Country artist and Abilene native Aaron Watson is returning to the Paramount Theatre this month for his annual family Christmas concerts, a two-night event that blends holiday classics, Watson’s ...

As December rolls in, there is no greater spectacle than to see joy fly about. Orchestra Iowa’s Holiday Spectacular, on the one hand, proves there is more melody to Christmas than gifts and snow.

Evan Dolan’s aunt was over-the-moon excited. And who could blame Michele Corrado. The Arlington Heights woman had just watched her sister’s youngest of six children on stage at the Paramount Theatre, ...