Entertainment
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Northbrook Park District's Santa's Party in the Parks lets families have socially distanced holiday funDec 23, 2020 12:00 am - Children and their families were able to see Santa Claus in-person as he danced to Christmas music on a makeshift stage atop a stationary flatbed truck during Santa's Pa...
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Holiday balloon sculpture at Northbrook Court helps raise money for charityDec 23, 2020 12:00 am - She spoke not a word, and went straight to her work ... However, there is evidence Megan Raysby did speak, a Facebook video capturing her transformation of a sleigh-full...
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Jim O'Donnell: Masked Sports Santa can only hope for no reindeer positivesDec 23, 2020 12:00 am - FROM WAY UP NORTH where the air gets cold, Masked Sports and Media Santa is set to roll. He's made a list, tossed it out twice and will be winging it Christmas Eve when ...
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Best Bets: New Philharmonic, Second City, Zanies stream NYE showsDec 22, 2020 5:00 am - Waltz time You can still get your fill of Viennese waltzes, Hollywood movie music and more from the New Philharmonic and its virtual New Year's Eve Concert. The online p...
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New to streaming this week: 'Soul,' 'Wonder Woman 1984' and more
Dec 22, 2020 5:00 am - Here's a collection curated by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists of what's arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. Movies To som...
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'Nomadland,' the late Chadwick Boseman win Chicago Film Critics awardsDec 21, 2020 10:00 pm - "Nomadland" topped the Chicago Film Critics Association 2020 Awards, taking five awards including best picture, best director and best actress for Frances McDormand. Ch...
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'Walking Dead' star Angel Theory on navigating acting while hard of hearing
Dec 21, 2020 5:00 am - When most people hear the term “code-switching,” they think of what happens when a person of color changes their speech patterns or word choice depending on the audience...
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Feder: Can MeTV hook Boomers with Bill Leff and a talking fish?Dec 21, 2020 12:00 am - Bill Leff, the immensely talented Chicago broadcaster, stand-up comic and improv actor, gets top billing as the amiable host of "Toon In With Me." But the real star of t...
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Schaumburg Library to host 'hackathon' for teensDec 21, 2020 12:00 am - People ages 12 to 19 are welcome to "Hack the Library" in a hackathon from 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 4 through 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 7 online with the Schaumburg Township Dis...
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You've seen Giancarlo Esposito in everything - now the actor wants you to see him as himself