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 ...

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 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 ...

Cherie Nowlin McBride has painted many portraits in her lifetime, but the two-panel mural of fanciful dancers she created for Katy Visual and Performing Arts Center is one of the largest. "It took me ...

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 ...

After almost 40 years in business, The Back Door in the Highlands closed its doors for good last week.The Back Door will be having an estate sale, selling everything inside the shuttered beloved ...