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Watching Kobe Bryant play at the Staples Center in Los Angeles was always a bucket-list item for me. I moved to L.A. in 2013 for school eager for the opportunity. I never got the chance. Kobe missed ...

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If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The 'Dancing with the Stars' semi-finalist and 'Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' star begins performances Feb. 2, 2026 Dave Quinn is the ...

Whitney Leavitt is riding the wave of her controversial "Dancing with the Stars" run all the way to Broadway. The "Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" star, 32, will play the role of Roxie Hart in "Chicago" ...

IT IS HARD to decide the wackiest thing about “Wicked”. Perhaps it is the fact that in Oz, the musical’s magical setting, animals work. (A goat is a historian; an owl a preacher.) Perhaps it is that ...

The Neil Diamond-inspired musical "Beautiful Noise" returns to Chicago, with a unique class for people living with Parkinson's disease. The production and the music from Diamond, who was diagnosed ...

Stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande continue to turn in excellent work, but this second part to the beloved musical wasn't worth waiting an entire year for. In preparation for my return to the Land ...

This month marks 50 years since critics and A-list Chicago celebrities Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert debuted their movie review show. The pair moved names and shows a few times in the over two decades ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago's Craig Robinson lent his voice to the new animated adventure "In Your Dreams," as the toy giraffe, Baloney Tony. That comical critter joins a brother and sister as they ...

Sitting at a brief 80 minutes, the Jonas Brothers’ new film, “A Very Jonas Christmas Movie,” knows exactly what it is and wastes no time pretending otherwise. It’s an explosive swirl of holiday magic ...