Hometown hero Bobby Bare, Jr. and band teamed up with young songwriting sensation David Vandervelde (now based in Nashville, TN) for a New Year’s Eve rockstravaganza at Schubas with Vandervelde’s bassist Ben Clarke showing his frontman skills in an opening set.

Photos: Marzena Abrahamik

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Oprah Winfrey will tell viewers on this morning’s live program that she will retire her ChicagoChicago reviews-based syndicated daytime talk show at the end of the 2010-11 season, its 25th on national TV.

Speculation has been rampant that she might choose to leave daytime TV ever since it was announced in January 2008 that she and Discovery Networks planned to partner on a cable network: OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network.

Winfrey started her broadcasting career in Nashville, Tenn., and Baltimore, Md., before relocating to Chicago in 1984 to host WLS-TV’s morning talk show “A.M. Chicago.”

That show was renamed “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 1985.

A year later, Winfrey established Harpo and her talk show went into syndication. In 1990, Winfrey opened Harpo Studios in Chicago’s West LoopA Loop reviews neighborhood.

The Associated Press contributed.

Read more HERE at the Tower Ticker on chicagotribune.com.

–Phil Rosenthal

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – It’s been Taylor Swift’s year, and Wednesday was her night as she became the youngest person and the first solo female act in a decade to win the Country Music Association’s entertainer of the year award.

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Break out the Aquanet! Bon Jovi’s coming to Soldier Field on July 30, 2010!

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I smell a 50 cent skit in the making. Ross how did you get robbed by some

tini boppers?

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I loved this show. What happened to season 2?

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 The 10-year-old musician from New Bedford, Massachusetts, counts 73-year-old blues icon Buddy G

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