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Cars.com Drives the L.L. Bean Boot
KickingTiresEver since Cars.com linked up with PickupTrucks.com, we've done only a little truck testing of our own, but we still take them out for a spin just to keep in step with the market. Such was the rationalization last week......Tags: Oil Changes, Government, Ford, Michigan Avenue, Politics
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Toned down 'Today Show' hits Chicago
Big picture, not much went right for the “Today Show's” planned broadcast from Chicago this week. First, terrible, significant news happened in Oklahoma, meaning stars Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie would never make it to the live location...
Tags: ABC (tv network), NBC (tv network), Chicago Mayor, Fishing, Rahm Emanuel
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Jonathan Munby's 'Caesar' is more about the mob
"We're inventing a Rome," said Jonathan Munby over lunch recently, "that looks and feels like contemporary Washington." Although he was born in Yorkshire, England, and bases his freelance career in London (with frequent forays to the Royal Shakespeare...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Celebrities, United Kingdom, William Shakespeare, Theater
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Beautifully honest 'Beauty and the Beast' on Navy Pier
Few things are as pleasurable as sitting in a theater alongside those whose expectations are being well and truly exceeded. Such was the case on Navy Pier this weekend with director Rachel Rockwell's remarkably excellent 70-minute Chicago Shakespeare...
Tags: Pixar Animation, Music, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
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Round 2: Big Sky vs. Big Shoulders
Do I hear a bison chortling? Yes, it's a laugh a minute these days in Montana. The bears are slapping their grizzly knees; the bighorn sheep are high-hoofing the pronghorn antelopes; the glaciers are splitting their sides. And my attempt to rally...
Tags: Travel, Tourism and Leisure, Landforms, Glaciers, Politics
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The show is the weak link in well-intended Shakespeare in the Parks
On Sunday afternoon on the lawn of the South Shore Cultural Center, some 700 people showed up for a remarkable new initiative: a Shakespearean production from a first-class company designed to remove two of the most formidable barriers to unleashing the...
Tags: Humboldt Park, Arts and Culture, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
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'Chicago Fire' renewed, just like Jesse Spencer expected
It's difficult to tell who should be more excited NBC officially picked up “Chicago Fire” for a second season Friday: The cast and crew of the firefighter drama or the Illinois Film Office. The good news allows the Dick Wolf-produced show to...
Tags: Oriental Theater, Brooklyn Nets, Taylor Kinney, Tania Raymonde, Gold Coast
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'Sunday in the Park,' 'Ceasar' and return of 'Black Watch' are Chicago Shakespeare highlights
Gary Griffin will direct "Sunday in the Park with George." Barbara Gaines will stage both David Ives' "The School for Lies" and Shakespeare's "Henry VIII." And the British director Jonathan Munby will helm a new production of "Julius Caesar," using...Tags: Edgewater, Arts and Culture
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D-Rose, Pippen watch the throne, Rosie O'Donnell on Michigan Avenue cover, Cutler talks wedding planning
Any chance Derrick Rose had of keeping a low profile at Wednesday’s Watch The Throne show went out the window when rapper Kanye West announced to the United Center audience that the NBA MVP was in attendance.
“Derrick Rose, I see you,”...Tags: Derrick Rose, Kanye West, Television Industry, Lifestyle and Leisure, Shawn Marion
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On a rough night, Queen Elizabeth I hangs out with actors
When faced with a dark night of the soul, the powerful often seek the sustenance of subordinates. Such juicy, on-the-cusp moments — real or merely possible — are hard for playwrights to resist. Thus just as "Nixon's Nixon" memorably imagined...Tags: Celebrities, Elizabeth II, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (movie), AIDS
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Expect more performances at Studio Paris, Jay Cutler and Kristin Cavallari shop at Gold Coast pet boutique, John Cusack drinks hand sanitizer
Think of Skylar Grey’s performance Saturday in Paris Club’s upstairs lounge, Studio Paris, as a sign of things to come this summer. Studio Paris — which features a retractable roof and has hosted performances by Jennifer Hudson, Cee...
Tags: Celebrities, Chicago Blackhawks, Gold Coast, Jimmy Kimmel Live! (tv program), Jay Cutler
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Mumford & Sons singer and Carey Mulligan dine at Sunda, R. Kelly at Harry Caray's, Kim K. appears in Kanye music video
Mumford & Sons singer Marcus Mumford and his wife and actress Carey Mulligan ("Drive") enjoyed their meal at Sunda Wednesday so much, the couple returned to the River North restaurant again Thursday. Mumford was in town to perform at the Chicago Theatre...
Tags: Kanye West, Brian Urlacher, Rahm Emanuel, Celebrities, Lifestyle and Leisure
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