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Entertainment Stories from April 17, 2014 (Change date)

Geneva library genealogy program canceled, learn about Laura Ingalls Wilder instead

Kimberly Gotches
Apr 18, 2014 9:04 pm - Due to a family emergency, David Clark, the scheduled presenter for "Bringing Family History to Life: The Stories We Could Tell" on Wednesday, May 7 has had to cancel hi...
Theater events: Musical 'Sleeping Beauty' opens at Drury Lane

By Barbara Vitello
Apr 17, 2014 7:00 am - Drury Lane's ‘Beauty' Drury Lane Theatre presents the musical version of the Brothers Grimm tale “Sleeping Beauty” as part of its young adults series. Joseph Jeffer...
Night life events: Wine Knows hosts Beer Summit

Apr 17, 2014 5:45 am - Beer Summit It's an organic beer throwdown at this month's Beer Summit from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 22, at Wine Knows in Grayslake. Learn about all kinds of beer a...
John C. Reilly brings personality to 'Bears'

By Sandie Angulo Chen Special to The Washington Post
Apr 18, 2014 6:06 am - For the past several years, Disneynature has marked Earth Day by releasing a documentary celebrating Mother Nature. "Bears" is the studio's latest nature doc with a twis...
'Transcendence' sputters as science-fiction thriller

By Dann Gire
Apr 18, 2014 6:06 am - The science-fiction thriller "Transcendence" marks Elmhurst native Wally Pfister's feature directorial debut. It looks sharp, which you'd expect from a movie by the man ...
Trial and error lead to Kinnear's career

By Dann Gire
Apr 18, 2014 6:06 am - 5 Qs for Greg Kinnear Time to play Five Questions with Oscar-nominated actor Greg Kinnear, star of the new drama "Heaven is for Real," now playing at local theaters. Q. ...
'Left Alive' a deliberate, focused vampire affair

By Dann Gire
Apr 17, 2014 3:20 pm - At some point in “Only Lovers Left Alive” — indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch's chilled take on the vampire genre — the constant, overt comparisons of drug addiction and bloo...
High school finalists named for musical theater award

By Barbara Vitello
Apr 18, 2014 10:11 am - Broadway in Chicago on Thursday announced 24 finalists for this year's Illinois High School Musical Theater Awards. The 12 actors and 12 actresses will participate i...
Sprague School students explore the arts

By Gilbert R. Boucher II
Apr 17, 2014 6:25 pm - Students from Laura B. Sprague School spent Thursday afternoon printmaking, singing, drawing and hammering during "Explore the Arts Day." More than 6oo students from ki...
Wallenda scouts Chicago sites for tightrope walk

Associated Press
Apr 17, 2014 8:06 pm - Daredevil Nik Wallenda is in Chicago scouting possible locations for a tightrope walk between two Windy City skyscrapers in the fall. The high-wire walker told the Chica...

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