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2011 Holiday Guide
Like the creeping tinsel at the mall, holiday shows in Chicago seem to start earlier each year. This season, it was “White Christmas” at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire even before the trick-or-treaters had ventured forth from their...Tags: Comedy (genre), Ceremonies, Arts and Culture, Goodman Theatre, Music Theater
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A very full load of nominees for this year's Equity Jeff Awards
Apparently confronted by a plethora of riches in the past season of Chicago theater, the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee offered up not the traditional four or five nominees one finds at the Tony Awards, for instance, but a bevy of nominees for its...
Tags: Clybourne Park (play), Arts and Culture, Goodman Theatre, Music Theater, Condos and Houses
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Jampacked weekend will run gamut from avant-garde to boogie-woogie
We're about to begin a remarkably lively jazz weekend, even by Chicago standards. Among the highlights: The Engines: This enterprising ensemble has been offering a stylistically free-ranging music for nearly a decade, but this weekend's engagement...
Tags: Germany, Old Town School of Folk Music, Music Industry, Hyde Park, Wynton Marsalis
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'The Greatest Story Ever Told' for Easter
Staff writer"The Bible," History's 10-hour miniseries, concludes its run Easter night. The final two hours, starting at 8, depict Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection as well as the lives of the early disciples. The production from Roma Downey and Mark Burnett has...Tags: Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Pat Boone, Sidney Poitier, George Stevens Jr.
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Bing Crosby's former home in Rancho Mirage is singing out
Dreaming of a "White Christmas"?
Bing Crosby's former home in Rancho Mirage has come on the market at $3,495,000.
The sprawling 6,700-square-foot estate sits on more than an acre in the Thunderbird Heights neighborhood with a hillside backdrop. Asian...Tags: Music, Movies, Bing Crosby, Entertainment, Homes
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Slice of Hollywood history: Site of the former Malibu Lodge is sold to cellphone honcho
The site of the former Malibu Lodge has been purchased by international cellphone magnate Sebastian Harrison and his wife, actress Linda Gucciardo, for $2.4 million.
The Malibu Lodge was an elegant French-Californian restaurant in the 1940s and early...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Condos and Houses, Property, Los Angeles Times
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Hot Property: Scarlett Johansson, Ryan Reynolds buy Los Feliz house for $2.9 million
It seems as though actress Scarlett Johansson had no sooner sold her old place in the Hollywood Hills than she and her husband, actor Ryan Reynolds, closed on a house in Los Feliz for $2.9 million.
Built in the late '60s, the restored Buff & Hensman-...Tags: Travel, Condos and Houses, CBS Corp., Ally McBeal (tv program) , Celebrities
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Passover and Easter on video
In home video's 1980s and '90s heyday, Easter emerged as a prime selling holiday. Religious epics, holiday-related classics and children and family holiday specials were marketed as "basket stuffers." As with Christmas and Thanksgiving, Easter (as...
Tags: Animation (Movie Genre), Arts and Culture, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Matzoh, Judaism
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The art of good writing
WASHINGTON -- When asked to explain the brisk pace of his novels, Elmore Leonard said, "I leave out the parts that people skip." You will not want to skip anything in William Zinsser's short essays written for the American Scholar magazine's website and...
Tags: Authors, Malaria, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Periodicals, Punishment
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COLUMN: The art of good writing
WASHINGTON — When asked to explain the brisk pace of his novels, Elmore Leonard said, "I leave out the parts that people skip." You will not want to skip anything in William Zinsser’s short essays written for the American Scholar magazine&...Tags: Washington, DC, Authors, Malaria, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Periodicals
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Rob Winn Anderson wins new-play award
Orlando resident Rob Winn Anderson has won the 2012 Christopher Brian Wolk Award from New York's Abingdon Theatre Company for "The Tenth Son." Anderson will be presented with his award, which comes with $1,000, on Monday, Dec. 10, in New York City....
Tags: New York City, SeaWorld, Music Industry, Busch Gardens Orlando, June Havoc
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Al Jolson tribute at Cinema Paradiso in Fort Lauderdale
Staff WriterAl Jolson can still pack them in the theater, 86 years after ushering in "the talkies" and 63 years after his death. At least that's the idea with the tribute by The Broward County Film Society (also called FLiFF) to the man billed as "The World’s...Tags: Lionel Hampton, Arts and Culture, Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, Fort Lauderdale, Judaism
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