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I Warned Them About Those Great Allegheny Passage Tunnels. Make Sure You Get Off The Bikes And Walk, I Told My Dozen Cycling Companions. Did They Heed?
Associated PressNot much. Most plunged into the disorienting void, one wearing sunglasses no less, gazing through dark lenses upon what was already dark. Expressions of concern, let us say, echoed off the walls. I flashed back to a friend's mid-tunnel wipeout a year...Tags: Pittsburgh, Amtrak, Cumberland (Allegany, Maryland), Washington, DC
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There are no sour grapes welcome at Christian W. Klay Winery
Farm, Field and Garden CorrespondentWhen the United States and the state of Pennsylvania were in their infancy, the National Road offered safe passage for travelers from Maryland to Illinois. Today, that same road, now better known as U.S. Route 40, may not be as widely traveled, but the...Tags: Fine Artists, Somerset County (Maryland), Religion and Belief, Christianity, Painting
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Marston House: Right at home in this San Diego charmer
This 16-room Arts and Crafts masterpiece on the edge of San Diego's Balboa Park was the home of George and Anna Marston and their five children. Marston, a philanthropist, civic leader and owner of the city's premier department store, commissioned...
Tags: Labor Day, Booker T. Washington, Memorial Day
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Rosenbaum House: Frank Lloyd Wright in Alabama
In the depths of the Depression, architect Frank Lloyd Wright developed a housing style called Usonian. These middle-class homes were meant to be affordable and connected to their setting. They blurred the distinction between indoors and out, featuring...Tags: Arts and Culture, Architecture
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History lives in the Yucatán
YUCATÁN PENINSULA, Mexico — What's the Mexican drug-war body count now? 47,000? Ever since the killings began to escalate in late 2006, I've been visiting the country less and choosing spots more carefully. But the Yucatán Peninsula was an easy...
Tags: Entertainment, Tourism and Leisure, Arts and Culture, Mel Gibson, Peru
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Hyde Park Jazz Festival transforms a neighborhood – with music
What does a great Chicago jazz festival look like? Sound like? Feel like? Overflow audiences found out over the weekend, when the sixth annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival unfolded in unconventional, richly appealing venues across the South Side neighborhood....
Tags: Arts, Entertainment, Music Industry, Arts and Culture, Concerts
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Hyde Park Jazz Festival roars into its sixth season
Of all the jazz soirees that crowd the calendar in Chicago each year, none uses the urban environment as creatively as the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, which runs Saturday and Sunday in multiple locations. At what other time of the year, after all, are you...
Tags: Midway, Entertainment, Wynton Marsalis, Arts and Culture, Music
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Ecologically advanced Smart Home at Museum of Science and Industry redesigned
They weren't kidding when they named the modular house just east of the main Museum of Science and Industry building the Smart Home. Not only does it incorporate a bevy of ecologically friendly features, it is now entering its fifth year as a special MSI...
Tags: Museum of Science and Industry, Ceremonies, Culture, Arts and Culture, Museums
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Pedro E. Guerrero dies at 95; fine arts photographer
Pedro E. Guerrero, a photographer whose early work with architect Frank Lloyd Wright sparked a long, distinguished career in the worlds of fine art and glossy magazines, died Thursday. He was 95. Guerrero died at his home in Florence, Ariz., said his...Tags: Cancer, World War II (1939-1945), Manhattan (New York City), Photography, Arts and Culture
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Sighting: Stars come out for Springsteen shows at Wrigley Field
You probably already know Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder and former Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello made surprise appearances on stage with Bruce Springsteen Friday and Saturday at The Boss’s concerts at Wrigley Field, but there were...
Tags: NBC (tv network), Tim Robbins, Bruce Springsteen, Max Weinberg Experience, Chris Chelios
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Frank Lloyd Wright archives heading to New York
The archives of architect Frank Lloyd Wright have found a new home -- two homes, to be precise -- in New York. The archives have been jointly acquired by the Museum of Modern Art and Columbia University. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation said it will...
Tags: Museum of Modern Art, Arts and Culture, Architecture
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Find one-of-a-kind cultural items Chicago's museum stores
More years ago than I'd like to say, I moved into a charmless cinder block dormitory on the campus of a land-grant university about eight hours away from my suburban Chicago home. To assuage homesickness and spruce the place up a bit, I hung a print of...
Tags: Entertainment, Fine Artists, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Book, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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