Entertainment Stories from January 17, 2025 (Change date)
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Schaumburg’s Prairie Center to anchor campus alone for 20 months as it faces possible changesJan 17, 2025 9:17 pm - Approaching its 40th anniversary next year, Schaumburg’s Al Larson Prairie Center for the Arts will provide stability at the municipal campus during the 20 months village hall is being rebuilt, even as it faces potential changes of its own.
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Triton College to host ‘Laser Taylor Swift’ show in FebruaryJan 17, 2025 1:29 pm - Her music may be out of this world for some. Perhaps that’s why Triton College’s Cernan Earth and Space Center will host “Laser Taylor Swift,” a cosmic light show, Saturdays in February.
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50 minority- and women-owned businesses at Fox Valley Mall recognized ahead of Aurora’s MLK weekend celebrationJan 17, 2025 12:33 pm - With the addition of a handful of new businesses at Fox Valley Mall, the shopping center has reached a significant milestone in expanding diversity in entrepreneurship and creating jobs, according to city officials.
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Book Review: Robert Crais spins the tale of a hard-boiled private eye who uncovers a conspiracyJan 17, 2025 12:12 pm - Traci Beller was 13 when her father went out on some service calls and never returned home. Ten years later, she turns to Elvis Cole, the self-declared world’s greatest detective, to help find him in Robert Crais’ “The Big Empty.”
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Cook like a grandmother with ‘The League of Kitchens Cookbook’Jan 17, 2025 8:16 am - Lisa Kyung Gross was so convinced that everyone should learn dishes from an elder that she founded The League of Kitchens in 2014, a network of culinary workshops hosted by immigrant home cooks. Last fall the League released a cookbook featuring 75 family recipes.
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Cameron Diaz is ‘Back in Action’ with Jamie Foxx as glam spies turned dorky parentsJan 17, 2025 8:03 am - But, we do Wordle!! That’s how former secret agent Matt (Jamie Foxx) explains that he and wife Emily (Cameron Diaz) are now living a boring life. But Matt’s explanation obviously doesn’t work, because within a moment he and Emily are, yes, “Back in Action.”
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Sting, Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish and the Red Hot Chili Peppers to perform at FireAid Benefit ConcertJan 17, 2025 7:06 am - Sting, Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are among the performers slated to take the stage at FireAid, a benefit concert for Los Angeles-area wildfire relief.
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Ron Onesti: Their gifts just keep on givingJan 17, 2025 5:00 am - Oh, how the years are flying by! And how the legends and icons in music are retiring or leaving us at an incredible pace! I have been putting on shows for about 40 years now. When I started, Charlie Chaplin was still alive, and Heart was an opening band! Since then, many superstars have come and gone, so the ones that are still kickin’ are even more treasured!
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