Bonding over music
Nothing quite beats a trip to a record store, especially with other people. Regardless of the type of music each person listens to, just sifting through records with someone else can be a special experience that widens someone’s...
Cast Iron Coffee owners Kyle and Daria Mason opened their shop on April 27 to give college students, staff and community members a place to take a load off and get work done. Offering a variety of coffee and chai drinks, Cast Iron, 901 Lucinda Ave....
Spike Lee has released another timely and powerful film,“Da 5 Bloods” on Netflix June 12, that excels in communicating strong themes and immense levels of anger, understanding, passion and maturity.
The film opens up with an assortment of footage...
21-year-old rapper Iann Dior released his second studio album, “I’m Gone” on Friday consisting of nine songs that reached the number 1 pop album in the world by Saturday. Delivering a stony mix of feel good, powerful songs and music to blast while...
In a time where viewing films in a multiplex theater is not an option, a fad of the 1950s has come back in a big way. The drive-in theater, popularized during a time when the leg shaking of Elvis was scandalous and Americans lived in fear of communism,...
DeKALB — DeKalb residents will soon get a taste of an assortment of locally grown produce, baked goods, coffee and other amenities like local food trucks at the downtown farmer’s market.
Starting at 10 a.m. Thursday, at Van Buer Plaza, the DeKalb...
As the social climate of our country continues to stir, the music that fueled social change in the past is rising in the charts. The music of the civil rights movement throughout the ages has risen in popularity in recent weeks.
Music dating as far...
The Egyptian Theatre has received a one-time $2,000 grant to use toward essential, organizational expenditures: employee payroll and rent and/or improvements to the organization’s websites that help to promote their mission and continue their programming,...
The fight for justice and equality has spawned countless movies and TV shows that have become essential allies in the fight. Now, more than ever, watching movies like “Do the Right Thing,” “BlacKkKlansman” and TV shows like HBO’s “Watchmen”...
As streaming services enable beginning and experienced musicians to post music recorded anywhere, recording studios have become used less and less. Statista reports there were 1,793 U.S. recording studios in 2008. In 2014 the number was 1,693. However,...
DeKALB – After Illinois’ Stay-at-Home order expired on May 29, local businesses started returning to work with new rules set in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19, while keeping customers and employees safe. Among the businesses in DeKalb opening...
The Egyptian Theatre renovations have proceeded without pause and will soon conclude despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Jeanine Holcomb, marketing and communications director at the Egyptian Theatre, 135 N. Second St., said that last week, for the first time...
