We start 2021 with a look back at what many consider to be the greatest live album ever released, The Allman Bros. Live at the Filmore East. Really, this roots is almost like 2 albums, because we reviewed the deluxe edition of the album that includes tracks from that 3 night stint at the Filmore that…
Warner Bros. – 2017(NEW YORK) — Oscar-nominated actress Diane Lane is excited about the forthcoming “Snyder Cut” of Justice League. “Oh, I think it’s fantastic!” Lane gushed to ABC Audio about the birth of the new version. “A one-way street became a two-way street in terms of the fans responding to the material, and then it takes on…
CURTIS BONDS BAKER/NETFLIX © 2020(LOS ANGELES) — After fans binged the recently-dropped third season of the Karate Kid spin-off Cobra Kai, its cliffhanger ending left them aching for more — so much so that the online sportsbook My Bookie is taking wagers on what will happen in the show’s forthcoming fourth season. In the cliffhanger, former enemies Daniel LaRusso and…
ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) — Liam Neeson has acquired a very particular set of skills over the course of the years as an actor and now, he’s thinking about laying them to rest. While speaking with Entertainment Tonight, the Taken series star revealed that retirement is in the near future. “Oh, yeah. I think so,” he said. “I’m 68 and a half.…
St. Rep. Tom Demmer of Dixon says the new state legislature needs to work on pandemic relief. As for the new House Speaker, Demmer says he looks forward to working with people on the other side of the aisle to improve government transparency and make sure people’s voices are heard. Demmer is a Dixon Republican.…
Morris Republican St. Rep. David Welter has priorities he hopes the General Assembly focuses on in the new session. He says the state needs pandemic relief. And he says the financial problems aren’t going away. The Illinois House selected a new speaker Wednesday. Emanuel Chris Welch, a Democrat, says he wants to work with the…
LaSalle County State’s Attorney Todd Martin is organizing his department a little differently than past prosecutors. Instead of one first assistant, he has two deputy chiefs. One’s in charge of violent crimes and the other is handling drug cases. Martin asked the county board yesterday to restore a salary line for one of the prosecutors.…
Tonight The Chicago Blackhawks are in Tampa to face the Lightning. The two teams will be meeting for the second time in three days. Chicago fell 5-1 to Tampa on Wednesday in the season opener. Blackhawks also face the Florida Panthers on Sunday. The Blackhawks did announce yesterday they have placed captain Jonathan Toews…
The Illinois High School Association board of directors met Wednesday morning to continue its discussion to resume sports for the remainder of the school year, but the IHSA announced no significant changes to the current stalemate due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There was hope that the board of directors would announce a target start date…
Yesterday Afternoon, Northern Illinois’s Darius Beane’s pullup jumper with one second left in regulation helped give NIU a 67-65 victory over Akron and their first victory in the MAC conference this season at the Convocation Center in Dekalb. The Huskies will be back on the road on Saturday to face Ball State in Muncie Indiana. …
Bill Oxford/iStockBy DR. SEAN LLEWELLYN and SONY SALZMAN, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Two independent research groups published findings confirming what many scientists have long suspected: The U.S. has its own unique COVID-19 viral variants that are distinct from the U.K. and South African lineages making headlines in recent weeks.On Wednesday, researchers from the Ohio…
narvikk/iStockBy STEPHANIE RAMOS, KATIE O’BRIEN, and ARIELLE MITROPOULOS, ABC News(WORCESTER, Ma.) — Michael Gadbois, a first responder, was used to going the DCU Center for concerts and sporting events.But his most recent trip there was as a COVID-19 patient.”I never thought I would be going into the convention center on a stretcher,” Gadbois told ABC…
Halfpoint/iStockBy ERIN SCHUMAKER, ABC News(AUSTIN, Texas) — Sky-high COVID-19 positivity rates at schools in Austin, Texas, have local health officials on edge.In Travis County, where Austin is located, the COVID-19 testing positivity rate is 20.2% at high schools, 27.1% at middle schools, 19.8% at elementary schools and 10% at preschools.All rates stand far higher than…
Dean Mitchell/iStockBy KATIE KINDELAN, ABC News(NEW YORK) — Flo, a widely used period and fertility-tracking app, has reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over allegations the company shared users’ health data it had promised to keep private.The FTC alleges that Flo disclosed health information as sensitive as a user’s pregnancy to third parties…
