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Enjoy live music performances with Gail Borden Library

By Liz Clemmons, Gail Borden Public Library
Mar 07, 2024 11:29 pm - Gail Borden Public Library offers a variety of music programs this spring. Sign up for any of these concerts at gailborden.info/register, by calling (847) 429-4597 or in ...
Get your Irish on: St. Patrick’s Day parades this weekend

By Alicia Fabbre
Mar 07, 2024 8:14 pm - Everyone’s a bit o’ Irish this time of year, and St. Patrick’s Day parades are aplenty across the suburbs. Here are a few ways to show off your green and have some St. Patrick’s Day fun this weekend.
Best cameo? Best hat? Ahead of the Oscars, AP hands out its own awards

By LINDSEY BAHR and JAKE COYLE
Mar 07, 2024 3:54 pm - The Academy Awards honor many things in movies but not some of the most important. Ahead of Sunday’s Oscars, AP Film Writers Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle make selections for their own awards — some more offbeat than others.
Writer-director Julio Torres proves a storyteller to cheer with awesome ‘Problemista’

By MARK KENNEDY
Mar 07, 2024 3:33 pm - The hero of “Problemista” sees the world differently. He’s an aspiring toy designer named Alejandro who thinks today’s toys are too fun. He’s the creation of Julio Torres, who stars, directs and wrote “Problemista,” an off-kilter and very winning film.
‘Cabrini’ tells the unknown story behind the well-known name

By Ann Hornaday
Mar 07, 2024 3:26 pm - “Cabrini,” an illuminating if workmanlike portrait of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, tells the story of the woman behind the name that has graced hundreds of shrines, hospitals, parks and schools around the world.
Ron Onesti: Where have all the ballrooms gone?

By Ron Onesti
Mar 07, 2024 2:31 pm - A chat with an old friend brings memories of the bygone era when a grand ballroom graced every neighborhood and folks “lived to dance.”
And the Oscar goes to ... a movie most people have seen

By JAKE COYLE
Mar 07, 2024 1:36 pm - The Oscars are poised to do something on Sunday that they haven’t done in a very long time: Hand its top award to a blockbuster.
John Cena gets the laughs in middling comedy ‘Ricky Stanicky’

By LINDSEY BAHR
Mar 07, 2024 12:59 pm - Peter Farrelly’s “Ricky Stanicky” feels like one of those lesser 2000 comedies that wanted so badly to be “There’s Something About Mary.” One of the problems is that it is filmed with all the artfulness of a yogurt commercial.
Oscars producers promise cameos and surprises for Sunday’s (1 hour earlier) show

By LINDSEY BAHR
Mar 07, 2024 12:22 pm - With just a few days to go until the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday (airing one hour earlier at 6 p.m.), the show’s producers are feeling good about what they’ve put together.
‘Kung Fu Panda 4’ is a sweet, fun and well executed passing of the torch

By MARK KENNEDY
Mar 07, 2024 5:45 am - “Kung Fu Panda 4” finds our trusty, rotund hero Po at a career crossroads and he’s nervous. “Kung Fu Panda 4” also finds the franchise at an inflection point, but there’s no reason for us to be nervous. DreamWorks knows what it’s doing.

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