Entertainment Stories from June 12, 2014 (Change date)
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Library Bus Trips Head to Ravinia and Fireside TheaterJun 13, 2014 8:54 am - West Side Story and Smokey Joe's Café will be the featured entertainment during separate Schaumburg Township District Library bus trips in July. Registration and prepaym...
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The School of Dance Goes HollywoodJun 13, 2014 9:02 am - Over 500 dancers, ages 3-adult, from the Des Plaines School of Dance, will perform original pieces in the culminating event of their year-long study, "Red Carpet Ready: ...
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'Driving Miss Daisy' playwright to speak at HarperJun 13, 2014 1:41 pm - Submitted by Harper College Playwright Alfred Uhry clutched the iconic gold statuette during his acceptance speech at the 1990 Academy Awards and quipped, "I guess I'm l...
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'Dragon 2' soars into matured territoryJun 13, 2014 5:57 am - You thought it was tricky to train a dragon? It's even trickier to take a much-admired animated film and make a sequel that feels satisfying and worthwhile. And it's ha...
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'Signal' a sci-fi thriller big on style, short on senseJun 12, 2014 2:11 pm - Imagine a full-blown art house science-fiction thriller photographed with such luminous, pristine symmetry that Stanley Kubrick would love it. Add to that a touch of a "...
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'Obvious Child' breeds Fertile ground for reflectionJun 12, 2014 6:00 am - YouTube #8220;Obvious Child,#8221; a provocative romantic comedy from new writer-director Gillian Robespierre, opens with Stern doing one of her bits, giddily sharing th...
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Night life events: Wine for a penny at KarmaJun 12, 2014 5:45 am - Karma's penny wine Throughout June, order two entrees at Karma Asian Food and Wine and add a bottle of red or white wine to your meal for a penny. The contemporary resta...
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'Supermensch' a doc about colorful agent Shep GordonJun 12, 2014 6:15 am - Mini-review: 'Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon' Shep Gordon has to be a documentary maker's dream subject, one so colorful and astonishing no screenwriter could po...
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Powerful 'Night Moves' builds on sense of dreadJun 13, 2014 5:57 am - "Night Moves" isn't so much a thriller as thriller-ish. That's not to say that the movie - which centers on a plot by a group of environmental activists to blow up a hyd...
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Lifeline's comic fantasy a 'Monstrous' delightJun 12, 2014 5:27 pm - I have never read a novel from fantasy writer Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. But after seeing Lifeline Theatre's zealous, laugh-out-loud world premiere adaptation o...
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