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Anne Frank: remembering her on her birthday
Anne Frank was born June 12, 1929, 84 years ago today. During her short 15 years, she kept a diary and wrote there sorting out her emotions, describing her crushes and despair, her desires and dreams. She kept the diary from 1942 to '44, the two years...
Tags: Judaism, Google+, Religion and Belief, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events
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Schools' effort to shift to Common Core faces a difficult test
The passage for the seventh-grade lesson was blatantly offensive — an excerpt from a 1938 anti-Semitic children's book. But that was the point: to provide students in the Santa Ana school district with a perfect illustration of insidious...
Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Arts and Culture, Jerry Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago, Mushrooms
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READER SUBMITTED: Playhouse On Park Master Class With Artist In Residence, Brendan Norton Of "Cabaret"
StatewideOn Tuesday, June 25, Playhouse on Park is offering a one night only master class in Shakespeare's text with Artist-in-Residence, Brendan Norton. Norton, starring as the Emcee in the West Hartford theater's production of "Cabaret" this summer, leads...Tags: Arts and Culture, West Hartford, Entertainment, Lincoln Center, Celebrities
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How fast the world changes
"The moment we start forgetting is when history starts repeating itself." These were the words our delightful young guide whispered to me as the bus road slowly passed the concentration camp. I softly asked him about his thoughts, about his family's...Tags: Arts and Culture, Judaism, Diabetes, Tourism and Leisure, Religion and Belief
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A book for Mother's Day? The mystery of my mother's reading habits
No two readers are alike. No two mothers are alike. And the only way to really find out what might be a good book to get your mother for Mother’s Day is to ask her what she likes to read. My own mother’s reading habits have always been a bit...
Tags: David Foster Wallace, Central Intelligence Agency, Mother's Day, Golda Meir, Authors
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TGIF: Young girl's tragic story of Holocaust debuts tonight
After focusing on song and dance in last summer’s successful run of “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” director Kelly Estes said she wanted to tackle weightier material in the latest production for the Leeds Center for the Arts....
Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Music Theater, Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Celebrities
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Deanna Durbin dies at 91; wholesome star of Depression-era films
Deanna Durbin, the singing starlet with the bubbly personality and the jewel-tone voice whose enormously popular movies were widely credited with saving Universal Pictures from bankruptcy during the Depression, has died. She was 91. Her popularity...Tags: MGM Inc., Entertainment Events, A.C. Lyles, Music, Movies
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D.C. press competes with Tsarnaevs' mom for a Nah!
The U.S. Census Bureau reports there are some 316 million Americans, which translates to about 632 million human hands. Sadly, even those aren't enough hands to properly salute all the nominees for April's Moutza of the Month. The Washington press...Tags: David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, Tea Party Movement, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), United States Census Bureau
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Five books: Warming up with a festive high-five
Printers Row Lit Fest announced its lineup earlier this week, and it's led by Judy Blume, the beloved children's book author who has helped several generations endure the agony of adolescence. Blume will receive the Chicago Tribune's Young Adult...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Literature, Nathan Englander, Festive Events, Entertainment Events
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A spin through a world where bicycles rule streets
In bike-unfriendly cities such as Los Angeles, people who love cycling speak in wistful tones about a faraway place where the bike reigns supreme. Go to Amsterdam, they say. In that mecca of the bike, you will find special roads set apart for cyclists,...
Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Judaism, Religion and Belief, Cycling, Book
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Rinne Groff, Amy Herzog plays at Next Theatre
Evanston's Next Theatre has announced its 2013-14 season: the company's 33rd year. The season begins with the Chicago premiere of "Compulsion" by Rinne Groff, a piece about the obsession of Meyer Levin with Anne Frank's diary. It is to be directed by... -
Anne Frank and Emmett Till meet in AAPACT play
Staff WriterShe was not thinking of writing a play about Anne Frank and Emmett Till. Janet Langhart Cohen was just enjoying her life in Washington D.C.’s social whirl as the wife of former Secretary of Defense and U.S. Senator William S. Cohen. But she did,...Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Judaism, Langston Hughes, Religion and Belief, Ku Klux Klan
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