EVANSTON, Ill. – If you drive too fast, you could miss it. But a chance turn into one alley just north of Chicago will transport you into a drive-thru art gallery. “I wanted to take this place this ...

When Evanston resident Teresa Parod takes out the garbage in the alley behind her house, she’s often greeted by people photographing her garage door. It’s adorned with a colorful mural that depicts ...

The Doors’ legacy has long been subject to disputes. For instance, drummer John Densmore refused to join the band’s early-’00s quasi-reunion when his former bandmates performed with the Cult singer ...

The first time you walk into the Back Door bar, you see them: a swarming crowd, an ocean of faces smiling at you. It's not a surprise party — or an intervention — but the walls themselves. A giant ...

Students in Marya Bartholomew’s art class at Marin Oaks High School in Novato are designing and painting murals on doorways at the campus. The students are working with a local artist, Katya McCulloch ...

In a pool of white thrown by three portable lights, Miguel Hernandez, 16, and Tyler Prehm, 18, were hunched beneath a scaffolding, wielding tiny paintbrushes to paint a very small portion of a very ...

The history of 1112 Tower Ave. flows across the back door of the building. Bright colors and bold shapes pay homage to the businesses that once resided there -- a tea shop, a guitar store and, as ...