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Devo’s misunderstood art-rock legacy explored in new documentary

By MARK KENNEDY
Aug 18, 2025 3:55 pm - The new Netflix documentary “Devo” is an eye-opening examination of an Ohio-born art-rock band that argues they were perhaps the most misunderstood band on the face of the planet. It debuts on the streaming service Tuesday.
What to stream: John Cena, Offset, John Grisham, and legal fights by Jussie Smollett and Amanda Knox

Aug 18, 2025 2:16 pm - John Cena starring as a flawed superhero in season 2 of “The Peacemaker” and the Amanda Knox trial in Italy getting dramatized in a Hulu series are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
Book Review: A gang of hatchet-wielding women try to take over the meth business in rural Texas

By BRUCE DESILVA
Aug 18, 2025 12:52 pm - A poor country woman and her kids are being terrorized by Porky, a rampaging hog that keeps breaking out of a neighbor’s pen. For help, she turns to Hap Collins and Leonard Pine in Joel R. Lansdale’s 14th darkly comic novel about the duo, “The Hatchet Girls.”
Busta Rhymes, Ricky Martin will make history at 2025 MTV VMAs

By ITZEL LUNA
Aug 18, 2025 12:46 pm - Rapper Busta Rhymes will receive the first MTV VMA Rock the Bells Visionary Award and Ricky Martin will be honored with the inaugural Latin Icon Award, the VMAs announced Monday.
Batavia’s Moose-a-Palooza brings back top acts to raise funds for Mooseheart children

By Kirk Kilker, Batavia Moose Lodge 682
Aug 18, 2025 12:06 pm - Batavia Moose Lodge's 8th annual music fest on Aug. 23 will feature bands like Jimmy Nick and Don’t Tell Mama, Jonny Lyons, Joliet Jakes, and Ivy Ford to support Mooseheart Child City and School.
Cable’s MSNBC will change its name later this year as part of corporate divorce from NBC

By DAVID BAUDER
Aug 18, 2025 11:50 am - Television’s MSNBC news network is changing its name to My Source News Opinion World, or MS NOW for short, as part of its corporate divorce from NBC.
60 artists to paint outdoors at St. Charles’ Plein Air Event Aug. 18-24

By David Petesch, Shaw Local News Network
Aug 18, 2025 10:49 am - Plein air painters from across the country are coming to St. Charles Aug. 18-24 to capture scenic landscapes. The weeklong event features 60 artists painting outdoors and engaging the community through contests, talks, and an art sale.
Celebrate Summer’s Last Hurrah! with Elgin Rotary Club

Submitted by Natalie Kiburg
Aug 18, 2025 1:59 am - The Rotary Club of Elgin hosts a free, family-friendly end-of-summer celebration on Sept. 6 featuring live music, kids activities, craft fair, pet parade, food trucks, and raffle.
Heirloom varieties take center stage at Garfield Farm Museum’s annual show

By Jerome Johnson, Garfield Farm Museum
Aug 17, 2025 10:28 pm - Garfield Farm Museum's Heirloom Garden Show on Sunday, Aug. 24, will feature tours, prairie plot, and growers of antique produce varieties working to preserve genetic diversity.
‘Bigger and more beautiful’: Wheaton coffee house owner opens The Kilns downtown

By Katlyn Smith
Aug 17, 2025 9:00 pm - The owner of a bustling coffee shop in downtown Wheaton has unveiled The Kilns, a new co-working and social house named after the home of “The Chronicles of Narnia” author C.S. Lewis.

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