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Banned Books Week, Connecticut Book Award Winners
The banning of books is a perennial hot-button issue, all the more so this year amid charges that Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin raised the issue of banning books with the town librarian while mayor of Wasilla, Alaska., and tried to...Tags: Political Candidates, Littlefield Corporation, Wally Lamb, Starbucks Corporation, Auction Service
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Books for fall
STAFF WRITERWith a change in the seasons comes a change in literary focus. In the fall, readers tend to put away their summer fluff in favor of more weighty works. Here are 10 to watch for this fall. The Hero (Doubleday, Oct., $26) by Jon Krakauer The accomplished...Tags: Rock and Roll Music, Candace Bushnell, Cary Grant, History, Pat Tillman
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Read & Write
We recently invited schoolkids to share their thoughts on favorite books by taking part in our annual Read & Write series. Readers as young as 5 and as old as 15 responded with drawings and reviews reflecting on the books' lessons, storylines and...Tags: Middle Schools, Family, Gang Activity, Tinley Park, Fiction
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Chris Jones recommends
CITY Campaign Supernova: Second City e.t.c. has to be sufficiently edgy that its parent institution doesn't seem in a creative rut, but it also has to deliver enough laughs. As directed by Matt Hovde, "Supernova" straddles those conflicting masters as...Tags: Olympic Games, Oriental Theater, Steve Scott, George Carlin, Navy Pier
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'Willy Wonka'
CRITIC'S PICK: Roald Dahl's children's story, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," is delicious in its appeal and scrumptious in its un-Disneylike political incorrectness. And the 1971 movie came with some fantastic songs ("The Candy Man," "Pure...Tags: Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Defense, Navy Pier, Armed Forces
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'A Better Angel' by Chris Adrian
A Better Angel
Stories
Chris Adrian
Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 228 pp., $23
WHEN does the tragic cross into the lurid -- and the lurid become simply horrid? Interested parties might take Chris Adrian's collection of short stories, "A Better Angel,"...Tags: Washington Post Company, Thomas Merton, Emily Dickinson, Literature, New York Times
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Coldplay
United Center, 1901 W. Madison St.; 312-559-1212. Brian Eno specializes in reinvention, but on "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends," the producer merely spruces up the U.K. quartet's world-conquering sound. This is a band just about out of...Tags: Heath Ledger, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Navy Pier, IMAX, Batman
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Introducing 'Bigfoot'
A misunderstood myth adrift in the pop universe, Bigfoot returns to set the story straight in the third book of Toronto-based author and illustrator Graham Roumieušs hysterical series of fictional memoirs. "Bigfoot: I Not Dead" is both sharper and more...Tags: Book
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Book reviews for kids
"Journey to the Center of the Earth" Jules Verne This wonderful adventure is filled with eye-opening experiences. A great professor finds a book by an author whose books were supposedly all burned. It takes the professor and his nephew days to decode...Tags: Schools, Jules Verne, Books and Magazines, Fiction, Los Angeles
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The language of wine snobbery
When wine drinkers tell me they taste notes of cherries, tobacco and rose petals, usually all I can detect is a whole lot of jackass. The language of sommeliers, winemakers, sellers and writers has devolved into nothing besides a long list of obscure...Tags: Beverage Industry, Conan O'Brien, Roger Clemens, Bodybuilding
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Summer Theater Guide: Puppets, pirates and outdoor performances—the 45 shows to know
SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNEWhether you're looking for something offbeat to do with the family, ideas for out-of-town visitors here to check out in the hottest theater city in America, or just want a break from the usual barbecue-beach-blockbuster movies routine, we've got you...Tags: Festive Event, Palace Theater, Blue Man Group, Navy Pier, Nebraska
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Discoveries
Playing With the Grown-Ups
A Novel
Sophie Dahl
Doubleday/Nan A. Talese: 272 pp., $24
"She does have children, you know," Kitty's magisterial grandfather would tell potential suitors who called looking for Kitty's beautiful mother, Marina. Kitty grew...Tags: University of Chicago, New York, Thomas Mann, Adults, Book
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