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Widescreen tidbits: Carlin's best on HBO Max, PlayStation's new game library, a bold new 'Trek'
May 19, 2022 12:17 PM - PlayStation Plus subscribers have many more games to look forward to in June. Plus, in light of the new HBO documentary "George Carlin's American Dream," Sean offers six Carlin specials that fans might want to revisit.
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Best Bets: Long Grove Chocolate Fest once again serving up treats
May 19, 2022 12:30 PM - The Long Grove Chocolate Festival returns this weekend, the Anime Central convention opens Friday in Rosemont, and comedian Eddie Griffin performs standup at the Genesee. -
Las Locas Comedy brings unapologetic laughs to Comedy Vault in Batavia
May 12, 2022 11:18 PM - Still beaming from an incredible start to 2022 and a return to live comedy, Las Locas Comedy announces a new showcase at Comedy Vault in Batavia called Las Locas Comedy Presents: Sorry Not Sorry at 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 17. -
Best Bets: Nathan Chen, 'Stars on Ice' tour to Chicago
May 12, 2022 8:43 AM - See Olympic gold medal winner Nathan Chen skate Saturday during "Stars on Ice" at Chicago's United Center. Plus, the Kane County Cougars and the Chicago Dogs host their home opening games this weekend and Bobcat Goldthwait does standup at a comedy benefit show at Zanies in Rosemont. -
Best Bets: Oak Ridge Boys at the MAC, Tammy Pescatelli does standup at the Improv
May 5, 2022 11:14 AM - Need ideas for Mother's Day? The Oak Ridge Boys headline the McAninch Arts Center in Glen Ellyn, comedian Tammy Pescatelli brings laughs to Schaumburg's Improv, and Eileen Ivers performs Celtic music as part of a Mother's Day concert at College of Lake County's Lumber Center for the Performing Arts. -
Best Bets: From Long Grove Craft Beer Fest to Monsters Trucks Live
Apr 28, 2022 11:47 AM - Taste what local breweries have to offer during Saturday's Long Grove Craft Beer Festival. Plus, Buckcherry, Blacktop Mojo and Sumo Cyco headline the Des Plaines and Arcada theatres, and the Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live tour takes over the Now Arena in Hoffman Estates. -
Widescreen: There's another chance to see Danny Elfman's buzzy, 'Batman'-meets-Boingo Coachella concert online
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Best Bets: Circus Vazquez brings high-energy show to the suburbs
Apr 20, 2022 11:03 AM - Circus Vazquez brings death-defying thrills to the suburbs, Kevin Bozeman and friends laugh it up at the Metropolis, and Carol Burnett appears in conversation at the Chicago Theatre. -
Spotlight: Lifeline Theatre remounts pandemic-interrupted 'Middle Passage'
Apr 15, 2022 6:00 AM - A freed slave in 1830s New Orleans stows away on an Africa-bound ship in Lifeline's production of "Middle Passage," a Rogers Park couple contemplates adoption in "Emma's Child" at City Lit, and a pair of geniuses confer at a Parisian cafe in Citadel's staging of "Picasso at the Lapin Agile," this week in Chicago-area theater.
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Best Bets: Jim Belushi, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Lindsey Buckingham hit suburban stages
Apr 14, 2022 12:01 PM - Jim Belushi does improv with the Board of Comedy at the Des Plaines Theatre, actress and comedian Mary Lynn Rajskub performs standup at Aurora's Comedy Shrine and Lindsey Buckingham brings his solo show to the North Shore Center.
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