Entertainment Columns
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Best bets: Idina Menzel graces RiverEdge ParkJul 16, 2013 5:45 am - Top Pick She's ‘Wicked' Die-hard musical theater fans won't want to miss Idina Menzel (“Wicked,” “Glee”) performing in concert with a 55-piece orchestra at Riv...
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‘World War Z’ author Max Brooks visits HarperJul 13, 2013 8:00 am - Novelist/actor Max Brooks came to Palatine’s Harper College campus Friday night to talk all things zombie during a presentation at the Performing Arts Center. He is the...
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Songs from a scene: The evolution of LBCJul 11, 2013 6:00 am - Anyone who has spent any amount of time with me in the last 15 years knows I have a special place in my heart for Lucky Boys Confusion. I graduated from college and sta...
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Max Brooks took Terkel approach to ‘World War Z’Jul 10, 2013 12:03 pm - Somewhere on a Wisconsin lake, “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War” novelist Max Brooks baited a hook while fishing for bass aboard his brother-in-law’s cano...
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Hilarious 'Whose Line is it Anyway' returnsJul 09, 2013 6:00 am - I first saw it on Comedy Central. A large, balding man who looked somewhat familiar - "Was he Friar Tuck in Kevin Costner's 'Robin Hood' flick?" - was singing a song ab...
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Best bets: Saddle up for IPRA Championship RodeoJul 09, 2013 6:00 am - Top Pick Bronco busters Cheer on the brave wranglers and riders at the Wauconda Chamber of Commerce 50th IPRA Championship Rodeo this weekend at Golden Oaks Ro...
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Remember when? Nostalgia bands coming to local stagesJul 05, 2013 6:00 am - My girlfriend and I were excited to see the Queensryche billboard along Route 12 advertising Fiesta Days in McHenry — her because she used to be a huge fan, and me becau...
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Gear up for eight classic games in one boxJul 03, 2013 6:00 am - Video gamers have been sneaking around as Solid Snake since "Metal Gear" debuted on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987. Hideo Kojima's landmark series of military...
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Best bets: Revel in Ren Faire fun once againJul 02, 2013 6:00 am - This Weekend Hey, nonny nonny! Revel in the re-created world of Elizabethan England when the Bristol Renaissance Faire returns for its summer season this weeke...
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Five for the Fourth: Fireworks with a side of musicJun 28, 2013 6:00 am - John Philip Sousa reigns supreme on the Fourth of July, but marches and Lee Greenwood aren't all you should be hearing Thursday. The suburbs are teeming with musical eve...