Articles filed under Performing Arts
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Ravinia celebrates all things LincolnAug 20, 2008 11:00 pm - One of the Ravinia Festival's most well-received recent innovations is its free "family fun day," and this summer's all-day event, set for Sept. 7, will offer a glimpse ...
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Drury Lane's jazzy update of 'The Boys from Syracuse' is a hitAug 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Audiences laughing their heads off at Drury Lane Oak Brook's knockout production of "The Boys from Syracuse" really won't care how much tinkering has been done to the sh...
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Beach Boys' Brian Wilson sunny about new albumAug 20, 2008 11:00 pm - BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Brian Wilson sits on a plush couch in his living room, smiling nervously. On the Beach Boys visionary's back porch, his family's 15 pooches yip a...
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Register voters, get free musicAug 20, 2008 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Sheryl Crow is giving away free music -- a tactic she calls the "Tupperware" party approach to inspiring young people to vote. The Grammy Award-winning si...
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Where you can celebrate the last days of summerAug 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Back-to-school ads. Labor Day sales. Football on TV. Earlier sunsets and nights below 60 degrees. It's overrrr! Stop panicking. Shut out those visions of snow shoveling...
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Tub Ring: Accessible but still avant-gardeAug 19, 2008 11:00 pm - After four albums, Tub Ring is still out there searching for signs of intelligent life. The band formed in the suburbs in 1992 and spent the '90s unleashing a number of ...
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Dave Matthews Band sax player LeRoi Moore diesAug 19, 2008 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES _ Dave Matthews Band saxophone player LeRoi Moore, one of the group's founding members and a key part of its eclectic jazz-infused sound, died Tuesday from ...
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Writers' Theatre reviving 'Nixon's Nixon'Aug 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Writers' Theatre revives its acclaimed production of "Nixon's Nixon," Russell Lees' imagined exchange between Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger on the night before the m...
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Circo Rocktastico Tour coming to MetroAug 18, 2008 11:00 pm - This MTV Tr3s-sponsored jaunt shines a spotlight on the Latin alternative rock scene, which is largely still segregated from mainstream rock. That's silly, since Monte N...
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Snowsera: Yeah, they're from around hereAug 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Who'd have guessed that when someone claims to be "from the land of the great destroyer," they're talking about Illinois? It must be true though - taking their name from...