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12 times ‘Saturday Night Live’ made a cultural bang over the past 50 years

By MARK KENNEDY
Feb 13, 2025 4:03 pm - “Saturday Night Live” was built with a cast of young no-names performing countercultural comedy. Fifty years later, it’s firmly part of the culture. Here are 12 moments over the past five decades when the show didn’t just reflect pop culture — it drove it.
Action, romance collide in ridiculous ‘The Gorge’

By JAKE COYLE
Feb 13, 2025 3:13 pm - The new action thriller "The Gorge" pairs two snipers – Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy — guarding a portal at the bottom of a gorge who develop an unlikely romance in this stylish but hollow Apple TV+ streamer.
Celebrity chef considering long vacant Fritzl’s restaurant in Lake Zurich for next venture

By Mick Zawislak
Feb 13, 2025 1:02 pm - Plans to convert a former favorite eatery on Route 12 in Lake Zurich to a firehouse-themed restaurant are off the table but a familiar name in town is considering a new idea.
‘One Book, One Community’ finale Sunday in Lincolnshire

Daily Herald report
Feb 13, 2025 12:41 pm - Author Parini Shroff will her inspiration behind her novel “The Bandit Queens,” during the final event of this year’s One Book One Community program hosted by the Cook Memorial, Indian Trails, and Vernon Area library districts.
Lake Villa Township then and now topic of fireside chat

Daily Herald report
Feb 13, 2025 12:41 pm - Lake Villa Township Supervisor Dan Venturi will delve into community history during a fireside chat at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15. The event presented by the Lake Villa His...
‘You’ll be inspired’: Harper College’s Black History Month events aim to educate, spark curiosity

Submitted by Harper College
Feb 13, 2025 12:33 pm - Black history touches every aspect of American history, culture and society. In celebration of Black History Month, Harper College in Palatine will present a wide range of events this February.
A deftly choreographed nightmare unspools in Norwegian film ‘Armand’

By LINDSEY BAHR
Feb 13, 2025 11:52 am - A mother is called to her child’s school for an urgent meeting with his teachers in the Norwegian film “Armand,” a riff on a claustrophobic courtroom thriller set in a primary school classroom. While unsettling, it’s never not compelling.
‘Paddington in Peru’ is buoyant and bright, and that’s enough

By JAKE COYLE
Feb 13, 2025 5:30 am - A through line in “Paddington in Peru” is the difference between the ties of family and of tribe, as Paddington, after learning that his Aunt Lucy has gone missing, goes on a jungle adventure with the Browns to search for her in his childhood stomping grounds.
Marvel treads water with ‘Captain America: Brave New World’

By MARK KENNEDY
Feb 13, 2025 5:15 am - One way to celebrate Valentine’s Day this year is with “Captain America: Brave New World,” a highly processed, empty calorie, regret-later candy of a movie.
Learn about pioneering cryptanalyst’s life and local ties at Batavia’s Books Between Bites

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Feb 12, 2025 9:33 pm - On Thursday, Feb. 20, the next Batavia Books Between Bites tells of codebreaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman, who broke Nazi codes in World War II.

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