City officials agreed with him last week and granted Corgan permission to keep his signage.
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On "The Sandfighter, " Rosen mimics Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan with high-pitched falsetto vocals.
"We have a question from the gallery, " said Mr. Corgan, who himself was playing, using a tiny orange stamper.
Perhaps Corgan sincerely wants to be the best entertainer he can be, and reuniting the Pumpkins was one way of doing that.
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Billy Corgan, Chicago restaurateur and frontman for the rock group Smashing Pumpkins, has quietly won a decision in a battle over that very question.
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While Rosen's voice echoes Corgan's, the band's signature off-kilter (at times off-key) melodies are more likely to bring to mind Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne.
Corgan, well-known as a pro wrestling fanatic, is making the move to Vince McMahon-dom with the recently announced launch of his own wrestling league, called Resistance Pro.
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What helped inspire Corgan to start his league?
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So what is Corgan doing among that crowd?
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Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan is an entertainer.
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Sarah Ahlberg, a 35-year-old who collects vinyl records and writes letters on fine stationery, attended bingo night at Mr. Corgan's tea shop because the nonprofit animal shelter she works for was the beneficiary of the night's proceeds.
Corgan is there to represent pro wrestling.
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Ms. Fiorentino came out to play bingo because "it feels old-timey" and to support Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, who owns the tea shop and in February created a monthly bingo night, led each time by a different local celebrity.
"Our lives at this point are speeding up.....it's so nice to just sit with people and go back to the way things used to be where it really is about being together for an hour and talking smack about stupid stuff, " says Mr. Corgan, who also owns a professional wrestling promotion company.
Actually, in an interview with WGN-TV that appears on the Resistance Pro web site, Corgan aspires not so much to be Vince McMahon (so that means Corgan will stay out of the ring?) as he does a developer of wrestlers who can arrive to the WWE and the wrestling big leagues better-trained, and less concussion-bashed when they arrive.
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