Datebook
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Datebook features interviews and behind-the-scenes reports about new art exhibits, music releases and live performances, theater productions, and other community and charity events taking place throughout the listening area.
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Latest Datebook stories
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Poet Cathy Gilbert doesn't shy away from tough topics, but her most recent collection was as much a coping mechanism as an artistic expression. Her new book examines becoming a mother for the first time — to twins — as her own mother was dying.
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The Bloomington Kiwanis' annual flower sale takes place each Mother's Day weekend, with proceeds supporting camp scholarships for kids.
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The unofficial kickoff to market season presents opportunities to shop in Bloomington, Hudson, Towanda and Downs.
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Nomad Theatre Company debuts its 2024-25 season with The Warehouse Plays
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Spring blooms are fleeting—catch them while you can on a walk led by ParkLands Foundation naturalists.
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Alejandro Gómez Guillén replaces Naomi Woo, who withdrew her candidacy to focus on other professional opportunities.
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The title track to Olustee is inspired by cross-generational wildfires near JJ Grey's northeast Florida home.
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Gamma Phi Circus presents The Magic of Musicals, and the spring edition of Record Store Day includes a Coffeehound pop-up at Waiting Room Records in Uptown Normal.
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India Nicole Burton's Panther Women: An Army for the Liberation was praised in Chicago, where Myesha-Tiara directed the immersive play in a converted office space. Now, Tiara sets the play in a church rec room with local actors.
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Music director candidate Tania Miller leads the Illinois Symphony for her second of two engagements. And Eureka College tackles a Pulitzer-nominated Sarah DeLappe play done recently by Illinois Wesleyan.