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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: Facebook, Oil Changes, Heads of State, Government, Car Guides and Reviews
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Ferris-riding record attempt not a wheely big deal
The competition last week published a story about plans at Navy Pier for park operations manager Clinton Shepherd to earn a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records by riding the signature Ferris wheel for 48 hours. Forty-eight hours straight? Not...
Tags: Lung Cancer, Mad Men (tv program), AMC (tv network), Sports, Football
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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, William Shakespeare, United Kingdom, London Theatre, Chicago 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: Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Music, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Pixar Animation
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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, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Arts and Culture
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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: Newspaper and Magazine, Lifestyle and Leisure, Scottie Pippen, Larsa Pippen, Weddings
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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: Syphilis, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (movie), Henry Kissinger, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
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Kass: Mayor's shell game should have taxpayers clutching their wallets
I've got a feeling that in some weird, alternate universe, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is making a decent living playing hide-the-pea. You know the game, don't you? First, you put your money down. Then Mr. Misdirection places a pea under one of three cups....
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Chicago Hotels, Basketball, Chicago City Hall, Robert Fioretti
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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: World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., Cee Lo Green, Disc Jockeys, Los Angeles Kings, Two Door Cinema Club (music group)
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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: Lifestyle and Leisure, Magnificent Mile, Brian Urlacher, Michigan Avenue, Bobby Flay
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Chicago wrestler Colt Cabana teaming up with Jamie Kennedy, 'Hunger Games' cast coming to Aurora, Common hosting gala
Jamie Kennedy is on a mission to make professional wrestler and Deerfield native Colt Cabana (real name Scott Colton) a star.
Kennedy – known for his roles in “Scream,” “Son of the Mask” and “Malibu’s Most...Tags: World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., Lifestyle and Leisure, Television Industry, Paul Pierce, Ernie Banks
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