Entertainment
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How much does a beer and a hot dog cost you at Wrigley Field or the Rate? I did the math
Apr 10, 2025 10:45 am - It’s not breaking news, but nothing is cheap at a professional sporting event, let alone Wrigley Field, where the Cubs pack ’em in, rain or shine, snow or sun. Starting with tickets, a parent taking a family of four to a game — or one person drinking for four — can experience losses of “biblical” proportions in their bank account.
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With a magical ‘swish and flick,’ Harry Potter store debuts on Michigan AvenueApr 10, 2025 9:15 am - For decades, devoted Harry Potter fans have had to accept the fact that Hogwarts is fictional. But the magic somewhat is restored for anyone able to visit Chicago’s new addition to the fandom, with attention to detail that can make you forget you’re not actually in London.
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Live from London, it’s Saturday night! SNL taking sketch comedy across the pond
Apr 10, 2025 8:01 am - Live from London, it’s Saturday night! Wait, London? You heard that correctly. Saturday Night Live announced Thursday that it plans to launch a British version of the U.S. sketch comedy show.
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Rami Malek wants revenge in starry, globe-trotting action pic ‘The Amateur’
Apr 10, 2025 5:30 am - As star of “The Amateur,” Rami Malek gets to be both skittish nerd and coolly competent angel of death. He’s the perpetual rule-follower who in grief-stricken madness decides to blackmail his bosses and go on an international killing spree to get the people responsible for his love’s death.
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‘Drop’ is a fun, gimmicky thriller set at one restaurant table
Apr 10, 2025 5:30 am - We all have worst first-date stories, but Violet (Meghann Fahy) in “Drop” takes the prize: She’s receiving mysterious phone messages saying that her young son, left at home while she dines out, will die unless she murders the nice man sitting across the table from her.
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‘Warfare’ a tautly effective portrait of tedium and sheer terror
Apr 10, 2025 5:30 am - “Warfare” is an engrossing, well-crafted account of a real-life episode during the Iraq War in 2006 when a platoon of Navy SEALs commandeered a house in Ramadi for use as a surveillance location without knowing the opposition had surrounded them.
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Batavia Community Band brings generations together through musicApr 10, 2025 4:00 am - Batavia Community Band’s diversity in age and experience allows them to tackle challenging pieces, with older members reigniting their joy for music and younger members perfecting their craft.
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New Philharmonic presents ‘Butterfly Lovers’ violin concerto and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony 4Apr 09, 2025 10:20 pm - “Where words fail, music speaks,” said Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. New Philharmonic, the only professional orchestra based in DuPage County, presents conce...
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Ron Onesti: Where have all the ballrooms gone?Apr 09, 2025 8:13 pm - My dad would tell me about how it was during his 20s at the old ballrooms. Although these ballrooms were all pretty much built from 1910-1930, in the 1940s the Jazz Age morphed into the Big Band or Swing Era, and dancing became more of an athletic experience, rather than acceptable choreography.
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Easter egg hunts and events for kids, teens and adults across the suburbsApr 09, 2025 7:04 pm - With Easter on Sunday, April 20, here are some of the egg hunts and other Easter events happening this weekend in the suburbs.