Entertainment
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Disney pulls ABC, ESPN and more from YouTube TV as content talks break down
Oct 31, 2025 7:57 am - YouTube TV viewers can no longer see Disney channels including ABC and ESPN after the two sides failed to agree on a new content distribution deal.
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5 historical novels that deliver a perfect escape from the present
Oct 30, 2025 3:13 pm - With this selection of historical novels, you can journey to various times and places: the royal courts of Henry VIII in England and Augustus the Strong in Central Europe, 17th-century Denmark, early-20th-century New York, the Roaring Twenties.
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You can thank Elvis for Elvira, Cassandra Peterson says
Oct 30, 2025 3:02 pm - Cassandra Peterson has entertained Halloween lovers as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, for more than four decades. And now she’s released a cookbook featuring spooky recipes, creepy craft ideas and photos of herself dressed as Elvira.
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A ‘Call of Duty’ movie is in the works with Peter Berg and Taylor Sheridan
Oct 30, 2025 2:48 pm - “Call of Duty,” one of the most successful video game franchises of all time, is becoming a feature film with Peter Berg and Taylor Sheridan spearheading the adaptation, Paramount Pictures and Activision said Thursday.
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Pinstripes location in South Barrington closesOct 30, 2025 1:42 pm - Pinstripes in South Barrington has closed its doors after 18 years. The restaurant is in The Arboretum of South Barrington, 100 W. Higgins Road.
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How ‘Love is Blind’ is reshaping global views on love, from Japan to Brazil
Oct 30, 2025 12:49 pm - The just-wrapped Denver season of “Love Is Blind” may be the first time the show explored the Mountain West, but the Netflix reality dating show franchise is already a well-seasoned globe-trotter.
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Be inspired and bewitched by culinary creations on ‘Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking’
Oct 30, 2025 12:38 pm - In the early hours of the morning, while everyone is asleep, something magical is being cooked up on the set of “Harry Potter.” The Food Network show “Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking,” back for a second season Sunday, filmed overnight this summer on the same Warner Bros. set of the eight movies.
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Nightmare on Williams Street: Suburbanite raises goosebumps on his home turfOct 30, 2025 11:22 am - “We just love Halloween.” That’s what James Schiffer says of his family’s commitment to assembling a monster display of spooky magic in the front yard of their Downers Grove home.
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‘Nouvelle Vague’ is a meticulous ode to the French New Wave
Oct 30, 2025 10:54 am - Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague” is principally about Jean-Luc Godard (Guillaume Marbeck) and the making of his landmark feature debut, “Breathless.” But it is also a wider portrait of a moveable filmmaking feast, of an entire generation of French filmmakers.
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Jafar Panahi’s ‘It Was Just an Accident’ is a darkly moving and funny look at revenge
Oct 30, 2025 5:00 am - The mundane act of a car breaking down one night on a road in Iran sets in motion one of the most moving movies of the year in “It Was Just an Accident.” It’s dark and yet wickedly funny, existential and very, very human as it explores the ripple effects from state violence and asks if forgiveness can ever be offered.