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Yuletide treat: Marriott Theatre kicks off holidays with high-voltage ‘Million Dollar Quartet Christmas’

By Barbara Vitello
Nov 14, 2025 12:52 pm - For a rockin’ good time, check out Marriott Theatre’s Yuletide treat, “Million Dollar Quartet Christmas.”
Ken Burns, Lin-Manuel Miranda offer history lesson ahead of PBS’ ‘American Revolution’

By HILLEL ITALIE
Nov 14, 2025 10:54 am - Filmmaker Ken Burns and “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda came together recently to discuss one of Burns’ most ambitious projects, “The American Revolution,” a 6-part, 12-hour documentary that premieres at 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16, on PBS stations.
Ken Burns says Americans have been fighting each other since the beginning

By Sonia Rao
Nov 14, 2025 10:28 am - There’s a neon sign in Ken Burns’ editing room that reads, “It’s complicated.” While Burns and co-directors Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt were working on his latest PBS docuseries, “The American Revolution,” the sign encouraged them to question the narratives they had been taught since childhood about the war.
A dying poet embraces life in ‘Come See Me in the Good Light’

By Stephanie Merry
Nov 14, 2025 10:12 am - Periodically, some charismatic person with a terminal diagnosis steps into the role of societal sage. The documentary “Come See Me in the Good Light” gives us a new teacher, the celebrated slam poet Andrea Gibson, who died in July at age 49, four years after an ovarian cancer diagnosis.
A new Ira Sachs film resurrects Peter Hujar, and something far greater

By Philip Kennicott
Nov 14, 2025 9:19 am - The quiet and compelling film “Peter Hujar’s Day” uses Hujar’s own words, discovered on a transcript at the Morgan Library in New York, to recount the minutiae of a single day in the life of the photographer who died of AIDS complications in 1987.
Bad Bunny wins album of the year at the 2025 Latin Grammys, capping an electric night

By MARIA SHERMAN
Nov 14, 2025 7:06 am - It should come as a shock to no one: The 2026 Latin Grammy Awards were all about Bad Bunny. The Puerto Rican superstar won album of the year for his landmark release “Debí Tirar Más Fotos.”
Country House in Geneva closes

By Rick West
Nov 13, 2025 6:55 pm - After more than 30 years in Geneva, Country House restaurant has closed.
Buffalo Grove Symphonic Band’s 25th annual fall concert to be ‘As American as Apple Pie’

Submitted by Buffalo Grove Symphonic Band
Nov 13, 2025 4:59 pm - The Buffalo Grove Symphonic Band will present its 25th annual Fall Concert on Saturday, Nov. 15, at 7 p.m. at Vernon Hills High School, 145 Lakeview Parkway in Vernon Hi...
Evoking a Pacific Northwest past, ‘Train Dreams’ stirs a plaintive elegy

By JAKE COYLE
Nov 13, 2025 4:29 pm - In scouting for “Train Dreams,” director Clint Bentley found it harder than ever to find the old growth forests of the book. If “Train Dreams” is about unearthing a forever-lost American past, locating it for the film was fittingly elusive.
Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys are deadly frenemies in ‘The Beast in Me’

By Lili Loofbourow
Nov 13, 2025 3:38 pm - Matthew Rhys’ smile is a fantastic weapon, and in Netflix’s new thriller “The Beast in Me,” he uses it to maximal effect — particularly when his character is negging Claire Danes’ character, a famous writer named Agatha Wiggs.

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