Music
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Mt. Prospect band to open concert seriesJun 14, 2009 11:00 pm - The Mount Prospect Community Band kicks off its 2009 summer concert season tonight (Monday) with that noted musicologist SpongeBob Square Pants, but before the season is...
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Engvall 'nervous' about hosting CMT awards
Jun 14, 2009 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Bill Engvall is a comedian, a sitcom star and a member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. So, hosting this week's CMT awards should be a piece of cake. Or no...
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Watch the beds zipping by at Naper DaysJun 13, 2009 11:00 pm - Freebie! Keeping clean - the 1890s way Learn how people kept clean in the 1890s, before indoor plumbing and modern bathing products were invented, during the "...
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Mourners belt out blues to honor Koko Taylor
Jun 12, 2009 11:00 pm - Hundreds of mourners honored the memory of late blues legend Koko Taylor at her funeral by singing her signature song "Wang Dang Doodle" and remembering why she was know...
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Court records: Singer Usher files for divorce
Jun 12, 2009 11:00 pm - ATLANTA (AP) -- R&B singer Usher filed for divorce Friday from Tameka Foster Raymond, less than two years after their glitzy wedding at a Georgia resort. The 30-year-old...
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Phish, in first appearance, comes home to Bonnaroo
Jun 12, 2009 11:00 pm - MANCHESTER, Tennessee -- Phish might technically be a Bonnaroo rookie, but the band's first performance at the Tennessee music festival had the feeling of a homecoming....
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Chastity Bono announces sex change
Jun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Chastity Bono, the daughter of Cher, is having a sex change to become a man. A spokesman for Bono, born a girl to Cher and Sonny Bono, says he "has made t...
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Todd Snider finds humor in tough times
Jun 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Many of the characters Todd Snider sings about in "The Excitement Plan" are coping with tough times. That includes the tree that becomes a newspaper and doesn't even get...
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Late blues great Koko Taylor gets musical sendoff
Jun 10, 2009 11:00 pm - The late legendary blues singer Koko Taylor is set to receive a musical tribute fit for a queen. Denise Williams, Otis Clay and other musicians in town for this weekend'...
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ESO reduces weekend's ticket pricesJun 10, 2009 11:00 pm - The Elgin Symphony Orchestra has announced that all seats for this weekend's final Classics Series concerts of the 2008-09 season will be $25. The reduced-price tickets ...