Entertainment
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Actor Emily Osment files for divorce after less than 5 months of marriage
Mar 09, 2025 12:22 pm - Actor Emily Osment has filed for divorce from her husband of less than five months, musician Jack Anthony Farina.
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On stage for spring: New, new-to-Chicago plays and musicalsMar 08, 2025 10:43 pm - Suburban and city theater fans looking for a new or a new-to-Chicago show have plenty to choose from this spring. Here are a dozen mostly new shows for spring.
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St. Patrick’s Day Parade floats and Irish dancers draw thousandsMar 08, 2025 5:07 pm - The annual Elmhurst St. Patrick’s Day parade drew thousands to celebrate, with 80 floats, dancers, bands, mascots, clowns, and more marching down Spring Road.
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‘We’re bringing it home’: After 60 years, restored historic library set to reopen as the Waukegan History Museum at the CarnegieMar 08, 2025 1:15 pm - Fitted into a steep bluff with Lake Michigan visible to the east, a prominent historic landmark in downtown Waukegan is set to reopen in its original style and with renewed purpose.
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A new cookbook ties healthy eating to good sleep
Mar 08, 2025 8:32 am - If bad food can keep you awake, can good food help you sleep? A sleep researcher and food magazine editor teamed up to answer the question — and the result is a 28-day meal plan designed to deliver the nutrients needed for quality sleep.
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‘With Love, Meghan,’ the Duchess of Sussex’s Netflix series, renewed for a second season
Mar 07, 2025 3:58 pm - There's going to be more “With Love, Meghan,” the Duchess of Sussex’s Netflix lifestyles series. The streaming service announced Friday that a second season of the show has already been shot.
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Repressed memories and grand opera are dance partners in ‘Seven Veils’
Mar 07, 2025 3:52 pm - In “Seven Veils,” Amanda Seyfried puts her wide, unblinking eyes to good use as a woman staring at the present and unable to see anything but the past. The movie’s tension is built on an uncertainty: Is this a portrait of an artist having a nervous breakdown or the story of a woman using art to confront and exorcise her demons?
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‘This isn’t the end’: Itasca scraps Fourth of July fireworks in 2025Mar 07, 2025 3:22 pm - The village of Itasca has pulled the plug on the 2025 fireworks display at the Hamilton Lakes Business Park, with officials highlighting a number of challenges.
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Music Review: Neil Young taps vast archive for previously unreleased 1977 country-rock gem
Mar 07, 2025 3:08 pm - The latest in a dizzying number of archival releases from Neil Young offers up a 1970s gem from his country-rock phase. “Oceanside Countryside” is squarely focused on appealing to Young completists — especially those with a decent stereo.
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Book Review: Terrorists gather in C.J. Box’s new Joe Pickett novel, ‘Battle Mountain’
Mar 07, 2025 3:04 pm - Wyoming Gov. Spencer Rulon has a problem. His son-in-law hired a guide, disappeared into the southern Wyoming wilderness to hunt elk, and hasn’t been heard from since. Rulon turns to game warden Joe Pickett for help in “Battle Mountain,” the 25th novel in C.J. Box’s crime fiction series featuring Pickett.