Entertainment Stories from September 19, 2024 (Change date)
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Game time: Dave & Buster’s to open at Yorktown CenterSep 19, 2024 6:31 pm - Dave and Buster’s is scheduled to open next month at Yorktown Center in Lombard with the company’s new and improved menu.
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Happy 50th ‘SNL!’ Here’s a look back at the show’s very first castSep 19, 2024 5:04 pm - Live from New York! It’s 50 seasons later for “Saturday Night Live.” The landmark NBC sketch comedy show premiered Oct. 11, 1975. Fast forward to this year, Sept. 28, when the first episode of “SNL’s” half-century season is set to air in a lead-up to a three-hour live prime time special Feb. 16.
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Zachary Quinto steps into some giant-sized doctor’s shoes in NBC’s ‘Brilliant Minds’Sep 19, 2024 4:56 pm - In NBC’s “Brilliant Minds,” Zachary Quinto plays a character inspired by Dr. Oliver Sacks, the path-breaking researcher and author who rose to fame in the 1970s and was once called the “poet laureate of medicine.”
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Clooney and Pitt carry the fixer caper ‘Wolfs’Sep 19, 2024 2:31 pm - The overriding tension in “Wolfs,” starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt as rival fixers brought in to clean up the same crime, isn’t so much the threat of police arrest or Albanian mob assassination. It’s that Clooney and Pitt aren’t pals — at least at first.
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Libertyville bakery adds old-fashioned flair to bread makingSep 19, 2024 2:02 pm - The Hewn bakery, an “Illinois Made,” woman-owned business, creates authentic breads and pastries with old-fashioned care.
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Celebrate Summer’s Last Hurrah! with Elgin Rotary Sept. 27-28Sep 19, 2024 12:47 pm - The Rotary Club of Elgin is hosting “Summer’s Last Hurrah!,” an end-of-season celebration on Sept. 27-28.
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Oktoberfest returns to Hoosier Grove BarnSep 19, 2024 10:42 am - Streamwood's bier event of the season, Hoosier Grove Barn & Brew Oktoberfest, returns to the campus of Hoosier Grove Barn, 700 W. Irving Park Road, Streamwood, from 1-5 p.m.on Sunday, Sept. 22.
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Jean Smart, Ariana Grande, Michael Keaton among hosts for ‘SNL’ season 50Sep 19, 2024 6:57 am - Fresh off her Emmys win, Jean Smart is taking her comedy to a new audience — she’ll kick off “Saturday Night Live’s” landmark 50th season.
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‘Transformers One’ is an origin story no one wants with brutality levels no one needsSep 19, 2024 5:30 am - Movie origin stories finally reach their nadir this week with “Transformers One,” the super-violent, toy-selling vehicle that tells the tale of how Optimus Prime and Megatron went from besties to foes. Did anyone ask for this?
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