Entertainment Stories from July 21, 2026 (Change date)
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Pickleball is the star of the sports comedy ‘The Dink’Jul 21, 2026 12:28 pm - It’s the tennis establishment versus pickleball enthusiasts at an uptight club in “The Dink,” a kind of spiritual descendent of “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.” The story itself is very by the books: A once promising tennis prodigy learns to get over himself and his disdain for the “lesser sport.”
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Spotlight: Zanies Rosemont hosts all-Spanish show and debuts weekly Roast BattleJul 21, 2026 12:06 pm - Zanies Rosemont debuts the new weekly insult comedy show Roast Battle Rosemont, Fleetwood-Jourdain revives the AIDS drama “In the Continuum,” and Broadway in Chicago hosts national tours of “The Notebook” and “The Outsiders.”
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The barrier-breaking Marin Alsop takes a bow, departing as Ravinia chief conductorJul 21, 2026 10:27 am - Marin Alsop is departing Ravinia after six years as chief conductor and a one-time curator of the festival. During her tenure, she steered the Chicago Symphony through its first regularly convened concerts out of the pandemic and settled it into the renovated Hunter Pavilion. But Breaking Barriers may have been her crowning achievement.
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Coffee shop coming to Des Plaines will get city grantJul 21, 2026 9:34 am - A coffee shop is coming to a long-vacant storefront in Des Plaines.
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Luke Skywalker’s ‘Empire Strikes Back’ lightsaber with severed hand attached auctioned for $3.75MJul 21, 2026 7:04 am - A lightsaber with Luke Skywalker’s severed hand from “The Empire Strikes Back” has sold for $3.75 million at auction.
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