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Holiday Guide 2012: Chris Jones' Top 10 shows for the season
Chicago has a plethora of holiday shows each and every year — and I’ll be reviewing enough of them over the next couple of weeks to put Rudolph in rehab. But based on many years of seasonal theater-going, here are 10 of our potential favorites...
Tags: Theater, Radio, Dr. Seuss, Entertainment, Customs and Tradition
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Broadway review: Mormons, missionaries and music
If any show could make the case that you can have fun with absolutely anything in the oft-painful run of human experience — AIDS, genocide, genital mutilation, poverty, religion, "The Lion King" — then that show is "The Book of Mormon," the...Tags: Theater, Monty Python's Spamalot (musical), Andrew Rannells, Entertainment, Matt Stone
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'Mormon' is more than just easy laughs
When Joseph Smith Jr. published The Book of Mormon in 1830, he likely wasn't expecting that an outrageously profane musical that purloined his golden title would dominate the 2011 Tony Awards. Then again, he probably wasn't anticipating "South Park"...Tags: Authors, Separation of Church and State, Andrew Rannells, Entertainment, Matt Stone
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Man About Town: City life driving you crazy? Just say neigh.
I wrestle with my demons just like everybody else, addicted as I am to Mariel Hemingway movies and those little "fun-sized" Snickers bars, of which several trillion are floating around in these weeks after Halloween. Airlift them to Cuba. Put them in...
Tags: Charlie Sheen, Equestrian, Stephen King, The Book of Mormon (musical), Kentucky Derby
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BYU battling Utah in recruiting
BYU, this week’s opponent, is doing OK in recruiting but the school has suffered a little because of Utah’s move to the Pac-12. BYU and Utah are big rivals in recruiting, particularly for the Mormon players, and there is a good number of...Tags: Pacific-12 Conference, Utah Utes, Football, Sports, Brian Kelly
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Teachable Moments To Be Acquired by Not Enrolling at UNO
WGNO NewsThe Who Dat City’s media is all abuzz over the news that UNO’s enrollment is down by 800 students (1). LSU, LA Lafayette and LA Tech were also affected by the state legislature’s wise decision to drop - as in cold turkey - remedial...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Students, Christianity, Religion and Belief, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Husband's phone is full of exes, worrying wife
Dear Amy: My man and I have been together for three years and just got married. Unfortunately, we continue to have an unresolved problem, even though we have been to counseling. He has a few exes whom he keeps in touch with. I have only one ex whom I...
Tags: Nicole Kidman, Freedom of the Press, Christianity, Politics, Religion and Belief
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Why Mitt's Mormonism doesn't matter
Mormonism is a minority sect once persecuted by mainstream American Christians for its unconventional doctrines and practice of polygamy. It is still viewed by many as an odd cult. But a Mormon is the Republican nominee for president, and he can take...
Tags: Democratic Party, Mike Huckabee, Separation of Church and State, John McCain, Richard Nixon
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Salman Rushdie, freedom writer
In the 1990s, he was the world-famous novelist few people officially laid eyes on. Of Salman Rushdie's dozen-plus novels, it was "The Satanic Verses" (1988) that raised a hue and cry and sent him undercover: Its supposedly sacrilegious portrayal of the...
Tags: Google Inc., England, Ruhollah Khomeini, Separation of Church and State, Social Media
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'Mormon' fails to make a convert
I'd wanted to take an actual Mormon to see "The Book of Mormon," but the closest I could come was the lovely and patient older daughter — so well scrubbed and shimmery that she looked like an Irish coin. "Come on, Coin, let's go to the Pantages," I...
Tags: The New York Times, Gerald Ford, Entertainment, The Book of Mormon (musical), Waffles
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Chicago filmmaker spent 8 years on new documentary 'Band of Sisters'
"You didn't really have (to) think much for yourself," a nun says of her early years, in the new documentary "Band of Sisters," which has its world premiere at the Siskel Film Center this week. "All that went unchanged for years and years and years...
Tags: Social Issues, Alzheimer's Disease, Morgan Park, Kickstarter, Entertainment
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'Book of Mormon' rakes in $1.493 million
"The Book of Mormon" pulled down a whopping $1,493,961 in its first full week of sold-out performances at the Bank of America Theatre, breaking the house record for that Loop venue. That means "Book of Mormon" raked in more cash than "Jersey Boys"...
Tags: Chicago Loop, The Book of Mormon (musical), Bank of America Corp., Christianity, Religion and Belief
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