Entertainment Stories from July 31, 2025 (Change date)
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Enjoy ‘The Princess Bride’ under the stars at Fine Line Creative Arts CenterJul 31, 2025 6:51 pm - Last year, the Fine Line Creative Arts Center in St. Charles partnered with AfterImage Film Festival to create Best of Fest 2024, an outdoor evening featuring a selectio...
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Sign up by Aug. 20 to be part of the first La Fiesta de Elgin ParadeJul 31, 2025 4:35 pm - The city of Elgin will celebrate Mexican Independence Day with La Fiesta de Elgin on Saturday, Sept. 13, featuring a full day of festivities, including a new parade, live music, a vendor market, art installations, food vendors and fireworks.
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Book Review: ‘The Sleep Room’ is the harrowing story of psychiatric care in the 1960sJul 31, 2025 3:03 pm - In “The Sleep Room: A Sadistic Psychiatrist and the Women Who Survived Him,” Jon Stock tells the harrowing history of the British doctor who subjected a ward full of women with mental disorders to medical abuse and gives voice to those who survived him.
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Mexican Independence Day Festival to return to West Chicago after hiatusJul 31, 2025 2:48 pm - New leadership and West Chicago Alderman Julieta Alcántar-Garcia are planning the return of the city’s Mexican Independence Day Festival in September.
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Thinking of traveling solo? Tracee Ellis Ross has suggestions on how to do it well.Jul 31, 2025 2:31 pm - Tracee Ellis Ross relishes traveling solo in a new three-part docuseries streaming on The Roku Channel. In “Solo Traveling With Tracee Ellis Ross,” a camera crew follows the actor on solo trips to Marrakech, Morocco; Cancún, Mexico; and Marbella, Spain.
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Only banjos in the building: Steve Martin will co-host the 2025 IBMA Bluegrass Music AwardsJul 31, 2025 1:59 pm - Get those banjos ready, because this isn’t a joke: Actor and comedy legend Steve Martin will co-host the IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards for the first time, alongside Grammy-award-winning roots musician Alison Brown.
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Justin Timberlake diagnosed with Lyme diseaseJul 31, 2025 1:42 pm - Justin Timberlake has been diagnosed with Lyme disease, the former NSYNC star announced on Instagram Thursday.
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Hulk Hogan’s cause of death was a heart attack, medical examiner saysJul 31, 2025 1:10 pm - Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan died of a heart attack last week, according to a Florida medical examiner’s report released Thursday.
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Comic misfire: ‘Naked Gun’ remake with Liam Neeson low on high-caliber comedyJul 31, 2025 5:15 am - It’s a wonder that director Akiva Schaffer didn’t replace Liam Neeson in “The Naked Gun” the moment his hit-and-miss-and-miss-and-miss movie revealed that the Irish actor’s particular set of skills didn’t include a command of comic timing or any sense of playful, self-aware mirth.
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‘The Bad Guys 2’ boldly goes bigger but loses its charm along the wayJul 31, 2025 5:00 am - The good news for fans of “The Bad Guys” is the new sequel is stellar. But that’s because a good portion is actually set in — are you kidding us? — outer space. “The Bad Guys 2” has clearly lost its moorings.
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