Entertainment
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New names, faces grace lineup of sixth Homegrown Arts & Music FestivalJul 15, 2018 6:00 am - Aaron Williams' Homegrown Arts & Music Festival turns six this year. And it's still growing. “Homegrown was mostly a grass-roots thing to get these local bands noticed,...
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Palatine Park District Presents High School Comedy PlayhouseJul 14, 2018 11:00 pm - High School Comedy Playhouse presents "A Night of Laughter With HSCP," featuring a night full of three one- act plays at Cutting Hall Performing Arts Center, 150 E. Wood...
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Weekend picks: Vince Neil rocks the house at Arcada TheatreJul 14, 2018 7:23 am - Mötley Crüe vocals Vince Neil, the celebrated vocalist of the metal band Mötley Crüe, rocks out in concert on Saturday at the Arcada Theatre, 105 E. Main St., St. Charle...
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How Apple's app store changed our world
Jul 14, 2018 1:11 am - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A decade ago, Apple opened a store peddling iPhone apps, unlocking the creativity of software developers and letting users truly make their mobile d...
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Drury Lane's excellent 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” leaves lasting impressionJul 13, 2018 5:00 pm - “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” - ★ ★ ★ ½ Nearly two years after her revelatory revival of “Smokey Joe's Cafe” at Drury Lane Theatre, director Marcia Milgrom Dodge returns to Oa...
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Weekend picks: Rosemont goes 'Supernatural' with fan conventionJul 13, 2018 1:00 pm - TV phenomena The Supernatural Official Convention is exclusively dedicated to The CW's long-running sci-fi/fantasy TV series. See the show's stars and meet up with other...
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Talented stars up to challenges of Marriott's 'Murder for Two'Jul 13, 2018 11:00 am - “Murder for Two” - ★ ★ ★ ½ “Murder for Two” only calls for two actors, yet this challenging 2011 musical doesn't receive as many productions as other similarly sized sh...
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Lighting director magically mixes shadow play with tech in 'End of TV' at ChopinJul 13, 2018 6:00 am - Commercials from the 1990s that once rocked pop culture and encapsulated the decade's eccentric energy have since retired to online archives and YouTube or have been for...
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Theater events: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' 'Everybody' premieres at Brown Paper Box Co.Jul 13, 2018 6:00 am - • Brown Paper Box Co. presents the regional premiere of the Pulitzer Prize finalist "Everybody," Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' contemporary riff on the 15th-century morality p...
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Chicago native relishes showy role in 'The Color Purple'Jul 13, 2018 6:00 am - Chicago native Carla R. Stewart's involvement with the Tony Award-winning 2015 revival of "The Color Purple" has been quite an emotional and artistic journey. Stewart m...