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Chicago-area venue reopens following $70M renovation

Brant Taylor walked onto the stage of the Ravinia Festival’s Hunter Pavilion to rehearse for the first time since a $70 million gut renovation and noticed a huge difference. “I found that in the previous iteration of the shell, I was having to wear protective earplugs quite a lot,” the cellist said. “There was a desire to make the stage clearer and a bit softer for us.” The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s summer home, about 25 miles north of the city, starts its season Saturday night with chief conductor Marin Alsop leading a program with pianist Yunchan Lim and flutist ...

Dutch museum honors late artist by covering floor in peanut butter

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — More than 800 pounds of peanut butter — enough for around 15,000 sandwiches — has been spread across the floor of a museum in the Netherlands in tribute to Dutch artist Wim T. Schippers, who died last month. The conceptual artist, who died at the age of 83, ...

Millie Bobby Brown returns as Sherlock’s sister in ‘Enola Holmes 3’

The “Enola Holmes” movies have done nothing so much as chart Millie Bobby Brown’s evolution from child actor to movie star. She was 16 when the first “Enola Holmes” debuted in 2020. As “Enola Holmes 3” arrives on Netflix, she’s 22. And all three movies have been driven by ...

At the movies — July 11-12

ALTOONA BLAIR DRUG AND ALCOHOL PRESENTS FREE MOVIES LAKEMONT PARK Zootopia 2 — 8:45 p.m. Thursday, July 16 BEDFORD PITT THEATRE Minions & Monsters (PG) and Moana (PG) Saturday and Sunday — 7:30 p.m. SILVER LINING DRIVE-IN Hamilton (PG-13) Saturday — 9:15 ...

Lunch break

Missy Kinney of Clinton County feeds her 3-month-old daughter Scarlett under a tent during the visit of Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 locomotive at Norfolk Southern’s Rose Yard in Altoona on Thursday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski