This First Friday is on the First of November...and it should be an exciting and fun evening in Downtown Rockford. Great shopping 'til 9 here at J. R. Kortman Center for Design....presenting authentic Day of the Dead folk art, and also, great gift ideas for this fast approaching holiday season. The Kortman Gallery Bar, featuring Dennis Horton as bar host, will be open even later for a relaxing evening with great music from Christyn Rittenhouse as we reveal her iPod playlist played through a cool Sonos sound system from Hear.More Music. "Big Man," a group exhibition of more than 30 artists who have created works of art connected by materials, stories, and relationships, that pays homage to the memory of Rockford artist Jim Julin...is now through November 16th in the Kortman Gallery.