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Chicago Media Report: Bulls’ Chuck Swirsky celebrates 50 years on air — and new sports anchor joins NBC 5 • Chicago Theater Report: A new ‘Dirty Dancing,’ the ‘Strange Loop’ cast and a timely Dolly Parton musical
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Wednesday, September 2, 2026

15 TV shows for fall

The fall TV season brings the return of network shows, back after the summer hiatus.

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Chicago Media Report: Bulls’ Chuck Swirsky celebrates 50 years on air — and new sports anchor joins NBC 5

The latest Chicago Media Report introduces the new weekend sports anchor at NBC 5 Chicago and explores Chuck Swirsky’s 50 years of high-energy sports talk.

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Chicago Theater Report: A new ‘Dirty Dancing,’ the ‘Strange Loop’ cast and a timely Dolly Parton musical

“Dirty Dancing” has a new tour arriving in Chicago and its distinguished director, Lonny Price, says it is a whole new treatment of how Baby gets out of her corner.

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Mel Gibson pleads ‘idiocy’ after imitating ASL interpreter at fan event

Mel Gibson blames “idiocy” on his decision to impersonate an interpreter for the hearing impaired at a Canadian Fan Expo event.

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Menudo reunites for 50th anniversary tour with a stop at the Rosemont Theatre

Menudo, widely considered one of the most popular Latino boy bands of all time, will reunite for a six-day run this fall in celebration of their 50th anniversary.

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Meep, meep. ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ opens with $15.5 million, ‘Spider-Man’ stays No. 1 for fifth weekend.

Three years after Warner Bros. abruptly canned “Coyote vs. Acme,” the Looney Tunes feature film that was given a new lease on life by Ketchup Entertainment debuted with an estimated $15.5 million in ticket sales over the weekend.

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Theater top 10 for fall 2026: Culture wars, campus controversies and epic change

Our critic’s picks for the season include “Birth of the Pill” at TimeLine, “Kowalski” at Lookingglass and the Victory Gardens Biograph returning to life.

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Actress Jaime Pressly asked multiple times to leave hotel lobby: report

“Out of sorts” actor Jaime Pressly was reportedly asked to leave a California hotel days before missing her GalaxyCon appearance in San Jose.

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Review: ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ has a surprisingly deep message

There’s a poignant poetry in the Sisyphean quest of Looney Tunes character Wile E. Coyote.

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Dance for fall 2026: Joffrey’s dark new ‘Liliom,’ the annual Tap Summit and two guys named Bob

This fall, along with the Joffrey’s local debut, a Giordano sizzler and some VIP out-of-towners at the Auditorium, including the Dance Theatre of Harlem.

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Review: Post-apocalyptic ‘Dog Stars’ is more sweet than bleak

The 88-year-old moviemaker Ridley Scott has churned out eight films in the last 11 years; the apocalyptic drama “The Dog Stars” doesn’t fit the mold of any of his previous features.

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