Entertainment Columns
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Copley Theatre's 'Hand to God' is a wrenching, riotous examination of the war withinJun 03, 2022 8:00 am - “Hand to God” - ★ ★ ★ Rarely has the war within been portrayed as wrenchingly and as riotously as it is in director Trent Stork's fiendishly funny revival of “Hand to Go...
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Feder: Sun-Times hires Jennifer Kho as executive editorJun 03, 2022 1:00 am - Jennifer Kho, a Los Angeles-based digital media consultant and former managing editor of HuffPost and Guardian US, was named executive editor of the Sun-Times Thursday. ...
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'Crimes of the Future': Cronenberg's disturbing, cutting-edge tale of organ donors dulled by passive characters, slow paceJun 02, 2022 6:00 am - “Crimes of the Future” - ★ ★ ½ “Crimes of the Future” represents a cinematic distillation of everything we've come to expect - and fear - from the works of visionary ho...
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Sound check: Marcy Playground, Cracker play Alt-Rock Rager in AuroraJun 02, 2022 6:00 am - Alt-Rock Rager Alternative rock rules as The Piazza brings some long-running stalwarts and Chicago-area favorites together in Aurora for the Alt-Rock Rager this we...
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Feder: WXRT hires Boston rock radio veteran Annalisa as full-time on-air hostJun 02, 2022 1:00 am - A rare on-air opening at WXRT 93.1-FM is about to bring a new voice to the full-time weekday lineup at the Audacy adult album alternative station. Annalisa, a 37-year ve...
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Spotlight: Comedian Paula Poundstone headlines the Genesee June 11Jun 01, 2022 11:00 pm - Paula on stage HBO and Comedy Central veteran Paula Poundstone, a "Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" panelist and host of the NPR podcast "Live From the Poundstone Institut...
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Feder: GOP candidates for governor to debate on ABC 7, Univision ChicagoJun 01, 2022 1:00 am - All six Republican candidates for governor of Illinois have agreed to participate in a one-hour debate Thursday hosted by ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7. Starting at 7 p.m., A...
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Widescreen: For 'Stranger Things' and Kate Bush, 'remember when' leads to beautiful discoveryMay 31, 2022 11:00 pm - Surely the best thing about a pop culture landscape built almost exclusively on nostalgia is the opportunity for aging and/or forgotten artists to enjoy an unexpected su...
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Spotlight: 'Late Nite Catechism,' 'Little Mermaid' and 'Mamma Mia!' return to the stageMay 27, 2022 6:00 am - 'Late Nite' deal Chicago-area theater veteran and Dominican University faculty member Rose Guccione takes on the role of the cantankerous Sister in a special anniversary...
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Feder: ABC 7 news continues to top Chicago ratingsMay 27, 2022 1:00 am - Overall viewership of Chicago's 10 p.m. newscasts declined nearly 14 percent from last year, according to preliminary results of the just-finished May sweep. Ratings fe...