Entertainment
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Chicago area songwriters create patriotic virtual choir compositionOct 28, 2023 11:00 pm - On the eve of Veteran's Day, songwriter James (Jamey) McDunn (Schaumburg) and lyricist Jim Wearne (Downers Grove) have released "America's Dream" a Patriotic Virtual Cho...
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Chicago Sinfonietta features Maestro Prieto in 'DEPTH'Oct 28, 2023 11:00 pm - "Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without," said Confucius, whose life and teachings studied human nature and expressed the ability of huma...
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Music review: An expanded soundtrack marks 50th anniversary of 'A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving'
Oct 28, 2023 6:00 am - An expanded soundtrack for the Thanksgiving season filled with childlike charm is reason to do the Snoopy dance. "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" was recently released in ...
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'Pain Hustlers' tells a sadly familiar story with a kitchen-sink style
Oct 27, 2023 11:30 am - “Pain Hustlers” — ★ ★ The wife of a man who nearly died of an opioid overdose comes bursting into the office of the sleazy doctor who prescribed it, wrongly, in exc...
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Pete Ellman Big Band brings jazz and holiday tunes to St. Charles Dec. 16Oct 26, 2023 11:00 pm - The Pete Ellman Big Band will perform a concert of big band, jazz and holiday tunes on Saturday, Dec. 16. The performance will conclude the fall season of the "Saturday ...
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Norris Gallery Series presents pianist Jeffrey LaDeur and Mezzo Kindra Scharich Nov. 26Oct 26, 2023 11:00 pm - The Norris Cultural Arts Center's "Music & More in the Gallery" continues on Sunday, Nov. 26, with an afternoon recital of piano classics and art songs performed by San ...
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'Five Nights'' intriguing premise undermined by simply terrible storytellingOct 26, 2023 3:00 pm - “Five Nights at Freddy's” — ★ Just in time to ruin Halloween weekend for true horror film afficionados, Emma Tammi's “Five Nights at Freddy's” gives us one of the s...
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Goodman Theatre's acclaimed 'The Who's Tommy' opens on Broadway next MarchOct 26, 2023 8:00 am - In an announcement that surprised no one who experienced the incandescent revival last summer, Goodman Theatre's re-imagined production of "The Who's Tommy" will open on...
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'Persian Version' finds laughter, tears in Iranian American tale of resilient women
Oct 26, 2023 6:00 am - “The Persian Version” — ★ ★ ½ Let nobody say writer-director Maryam Keshavarz, whose film won the audience prize at Sundance, doesn't know how to start a movie. Th...
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'Anatomy of a Fall' a sharp courtroom drama
Oct 26, 2023 6:00 am - “Anatomy of a Fall” — ★ ★ ★ ★ Of all the ways that a relationship can end, a fundamental disagreement about a work of art is in some ways extremely silly. And yet,...