– Jackie Taylor, founder and artistic director of the Black Ensemble Theater, said Thursday that her theater company expected to complete the $3.6 million purchase Friday of 4440-4510 N. Clark St., the 50,000-square-foot site set to open in spring 2008 as the theater’s new home, the Black Ensemble Theatre Center. Taylor said the day is “an exciting time” for her 30-year-old troupe, which specializes in original musicals.
– Baby Shambles frontman Pete Doherty, the troubled former boyfriend of Kate Moss, was sentenced in a London courtroom Wednesday to 12 months of community service for possessing drugs. The judge warned the rocker–who must submit to a monthly drug test–that if he breaks the drug rehab requirement of his community service, he could be sent to jail.
– Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “Team of Rivals,” her account of Abraham Lincoln and the former political foes who became members of his Cabinet, has won the Lincoln Prize for an outstanding work about the president and/or the Civil War.
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The Personals page was compiled by Emily Rosenbaum from Tribune news services and staff reports.
