Entertainment Stories from August 18, 2025 (Change date)
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Arlington Heights implements new streaming tax, retains grocery taxAug 18, 2025 9:46 pm - Arlington Heights will levy a new streaming tax, and keep an old grocery tax, village board members decided Monday.
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Hemmens kicks off first full season with the magical ‘Juana and the Missing Mayan Book’Aug 18, 2025 6:06 pm - A Chicago puppetry artist is bringing a magical show to Elgin's Hemmens Cultural Center, telling the story of a brave 9-year-old Mayan girl fighting to protect her people's treasures.
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Devo’s misunderstood art-rock legacy explored in new documentaryAug 18, 2025 3:55 pm - The new Netflix documentary “Devo” is an eye-opening examination of an Ohio-born art-rock band that argues they were perhaps the most misunderstood band on the face of the planet. It debuts on the streaming service Tuesday.
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What to stream: John Cena, Offset, John Grisham, and legal fights by Jussie Smollett and Amanda KnoxAug 18, 2025 2:16 pm - John Cena starring as a flawed superhero in season 2 of “The Peacemaker” and the Amanda Knox trial in Italy getting dramatized in a Hulu series are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
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Book Review: A gang of hatchet-wielding women try to take over the meth business in rural TexasAug 18, 2025 12:52 pm - A poor country woman and her kids are being terrorized by Porky, a rampaging hog that keeps breaking out of a neighbor’s pen. For help, she turns to Hap Collins and Leonard Pine in Joel R. Lansdale’s 14th darkly comic novel about the duo, “The Hatchet Girls.”
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Busta Rhymes, Ricky Martin will make history at 2025 MTV VMAsAug 18, 2025 12:46 pm - Rapper Busta Rhymes will receive the first MTV VMA Rock the Bells Visionary Award and Ricky Martin will be honored with the inaugural Latin Icon Award, the VMAs announced Monday.
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Batavia’s Moose-a-Palooza brings back top acts to raise funds for Mooseheart childrenAug 18, 2025 12:06 pm - Batavia Moose Lodge's 8th annual music fest on Aug. 23 will feature bands like Jimmy Nick and Don’t Tell Mama, Jonny Lyons, Joliet Jakes, and Ivy Ford to support Mooseheart Child City and School.
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Cable’s MSNBC will change its name later this year as part of corporate divorce from NBCAug 18, 2025 11:50 am - Television’s MSNBC news network is changing its name to My Source News Opinion World, or MS NOW for short, as part of its corporate divorce from NBC.
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60 artists to paint outdoors at St. Charles’ Plein Air Event Aug. 18-24Aug 18, 2025 10:49 am - Plein air painters from across the country are coming to St. Charles Aug. 18-24 to capture scenic landscapes. The weeklong event features 60 artists painting outdoors and engaging the community through contests, talks, and an art sale.
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Celebrate Summer’s Last Hurrah! with Elgin Rotary ClubAug 18, 2025 1:59 am - The Rotary Club of Elgin hosts a free, family-friendly end-of-summer celebration on Sept. 6 featuring live music, kids activities, craft fair, pet parade, food trucks, and raffle.
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