Entertainment
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Wizard World Chicago returns to Rosemont in OctoberJun 14, 2021 1:00 am - Movies are back, baseball games are back, concerts are back. On Oct. 15, pop culture conventions are back. Wizard World Chicago will return Oct. 15 through 17 to the Don...
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Feder: Chicago's Invisible Institute shares Pulitzer Prize for national reportingJun 14, 2021 1:00 am - Invisible Institute, the Chicago-based nonprofit journalism production company, won its first Pulitzer Prize Friday for its work on a yearlong investigation of K-9 units...
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Telecommunications industry leader writes novels about abuses of science and technologyJun 13, 2021 11:00 pm - Thomas J J Starr, a telecommunications engineer living in the Northwest suburbs, has published his third novel, "Retrograde." Starr, the chairman of a United Nations ch...
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'In the Heights' makes muted debut, edged by 'A Quiet Place' at box office
Jun 13, 2021 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - Just when a party was poised to break out in movie theaters, the below-expectation debut of "In the Heights" dampened Hollywood's hopes of a swift or smooth r...
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Local mock jury reinstates 'Buck' Weaver to baseball but says no to 'Shoeless' Joe JacksonJun 12, 2021 11:00 pm - "Say it ain't so, Joe." Those famous words from a disappointed young fan more than a hundred years ago echoed hauntingly across a ballroom - a baseball room, really - at...
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Carol Stream's Eric Petersen embraces 'boorish' role in buzzy new AMC seriesJun 12, 2021 11:00 pm - When Carol Stream native Eric Petersen auditioned for the new AMC series “Kevin Can (expletive) Himself,” he was taken aback by its blunt title. But he came to love the ...
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Johnny Gilbert - the voice of 'Jeopardy!' - keeps going at 92
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Hook up with The Mild West’s newest single, ‘Rendezvous’Jun 12, 2021 7:15 am - Last year's indie-pop EP "It's Been a Good Run" by The Mild West showed a band that had dialed in where it was going. Evolving from the ear-catching but arguably lighter...
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'Queen Bees' buzzes along as well-cast but ultimately bland comedy
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'Where We Stand' from Steppenwolf poses questions, invites conversationJun 11, 2021 6:00 am - In the stage directions for her play "Where We Stand," writer/actor Donnetta Lavinia Grays describes the production as a conversation. Not merely a conversation between ...