Entertainment Columns
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Summer movies play it safe with sequels, prequels and remakesMay 14, 2017 7:00 am - Every summer comes with a glut of what Hollywood studios judge to be commercially “safe” projects, including remakes, sequels, prequels, plus features based on TV shows,...
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Feder: Chicago Reader staffers authorize strikeMay 12, 2017 1:00 am - As contract negotiations drag on at the Chicago Reader, editorial employees of the alternative weekly newspaper authorized their union Friday to call a strike. Seventeen...
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Comments light up on Feder's Steve Harvey exposeMay 10, 2017 1:00 am - Robert Feder's column Thursday about a memo Feder said Steve Harvey sent at the beginning of this season to the staff of "The Steve Harvey Show," has touched a nerve...
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Constable: Still time to find talent, pleasure once pressure is goneMay 09, 2017 5:30 am - Running has never run in my family. Outside of a mandatory 1-mile run during annual tryouts for the high school football team, I've enjoyed a lifetime of confining my ru...
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Owner of Elgin, Aurora radio stations buying WCGO AM 1590 in EvanstonMay 09, 2017 1:00 am - Robservations on the media beat: The owner of radio stations in Elgin and Aurora has just made a deal to buy WCGO AM 1590 in Evanston. William Pollack's Memphis-based Po...
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'Fifth Element' back on the big screen for its 20th anniversaryMay 09, 2017 1:00 am - May 9, 1997: I was working for Suncoast Motion Picture Company at Mount Prospect's previous, dearly departed incarnation of Randhurst. Those were the days of the Picnic ...
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Algonquin coffee shop to hold Sip and Paint NightMay 07, 2017 11:00 pm - Just in time for Mother's Day, Daily Projects coffee house along the Randall Road corridor in Algonquin is hosting an event you and your mom can attend together. On Satu...
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Kaitlin Olson, Carla Jimenez helped make 'The Mick' the year's funniest new showMay 06, 2017 7:15 am - In January, I expressed hope that the cast of FOX's raunchy new sitcom, “The Mick,” could craft characters that win us over even when the show's more extreme gags tu...
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Former Cubs pitcher Wood shows support for women's sportsMay 06, 2017 1:00 am - There was a time when Kerry Wood was like a lot of guys out there. Wood, the former star pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, made a quick judgment about women's sports. "I wa...
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North: Why we need the sports equivalent of Fox NewsMay 05, 2017 5:19 am - S.E. Cupp, a political conservative commentator, wrote a column that originally appeared in the New York Daily News with the headline "Stop whining about ESPN, and compe...