Mark your calendar for Hampshire Coon Creek Country Days, Smoke and Irons Music Fest, Burr Ridge Art Fair, Gurnee Days, Taste of Glen Ellyn, Midwest Classic Supershow and more happening this week.
More frantic than funny but sweet in its plastic Disney way, “Freakier Friday” will be a welcome and effective date movie for mothers, daughters, grandmothers and anyone else who had the 2003 “Freaky Friday” on heavy DVD rotation with “Mean Girls.”
Knowing that the story in “My Mother’s Wedding” comes from a real place is important for the experience. It gives a perfectly average film that doesn’t quite land the way it should an emotional depth that it’s otherwise lacking.
Upcoming concerts this week include Rod Stewart, The Goo Goo Dolls with Dashboard Confessional, Linkin Park, Nelly with Ja Rule and Eve, Billy Idol, Laurie Berkner, Toto, Christopher Cross and Men At Work and more.
Bartlett firefighters’ annual Smoke & Irons Music Fest to raise money for local assistance of those in need returns with the introduction of a kickoff party on a third day this Thursday.
Beatles fans gather in Rosemont for the annual Fest for Beatles Fans, the Cleve Carney Museum of Art and the McAninch Arts Center host a second Hokusai Japan Fest, and Broadway in Chicago hosts a free summer concert at Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park.
Kenzie Hughes realized a longtime dream when she competed on “American Ninja Warrior” this year. The 17-year-old Libertyville High School student made it all the way to the national finals.