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3 days ago
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Tickets for Chicago celebration for Pope Leo now on sale
CHICAGO (WGN) – A celebration of the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first pope born in the United States and Chicago, will be held at Rate Field in June. Tickets are now on sale on June 14 event at Rate Field. Tickets can be purchased for $5 on Ticketmaster The event will feature music, film, in-person testimonials and prayers. A Catholic Mass will then be held after the program. Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Prevost, grew up in south suburban Dolton and his childhood home is now up for auction. The pope, a White Sox fan as confirmed by his brother, was also spotted in the Rate Field stands (then U.S. Cellular Field) during Game 1 of the 2005 World Series against the Houston Astros. The 'Don't Stop Believin'' White Sox swept the Astros that year in the Fall Classic, winning their first World Series Championship since 1917. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
65 stages with concerts for one day in Modesto. See when, how to be there
The popular Modesto Porchfest returns with local musicians performing on outdoor home stages. Central West Ballet brings a classic tale to the Gallo Center, while the State Theatre hosts a tribute band. All these events are planned for May 17-23 in the Modesto region. Music lovers will gather for scattered outdoor concerts during the annual Modesto Porchfest. More than 65 stages will be set up throughout the La Loma, College and downtown neighborhoods with homeowners hosting bands on porch, patio and driveway stages. For a map of locations, see the website below. WHEN: Noon-5 p.m. May 18 WHERE: Various locations ADMISSION: Free, with tip jars available to benefit the musicians ONLINE: Central West Ballet brings 'The Sleeping Beauty' to the Gallo Center. 'A pageant in the gorgeous tradition of story ballets. See all the greatest fairytale characters attend Princess Aurora's wedding: Cinderella, Puss in Boots and the White Cat, Tom Thumb and Little Red Riding Hood,' the center's website says of the production. There will a Sleeping Beauty Boutique in the lobby and Fairytale Parties on stage after each matinee to meet the characters. WHEN: 2 p.m. May 17-18, 7 p.m. May 17 WHERE: Gallo Center for the Arts, 1000 I St., Modesto TICKETS: $35-$81 ONLINE: Journey USA – The Hits of Journey brings its tribute to the classic rock band to the State Theatre. The band combines crowd participation and a multimedia production featuring narration, video and special effects. Expect hits such as 'Don't Stop Believin',' 'Open Arms,' 'Separate Ways' and 'Any Way You Want It.' WHEN: 8 p.m. May 23 WHERE: State Theatre, 1307 J St., Modesto TICKETS: $35-$55 ONLINE: Get the Eat. Sip. Play. newsletter in your inbox Available now: Sign up here for the best food, drink and entertainment coverage in Stanislaus County.
Los Angeles Times
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Rilo Kiley's reunion is right on time at Just Like Heaven
'Can you believe,' Jenny Lewis asked, 'this is our third show in 17 years?' Wearing the same outfit she'd worn at the first two — polka-dot mini-dress, white ruffle socks, a glittering tiara perched atop her head — Lewis was onstage Saturday night with her band Rilo Kiley at the Just Like Heaven festival in Pasadena. 'It's truly amazing to be here with you all,' she told the crowd of thousands spread across the leafy grounds surrounding the Rose Bowl. 'But mostly,' she added, turning to her bandmates, 'it's amazing to be here with you all.' One of the defining Los Angeles rock bands of the last quarter-century, Rilo Kiley formed in 1998 — both Lewis and the group's other singer and songwriter, Blake Sennett, had been child actors — then spent the next decade steadily approaching the big time with clever if jaundiced songs about sex, bad decisions and the Hollywood dream machine. Yet just as the band was poised to blow up, Rilo Kiley split amid creative and personal tensions between Lewis and Sennett, who'd also been romantically involved. Now, for the first time since 2008, the group — rounded out by Pierre De Reeder and Jason Boesel — is on the road playing shows again; its reunion tour launched last week with gigs in San Luis Obispo and Ojai and is scheduled to run through the fall. The timing makes sense, given that Lewis over the intervening years has become something of an older-sister figure for a subsequent generation or two of smart young musicians writing about all the ways the world can disappoint a woman in her 20s. (Think Phoebe Bridgers, think Haim, think Olivia Rodrigo.) Then again, nostalgia is rarely required to justify itself, as Just Like Heaven made clear. A fixture of the Southern California festival landscape since 2019, this annual show brings together veterans of early-2000s indie rock to relive memories of an era before streaming and social media remade pop music; other acts high on the bill this year included Vampire Weekend, TV on the Radio, Bloc Party, the Drums and Toro y Moi. Near the end of its headlining set on Saturday, Vampire Weekend offered up what frontman Ezra Koenig called 'a salute to indie' — strung-together covers of period hits by Phoenix, Tame Impala, Beach House, Grizzly Bear and TV on the Radio — in a slot the band typically dedicates to audience requests for oldies like 'Don't Stop Believin' ' or 'Dancing in the Dark.' That Grizzly Bear's 'Two Weeks' now qualifies as a classic was a fact nobody seemed to need convincing. Indeed, Lewis has said that part of what led her to reconvene Rilo Kiley was the huge success of a recent reunion tour by the Postal Service, the electro-pop side project that she and Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard introduced in 2003 and which last year headlined Just Like Heaven after earlier selling out three nights at the Hollywood Bowl. Yet if all that eagerness to reminisce made easy pickings of folks in Pasadena, Rilo Kiley played with more muscle and panache than it needed to on Saturday in an hour-long set that showcased the band's impressive versatility. 'The Execution of All Things' and 'With Arms Outstretched' were crisp and strummy, while 'The Moneymaker' rode a raunchy soul-rock groove and 'Dreamworld' evoked the glossy menace of mid-'70s Fleetwood Mac. Now as during the group's heyday, what elevated the performance was Lewis' skill as a storyteller: the torch-song melancholy she found in 'I Never,' about a woman betting too much on a relationship, and the perfectly soapy romantic drama of 'Does He Love You?' in which she plays two of the three parts in a doomed love triangle. For the latter, she grabbed a video camera and roamed the stage, sending footage of her bandmates to the giant screen behind her — not just the star of the Rilo Kiley show but its director too. On Spotify, the band's biggest song is the coolly self-assured 'Silver Lining,' from its darkly funny final LP, 'Under the Blacklight,' and here Lewis delivered it with a swaggy nonchalance. But the true heads know that Rilo Kiley's real should've-been-a-hit was 2004's sly yet ebullient 'Portions for Foxes' — 'The talking leads to touching / And the touching leads to sex,' goes one key line — which is why the group finished with the song at Just Like Heaven. As she sauntered offstage, Lewis blew a kiss to the crowd, then jumped back to her microphone, grabbed a Modelo she'd left behind and took a sip through a straw.
Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘It resonated with a lot of people': Rory McIlroy reflects on his Masters win, prepares for Zurich
Rory McIlroy is barely a week and a half from the defining victory of his professional life, and he's still riding the shock waves and coasting on the glory of a green jacket. 'It's not every day you get to fulfill one of your lifelong goals and dreams,' he said Wednesday, 'and I've just really tried to enjoy everything that comes along with that.' The Masters win stands as one of the most notable in recent golf history, and to McIlroy, who spent more than 10 years trying to win a major and a lifetime trying to win the Masters, that's because it wasn't just about golf. 'I think people can see themselves in the struggle at times, and everything that you sort of try to put into getting the best out of yourself in that journey,' he said. 'I think people watching someone finally get it done, something they've been trying to do for a decade-plus, I think it resonated with a lot of people.' Although he's now got a fancy new jacket, he's also still got a day job, and that brought him to New Orleans this weekend for the Zurich Classic. He and Ryder Cup teammate/best pal Shane Lowry are the defending champions at the pairs event, and they're hoping to replicate the success that had them singing 'Don't Stop Believin'' karaoke last year: This is not a drill. Rory McIlroy singing Don't Stop Believing — Brody Miller (@BrodyAMiller) April 28, 2024 'This tournament last year was a really cool moment for both of us. I think it probably injected a little bit of joy back into golf for me in some way, which I think is really, really important, not to lose that,' McIlroy said. 'I had a great year last year, and I think this tournament was sort of the catalyst to the really good golf that I played for the rest of the year.' Last year's event brought out 116,000 fans to TPC Louisiana, and this year's version is likely to match that number since McIlroy is in the field … and stayed in the tournament despite winning the Masters. Lowry laughed about that, saying he remembered standing on the 15th at Augusta National on Sunday, watching the leaderboard and remarking to his caddie that the Zurich date might be in doubt. 'If things didn't go his way, I don't think he'd want to be here,' Lowry said, 'and I thought if things did go his way, he'd want to be somewhere else. But I'm happy he's here.' 'That was one of the things Shane said to me that night, like, 'Are you still wanting to come and play Zurich?'' McIlroy said. 'I said, absolutely. We're defending a title. We had so much fun last year here. Obviously, it's important for me to honor that commitment.' Both recalled their Sunday at Augusta. Lowry had been in contention, but played himself out of the tournament with an ugly Sunday 81. 'Honestly, it was one of the weirdest days ever for me because you're out there trying to win the Masters yourself,' he remembered, 'but then when one of your close friends does it, you have no choice but to be happy for him because it is a great occasion. I think it's a great occasion for golf, for everybody in golf.' 'I do think that the whole day on Sunday at Augusta, I don't think I'll have to ever play a harder round of golf in my life,' McIlroy said. 'I certainly don't want to be placed back on that 15th tee box on that Sunday afternoon.' After he survived that 15th — and a few more challenges besides that — McIlroy finally claimed the green jacket. Since then, he's heard from two presidents and a range of sports and cultural figures, flown across the ocean, and now must figure out what to do with the rest of his golf life. 'I think Rory's goals are, who cares anymore?' Lowry joked, throwing up his hands. 'He can take it easy for a while.' 'I care,' McIlroy insisted, and no one doubts that. Still, for the first time in more than a decade, the pressure is off … at least until the next major rolls around, and the talk of a 2025 grand slam ramps up.
Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘It resonated with a lot of people': Rory McIlroy reflects on his Masters win, prepares for Zurich
Rory McIlroy is barely a week and a half from the defining victory of his professional life, and he's still riding the shock waves and coasting on the glory of a green jacket. 'It's not every day you get to fulfill one of your lifelong goals and dreams,' he said Wednesday, 'and I've just really tried to enjoy everything that comes along with that.' The Masters win stands as one of the most notable in recent golf history, and to McIlroy, who spent more than 10 years trying to win a major and a lifetime trying to win the Masters, that's because it wasn't just about golf. 'I think people can see themselves in the struggle at times, and everything that you sort of try to put into getting the best out of yourself in that journey,' he said. 'I think people watching someone finally get it done, something they've been trying to do for a decade-plus, I think it resonated with a lot of people.' Although he's now got a fancy new jacket, he's also still got a day job, and that brought him to New Orleans this weekend for the Zurich Classic. He and Ryder Cup teammate/best pal Shane Lowry are the defending champions at the pairs event, and they're hoping to replicate the success that had them singing 'Don't Stop Believin'' karaoke last year: This is not a drill. Rory McIlroy singing Don't Stop Believing — Brody Miller (@BrodyAMiller) April 28, 2024 'This tournament last year was a really cool moment for both of us. I think it probably injected a little bit of joy back into golf for me in some way, which I think is really, really important, not to lose that,' McIlroy said. 'I had a great year last year, and I think this tournament was sort of the catalyst to the really good golf that I played for the rest of the year.' Last year's event brought out 116,000 fans to TPC Louisiana, and this year's version is likely to match that number since McIlroy is in the field … and stayed in the tournament despite winning the Masters. Lowry laughed about that, saying he remembered standing on the 15th at Augusta National on Sunday, watching the leaderboard and remarking to his caddie that the Zurich date might be in doubt. 'If things didn't go his way, I don't think he'd want to be here,' Lowry said, 'and I thought if things did go his way, he'd want to be somewhere else. But I'm happy he's here.' 'That was one of the things Shane said to me that night, like, 'Are you still wanting to come and play Zurich?'' McIlroy said. 'I said, absolutely. We're defending a title. We had so much fun last year here. Obviously, it's important for me to honor that commitment.' Both recalled their Sunday at Augusta. Lowry had been in contention, but played himself out of the tournament with an ugly Sunday 81. 'Honestly, it was one of the weirdest days ever for me because you're out there trying to win the Masters yourself,' he remembered, 'but then when one of your close friends does it, you have no choice but to be happy for him because it is a great occasion. I think it's a great occasion for golf, for everybody in golf.' 'I do think that the whole day on Sunday at Augusta, I don't think I'll have to ever play a harder round of golf in my life,' McIlroy said. 'I certainly don't want to be placed back on that 15th tee box on that Sunday afternoon.' After he survived that 15th — and a few more challenges besides that — McIlroy finally claimed the green jacket. Since then, he's heard from two presidents and a range of sports and cultural figures, flown across the ocean, and now must figure out what to do with the rest of his golf life. 'I think Rory's goals are, who cares anymore?' Lowry joked, throwing up his hands. 'He can take it easy for a while.' 'I care,' McIlroy insisted, and no one doubts that. Still, for the first time in more than a decade, the pressure is off … at least until the next major rolls around, and the talk of a 2025 grand slam ramps up.
