Entertainment
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‘Warfare’ a tautly effective portrait of tedium and sheer terror
Apr 10, 2025 5:30 am - “Warfare” is an engrossing, well-crafted account of a real-life episode during the Iraq War in 2006 when a platoon of Navy SEALs commandeered a house in Ramadi for use as a surveillance location without knowing the opposition had surrounded them.
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Batavia Community Band brings generations together through musicApr 10, 2025 4:00 am - Batavia Community Band’s diversity in age and experience allows them to tackle challenging pieces, with older members reigniting their joy for music and younger members perfecting their craft.
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New Philharmonic presents ‘Butterfly Lovers’ violin concerto and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony 4Apr 09, 2025 10:20 pm - “Where words fail, music speaks,” said Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. New Philharmonic, the only professional orchestra based in DuPage County, presents conce...
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Ron Onesti: Where have all the ballrooms gone?Apr 09, 2025 8:13 pm - My dad would tell me about how it was during his 20s at the old ballrooms. Although these ballrooms were all pretty much built from 1910-1930, in the 1940s the Jazz Age morphed into the Big Band or Swing Era, and dancing became more of an athletic experience, rather than acceptable choreography.
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Easter egg hunts and events for kids, teens and adults across the suburbsApr 09, 2025 7:04 pm - With Easter on Sunday, April 20, here are some of the egg hunts and other Easter events happening this weekend in the suburbs.
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Fractured family: Steppenwolf’s ‘The Book of Grace’ an apt metaphor for a fractured nationApr 09, 2025 6:57 pm - Steppenwolf Theatre’s superbly acted, of-the-moment “The Book of Grace,” by Suzan-Lori Parks, depicts a fractured family, which serves as a metaphor for a fractured nation grappling with xenophobia, immigration and separation.
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Jon Hamm steals expensive stuff and likely viewers’ hearts in Apple TV+’s ‘Your Friends & Neighbors’
Apr 09, 2025 5:40 pm - “Your Friends & Neighbors” begins with a once high-flying hedge fund manager waking up in someone else’s luxurious house, next to a dead body and in a pool of blood. How he ended up there consumes the first season of this compelling Apple TV+ series starring Jon Hamm.
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Batavia Depot Museum marks 50th anniversary with exhibit on its historyApr 09, 2025 5:07 pm - Batavia Depot Museum exhibit marks 50 years since community effort moved historic train depot across Fox River to become museum, chronicling city's history
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Elton John, ‘Hamilton’ and more enter National Recording Registry
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Schaumburg Library to celebrate pop culture locally with its own Comic Con April 26Apr 09, 2025 2:42 pm - The Schaumburg Township District Library will hold its own local Comic Con from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 26, at its Central Library, 130 S. Roselle Road in Schaumburg.