Articles filed under Performing Arts
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Randy Newman at top of his game on new album, 'Dark Matter'Jul 31, 2017 7:00 am - Randy Newman's new album includes a song cataloging American carnage titled, "It's a Jungle Out There," which he says he doesn't really believe. Quite the opposite, in f...
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Randy Newman cared enough about his new album to help pay for itJul 31, 2017 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES - So, finally, at 73, Randy Newman has written a straightforward, autobiographical love song, right? "She Chose Me," a ballad on "Dark Matter," his first alb...
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Rick Saucedo to play Hoffman Estates Aug. 3Jul 31, 2017 1:00 am - Rick Saucedo, the self-proclaimed "Prince of Rock 'n Roll," will play at Hoffman Estates' Village Green at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 3 as part of the "Summer Sounds on the G...
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Chubby Checker, Mary Wilson coming to Genesee Theatre in WaukeganJul 31, 2017 1:00 am - The touring concert "Legendary Voices" brings Chubby Checker ("The Twist"), Mary Wilson of The Supremes ("Baby Love") and Martha Reeves and the Vandellas ("Dancing in th...
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Art and Soul on the Fox has music, dance and art this weekendJul 30, 2017 11:00 pm - Come on down to the Fox River for the ninth annual Art and Soul on the Fox, a juried art fair, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday in downtown E...
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Sunday picks: Catch Nick Guerra's standup at Improv in SchaumburgJul 30, 2017 7:23 am - As seen on TV Comedian Nick Guerra ("Last Comic Standing," "Gabriel Iglesias' Stand Up Revolution") ends a weekend of standup gigs Sunday night at the Improv Comedy...
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Reunited Live looking forward to playing LollapaloozaJul 30, 2017 7:12 am - It's hard to believe that one of the biggest acts to come out of the mid-'90s alternative rock boom never performed as part of the traveling circus that best defined the...
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Top 10 finalists perform for Suburban Chicago's Got TalentJul 30, 2017 1:00 am - At Sunday's top 10 performance of Suburban Chicago's Got Talent at Schaumburg's Prairie Center for the Arts, host Rob Pileckis repeatedly stated how hard it's going to b...
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17 countries represented in Festival of Dance in Buffalo GroveJul 30, 2017 1:00 am - Dancers from 17 countries will showcase traditional styles and cultures during the Mazurdance dance school's International Festival of Dance at noon Sunday, Aug. 6, at t...
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Professional dancer builds local studios to help others danceJul 30, 2017 1:00 am - Jesse DeSoto of Hawthorn Woods left behind "Dancing With the Stars" and a life in Hollywood and instead built local studios to help others dance. Jesse and his brother, ...