Saturday’s jazz marathon features an impressive cast of local players, including Ernest Dawkins, Nicole Mitchell, Willie Pickens, Dana Hall, Robert Irving III, and Dee Alexander.
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“Yes We Can” Win the Obama Presidential Library, Says Hawaii
Hawaii and Chicago duke it out for the Barack Obama Presidential Library and Museum.
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“One of the trippiest architectural visions you’re likely to see”
Who needs a balcony?
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Albert Schweitzer (and Bach)
Jerome Hill’s documentaries “Albert Schweitzer” and “Schweitzer and Bach,” about the Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian doctor, screen Wednesday at DOC Films.
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5/14-5/17 — Free Croatian Days Events
Chicago’s Croatian-American community celebrates Croatian-American Days from 5/14-5/17 with several free events.
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5/5-5/7 — Free Academic Freedom Symposium at the University of Chicago
The University of Chicago hosts a free symposium on academic freedom from Wed 5/5 to Fri 5/7.
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5/4 — Free Lecture by Shulamit Ran
Composer Shulamit Ran gives a free lecture tomorrow at Max Palevsky Cinema in U. of C.’s Ida Noyes Hall.
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5/1 — Free Workshop on Researching Jazz History
On Sat 5/1 from 10:30 to noon, the U. of C’s Joseph Regenstein Library hosts a free workshop on how to research jazz history at Chicago libraries.
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How Much Does Your Media Consumption Isolate You?
The Internet: 60% less ideologically isolating than national newspapers.
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Daniel Gilbert, University of Chicago ’05, Wins 2010 Pulitzer for Public Service Journalism
A recent U. of C. grad wins the Pulitzer for public service journalism.
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Dinner & a Show: Sunday 4/11
Movies Show: Melo Alain Resnais’ incomparable masterpiece is bound to baffle spectators who insist on regarding him as an intellectual rather than an emotional director; in his 11th feature, he adapts a 1929 boulevard melodrama by a forgotten playwright named Henry Bernstein, and holds so close to this “dated” and seemingly unremarkable play that theatrical […]
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Works by Tadanori Yokoo, Japan’s Gig Poster/Album Cover Warhol, at U of C’s Regenstein
An exhibit of recent Tadanori Yokoo posters, through June 19 at the University of Chicago.