Entertainment
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Daily Herald photo contest winners for August 2024Sep 05, 2024 7:50 am - August was a month for capturing the vibrant colors of summer with photos of birds and butterflies, flowers and frogs.
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Netflix’s tight, taut and tension-filled ‘Rebel Ridge’ is a first-rate drama
Sep 05, 2024 5:30 am - “Rebel Ridge” opens with a shot of a lanky, muscular stranger riding into a small, corrupt Southern town — a scene we’ve all seen plenty of times. Except this stranger isn’t in a truck or on a horse. He’s on a bicycle.
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Vocalists invited to join Downers Grove Choral Society for 66th concert seasonSep 05, 2024 12:16 am - The Downers Grove Choral Society, under the direction of artistic director John Patrick Rakes, announces its 66th season. They are inviting new and returning vocalists to join them.
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Arlington Heights’ first brewery on tap to open downtownSep 04, 2024 6:46 pm - Arlington Heights’ first brewery will be only blocks from where owner Eric Lamkins has been crafting his own suds for years.
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All in good fun: Paramount Theatre goes all the way with ‘The Full Monty’Sep 04, 2024 5:23 pm - Paramount Theatre launches its 13th Broadway series with the deliciously titillating tuner “The Full Monty,” adapted from the 1997 film about unemployed steelworkers-turned-strippers.
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A prosecutor asks for charges to be reinstated against Alec Baldwin in the ‘Rust’ case
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Halfway to St. Patrick’s Day Fest returns to Irish American Heritage CenterSep 04, 2024 1:00 pm - The Irish American Heritage Center's Halfway to St. Patrick's Day event returns Sept. 13-15, at 4626 N. Knox Ave., in Chicago.
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‘Beetlejuice’ lite: Keaton kills it in Burton’s watered-down sequel to his visionary, cartoony originalSep 04, 2024 12:58 pm - If “Beetlejuice” was made from fresh-squeezed originality, then Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” would be a watered-down sequel reconstituted from creativity concentrate.
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Parade kicks off Bloomingdale Septemberfest’s 50th anniversarySep 04, 2024 12:16 pm - Bloomingdale Septemberfest is marking its 50th year on Saturday, Sept. 7. The day begins with the parade, which includes the Great Lakes Naval Band and “Royal Court” members from previous festivals.
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FX’s ‘English Teacher’ is an improbable, radically playful triumph
Sep 04, 2024 10:57 am - If you’re in the mood for a brilliant, warmhearted, low-stakes comedy, I have good news: Brian Jordan Alvarez’s new show, “English Teacher,” which debuted Monday on FX, might be it.