This is one museum every bookworm should visit
Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, Tupac Shakur's song Dear Mama, Patrick Henry's speech Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death – what do they all have in common? They all rank among the nation's great works of writing, and they're all celebrated at the new American Writers Museum (AWM) in downtown Chicago, this year's 10Best Readers' Choice winner for Best Attraction in Illinois.
The museum opened its doors in May of 2017 as the first museum in the United States dedicated to America's writers and works. After an inspiring visit to the Dublin Writers Museum in Ireland, AWM founder Malcolm O'Hagan was surprised to find that nothing similar existed in the U.S.
Almost a decade later, his idea became an 11,000-square-foot reality on Chicago's Cultural Mile.
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The BEST Bar in California? EXCLUSIVE interview with Richard of Barcode GG
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Barcode is a time capsule that celebrates everything that made the 80’s and 90’s so great. Watch classic action movies at the bar or marvel at the museum style presentation of rare collectibles and action figures. Barcode offers a menu of delectable Asian fusion tapas, pop culture inspired cocktails and 18 craft beers that you can enjoy while you and your friends play your favorite retro video games on the Nintendo 64, Super Nintendo, NES and Gamecube.
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Top List of the Best 2019 Attractions in all 50 States
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ALABAMA: Battleship USS Alabama
ALASKA: Tracy Arm Fjord
ARIZONA: The Grand Canyon
ARKANSAS: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
CALIFORNIA: Alcatraz Island
COLORADO: Garden of the Gods
CONNECTICUT: Yale University Art Gallery
DELAWARE: Air Mobility Command Museum
FLORIDA: The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
GEORGIA: Savannah Historic District
HAWAII: USS Arizona Memorial
IDAHO: Boise River Greenbelt
ILLINOIS: The Art Institute of Chicago
INDIANA: Children's Museum of Indianapolis
IOWA: Capitol Building
KENTUCKY: Louisville Mega Cavern
LOUISIANA: The National WWII Museum
MAINE: Marginal Way
MARYLAND: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
MASSACHUSETTS: Fenway Park
MICHIGAN: The Henry Ford
MINNESOTA: Minneapolis Institute of Art
MISSISSIPPI: Vicksburg National Military Park
MISSOURI: Sight & Sound Theatres
MONTANA: Going-to-the-Sun Road at Glacier National Park
NEBRASKA: Henry Doorly Zoo
NEVADA: Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area
NEW HAMPSHIRE: Kancamagus Highway
NEW JERSEY: Cape May County Park & Zoo
NEW MEXICO: White Sands National Monument
NEW YORK: Central Park
NORTH CAROLINA: Blue Ridge Parkway
NORTH DAKOTA: Theodore Roosevelt National Park
OHIO: National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
OKLAHOMA: Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum
OREGON: Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area
PENNSYLVANIA: Gettysburg National Military Park
RHODE ISLAND: The Breakers
SOUTH CAROLINA: Falls Park on the Reedy
SOUTH DAKOTA: Custer State Park
TENNESSEE: Sugarlands Distilling Company
TEXAS: San Antonio Riverwalk
UTAH: Bryce Canyon National Park
VERMONT: Stowe Recreation Path
VIRGINIA: Arlington National Cemetery
WASHINGTON: Chihuly Garden and Glass
WASHINGTON, DC: The Lincoln Memorial
WEST VIRGINIA: Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
WISCONSIN: Lambeau Field
WYOMING: Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
How to Get In an Art Gallery: What Worked for Me. Approaching Art Galleries for Representation
Advice, tips and guidance on how to approach an art gallery for representation by professional artist Dena Tollefson.
Whether you are just graduating art school and need help getting your art career started, or you have been an artist for a while and need help breaking into the gallery scene or adding additional galleries to your portfolio, this helpful and encouraging video is for you.
This video is appropriate for visual artists, glass, ceramic, potters, sculptors, oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, jewelry, and all artists who would like tips for how to get a gallery owner's attention and develop a relationship with the gallery leading to representation at a fine art gallery. Topics include pricing artwork, how do I know if I am ready for a gallery, how many artworks are needed for gallery representation, how to approach an art gallery, how to find an art gallery which is a fit, how to break into the local art scene, and more.
Tollefson is a full time artist and has been represented by art galleries since 2000. Her originals are available exclusively through the fine art galleries who represent her across the United States. Canvas and paper prints are available through her website denatollefson.com as well as iCanvas.com who licenses her work worldwide and through merchants such as Kirkland’s, Target, Bed Bath and Beyond, and Nordstrom.
Tollefson uses both palette knives and spoons to paint 3D, touchable, textured works of art on canvas. Be sure to subscribe to my channel for more painting tips. Learn more at her website
Tollefson is a Christian and her artwork is positive message, uplifting and healing. Collectors use her paintings for meditation, calming, and healing thought.
My work known as Daubism is created using a palette knife where each stroke of color is isolated from the others. Most paintings will have hundreds of different colors, these colors are all individually hand-mixed from a limited set of colors creating unique colors which
Dena Tollefson is an American artist whose bold contemporary paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement, creating a low relief effect in paint- a hybrid between low relief sculpture, mosaic, and traditional painting.
She is known for floral painting, especially how to paint sunflowers.
Dena Tollefson (nee Dena Schaefer), born 1965, is a full-time, professional artist. Tollefson graduated from Iowa State University in 1988 and lived in Dallas Texas before returning to Iowa in 1991 where she developed her unique, highly textured painting style. She lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with her husband and family.
Tollefson is represented in fine art galleries nationally in New Mexico, California, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Her Daubism body of work is a unique process she developed, where daubs of individually mixed paint are applied with a palette knife. The largest daubs are applied with a serving spoon, allowing ridges of paint which catch the light and appear to dance and scintillate as the viewer moves past the painting.
Tollefson’s work focuses on botanicals, ponds, skies, and her Corn Series of work, biographies where people are depicted as ears of corn. Her work is highly tactile.
Museum, Corporate & Selected Private Collections: Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA. Farm Credit Services Omaha, NE Terso Solutions Corporation Madison, WI Iowa Department of Human Services, Cedar Rapids, IA Genesis Hospital, Davenport, IA Monsanto Corporation St Louis, MO Ronald McDonald Facility/Unity Point Health Cedar Rapids, IA Ruberry, Stalmack and Garvey Law Firm Chicago, IL Marion Arts Council Marion, IA Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids, IA PCI Cardiologists Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa St Luke’s Hospice Cedar Rapids, IA StarcomMediaVest CEO, Chicago, IL St Luke’s hospital, Cedar Rapids, IA. United Fire and Casualty Owner, Cedar Rapids, IA Mableton Bank, Mabelton, GA Lil’ Drug Stores CEO, Scottsdale, AZ
Two of Dena Tollefson's paintings are in the permanent collection of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Her original paintings hang publicly and in private collections throughout the world. Prints and other licensed products are available worldwide
Chicago and Florida, Trip 2014
August 2014, solo travel to USA, so fun!
WHERE TO STAY IN CHICAGO( U.S.A)
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THE MIDWEST WINDY CITY CHICAGO
A short visit in the great midwest city Chicago. Mostly sightseeing around the Windy City with tourist bus, and just enjoying the museums, fantastic architecture and amazing history. Seeing the Bean, the Magnificent Mile and much more.
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The Chicago Nursing Home Report
Illinois ranks near the bottom for nursing home care. Low staffing levels, failed inspections and using strong medications to subdue residents unnecessarily have contributed to a consistent low ranking, despite reforms enacted in 2010.
Joel Inwood has led a Chi Hack Night breakout group since 2015 to create an interactive map showing the quality of nursing homes in the Chicago region, and tonight they launch it!
Jason Molony of the South Side Healthy Aging Resource Experts (SHARE) Network also talks about older adult health on the South Side, SHARE Network strategy to disseminate geriatric health information and creating change in a South Side nursing home.
Ep 96 | Failure RV Hot Water Breakdown, Oklahoma, Texas, Route 66 Road Trip USA, RV Nutshell
E96 Vlog of Life in a Nutshell RV travels.
We left the state park and headed off to be de-winterised which appeared to be a simple operation, but, alas.
We checked out the National Route 66 Museum in Elk City, Oklahoma and learnt more about the history of the road and the people who built and traveled along it.
We stepped back in time and experienced an original fried onion burger at Sid’s Diner. The onions are actually fried in with the burger on the hot plate which was a new invention at the time.
We had a good look at the U-Drop Inn Cafe, Shamrock in Texas which was a stunning art deco building. We loved it!
More issues with the hot water system left us without hot showers… we had to call the Man.
Here’s some of the stuff we came across along the way:
Skydance Bridge, Motel Ranger, Johnnie's Grill, Robert's Grill, Sid's Diner, Pony Bridge, Lucille's Gas Station, Clancy Motel, National Route 66 Museum, Sayre Campground, West Winds Motel, Elm Motel, Water Hole 2, Hitching Post Bar, Shamrock Country Inn and the U-Drop Inn.
We hope you enjoy traveling along with us as we drive across America in an RV, on the historic Route 66, taking in the sights and learning about the history.
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Rt 66 RV Road Trip Part 15
Traveling with our 2 shih tzu in our 1991 Tioga Class C RV westward across the length of Route 66. This section is from Holbrook, AZ to Flagstaff, AZ.
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Got EBT? Get 450+ Freebies & Discounts!
You can get free stuff - and discounts - just for having an EBT card! We've found discounts all over the United States, on everything from Amazon Prime to zoo admission! If you get food stamps or cash benefits, you can't afford to miss this!
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If you have an Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card for food stamps or cash benefits, you can get freebies and deals all around the United States. You don't even have to spend any of the money on your card - you just show the card to get the deal! It's so easy!
We have found hundreds of museums, zoos, planetariums, science centers, symphonies, ballets and other venues that are offering discounted admission (and sometimes even free admission) to households with EBT cards. We've been reporting on this program for years and we've helped thousands of individuals and families enjoy free and low-cost adventures with their EBT cards.
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Rhiannon B. from Ohio said, “I was able to take my 4 children to the Akron Children's museum for a day filled with fun and learning for only $10.....$10 for a family of 5 to do something fun all day!!! I couldn't believe it!! I'm also getting ready to take them to the Akron Zoo, another cheap fun family day, because you all gave me the info!!! Thank you so very much for all the info your Facebook page and email provide!!”
“Low Income Relief has allowed me to take my family to the Nature & Science Museum (Denver, CO) for $1 each ticket, wrote Diana M. from Colorado. This is my daughters favorite place to spend the day. We have also gone to the Denver Zoo as well.”
We’ve organized all of the freebies, deals and discounts into one single, easy-to-use master list. To see what’s available in your area, just click over to and select your state from the alphabetical list in the article.
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Some of the free and discounted admission programs we’ve found include:
-Adler Planetarium in Chicago IL - FREE!
-Cincinnati Zoo in Cinncinnati OH - $39 per YEAR
-Exploratorium in San Francisco CA - FREE!
-Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City, NY - FREE!
-MoPop in Seattle WA - FREE!
-Pacific Science Center in Seattle WA - $19 / YEAR Memberships
-Phoenix Zoo in Phoenix AZ - $5 per person
-Roanoke Island Aquarium in Roanoke NC - $3 per person
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Of course, you can't use your food stamps funds to pay for the remaining admission cost (if any). You'll have to pay that in cash. However, you'll get an unbeatable price on admission if you show your EBT card at the admissions gate!
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Max Headroom WTTW Pirating Incident - 11/22/87 (Subtitled)
On a late-November evening in 1987, two Chicago television stations were victims of a broadcast signal intrusion.
After a brief intrusion during the sports report on WGN's 9:00 news, a later broadcast on channel 11 - PBS affiliate: WTTW - of the Doctor Who episode Horror of Fang Rock was interrupted by a man wearing a Max Headroom mask. The crazed person uttered mostly gibberish, crudely slammed the Chicago Tribune and its subsidiaries (WGN being one of them), and finally dropped his pants and was spanked by what appears to be a child with a flyswatter. 90-seconds later, the program returned to normal. To this day, he has never been caught.
This was originally uploaded by the user fuzzymemories (now FuzzyMemoriesTV) in 2006. Please support the Museum of Classic Chicago Television!
I added the subtitles as a courtesy a few months following the original upload. Since then, better-quality copies of this have surfaced (such as this one: Since this was released, it's been established that Max is indeed saying I still see the X; and the person with the flyswatter is the one saying Bend over Bitch.
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USA: Campaign staff hacked twice from Russian location claims Rubio
US Senator for Florida Marco Rubio claimed that former members of his presidential campaign team were targeted by IP addresses with an unknown location within Russia both during the election and after it, speaking to a Senate Intelligence Committee panel in Washington DC on Thursday.
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Illinois in the Gilded Age, 1866-1896: Political Development
This video concerning the topic of Political Development, comes from the Illinois in the Gilded Age, 1866-1896 website, which is a creation of Northern Illinois University Libraries' Digital Initiatives Unit: The Illinois in the Gilded Age ( site brings together primary source materials from a number of libraries, museums and archives, including the Newberry Library, the Chicago Historical Society and the Illinois State Library. While the site uses Illinois as its focal point, it also examines larger themes in the history of the United States during the Gilded Age, and can support the study of the period with rich materials details events of national significance.
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Why The “NRA Of Knives” Is Fighting To Combat This Knife Law (HBO)
In New York City, about 4,000 people are arrested each year for the crime of carrying a common folding knife.
Many of the defendants turn out to be people who need the knives for work, including electricians, plumbers, and construction workers. But under a 1958 New York state law, they’re often prosecuted for carrying a gravity knife — defined as a knife where the blade drops out of the handle and locks into place by the force of gravity — and possession can result in a felony conviction and years of jail time.
“It didn’t make sense to me — for a pocket knife to have somebody’s life ruined is crazy. It really is. Roderick Prude, a cafeteria cook whose arrest for possession of a gravity knife was bumped up to a felony, told VICE News.
Around 84 percent of people prosecuted under the law are people of color, prompting advocates to push back against what they see as an absurd and discriminatory law.
These activists have found an unlikely ally in Doug Ritter, head of Knife Rights, a grassroots organization devoted to getting rid of knife laws across the United States that acts as a sort of NRA of knives. And they've been gearing up for a fight: Knife Rights filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in 2011 against the city of New York and District Attorney Cy Vance over the statute against gravity knives.
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Illinois in the Gilded Age, 1866-1896: The Chicago Fire, 1869-1872
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New York City - City Video Guide
New York City is an international metropolis, which welcomes around 50 million tourists annually.
In Manhattan's Midtown are some of New York City's most iconic symbols; structures like the Empire State Building, the Rockefeller Center, and the Grand Central Terminal.
Times Square and Broadway provide New York City with near-endless theater and entertainment choices. Fifth Avenue is one of the world's best shopping districts.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim are just two examples of New York City's cultural collection. Central Park is the city's green lung, where New Yorkers come to exercise and relax.
The Reflecting Absence memorial and museum honors the 3000 people who lost their lives on September 11, 2001.
Little Italy packs the tastes and flavors of Italy into a couple of streets, while Soho attracts well-heeled bohemians. Greenwich Village has cafés and bars where the likes of Bob Dylan first performed. Brooklyn and Coney Island are two distinct districts easily reachable from Manhattan..
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