Many of us remember our 21st birthdays. Many of us don’t. Some of us haven’t been fortunate to have ours yet. Either way, what you probably do remember is the thrill of legally drinking for the first time and the feeling of invincibility that…
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Jack and the Beanstalk. Hansel and Gretel. The Wizard of Oz. We all know the stories, and as kids we would give anything to hear them told over and over again. But are we willing to pay good money to see them retold in theaters?…
Brace yourselves, Peoria: Jared Bartman is coming. A local Peoria songwriter who has gone on to form his own band, Jared is coming back to his hometown April 26 for a show at the Peoria Contemporary Art Center. Jared will be playing with his band…
I think pop music gets a terrible rap. I feel bad for the genre, thanks to mediocre radio darlings like Carly Rae Jepsen and whomever Disney’s pop star of the week is. Everyone just assumes the entire style is full of non-talented attractive people with…
Everybody grows up, and everybody changes. That is just an unavoidable fact that many music fans refuse to acknowledge. Unfortunately, this is the case with Tegan and Sara’s new album “Heartthrob.” The twins have come back with their seventh studio album. It’s been a very…
It seems that aliens are all the rage in movies these days. Those eerie E.T.s are always part of the big blockbusters, but rarely are they in horror films. And so we have “Dark Skies,” which sells itself as a tense horror-thriller with aliens. The…
There’s no denying that “Die Hard” is one of the greatest action series in history. Bruce Willis made his career playing New York cop John McClane, the witty anti-hero who spouted one-liners as he blew away terrorists. Through four movies, McClane fought bad guys in…
Call it a bad case of senioritis or a tinge of seasonal depression, but I am just over February and everything about it. I’m so bored with pop culture in general and, unfortunately, music is included in that feeling. I was looking for a new…
Call it a bad case of senioritis or a tinge of seasonal depression, but I am just over February and everything about it. I’m so bored with pop culture in general and, unfortunately, music is included in that feeling. I was looking for a new…
There’s nothing better than a good march to get that patriotic spirit pumping. From the late 1800s to the 1930s, John Phillip Sousa was the best at composing these marches, making renowned works such as “Semper Fidelis” and “The Stars and Stripes Forever.” He may…