It’s that time of year again. Twinkling lights are strewn on every corner, wish lists are written by...

People seated at Empire, a restaurant in Downtown Naperville, focus on the stage in front of them, cheering as band Blue Eyed Garden charges onto the stage. Everyone grows quiet as lead singer, senior Rachel Fockens, steps to the microphone.  This is a typical Tuesday night for the band, which performs at open micropho...

Naperville Central hosted the annual Southside Band Festival on Nov. 9 in order to increase interest in high school band enrollment among junior high students. This concert was one of the two performances that the Wind Ensemble, Central’s top-level curricular band, had put on in the same week. At this concert, unlike the fir...