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Sunday, February 12, 2017

When you see a Bob Falls play, you remember it

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Robert Falls directing "Don Giovanni" at the Lyric.      What I really wanted to do was ... direct. No, kidding. What I rea...
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Saturday, February 11, 2017

Black History Month: Why does society value white lives more?

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      They call it Black History Month , though public attention has a way of petering out in the early days of February, ground down by t...
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Friday, February 10, 2017

It's easier to wear a red hat than to actually be great

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Caroline Brennan speaks with Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Women and children make up more than 70 percent of the Syrian refugee population ...
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Thursday, February 9, 2017

The dark before the darkness

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     Maybe we are making a mistake focusing on the president and what he does.      Not that it isn't important. It is.      And when...
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Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Souvenirs of falling stars

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     The timing could not have been better.      A week after the Field Museum unveiled its new interactive meteorite display, a green fir...
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Tuesday, February 7, 2017

You can't judge a cover by its book

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          Okay, this is funny.      Well, it might not be funny to you . But it's funny to me, or was this morning, and I'm sittin...
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Monday, February 6, 2017

J.S.G. Boggs, clever craftsman of currency, is dead

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       Chicago has played a role in the arts. Poetry, of course, ever since a teenage Charlie Sandburg took $1.50 earned on a milk tru...
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