OLD IRVING PARK — As Old Irving Park prepares for Halloween festivities, neighbors are on edge after masked federal immigration agents unleashed tear gas in the community Saturday, leading to the cancellation of a children’s costume parade. On Halloween, many of of the North Side neighborhood’s residential streets are shut down to car traffic to allow thousands of children and parents …
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Screenshot by Destructoid I’m not sure that’s a good thing. | Published: Oct 24, 2025 02:46 pm The first time I played Pokémon Legends: Arceus, I understood why it’s a game separate from the standard naming conventions of other Pokémon games. The colon after “Pokémon Legends” in the title hinted that more games could come in the future, and I …
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Universal Pictures This article contains spoilers for “Wicked: For Good.” On October 16, Jon M. Chu, the director of “Wicked: Part One” and its forthcoming second part “Wicked: For Good,” spoke to Deadline about the second film and revealed that he had personally approached a mysterious actor to voice the Cowardly Lion, a “new” …
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A weekend of perfection for Max Verstappen around COTA keeps alive the amazing possibility of a title which looked lost long ago. A maximum tally of 33 points from the weekend, with McLaren’s Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri taking 18 and 10 respectively ratchets up the pressure further with five races (and two sprints) to go. The pattern of the …
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Last week, Amazon launched a major update of its line of Alexa-enabled Echo smart speakers and displays. The redesign — led by former Microsoft design chief Ralf Groene, whom Amazon Devices & Services head Panos Panay coaxed out of retirement — included two new Echo Show smart displays. According to Panay, these new models are the first step on a …
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March 16, 2020. That day is in my diary as the day I started to hear buzzing in my ears. And that buzzing has never gone away. Having spent the previous nine years as an audiologist treating people with this problem, I knew instantly what it was – tinnitus, the perception of sounds such as ringing, buzzing or hissing in …
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I keep accidentally ruining regular things for myself. I already can’t use a standard keyboard layout, and now I think I have to buy a really nice monitor. I’ve spent the last few months living with the Alienware AW2725Q, a 27-inch gaming monitor with a 240Hz 4K resolution QD-OLED panel. It’s one of a spate of gaming monitors that came …
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I’m really enjoying Dying Light: The Beast, the latest open-world zombie RPG from Techland. However, when it starts to rain in The Beast, the game starts to become a hard-to-play mess that is ruining what is otherwise a damn fine experience. Thankfully, the devs are aware and are working on a patch. Originally planned to be a big DLC expansion …
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Holly Holm pulled off one of the most stunning upsets in combat sports history when she scored a vicious head kick knockout over Ronda Rousey to become bantamweight champion at UFC 193 in 2015. Sadly her reign ended less than four months later when Holm was submitted by Miesha Tate at UFC 196, but it turns out that wasn’t the …
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Holly Holm pulled off one of the most stunning upsets in combat sports history when she scored a vicious head kick knockout over Ronda Rousey to become bantamweight champion at UFC 193 in 2015. Sadly her reign ended less than four months later when Holm was submitted by Miesha Tate at UFC 196, but it turns out that wasn’t the …
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