For “The Sound of Music” director Aaron Gomez, tradition runs deep. “I think this is such a classic,” said Gomez, secretary of Theatre 121. “I think audiences tend to be […]
By Jan Bosman Poet Naomi Shihab Nye could not have defined 2021 any better than this excerpt from her poem, “Burning the Old Year”: So much of any year is […]
McHenry County College is hosting the 2022 Skyway Juried Art Competition through April 12 in Art Galleries One and Two, inside and outside the library. The annual Illinois statewide competition […]
A few weeks ago, the brown paper came down from the storefront windows at 105 E. Judd St., revealing the American Trails Gallery. Several years in the making, the gallery […]
Members of the Clayworkers’ Guild of Illinois are shaping a new future for themselves. Originally located inside the Old Courthouse for more than 20 years, and known for an annual […]
A polygamist, a thief, and a cheat, James Strang proclaimed himself divine king of earth, heaven, and the 78-square-mile Beaver Island, Mich., before he was assassinated in 1856. “The most […]
Magic, music acts March 27 to benefit families in need An afternoon of magic and music at the Woodstock Opera House will benefit programs of the Woodstock Area Community Ministries […]
“Music is for everyone,” Verda Dierzen Early Learning Center music teacher Chris Rausch said. “It is good to have fun and be silly, too.” The 2006 Woodstock High School graduate […]
Author Stephen Coss calls the 2020 cancellation of the NCAA March Madness tournament his “Harvard commencement moment.” “Come again?” you say. Several months after it began its deadly course through […]
The Woodstock Folk Festival will present a virtual tribute to Bill Staines at 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 6, which would have been his 75th birthday. The program of words and […]
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