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Take your Mother’s Day brunch plans up a notch

Take your Mother’s Day brunch plans up a notch

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.

 
Gamers can battle zombies and throw snowballs in new Minecraft adventure in Rosemont

Gamers can battle zombies and throw snowballs in new Minecraft adventure in Rosemont

“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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Energetic cast, 1980s nostalgia power Metropolis’ ‘Wedding Singer’

Energetic cast, 1980s nostalgia power Metropolis’ ‘Wedding Singer’

Middling musical “The Wedding Singer” gets a high-octane revival courtesy of director Amber Mak and the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre.

 
Things to do May 8-14: Lombard Lilac Time, Glow Wild, Mother’s Day events and more

Things to do May 8-14: Lombard Lilac Time, Glow Wild, Mother’s Day events and more

Mark your calendar for Lombard Lilac Time, the final days of Glow Wild at Brookfield Zoo Chicago, Mother’s Day events and more.

 
Dining out: New limited-time offerings at Portillo’s and Lou Malnati’s

Dining out: New limited-time offerings at Portillo’s and Lou Malnati’s

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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Best Bets: The Oh Yeahs at Studio5, and Stand-Up Momedy and Bad Momz of Comedy honor motherhood

Best Bets: The Oh Yeahs at Studio5, and Stand-Up Momedy and Bad Momz of Comedy honor motherhood

Evanston’s Studio5 welcomes acoustic trio The Oh Yeahs, and Stand-Up Momedy and Bad Momz of Comedy celebrate motherhood through comedy this weekend.

 
Ewe-dunit: ‘The Sheep Detectives’ have wool over their eyes

Ewe-dunit: ‘The Sheep Detectives’ have wool over their eyes

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.

 
Ashley McBryde fell off the horse and went into the ‘Wild.’ Her new album is her most personal yet.

Ashley McBryde fell off the horse and went into the ‘Wild.’ Her new album is her most personal yet.

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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Concerts May 8-14: Little Feat, Peso Pluma, Andrés Cepeda, Tenille Townes and more

Concerts May 8-14: Little Feat, Peso Pluma, Andrés Cepeda, Tenille Townes and more

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.

 
Spotlight: Janus adapts Ibsen classic ‘An Enemy of the People’

Spotlight: Janus adapts Ibsen classic ‘An Enemy of the People’

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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