Lifestyle
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Local Scouting volunteers to be honored at Three Fires Council recognition dinnerJun 15, 2023 11:00 pm - Three Fires Council, Boy Scouts of America will be hosting its annual Council Recognition Dinner on Tuesday, June 20, at Blackberry Farm in Aurora. This event celebrates...
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Widescreen: Vivien Leigh, Pete Davidson and the weirdest double feature everJun 15, 2023 6:00 am - As someone who professes to be a film lover, I am embarrassed to admit I had never seen the 1951 Tennessee Williams classic “A Streetcar Named Desire” until this past Tu...
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Western Springs home cook brings local flavor to PBS' 'The Great American Recipe' challengeJun 15, 2023 6:00 am - Season two of “The Great American Recipe” premieres Monday, June 19, on PBS, and Ted Pappas, a semiretired architect from Western Springs, is one of the cooks chosen to ...
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Tom Holland describes Apple TV+'s 'The Crowded Room' as his 'hardest' and 'most rewarding' job so far
Jun 15, 2023 6:00 am - The words "Tom Holland" and "spoilers" can immediately illicit snickering. There are compilation videos on YouTube of the "Spider-Man " star accidentally revealing too m...
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Ezra Miller speeds back to the future in 'The Flash,' fueled by calories and cameos
Jun 15, 2023 6:00 am - “The Flash” - ★ ★ ½ “It's not nice to fool Mother Nature,” went a famous '70s commercial catchphrase. But we learn in “The Flash” - the much awaited, long gestated new D...
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Neighbors in the News: District U-46 names its new superintendentJun 15, 2023 6:00 am - • Streamwood resident Suzanne Johnson was named superintendent of School District U-46, the state's second-largest school district. Johnson began her career in education...
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Pixar scores a modest marvel in romantic, opposites-attract comical fantasy 'Elemental'Jun 15, 2023 5:00 am - “Elemental” - ★ ★ ★ Charming. Delightful. Spectacularly stunning. “Elemental” clearly belongs on Pixar's periodic table of animated features, right down to the bubbling ...
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Through personal ups and downs, they've waited years to perform Hajj. These are their stories
Jun 15, 2023 1:00 am - This year's Hajj is a landmark: the first full pilgrimage after a daunting three-year period when the COVID-19 pandemic sharply reduced the scale of one of Islam's holie...
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St. Charles Kiwanis offering grants to help local childrenJun 15, 2023 1:00 am - The St. Charles Kiwanis Club will be accepting grant applications for the 2024 fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1. The club awards grants to more than 30 area organization...
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Two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson, who mixed acting with politics, dies at 87
Jun 15, 2023 1:00 am - LONDON - Glenda Jackson, a two-time Academy Award-winning performer who had a second career in politics as a British lawmaker before an acclaimed late-life return to sta...