GRAND FORKS – Christopher Jacobs doesn’t go out to the movies very often. The University of North Dakota professor and local film buff has immersed his life in movies. He teaches film classes at the ...
The busiest theater in Chicago isn’t a theater in the traditional sense–it’s the brick-walled basement of a Wrigleyville restaurant. The cramped confines of the underground performance space at ...
Imagine spending $10,000 on a baby grand piano. Or $20,000 on a custom-made settee from France. Or $30,000 on an Impressionist oil painting of fuzzy haystacks in the snow. And then ferreting it all ...
85-year-old Fred Hermes of Racine has built his basement around his passion: playing the organ. Hermes bought a Wurlitzer theater organ from the Michigan Theater in Detroit for $3,000 back in 1956, ...
As home theaters gain popularity, more and more home theater enthusiasts are carving out dedicated home theater rooms from previously unused basement space. Once reserved for Hollywood movie moguls, a ...
Glenview native Aurora Penepacker was only 3 when “Amélie” debuted in 2001. The film — about an eccentric young woman living in Paris’s Montmartre neighborhood who secretly orchestrates small acts of ...
Does the idea of having the whole family gathered together enjoying a family movie night sound like fun? Creating a home theater in your basement is a dream more and more people are turning into a ...