Entertainment Columns
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Best bets: Opening weekend for Great America, ArlingtonApr 30, 2013 6:00 am - Start your screams Ride and roller coaster-deprived suburban residents can rectify this seasonal deficiency once Six Flags Great America reopens this weekend at I-...
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Revenge drama ‘Django Unchained’ out on DVDApr 19, 2013 5:02 pm - “Django Unchained” Quentin Tarantino’s Academy Award winning film “Django Unchained” is one of his best of his career. Set in 1858 Texas, two years before the Civil...
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Best bets: Super Trooper is super funnyApr 16, 2013 6:00 am - Super Trooper Comedian, director and Hinsdale native Jay Chandrasekhar (“Super Troopers,” “Beerfest”) shows off his standup comedy skills at the Laugh Factory, 3175...
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Best bets: Giordano Dance graces stage at North CentralApr 09, 2013 6:00 am - 'Force' be with you Del Dominguez's Latin ballroom dance work “Sabroso” and Autumn Eckman's “G-Force” are just two of the seven pieces on the bill for the Saturday ...
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3-D makes 'Jurassic Park' pop even moreApr 04, 2013 6:00 am - Reel Life mini-review: "Jurassic Park 3-D" It took 700 artist/technicians nine months to give birth to a 3-D conversion of Steven Spielberg's 1993 2-D dinosaur thriller...
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Best bets: Billy Jonas Band has fun with folk at the Raue CenterApr 02, 2013 6:00 am - Family folk fun Teach the kids how much fun folk music can be by taking in a performance of the playful Billy Jonas & The Billy Jonas Band Friday at the Raue Center...
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Wheaton native looks back on playing 'Pippi'Apr 02, 2013 4:45 am - One minute, she's just an 11-year-old kid from Wheaton. The next, Tami Erin is the acclaimed star of the movie "The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking," distributed w...
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English-language 'Poppy Hill' carries on Ghibli traditionMar 28, 2013 6:00 am - Reel Life mini-review: "From Up on Poppy Hill" Goro Miyazaki's "From Up on Poppy Hill" lacks a bit of the magic of the works of his famous filmmaking father Hayao Miyaz...
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Best bets: Bee Gees tribute, comedians and the Easter BunnyMar 26, 2013 6:00 am - Bee Gees bop Dust off those bell-bottom trousers and relive the 1970s when the Bee Gees Tribute concert “Stayin' Alive” plays Saturday at the Paramount Theatre, 23 ...
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Local director brings a bit of 'The Force' homeMar 21, 2013 6:00 am - The force is with us! "The Force Within Us" comes from writer/director Cris Macht, a Westmont native and graduate of Westmont High School. He now lives in Gilberts. His...