Entertainment
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10 options from Santa’s big bag of Christmas TV programming
Nov 27, 2024 5:50 pm - Hollywood cranks out holiday programming as fast as toys are made in Santa’s workshop with broadcast networks, cable channels and streaming services offering seasonal specials.
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Netflix show revisits killing of 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey: What happened?
Nov 27, 2024 5:04 pm - Six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was found dead in the basement of her parents’ home the day after Christmas in 1996. The tragic details — a tiny beauty pageant contestant bl...
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Learn about sustainable solutions at ‘Saving Walden’s World’ screeningNov 27, 2024 4:00 pm - The Prairie Circle Unitarian Universalist Congregation will host a screening of the documentary “Saving Walden’s World” on Saturday, Dec. 7, at Prairie Crossing’s Byron Colby Barn in Grayslake.
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Ron Onesti: ‘Hey Hey’ with a cool MonkeeNov 27, 2024 3:56 pm - “Hey Hey, We’re the Monkees” was a familiar tune that drew us all to our black-and-white television sets with the “bunny-ear” antenna and crumpled aluminum foil at the ends on Monday nights in 1966 when the show first aired.
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Get ready for Holly Jolly Holiday in WaucondaNov 27, 2024 2:57 pm - Holly Jolly Holiday, formerly Holiday Walk on Main, will be held from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, at the Wauconda Park District community center, 600 N. Main St., Wa...
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Santa’s parade route set in LibertyvilleNov 27, 2024 2:57 pm - The route has been set in Libertyville for the annual Santa Parade through town, beginning at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, in the northwest corner of the village.
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F1 great Ayrton Senna’s high-octane life the focus of new Netflix series about racing champion
Nov 27, 2024 12:52 pm - Thirty years after his death in a high-speed crash viewed by millions around the world, Formula One champion Ayrton Senna’s high-octane life is also about to play out in the six-episode Netflix series “Senna” debuting Friday, Nov. 29.
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NBC honors John Madden on Thanksgiving by taking the original Madden Cruiser on one last trip
Nov 27, 2024 12:08 pm - On Thursday, NBC will continue to honor John Madden’s legacy when it opens its broadcast before the nightcap between the Miami Dolphins and Green Bay Packers. The two-minute open features the original Madden Cruiser traveling from the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, to Lambeau Field.
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Mario Lopez holiday movie filmed in Long Grove set to debut Dec. 7Nov 27, 2024 11:22 am - Get ready to see the suburbs’ favorite movie backdrop on screen again next week when “Once Upon a Christmas Wish” starring Mario Lopez premieres on the Great American Family channel.
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Angelina Jolie is graceful and sharp as opera star Maria Callas in ‘Maria’Nov 27, 2024 11:07 am - Angelina Jolie glides through the final days of Maria Callas’ short life in Pablo Larraín’s “Maria,” a dramatic, evocative elegy to the famed soprano. It’s an affair that’s at turns melancholy, biting and grandly theatrical.