Datebook

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."

The annual Red Carpet Corridor Festival has activities at communities along Route 66 from Joliet to Bloomington-Normal.

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.'

Ecology Action Center has organized two service days this Earth Month cleaning up plastic waste in McLean County. The first is this Saturday at ISU Farm in Lexington.

Music was on the back burner for the Redbird goal-tender until a few years ago. Jenny Scara is now all in, forging a career in Chicago.

It's been a busy year for ISU bands. Their latest collaboration invites a Chicago mariachi band onstage with the Wind Symphony for Sunday's concert.