Entertainment
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Book review: Ian Rankin's 'A Song for the Dark Times' contains two mysteries
Oct 13, 2020 7:07 am - "A Song for the Dark Times" by Ian Rankin (Little, Brown) Ian Rankin's best-known character, John Rebus, typically resides in the dark world of the human...
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Best Bets: Hubbard Street debuts filmed dance pieceOct 13, 2020 6:00 am - Dance around town Hubbard Street Dance Chicago presents choreographer Rena Butler and director Talia Koylass' virtual dance film "A Tale Of Two" starting on Thursday. Fr...
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Six Flags Great America return in 2020 'unlikely,' health officials sayOct 13, 2020 1:00 am - For decades, suburban thrill seekers have had the opportunity to spend October weekends enjoying roller coasters and haunted attractions at Six Flags Great America's Fri...
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Steppenwolf veterans star in Kane Repertory virtual reading of new playOct 13, 2020 1:00 am - Kane Repertory Theatre in St. Charles gathered a top-flight trio of Chicago theater veterans for the premiere virtual reading of "Such Small Hands," Adam Szymkowicz's pl...
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Feder: Whitney Reynolds brings 'voice of hope' to PBS stations nationwideOct 13, 2020 1:00 am - Ten years after Whitney Reynolds began hosting and producing a weekly inspirational talk show from Chicago, her dream of going national just came true, Robert Feder writ...
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Naperville Hauntings Ghost Walk Tour offers safe scaresOct 12, 2020 11:00 pm - With COVID-19 threatening to spoil Halloween parties and trick-or-treating, Ursula Bielski's Naperville Hauntings ghost walk tour is one of the few options for fright fa...
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See the works of local oil painters with Barrington's White HouseOct 12, 2020 11:00 pm - Join Barrington's White House for a Third Thursday Art Night Out virtual presentation by Oil Painters of America, one of today's leading professional art organizations i...
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Chamber Music on the Fox kicks off seventh season with Corky Siegel's Chamber BluesOct 12, 2020 11:00 pm - Back in the days before the pandemic, Chamber Music on the Fox had a season finale planned for May featuring the world famous, harmonica-playing, genre-defying Corky Sie...
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'It was pretty amazing': LGBTQ community recalls importance of Elk Grove barOct 12, 2020 5:30 am - At a time when Chicago's Boystown neighborhood was developing into the cultural mecca for the city's gay community in the 1980s, there were few places for LGBTQ people t...
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Feder: Ready or not, Lite FM starts talking up ChristmasOct 12, 2020 1:00 am - Halloween is still almost three weeks away, but they're already thinking about Christmas at iHeartMedia adult contemporary WLIT 93.9-FM, Robert Feder writes. Listeners a...