Entertainment
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Why more murals could come to MundeleinSep 25, 2025 5:01 pm - Proposed zoning changes could lead to more public murals being painted in Mundelein.
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Fall festival to honor law enforcement Saturday in South ElginSep 25, 2025 4:45 pm - We Back the Blue Fall Fest will honor local law enforcement from noon to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, at Panton Mill Park in South Elgin.
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Laila Lockhart Kraner carries ‘Gabby’s Dollhouse’ positivity to DreamWorks’ live-action hybrid film
Sep 25, 2025 4:14 pm - When Laila Lockhart Kraner first slipped on the headband and cat ears for “Gabby’s Dollhouse” at age 11, she couldn’t have predicted how her character’s mantras of positivity and resilience and “failing fantastically” without giving up would shape her own life.
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Come for the food, stay for ax-throwingSep 25, 2025 3:16 pm - Local officials and well wishers Wednesday welcomed Up North Axe & Tap at 547 N. Milwaukee Ave., in downtown Libertyville, a Northwoods-themed restaurant and bar that also features four ax-throwing lanes.
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Music Review: Doja Cat returns to pop with an ’80s twist in ‘Vie’
Sep 25, 2025 11:45 am - Doja Cat had been dropping hints that her newest album would be filled with ’80s flavor — from the big hair and exaggerated structure of her VMAs outfit to the retro dance moves in the music video for her single “Jealous Type.” Out Friday, “Vie” speaks for itself.
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How does June Squibb do it at age 95? ‘I just gird my loins and go!’
Sep 25, 2025 11:13 am - There are 70-year-olds who want to be like June Squibb when they grow up. Squibb, 95, wasn’t the lead of a movie until she was 94. Now, a year after she turned action star in “Thelma,” Squibb is again the leading lady for “Eleanor the Great,” Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut.
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Brett Goldstein and Imogen Poots will trigger tears in ‘All of You’
Sep 25, 2025 10:11 am - “All of You” from Apple TV+ walks carefully into this age-old premise — of best friends meant to be lovers — sweetly and with more honesty than typical Hollywood fare. It’s messy and romantic and both deeply sad and deeply soulful.
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Rihanna and A$AP Rocky welcome third child, Rocki
Sep 25, 2025 9:21 am - Rihanna and A$AP Rocky have announced the birth of their third child, a girl.
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Friendship, grief and June Squibb in ‘Eleanor the Great’
Sep 25, 2025 5:15 am - There is a lovely story of friendship, grief and starting over at the heart of “Eleanor the Great.” The film, directed by Scarlett Johansson in her feature debut, gets tangled in a plot contrivance that is, at best, unnecessary and at worst, loathsome.
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4-star ‘One Battle After Another’ is an American masterpiece
Sep 25, 2025 5:00 am - In Paul Thomas Anderson’s gloriously messy, madcap roller coaster ride through modern America, objects in the rear view may go out of sight, but they don’t disappear. Political struggles never die in “One Battle After Another,” they just repeat. Or maybe they grow older and become paranoid, pot-smoking, pajama-wearers.