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  • image Art and Design Student Juried Exhibit Gerardo Jimenez Student Art Exhibit to be Featured in Parkland Art Gallery

    From April 8th to May 4th the Parkland College Art Gallery will be hosting the Parkland College Art and Design Student Juried Exhibition. There will be many types of art displayed all competing for awards which will be given out at an award ceremony on Thursday April 11th.

  • Image Oz “Oz the Great and Powerful” disappoints

    “Oz the Great and Powerful” is a prequel to the classic “Wizard of Oz” film. It explains the origins of the wicked witches and the wizard and how everything came to be by the time Dorothy came to Oz.

  • A chat with Grandkids

      Last Thursday, local folk rock group Grandkids released their debut LP Timeshare on Heirship Records at their show at Mike N Molly’s. Before they took the stage, the band sat town with WPCD to discuss the new release, drone warfare, and the meaning behind their self-assigned genre “humblecore.

  • image music venue Nathan Landolt, Error Records, Gerardo Jimenez Former student opens all ages music venue

     

    “About two years ago, the C-U Collective was trying to do something like this. We started out doing a bunch of benefit shows to help raise money, and the goal just seemed to get further and further away because we had to keep paying to get shows booked, paying the venues, paying the bands. It just died off because people were too busy to do it all,” Landolt explained.

    “So after that died off, and I thought about it extensively,” he added. “I thought that it would be a really good idea to still do the venue, because that was what the Collective originally wanted to do.”

  • image music venue Nathan Landolt, Error Records, Gerardo Jimenez Former student opens all ages music venue

     

    “About two years ago, the C-U Collective was trying to do something like this. We started out doing a bunch of benefit shows to help raise money, and the goal just seemed to get further and further away because we had to keep paying to get shows booked, paying the venues, paying the bands. It just died off because people were too busy to do it all,” Landolt explained.

    “So after that died off, and I thought about it extensively,” he added. “I thought that it would be a really good idea to still do the venue, because that was what the Collective originally wanted to do.”

  • image Tomb Raider video game Tomb Raider Review

     

    Tomb Raider is a reboot of the classic game franchise that began on the PlayStation. This is the second reboot of the series. A previous reboot series was released during the transition to the current system of consoles.

    The game has been advertised since E3 as an action survival game. It begins with main character Lara Croft stranded on an island and being hunted. While it is about survival, the game also has elements from its roots with the inclusion of an ancient civilization.

  • image Sons of the Prophet Matt Hester, Joel Higgins, David Mor, Jesse Folks Professor encourages students to experience the arts

    Parkland English Professor Thomas Schnarre uses theatre to encourage their involvement in educational activities outside of the classroom.

    Schnarre first discovered theatre in the third grade while participating in an extra credit assignment. He seeks to share that discovery with students by the same method.

    This semester, Schnarre offered his students the opportunity to receive extra credit in exchange for attending a play he is currently involved in at Station Theatre in Urbana, Illinois.

  • image WPCD That's No Moon Hayden Cler Emily Sur 88.7 WPCD Presents: That's No Moon

    On Friday, WPCD sponsored a concert at Cowboy Monkey which featured That’s No Moon, Hidden Hospitals and Abnormous.

    The first band of the concert was a local group called Abnormous, a dance funk band that just started on the scene since last year and have been playing at several local venues. They played a one hour set of combined instrumental funk rock and soul mixed with dance music.

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