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...DIED. FRED EBB, 76, witty Broadway lyricist who co-authored songs for sassy stage productions like Cabaret and Chicago; in New York City. Ebb worked with composer John Kander for more than four decades on 11 Broadway musicals, including 3 Tony Award-winners. Known for his wry humor and unholy characters, like the lascivious master of ceremonies of Cabaret and the murderous chorus girls of Chicago, Ebb is perhaps best known for penning the lyrics to New York, New York, the big-city anthem Frank Sinatra later made famous...
...lights are still bright on Broadway, but for true theatrical wattage, Chicago is now the place to go. New York City's offerings tend to be more business than show, with astronomical theater rents and rocketing production prices. But the only things soaring in Chicago are the skyscrapers. Aided by tax breaks, theater there is free to take bigger risks, and the payoff is enormous. "Here, you neither fail nor succeed," says Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls...
...marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder The lights are still bright on Broadway, but for true theatrical wattage, Chicago is now the place to go. New York City's offerings tend to be more business than show, with astronomical theater rents and rocketing production prices. But the only things soaring in Chicago are the skyscrapers. Aided by tax breaks, theater there is free to take bigger risks...
Election officials confirm the need for this kind of support. Tom Leach, a spokesperson for the Chicago Board of Elections, said to the New York Times in August, “Training your poll workers gets harder every election. We’re laying more and more on the judges, and they’re not professionals, they’re senior citizens and housewives...
Even with the passage of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) by Congress in 2002, mistakes by the judges threaten to affect hundreds of thousands of voters. In a recent Chicago primary after the implementation of HAVA, 93 percent of provisional ballots cast were discarded, mostly due to election worker mistakes...