Entertainment
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Downers Grove’s weeklong FoundersFest to highlight history and communityApr 17, 2025 2:41 pm - Downers Grove's FoundersFest 2025 has a packed schedule including golf, volunteering, Tivoli Theatre event with historian Ken Lerner, documentary premiere, architecture talk, family bike ride, and old-fashioned country fair.
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Drake complains about Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ Super Bowl performance in new defamation claims
Apr 17, 2025 2:16 pm - Hip-hop superstar Drake is now complaining about rival rapper Kendrick Lamar’s performance of “Not Like Us” at this year’s Super Bowl, adding it to his defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group over the diss track.
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Yes, it’s Epic: Everything you need to know about Epic Universe, the best new theme park in decades
Apr 17, 2025 1:22 pm - Dragons, monsters, Super Mario and more. Epic Universe, the biggest new theme park in Orlando in 26 years, opens to the public Thursday, May 22. And it is indeed epic.
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Addison Center for the Arts to host ‘Creative Futures: Student Exhibition Series’Apr 17, 2025 12:22 pm - Elementary and high school students display their artworks at the Addison Center for the Arts' "Creative Futures" show starting April 24.
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Elgin architect captures Fox Valley’s historic charm in watercolorsApr 17, 2025 11:46 am - After successful architecture career, Chuck Cassell started to paint detailed watercolors of Fox Valley's historic houses and donating over 100 paintings to local museums.
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Fluent ‘Translations’: Writers Theatre delivers eloquent revival of provocative dramaApr 17, 2025 9:33 am - Writers Theatre’s season continues with the resonant, gracefully acted revival of “Translations,” a rustic drama by Irish playwright Brian Friel.
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Actor Michelle Trachtenberg died of complications from diabetes, says NYC medical examiner
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Bowen Yang leads a heartfelt dramedy about found families in ‘The Wedding Banquet’
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‘Sinners’ a winner: Coogler’s stylistically audacious musical movie reinvents the horror genreApr 17, 2025 5:00 am - It takes a long time before the gross and gory stuff creeps into writer/director Ryan Coogler’s stylistically audacious and belligerently original musical horror tale “Sinners.” When it does, the film confirms that we’re witnessing a bold reinvention of the horror genre.
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Warrenville’s Community Baptist Church hosts renowned pianist Mateus FurtadoApr 16, 2025 2:42 pm - Pianist Mateus Furtado will showcase his virtuosity in an intimate solo piano recital at Community Baptist Church, performing masterworks by Beethoven, Chopin, and Prokofiev.