Entertainment Stories from October 15, 2024 (Change date)
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Film chronicling Obama’s rise to make Chicago debutOct 15, 2024 8:43 pm - “Things Are Tough All Over” will make its Chicago debut on Monday, Oct. 28, at the Landmark Century Centre Cinema. It is set against the backdrop of Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.
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‘Images and Illusions’ opens Oct. 17 at the Kavanagh GalleryOct 15, 2024 8:38 pm - “Images & Illusions” at Fine Line Creative Arts Center’s Kavanagh Gallery in St. Charles will open on Thursday, Oct. 17.
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Artists Series presents the Guttenberg German Band at Sew Hop’d BreweryOct 15, 2024 7:59 pm - As part of its celebration of Lutheran Heritage Month, the Artist Series at Shepherd of the Prairie Lutheran Church in Huntley invites the community to get into the spirit of Oktoberfest on Saturday, Oct. 26.
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Dining out: Happy hours, Worldwide Wellington MonthOct 15, 2024 3:41 pm - Happy hour specials are always a welcome way to help wind down after a long day. It’s also Worldwide Wellington Month, with celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay answering the call.
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Elton John turns the saga of televangelist Tammy Faye into song for BroadwayOct 15, 2024 2:21 pm - When Elton John was on tour in America in the 1970s, there was someone on TV who caught his eye — televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. Now he’s putting her story to song with the stage musical “Tammy Faye.”
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Spotlight: ‘Some Like It Hot’ heats up Cadillac Palace, BrightSide scares up thrills with ‘Dracula’Oct 15, 2024 12:44 pm - “Some Like It Hot,” the tuner based on Billy Wilder’s classic 1959 comedy, comes to Chicago for a brief run, while Naperville’s BrightSide Theatre celebrates the spooky season with its revival of “Dracula.”
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Orion Sun unveils her path to self-discovery in a new album, Chicago showOct 15, 2024 12:34 pm - Amid a creative spiral, Orion Sun found comfort among the words of the late Audre Lorde’s essay “Poetry is not a luxury.” It provided a mental redirection for the musician while working on her new album, “Orion.” She’s playing a sold out show at Chicago’s Thalia Hall Oct. 30.
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Concerts Oct. 18-24: Lee DeWyze, Richard Marx, Micky Dolenz, David Kushner and moreOct 15, 2024 12:10 pm - Upcoming concerts this week include Arlington Heights native Lee DeWyze at Hey Nonny, Richard Marx, Great White and Slaughter, Micky Dolenz, Vertical Horizon, Rachael Yamagata and more.
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Book Review: Cop cold case unit pursues a rapist, foils a terrorist plot and tackles a 1947 murder in Michael Connelly’s ‘The Waiting’Oct 15, 2024 9:35 am - It’s early morning in Southern California, and Renee Ballard, director of the LAPD Open-Unsolved Unit, is where she most loves to be. She’s surfing, and she’s darned good...
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Best Bets: Celebrate the season at Schaumburg’s Halloween carnivalOct 15, 2024 8:21 am - Schaumburg hosts its annual Halloween carnival at Wintrust Field, bluesmen and women headline several suburban venues, and Highland Park’s Madame ZuZu’s hosts a pop-up salute to Bozo this weekend.
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