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Slick City Action Park now open in North Aurora

By Shaw Local News Network
Oct 04, 2024 12:25 pm - Slick City Action Park is now open in North Aurora. This first Illinois location, at 1830 Towne Center Drive, is an indoor slide and air court park designed for all ages....
Not for the faint of heart: Haunted houses deliver scares in the suburbs

By Elizabeth Maxwell
Oct 04, 2024 10:19 am - With the temperature chilling and the leaves dropping, children aren’t the only ones awaiting the thrills of Halloween. For those who have moved on from trick-or-treating, chances to be frightened at a haunted house are opening up in several suburbs.
Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa, looks back in memoir ‘Be Ready When the Luck Happens’

By MARK KENNEDY
Oct 04, 2024 9:36 am - Long before Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa mini-empire of bestselling cookbooks and TV shows ever took off, she found herself at an airport, wanting to learn to fly. The story of how she refused to budge is included in her memoir, "Be Ready When the Luck Happens."
Book Review: ‘Revenge of the Tipping Point’ is fan service for readers of Gladwell’s 2000 book

By ANDREW DeMILLO
Oct 04, 2024 9:23 am - In “Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering,” Malcolm Gladwell is rehashing and rebuilding on the concepts that he first wrote about in 2000. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it wasn’t really necessary either.
Mundelein Arts Commission's auditions for ‘A Christmas Carol’

Submitted by Joyce Lee
Oct 04, 2024 8:54 am - As the year rolls down to winter, it’s time once again for the Mundelein Arts Commission’s annual presentation of the original musical “A Christmas Carol.”
‘Saturday Night’ is thinly sketched but satisfying

By JAKE COYLE
Oct 04, 2024 8:19 am - We are at the apex of “Saturday Night Live” appreciation. So it’s maybe appropriate that Jason Reitman’s big-screen ode, “Saturday Night,” should arrive, amid all of the tributes, to remind us of the show’s original revolutionary force.
Helen Mirren tells a story of evil and hope during WWII in ‘White Bird’

By LINDSEY BAHR
Oct 04, 2024 6:27 am - It’s never a bad time for stories celebrating acts of kindness. In the new film “White Bird,” the act is quite significant: A family in Nazi-occupied France shelters a young Jewish girl, whose friends and family have all been taken away.
Six films vie for honors at Elgin Short Film Festival Saturday

By Rick West
Oct 03, 2024 7:04 pm - Six films will vie for top honors on Saturday during the 16th annual Elgin Short Film Festival at the Hemmens Cultural Center.
North Shore restaurants put best dishes forward at annual Auction & Taste

Submitted by Northbrook Chamber of Commerce & Industry
Oct 03, 2024 4:21 pm - Discover Delicious! is the theme of Northbrook Chamber’s 29th annual Auction and Taste of the North Shore at the Renaissance Chicago North Shore Hotel — because that is what you will do.
Spinning its wheels: ‘Folie à Deux’ reckons with ‘The Joker’

By JAKE COYLE
Oct 03, 2024 12:56 pm - If there’s one undeniably compelling thing about both Todd Phillips’ divisive 2019 original “Joker” and his new follow-up, it’s that these movies are best when they dance.

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