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Fake Twitter account mocks Michigan budget director
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan budget director John Nixon doesn't have a Twitter account, but like Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, he's attracted a tweeter pretending to be him. The FakeJohnNixon Twitter account started up last week and already has...Tags: Elections, Budgets and Budgeting, Arts and Culture, Mass Media, Politics
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YouTube, universities launch new media program
NEW YORK (AP) — YouTube is partnering with universities to launch a new media program series for aspiring digital filmmakers. The video-sharing website announced Thursday it would launch the YouTube Creator Institute with the University of...Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, Education, Arts and Culture, Mass Media, YouTube
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'Bernie' Sahlins, co-founder of Second City, dies at 90
Bernard "Bernie" Sahlins, the co-founder and former owner of Second City and a crucial and essential innovator in the field of American comedy, died peacefully Sunday at his home, his wife, Jane Nicholl Sahlins, said. He was 90. It is hard to...
Tags: Bernie (movie), Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Television, The Second City
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Interview: 'SNL' star Cecily Strong returns home amid dream year
They could be telling Cecily Strong’s story at iO Theater in Wrigleyville for years to come. The “Saturday Night Live” cast member wasn’t the obvious choice to follow in the footsteps of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler — who...
Tags: TBS (tv network), Entertainment, NBC (tv network), Apple iPhone, Justin Timberlake
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Review: "Every Boy Should Have a Man" by Preston Allen
Genre mash-ups are de rigueur these days. Of course, writers like Margaret Atwood have been tight-roping the misty border between literary fiction and speculative fiction, fantasy and mystery for years. But a new outcropping of younger upstarts, such as...
Tags: Ray Bradbury, Fiction, Arts and Culture, Theft, Customs and Tradition
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Grads turn to community colleges to boost job hopes
In 2010, Jessica Underwood graduated from Carthage College in Kenosha with a stellar academic record, a can-do attitude and a newly minted business degree. But it's been a rough entry into the real world. Like many of her peers, the 24-year-old has...
Tags: Advanced Training, Students, Marquette University, Roosevelt University, Victoria's Secret
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Off-duty cop thwarts Edgewater iPhone robbery
Tribune reporterSpencer Meeks was walking home early Saturday on the Far North Side when a teenager on a bicycle grabbed his iPhone, but, thanks to an off-duty Chicago police officer and Meeks' reaction, the thief didn't get far. Charged with felony robbery, was Jose M....Tags: Edgewater, Theft, Apple iPhone
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'Breakfast Club': How a talky teen film became a classic
I was in 7th grade when "The Breakfast Club" opened in theaters, and I distinctly remember thinking the movie was totally right about everything. I wasn't in high school yet (and that was surely one of movie's allures; a peek in a world I would soon...
Tags: Sixteen Candles (movie), Entertainment, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Des Plaines, Judd Nelson
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Jazz pianist Gerald Clayton performs with students
Gerald Clayton, one of the most accomplished and promising young pianists in jazz, will collaborate with students from the Chicago Public Schools’ Advanced Arts Education Program and Chicago High School for the Arts (also known as ChiArts) at 7:30...
Tags: Thelonious Monk, Schools, Chicago Public Schools, Public Schools
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Shift from Schwinn to SRAM mirrors change in bicycle business
John Nedeau rides his bike to work when he can. He has a good bike. He's a good rider. He works for a company called SRAM. Its global headquarters on Chicago's North Side is a long way from his home in suburban Lake Bluff, but Nedeau averages about 30...
Tags: Hobbies, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Lifestyle and Leisure, Bankruptcy
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Richard Snow to sign books Wednesday at McLean & Eakin
Richard Snow will be signing copies of his new book, "I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford," from 6-7 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, at McLean & Eakin, Booksellers in Petoskey. Snow weaves together a narrative of Ford's rise to fame -- as well as...Tags: Coney Island, Unrest, Conflicts and War, New York City, Ken Burns
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A magnetic actress tackles a taboo subject in 'Unspeakable Act'
"In the spring of 2011, at the age of 18, my brother Matthew got his first real girlfriend," says the 17-year-old protagonist of "The Unspeakable Act" in voiceover as we see her riding her bike down leafy, idyllic streets in Brooklyn. "I had somehow...
Tags: Barbershop (movie), Movies, Entertainment, Celebrities, Dollhouse (tv program)
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