There are a lot of movies out this holiday season but only one where you can see a slug sing Drake’s “Hotline Bling.” Ah, the magic of cinema! “Sing 2,” the sequel to the 2016 animated hit, packs the jukebox again with more than 40 songs, from BTS to Billie Eilish. The two films ...

MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University’s world-premiere production of “Above the Timberline” has been selected as a finalist for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. The play will be performed virtually in January as part of the Region 3 festival in Madison, ...

A title like “Nightmare Alley,” especially when paired with a filmmaker like Guillermo del Toro, suggests a certain kind of movie. Del Toro, the director of “The Shape of Water” and “Pan’s Labyrinth,” has a signature style after all. But “Nightmare Alley” is not about a ...

Asserting that “our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation” in “The Hill We Climb,” inaugural poet Amanda Gorman urged the nation to account for its history to heal the future. This kinetic idealism now blooms in “Call Us What We Carry,” her new ...

You know you’re in deep doodoo when that planet-destroying comet on a collision course with Earth isn’t your biggest problem. Your biggest problem: You’re the scientist who discovered the darned thing but nobody has the patience or the bandwidth or the political will to believe it. And ...

Thursday 7 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring Electric Words and Music at Superior Culture, Marquette Friday 6 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring Under the Radar at Flanigan’s, Marquette 8 p.m. — Live entertainment featuring Troy Graham at Pine Grove, Republic Saturday 10:30 ...