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Datebook features interviews and behind-the-scenes reports about new art exhibits, music releases and live performances, theater productions, and other community and charity events taking place throughout the listening area.
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Latest Datebook stories
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Nomad Theatre Company will begin its second season as a year-round company by bringing courtroom dramas to a real-life courtroom in Bloomington. One play is based on true events following a group of ax-wielding ladies from Towanda. -
The coordinated display, arranged on each of the museum's three floors, includes rarely seen items surrounding the theme of death and funerary customs. -
Bloomington's Yolanda Alonso took pictures of women who make traditional Lele dolls and pass the craft down to future generations. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
McLean County's namesake town likely has the highest arcade-to-people ratio in the world. And Arcadia is still growing.
