Entertainment
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Things to do Feb. 28 to March 6: Chicago Golf Show, Northern Illinois Boat Show and moreFeb 25, 2025 11:19 am - Mark your calendar for the Northern Illinois Boat Show, the Chicago Golf Show, Jurassic Quest at Chicago’s Navy Pier and more happening this week.
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Spotlight: BET premieres tuner ‘Elvis Presley Was a Black Man Named Joe’Feb 25, 2025 10:43 am - Black Ensemble Theater stages the original semiautobiographical “Elvis Presley Was a Black Man Named Joe,” Still Point Theatre Collective hosts the first Social Change Theater Festival, and Music Theater Works revives “Guys and Dolls.”
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Music Review: Rebecca Black says goodbye to ‘Friday’ and masters the dance floor on ‘Salvation’
Feb 25, 2025 8:42 am - Rebecca Black, she of the inescapable 2011 online smash hit “Friday,” has a new dance-heavy EP, “Salvation.” For an artist who first emerged at age 13 promising danceable fuel, she continues to deliver — just with a very different approach.
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Come ‘Beyond the Gates’ for the first Black-led soap opera
Feb 25, 2025 7:18 am - The first thing viewers of “Beyond the Gates” see is a black Mercedes gliding past manicured lawns and stately estates. That car and the glamorous woman behind the wheel drove into TV history on Monday as CBS began airing the first Black-led daytime soap opera.
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Best Bets: ‘Fraggle Rock’ live, Monster Jam, Tom Segura, Ballet FolklóricoFeb 25, 2025 6:27 am - “Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock” tours to Waukegan’s Genesee Theatre, the Monster Jam roars back into Rosemont’s Allstate Arena, and the Music of the Baroque memorializes Christian martyrs in Handel’s “Theodora” in Skokie and Chicago.
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Book Review: ‘Air-borne’ transforms scientific history into detective story
Feb 24, 2025 6:34 pm - In “Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breath," Carl Zimmer creates a highly relevant and gripping history of the study of the air that spans from Louis Pasteur holding a glass globe on a glacier to scientists racing to fight COVID-19 during the pandemic.
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Joy Reid is leaving MSNBC as her evening show is canceled
Feb 24, 2025 3:14 pm - Joy Reid is leaving MSNBC, the network’s new president announced in a memo to staff on Monday, marking an end to the political analyst and anchor’s prime time news show.
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Lester Holt to step down as anchor of NBC’s flagship ‘Nightly News’ after a decade
Feb 24, 2025 3:08 pm - NBC’s veteran Lester Holt will step down as anchor of the network’s flagship “Nightly News” broadcast.
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Gurnee to discuss creation of arts commissionFeb 24, 2025 12:03 pm - Gurnee officials will hold an informational meeting Thursday to discuss the establishment of new arts commission.
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Activate gaming facility brings fast-paced team games to NapervilleFeb 24, 2025 11:54 am - A new 12,000-square-foot gaming facility, Activate, will open in Naperville in March. It offers fast, immersive games for adults and children.