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Art of the slam dunk: Miami Heat-themed works go on display
This month couldn't be better-timed for collage artist Erika King. While the Miami Heat boys are busy sharp-shooting in the NBA playoffs, her commemorative photo-collages of LeBron, Wade, Bosh and other ballers are on display at Miami Beach's Williams...
Tags: Pat Riley, Miami Heat, NBA Playoffs, Entertainment, National Basketball Association
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A Valentine for Mom
Tribune cartoonists first celebrated Mother's Day in 1914, when President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed it a national holiday, but it wasn't until the late 1930s that the cartoons made an annual appearance. Find more cartoons online at chicagotribune.com/...
Tags: Woodrow Wilson, Mother's Day, Entertainment
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Review: "A Curious Man" by Neal Thompson
In 1933, Robert Ripley crash-landed into Chicago, opening his first "Odditorium" exhibition at the World's Fair. At the showing, writes Neal Thompson in “A Curious Man,” a fascinating and fun biography of the "Believe It or Not!" creator,...Tags: Authors, Culture, Newspapers, Heart Attack, General Motors Corp.
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LETTER: NRA Cartoon Unfair
Does cartoonist Bob Englehart have a free pass with The Courant? His cartoons often reveal his shallow understanding of the real facts behind news stories, but never has he been so outside the boundaries of fairness as he was with his May 7 cartoon....Tags: Entertainment
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Web campaign to build a Tesla museum succeeds in purchasing lab
The campaign led by Web cartoonist The Oatmeal to buy Nikola Tesla's last laboratory and turn it into a museum honoring the scientist has succeeded in purchasing the property. Matthew Inman, the artist behind The Oatmeal, put up a comic strip announcing...
Tags: Museums, Arts and Culture, Elections, Computer Hardware, Science
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5/8/2013-Good Times At City Hall
The CEO of Yahoo is right. There's something to be said for being in the office with your fellow employees. I had an entirely different cartoon in mind for today when a staffer came up to me and said, "Are you going to draw a cartoon about Mayor Caviar?"...
Tags: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Omega-3 Fatty Acid, Caviar, Vitamin Therapy, Heart Disease
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'Timmy Failure' feeds Stephan Pastis' success
The last time "Pearls Before Swine" cartoonist Stephan Pastis walked the halls of San Marino's K.L. Carver Elementary School, he was an 11-year-old, practical-joke-loving fifth-grader with a penchant for irreverent doodling — things like the Ty-D-...
Tags: San Marino, Iraq, Teaching and Learning, Diary of a Wimpy Kid (movie), Newspaper and Magazine
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Mobile computing
From the Chicago TribuneOnce upon a time, long long ago, the personal computer transformed the global economy, made heroes of nerds and gave everyday people the processing power once reserved for space scientists. Now, of course, smartphones and tablets are turning PCs into...Tags: Microsoft Corporation, Eric Schmidt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Google Inc., Science and Technology
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'Annie' items boost museum's collection
Representatives of the Lombard Historical Museum didn't exclaim "Leapin' Lizards" when they recently received a collection of memorabilia related to village history, but it would have been in keeping with the indomitable spirit of the red-head on whom the...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, Lobbying, Museums, Arts and Culture, Broadway Theater
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Bitstrips comics explode onto Facebook
Facebook may have a lot of uses for social networking and time-wasting, but lately it's been offering a creative outlet, too. A new comic-making application called Bitstrips is popping up more and more on Facebook updates. And after just a few months,...
Tags: New Products, Media Industry, Personal Service, Social Media, Entertainment
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Seething fury of 'Angry Little Girls' coming to your TV
Yeah, that's her, staring you down, eyes blazing, cursing under her breath. She's a piece of work with zigzag black bangs, a blood-red shirt and hands firmly planted on hips. When the guy who's in love with her inches forward, telling her, "I can't live...
Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Colleges and Universities, Racism, Margaret Cho, Apple iPhone
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Tribune reporters, photographers, cartoonist honored
Chicago Tribune reporters and photographers, along with the newspaper's editorial cartoonist, have earned national and statewide recognition recently. Cartoonist Scott Stantis was awarded the Sigma Delta Chi Award for editorial cartooning from the...
Tags: Photography, Chicago Tribune, U.S. Senate, Newspapers, Arts and Culture
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