Entertainment
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Best Bets: Flamenco at Steppenwolf, a cappella in Naperville, Uncorked at Brookfield Zoo ChicagoAug 19, 2025 11:07 am - Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater performs as part of Steppenwolf Theatre’s LookOut series, champion barbershop ensembles sing out in Naperville, and Brookfield Zoo Chicago invites animal lovers 21 and older to its after-hours Uncorked event.
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Jack in the Box opens in Lake in the Hills
Aug 19, 2025 10:35 am - Jack in the Box, the California-based burger chain expanding to the Chicago market, opened its Lake in the Hills restaurant Monday.
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Draft master plan released for Diamond Lake recreation center, beach and boat launchAug 19, 2025 6:48 am - Another measure of community input is being sought as a vision for Mundelein Park & Recreation District’s Diamond Lake recreation center beach and boat launch comes into focus.
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Naperville Irish Fest marks 5 years of music, culture and communityAug 19, 2025 12:39 am - Naperville Irish Fest returns Sept. 19-20 with live music, dancing, food, and family activities celebrating Irish culture. And once again, the fest will donate $25 for each person who volunteers.
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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 documentary
Aug 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 Knox
Aug 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 Texas
Aug 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 VMAs
Aug 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.