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'The Celebrity Apprentice,' Episode Three: Blagojevich Said What?

December 29, 2020March 29, 2010 by Chicago Magazine

Donald Trump started last night’s episode by asking Rod Blagojevich (the ex-governor of the fifth-largest state in the nation, let’s not forget), if the right person had been fired last week. It shouldn’t have been a difficult question to answer…

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Last-Minute Passover Dining Solutions: Five Ways to Avoid Cooking

December 29, 2020March 29, 2010 by Chicago Magazine

If you are feeling overwhelmed by the myriad details of putting your seder table together, burned your brisket, or just don’t want to cook this year, here are some places we like that you can turn to for help…

Categories City Life

Grown Person Finds Real Entertainment in 'Beauty and the Beast'

December 29, 2020March 26, 2010 by Chicago Magazine

An avid theatre goer, Penny Pollack, Chicago magazine’s dining editor, may have been the only person in the audience of Beauty and the Beast on Wednesday night who did not have a fresh memory of the 1991 Disney movie on which this touring musical production is based…

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Eighth Blackbird Presents Genre-Defying Head Scratcher at Harris

December 29, 2020March 25, 2010 by Chicago Magazine

I’m a big fan of classical music’s great and powerful dead guys (e.g., Mozart, Beethoven); but that’s just it: they’re dead. Giving feedback is kind of a challenge. So when eighth blackbird, the decorated contemporary-classical sextet, brings a freshly composed piece to Chicago…

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Cowards, Saints, and Brigadiers

December 29, 2020March 24, 2010 by Chicago Magazine

Our top five picks for things to do this week: A Coward extension; a free Hitchcock screening with a classic Hollywood star; short, cheap cinema; and more

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No True History of the Zipper in the New Play at the Goodman

December 29, 2020March 23, 2010 by Chicago Magazine

When you attend the theatre, little things can break the spell of the performance on stage. Maybe the person sitting next to you has an unsettling horse laugh. Or maybe some trivial detail of the performance causes your mind to wander…

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'The Celebrity Apprentice,' Episode Two: Blago Brings the Balloons

December 29, 2020March 22, 2010 by Chicago Magazine

Falling back on his experience with photo opportunities—a politician’s bread and butter—Rod Blagojevich managed to squeak out of a three-man boardroom showdown without getting fired…

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Dissecting the grand finale of "Billy Elliot"

December 29, 2020March 19, 2010 by Chicago Magazine

Spin Cycle: The boys who play the title character discuss the toughest move in the show: a finale of pirouettes

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Two-fer: Mitsuko Uchida Plays Mozart While Conducting the CSO!

December 29, 2020March 19, 2010 by Chicago Magazine

Now that Daniel Barenboim is gone, CSO-goers have fewer chances to see conducting from the piano. Last night’s all-Mozart concert, where Mitsuko Uchida conducted and soloed in piano concerti nos. 17 and 27, scratched that jack-of-all-trades itch…

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Allison Torem is the Reason to See Lookingglass's New Play, Trust

December 29, 2020March 17, 2010 by Chicago Magazine

Whether you think Trust, a new play that opened Saturday at the Lookingglass Theatre, is a wallop-packing drama about cyberstalking or a made-for-television issues-movie poorly translated to the stage, Allison Torem is coming in for some universal praise…

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