Loverboy still working for the weekend four decades later
The Canadian band Loverboy has been around for nearly four decades — and it seems as if the group is making a comeback. They've been performing to more sold-out crowds,...
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Here Come the Mummies so funky, it’s scary
In 1922, a professor unearthed the ruins of an ancient discotheque in Texas and discovered 12 5,000-year-old Egyptian mummies singing and playing scary, funky music. They formed Here Come the...
Haunted houses offer fearful fun
Celebrate Halloween at some spooky dwellings in Lake County, plus one just over the border in Wisconsin, listed below. Some of the venues are not appropriate for children. Some are...
Comedian Carlos Mencia to appear at Genesee Theatre in Waukegan
During a recent comedy show, Carlos Mencia said, "White people, when you landed on Plymouth Rock, you did not have a visa." The humor might get lost in the written...
‘The Last Man on Earth’ brings vampires to Three Brothers Theatre
Three Brothers Theatre continues its tradition of adapting old movies to 21st century plays – and this time it's going to be scary, said Josh Beadle, the theater's executive director....
Lake County challenges bikers, hikers to tackle completed river trail
To train for races, John Curto and Eric Bolson bike the 31.4-mile Des Plaines River Trail beginning in Libertyville at 6 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays, heading south to Cook County...
Des Plaines River Trail system idea planted more than 50 years ago
It took 142 land acquisitions, construction of multiple bridges and pathways, mitigation of a network of wetlands and the forward-thinking of early Lake County Forest Preserves commissioners to create the...
Rita Moreno brings stories, entertainment to Arcada
Rita Moreno calls herself an 84-year-old Energizer Bunny that keeps moving — and there's plenty of truth to that statement. Only one of 12 living performers who have won an...
Black Violin brings Unity Tour to Waukegan
Neither Wilner Baptiste nor Kevin Sylvester had any interest in learning to play a stringed instrument while growing up. But Sylvester's mom enrolled him in a violin class after he...
Go fly a kite at Waukegan event
Not all kites are created equal — there are single-line kites and dual-line kites, parafoils and deltas — but all sorts of kites will soar over Lake Michigan Oct. 1...