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A foot-tall elephant? ‘Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age’ on Apple TV reveals surprising creatures

By MARK KENNEDY
Nov 30, 2025 2:08 pm - A hyper-realistic picture of life during that Pleistocene era emerges with Apple TV’s five-part, computer-driven “Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age,” which takes place millions of years after the dinosaurs’ extinction.
Tom Stoppard, sparkling playwright who won an Oscar for ‘Shakespeare In Love,’ dies at 88

By JILL LAWLESS
Nov 29, 2025 9:19 pm - British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love,” has died. He was 88.
Elgin cancels Saturday tree lighting ceremony

By Dave Oberhelman
Nov 29, 2025 2:35 pm - Elgin cancels Saturday’s Tree Lighting Ceremony due to weather.
St. Charles Electric Christmas Parade canceled Saturday due to snowstorm

By Joey Welso
Nov 29, 2025 1:27 pm - St. Charles’ annual Electric Christmas Parade has been canceled because of the snow that’s expected to leave at least half a foot of snow on the ground.
25 holiday TV offerings to watch ranging from comedies and rom-coms to cozy mysteries

By ALICIA RANCILIO
Nov 28, 2025 11:03 am - Streamers, cable and broadcast networks offer up festive choices in December, including music specials with Derek Hough and Jimmy Fallon, the Rockefeller Tree lighting hosted by Reba McEntire, Lacey Chabert’s latest Hallmark Channel movie, NFL games and even cozy mysteries with a Christmas theme.
In ‘Left-Handed Girl,’ surrender to one of the world’s cutest child actors

By Jada Yuan
Nov 28, 2025 9:58 am - This weekend, a stunner of a Taiwanese movie, “Left-Handed Girl,” is dropping on Netflix, offering escape to a world of neon lights and night markets, moped rides and drunken romance.
‘Stranger Things’ goes high-concept in its grisly final season

By Lili Loofbourow
Nov 28, 2025 9:01 am - “Stranger Things,” which unveiled Volume 1 of its final season this week, did not scream “high-concept” when it debuted in 2016. Having seen four of the final season’s nine episodes, I can attest that there’s a lot of gratifying new material, particularly for fellow fans of author Madeleine L’Engle and Noah Schnapp, and one very weird subplot.
Christmas-themed seasonal pop-up bar opening in Port Barrington

By Steve Zalusky
Nov 26, 2025 4:29 pm - A pop-up bar inspired by a turn-of-the 20th-century boat captain who delivered Christmas trees to families in need is opening next week in Port Barrington.
BTE’s charming ‘Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley’ celebrates friendship, artistic expression

By Barbara Vitello
Nov 26, 2025 4:07 pm - Buffalo Theatre Ensemble’s charming revival of “Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley” marks its third and final production of Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s “Pride and Prejudice”-inspired trilogy.
The greatest mystery of Rian Johnson’s ‘Knives Out’ movies? Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc.

By JAKE COYLE
Nov 26, 2025 1:52 pm - The greatest mystery in Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” movies might be Benoit Blanc. Over the course of three films, Johnson and Daniel Craig have stingily dropped clues to Blanc’s past and personal life.

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