“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 launched his YouTube channel – titled “Music is for You! – with Mr. Rausch” – to share some of his music lessons with others. “It […]
A five-man crew from the YouTube channel “Beyond the Backlot” popped up in Woodstock on Wednesday for two days of filming at many of the locations used in 1993’s “Groundhog Day.” The completed 20- to 30-minute episode will debut after Jan. 1. The self-described “coolest bunch of movie nerds on the planet” kicked off filming […]
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