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Things to Do
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Though it’s getting late in the game to make plans for Mother’s Day, here are some suburban options where you can do brunch (or dinner) and add in some live music, nature, exotic animals, historic surroundings and/or bottomless champagne.
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“Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue” debuts Friday in Rosemont, offering groups of up to 25 an hour-long interactive adventure where they craft tools, build structures and brew potions to save zombified villagers.
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Middling musical “The Wedding Singer” gets a high-octane revival courtesy of director Amber Mak and the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre.
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Mark your calendar for Lombard Lilac Time, the final days of Glow Wild at Brookfield Zoo Chicago, Mother’s Day events and more.
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Portillo’s is now serving the new Hot and Saucy Italian beef sandwich while Lou Malnati’s is debuting the Italian Combo Beef-Za, both for a limited time. Plus, Geneva Wine Cellar and Tasting Room is reopening under new ownership.
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Evanston’s Studio5 welcomes acoustic trio The Oh Yeahs, and Stand-Up Momedy and Bad Momz of Comedy celebrate motherhood through comedy this weekend.
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Taking place in the verdant English countryside, “The Sheep Detectives” concerns sheep who try to solve their owner’s murder. If such a premise has you expecting a lightly funny caper, the film is too gentle and strenuously poignant to turn its silly tale into all that much fun.
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A few years ago, Ashley McBryde fell off the horse. “That’s not a figure of speech, sadly,” the country star said. But it did inspire her to record songs she hadn’t yet, which the world can hear on her new album, “Wild,” out Friday, and during her June 19 show in Rockton.
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Upcoming concerts include Little Feat at the Arcada Theatre, Peso Pluma at the United Center, Heartache Tonight at the Woodstock Opera House, Andrés Cepeda at the Riviera Theatre, Tenille Townes at SPACE and more.
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Janus Theatre stages its adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People,” The Conspirators revive Moliere’s 17th-century satire “Tartuffe” and Handbag Productions premieres the next in its series of Golden Girls parodies with “The Golden Girls: The Cheese Pyramid.”
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