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Area Irish pubs are bringing out all the stops for St. Patrick's Day, with beer and whiskey flights, Irish music and dance, corned beef and cabbage and bagpipers galore.
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In transferring the scary movie 'Carrie' to the stage, as a musical, there are some challenges. Like that one scene near the end when, in a horribly cruel prank, Carrie White gets splattered with pig blood at a high school homecoming.
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Work by St. Louis-based photographer Jess T. Dugan blends photographs and text in an exhibit at University Galleries. Called "I Want Your to Know My Story," the show journeys through portraiture and still life with a queer lens — but it's not about queerness.
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"Appropriate" by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a play that is exploring themes of family dysfunction and how a family must come to terms with the past of their patriarch. It's running Wednesday through Sunday at Illinois Wesleyan’s Mirza Theatre.
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Bloomington-Normal may not be known for jazz, but the Further Jazz Festival this weekend will bring together some of central Illinois' best jazz players and scholars.
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Jalen Cunningham is a senior graphic design major at Illinois State University. He was tasked with creating a new clothing line for the ISU Horticultural Center's Autumnal Festival — and one veggie in particular kicked off the whole project.
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The main job of the Bloomington-Normal Area Convention and Visitors Bureau is to attract conferences and trade shows to the Twin Cities. But a new festival aims to engage townies and tourists alike. On Saturday, Front Street will be taken over by food vendors and entertainment for the whole family, centered around — what else? — Beer Nuts!
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Community Players Theatre kicked off its 100th season Thursday with a new production of Robert Harling’s “Steel Magnolias.” The show runs two weekends through Sept. 11 at Community Players Theatre in Bloomington.
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The Illinois Symphony Orchestra (ISO) will change venues this fall, moving its main concert series in the Twin Cities to Illinois State University’s Center for Performing Arts after nearly two decades at the downtown Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts.
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This month's My Playlist guest, Candice Byrd, describes herself as a quirky, natural, mixed kind of vibe Gemini.
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This is the last weekend to see "Crowns" at the Normal Activity Center. It's a production of the Bloomington-based Coalescence Theatre Project. You can find tickets on the theatre's website.
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Director Tom Mitchell makes his Heartland Theatre debut with 'Suddenly Last Summer,' the Normal troupe's season opener. Mitchell finds relevance in Tennessee Williams' timelessly salient themes — and encourages newcomers to avoid dated interpretations cemented on film.