Entertainment Stories from December 10, 2024 (Change date)
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No sacrificing: Cooper’s Hawk makes eating out easier for gluten-sensitive dinersDec 10, 2024 3:46 pm - Cooper’s Hawk has rolled out an extensive new gluten-free menu with appetizers, entrées, sides and desserts to accommodate guests with celiac disease or gluten sensitivity.
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‘Dimensions’ art show, concert this week at Maine West HSDec 10, 2024 2:49 pm - Students in Maine West High School’s band, choir and orchestra classes, as well as music production students, will be featured during the “Dimensions” concerts at 5:30 p....
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Movie Review: A ‘Lord of the Rings’ tradition turns small-scale in the anime ‘Rohirrim’Dec 10, 2024 1:55 pm - It’s a discombobulating experience, after a “Lord of the Rings” trilogy that was built, down to every frame and hobbit hair, for the big screen, to see something so comparatively minor, small-scaled and TV-sized as “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim.”
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New York-style pizza in the suburbs? Yes, you can find itDec 10, 2024 1:22 pm - It almost seems blasphemous to talk about New York-style pizza in Illinois. While the deep-dish pizza the Chicago area is known for around the world certainly is delectab...
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Ang Lee to receive DGA Lifetime Achievement AwardDec 10, 2024 11:55 am - Ang Lee, the protean filmmaker of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and “Brokeback Mountain,” will receive the Directors Guild of America’s lifetime achievement award. The guild announced Tuesday that Lee, 70, will be given the award at the 77th DGA Awards on Feb. 8.
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Hundreds of bookstore staffers receive holiday bonuses from author James PattersonDec 10, 2024 11:22 am - NEW YORK — Staffers at Thank You Books in Birmingham, Alabama, San Francisco’s City Lights Books and The Nook in Cedar Falls, Iowa, are among 600 booksellers receiving $5...
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Lauren Mayberry steps out of the band Chvrches for a solo album that shows her influencesDec 10, 2024 11:17 am - The birth of Lauren Mayberry as a solo artist should be marked by something like a wolf cry. The vocalist and percussionist from the Scottish pop band Chvrches has a new solo album out titled “Vicious Creature.” She will perform at Thalia Hall in Chicago on Feb. 5.
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Still rockin': As Brenda Lee turns 80, the Christmas song she made as a teen is bigger than everDec 10, 2024 11:09 am - NEW YORK — Her memories of recording “Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree” are a little hazy. She remembers the producer placing decorations around the studio and blasting ...
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Best bets: Elgin Symphony Orchestra, sounds of the season, holiday hilarityDec 10, 2024 10:19 am - This week in the suburbs: Elgin Symphony Orchestra hosts its annual holiday extravaganza; Creative Ice Theatre stages “Nutcracker on Ice” in Woodridge; female comedians headline Crystal Lake’s Raue Center.
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Book Review: Weike Wang’s 'Rental House' finds humor in marriage of oppositesDec 10, 2024 10:13 am - Vacation rental with the in-laws — for many, it’s a setup for disaster. In Weike Wang’s “Rental House,” it’s certainly that. It’s also an opportunity for Wang to explore the upside and downside of education, marriage and family.
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