Entertainment
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Tom Cruise receives lifetime achievement trophy at the Governors Awards
Nov 17, 2025 8:04 am - Tom Cruise, at 63 still the biggest movie star in a room full of them, finally got to hold his own Oscar on a Hollywood stage on Sunday night.
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What to stream: ‘Wicked: For Good’ soundtrack, Ted Danson, ‘The Bad Guys 2’ and Black cowboys
Nov 17, 2025 5:15 am - Ted Danson’s “A Man on the Inside” returning to Netflix for its second season and Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo belting out the “Wicked: For Good” soundtrack are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
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‘Now You See Me 3’ races past ‘The Running Man’ at box office
Nov 16, 2025 3:08 pm - It’s no magic trick: The third installment in the thieving magician “Now You See Me” series beat the high-profile action pic “The Running Man” at the North American box office this weekend.
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Libertyville featured in holiday rom-com ‘The Exes of Christmas Past’Nov 16, 2025 7:27 am - “The Exes of Christmas Past,” a holiday rom-com with scenes filmed in April in Libertyville, debuted Sunday, Nov. 16, on Tubi.
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Naperville’s Good Shepherd hosts 16th annual Encounter ChristmasNov 15, 2025 11:44 pm - In the midst of a busy holiday season, Encounter Christmas XVI: Magnificat offers a sacred space for the Naperville community to pause, reflect, and celebrate.
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SAG Awards change name to the Actor Awards starting in 2026
Nov 15, 2025 8:22 am - The show commonly known as the SAG Awards will officially become the Actor Awards presented by SAG-AFTRA in its next incarnation on March 1, when Netflix will stream the ceremony as it has since 2023.
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Illinois’ new Poet Laureate to speak to St. Charles Writers GroupNov 14, 2025 11:07 pm - On Nov. 22, the St. Charles Writers Group is hosting Illinois Poet Laureate Mark Turcotte as the guest speaker. A member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Anishinaabe, he spent his early years on North Dakota's Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation and migrant camps across the western U.S.
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Classical guitar virtuoso joins St. Charles Singers’ Candlelight Carols on Dec. 5 in Wheaton, Dec. 6-7 in St. CharlesNov 14, 2025 10:25 pm - The St. Charles Singers, led by Jeffrey Hunt, will be joined by virtuoso guitarist Goran Ivanovic for their 41st annual Candlelight Carols concerts in Wheaton and St. Charles, featuring 16 seasonal songs, many new to their repertoire.
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Lyric Opera of Chicago wows its audience with ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’ and ‘Pagliacci’Nov 14, 2025 9:07 pm - The Lyric Opera of Chicago is presenting a double feature of "Cavalleria rusticana" and "Pagliacci," two iconic operas exploring themes of love, betrayal, and revenge.
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A new Netflix doc offers an intimate portrait of Selena, straight from her family’s vault
Nov 14, 2025 3:33 pm - “I do understand that what Selena means so many years later, to the Latino world,” her sister Suzette Quintanilla says. “Who better than to tell our story other than us?” she says of the new Netflix documentary “Selena Y Los Dinos: A Family’s Legacy.”