Tom Lounges
People have proven they are ready to get out of the house after nearly a year of putting the skids on social events, especially concerts.
Just as the city of Chicago has started thinking about resuming some of its bigger summer events, many local Northwest Indiana communities have likewise started to talk about, and in some cases plan, a return to annual spring and summer music fests and events. While nothing seems in stone as of this week, the wheels are starting to roll in that direction regionally.
Jesse and Priscilla Jones were treated to some musical entertainment by Jordan Warren, Noah Ostrom and Camille Cherch on Saturday in Highland as the couple celebrated their 72nd anniversary.
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• Mush Music Productions of Northwest Indiana brings Chicago rapper Twista (twista.com) to the Hobart Art Theatre (230 Main St.) in downtown Hobart Saturday. Twista has a new EP, Lifetime, now available on all music platforms. The show has a 9 p.m. start time and is stacked with a trio of support acts Groppo, Angel Da Demon and No Coastal. Tickets for the 18 & older performance range from $27.50 to $50. More: brickartlive.com.
⢠The weekly Open Mic hosted by multi-instrumentalist Marc Adrian (of Groovatron fame) happens tonight from 8-11 p.m. at The Flat Rock Tap (6732 Calumet Ave.) in Hammond. The stage is open to not only musicians, but comedians, spoken word artists and more. Admission is free. More: 219- 852-5262.
The Steel Woods will bring their unique style of southern rock to Hobart this spring.
The Nashville-based band will perform at 8 p.m. April 8 at the historic Art Deco movie theater-turned-music venue at 230 Main St. in downtown Hobart.
Flight Levelz Entertainment booked the show as a pre-concert for the Hometown Country Jam music festival that will take place in the Brickie Bowl this summer. The Steel Woods will be bringing a little bit of country, blues, and a whole lot of southern rock to the Hobart Art Theater on April 8, 2021, promoter Tyrus Joseforsky said. This will be an exclusive show at limited capacity with all COVID safety protocols in place.
Despite its prominent location at a heavily trafficked intersection just south of the Borman Expressway in a town that is otherwise thriving, the Griffith Park Plaza shopping center has been declining for years.
The Big Kmart that long anchored the outdoor shopping center at Cline Avenue and Ridge Road shuttered in 2018. Many of the storefronts have long sat empty â the Griffith Park Cinema I-II screened their last films in 1998 and have stayed dark since. Most of the mall s facades haven t been renovated for years, and it shows.
The parking lot is riddled with potholes. It s such an underutilized sea of asphalt it had previously been used as a pickup and drop-off spot for a bus to Chicago s airports.