Entertainment
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Dining in: How you can help your favorite restaurantsMar 19, 2020 6:00 am - My weekly Dining out column usually consists of suburban restaurant events and specials, new restaurant openings, refreshed menu offerings and more. But now, with Gov. J...
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Widescreen: Streaming suggestions with our current predicament in mindMar 19, 2020 6:00 am - We're stuck inside this weekend (and, well, all the weekends for awhile), so we all need recommendations for what to watch from our couches. Here are mine, offered with ...
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Feder: WGN Radio cuts evening host Justin KaufmannMar 19, 2020 1:00 am - Justin Kaufmann, the Chicago public radio veteran whose hiring as evening host at WGN 720-AM was supposed to signal a new day for the legacy news/talk station, just foll...
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Gurnee's Isabella Brown Wins Crain-Maling CSO CompetitionMar 18, 2020 11:00 pm - Continuing its history of success at the prestigious Crain-Maling Foundation CSO Young Artists Competition, the Music Institute of Chicago's Academy for gifted pre-colle...
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Entertainment update: Rosie O'Donnell revives talk show, 'Minions' delayedMar 18, 2020 11:00 pm - From finding ways to help others cope to sheltering in place to canceling events, here's a look at some of the ways the entertainment industry is reacting to the spread ...
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Closure culture: Where to watch opera and theater productions onlineMar 18, 2020 11:00 pm - I was supposed to be in New York this week. I had a ticket for the rarely produced 1948 musical “Love Life” by composer Kurt Weill and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and plans...
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7 things to do when there's nothing to doMar 18, 2020 11:00 pm - With live theater gone dark, restaurant dining rooms closed and malls temporarily shuttered, we all have time on our hands but few options to entertain ourselves. Excep...
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New Freeform drama 'Motherland' is bewitched by witchesMar 18, 2020 8:00 am - NEW YORK - Anyone tuning into the new TV series “Motherland: Fort Salem” will find a few changes in the America depicted. For one thing, women are in charge of the milit...
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O'Donnell: Thoroughbred association president says chances of Arlington opening in May 'about 10 percent'Mar 18, 2020 1:00 am - BILL CARSTANJEN HAS HAD better weeks. He's the CEO of Churchill Downs Inc. and the man who holds the future of Arlington Park in his hands. Under his golden stewardship,...
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'American Idol' alums raise funds for Season of ConcernMar 18, 2020 1:00 am - "American Idol" alums Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young, whose new tuner "Hit Her with the Skates" at Chicago's Royal George Theatre was suspended last week in response to the...