Entertainment
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Scarecrows, live music and more at East Dundee’s Oktoberfest Sept. 27-28Sep 25, 2024 12:35 am - East Dundee’s sixth annual Oktoberfest will feature a scarecrow contest, family activities, and live music with some of the best headliners in the area on Sept. 27-28.
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Live music, fireworks and family fun at Huntley Fall FestSep 24, 2024 11:43 pm - The 19th annual Huntley Fall Fest features three days of live entertainment, carnival rides, food, Saturday fireworks, family fall activities, a craft shows and more.
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Festivals Sept. 27 to Oct. 3: Oktoberfests, Harvest of the Acorn Moon, Johnny Appleseed Festival and moreSep 24, 2024 7:54 pm - Mark your calendar for a variety of suburban Oktoberfests, Taste of Arlington Heights, Huntley Fall Fest, Cary Main Street Fest and more happening this week.
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Then and now: Goodman’s ‘Inherit the Wind’ is both historical and contemporarySep 24, 2024 5:55 pm - The Goodman Theatre’s 2024-25 season is off to a smart and savvy start with a timely revival of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s “Inherit the Wind.”
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Award-winning entertainer Daryl Nitz hosts 16th annual Elgin Short Film Festival Oct. 5Sep 24, 2024 5:42 pm - The Elgin Short Film Festival will celebrate its 16th year at the Hemmens Cultural Center on Saturday, Oct. 5, with live in-theater and at-home virtual screenings.
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Dining out: National Coffee Day, Geneva brewery nabs gold for seltzersSep 24, 2024 5:33 pm - National Coffee Day is Sunday, which means you can get a free cup of joe at a number of suburban spots. High school football fans can score BOGO burritos and bowls on Fridays and a Geneva brewery took home six medals from a national seltzer championship.
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Woman alleges Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs raped her on video in latest lawsuitSep 24, 2024 4:21 pm - Another woman sued Sean “Diddy” Combs on Tuesday, alleging that the music mogul and his head of security raped her and recorded it on video at his New York recording studio in 2001.
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Video game actors’ union calls for strike against ‘League of Legends’Sep 24, 2024 4:14 pm - Hollywood’s actors union called a strike against the popular multiplayer online game “League of Legends” on Tuesday, arguing the company that produces the game attempted to get around the ongoing video game strike by hiring nonunion actors to work on a union title.
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John Leguizamo reaches back in time to reclaim Latin American history for a PBS documentary seriesSep 24, 2024 12:51 pm - If you think Latin American history starts with Christopher Columbus, John Leguizamo would like to have a word. He delves into the overlooked contributions of Latino people in the new PBS three-part series, “VOCES American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos,” debuting Saturday, Sept. 28, on WTTW.
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Suki Waterhouse pens a ‘Memoir of a Sparklemuffin’ on her wide-ranging sophomore album
Sep 24, 2024 11:10 am - Suki Waterhouse discovered the Sparklemuffin spider during a late-night scroll. The spider became a foil and a mascot for Waterhouse's sophomore album, “Memoir of a Sparklemuffin,” released recently. She’s headlining Chicago’s Salt Shed on Dec. 18.