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What's hot this week
MOVIES FROST/NIXON. Based on the hit play, which in turn was based on David Frost's 1977 interviews with the haunted president. Starring Michael Sheen and Frank Langella. Opens Friday. (See story on p. C6.) PUNISHER: WAR ZONE. The return of the...Tags: Adrien Brody, New York, Nokia Theater, Jonas Brothers, Mos Def
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NYC PICKS
OFF BEAT Go off the beaten path with NYC Discovery Walking Tours. Tour Victorian- era sites tomorrow and Sunday at 2 p.m. Meet at northeast corner of 21st Street and Lexington Avenue. Reservations needed, $16, call 212-465-3331. ALL THAT JAZZ Enjoy the...Tags: Thelonious Monk, Lincoln Center
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Obama should follow Carter's lead and bring jazz back to the White House
If President-elect Barack Obama wants to make a bold cultural statement—one that resonates deeply with his autobiography and with the legacy of his adopted hometown, Chicago—there's a compelling way to do it: Teach the White House to swing...Tags: The White House, Illinois Jacquet, Pennsylvania, John Coltrane, Joe Williams
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Roberts part of great jazz week
Tribune criticIn the late 1980s and '90s, when major record labels were tripping over each other to sign talented young jazz artists, Marcus Roberts emerged as one of the most promising pianists to put fingers on 88 keys. Having launched his national career in the...Tags: George Gershwin, Music Industry, Jerome Kern, Green Mill, Music
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Windy City leads off IOC's bid evaluations
When Chicago shows off its 2016 Olympic Games plans to the International Olympic Committee's evaluation commission, the visitors likely will get a taste of what locals have to endure every year. April is the cruelest month. Chicago bid officials learned...Tags: Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Henry Kissinger, Olympic Games, Whoopi Goldberg, International Olympic Committee
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A great jazz weekend needs a Marsalis
Tribune criticTribune critic The words "jazz" and "Wheaton" do not often appear in close proximity, but they ought to, considering the caliber of music that long has unfolded at Wheaton College. In years past, no less than the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra—...Tags: Heitor Villa-Lobos, Wheaton College, Music, Water Tower Place, Lincoln Center
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Dance: 9 shows to see
steve.parks@newsday.com; JUDY RAIAFall for Dance Festival (Sept. 17-27, City Center, 130 W. 56th St., Manhattan). First-rate dance at cut-rate prices - just $10 a performance - starting with the National Ballet of Canada and including the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Les Ballet Jazz de...Tags: Theater, Alvin Ailey, Merce Cunningham, Otis Redding, Physiology
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Spears jury deliberates
The jury in Britney Spears' misdemeanor driving-without-a-valid-license trial left yesterday afternoon for the weekend without reaching a verdict. The eight women and four men deliberated for a little more than two hours in a Los Angeles courtroom...Tags: Jean-Claude van Damme, Martina Navratilova, Zac Efron, Britney Spears, Tennis
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Perez familiar to Chicago, but pianist keeps it fresh
Chicago Tribune criticIn many ways, the visionary Panamanian pianist Danilo Perez can be considered an honorary Chicagoan. He helped launch his national career here with a breakthrough performance in 1994 when he played with Puerto Rican saxophonist David Sanchez at the long-...Tags: The Morse Theatre, Music, Green Mill, Chicago Jazz Fest, Lincoln Center
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Sphinx looks to change makeup of U.S. orchestras
Chicago Tribune criticFor decades, professionals in classical music have furrowed their brows over the lack of minority representation in the player rosters of U.S. symphony orchestras. Although minorities have made tremendous strides in many other fields, African-Americans...Tags: Theater, Academic Progress, Minority Groups, Chicago Symphony, Classical Music
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Top 5 music acts this fall
South Florida Sun-SentinelMadonna, Nov. 26, Dolphin Stadium, Miami Gardens. Consumers have cooled to Madonna's CDs, but they're flocking to her concerts. The savvy pop queen, in her 25th year of stardom, has rolled with the change and thrown herself into live performance. The...Tags: Theater, Leo Delibes, Fort Lauderdale, Classical Music, Culture
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In profile: Pastor Terry Danger, St. John's Lutheran Church
How do you compare your current pastorate with the inner-city church?
In some ways it's harder. You don't have some of the social institutions. In St. Paul, there was a settlement house. Broward Outreach is a good program, but it's not the same.
South...Tags: The Dark Knight (movie), Medicine, Christianity, Lutheran, Society
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