La Grange bassist Bob Lizik has felt the ‘Good Vibrations’ for 20 years
By the time the Beach Boys released "Pet Sounds" in 1966, a young Bob Lizik had more or less put the Boys behind him and moved on, musically. He remembers...
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Pickwick Classic Film Series breaks out big guns for fifth season
To celebrate the start of his big fifth season, Pickwick Theatre Classic Film Series founder and host Matthew Hoffman has announced that he's going for the money. Yep. He's finally...
Hebru Brantley: Jay Z, Beyonce and Rahm Emanuel collect his art, now he’s bringing his biggest show to Elmhurst
The Elmhurst Art Museum has scored a major coup by enticing Hebru Brantley, one of the most successful stars in Chicago's art world, to create "Forced Field," an "immersive installation"...
Nurture your nature at Film Festival in the Woods
So, the Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods has a new mission statement. The old one was doing just fine, but they figured after a few decades they could fit in...
Need a night out? New comedy troupe telling jokes in La Grange
For 30 years beginning in the mid-'60s, Erma Bombeck pretty much cornered the market in mom comedy with her nationally syndicated columns and best-selling books. La Grange comic KT Speetzen...
Come sketch on a square for the first Chalk Fest
Whether you're an amateur artist or a professional, here's you chance to leave your mark in Burr Ridge. Specifically, during the very first Chalk Fest event the morning of Aug....
Watch silent movies on the porch at Pleasant Home
Every year around this time, the Pleasant Home foundation makes a big noise with its month-long silent film festival on Friday nights in August. It's not the movies making the...
Teen Elvis performer pays tribute at Eisenhower Library
Thanks to his mom, teenage Elvis Presley tribute artist Hugo Colin already knew a lot of Elvis songs when he was asked to make his debut in his kindergarten talent...
Stone carver shares his skills, and gargoyles, at Kalo Foundation
By the time he was 12 years old, sculptor and stone carver Walter S. Arnold had already picked up a chisel and decided on his future profession. He decided this...
American Music Festival ready to re-rock FitzGerald’s
The longest-running, all-American music blowout in Chicago is returning for a four-day Fourth of July weekend. The 36th annual American Music Festival takes place June 30-July 3 at FitzGerld's in...