Entertainment
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Sponsors generate great charitable outcomes for Bands, Brews & BBQ, McHenryApr 12, 2024 7:13 pm - This year’s Bands, Brews & BBQ fest will feature eight stellar bands plus mouthwatering food, an array of craft beers and other libations over three days from Friday to ...
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The Venue announces lineup for fifth anniversary weekendApr 12, 2024 1:18 pm - The Venue, a live music performance room in downtown Aurora, will celebrate its fifth anniversary with a weekend celebration of live, outdoor music on May 31-June 2. Alli...
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Bark in the Park in Hawthorn WoodsApr 12, 2024 12:29 pm - Celebrate your furry friends at the annual Bark in the Park event from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at Community Park in Hawthorn Woods. Dogs will enjoy treats, pampering and...
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Hulu’s ‘We Were the Lucky Ones’ is a good reminder to talk to your elders while you still canApr 12, 2024 12:09 pm - In Hulu's limited-series “We Were the Lucky Ones,” the Kurc family in Poland is separated during World War II and spends years trying to reunite. This was before the inte...
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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