Music
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Local tryoutsJul 06, 2010 11:00 pm - • Potential contestants for the Mount Prospect Idol Contest (part of the annual Mount Prospect Block Party) need to audition, preregister, be high school-aged and be ava...
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Blane Fonda to play at North Central CollegeJul 05, 2010 11:00 pm - Blane Fonda, a power-pop band featuring members who hail from Chicago's suburbs (St. Charles, Naperville and Wheeling), will be part of the first summer concert to be he...
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R&B singer strives to recapture limelight with 'Sellout'Jul 05, 2010 11:00 pm - Macy Gray tried - and failed - to get the hottest producers to work on her new album. But she says getting dissed by today's hitmakers actually made her CD better. "My a...
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Best bets: Louie Anderson, 'Idol' Allen, Kane Co. FairJul 05, 2010 11:00 pm - Laugh with Louie Zanies presents celebrity funny man Louie Anderson ("Life with Louie," "Family Feud") for a special stand-up comedy engagement this Saturday at P...
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Men at Work ordered to pay 5 percent for lifting riffJul 05, 2010 11:00 pm - Men at Work, the Australian band that won a Grammy award in 1983, must pay 5 percent of the royalties collected on their hit "Down Under" for having used a flute riff fr...
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Cheap stuff: Taste of Lombard, turtle races, ice cream socialJul 01, 2010 11:00 pm - $10 and under Taste of Lombard Sample a wide variety of fare at the annual Taste of Lombard festival. Activities for guests of all ages include a car...
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Drake postpones European tour due to mom's surgeryJul 01, 2010 11:00 pm - NEW YORK --- Drake is postponing his 10-city European tour because his mother is undergoing surgery. The 23-year-old rapper says in a statement that he wants to support ...
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Dad's death and daughter's birth led Jack Johnson 'To the Sea'Jul 01, 2010 11:00 pm - When Jack Johnson came off a tour with tales about life on the road, his father wasn't interested in hearing about the celebrities he'd met or the fancy rock-star perks....
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Travolta thanks Fla. fans for demanding 'Grease'Jul 01, 2010 11:00 pm - OCALA, Fla. --- John Travolta is thanking his adopted Florida hometown, Ocala, after residents waged an online campaign to bring a limited re-release of his hit "Grease"...
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Essence Fest helps sustain New Orleans amid spillJul 01, 2010 11:00 pm - NEW ORLEANS --- For all the talk of the BP oil spill scaring tourists away from Louisiana and the beaches of Mississippi, Alabama and western Florida, one city in the re...