Mike Mignola wrote the first Hellboy comic in 1994, starting the chain of what would branch off into the large imagined world of Hellboy. With expanding universes, there always comes a point where there is just a huge amount of…
We are excited to partner with the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) to offer free tickets to their 2022–2023 season performances. Library cardholders can check out one concert pass redeemable for two tickets (student and/or adult) at the IPO box office. Simply…
Everyone I knew that has seen Everything Everywhere All At Once in theaters raved about it. They told me to go see it immediately, but they couldn’t really tell me about the movie without spoiling some aspect of it. Now,…
Hopefully, without sounding as though I’m disparaging Extended Universe or media tie-in novels, The Way to the Stars by Una McCormack is, technically, a Star Trek novel. However, you can ignore that entirely for the purposes of this book and this…
Do you love all things fandom: the books, the movies, the TV shows, the comics and most importantly, the fun? Join us in person and online from Sunday, October 16 until Friday, October 21 for a week of epic fun…
What Are Adaptations? I may be cheating slightly by including “adaptations” as a genre. In general, genre refers to stylistic and artistic categories—something that has been adapted could come from any genre background. However, there is an art to taking written works and making…
Have you ever felt like time is flying by in the blink of an eye? Join us this August when we’ll go through an entire year in just one week! We will start the week off just like our year…
On Tuesday, July 12, 2022, in a historic online live event, over 85,000 people tuned in to witness the first images from NASA’s James Webb Telescope. These otherworldly images were just as beautiful and captivating as the Pillars of Creation,…
Sailors and wave waters have spun stories about mysterious undersea creatures since ancient times. Emerging from the deep with scales, tentacles, giant teeth and bottomless eyes, tales and legends of these deep-water animals kept swimmers close to the shore in…
Black LGBTQIA+ Americans have long made history with innumerable contributions to politics, art, medicine and a host of other fields. And even though we celebrate both Juneteenth (June 19)—the abolition of slavery in the United States—and Pride Month—a celebration of…