Entertainment
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Bloomingdale Artists Association to open spring show May 25Feb 08, 2024 11:00 am - Original artwork created by Bloomingdale Artists Association members will be featured in the 2024 Spring Show and Silent Auction on May 25. Selected works featuring a div...
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Maine West to present ‘Mean Girls High School Version’Feb 08, 2024 10:18 am - Maine West’s Fine Arts Department is excited to present “Mean Girls High School Version” at 7 p.m. on Feb. 22, 23 and 24 and at 2 p.m. on Feb. 25.
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Want to try something new? Audition for ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ at Northbrook Community TheatreFeb 08, 2024 9:48 am - Last year, 10-year-old Jayna Miehl really wanted to try out theater, but was apprehensive about doing it on her own.
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Chicago Theatre Week 2024 commences: Discount tickets selling fast for suburban, city productionsFeb 08, 2024 9:30 am - Get ’em while they’re hot. Chicago Theatre Week tickets are selling fast. The annual showcase of suburban and city theater continues through Feb. 18.
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Ron Onesti: Toby Keith — A red, white and blue heroFeb 08, 2024 9:00 am - It hit me when country superstar Toby Keith died Monday. I was blessed with the opportunity to know Toby at the dawn of his rise in country music. It was in the early ’90s at the beginning of his blowup after his first chart-topping single, “Should’ve Been A Cowboy.”
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Actor Gina Carano sues Lucasfilm and Disney over her firing from ‘The Mandalorian’
Feb 08, 2024 7:16 am - Actor Gina Carano on Tuesday sued Lucasfilm and its parent The Walt Disney Co. over her 2021 firing from “The Mandalorian,” saying she was let go for expressing right-wing views on social media.
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Movie review: ‘Lisa Frankenstein’ lurches from idiocy to whimsy and ends up unwatchableFeb 08, 2024 6:26 am - It will come as no surprise that the new movie “Lisa Frankenstein” is a real monster — stitched together from previous movies, painfully incoherent and deeply, deeply dumb.
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Movie review: A village in Bhutan learns about democracy and teaches us, too, in ‘Monk and the Gun’Feb 08, 2024 5:45 am - For a piercing refresher lesson on democracy, one wouldn’t necessarily think of rural Bhutan as the first place to look. Writer-director Pawo Choyning Dorji centers his delightful, moving and clever new satire on a moment in 2006 when officials first fan out into the countryside to introduce this concept called “election.”
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Bittersweet farewell: Buffalo Theatre delivers exquisite revival of ‘Outgoing Tide’Feb 07, 2024 4:53 pm - Buffalo Theatre Ensemble’s revival of Bruce Graham’s “The Outgoing Tide” is a richly emotional, beautifully acted meditation on love, life and death.
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Taylor Swift’s ‘The Eras Tour’ is heading to Disney+ with 5 new songs added