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Regionally Speaking: Pierogi Fest 2024
Regarded as "The Wackiest Festival in the Midwest” Pierogi Fest 2024 kicks off this Friday, July 26, 2024. The free event, established to recognize Eastern European heritage will celebrate 30 years in Whiting. Pierogi Fest will run for three days and features dozens of food booths, arts and crafts vendors and of course lots of live entertainment including a headlining performance by “Fly” band Sugar Ray. Lakeshore Public Media host Dee Dotson is joined by Mr. Pierogi Fest himself Toney Panek to get a guide to all things Pierogi Fest.
Newly Approved South Suburban College Cosmetology School
South Suburban College (SSC) is thrilled to announce the launch of our newly approved Cosmetology School, now open for applications. This innovative program is designed to provide students with comprehensive training in the field of cosmetology, preparing them for successful careers in the beauty industry. The SSC Cosmetology School will...
Northwest Indiana Symphony Performs in the Great Outdoors
In Saturday’s (7/20) Lansing Journal (Illinois), Paul Czapkowicz writes, “A picture-perfect Friday night drew an estimated crowd of 1,500 to the Fox Pointe concert venue to hear the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra (NISO) perform for the fourth consecutive year in Lansing. People lined up to enter the venue over an hour before the show. The concert included selections ranging from patriotic offerings such as ‘America the Beautiful’ and the ‘Liberty Bell March’ to movie music from ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Lord of the Rings.’ The show contained a nod to the upcoming Summer Olympics with a performance of ‘Olympic Fanfare and Theme’ by composer John Williams. It even felt like Christmas in July for a while as the Symphony played a spirited rendition of ‘Sleigh Ride.’ Friday marked the start of NISO’s South Shore Summer Music Festival series that involves seven free outdoor performances. The remaining six shows will take place in Gary, Crown Point, Munster, Valparaiso, Hammond, and Griffith…. Kirk Muspratt, NISO’s music director/conductor for over 20 years, [called] the venue … ‘lovely. It’s intimate. The sound is great.’ ”
‘Red, white, and black’ – July presentation on woodpeckers at Sand Ridge Nature Center
SOUTH HOLLAND, Ill. (July 21, 2024) – An interesting and educational seminar on woodpeckers, “Red, White and Black,” was presented on Saturday, July 13, at Sand Ridge Nature Center, located at 15891 Paxton Avenue in South Holland. The seminar was conducted by M.J. and Nick P. inside a classroom, though they also gave an outdoor guided walk on two different trails.
Local Flavor reprise: Pour On Roy house wines are a friendly blend for wine lovers and wine learners
Pour On Roy earns Local Flavor Award for Ashton White and Lawrence Charles Red house wines. Note: It was late 2022 when The Lansing Journal introduced our Local Flavor Awards as a way to celebrate local eateries that offer a signature food or beverage available only in Lansing. We’re reprising the Local Flavor write-ups as a summer series, to remind our readers of the rich flavors available right here in town.
Chicago Way w/John Kass: The voice of my father and where it all began
The Palikari Project: Part I – Rizes | Thirty-five years ago in Oak Lawn, John Kass & his brother Nicholas set a card table with coffee, cigarettes, & a tap recorder, hoping to capture their family’s story from a primary source, their father, Spyros John Kass. The tapes were part of an art project John’s wife Betty put together, a ballet. But the tapes were thought lost and the voice of the Kass patriarch with them after his death in 1992. This is part one those recordings wherein we learn about family’s rural beginnings, life at the ‘root of the mountain,’ and what happens when fascists coming knocking on your door.
Imagine Dragons 2024 tour stopping in Detroit and Chicago next month
Catch the Imagine Dragons “LOOM” tour in Detroit and Chicago during August. Tickets available now for both lawn and standard seating at Pine Knob and Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre. Compare prices on Vivid Seats, SeatGeek, StubHub, and Ticketmaster. “Radioactive” stars Imagine Dragons just dropped their sixth and latest...
Hard Rock Casino and The Urban League Establish IUN Scholarship
Hard Rock Casino Northern Indiana and The Urban League of Northwest Indiana have united to support local high school graduates in their pursuit of earning a degree from Indiana University Northwest. Through the partnership, graduates of any Gary-based high school are eligible to receive the “Do Well by Doing Good”...
BGS 5+5: Kiely Connell
What’s your favorite memory from being on stage?. When I got to play The Chicago Theater. I grew up in the region my whole life and things like that feel so far out of reach. The last show I saw at Chicago Theater before I played on that stage was Iggy Pop! If you would’ve told me back then that 5 years later I’d be standing on that stage I would not have believed you.
Love-Rock Musical HAIR Comes to The Drama Group
Chicago Heights, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The Drama Group ends its celebrated 92nd season with the sensational, groundbreaking Tribal Love-Rock musical HAIR. Andy Leahy directs this presentation; “it is as relevant as ever.” Producing HAIR in the 21st century not only honors the work of Gerome Ragni & James Rado [books and lyrics] and Galt MacDermot [music]. It acknowledges CHANGE and then realizes how some things do not change.
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