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Smoking Popes play tonight

Friday, February 29th, 2008
Filed under: events, music

I already told you, so this is just a reminder.
Get out there, show them some love and convince them it’s better to be an Elgin band than a Chicago one.
Doors open at 7pm at Clearwater Theater, downtown Dundee. 18 and older allowed in.
The original video for their biggest hit, I Need You Around:

The same song […]

Popes play Clearwater on 2/29

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Filed under: arts, events, music

Our very favorite punk rockers, the world-famous Smoking Popes fronted by Elgin’s own Josh Caterer (above), are scheduled to play Dundee’s Clearwater Theater on Friday, February 29th. Doors open at 7. Tickets are $13.

The Smoking Popes’ take on punk-pop is centered around lead singer Josh Caterer, whose obsessions with big-band records and black-and-white […]

Triumph of Love

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Filed under: arts, downtown, events

Elgin’s award-winning Janus Theatre presents Marivaux’s Triumph of Love this month, running through the 24th. It sounds like a nice post-Valentine show.
In this comic confection about love triumphing over reason, a princess adopts the dress and prerogatives of a man, invades the garden of a rationalist philosopher who despises love, and wins the prince […]

Una furtiva lagrima

Friday, February 1st, 2008
Filed under: arts, events, music

From the Tribune:
*Elgin OPERA will present “L’Elisir D’Amore (Elixir of Love)” at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 9 and 3 p.m. Feb. 10 in Hemmens Cultural Cetner, 45 Symphony Way, Elgin. Tickets cost $40 main floor and $30 balcony. A gala with a pre-opera lecture, hors d’oeuvres, silent auction and a chance to meet the cast will […]