Entertainment Stories from March 19, 2016 (Change date)
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Composer William Bolcom, mezzo Joan Morris to headline Norris Cultural Arts Center fundraiserMar 19, 2016 11:00 pm - Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy Award-winning composer/pianist William Bolcom and his wife, the acclaimed mezzo soprano Joan Morris, will headline a fundraising concert on Sa...
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The real reason all the big social networks have introduced filtered feedsMar 19, 2016 7:42 am - First it was Facebook, with the filtered News Feed that shows you as few as one in three of the posts that your friends make. Then it was Pinterest, which -- a year ago ...
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Yelp's founder once thought no one would want to post opinions onlineMar 19, 2016 7:32 am - Yelp has officially logged 100 million reviews on its site - something that chief executive Jeremy Stoppelman said he couldn't have dreamed of when he first started the ...
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Midwest travel: 'What is a Planet?' soars into Chicago's AdlerMar 19, 2016 7:22 am - Chicago Space oddity Pluto is the Rodney Dangerfield of the universe - it "don't get no respect" - bedeviled by its lack of true planet status. It was a planet...
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Weekend picks: Jerry Seinfeld, Chicago Tattoo Arts ConventionMar 19, 2016 7:00 am - Yada-Yada Consider yourself lucky if you have a ticket to see comedian Jerry Seinfeld perform two standup shows on Saturday at the Genesee Theatre, 203 N. Genesee St., W...
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Apple prepares to unveil smaller iPhone with narrower ambitionsMar 19, 2016 6:45 am - Since Apple introduced the first iPhone in 2007, mobile handsets have only gotten bigger. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook will buck that trend on Monday when he present...
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Apple needs you to upgrade your phone (pretty please)Mar 19, 2016 6:45 am - Apple is about to take the covers off a new (sorta) kind of iPhone. It's a still unexplained bit of sorcery that could only come from a company staring at its first down...
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Alexa voice software to offer Fitbit progress updatesMar 19, 2016 6:12 am - NEW YORK - Alexa, what can you tell me about my health? Amazon's voice assistant will now tell you how well you slept and how much more exercise you need - at least if y...
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Startups vying for hype at SXSWMar 19, 2016 5:12 am - Every March, 80,000 startup hustlers, PR pushers, Twitter personalities, wantrepreneurs, midlevel marketing executives, corporate titans grasping at relevance, professio...
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Instagram is going to look a little more like FacebookMar 19, 2016 1:00 am - Instagram announced that it plans to change the way users' timelines look by ordering posts using an algorithm rather than simply displaying the photos in reverse chrono...
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