Entertainment
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English actors Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton welcome their second child
Dec 31, 2025 11:46 am - English actors Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton have welcomed their second child.
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Restaurants must adapt to boomers’ needs and preferencesDec 31, 2025 10:11 am - Restaurants are always changing. New concepts come and go, trends shift, prices climb, portions grow — and then shrink again. But for those of us who are baby boomers, these aren’t the changes we’re thinking about.
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Timothée Chalamet wants to be great. ‘Marty Supreme’ might get him there.
Dec 31, 2025 8:23 am - “It’s like I’ve quadrupled down on the original pursuit of my life. I’ve gotten out of the pool and redived from a higher board,” says Timothée Chalamet. That high dive is “Marty Supreme,” Josh Safdie’s hyperkinetic 1950s-set New York tale of a singular striver, with Chalamet at the helm.
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Isiah Whitlock Jr., actor from ‘The Wire,’ ‘Veep’ and Spike Lee films, dies at 71Dec 31, 2025 6:35 am - Isiah Whitlock Jr., an actor who made frequent memorable appearances on the HBO series “The Wire” and “Veep” and in five films with director Spike Lee, died Tuesday. He was 71.
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Video gambling coming to the Polar Dome at Santa’s VillageDec 30, 2025 5:44 pm - Video gaming is coming to the Polar Dome at Santa’s Village in East Dundee.
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Winter theater forecast: New and new-to-Chicago plays heat up suburban, city stagesDec 30, 2025 4:05 pm - Chicago-area theater heats up this winter with world and regional premieres, revivals of classic plays and the return of the blockbuster tuner “Hamilton.”
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Daily Herald photo contest winners for December 2025Dec 30, 2025 3:57 pm - The top finishers in December’s amateur photo contest capture scenes from ferocious to serene.
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Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, has died at 35
Dec 30, 2025 1:42 pm - Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, has died. She was 35. Schlossberg, the daughter of Kennedy’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy, and Edwin Schlossberg, revealed that she had terminal cancer in a November essay in The New Yorker.
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Illinois wine from California grapes: New sipping space opens in Elk GroveDec 30, 2025 11:14 am - MCG Winery, a new microwinery in Elk Grove Village, is now open for private tastings. It doubles as a production facility.
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How TV shows like ‘Mo’ and ‘Muslim Matchmaker’ allow Arab and Muslim Americans to tell their stories
Dec 30, 2025 10:19 am - Whether it’s stand-up comedy specials or a dramedy series, when Muslim American Mo Amer sets out to create, he writes what he knows. The second season of Amer’s “Mo” documents Mo Najjar and his family’s tumultuous journey reaching asylum in the United States as Palestinian refugees.