Entertainment

Hefner in deal to buy back Playboy

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LOS ANGELES — More than a half-century after launching Playboy from his South Side Chicago apartment, Hugh Hefner is buying back the bunny...

Chicago band The Academy Is … shakes up its sound once...

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The Academy Is ... isn't afraid of taking chances...

CBS reality competition will likely pit former ‘American Idol’ judge against...

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LOS ANGELES — A year after leaving "American Idol," Paula Abdul is returning to the reality competition genre as the lead expert on the upcoming CBS reality competition "Live to Dance...

Fringe with benefits

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I have never liked filet mignon. I don’t have much feeling for Armani or Chloe. And I certainly can’t stand Cy Twombly or that dude who covers castles and rivers and whatnot with white sheets...

Streaming cat blues

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The bad news: the novel coronavirus has disrupted life as we know it, and will for the next couple months. But, you’ve gone to the store,...

Nothing to do with death and dying

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Last night I pulled out a favorite album of mine that I had not listened to in some time, Doolittle by Pixies. Within seconds, I was transported to another time, another place. A smile crept across my face, my feet began to tap and a series of memories flooded forth...

The Infamous Stringdusters raise flood relief money for and with The...

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To name them by genre, The Infamous Stringdusters are a bluegrass five-piece. But Stringdusters manager Michael Allenby prefers other descriptors. Tongue in cheek, he sometimes calls them a high-country band. But at their core, Allenby says, the Infamous ...

Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, 82, dies in Boston

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Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian author often called the father of modern African literature, has passed away in Boston. He was 82...

Affleck actually delivers

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The robbers work with a confident, brutal and bracing efficiency. And the same could be said of their director...

Cracking wise

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You might call them “culture warriors,” though you won’t find them armed with Bibles and picket signs. They’re not even that angry...