Little drummer boy
“But I have no gift to bring,” says Aaron, whose injured lamb needs healing.“Go,” urges the wise man.
Aaron takes baby steps.
Will you watch “The Little Drummer Boy” this holiday season? While we can plan, others cannot.
Some parents wonder: Will their holidays be spent at Ronald McDonald House by the University of Chicago so families can be near their children who are Comer Children’s Hospital patients?
Since 2004, the Junior Board of Northbrook’s junior high and high school-aged young men have coordinated serving monthly Ronald McDonald House meals.
The volunteer JBN, which has four parent organizers and 20 boys, has hosted Northbrook holiday gift wrap fundraisers. Everyone wins — grateful shoppers assisting children.
This Sunday, more funds will be raised at “Rockin’ for the House!” in Highwood at the Alley, 210 Green Bay Road.
Four Northbrook youth bands will perform from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. — The Axidents, Northbrook Garage and Last Resort. Read the rest of this entry »
Shannon J. Effinger: Tell us about your latest album, The Eleventh Hour, and why the delay in its release.
San Jacinto College Central’s superb Slocomb Auditorium was ready for some outstanding music on Sunday afternoon. The musicians of the Pasadena Philharmonic Orchestra were tuning up as the audience found their seats and everyone knew they were in for the best music to be found anywhere in the area.
Teenager Brandon McPhee pictured with his awards.
If alt-rock bad boy Scott Weiland had sang, “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas” in the 1990s, he might have been arrested. But in 2011, the Stone Temple Pilots frontman is legitimately in the holiday spirit, and on his just-released holiday LP The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, he teams with an orchestra and lays a suave croon over time-honored classics like “Silent Night,” “Winter Wonderland,” and, of course, “White Christmas.” We called up the 44-year-old singer at his Los Angeles home to chat about merriment, getting booted from his junior high school choir, and what he wants for Christmas. 
Apple said its music-creating app, GarageBand, is now available for 
By night, the three best friends from Brooklyn rock out for hordes of sweaty concertgoers as the band ZO2. By day, the same trio performs children’s songs as the Z Brothers for classrooms full of wide-eyed schoolkids.