Exhibit highlights provenance research
By Emma Palatnik, Staff Writer
November 15, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture
About two years ago, Nancy Karrels, doctoral candidate in FAA, approached Krannert Art Museum and asked for an internship. She proposed a provenance research project. The idea came from previous provenance work Karrels had been doing for several years. She said she wanted to keep doing that kind of ...
SPEAK Café empowers creative minds
By Alicia Barbas, Contributing Writer
November 12, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, Student Organizations
This past Thursday marked the second SPEAK café event of the semester, hosted at the Espresso Royale inside of the Krannert Art Museum. The café was filled with R&B music until it quickly became populated with people of all ages; from mothers with children to retired professors, most of w...
Student musicians use digital network
By Megan Bradley, Staff Writer
October 29, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, Top Stories
Carly Shultz considers herself an artist at heart. Shultz, junior in LAS, has worked on photography and surrealist art but is now starting to incorporate music into her artistic expressions. Shultz said her music currently does not fit into a specific genre, but it incorporates parts of multiple gen...
Chris Young, accompanying artists perform for students at State Farm Center
October 28, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Campus Life, Life & Culture, Photo & Video
Country duo Dan and Shay perform at State Farm Center
By Courtney Stone, Staff writer
October 28, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture
On Saturday, renowned country duo Dan + Shay took the State Farm Center by storm as special guests for Chris Young’s Losing Sleep 2018 world tour. As people began filing into the arena at 6:30 p.m., the large crowd of all ages was ready to rock out in their flannels and flared jeans. Fans could b...
Krannert’s latest production: something familiar, something peculiar, something for everyone
By Shreya Goel, Contributing Writer
October 26, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture
A set with ten doors provides the space for madcap insanity and musical comedy in the Theatre department's latest production. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, based on the book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is one of the six production...
Movies provide cultural insight
By Eunice Alpasan, 2018-2019 Roger Ebert Fellow
October 25, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture
Editor's note One theater; 51 countries. This is what us three University students walked into, alongside hundreds of other moviegoers, Saturday morning in downtown Chicago. Held annually during the month of October, the Chicago International Film Festival offers something of value to adventur...
Chicago film festival transports viewers
By Pari Apostolakos, Assistant Features Editor and 2018-2019 Roger Ebert Fellow
October 25, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture
Editor's note One theater; 51 countries. This is what us three University students walked into, alongside hundreds of other moviegoers, Saturday morning in downtown Chicago. Held annually during the month of October, the Chicago International Film Festival offers something of value to adventur...
Editor’s Note
By 2018-2019 Roger Ebert Fellows
October 24, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture
One theater; 51 countries. This is what us three University students walked into, alongside hundreds of other moviegoers, Saturday morning in downtown Chicago. Held annually during the month of October, the Chicago International Film Festival offers something of value to adventurous film lover...
McKenzie Chinn showcases Chicago’s artistic best
By Joe Longo, Contibuting writer
October 22, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture
ve grown up on the East Coast — a Washington D.C. native — but her home and her artistry are distinctly Midwestern. Chinn wrote and starred in “Olympia,” the story of a Chicago illustrator approaching 30 and grappling with familial death and relocation. “This is where I spent the longest tim...
Kennedy Browne exhibit critiques 21st century
By Tristan Jacobs, Contributing Writer
October 17, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, Showcase, Top Stories
On top of the tallest building in Dublin, an actor sharpens a pencil to the nub. In a green room, another actor reads a script drawn from the Dell employee blog that details the firing of an entire division, while in the corner, young boys are celebrated for disabling their cribs and dropping out of sc...
Jim James headlines Get Out The Vote concert at Canopy Club
By Sidney Madden, Staff Writer
October 16, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture
With less than a month until the 2018 midterm elections, candidates and both partisan and nonpartisan RSOs continue to encourage students to register to vote. Jim James, the lead singer of the rock band My Morning Jacket, is headlining “The Future is Voting Tour,” coming to the Canopy Club on Wednesda...
