Articles filed under Performing Arts
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Best Bets - The suburbsSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Wearer of ties Known for her clever wit and her signature ties (not pictured), Paula Poundstone rose to fame in the 1990s with a slew of comedy specials and TV appe...
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Tickets for SaleSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Following is a list of recently announced shows. Ticket prices do not reflect service or handling fees. Aerosmith, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Allstate Arena, 692...
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'Theology' is divineSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Until the day she sings her last note, Sinead O'Connor will be known for two things: Being bald and ripping up a photograph of Pope John Paul II on live television. In a...
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Two plays give unique look at black theaterSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Days after Congo Square Theatre's Midwest premiere of Afro-British playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah's "Elmina's Kitchen," Pegasus Players opened its revival of August Wilson'...
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Worth the TripSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Ghost story Buffalo Theatre Ensemble begins its 21st season today with the seasonally appropriate "The Woman in Black," about a lawyer who gets more than he bargained fo...
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Music NotesSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Mucca weekend Mucca Pazza, the indie rock marching band that has risen to prominence in the Chicago area and boasts a large lineup of horns, drums, accordions and cheerl...
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Top 10 musicSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Here are the top 10 music hits as they appear in Billboard magazine. Platinum signifies more than 1 million copies sold; Gold signifies more than 500,000 copies sold. Ho...
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The Backroom proves there's an art to pop songsSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - The first song on The Backroom's first full-length album is so clean and unabashedly catchy that I'm not ashamed to say I woke up this morning with the tune in my head. ...
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'Savannah Disputation' fits in well at Writers' TheatreSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Two years ago the intrepid folks at Writers' Theatre in Glencoe produced a short, witty play, "The Uneasy Chair," by a young writer based in Savannah, Georgia -- Evan Sm...
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Bowie donates $10,000 to teenagers' defense fundSep 19, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW ORLEANS -- David Bowie has donated $10,000 to a legal defense fund for six black teens charged in an alleged attack on a white classmate in the tiny central Louisian...