Entertainment
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Q&A: Author Rebecca Serle shares what’s behind her ‘magical realism’ and new book ‘Expiration Dates’
Mar 22, 2024 10:58 am - In Rebecca Serle’s new book “Expiration Dates: A Novel,” the protagonist, Daphne, knows when her relationships will end. A slip of paper always shows up with a name and a...
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In ‘Shirley,’ an underestimated Black congresswoman in an undercooked film
Mar 22, 2024 9:13 am - Regina King gives a lively, convincing portrayal of pioneering U.S. Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm in “Shirley,” an earnest, curiously listless biopic of a woman whose legacy suffuses modern life, even as it goes unacknowledged.
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Ramy Youssef constantly asks if jokes are harmful or helpful. He keeps telling them anyway
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First Watch breakfast restaurant opens Monday in Des PlainesMar 21, 2024 11:42 am - First Watch, a Florida-based restaurant chain serving breakfast, brunch and lunch, will open a new location Monday at 2841 Mannheim Road in Des Plaines. The restauran...
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DwellSocial brings some of Chicago’s favorite foods to the suburbsMar 21, 2024 11:19 am - In a pivot that only the pandemic could inspire, a company that started as a way to bring together homeowners and contractors now brings food from some of Chicago’s favorite restaurants to the suburbs.
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Beyoncé will receive the Innovator Award at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards
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A remake of ‘Road House’ with Jake Gyllenhaal turns into a muscular, Florida rompMar 21, 2024 5:45 am - Elwood P. Dalton is a classy sort of bouncer. Dalton — played by a muscular and languid Jake Gyllenhaal — is a former UFC fighter with a dark past in “Road House,” a reworking of the pulpy 1989 action film starring Patrick Swayze.
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Things get scary for Sydney Sweeney in a creepy Italian convent in ‘Immaculate’
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Bensenville Park District to host free Egg Hunt and EggstravaganzaMar 20, 2024 10:38 pm - Hop to it! It’s fun for the whole family when the Bensenville Park District’s annual Egg Hunt and Eggstravaganza returns Saturday, March 23, to the Bensenville Water Park...
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A no-Gozer: New ‘Ghostbusters’ sequel a frosty ghost of its 1984 originalMar 20, 2024 6:18 pm - Once again, the new, nostalgic “Ghostbusters” sequel “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” can’t match the wit, breezy fun and fresh imagination of the inspired original, co-written by Chicago’s Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd.