Music
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Smashing Pumpkins' Corgan looks ahead, not backDec 22, 2014 5:01 am - LONDON - The Smashing Pumpkins are dead. Long live the Smashing Pumpkins. It's fair to say lead singer Billy Corgan, who grew up in Glendale Heights, has an ambivalent r...
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Rauner concert: Toby Keith, Buddy Guy, trio of politiciansDec 22, 2014 12:01 am - A trio of Illinois state lawmakers and their Jimmy Buffett-inspired band will open a concert for country superstar Toby Keith and blues legend Buddy Guy next month at Re...
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Soulful singer Joe Cocker dies at 70Dec 22, 2014 12:01 am - Joe Cocker, the raspy-voiced British singer known for his frenzied cover of "With a Little Help From My Friends," the teary ballad "You Are So Beautiful" and a contorted...
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McCartney reflects on yesterday, today and tomorrowDec 21, 2014 6:15 am - NEW YORK - Sir Paul McCartney is 72, and only the wrinkles give his years away. Interviewed recently at his midtown Manhattan office suite, he seems as boyish and light-...
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Sunday picks: Frozemont welcomes all skatersDec 21, 2014 6:00 am - Frozemont Step onto the ice at the NHL-sized outdoor Frozemont ice rink at MB Financial Park at Rosemont, 5501 Park Place, Rosemont. Skating runs through Sunday, Ma...
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Nicki Minaj keeps us talking, but to what end?Dec 21, 2014 5:00 am - Staying up on today's pop music requires us to care about too many tempests in too many teapots. Any superstar worth their weight in Twitter followers has an assortment ...
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Elton John, David Furnish marry in EnglandDec 21, 2014 12:01 am - LONDON - Entertainer Elton John and longtime mate David Furnish officially married Sunday on the ninth anniversary of the day they entered into a civil partnership. The ...
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Madonna releases 6 songs after leakDec 20, 2014 8:45 am - NEW YORK - In a surprise preview of her new album, Madonna released six songs Saturday on iTunes and various streaming services. Publicist Liz Rosenberg says songs were ...
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Weekend picks: Revisionist 'Christmas Carol'Dec 20, 2014 6:00 am - SATURDAY Revisionist Dickens The Organic Theater Company offers a different take on Charles Dickens' holiday classic by presenting Tom Mula's “Jacob Marley's C...
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Freud's goal: Keep Chicago's Lyric Opera relevantDec 20, 2014 5:30 am - CHICAGO — When Anthony Freud was 14, his favorite pastime was going to the opera in London and then, on the train ride home to Wimbledon where he lived with his parents,...