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Makeshift pond

Female Mallard ducks hunt for food in a flooded yard along Second Street in Tyrone on a recent afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...