Local Culture
6 BILLION POUNDS OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES GO UNHARVESTED EACH YEAR. Renewed Roots Initiative, a neighborhood-centric farm and community bicycling center in Aurora is working to decrease that number. One of the group’s initiatives is to create an Urban Orchard that spans...
Hey, hey, hey. All hail Two Brothers. Their annual Summer Festival, a craft beer and music festival at RiverEdge Park in Aurora, is bringing some big indie names to the John C. Dunham Pavilion this June. Entering its ninth year, Two Brothers...
This First Fridays is one for your doughnut hole. The monthly night of art, music, dancing, theater, and more just got sweeter. On April 7, visitors to downtown Aurora can visit more than a dozen participating venues and explore downtown’s vibrant art...
By Cody Lorance From day one, the idea was simple – start a small business and make a little bit of money to support organizations that help vulnerable children. In Uganda, where some 200,000 children are living with HIV/AIDS and nearly 3...
At Sunday liturgy at the end of February, The Orchard Community learned about their new home in downtown Aurora. We invited their pastor to tell us about the church’s plans to not be just a church anymore. For several years now, it...
Last weekend, I was lucky enough to enjoy what could be called a musical seance, a tribute to blues artists long gone but whose notes reverberate through guitar strings, amplifiers and voices of present day. Sunday evening was the record release...
Ukulele-infused rootsy folk rock is one way of describing the vibration Kevin Presbrey is casting out there these days, but you could also very well say that his songs have a way of giving you that cozy feeling of being snuggled...
It’s fun to ride a bike. No matter what age, bicycles lead to almost instant joy. Bikes are also independence in the form of two wheels and, bonus, they have zero emission. In Aurora, we now have the honor of officially...
You love it or you hate it apparently. I bloody loved it. I loved every sweet juicy morsel of “Sweeney Todd” at Aurora’s Paramount Theatre. Too much? Not for me. Dark, beautifully scored musicals — more please! I loved the dark-hued, multi-tiered...
By Steve Warrenfeltz On Sunday, February 19, a concert will take place at the Copley Theater in downtown Aurora to celebrate the release of a vinyl record entitled The Leland Bluebird Sessions, which is a tribute to a collection of Blues recordings...
