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Take Five: Hello, Mrs. Malaprop, Wherever You Are
Writers love words just like chefs love food. We spend hours tinkering with verbs, nouns and adjectives within all types of techniques and combinations to keep the eyes of our readers glued to the copy we create. We infuse our writing with clever,...Tags: AFLAC Inc., Entertainment, Yogi Berra, Richard M. Daley, Jimmy Durante
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Boyhood fantasy a $200M franchise
When illustrator and animator Duncan Rouleau describes the adventures of his star character, Ben Tennyson, it sounds something like a childhood daydream.
"He gets a watch that falls from outer space and it is filled with alien DNA," the La Caņada...Tags: Los Angeles, Marvel Entertainment, Inc., Superman (fictional character), DNA, Animation (genre)
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Art of the slam dunk: Miami Heat-themed works go on display
This month couldn't be better-timed for collage artist Erika King. While the Miami Heat boys are busy sharp-shooting in the NBA playoffs, her commemorative photo-collages of LeBron, Wade, Bosh and other ballers are on display at Miami Beach's Williams...
Tags: Miami Heat, NBA Playoffs, Arts and Culture, Arts, Sports
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Review: "A Curious Man" by Neal Thompson
In 1933, Robert Ripley crash-landed into Chicago, opening his first "Odditorium" exhibition at the World's Fair. At the showing, writes Neal Thompson in “A Curious Man,” a fascinating and fun biography of the "Believe It or Not!" creator,...Tags: General Motors Corp., Newspapers, Social Sciences, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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A Valentine for Mom
Tribune cartoonists first celebrated Mother's Day in 1914, when President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed it a national holiday, but it wasn't until the late 1930s that the cartoons made an annual appearance. Find more cartoons online at chicagotribune.com/...
Tags: Entertainment, Woodrow Wilson, Mother's Day
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Web campaign to build a Tesla museum succeeds in purchasing lab
The campaign led by Web cartoonist The Oatmeal to buy Nikola Tesla's last laboratory and turn it into a museum honoring the scientist has succeeded in purchasing the property. Matthew Inman, the artist behind The Oatmeal, put up a comic strip announcing...
Tags: Long Island, Museums, Entertainment, Elections, Arts and Culture
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Bitstrips comics explode onto Facebook
Facebook may have a lot of uses for social networking and time-wasting, but lately it's been offering a creative outlet, too. A new comic-making application called Bitstrips is popping up more and more on Facebook updates. And after just a few months,...
Tags: Entertainment, Social Media, New Products, Personal Service, Media Industry
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RIP, PC
Once upon a time, long long ago, the personal computer transformed the global economy, made heroes of nerds and gave everyday people the processing power once reserved for space scientists. Now, of course, smartphones and tablets are turning PCs into...Tags: Google Inc., Entertainment, Google Glass, Eric Schmidt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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'Timmy Failure' feeds Stephan Pastis' success
The last time "Pearls Before Swine" cartoonist Stephan Pastis walked the halls of San Marino's K.L. Carver Elementary School, he was an 11-year-old, practical-joke-loving fifth-grader with a penchant for irreverent doodling — things like the Ty-D-...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Entertainment, Lawyers, Teaching and Learning, Justice System
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'Annie' items boost museum's collection
Representatives of the Lombard Historical Museum didn't exclaim "Leapin' Lizards" when they recently received a collection of memorabilia related to village history, but it would have been in keeping with the indomitable spirit of the red-head on whom the...
Tags: Entertainment, Museums, Lobbying, Broadway Theater, Arts and Culture
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div.article div.byline p.date {display:none;} Nathan Rabin Nathan Rabin is the head writer for The A.V. Club. His books include “The Big Rewind” and “My Year of Flops.” He also collaborated on “Weird Al: The Book.”...Tags: Cornell University, Amazon.com Inc., Arts and Culture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fiction
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Chan Lowe's take on 911 dispatch in Broward
Just get it done. That's what Sun Sentinel editorial cartoonist Chan Lowe says about creating a countywide dispatch system for 911 emergency dispatching. Click here to view his cartoon and read his blog post. And click here to read the editorial we...Tags: Entertainment
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