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In ‘Janet Planet,’ Julianne Nicholson is a mom spinning out of control

By Amy Nicholson
Jun 27, 2024 4:09 pm - Set in a bohemian enclave of Massachusetts during the summer of 1991, “Janet Planet” is a whisper of a movie about a single mother named Janet (Julianne Nicholson), a people pleaser who shifts personalities to suit her lovers and friends, and Janet’s guarded 11-year-old daughter, Lacy (Zoe Ziegler), who is obliged to push the interlopers out.
In its third season, ‘The Bear’ gets avant-garde

By Lili Loofbourow
Jun 27, 2024 1:55 pm - “The Bear,” Christopher Storer’s breakout hit about food — and grief and vocation, perfectionism and mentorship, service and trauma and ego and guilt and repair — returns for Season 3. What the episode “Tomorrow” makes clear is that “The Bear” is getting fancier.
Popular Hey Nonny Songwriting Contest returns

Submitted by Jim Mitchell
Jun 27, 2024 1:44 pm - Is there a song just outside your door? Chip Brooks, co-owner of Hey Nonny, Arlington Heights’ thriving music venue and bistro, thinks so. And he’s ready to help you find...
Cookie shop catering to your late-night sweet tooth coming to Naperville this summer

By Rick West
Jun 27, 2024 12:41 pm - Insomnia Cookies is slated to open this summer in Naperville along Chicago Avenue, near North Central College.
Cheers! 18 suburban restaurants honored with Wine Spectator awards

By Rick West
Jun 27, 2024 11:03 am - Eighteen suburban eateries were recently honored with 2024 Wine Spectator Restaurant Awards.
Shhhh ... the novelty is gone in ‘A Quiet Place’ prequel

By LINDSEY BAHR
Jun 27, 2024 10:48 am - Not all successful movies need to be franchises. In the case of “A Quiet Place,” now on its third movie with a prequel about a few new characters in New York on the first day of the invasion, the thrill of that fresh idea has waned.
Classic Steppenwolf: Exceptional ‘Little Bear Ridge Road’ reveals Chicago theater at the height of its powers

By Barbara Vitello
Jun 27, 2024 10:18 am - Steppenwolf Theatre representatives say there are no plans at present to transfer its premiere of “Little Bear Ridge Road” by Samuel D. Hunter to Broadway. Hopefully that will change. Hunter’s poignant examination of loneliness, inertia and failed families is that good.
Bill Cobbs, the prolific and sage character actor, dies at 90

By JAKE COYLE
Jun 27, 2024 6:44 am - Bill Cobbs, the veteran character actor who became a ubiquitous and sage screen presence as an older man, has died. He was 90.
Taxicab confessions with Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn in ‘Daddio’

By LINDSEY BAHR
Jun 27, 2024 5:30 am - It’s late at night when Dakota Johnson hops into a yellow taxicab at Kennedy airport in the new film “Daddio.” She’s just going home to Manhattan. And her cabdriver (Sean Penn) decides to strike up a conversation that will last the duration of this nearly 100-minute ride. And talk they certainly do.
Kevin Costner sets the table with overstuffed first take on epic ‘Horizon’

By MARK KENNEDY
Jun 27, 2024 5:30 am - “You just gotta keep going” should be the slogan of Kevin Costner’s new Western “Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1,” the initial three-hour salvo in what could morph into a four-part epic about the West that could tax even the biggest cowboy fan.

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