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    Aug 25, 2008 |Blog| Newsday

  1. NBC finishes strongly with closing ceremony ratings

    Watchdog
    Sunday's closing ceremony from Beijing attracted 15.2 percent of U.S. homes, the best for a non-domestic Summer Olympics since 1976. That's an impressive accomplishment in this era of ever-diminishing ratings on broadcast networks. Overall, the Olympics...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, NBC (tv network), Sports, Summer Olympics, Multi-Sport Events

    2. Sep 29, 2008 |Blog| Newsday

  2. "Shea haunts you to the end"

    On the Mets beat
    That was Mike Piazza, wearing his No. 31 in royal-blue pinstripes, talking about driving to Shea yesterday morning in the driving rain. I was chatting with Piazza in the back of the press box, and he was recalling those rainy......

    Tags: Baseball, Arts and Culture, Mike Piazza, Jerry Manuel, New York Mets

    3. Oct 2, 2008 |Blog| Newsday

  3. Tom Seaver pitches in dark in '65, sends off Shea in '08

    Watchdog
    This is ridonkulously cool, and weird. It's footage of Tom Seaver pitching for the Alaska Goldpanners in the 1965 Midnight Sun Game, the Fairbanks tradition in which a game is begun at 11 p.m. or so around the summer......

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Tom Seaver, Miami Marlins, New York Mets, Alaska

    4. Oct 8, 2008 |Blog| Newsday

  4. Closing ceremonies off

    On the Yankees beat
    So the closing ceremony for Yankee Stadium, which had been slated for Nov. 9th, is off. That was reported today by the Daily News and amNY. Yankees spokesperson Jason Zillo said on the cancellation: "The Yankees were considering having a......

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Sports, Derek Jeter

    5. Jun 6, 2009 |Blog| Chicago Tribune

  5. Barack Obama: America's 'first tourist'

    The Swamp
    by Mark Silva Our friends and colleagues traveling with President Barack Obama this week have an interesting take on "America's first tourist'' - all eyes as he entered the Great Pyramid, all ears as he joked about how much an......

    Tags: Trips and Vacations, Archaeology, Barack Obama, History, National Government

    6. Jul 23, 2008 |Blog| Chicago Tribune

  6. Bush: 'Move past old grievances'

    The Swamp
    by Matthew Hay Brown In the last major address of his trip to the Middle East, President Bush plans to urge the region's leaders to "move past old grievances" and toward economic and political reforms. Bush, who has visited Israel......

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, George W. Bush, Government, Globalization

    7. May 21, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. Jazz, Israeli style, sweeps into Chicago

    What does Israeli jazz sound like?
    What does Israeli jazz sound like? It's experimental and traditional, edgy and relaxed, forward-looking and retrospective. The music of this cosmopolitan culture, in other words, proves as stylistically wide-ranging as you might hope of a Middle...

    Tags: Music Theater, Electronics, Science and Technology, Green Mill (club), Religion and Belief

    8. May 10, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  8. Lyric's passion must extend to musical theater

    In 2008, New York's Lincoln Center revived a Broadway warhorse: "South Pacific." At the beginning of the overture in the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the lip of Michael Yeargan's setting, which had the outline of a tropical island, began to move backward, as waves ebb upon a shore. As it receded, hordes of musicians were revealed, all playing the glorious music of Richard Rodgers. You could see tears in people's eyes. As the Russian formalists used to put it, the familiar was made strange, and the strange made intensely familiar.
    In 2008, New York's Lincoln Center revived a Broadway warhorse: "South Pacific." At the beginning of the overture in the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the lip of Michael Yeargan's setting, which had the outline of a tropical island, began to move backward,...

    Tags: Music Theater, Mary Poppins (musical), Entertainment, Poetry, Lincoln Center

    9. Nov 25, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  9. Tomorrow looking bright for 'Annie'

    THEATER REVIEW: "Annie" at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora ★★★½ ... Grand singing, grand setting make for a family-friendly holiday chestnut in Aurora.
    Everyone's first "Annie" should be at a venerable venue like the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, which opened for business in 1931, right when "Little Orphan Annie" mania was at its peak. The historic theater on the Fox River was built just one year after...

    Tags: Lobbying, Music Theater, New York City, Philosophy, Religion and Belief

    10. Dec 10, 2011 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  10. It's the sound of angels singing

    This year, women are very much in charge of the Congo Square Theatre's annual production of "The Nativity." Starting with the new director, Ilesa Duncan, and extending all the way up to Gabriel. That archangel is played this year by Alexis J. Rogers,...

    Tags: Porgy and Bess (movie), Music Theater, Arts and Culture, Langston Hughes, Congo

    11. Dec 11, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  11. Sinfonietta reaches out to city's Latino community with new concert series

    The Chicago Sinfonietta, long a national model for promoting diversity and inclusiveness in orchestral performance, is reaching out to whet the cultural appetite of the city's Latino community with a promising new series of concerts in various venues on the city's Southwest Side, beginning this week.
    The Chicago Sinfonietta, long a national model for promoting diversity and inclusiveness in orchestral performance, is reaching out to whet the cultural appetite of the city's Latino community with a promising new series of concerts in various venues on...

    Tags: Arts, Charter Schools, Chicago Children's Choir, Soccer, Concerts

    12. May 21, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  12. Chicago classical music ensemble Dal Niente gets fierce

    A couple of years ago Ensemble Dal Niente trumpeted its mission as presenting "the fiercest music of recent decades." The Chicago-based group of super-musicians still focuses on championing, commissioning and performing some of the most uncompromising scores being written today, but lately has been fine-tuning its modus operandi to bring a wider spectrum of listeners into the fold.
    A couple of years ago Ensemble Dal Niente trumpeted its mission as presenting "the fiercest music of recent decades." The Chicago-based group of super-musicians still focuses on championing, commissioning and performing some of the most uncompromising...

    Tags: Kanye West, Awards and Prizes, Lady Gaga, Concerts, Education

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