Entertainment
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Fine art and architecture in the shadow of the Rose BowlApr 12, 2024 10:27 am - Pasadena, California, may be best known for the Rose Bowl football game and the Tournament of Roses Parade on New Year’s Day, but it’s also the home of two stellar art collections and the finest example of Craftsmen architecture in the nation.
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Brotherhood of Harmony to entertain at Italian Dinner and ShowApr 12, 2024 9:37 am - The Brotherhood of Harmony will present an Italian Dinner & Show Fundraiser event with raffles and auctions from 5 to 8 p.m., on Saturday, April 20, at Moretti’s in Mount...
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‘Nothing else like it in the area’: How local film buff got involved with, now leads AfterImage Film Festival in St. CharlesApr 12, 2024 4:30 am - Andrew Carlin of St. Charles shares how he got involved with – and now leads -- the AfterImage Film Festival in St. Charles, which opened Thursday and runs through Sunday, April 14.
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Max’s Mission, KidsMatter to show ‘My Sister Liv’ April 23Apr 11, 2024 9:22 pm - Max's Mission and KidsMatter invite the community to a special showing of the 2022 documentary “My Sister Liv” on Tuesday, April 23, at Metea Valley High School in Aurora...
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Alice Rohrwacher’s tombaroli tale ‘La Chimera’ is pure magic
Apr 11, 2024 12:53 pm - When we talk about “movie magic,” the first thing that comes to mind is often something like the bikes achieving liftoff in “E.T.” But it applies no less to Alice Rohrwacher’s wondrous “La Chimera,” a grubbily transcendent folk tale of a film that finds its enchantment buried in the ground.
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‘Food, Inc. 2’ revisits food system, sees reason for frustration and a little hope
Apr 11, 2024 12:39 pm - The makers of the influential 2008 documentary “Food, Inc.” never planned to make a sequel. But 16 years after that Oscar-nominated film, they’re back with “Food, Inc. 2.” What happened?
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Wheaton French Market to spring up for the seasonApr 11, 2024 12:01 pm - Wheaton’s French Market will kick off its 33-week run this Saturday. The fresh-air market will set up shop under a downtown pavilion near Main Street and Liberty Drive. T...
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After years cooking in his backyard, man opens Legends Pizza in Carol StreamApr 11, 2024 12:00 pm - Once a service representative for Chicago Brick Oven, Chris Marston brought his work home with him. “At one point in time, we had five or six pizza ovens in our backyard,...
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OJ Simpson, fallen football star acquitted of murder in 'trial of the century,' dies at 76
Apr 11, 2024 10:13 am - LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liabl...
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Hanover Township’s ninth annual 5K steps off on May 4Apr 11, 2024 10:04 am - Hanover Township’s ninth annual “Sprint 2 Spring” 5K run/walk will be held at 8 a.m. on Saturday, May 4, at the Hanover Township Izaak Walton Youth Center, 899 Jay St., i...