Entertainment Columns
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Best bets: Circus Spectacular wows at Sears CentreFeb 18, 2014 4:30 am - Top pick Big-top fun Carden Entertainment brings its 51st Circus Spectacular with exotic animals, graceful aerialists, skilled acrobats and more to the Sears C...
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Arcada to pay tribute to Shirley TempleFeb 18, 2014 4:30 am - The Arcada Theatre will host a Shirley Temple Film Festival beginning at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22. The tribute at the Arcada, 105 E. Main St., St. Charles, will featu...
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Holmes school ready for Jazz in the Meadows competitionFeb 16, 2014 10:00 pm - It was just three years ago that eighth-grader Karsyn Burgess of Mount Prospect learned to play trumpet, and only two months ago that she picked up the fluegelhorn. You ...
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On the road: Treat your pup to a weekend awayFeb 15, 2014 5:00 am - Chicago The long & winding road Chicago museums are world class, but crowds and high admission prices can be painful. Consider a visit to The Oriental Institut...
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Not all escapist fare is for kidsFeb 14, 2014 4:30 am - Thanks to Harry Potter, "Lord of the Rings" and Hollywood's insistence that no big-budget movie be rated R, imaginative fantasy and sci-fi films have become synonymous w...
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Reel life: Ebert documentary director to speakFeb 13, 2014 4:00 am - 'Life' director to speak During Roger Ebert's final days in April of 2013, the Chicago film critic was exchanging emails with Chicago director Steve James, who was shoot...
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Best bets: Swoon to sounds of The Midtown MenFeb 11, 2014 4:30 am - Top pick Who Loves You? Serenades from members of the original Broadway cast of “Jersey Boys” will fill the Paramount Theatre when The Midtown Men perform two ...
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Mount Prospect man loves valentines of oldFeb 09, 2014 6:30 am - Launching his entrepreneurial career decades ago with ahead-of-his-time advocating for “alternative lifestyles,” dreams of a Disneyesque development future for the subur...
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Another way to play with LegosFeb 07, 2014 4:45 am - "The Lego Movie," a new 3-D animated feature from the makers of "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" and "21 Jump Street," arrives in theaters today with an impressiv...
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Reel life: 'Fantastic Fear' a bit of a bummerFeb 06, 2014 5:00 am - Mini-review: 'A Fantastic Fear of Everything' Simon Pegg is a very talented comic actor, but you would never guess that in this claustrophobic, strained stream-of-consc...