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Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Blue lawsuit

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     The innovative Cirque du Soleil bought Blue Man Group last week. As a fan of both ensembles, it seems a natural pairing, and sent me...
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Monday, July 10, 2017

You can look here soon for the water that used to be in your basement

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     When I visited the new McCook Reservoir, I wasn’t exactly happy to be welcomed by rain pelting down in big summertime drops. I had brou...
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Sunday, July 9, 2017

Just drumming is not enough to make you Blue

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     Blue Man Group, the popular and increasingly-pervasive trio of mute drummers putting on a surreal show, were purchased last week by Cir...
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Feeling blue

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     Blue Man Group, the popular and increasingly-pervasive trio of mute drummers putting on a surreal show, was purchased last week by ...
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Saturday, July 8, 2017

Books on the nightstand: the Patrick O'Brian novels

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      Boars are conservative.          "Deeply conservative," in fact, according to Patrick O'Brian. "Devoted to the be...
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Friday, July 7, 2017

Rahm Emanuel, the New York Daily News, and "outrage porn"

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Sculpture by Damien Hirst, (Palazzo Grassi, Venice)      The voicemail system at the Chicago Sun-Times takes messages up to 6 minutes l...
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Thursday, July 6, 2017

Deep dish

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Burt's pizza      Chicago didn't invent pizza. But it did invent deep dish pizza. In 1943, at Pizzeria Uno, supposedly—documen...
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