Entertainment
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Spotlight: Local favorites appear in Northlight's livestreamed readingJan 29, 2021 5:00 am - Bechdel Fest 8 Broken Nose Theatre presents Bechdel Fest 8: Realign, a festival of short plays featuring femme, female-identifying, nonbinary, transgender and queer acto...
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Ron Onesti: Music warms cold winter nightsJan 29, 2021 5:00 am - How many times have we sat on our couches looking outside into our snow-peaked yards and stayed home from work as Chi-town-area temps hit 60-below zero with the wind chi...
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Jim O'Donnell: Frisk, Whisler helped Travelers blaze lost local CBA trailJan 29, 2021 12:00 am - IN HIS 50 YEARS SHEPHERDING the sports department of The Daily Herald, Bob Frisk assigned himself to be the primary reporter on a pro sports beat only once. That rarity ...
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Feder: 'Hungry Hound' Steve Dolinsky leaving ABC 7's eat beatJan 29, 2021 12:00 am - Steve Dolinsky, the award-winning food critic who's been covering the eat beat with gusto for more than 25 years in Chicago, is stepping down as the "Hungry Hound" at AB...
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Civil Rights Activist Thomas Armstrong Coming to Schaumburg LibraryJan 28, 2021 10:00 pm - Civil rights activist Thomas Armstrong will present "A Foot Soldier's Journey"from 7-8:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 25 online with the Schaumburg Township District Library. R...
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'Groundhog Day,' again? Try these other time-loop tales for a changeJan 28, 2021 5:00 am - Strike up the “Pennsylvania Polka” and remember to not drive angry - Groundhog Day is upon us! Again! And so is “Groundhog Day,” the classic Bill Murray comedy that you'...
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This is your last chance to see giant trolls at the Morton ArboretumJan 28, 2021 4:30 am - From his hillside post, the woodland creature holds court over Interstate 88, a forest giant among concrete and steel. His creator gave him a common name. But names can ...
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Villa Park bar gets temporary approval for outdoor entertainmentJan 28, 2021 12:00 am - A bar and ice cream shop in Villa Park has been given special permission from the village to have outdoor entertainment. But trustees this week rejected the business own...
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Feder: Rock critic Greg Kot to bring 'great music writing' to The Coda CollectionJan 28, 2021 12:00 am - One year after stepping down as the nationally renowned music critic at the Chicago Tribune, Greg Kot is about to help launch an ambitious new multimedia startup billed ...
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Groundbreaking Black actress Cicely Tyson dies at 96Jan 28, 2021 12:00 am - AP Entertainment Writers NEW YORK - Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper's wife in "Sounder," a Tony ...