Category Archives: Arts

2016 Fall Festival of Independent Film

Join us on the campus of North Central College for… The Sixth Annual Fall Festival of Independent Film. September 18-23, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Old Main’s Smith Hall Admission: $5 per night, general admission, FREE for North Central College students with … Continue reading

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Thaddeus and Slocum: Black-White, White-Black

In his great essay “Junior and John Doe,” James Alan McPherson says, “There used to be the basic, if unspoken, assumption that identity in America is almost always a matter of improvisation, a matter of process…and that, given the provisional … Continue reading

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Prchal Plugged In

The VIDEO below shows a few minutes of Kevin Andrew Prchal and his band, The Wheeling Birds, playing this year’s Two Brothers Summer Fest, River Edge Park, Aurora, Illinois.  Kevin’s alternative and country sound translated so well to the big … Continue reading

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