Entertainment
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‘Tall mugs of beer’: Fatpour Tap Works wooing Mount ProspectJan 09, 2026 8:20 am - Downtown Mount Prospect could soon welcome a new player on its tavern scene south of the Metra station — with a novel twist.
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Sarah Jessica Parker receives Golden Globes’ Carol Burnett Award and Helen Mirren gets DeMille prize
Jan 09, 2026 8:16 am - Matthew Broderick presented his wife of nearly 30 years Sarah Jessica Parker with the Golden Globes’ Carol Burnett Award for a life of achievement in television at Golden Eve, a ceremony that also added Helen Mirren to the list of legends that have won the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
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Taylor Swift leads 2026 iHeartRadio Music Award nominations
Jan 09, 2026 7:59 am - Pledge allegiance to her hands, her team, her vibes: Taylor Swift once again leads the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Award nominees with nine. She's followed by Bad Bunny, Sabrina Carpenter and Alex Warren, who are tied with eight each.
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In ‘The Chronology of Water,’ Imogen Poots found a great role, and a best friend in Kristen Stewart
Jan 08, 2026 4:10 pm - Imogen Poots has been thinking about a Sam Shepard quote: “People here have become the people they’re pretending to be.” For Poots, Shepard’s words somehow get to the heart of it all: the disorienting paradox of attempting to work as an artist in a big industry like Hollywood and preserving your soul in the process.
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‘Greenland 2: Migration’ is an unmemorable sequel with newsy title
Jan 08, 2026 2:43 pm - “Greenland 2: Migration,” a serviceable but rather low-key, even grim affair starring a sturdy, understandably melancholy Gerard Butler, would make anyone want to get the heck out of Greenland.
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A real-life ’70s hostage drama crackles in Gus Van Sant’s ‘Dead Man’s Wire’
Jan 08, 2026 10:34 am - It plays a little loose with facts, but the righteous rage of “Dog Day Afternoon” is present enough in Gus Van Sant’s “Dead Man’s Wire,” a based-on-a-true-tale hostage thriller that’s as deeply 1970s as it is contemporary.
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Live music, tours and more highlight WinterFest at Volo Bog State Natural AreaJan 08, 2026 9:55 am - Live music and more will be featured at WinterFest from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 11 at Volo Bog State Natural Area, 28478 W. Brandenburg Road, Ingleside.
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Free fun at Frosty Fest at Viking Park in GurneeJan 08, 2026 9:51 am - Frosty Fest will held from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 10 at Viking Park, 4374 Old Grand Ave., Gurnee.
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In Jim Jarmusch’s starry ‘Father Mother Sister Brother,’ families struggle to connect
Jan 08, 2026 5:15 am - Jim Jarmusch invites audiences into three family gatherings of adult children in his gentle tryptic “Father Mother Sister Brother.” Don’t worry, you won’t be resentful you’re not part of any of them, not even the one where Tom Waits plays Adam Driver’s dad.
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Ralph Fiennes shines in ‘The Choral,’ a heartfelt WWI drama about the power of music
Jan 08, 2026 5:00 am - The best parts of the “Ocean’s Eleven” movies aren’t the big heists. They’re when the motley crew is being put together. And that’s perhaps the best bit in “The Choral,” if you substitute George Clooney with Ralph Fiennes and Las Vegas with northern England. And the ultimate goal is music, instead of oodles of cash.