Articles filed under Performing Arts
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Getting back to the garden, 40 years laterAug 13, 2009 11:00 pm - Things are getting psychedelic and groovy in Woodstock, Illinois. To mark the 40th anniversary of the generation-defining concert on a farm in New York, a smaller-scale,...
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Guitar legend-inventor Les Paul dies at age 94Aug 12, 2009 11:00 pm - WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Les Paul, who invented the solid-body electric guitar later wielded by a legion of rock 'n' roll greats, died Thursday of complications from pneumo...
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Local playwright/acting duo team up for fractured fairy taleAug 12, 2009 11:00 pm - What happens when a standard fairy tale ending (happily ever after) turns out to be more "ever after" than happy? That question is at the center of the new short comedy ...
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GreenSugar takes its bluesy rock to local stagesAug 11, 2009 11:00 pm - When they were students at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, 30-year-olds Parker Dodson and Jon Patrick Luby were both into the grunge music scene. Both loved bands...
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Preschool of rock: Wiggles coming to RosemontAug 11, 2009 11:00 pm - All right, parents, here's your chance to indoctrinate your preschool kids into their first concert experience, as the Wiggles make one of their periodic stops in the Ch...
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A look at the top bands that span generationsAug 11, 2009 11:00 pm - Ask people of various ages about their favorite music and what do you get? Perhaps more common ground between the generations than you'd expect. A Pew Research Center su...
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Best bets: Air and Water Show, the 'seventh Python', the WigglesAug 10, 2009 11:00 pm - By air, by sea Be taken aback by the might of the U.S. military this weekend at the 51st Annual Chicago Air and Water Show. Watch formations and routines by the U.S. Air...
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Cheap stuff: Lindenfest, Howard and the White BoysAug 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Free Howard and the White Boys Howard and the White Boys present an evening of rock 'n' roll music in St. Charles. Bring lawn chairs and blankets for seating. Picnics ar...
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Tattoo will return next year to Sears CentreAug 10, 2009 11:00 pm - There's one thing for certain for next year at the Sears Centre: The Heartland International Tattoo Music and Dance Festival will return to the arena. Organizers announc...
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Cook County briefsAug 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Youth committee meets: The Schaumburg Township Committee on Youth will meet at 6:30 p.m. today at Schaumburg Township Town Hall, 1 Illinois Blvd., Hoffman Estates. The c...