Entertainment Columns
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Too many strikes against bleak '1942'Dec 06, 2012 5:00 am - Reel Life review: 'Back to 1942' It might have the most boring movie title in recent memory, but the Chinese historical epic "Back to 1942" traces a horrible time in As...
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Best bets: Lyric stages surreal 'Hansel & Gretel'Dec 04, 2012 5:00 am - Hunger games There is no gingerbread house in director Richard Jones' acclaimed and much-traveled take on Humperdinck's classic 1893 opera “Hansel & Gretel.” Instea...
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Best bets: It's season for Mannheim Steamroller at the AkooNov 27, 2012 5:00 am - Rolling Christmas Get into the spirit of the season when the Mannheim Steamroller Christmas by Chip Davis performs contemporary arrangements of holiday classics wit...
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Best bets: Salt Creek's 'Nutcracker' dances onto the stageNov 20, 2012 5:00 am - Nutcracker of the week 'Tis the season for battling mice, graceful snowflakes and cavorting confectionary. Yes, the Tchaikovsky ballet “The Nutcracker” is dominatin...
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Thanksgiving Eve big bar night in the suburbsNov 19, 2012 10:00 pm - It's the difference between choosing to be up late and having to be up late. On Thanksgiving Eve at my house, the five of us are busy with last-minute dusting, table-set...
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'Hobbit,' 'Les Mis' among season's most-anticipated filmsNov 16, 2012 5:00 am - Nothing says holiday movies like old-fashioned torture horror, or a tsunami disaster, or an ex-soldier vigilante thriller, or a musical about a dying mother. We have al...
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'Karenina' stunning visually, but emotionally stiltedNov 15, 2012 5:00 am - YouTube Joe Wright's visually stunning epic #8220;Anna Karenina#8221; hardly seems like a war movie, yet within its images rages a battle between the opposing forces of ...
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Best bets: It's not Thanksgiving without a paradeNov 13, 2012 5:00 am - Thanksgiving Parade WWE celebrity CM Punk is the grand marshal of McDonald's Thanksgiving Parade, which also features marching bands, massive balloons and more in i...
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Best bets: Cantigny lights up the night in honor of veteransNov 06, 2012 5:00 am - Honoring veterans Among the many community parades and ceremonies to commemorate Veterans Day this weekend, perhaps one of the most moving is the annual Luminary Di...
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Hollywood no 'American Horror Story' for Naperville nativeNov 06, 2012 4:30 am - If you want to catch Naperville native Matt Armstrong's latest acting job, check out the next episode of the FX channel's "American Horror Story" Wednesday night, Nov. 7...