Articles filed under Performing Arts
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Chicago blues scene growing quietJul 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Blues guitar virtuosos and honey-voiced singers filled the Chicago streets with music during the 1950s. Muddy Waters' guitar seeped from corner juke joints. Willie Dixon...
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Clubs, crafts and hobbiesJul 20, 2008 11:00 pm - • Submit your events at least two weeks in advance by e-mail to dupageneighbor@dailyherald.com or by fax, (630) 955-0895. July 21 • Open Gym Dodgeball for children ages...
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Public Enemy Brings The NoiseJul 19, 2008 11:00 pm - The 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival began Friday night with a history lesson for the music lovers assembled in Chicago's Union Park. Now in its third year, the weekend-lon...
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First Folio presents a merry 'Much Ado'Jul 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Just as pride can't frustrate the budding romance of loquacious lovers Beatrice and Benedick and a bit of slander can't divide sweet Hero from her suitor Claudio, a summ...
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Growing Noble Fool company hosts two crowd pleasers this summerJul 17, 2008 11:00 pm - John Gawlik is a quiet man, with Hollywood good looks and a friendly salesman's smile. For the last two years he has been artistic director of the Noble Fool, the theatr...
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Got a brand new bag? James Brown items auctionedJul 17, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK _ James Brown mementoes ranging from his signature capes to a medical bracelet fetched thousands of dollars Thursday at an auction, which the soul icon's childr...
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Latest Smoking Popes not among their bestJul 16, 2008 11:00 pm - Smoking Popes are, with good reason, one of Chicago's most beloved musical outfits, and their 2005 reunion was greeted with cries of joy from old fans and recent convert...
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July 17 openings and closingsJul 16, 2008 11:00 pm - What's new Azusa Productions' "Onto Infinity," David Alex's May-December romance about a young mathematician who falls in love with his former English teacher, opens tod...
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New Miley Cyrus worth hearingJul 16, 2008 11:00 pm - Nine Inch Nails "The Slip": Attaching Nine Inch Nails' eighth major industrial-rock album to something as corporate as a release date is not only misleading but insu...
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Pitchfork's anti-genre heroesJul 14, 2008 11:00 pm - When singer Jeff Carrillo hears Mahjongg's latest album, "Kontpab," he envisions it in stages of construction that have less to do with creative process and more with ph...