being, was shared with the world through all that he created. Through his music and his boundless love, Quincy Jones' heart will beat for eternity."Jones rose from running with gangs on the South Side of Chicago to the very heights of show business, becoming one of the first Black executi...
State Street between 49th and 50th streets carries the honorary name Dr. Timuel Black Street. Dr. Black is also the first recipient of the city of Chicago's Champion of Freedom award, and was thefirst honoree inductedinto the Illinois Black Hall of Fame at Governors State University this pa...
Jones rose from running with gangs on the South Side of Chicago to the very heights of show business, becoming one of the first Black executives to thrive in Hollywood and leaving behind avast musical catalogthat includes some of the richest...
into a beloved bastion of the local Dutch community. A household name in Holland built from the kernel of an idea alongside co-founder Bob some 16 years ago. As a young pop trio once sang, you have so many relationships in your life, only one or two will last. For Johan, that’s n...
She grew up a big fan of Walt Disney animated entertainment, and fittingly, her earliest voiceover credit was in the enormously successful "Beauty and the Beast"; not only did Bergman provide the part of minor characters, but she also sang the track "Belle" on the film's soundtrack. ...
“By 1809, city-owned market sheds, called shambles, lined the middle of High Street, extending west to Sixth Street. New markets opened in other parts of the city as the population grew. By 1890 the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company purchased this block for its new terminal. The me...
Playing a little rugby at the finest liberal arts school in the country I sang that song with beer in hand while earning an anthropology degree to be put to use immediately in the food service industry then later used as a bike messenger later still at a small carbon fiber wheel manufacture...
A native of Ohio, Sommer grew up in Minnesota, where he attended Concordia College in Moorhead. He sang with the school choir and appeared in several University productions as a theater major, before graduating and relocating to Minneapolis. There, Sommer studied improv at the Brave New Work...
(where he would share lead vocals with Birmingham native Eddie Kendrick) after the talented but temperamental David Ruffin had been dismissed from the group. Edwards sang on and off with the Temptations until the late 1980s. He embarked on a solo career in the mid-80s and had a big hit ...
As I alluded to, we all sang and danced our way to our cars after the lights went up on this production last night. You should join us before the show closes on March 27. Don’t be shy: go ahead, kick off your Sunday shoes, and get FOOTLOOSE!