Connie Lauerman

You can't stop rock 'n' roll--or for that matter, Elvis. While reports of Elvis sightings seem to have tapered off, some people still believe the King isn't really dead. What...

There's more than one Impressionist exhibition in town this summer. On view at the Terra Museum of American Art are 46 paintings by Dennis Miller Bunker, a native New Yorker...

Every two years Columbia College's Museum of Contemporary Photography invites a guest curator from outside the field to select a presentation of work from the museum's permanent collection. This time...

Today is Trinity Day, the 50th anniversary of the test detonation of the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert, an event that altered the course of history weeks...

Can anything about the bomb be humorous? Well, maybe theatrically. Beginning Friday, SummerNITE, Northern Illinois University's Chicago-based theatre, will present "Terminal Cafe," a comic look back at the true story...

A series of printmaking workshops involving artists in Illinois and Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1992 yielded a feast for the eyes now on display at the Illinois Art Gallery. The project,...

Finally, a musical that picks up where "Hair" left off. "Heartbeats," conceived by Amanda McBroom and Bill Castellino, is the warm, bittersweet story of marriage in the '90s told through...

Splinter Group, which produces a yearly "Buckets o' Beckett" festival in tribute to the genius of the Irish-born Samuel Beckett, has just re-opened two programs from the recent fest. "Krapp's...

`Movies From the Magreb," a series of North African films, continues at the Film Center of the School of the Art Institute with two award-winning Tunisian films, "Bezness" and "Halfaoquine,...

A dream inspired Joseph E. Yoakum to begin drawing at the age of 74. Untrained but possessing a lifetime of memories and a prodigous imagination, Yoakum spent the remainder of...