Not-so-naked power
By MARY T. NGUYEN of the Tribune’s staff
With Gucci scarves or torn jeans, women use outward appearances to reflect inner strength.
• What do you wear that makes you feel powerful?

Culture cash
By BRETT ZONGKER of The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, actor Chris Klein and BET co-founder Sheila Johnson pressed Congress on Tuesday to restore funding for the arts to levels from 15 years ago - before those funds were slashed.

RHYME AND REASON

WEB WINNERS

Performing Arts

Ravens and witches
By ANNE SUTTON of The Associated Press
JUNEAU, Alaska - Battles are waged to the beat of drums, witches as land otters slink across the stage and Banquo’s ghost dons a raven mask in a Tlingit language adaptation of Shakespeare’s brutal and bloody tale of a murderous Scottish lord.

ON STAGE

Music

NOTES AND TONES
Blue Note label succeeds with ‘Lawn Chair Society’
By JON W. POSES
Blue Note Records, founded in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, is without question jazz’s most-storied label. 

Debut of vintage voice
By JILL LAWLESS of The Associated Press
LONDON - Everything about Amy Winehouse seems larger than life.

Floyd to join MU ensemble tomorrow for ‘Lincoln’ event
Elson Floyd, president of the University of Missouri System, will serve as special guest narrator for Aaron Copland’s acclaimed work "Lincoln Portrait" during a concert by MU’s Symphonic Wind Ensemble at 8 p.m. tomorrow at Jesse Hall.

LIVE MUSIC

Books

COVER TO COVER
“The Diary of Petr Ginz: 1941-1942” by Elena Lappin and Chava Pressburg
By BILL GLAUBER Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"The Diary of Petr Ginz" is a gift from history, a gift from the heavens - a fragment of a life extinguished by the Holocaust. Ginz was almost 14, Jewish, a resident of Prague, when he began his diary in two small exercise books, "the equivalent of a captain’s log on a sinking ship," according to the translator, Elena Lappin.

Writer’s travels with the weird continue down strange paths
By LISA ARTHUR McClatchy Newspapers
Louis Theroux’s latest crisscrossing of the United States is a "reunion tour." As with all such ventures, his challenge is avoiding the cloying sentimentality that’s an inherent risk in the rehash of one’s greatest hits while achieving a new level of insight that’s often visible when revisiting past works with the benefit of elapsed time.

BEST SELLERS

Visual Arts

NICHE: A WEEKLY PEEK AT AN EMERGING ARTIST
Lauren Winchester
By MARY T. NGUYEN of the Tribune’s staff
Although Linda McCartney was husband Paul’s musical inspiration, she was also the inspiration for Lauren Winchester’s decision to become a photographer. In seventh grade, Winchester received a copy of Linda McCartney’s photo book, "Sixties: Portrait of an Era," and was enthralled with the collection of images capturing some of the greatest musicians of rock ’n’ roll in their heyday.  

Artist gone wild
By APRIL MIDDLETON The Salina Journal
SALINA, Kan. - Referring occasionally to the picture he was using as a rough guide, C. Paul Barker dipped his small brush into the plastic cup full of paint and started making what, quite frankly, appeared to be small, green blobs.

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