Music
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“Tremendous advocate” of Elgin Symphony dead at 81Jan 25, 2011 11:00 pm - Marcene Linstrom moved to Elgin in 1979 and soon after started work with the Elgin Symphony Orchestra doing secretarial work. By 1985 she had become the executive direct...
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Jimmy Buffett falls off stage at Australia concertJan 25, 2011 10:00 pm - SYDNEY — U.S. singer Jimmy Buffett left hospital on Thursday, a day after he fell off a stage at the end of a Sydney concert and was knocked unconscious, Australian tele...
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Hold ’em tourney to support Raue Center in Crystal LakeJan 25, 2011 12:00 am - Submitted by Raue Center Raue Center for the Arts will host its second annual Hold ’Em Tournament Saturday, Jan. 29, on stage at 26 N. Williams St. in downtown Crystal L...
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Music events: Tuffcurls plays in 'burbsJan 25, 2011 12:00 am - Rod Tuffcurls and the Bench Press, a self-described “party band” covering songs from the '60s all the way up to today, will play a couple of shows in the suburbs. Rod Tu...
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Concerts: Pilgrim Chamber plays classical music SundayJan 24, 2011 10:00 pm - Bucky Halker in “Folk Music in the Heartland: Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie,” Skokie Theatre, 7924 N. Lincoln Ave., Skokie: Folk. Musical tribute to Pete Seeger and Wood...
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Cosgrove brings Dancing Crazy tour to RosemontJan 24, 2011 10:00 pm - Life for Miranda Cosgrove, to borrow a phrase from the “iCarly” theme song, is so won-der-ful. Her tween-ish comedy show on Nickelodeon, “iCarly,” saw double-digit viewe...
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On the cheap: Free tango lessonsJan 24, 2011 10:00 pm - Free Time to tango! Sabrina and Ruben Veliz, Argentine husband-and-wife dancers, choreographers and tango stars, will host a free tango dance lesson for the pu...
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Aguilera to sing national anthem at Super BowlJan 23, 2011 10:00 pm - NEW YORK — Christina Aguilera will sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl in Texas on Feb. 6. The five-time Grammy award winning singer will be making an encore at ...
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Puccini's 'Golden West' shines despite dated depictionJan 22, 2011 11:00 pm - After exposure to unvarnished modern Westerns like the HBO-TV series “Deadwood” or Clint Eastwood's 1992 film “Unforgiven,” the Italian-filtered opera view of America's ...
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Headin' out: Kevin Nealon, 'Star Wars Days' and moreJan 21, 2011 10:00 pm - Freebie ‘Alice's' author The Bookstore in Glen Ellyn is hosting a celebration party for the paperback release of Glen Ellyn author Melanie Benjamin's historica...