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Monday, April 16, 2018

Nation's librarian wants you to see our country's treasures

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      The CVS drug store across the street had been looted. Buildings were burning. Rioters tossed rocks, injuring 15 police officers. The g...
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Sunday, April 15, 2018

Tax Day, 2010: Poking in the soil Trump sprang from.

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Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Money Museum      Today is April 15, traditionally Tax Day, when what is Caesar's due must be render...
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Saturday, April 14, 2018

Era of Contempt, III

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      Being creative is hard. Especially over time. To hold readers' interest, to be both recognizable and fresh. Expectations rise, if...
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Friday, April 13, 2018

'Fox Hunt' author, plucked from war-torn Yemen by social media, to visit Chicago

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Calligraphic Galleon, by Abd al-Qadir Hisari, Turkey (Metropolitan Museum of Art)      The young man was trapped.      In a small apartm...
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Thursday, April 12, 2018

Half a mind to struggle

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     Without the union, I probably would have never been hired by the Chicago Sun-Times.      It was 1987, and I had been freelancing fo...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Two directors transform ‘They fight’ into complex stagecraft in ‘Macbeth’

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Aaron Posner, left and Teller      Though known for writing lengthy soliloquies, William Shakespeare does not offer a lot of guidance wi...
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Tuesday, April 10, 2018

'Comforter where, where is your comforting?'

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Photo by Michael Cooke      Grief is like water.      It finds its way through the cracks.       Through fissures in the walls we se...
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