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Best Bets: ‘Sustenance & Land’ exhibit, Lunar New Year, Brooke Shields and more

By Barbara Vitello
Jan 22, 2025 8:46 am - Elmhurst Art Museum’s new exhibit “Sustenance and Land” opens, Elgin’s Side Street Studio Arts hosts its sixth Winter Mini Fringe, Brooke Shields discusses her memoir at Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre and more.
Birding expert aims to make gull identification less intimidating

By Jeff Reiter
Jan 22, 2025 7:36 am - Gull expert Amar Ayyash of Orland Park seeks to make gull identification less intimidating through his new guide covering North America's 36 species.
Everything you need to know about the 2025 Sundance Film Festival

By LINDSEY BAHR
Jan 22, 2025 7:04 am - As many in the entertainment industry navigate the devastating effects of the California wildfires, some will soon be decamping to cleaner air in the mountains. The annual Sundance Film Festival begins Thursday in Park City, Utah.
Discover the science of steam engines and rainbows at Naper Settlement’s Family STEM Nights

By Denise Wilt, Naper Settlement
Jan 21, 2025 11:27 pm - Naper Settlement in Naperville invites families to monthly STEM nights featuring hands-on science activities for kids, age 12 or under, exploring various topics like simple machines, weather, flowers and more.
Dining out: Alpine Fest, wine dinner, new lounge in Aurora and more

By Rick West
Jan 21, 2025 3:45 pm - It’s Alpine Fest weekend at Long Grove’s Buffalo Creek Brewing. Plus, there’s a new lounge in downtown Aurora and new happy hour offerings at Violi in Oak Brook.
‘It appeals to and activates all five of the senses’: Elmhurst art exhibit explores sustenance, relationship with land

By Victoria Palmeri
Jan 21, 2025 3:05 pm - A collection of works from different artists employs the five senses to convey human connection to — and destruction of — the environment in a new exhibit at the Elmhurst Art Museum.
‘Wicked’ star Cynthia Erivo named Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year

Jan 21, 2025 1:41 pm - Cynthia Erivo, who is starring in the hit musical “Wicked,” on Tuesday was named as the 2025 Woman of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals.
Garth Hudson, master instrumentalist and last surviving member of The Band, dies at 87

By HILLEL ITALIE
Jan 21, 2025 12:01 pm - Garth Hudson, the Band’s virtuoso keyboardist and all-around musician who drew from a unique palette of sounds and styles to add a conversational touch to rock standards, has died at age 87.
Book Review: A tour de force of a novel about a celebrated actor in the throes of a midlife crisis

By ANN LEVIN
Jan 21, 2025 11:28 am - Have you ever woken up on Thanksgiving morning to a house full of company and just wanted to flee? In Mischa Berlinski’s extravagantly brilliant and darkly funny new novel, “Mona Acts Out,” the eponymous heroine does just that.
A family is torn apart under Brazil’s dictatorship in ‘I’m Still Here’

By LINDSEY BAHR
Jan 21, 2025 11:15 am - It’s easy to fall in love with the Paiva family. Filmmaker Walter Salles makes sure of that in “I’m Still Here.” He drops the audience into the warm everyday of the beautiful home of Eunice (Fernanda Torres) and Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello) in 1970s Rio de Janeiro, where their five kids run freely between the beach and their living room.

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