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What to hear at the 34th annual Chicago Jazz Festival
Now that the 34th annual Chicago Jazz Festival is fully underway – having kicked off Thursday night at Millennium Park – Chicagoans can focus on figuring out what to catch this weekend. Following is an annotated guide to some of the most...
Tags: Music, Roosevelt University, Howard Reich, Entertainment Events, Science and Technology
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'Genius grant' winner Ken Vandermark gets nod from Chicago Jazz Festival
The most intriguing work at this year's Chicago Jazz Festival, running Thursday through Sunday, may come from the horn of MacArthur "genius grant" winner Ken Vandermark. As this year's artist-in-residence, the hyperinventive Chicago reedist-bandleader-...
Tags: Roosevelt University, Music, Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Chicago Jazz Fest
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Nonstop week of music surrounds Chicago Jazz Festival
Though the 34th annual Chicago Jazz Festival surely has its flaws, it generates tremendous energy and interest for America's greatest gift to the arts: jazz. The festival proper features major shows at 6:30 p.m. Thursday and Aug. 31 at Pritzker...
Tags: Music, Roosevelt University, Entertainment Events, Thelonious Monk, Pepper Adams
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Message to symphony orchestras in troubled times: Think positive
Fifty years ago, a group of 30 musicians from a dozen different orchestras in the U.S. and Canada met at Roosevelt University here to discuss how they could save their beleaguered profession. It was a terrible time for symphony players. In 1962, most...
Tags: Roosevelt University, Music, Rahm Emanuel, Raleigh, Wage Contract Issues
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'So You Think You Can Dance' recap, first eliminations
The first eliminations: 20 dancers enter, 16 leave -- or four dancers leave, however you'd like to put it. The six dancers with the least support from the voting audience, will be at risk tonight. The judges will save one boy and one girl from the long...
Tags: Music, Nigel Lythgoe, Entertainment Events, Adam Shankman, Elections
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A Q&A primer behind Friday's story about ant collection
When Tribune science reporting intern Jessica Morrison filed a story about ant researchers inviting the public to collect and mail them ants, it was a predictable talker of a story. You can read the story here. Meanwhile, as Trib Nation manager and a...
Tags: Genes and Chromosomes, Science and Technology, Pecans, Google Inc.
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Prepare yourself for gawk-apalooza
There isn't going to be a better time all year for star sightings in Chicago than this weekend. Lollapalooza will not only bring 100-plus acts to the city, but also draw dozens of celebrities who are just as excited as the rest of us to watch their...
Tags: Music, Wyclef Jean, Avicii (music group), Disc Jockeys, Entertainment Events
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Wingman Chicago: Lollapalooza Celebrity Kickball!
It's Lolla time, y'all! I've been invited to hang out and play in the 2012 Lollapalooza Celebrity Kickball game. This year’s game will be held in front of the South Stage at Lollapalooza in Grant Park. This year we will be fighting over a trophy...
Tags: Nicholas Braun, Guy Fieri, CBS Corp., Lollapalooza, Entertainment Events
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Lolla severe-weather plan doesn't specify single authority in an emergency
With 270,000 fans expected to swarm Grant Park this weekend for Lollapalooza, the city and the concert promoter have been working for months on a severe-weather plan that takes into account wind, tornadoes, lightning and hail. The 2012 Lollapalooza...
Tags: Music, Government, Disasters and Accidents, Entertainment Events, Lollapalooza
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Investigating Lollapalooza's emergency plans
In my last job, as a reporter for The Indianapolis Star, I covered the collapse of a stage structure during a Sugarland concert at the Indiana State Fair. I interviewed people at the fairgrounds the night the stage fell, and wrote about the incident and...
Tags: Government, Disasters and Accidents, Safety of Citizens, Lollapalooza, Politics
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Lollapalooza road closures officially begin
For RedEyeIn advance of Lollapalooza, the city has announced street closures for before, during and after the annual festival. Here are the closures so far: >> Balbo from Lake Shore Drive to Columbus through Aug. 9 >> Balbo from Columbus to Michigan through Aug....Tags: Lollapalooza, Entertainment Events
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Lollapalooza after-parties include Afghan Whigs, Passion Pit, Alabama Shakes
Once again the shows will just go on and on Lollapalooza weekend Aug. 3-5, with 31 after-party concerts at 13 venues over five nights to be announced Tuesday. The after-parties for the annual festival in Grant Park include no headliners on par with...
Tags: Music, Lollapalooza, Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture, The Walkmen (music group)
Aug 30, 2012
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Jul 31, 2012
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Jun 12, 2012
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