Entertainment Columns
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Feder: DraftKings acquires VSiN from Chicago entrepreneursMar 30, 2021 1:00 am - VSiN, the Las Vegas-based sports information network founded by a group of Chicago entrepreneurs in 2017, has been acquired by DraftKings, the sports betting operator an...
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Feder: Swiss billionaire steps up to bid for Chicago TribuneMar 29, 2021 1:00 am - Could an 85-year-old billionaire environmentalist from Wyoming turn out to be the savior of the Chicago Tribune? Hansjörg Wyss, Swiss-born former chief executive of the...
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Jim O'Donnell: A grateful goodbye - Stan Albeck, Michael Jordan and the telling lookMar 26, 2021 1:00 am - STAN ALBECK WAS the head coach of the Bulls for a solitary season - 1985-86. It was Michael Jordan's second year with the team. Albeck had the extreme misfortune to have...
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Feder: Ex-anchor urges lawmakers to protect local newsMar 26, 2021 1:00 am - Steve Stadelman spent 25 years as a TV news anchor and reporter in Rockford before he became an Illinois state senator. Now he's sponsoring a bill to protect journalism ...
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Widescreen: Her sequel wasn't great, but Wonder Woman and her 'Justice League' pals are must-see TVMar 25, 2021 6:00 am - If you missed "Wonder Woman 1984" on HBO Max over the holidays, Gal Gadot's retro sequel lassoes its way to Blu-ray, DVD and digital rental outlets on Tuesday, March 30....
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Feder: WGN's Erin Ivory feels 'tremendously blessed to be alive'Mar 25, 2021 1:00 am - WGN-Channel 9 reporter Erin Ivory disclosed Wednesday that she has been on medical leave for more than a month and suffered a heart attack during that time. "I have rec...
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Jim O'Donnell: NCAA tourney masters dodge half of a buzzsaw with Loyola advanceMar 24, 2021 1:00 am - NO ONE IS EVER GOING to accuse the nattering nabobs who rule the NCAA of particularly enlightened thought. But the stiff-suited Babbitts who indenture teenage servants f...
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Feder: Jamie Kalven stepping down as Invisible Institute directorMar 23, 2021 1:00 am - Jamie Kalven, the renowned independent investigative journalist and human rights activist whose reporting first brought the police shooting of Laquan McDonald to public ...
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Sound check: Hey Nonny brings music back to Arlington HeightsMar 22, 2021 6:00 am - Hey Nonny's lineup Signs are popping up that spring is creeping in to the area, one of which being the relaunch of Arlington Alfresco, the outdoor dining space cre...
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Jim O'Donnell: After that embarrassment, Illini should dump Underwood and hire Porter MoserMar 22, 2021 1:00 am - IT WILL BE FOREVER REMEMBERED as the game that launched 100,000 emotions. On the Loyola side, among them, unbridled joy, dancing in the Zooms, warm fuzzies about the sev...