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| Art Institute's Lichtenstein exhibit enlightens Wed, 16 May 2012 21:28:00 GMT You might think Roy Lichtenstein loved the stuff of everyday postwar American existence. Swirling washing machines, diamond engagement rings, steaming hot cups of coffee, hi-top sneakers, golf balls and hot dogs covered in mustard are just a few of the familiar subjects portrayed big and bold in his iconic paintings of the early 1960s, paintings that launched a revolution called pop art. 
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| Cindy Crawford keeping busy behind the camera Wed, 16 May 2012 19:00:00 GMT What has supermodel Cindy Crawford – who was hard to miss in the 1980s and ‘90s thanks to her countless magazine covers and Pepsi and Revlon commercials, not to mention her MTV show “House of Style” — been up to the last few years? 
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| Cannes: Bill Murray shows love for director Wes Anderson Wed, 16 May 2012 15:34:00 GMT CANNES, France -- Here's Bill Murray, a rumpled riot in mismatched summer wear, talking about his ongoing screen collaboration with writer-director Wes Anderson, the filmmaker (who still shoots on actual, tactile-friendly film, Super 16 millimeter in this case) who gave us "Rushmore," "The Royal Tenenbaums,""Fantastic Mr. Fox"and other fastidiously framed and eccentrically observed studies in young people, their addled elders and their elaborate coping mechanisms: 
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| Cannes: Bill Murray shows his love for Wes Anderson Wed, 16 May 2012 15:09:00 GMT CANNES, France — Here's Bill Murray, a rumpled riot in mismatched summer wear, talking about his ongoing screen collaboration with writer-director Wes Anderson, the filmmaker (who still shoots on actual, tactile-friendly film, Super 16 millimeter in this case) who gave us "Rushmore," "The Royal Tenenbaums,""Fantastic Mr. Fox" and other fastidiously framed and eccentrically observed studies in young people, their addled elders and their elaborate coping mechanisms:"Sometimes," Murray said at the press conference following the premiere of Anderson's"Moonrise Kingdom"here in Cannes, " when you work with a director you know you not only may never see him again, sometimes you hope you never seen him again. And that goes for the director as well. They can't wait for you to leave. They drive you to the airport to make sure you leave. That happens. 
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| 'Dancing With the Stars': Menounos sent home Wed, 16 May 2012 03:01:00 GMT "Dancing With the Stars" fans sent home Maria Menounos, who scored a perfect 30 from the three judges. 
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| Living room theater brings the show to your home Tue, 15 May 2012 21:09:00 GMT The living room is the stage as actors mount theater equivalent of house concert The woman and man sitting in the living room are having an argument. This is generally bad news. Awkward. Not something you'd pay to see. 
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| Riot Fest moves to Humboldt Park Tue, 15 May 2012 15:49:00 GMT Riot Fest, the annual punk festival, is moving outdoors for the first time this year, promoters say: Sept. 15-16 at Humboldt Park. The festival’s Sept. 14 opening will be held at the Congress Theater. 
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| Spring Awakening festival expands inside Soldier Field Tue, 15 May 2012 15:31:00 GMT The Spring Awakening Music Festival scheduled for June 16-17 is expanding inside Soldier Field to meet ticket demand, promoters will announce Tuesday. 
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| '[Title of Show]': Musical about a musical is still clever Mon, 14 May 2012 20:38:00 GMT THEATER REVIEW: "[Title of Show]" at Northlight Theatre ★★½ Before there was the rapidly atrophying NBC sitcom "Smash," there was "[Title of Show]," a cleverly metadramatic little show by Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen, wherein a couple of young guys trying to write a hit musical decide that their best option is to write a musical about their writing a musical, and thus the musical they are trying to write simultaneously becomes the musical you are paying to see. 
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| Soul star Donald 'Duck' Dunn dead at 70 Mon, 14 May 2012 15:38:00 GMT Donald ¿Duck¿ Dunn, was part of one of soul music¿s greatest rhythm sections. 
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| Michael Phillips previews the Cannes Film Festival Mon, 14 May 2012 14:44:00 GMT Cannes' blend of low culture and high art has produced gems for the ages Brigitte Bardot in a bikini on a French Riviera beach in the early 1950s. Quick — name a single photograph in existence that reminds you less of "The Tree of Life," last year's top prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival. 
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| Has America fallen out of love with Johnny Depp? Mon, 14 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT Vampire movies are fading. Tim Burton has taken an odd left turn. “The Avengers” was going to be an unstoppable force no matter what opened against it. 
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| NBC bets on comedy, to air 'Voice' twice a season Mon, 14 May 2012 04:35:00 GMT NBC announced 16 new TV shows - seven of them comedies - and said it will broadcast singing contest "The Voice" in the fall. 
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| 'My Kind of Town' picks at still-raw wound Mon, 14 May 2012 00:58:00 GMT THEATER REVIEW: "My Kind of Town" ★★★½ Chris Jones: "The fine new play by John Conroy ... clearly wants to indict the city he just as clearly loves." 
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| 'Johnny Carson: King of Late Night' takes an in-depth look Sun, 13 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT A PBS 'American Masters' documentary investigates the mystique of the elusive 'Tonight Show' host, 20 years after he left TV. Barbara Walters, Peter Jennings and Diane Sawyer all made their best pitch but were turned down. Johnny Carson, the man who changed forever the world of late-night talk, wasn't talking. 
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| Annie Clark takes another step forward with St. Vincent at Vic Sat, 12 May 2012 14:22:00 GMT Leading her band St. Vincent at a sold out Vic Friday night, Annie Clark spent much of her time on stage nearly stock still, a porcelain statue dressed in black, but it didn't take long to recognize the stationary pose as a sneaky ruse. As soon as a song called for it, she'd quickly shuffle back on her teetering high heels and strangle her guitar with an almost pathological intensity, squeezing from it some of the ugliest, dirtiest, coolest fuzz tones imaginable. Needless to say, Clark's songs called for it a lot. 
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| Eric Church puts a real edge on country at Sears Centre Sat, 12 May 2012 14:21:00 GMT Eric Church began his concert Friday at a near-capacity Sears Centre spreading the word about a revival that will happen once a "Country Music Jesus" arrives. If the burgeoning vocalist/guitarist's 90-minute set proves any indication, and he gets his way, this appointed savior will indulge in whiskey, wave the flag, live for the moment and sing honky-tonk with a pleasing drawl. Currently on his first headlining arena outing, Church came across as a well-schooled veteran, reinforcing his bad-boy status with Southern imagery, blaring guitars and outlaw attitude. 
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| Heat, intimacy and 'A Little Night Music,' exquisitely done at Writers' Theatre Sat, 12 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT THEATER REVIEW: "A Little Night Music" at Writers' Theatre ★★★★ THEATER REVIEW: "A Little Night Music" at Writers' Theatre ★★★★ ... Desiree, the Scandinavian actress who delivers the famously cynical number "Send in the Clowns," is generally played as a grande dame made painfully aware of her own limitations. 
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| 'The Dictator' falls between 'Borat' and 'Bruno' ✭✭ 1/2 Fri, 11 May 2012 23:08:00 GMT For most of its quick and extremely dirty running time, the new Sacha Baron Cohen offender "The Dictator" wages war with itself, crude nonsense up against crude nonsense that's really funny. Then comes the golden ticket, the speech of speeches, the scene in which the fictional North African dictator General Admiral Haffaz Aladeen addresses a gathering in New York City, recanting his barbarous ways with a heartfelt confessional. 
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| Rick Kogan looks at the art of the protest Fri, 11 May 2012 19:57:00 GMT Inside a storefront space in Pilsen, Eugene Young was putting the finishing touches on a wild, colorful poster. Fourteen years old, he is a student at Chicago Tech Academy High School on the Near Southwest Side. He came here because his mother made him come here. But he was getting into it, carefully laying color on top of color, word beside word. 
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| Remembering Studs Terkel on eve of his 100th birthday Fri, 11 May 2012 16:19:00 GMT StoryCorps founder Isay remembers Studs Terkel on the eve of what would have been Terkel's 100th birthday Studs Terkel was a magnificent and mighty human being. He was unfailingly generous. He loved people and made their lives better by listening deeply to what they had to say. He found poetry in the words of everyday folks, and was himself one of the great raconteurs ever to grace God's green earth. 
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| X Flight: New Six Flags coaster all about inversions Thu, 10 May 2012 23:35:00 GMT Dangling riders zip, loop and turn like a plane The scariest part of a roller coaster isn't the drop. It's the climb — that sheer anticipation of what's to come as this machine you're riding in starts to head irrevocably skyward. Time slows down, and the ground and the park crowds fall away. 
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| With Spotify, there's no 'my' in music anymore Thu, 10 May 2012 23:16:00 GMT Streaming and download services offer a whole new way to keep and share one's recording collection. But why is it so hard to toss all those LPs, 45s, CDs and MP3s? I am sitting on a couch facing two turntables, a DJ mixer, a dual-drive CD player/recorder, a cassette deck and a wireless two-terrabyte hard drive half full of music — all in one way or another plugged into my sound system. The various components live in service of the thousands of LPs and 45s on shelves spread throughout my home, which I love, and the 3,000 CDs stored in containers in a closet that I'm reasonably ambivalent about but haven't figured out what to do with. They're near a tub full of tapes that I once tried to throw away but retrieved from the dumpster a few hours later and the MP3s on the hard drive, which I used to access way more than I do now and have no emotional attachment to whatsoever. 
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| So these new comedy clubs walk into Chicago ... Thu, 10 May 2012 19:57:00 GMT From the longtime Zanies to the brand-new UP, a survey of the Chicago stand-up comedy scene One Friday night in Chicago, two stand-up worlds. The first world: In the established, Old Town room, the nationally known Greg Proops fires off his California hipster comedy, heavy on attitude, high on his own intelligence, thick with high-culture words and pop-culture references. 
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| 'Freud's Last Session' is one for the ageless Thu, 10 May 2012 13:01:00 GMT UPDATED REVIEW: "Freud's Last Session" at the Mercury Theater ★★★½ UPDATED REVIEW: "Freud's Last Session" at the Mercury Theater ★★★½ ... There is nothing in the air to suggest that Mike Nussbaum is slowing down his busy slate of theatrical engagements. Perish the very thought. 
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:
maffick • \MAF-ik\ • verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.
"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." — From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011
Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.