
Tags: Dolton, New York City, Brookings Institution, Environmental Issues, Poverty
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Donation revives Cheney Mansion waterfall
A donation by a former neighbor of the Elizabeth F. Cheney Mansion in Oak Park has helped the park district reopen a 2-foot-high woodland waterfall that had been closed for more than 30 years. A $54,000 donation last year to the Parks Foundation of...
Tags: Human Interest
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Annual calendar contest shines spotlight on cozy Rosemere
Photographers, it's time to take your best shots for Orlando's annual Historic Preservation Board calendar. The board has produced this generously sized, black-and-white beauty since 1991 to raise awareness about Orlando's historic resources — our...
Tags: Realty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Interstate 4, Everglades, Arts and Culture
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Set Designer Creates Maze Magic For 'Twelfth Night' At Hartford Stage
The Hartford CourantFor set designer Alexander Dodge, it often starts with an image. In the case of the visual inspiration of Hartford Stage's production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," it was the suggestion of a garden maze by director Darko Tresnjak. The result is...Tags: Hartford Stage, Victor Garber, Theater, Other Desert Cities (play), Arts and Culture
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L.A. artists, architects' effect on each other at MAK Center exhibit
"Everything Loose Will Land" has landed. And its timing could hardly be better. The exhibition at the MAK Center in West Hollywood, curated by UCLA architectural historian and critic Sylvia Lavin, is a wry study of the ways Los Angeles artists and...
Tags: The Getty, Robert Venturi, Artists, Arts, Arts and Culture
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Wright's Unity Temple gets $10 million grant for face lift
Tribune reporterFrank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple, a pilgrimage site for architectural buffs, will get a face lift, thanks to a $10 million grant from a Chicago-based foundation. Wednesday’s announcement about the striking Oak Park structure comes as...Tags: Government, Streeterville, Christianity, Politics, Bronzeville
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James Turrell shapes perceptions
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Flying a couple of thousand feet above a volcanic field in Arizona near the Painted Desert, it's fairly easy to spot the extinct volcano known as the Roden Crater. It stands alone in the field, apart from hundreds of other...
Tags: Religious Events, Ford, Air Transportation Industry, Artists, Landforms
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Review: '10 Buildings That Changed America' is a rewarding tour
The new PBS program "10 Buildings That Changed America" is nothing if not efficient. In a single breezy hour, it moves from Thomas Jefferson to Frank Gehry, racing in a chronological blur past Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Venturi and a handful of other...
Tags: Ford Motor Co., Frank Gehry, Robert Venturi, Fenway Park, PBS (tv network)
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TV Picks: 'Family Tree,' 'Nashville,' '10 Buildings,' 'The Middle'
Los Angeles Times Television Critic"Family Tree" (HBO, premieres Sunday). Christopher Guest has made you a TV series. Thank him. The director of "A Mighty Wind" and "Best in Show" and one of the forces behind and in "This Is Spinal Tap" -- in which he was Nigel Tufnel, whose amplifier went...Tags: Revenge (tv program), Bridesmaids (movie), Christopher Guest, Music, Connie Britton
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House tours to highlight Wright's designs in Oak Park
For Burton Richardson, living in the Harry S. Adams House has been a lesson in architecture, history and learning how the details in a home affect the way one relates to it. "We frequently talk about … what it's like living in the house,"...
Tags: Science and Technology, Architecture, Arts and Culture
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Back-door school subsidies
Oak Park's pricey homes, Frank Lloyd Wright architecture and array of shops and restaurants generate billions in property wealth, funneling a bounty of tax dollars to its elementary school district. That kind of local affluence usually means fewer...
Tags: Aurora, Budgets and Budgeting, Oak Park, Politics, Justice System
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Mar 31, 2013
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