Entertainment
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Shakespeare gets malled in ‘Juliet & Romeo’
May 08, 2025 12:07 pm - Panning a movie like “Juliet & Romeo” is a little like kicking a puppy. This maladaption of William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” only wants to please its target audience of early-middle-school girls by replacing iambic pentameter with lots and lots of pop songs. This isn’t a movie, it’s a prom theme.
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The Who will perform one last time in Chicago Sept. 7
May 08, 2025 10:54 am - British rock band The Who are saying their final goodbye to North America this summer with “The Song Is Over North America Farewell Tour,” playing Chicago’s United Center Sunday, Sept. 7. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m Friday, May 16.
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Kendrick Lamar enters BET Awards with a leading 10 nominations for the ceremony’s 25th anniversary
May 08, 2025 8:40 am - Kendrick Lamar extends his dominant musical reign, entering next month’s BET Awards as the leading nominee with 10.
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Daily Herald photo contest winners for April 2025May 08, 2025 7:57 am - The Daily Herald’s amateur photo contest winners for April capture the beauty of the natural world, from the Arizona desert, all the way to a remote South Atlantic island.
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Smokey Robinson’s lawyer says rape allegations against him are ‘vile’ and ‘false’
May 08, 2025 6:54 am - Smokey Robinson’s lawyer said allegations of rape and sexual assault against him in a lawsuit from four former housekeepers are “vile" and “false.”
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‘Words of War’ commemorates the courage of a Russian journalist
May 08, 2025 5:15 am - There’s no dazzling CGI in “Words of War.” There’s just one woman: Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist who sought to uncover the truths of the Second Chechen War and paid the ultimate price for it.
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Wheaton Warrenville South puts on the fiercely funny ‘Mean Girls’May 07, 2025 9:53 pm - Wheaton Warrenville South High School’s Performing Arts Department is closing out the performing arts season with “Mean Girls: High School Version.”
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Concerts May 9-15: Sturgill Simpson, Rauw Alejandro, Ministry and moreMay 07, 2025 8:57 pm - Upcoming concerts this week include Sturgill Simpson, Rauw Alejandro, xikers 2025 World Tour, Clay Walker, Saint Motel, Ministry and more.
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Nothing succeeds like 1980s excess in Metropolis’ ‘Rock of Ages’ revivalMay 07, 2025 6:01 pm - Over-the-top in the best possible way, “Rock of Ages,” the jukebox musical send-up of 1980s glam metal and the people who loved it, gets a high-energy revival courtesy of the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre.
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Ron Onesti: Take memory lane down to the old neighborhoodMay 07, 2025 5:08 pm - If you are from Chicago, you can’t talk about that without declaring which neighborhood (or Parish) you are from. Each neighborhood had to have certain elements that qualified it to be deemed a “neighborhood.”