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Baseball with a twist: New franchise seeks player/performers with unique skills

By Barbara Vitello
Dec 12, 2025 6:56 pm - Take a knee, Harlem Globetrotters and Savannah Bananas, there's a new pro sportstainment franchise in the making: its name is the Chicago Snowballs, and it’s set to launch next spring at Chicago’s Kerry Wood Cubs Field.
Sony Pictures’ Wonderverse in Oak Brook to close this month

By Rick West
Dec 12, 2025 3:08 pm - Less than two years after opening, Sony Pictures’ immersive entertainment venue Wonderverse in Oak Brook is slated to close this month.
Aussie snowboarder Scotty James reveals the price he paid and what’s still missing in documentary

By EDDIE PELLS
Dec 12, 2025 11:18 am - “Pipe Dream,” which comes out Friday, Dec. 19, on Netflix, uses decades’ worth of home and handheld footage to take us on the heartfelt road Aussie snowboarder Scotty James traveled to become one of the best in his sport.
Oscars recognize casting for the first time, offering a spotlight on a key job in the movie industry

By MARK KENNEDY
Dec 12, 2025 10:47 am - Behind the Wizard of Oz in the two-part “Wicked” movies were people actually pulling the strings. “Our job is to know the actors that are out there or know how to find the actors that we don’t know,” says casting director Bernard Telsey, who helped populate both “Wicked” movies.
Every major update from the first two episodes of Taylor Swift’s Disney+ Eras Tour docuseries

By MARIA SHERMAN
Dec 12, 2025 8:17 am - “The Eras Tour was a lifetime within my life,” Taylor Swift told the room at a screening of the first two episodes of her new Disney+ docuseries, “The End of an Era.” “It feels insane.” Here are key takeaways from the first two episodes of the six-episode docuseries, which launches Friday on Disney+. Two episodes will drop weekly through Dec. 26.
How Wauconda High School students are helping local eatery redefine itself

By Mick Zawislak
Dec 11, 2025 7:19 pm - The Side Lot restaurant won't be changing its name to The Chicken Coop but menu and programming tweaks based on ideas proposed by that winning team of Wauconda High School marketing students are in the works.
Eddie Gaedel Pub & Grill in Elburn to close this month

By Rick West
Dec 11, 2025 4:26 pm - Eddie Gaedel Pub & Grill has announced it will close later this month after 13 years in Elburn.
Hail Sid Caesar, the original king of TV comedy

By Karen Heller
Dec 11, 2025 3:08 pm - “When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Reinvented American Comedy,” by veteran New York Times and Vanity Fair writer David Margolick, is an apt title for one of the first in-depth looks at the comedian.
Ambitious ‘Scarlet’ transplants ‘Hamlet’ to an anime dreamworld

By JAKE COYLE
Dec 11, 2025 12:43 pm - The Japanese writer-director Mamoru Hosoda has made some amazing films that take profound leaps into dreamlike worlds. Yet in his latest, “Scarlet,” the director’s enviable reach exceeds his grasp.
The 10 best TV shows of 2025

By Lili Loofbourow
Dec 11, 2025 12:30 pm - It’s noteworthy, in a landscape this checkered, when TV tries to be really original or — alternately — nails a well-worn formula so virtuosically it somehow feels strong and new. And so, here are 10 of the better series of this year.

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