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The 2023-24 season will be the Lafayette Chamber Singers' final year of performing for the Greater Lafayette area.

Alexander Woollcott on the modern architect’s early work, including the earthquake-resistant Imperial Hotel, in Tokyo, and his home at Taliesin, in Wisconsin, and his belated rise to fame in America.

Unity Temple Restoration Foundation will present its final public performance at the end of October, days before the 50-year-old organization sunsets.The performance, called “The Coming of Light," is a composition for oboe, baritone and a string quartet, and will feature the Avalon String Quartet and singer Dorian McCall, oboist Andrew Nogal.The piece was commissioned in 2009 to honor the centennial of Unity Temple’s dedication by UTRF and The Chicago Chamber Musicians along with Winsor...

Ohio's Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks was just named the 25th UNESCO World Heritage Site in the US.

"The St. Charles Hotel sat against Mission Hill Bluff at the corner of Mission Street and River Street (now North Pacific Avenue)," writes Ross Eric Gibson. "Proprietor Joseph Bloch (pronounced 'Block') was waiting for his brother-in-law to arrive from Cincinnati, the most famous rabbi in America: the Rev. Dr. Isaac M. Wise, founder of Reform Judaism. It was early August 1877, the weather was perfect, Santa Cruz was beautiful, and Bloch was proprietor of this palatial ho...

Fans of NPR’s “Radiolab” will be thrilled to find out that the show is hosting a live storytelling experience this Saturday at Unity Temple led by the radio show’s senior producer Simon Adler.Adler will take audience members through the wonders of the cassette tape, a piece of technology that changed the world – and gave rise to a new kind of love letter: the mixtape. And despite its early ubiquity, the cassette, now considered obsolete, is not that well understood, according to Adler....

A team of 9 residents bringing financial literacy courses to Tillamook will be featured at the national Bridge-Building Innovation Showcase in October

Riccardo Muti returns, Lyric Opera goes to sea and Newberry Consort joins forces for the first time with Haymarket Opera Company.

Unity Temple Restoration Foundation (UTRF) received a grant from the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution’s George Rogers Clark Chapter to help fund the restoration the exterior wood doors of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Unity Temple

Former motivational speaker warns: we are on a ship thats headed for an iceberg