Datebook
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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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Owners and attendees of Bloomington's Jazz UpFront venue reflect on the club's legacy after 10 successful years in business. -
Options abound for Mother's Day bunches this Sunday. Or, take her to Community Players for the opening weekend of their laugh-out-loud play, "Moon Over Buffalo." -
A show at Hangar Art Co. in downtown Bloomington centers female artists and artistry. Their work will remain on display throughout the month of May. -
Retired Pantagraph photo editor David Proeber's fine art photography looks at Biblical texts in a contemporary context. His new book is connected to a complementary exhibition at the McLean County Arts Center. -
The annual Red Carpet Corridor Festival has activities at communities along Route 66 from Joliet to Bloomington-Normal. -
Biographer and historian Guy Fraker will give a talk about Ann Rutledge, rumored to be Abraham Lincoln's first sweetheart. -
The Normal Theater has shown thousands and thousands of films since it opened 88 years ago. But one galactic trilogy has never graced the iconic Uptown marquee. -
The concert concludes Logan Campbell's second full year on the podium after decades of leadership by Deanne Bryant. Campbell sought to keep the positive culture of the youth orchestra — while upping the rigor and repertoire. -
A plethora of Easter egg hunts are on tap for the weekend, plus the tail end of Heartland Theatre's living room comedy 'Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.' -
Photographer and filmmaker Jason Lindsey first started sugar making during the pandemic as a way to get over the winter-spring hump. The centuries' old practice is threatened by climate change — capturing in his short film, 'It's Time.'
