Entertainment
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Family fun, food and music on tap at Taste of Des PlainesJun 14, 2025 5:37 pm - The Taste of Des Plaines is a two-day festival in downtown Des Plaines that centers around food, music and family fun.
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‘Prime Minister’ reveals private side of New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern
Jun 14, 2025 1:59 pm - As sympathetic — and therefore potentially biased — as “Prime Minister” is to its subject, former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern, it’s also one of the most arrestingly intimate political documentaries you’ll see.
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Wheaton Municipal Band celebrates the music of Alfred Reed June 19Jun 13, 2025 8:45 pm - Wheaton Municipal Band spotlights prolific band composer Alfred Reed on June 19, featuring his well-known "Armenian Dances," with guest Reed expert Yasuhiro Murakami conducting.
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Dierks Bentley’s ‘Broken Branches’ offers familiar country
Jun 13, 2025 9:03 am - Nashville hitmaker Dierks Bentley has delivered “Broken Branches,” his 11th studio album that leans into some well-tread country rock territory, the kind that invariably involves broken hearts, trucks and a cold beer.
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‘The Unholy Trinity’ is far from the best of the West
Jun 13, 2025 8:42 am - “The Unholy Trinity” is a reminder that they don’t make ’em like they used to — and maybe that’s a good thing. A pokey, low-budget Western enlivened by a couple of aging stars happily hamming it up, it’s the kind of B movie they used to program before the feature and after the cartoon in the old days.
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Stephen King on ‘The Life of Chuck,’ the end of the world and, yes, joy
Jun 13, 2025 6:40 am - For half a century, since Brian De Palma’s 1976 film “Carrie,” Hollywood has turned, and turned again, to Stephen King’s books for their richness of character, nightmare and sheer entertainment.
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Dakota Johnson, Celine Song on love, dating and ‘Materialists’
Jun 12, 2025 9:33 pm - Filmmaker Celine Song and actress Dakota Johnson discuss how the dating scene works in real life and in movies in the modern-day love story “Materialists.”
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Symposium explores Lincoln's early love, career, and legacy in ChicagoJun 12, 2025 4:40 pm - The Abraham Lincoln Association is hosting a June 21 symposium at Cantigny Park in Wheaton with renowned scholars speaking on various aspects of Lincoln's life and legacy. It’s free and open to the public, with registration.
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Naperville’s Block 59 dining district to welcome the Cheesecake Factory June 17Jun 12, 2025 2:38 pm - Attention cheesecake fans: The Cheesecake Factory has announced that it’s opening a restaurant at Block 59 in Naperville next week.
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Buffalo Theatre Ensemble announces new artistic leadershipJun 12, 2025 2:07 pm - A year after longtime Buffalo Theatre Ensemble managing artistic director Connie Canaday Howard stepped down, the company named Gus Menary, co-founder of Jackalope Theatre, an off-Loop Chicago company, as the new managing artistic director. Canady Howard retired last year.