Video gaming + Orchestra = gamber music? Maybe… Of course it would be Volition responsible for bringing you orchestral renditions of music from World of Warcraft, Halo, Tetris, Kingdom Hearts and LEGO Star Wars, among …
Posts by Rebecca Knaur:
Champaign contains a little prodigious piano talent
Rebecca is introduced to local pianist, 7 year-old David Wang, who returns to Carnegie Hall next week.
Long Lost finds its feet at Illinois Theatre
In its second incarnation, the Sullivan Project brings Donald Margulies to C-U so Illinois Theatre can help bring his new play to life.
Local celebrity revitalizes homegrown hashtag
I’ve followed legendary drummer, comb collector and philosopher Angie Heaton on Twitter for several years now, and didn’t realize the hole in my life that was left by the absence of #tsurst until a recent post about …
Apply for summer job at Giertz Gallery
Thanks to the budget impasse (all SPlogs will now begin with this phrase), Parkland wasn’t sure if the Summer Youth Employment Grant would come through from the Illinois Arts Council, but after the disastrous GA …
Figure One to talk about White Feelings
Rebecca learns about the new exhibition opening downtown, turns out it’s as hard to write about as it is to talk about.
Only @KCPA: Tony Award-winning director and Pulitzer Prize-winning author hold summer production
Last week, Donald Margulies presented a Q&A after his film The End of the Tour screened at Spurlock Museum. What we didn’t know was that he was in town for the rehearsals of his work-in-progress Long Lost, …
This Reading Room reads to you
From the files of “Who Knew? (Everyone other than me)”, Smile Politely Arts brings you a belated introduction to The Reading Room, held once a month at the Accord, coming up this weekend.
Do you know family drama? Audition this weekend
Do you think you would make a vitriolic mother? Perhaps you’re more like the laconic alcoholic ex-poet patriarch. You could be the epitome of the awkward young man who is both ready for and terrified …
Homemade ice cream for summer at Cafe&Co
Earlier this month, Bar M hosted an ice cream social, but the goodness did not stop there. Like last year, Cafeteria & Co. will be offering homemade ice cream throughout the summer. This stuff is …