Pasley continued: `` They became an institution of the Chicago scene and marked the way to the moral and financial collapse of the municipal and county governments in 1928-29 ''.

A new and interesting addition to the Chicago classical music scene is also the Renovo String Orchestra of Chicago.

Juan Gris, a new addition to the Salon scene, exhibited his Portrait of Picasso ( Art Institute of Chicago ), while Metzinger's two showings included La Femme au Cheval ( The Rider, Woman with a horse ) 1911-1912 ( Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark ).

" Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times praised Tate as " a wonder to behold ", but after describing the dialogue in one scene as " the most offensive and appalling vulgarity ever thrown up by any civilization ", concluded that, " I will be unable to take her any more seriously as a sex symbol than Raquel Welch.

Since 1999, the growing sketch comedy scene has precipitated the development of sketch comedy festivals in cities all around North America, including festivals in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Montreal, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, and Philadelphia.

The young couple soon became popular and familiar figures on the Chicago social scene.

In the end, TV news brought an end to most afternoon papers, but up until the 1970s, Chicago had a competitive journalistic scene unmatched by most other American cities, five daily newspapers and four wire services in competition, and none more competitive than Chicago's American.

The pilot episode of Boardwalk Empire, shown on HBO in the United States, beginning in September 2010, contains a scene showing Al Capone en route from New Jersey to Chicago.

Another burgeoning scene was the Chicago / Milwaukee area, with labels such as Addict, Chocolate Industries, Hefty, and Zod supporting artists like Doormouse, Trs-80 and Emotional Joystick.

According to Hughes, the scene at the Art Institute of Chicago was " a self-indulgent scene of mine — which was a place of refuge for me, I went there quite a bit, I loved it.

At around this time he discovered the cruising scene in Pershing Square, where he met a man who told him about the Society for Human Rights, a homosexual rights group that had existed briefly in Chicago in the 1920s ( although Hay would later deny that he had any knowledge of previous LGBT activism ).

The writers decided to change the book's setting from London to Chicago because they were more familiar with the city and it also had a " great alternative music scene ", according to Pink.

Charlotte Tudor, of the film's distributor, Buena Vista, said: " Chicago has the same feel as north London, there is a vibrant music scene, a lot of the action is set in smoky bars and, of course, there is the climate.

Leonard and his brother Phil became involved in the black nightclub scene on the South Side of Chicago in 1946, when they took over the Macomba Lounge.

While this urban folk revival flourished in many cities across the U. S .— particularly Chicago, Los Angeles, and Denver — New York City, with its burgeoning Greenwich Village coffeehouse scene and population of topical folk singers, was widely regarded as the centre of the movement.

" This group is also involved in the burgeoning Philadelphia improvisation scene, and have performed at the Dirty South Improv Festival, Skidmore College Comedy Festival, Oberlin College Improv Conference, Delaware Improv and Sketch O ' Festival, and the UMass-Amherst Improv Festival, as well as nationwide in New York at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, Magnet Theater, and in Chicago City Limits at the Improv Olympic, and in Los Angeles at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater.

A static outdoor nativity scene in the United States, ( Christkindlmarket, Chicago, Illinois )

The only Detroit blues performer to achieve national fame is John Lee Hooker, as record companies and promoters have tended to ignore the Detroit scene in favor of the larger, more influential Chicago blues.

The original members of the Dwarves began making music together in the mid-1980s as teenagers in the Chicago garage rock outfit, Suburban Nightmare, which was compared to The Sonics, and which has been described as part of the Paisley Underground scene.

After the breakup of the Rhythm Kings in Chicago, Roppolo and Paul Mares headed east to try their luck on the New York City jazz scene.

Not finding the Chicago music scene to his liking, he moved from Chicago to St. Petersburg, Florida in 1985 with his first major band, The Marked ( so named for the conspicuous birthmarks of both Corgan and drummer Ron Roesing ).

At the University of Notre Dame, he trained as an engineer and began working for a lighting company in Chicago.

Meanwhile, Spalding and his brother began a sporting goods store in Chicago.

According to an early interview, with the city snowed under during the Great Blizzard of 1978 in Chicago, the two began preliminary work on the Computerized Bulletin Board System, or CBBS.

Strips such as The Phantom and Terry and the Pirates began appearing in a format of two strips to a page in full-size newspapers, such as the New Orleans Times Picayune, or with one strip on a tabloid page, as in the Chicago Sun-Times.

This project began with the construction and improvement of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, and was completed with the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal that connects to the Illinois River, which flows into the Mississippi River.

When Chicago was founded in 1833, most of the early building began around the mouth of the Chicago River, as can be seen on a map of the city's original 58 blocks.

Soon after his arrival in New York City ( January 2, 1939 ), Fermi began working at Columbia University, where he had already given summer lectures in 1936 While at Columbia from 1939 – 42, until they moved to Chicago, Fermi and his wife resided in Leonia, New Jersey.

The Fermis moved to Chicago in stages that year, and Enrico began studies that led to the construction of the first nuclear pile Chicago Pile-1.

After Windows 3. 11, Microsoft began to develop a new consumer oriented version of the operating system codenamed Chicago.

Back in Chicago, he began participating in the seminars held by the staff of the Cowles Commission who at that time included Trygve Haavelmo, Jacob Marschak, and Tjalling Koopmans.

At the age of eight he moved with his family to Chicago, where at an early age he began taking piano lessons.

He began a practice in Chicago, served as an assistant instructor at Union and with fellow attorney Clarence Darrow helped found the nonpartisan Chicago Civic Centre Club, devoted to municipal reform.

Lyon & Healy evidently began manufacturing these instruments around 1876 in its factories in Chicago and nearby cities.

In the 2000s, the musical film began to rise in popularity once more, with new works such as Moulin Rouge !, Across the Universe, and Enchanted ; film adaptations of stage shows, such as Chicago, 8 Mile, The Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Fame, Repo!

* 1969 – In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the " Chicago Eight " that began on September 24.

The migration of many former slaves and their descendants to major urban centers like Memphis and north to New York City, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland and Buffalo ( See: Second Great Migration ( African American )) meant that black and white residents were living in close proximity in larger numbers than ever before, and as a result heard each other's music and even began to emulate each other's fashions.

The railway post office | RPO section of the Pioneer ZephyrIn response to Armstrong's request to experiment with the concept, the first railway post office ( RPO ) began operating on the Chicago and North Western Railway between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa, on August 28, 1864.

Chicago: American Library Association ; Supplement, 1980 ( began with a guide compiled by A.

In the summer of 1932, Ro-Pat-In began to manufacture cast aluminum production versions of the Frying Pan as well as a lesser number of standard Spanish Electrics built from wooden bodies similar to those made in Chicago for the National Company.

The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.

She has rarely been photographed with him and, except for Carl's seventy-fifth anniversary celebration in Chicago in 1953, she has not attended the dozens of banquets, functions, public appearances, and dinners honoring him -- all of this upon her insistence.

In his fight for the Illinois and Indiana delegations, Hearst made several trips to Chicago to confer with Andrew Lawrence, the former San Francisco Examiner man who was now his Chicago kingpin, and once to meet with Bryan.

The Chicago contingent of modern critics follow Aristotle so far in this direction that it is hard to see how they can compare one poem with another for the purpose of evaluation.

Wisconsin Dells, where fantastically scenic rocks carved by the Wisconsin River are overgrown with fern and other foliage, rates a stopover when traveling from Chicago.

In Chicago, some time ago, Mr. H., age 27, a diabetic since he was six, stopped using insulin because he had bought a `` magic spike '' -- a glass tube about the size of a pencil filled with barium chloride worth a small fraction of a cent -- sold by the Vrilium Company of Chicago for $306 as a cure-all.

He then got a job with the Chicago Herald-Examiner as a circulation slugger, a rough fighter employed to see that his paper's news pitches were not trespassed upon by rival vendors.

I had come to Chicago from New York early in September with a dramatic production called Ask Tony.

-- Billy Gardner's line double, which just eluded the diving Minnie Minoso in left field, drove in Jim Lemon with the winning run with two out in the last of the ninth to give the Minnesota Twins a 6-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox Monday.

`` We are back with the ' Met ' again now that the ' Met ' is back in Chicago '', bulletins Mrs. Frank S. Sims, president of the women's board of the University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation.

`` We ( the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry ) expect to establish closer relations with nations and their cultural activities, and it will be easy as a member of the fair staff to bring in acts '', explains Mrs. Geraghty.

A cheer here for Francis Lorenz, state treasurer, who will meet with the probate advisory board of the Chicago Bar association, for suggestions on how to handle the opening of safety deposit boxes after somebody dies.

The charge that the federal indictment of three Chicago narcotics detail detectives `` is the product of rumor, combined with malice, and individual enmity '' on the part of the federal narcotics unit here was made yesterday in their conspiracy trial before Judge Joseph Sam Perry in federal District court.

Certainly not in Orchestra Hall where he has played countless recitals, and where Thursday night he celebrated his 20th season with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, playing the Brahms Concerto with his own slashing, demon-ridden cadenza melting into the high, pale, pure and lovely song with which a violinist unlocks the heart of the music, or forever finds it closed.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

Johnson campaigned vigorously, undertaking a public speaking tour of the north, known as the " Swing Around the Circle "; the tour, including speeches in Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis and Columbus, proved politically disastrous, with Johnson making distasteful and blasphemous comparisons between himself and Christ, and occasionally engaging in hostile and irrational arguments with hecklers.