Heartland Theatre Company brings Venus in Fur, by David Ives, to Bloomington-Normal for its 39th season opener. Kathleen Kirk directs the play, a comedy with a sharp message about gender equality.

A Bloomington woman is the author of a new children’s book that spotlights real kids living with medical challenges.

Taylor Mathews is a competitor on the History Channel show "Forged in Fire." Mathews is co-owner of his family-owned shop, Edge of Normal Workshop, which just moved to a new location near Downtown Bloomington.

Delightfully mild weather helped to bring out big crowds for this year’s Sweet Corn Circus in Uptown Normal – enough to gobble up thousands of ears of corn.

Waiting Room Records is hosting its 4th annual free music fest, 'We’re Just Trying to Do Something Nice, Okay?' at the Connie Link Amphitheater at 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 30. The show will raise donations to support Clover’s Cat Club, an animal rescue service in Normal.

Every Friday a group of unhoused people meets in a room at the Junction in Downtown Bloomington to write. They are part of a writing group, an effort to help the unhoused enrich their lives amid a stressful existence.

The Sunflower Days Festival at Rader Family Farms in Normal is for the community to admire, take photos and pick their favorite flowers.

Jen Bervin's first career survey was stunted by the COVID-19 pandemic. University Galleries has decided "Shift Rotate Reflect" deserved another chance. The show runs Aug. 15 to Dec. 10.

Pat Gaik proposed The Baker's Wife as Prairie Fire Theatre's summer production. Once they heard it, they couldn't say no.

After a decade as the Normal theater company's artistic director, Rhys Lovell has announced he'll step down at the end of next season.

The Bloomington Public Library got the idea to create a 2025 time capsule after finding one from 1977 during the library's renovation project.

Nashville collagist David Wilson hasn't had a solo show in Bloomington-Normal since his MFA thesis at Illinois State. But the community remains an important touchstone of his quarter-century career since then.