Entertainment
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CoCo & Blu owners expanding reach into downtown Mount ProspectApr 07, 2025 1:15 pm - The owners of CoCo and Blu in Arlington Heights are expanding their horizons with a new venture in downtown Mount Prospect.
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Book Review: ‘John & Paul’ explores complex ties between the two Beatles
Apr 07, 2025 1:09 pm - Ian Leslie's “John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs,” takes a detailed look — 426 pages — at how John Lennon and Paul McCartney worked together from their meeting as teenagers until John’s death.
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Spotlight: Northlight, Theater Wit team up for ‘Prayer for the French Republic’Apr 07, 2025 12:56 pm - Five generations of a French-Jewish family confront tides of antisemitism in Northlight Theatre and Theater Wit’s production of “Prayer for the French Republic,” Improv Playhouse stages its annual production of the “Last Supper Chronicles,” and Steel Beam Theatre premieres a new family drama.
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Praise be, loyal ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ fans: Propulsive final season promises a satisfying catharsis
Apr 07, 2025 12:54 pm - Not long ago Yvonne Strahovski, who plays beautiful, ruthless, deeply complicated Serena on “The Handmaid’s Tale,” was forced to watch early scenes of her character’s cruelty. “It was horrible,” Strahovski said, as the sixth season of the show streams Tuesday.
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Music Review: On Bon Iver’s ‘SABLE, fABLE,’ love inspires a chilly, robotic R&B patchwork
Apr 07, 2025 11:51 am - On Bon Iver’s “SABLE, fABLE,” Justin Vernon sings about his fear of change. And then he strives to embrace it.
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What to stream: Jon Hamm in ‘Your Friends & Neighbors, ‘The Last of Us’ and ‘Pets’
Apr 07, 2025 6:00 am - Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” returning for its sixth and final season and Viola Davis playing a U.S. president in the action movie “G20” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
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Water Street Studios hosts gallery opening April 11Apr 07, 2025 12:22 am - Water Street Studios in Batavia will host a gallery opening for a new exhibit from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, April 11. The exhibit will have works by two nationally recognized artists.
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Youth Jazz Ensemble of DuPage returns to Huntley church before Essentially Ellington FestivalApr 06, 2025 11:16 pm - Award-winning student jazz group plays one last Illinois gig on May 4 before heading to high-profile New York jazz competition from May 7-11.
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‘Catch the Twain’ blended music and stories at Helen Plum library April 21Apr 06, 2025 10:42 pm - Helen Plum Library hosts Mark Twain impersonator Warren Brown and musician Mark Dvorak performing "Catch the Twain: The Musical," an entertaining and educational show on April 21.
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Lake Park film society to show Billy Wilder classic ‘Stalag 17’Apr 06, 2025 10:18 pm - Lake Park High will host free screening of 1953 film "Stalag 17" on Wednesday, April 16. Will the suspected Nazi spy in the POW camp be revealed?