Scott Faingold and Rachel Otwell

This week on The Scene via WUIS, Rachel and Scott talk SOHO, Stax, Social Experiments and much more as they take a look at this week’s cultural offerings throughout central Illinois and beyond.

This week we bring you info for a vintage shop tour on Saturday in Springfield that is offering customers free charms to make jewelry with (flyer is posted in this post, more info here).  That event also includes Incredibly Delicious! PLUS:  Events about Lincoln just in time for Abe’s birthday (Thur. 12th) can be found at […]

The art & culture events we discuss this week include: Bruce Springsteen cover night at the Radon Lounge. More info is here. A hip hop battle at Black Sheep Cafe is on Saturday night. Info here. As part of UIS’ Shelterbelt Reading Series, Sarah Einstein will be reading from her works. She’s working on a […]

It’s Friday, and that means time again to bring you our discussion of what events to check out this weekend and beyond. Scott Faingold of the Illinois Times and I will tell you about: The movie Gloria is playing at AMC Parkway 8 on Sunday and Tuesday as part of the SAA’s Molly Schlich Film Fest. […]

 This week, we take a look at an art exhibit currently on display at the Prairie Art Alliance’s H.D. Smith Gallery at the Hoogland Center for the Arts in Springfield. We talk to Carolyn Owen Sommer about her work that came from a challenge to create 30 pieces of art in 30 days. The result […]

Scott Faingold  reports on arts & culture for the Illinois Times. (Find his bloghere.) We’ll be turning to him for this podcast exploring the central Illinois art scene – everything from music, literature, visual art, film and more. With my focus also being on the arts world here in Springfield, and Illinois – we’ll tell listeners […]