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• Musical brains easily pick out speech from background noise (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  London, Nov 15 (ANI): Fail to keep track of conversations at noisy parties? Well, learn playing an instrument to enhance your ability to pick up emotional cues in conversation, says a new study.Nina Kraus and colleagues at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, has found differences in brain activity that they ...
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• Socialists arrive in Evanston for national convention

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 166
  Marching to a different drummer who perennially draws dreamers and dissenters to Chicago, the Democratic Socialists of America came to town Friday -- or at least close. Their three-day national convention was held at an Evanston hotel. The faithful still display the passion of predecessors who made Chicago the ...
  2 days ago

• Musical brains easily pick out speech from background noise

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  London, Nov 14 (ANI): Fail to keep track of conversations at noisy parties? Well, learn playing an instrument to enhance your ability to pick up emotional cues in conversation, says a new study.Nina Kraus and colleagues at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, has found differences in brain activity that they ...
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• Heart, head, and hair

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Culture Blog — Authority: 611
  I got out of bed this morning in Evanston in time to amble over leisurely to the local pastry shop, nibble a moist muffin, sip a mug of strong coffee and read some more Trollope before heading out to O’Hare airport.  I switched on my Blackberry and it began its familiar purr indicating that there [...]
  3 days ago

• Turin Food Drive Needs Your Support

  
  Pace of Chicago — Authority: 466
  Turin Bike Shop in Evanston is hosting a Food Drive from November 10 through December 10, in support of the Greater Chicago Food Depository.   As Chicagos food bank, the Greater Chicago Food Depository distributes to a network of 600 member pantries and shelters in Cook Count. Last year, the Food Depository ...
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• Mundeleins Obama stimulus "campaign sign"

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 550
  On the occasion of finding yet another of those Barack Obama economic stimulus "campaign signs," Id like to post an excerpt from a column by Steve Huntley in todays Chicago Sun-Times: In a bit of political irony, the administration of President Obama is turning out to be the mirror image of the White House of ...
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• TDW Exlusive: Dawson’s Creek Star Mary Beth Peil on Playing Grams

  
  TeenDramaWhore — Authority: 138
  In honor of today’s release of Dawson’s Creek: The Complete Series , I’ve rounded up some key cast and crew to reflect on the monumental series.  If you followed my coverage of the Paley Center panel, you probably noticed a certain lady was MIA: Mary Beth Peil, better known as the one and only Grams. I was ...
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• TDW Exclusive: Dawson’s Creek Star Mary Beth Peil on Playing Grams

  
  TeenDramaWhore — Authority: 138
  In honor of today’s release of Dawson’s Creek: The Complete Series , I’ve rounded up some key cast and crew to reflect on the monumental series.  If you followed my coverage of the Paley Center panel, you probably noticed a certain lady was MIA: Mary Beth Peil, better known as the one and only Grams. I was ...
  6 days ago

• Northwestern University warns of attack on Evanston campus

  
  Chicago Breaking News — Authority: 165
  Northwestern University has issued an alert to warn students of a sex assault on its Evanston campus Monday. According to the Universitys Web site , at about 9 p.m. Monday a female student was attacked while she was walking in a hallway on the second floor of the Technological Institute located at 2145 Sherdian ...
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• Hearing today on prosecutors bid to get journalism students grades

  
  Chicago Breaking News — Authority: 165
  A judge may decide today if Northwestern University journalism students and their professor have to hand over to prosecutors their grades and other information related to a class project they contend has uncovered new evidence that proves the innocence of a Harvey man convicted of killing a security guard. A ...
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• Blackface Halloween costumes cause NU controversy

  
  Chicago Breaking News — Authority: 165
  Hundreds turned out Thursday night in Evanston for a forum on race relations after photos of two people believed to be Northwestern University students dressed in blackface for Halloween turned up on the internet. University leaders called the costumes insensitive and expressed disappointment at the poor judgment ...
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• CTA rider: Worker called me baby

  
  RedEye — Authority: 626
  Dana Goldberg of East Lakeview wrote to the CTA about poor customer service and e-mailed the letter to "Going Public." Information about specific CTA employees has been redacted. Her letter continues after the jump. "I am writing to express my disappointment with the way one of your CTA employees, a supervisor, no ...
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• Petra van Nuis, Larry Harris & Stewart Miller Tonite (11/3/09)

  
  chicagostudioclub.net — Authority: 419
  Tuesday, November 3, 2009 8:30 pm til 12:30 pm Petra van Nuis Trio with pianist Larry Harris and bassist Stewart Miller . Pete Miller’s Evanston   1557 Sherman Ave. Evanston, IL   847-328-0399 No cover, no minimum. Jazz Vocalist Petra van Nuis LIVE in Chicago, IL / ...
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• Petra van Nuis, Larry Harris & Stewart Miller Tonite (11/3/09)

  
  chicagostudioclub.net — Authority: 419
  Tuesday, November 3, 2009 8:30 pm til 12:30 pm Petra van Nuis Trio with pianist Larry Harris and bassist Stewart Miller . Pete Miller’s Evanston   1557 Sherman Ave. Evanston, IL   847-328-0399 No cover, no minimum. Jazz Vocalist Petra van Nuis LIVE in Chicago, IL / ...
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• All Souls Day - Calvary Cemetery

  
  24/7 North of Howard Watchers — Authority: 411
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• Dawes School Residency Day 5 (Final Day) – Friday, October 30, 2009

  
  The Story Connection Blog — Authority: 124
  10-30-09 Sr. Puentes Kindergarten class acts out the role of a woman walking her dog Friends: My last day at Dawes was a wonderful one. I had three classes and then I was invited to attend a Halloween party by Lilly (my friend, Juliet Bond’s daughter) and her third grade teacher, Ms. Brennan. My first classroom ...
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• Dawes School Residency Day 4 – Thursday, October 29, 2009

  
  The Story Connection Blog — Authority: 124
  10-29-09 Dianne de Las Casas & Sue Jicha, Dawes Librarian Friends: My day began with an assembly program for Grades 3-5. I did my spooky program, “Scared Silly,” since Halloween was just around the corner. The students loved it. My “Ghost of Mable Gable” was ever popular and the students were chanting ...
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• The present and future of green building

  
  YoChicago — Authority: 145
  During the media tour of the Winthrop Club in Evanston, the topic of green construction and LEED certification came up over and over again. I talked to Winthrop Properties principals Bob Horner and Ibrahim Shihadeh and FitzGerald Associates principal Michael DeRouin throughout my visit about their decision to ...
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• Fall at the Evanston Dog Beach

  
  Days of Speed and Slowtime Mondays — Authority: 116
  I made it to Chicago. Just. I thought I showed great restraint in not strangling my plane seatmate who kept neurotically tapping his foot on the ground with such speed and force that he caused my seat to shake each time he did it. It was like Chinese Water Torture. I get that some people have neuroses about flying ...
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• Panorama-rama!: Winthrop Club views

  
  YoChicago — Authority: 145
  I can’t take credit for these panoramas and view shots — they came with the Winthrop Club ’s digital press kit — but they’re too nice to leave on the disc. Thanks to the bend of Lake Michigan’s shoreline, homes on all sides of the tower at 1570 Elmwood Ave in Evanston should have at least a sliver of ...
  2 weeks ago

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