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Oscars: Pes aims for a long shelf life with 'Fresh Guacamole' buzz
Steven Spielberg was inspired by Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation. Ben Affleck was provoked by a Middle Eastern hostage tale. Adam Pesapane wanted to transform a hand grenade into an avocado. All three directors will walk the red carpet...Tags: Taylor Hackford, David Frankel, Satellite and Cable Service, Entertainment, Pixar Animation Studios
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New artistic chief charts daring new directions for Chicago Opera Theater
In contrast with the greatest hits programming Lyric Opera has announced for next season, the alternative opera schedule with which Chicago Opera Theater is inaugurating the Andreas Mitisek era, beginning this weekend, promises to be anything but safe and...
Tags: Pilsen, Arts and Culture, Roosevelt University, Amelia (movie), Entertainment
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'The Walking Dead' recap: Let's have a little talk
This post has been corrected, as detailed below.My favorite moment of any given “Walking Dead” episode is the moment leading out of the teaser and into the opening credits, when the buzzing, anxious strings of the show’s theme song gradually crowd whatever is happening on screen off...Tags: Ghouls and Zombies (supernatural entities), AMC (tv network), Government, Executive Branch, Suicide
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‘Walking Dead’: Glen Mazzara on the woman in white, Edgar Allan Poe
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesAMC's hit zombie series “The Walking Dead” returned Sunday for the second part of its third season, with an action-packed ...... -
How the Ravens built a winning brand
When the Baltimore Ravens won Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans last week, the team crossed a threshold for sports franchises: They joined 11 other teams in the National Football League to have won more than one Super Bowl in the 47 years the game has...
Tags: Super Bowl, Football, Dallas Cowboys, Media Industry, Google Inc.
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Baltimore love stories for book lovers -- Mencken, Poe and Fitzgerald
With Valentine's Day approaching, it's a good time to review some of the literary love stories that have been set in Baltimore. In an article in the latest issue of the Sun magazine, reporter Jill Rosen highlights the relationships of H.L. Mencken,...
Tags: H.L. Mencken, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Schizophrenia, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Tuberculosis
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Baltimore-San Francisco book smackdown for Super Bowl
The Baltimore SunBaltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library wants in on the Super Bowl betting action -- with a book-lover's slant. It has offered this challenge: If the Ravens win Sunday, San Francisco Public Library City Librarian Luis Herrera will have to recite Edgar...Tags: Enoch Pratt Free Library, Ray Lewis, Baltimore Ravens, Arts and Culture, Media Industry
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Maryland Zoo, Pratt Library bet on the Ravens
When it comes to Super Bowl XLVII, it seems everyone is willing to put some skin in the game. Or at least a little ego. (Yes, we're talking about you, Mayor Hancock.) The bets for - and against - the Baltimore Ravens are piling up. And it's not just in...
Tags: Enoch Pratt Free Library, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Football, Arts and Culture, Libraries
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Inspired by the Ravens: Literary NFL teams?
The Super Bowl-bound Baltimore Ravens get their name from the poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, making them the most literary NFL team. They can thank the people of Baltimore, who chose the name during a poll conducted by the Baltimore Sun. The radio...
Tags: Super Bowl, Football, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Arts and Culture, Authors
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Chicago Opera Theater steps through a Glass, darkly
Andreas Mitisek, the new general director at Chicago Opera Theater, is a man with a mission. He wants audience members to take a flyer on new and unexpected pieces of music theater that make them think, not just entertain them. The Austrian-born...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Music Industry, Entertainment, Music
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Poetic passions, tragic partings among Baltimore's greatest romances
Baltimore has witnessed love and loss. From the banks of the harbor to Mount Vernon's cobblestones to the grassed-over burial plots of Greenmount Cemetery, embedded in this city are vestiges of some of history's great romances, stories of people coming...
Tags: H.L. Mencken, Nora Roberts, England, Paris (France), Johns Hopkins University
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Winter classical music preview: Diverse events, from 'Boheme' to Boulez
The period from the new year through the end of March invariably includes some of the most highly anticipated events of Chicago's classical music season. Here are 10 such events, listed in chronological order: Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Riccardo...
Tags: Andrew Davis, Arts and Culture, Contemporary Music (genre), Music Industry, Entertainment
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Feb 10, 2013
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Jan 29, 2013
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Feb 8, 2013
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Jan 4, 2013
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