Entertainment
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Dining out: Portillo’s adds first new cake flavor in 20 yearsAug 27, 2024 2:14 pm - Portillo’s is adding their first new cake offering in over 20 years with the Salted Caramel Spice Cake. Plus, Buffalo Creek Brewing hosts a Burger Throwdown on Sunday, and Yelp has ranked the top 100 pizza spots in the Midwest.
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Spotlight: Buffalo Theatre opens season with political farceAug 27, 2024 12:20 pm - Buffalo Theatre Ensemble opens its season with a sendup of U.S. politics in “The Outsider,” while Writers Theatre presents the Chicago-area premiere of “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812.”
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Labor Day Weekend Festivals: Buffalo Grove Days, Last Fling, Summer Sunset Festival and moreAug 27, 2024 11:54 am - Mark your calendars for Buffalo Grove Days, Chicago Jazz Festival, Anime Magic! 2024, Naperville Jaycees Last Fling, Taste of Polonia Festival, Wauconda Street Dance, Sandwich Fair and more happening this week.
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Book Review: Technology and chaotic government programs doom family farms in ‘Land Rich Cash Poor’
Aug 27, 2024 9:37 am - Brian Reisinger's “Land Rich Cash Poor” emerges as an anthem to the family farm in America, romanticized despite the never-ending work even in good times, which have been...
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Book Review: ‘Swallow the Ghost’ a promising but uneven exploration of memory in internet ageAug 27, 2024 9:29 am - In many ways, Eugenie Montague’s “Swallow the Ghost” feels like three separate novels. That’s what makes her debut novel so imaginative — and also so frustrating. The sto...
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In its fourth season, ‘Only Murders in the Building’ doubles downAug 27, 2024 8:14 am - In the new season of “Only Murders in the Building,” Charles (Steve Martin), Mabel (Selena Gomez) and Oliver (Martin Short) are whisked to Los Angeles where a legendary film studio intends to adapt their podcast.
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Oasis reunites for tour and ends a 15-year hiatus during Gallagher brothers’ feud
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Q&A: John Legend discusses his ambitious children’s album, ‘My Favorite Dream’
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‘A celebration of life’: Earlybirds Club bringing ladies dance party to the ‘burbsAug 26, 2024 4:55 pm - Prospect High School alums Laura Baginski and Susie Lee founded the Earlybirds Club with the idea of hosting dance parties for women who want the clubbing experience without saying out past midnight. Now they’re preparing to host their first event in the suburbs.
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DuPage County Historical Museum welcomes ‘Three Frenchmen and a Goat’ Sept. 14Aug 26, 2024 4:34 pm - Illinois Humanities Road Scholar John Goldsmith presents the story of three enterprising young men who founded a fraternal supply company in 1892 that today is one of the biggest manufacturers of marching band uniforms.