Music
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Mike Mangione talks about the tenets that fueled his new albumJun 26, 2008 11:00 pm - As a senior in high school, Mike Mangione didn't just want to write songs; he wanted to write songs for a living. So the young Mangione - who, I should point out, has on...
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Tin Horse embarks on their Horses Gone Wild TourJun 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Chatting with the three ladies who comprise Chicago country band Tin Horse means bearing witness to a trio of kindred sisters linked by a common thread that somehow surp...
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'Jacob the Jeweler' gets 2½ years in prison
Jun 23, 2008 11:00 pm - DETROIT -- The New York businessman known in the hip-hop world as "Jacob the Jeweler" was sentenced Tuesday to 2½ years in federal prison for lying to investigators look...
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Internet comedy duo makes pit stop in the suburbsJun 23, 2008 11:00 pm - They call their creation the "Chicazebo." It's a gazebo-shaped culinary concoction made with Chicago's food specialties - deep dish pizza, an Italian beef sandwich and ...
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Who could've seen this? 'Nostradamus' pretty good
Jun 22, 2008 11:00 pm - I had a premonition Judas Priest would make an album like this. But not even the 16th-century seer credited by some with predicting events centuries later could have kno...
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Good Vibrations: Brian Wilson joins Newport lineup
Jun 22, 2008 11:00 pm - NEWPORT, R.I. -- The Newport Folk Festival is picking up good vibrations. The festival producers plan to announce Monday that Brian Wilson, a founding member of the Beac...
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They're running on empty
Jun 22, 2008 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO -- Steven Garcia pulled into a Houston gas station recently to fill up the old Dodge van his punk band uses on summer tours. For months, the 23-year-old si...
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Alejandro Escovedo rocks hard on CD
Jun 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Many rockers glorify one aspect of their personalities, be it sexuality, anger, cockiness, or mysteriousness. But Alejandro Escovedo has spent the last two decades strip...
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Suburban concertsJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Betty Buckley, |Ravinia Festival, 418 Sheridan Road, Highland Park: Vocal jazz/show tunes. 4 p.m. June 22, 8 p.m. June 23 in the Martin Theatre. $10-$75. (847) 266-5...
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Chill out with jazz on the terrace of the Museum of Contemporary ArtJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Jazz gave birth to cool - and it is no wonder that a place as hip as the Museum of Contemporary Art would create "Tuesdays on the Terrace: Live Jazz Outdoors." The conc...