Articles filed under Performing Arts
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British museum buys Rolling Stones' lips artworkSep 01, 2008 11:00 pm - LONDON -- Mick Jagger's pout is officially fit for a museum. London's Victoria and Albert Museum announced Tuesday that it bought the original artwork for The Rolling St...
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Rock Hall honors music innovator Les PaulSep 01, 2008 11:00 pm - CLEVELAND -- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will pay tribute to the "Father of the Electric Guitar" this fall. Les Paul will be honored at the annual American Music ...
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'60s-style folk music blossoming againSep 01, 2008 11:00 pm - In the 1960s, it was "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" Pete Seeger's haunting antiwar anthem. By the early 1980s, it was more like "Where have all the folkies gone?" as...
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Dust storm causes some to leave Burning Man earlyAug 30, 2008 11:00 pm - RENO, Nev. -- A dust storm chased away some participants from the counterculture Burning Man festival before its traditional climax Saturday night on the northern Nevada...
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Springsteen plays Harley celebrationAug 30, 2008 11:00 pm - MILWAUKEE -- Bruce Springsteen ended his world tour over the weekend, toned down but revved up. Springsteen played more than 30 songs over 3ˆ½ hours Saturday night on ...
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Tom Schraeder draws inspiration from the southAug 30, 2008 11:00 pm - Tom Schraeder has grown up a lot in the last year. It's not that he's cut back on the drinking, started caring any less about wine, women and song, or even really tamper...
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Folk metal band to perform at Pearl RoomAug 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Arguably the world's most popular folk metal band, Finntroll mixes humppa (or "Finnish polka") with accessible black metal for one of the most stein-swingingly fun live ...
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Shattered Globe's 'Menagerie' opens Sept. 4Aug 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Shattered Globe's 'Menagerie' Shattered Globe Theatre artistic director Kevin Hagan stages Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" in the dreamy, highly theatrical sty...
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'Weekend' well acted but doesn't resonateAug 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Like those songs that get recorded but never make it onto the CD, some plays languish in relative obscurity, rarely making their way onto the stage. Gore Vidal's infreq...
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Hidden Talent Theater Company stages Neil Simon playAug 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Jim Gattone is founder and director of the Hidden Talent Theatre Company, which just opened a revival of Neil Simon's "The Star-Spangled Girl." He grew up in Glenview. H...