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THIS WEEK´S ISSUE
Visual Art

ARTIFICATION of Springfield

A mural project is set to bring beauty to downtown

By Scott Faingold

“It used to be scary down this way.”Barry Friedman, owner of the Alamo, 115 N. Fifth St., is reminiscing about conditions in downtown Springfield prior to the 2005 opening of the Abraham L

Film - Chuck Koplinski

Fitzgerald’s Gatsby survives Luhrmann’s grandiose approach

By Chuck Koplinski

Director Baz Luhrmann is one of the more polemic filmmakers working today. While many praise his modern take on the Bard with his Romeo Juliet (1996) and his radical musical Moulin Rouge (2001), oth

Food - Julianne Glatz

The goodness of young garlic

By Julianne Glatz

Recipes that call for lots of garlic are always best when they’re made with new crop garlic, which is making its first appearance at farm stands and local farmers markets. New crop garlic’

Music - Tom Irwin

From Perkins to Presney

By Tom Irwin

John Michael Presney spent the better part of the last two years on the road in the first national touring production of the Tony award-winning musical Million Dollar Quartet portraying the “fat

Band Spotlight

ZZ Tripp

By Tom Irwin

Springfield’s ZZ Tripp with Brad Alan (as Billy Gibbons on guitar), Dan Kress (as Dusty Hill on bass) and Tom Summerlin (as Frank Beard on drums) gives ZZ Top a tremendous tribute treatment. Wit

Harris Murder Trial

Filet-O-Snitch

A prosecution witness gets grilled

By Bruce Rushton

Jason Harris is the sort of criminal who seems incapable of telling the truth. On matters large and small, he lied and lied and lied again.

News

Calvin Christian III jailed

Christian has ongoing lawsuits against the city

By Bruce Rushton

Calvin Christian III was jailed Thursday for the second time in a week after he failed to produce required financial paperwork in connection with a collection action by the City of Springfield. S

Illinois - James Krohe Jr

The neighborhood school, redefined

The community room in the new Matheny-Withrow is a beginning

By James Krohe Jr.

Schools, conventionally, seek to train the minds of their young charges. The problem is that it is not only their minds that show up every day in the classroom. Their bodies, their attitudes, their ex

News

Juvenile Justice shows progress

Fewer youth in prison, but mental health care still lacking

By Patrick Yeagle

When the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice was created in 2006, the state’s youth prisons held 1,500 juvenile offenders. Today, there are fewer than 900 kids behind bars in Illinois juveni

Opinion

Shredgate: City’s actions, or lack thereof, stink

By Bruce Rushton

Don’t watch what we do, listen to what we say.That’s what politicians who behave badly would have the public do when the going gets weird. And what the city of Springfield is doing as Shre

National - Jim Hightower

Corporate cowards divert shareholder funds into ‘dark money’

By Jim Hightower

If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court pretends, they certainly are loudmouths, constantly telling us how great they are and spreading their names everywhere. Amazingly, though, these corpor

News

Physician claims prescription drugs worse than marijuana

By Jacqueline Muhammad

Two doctors stood on opposing sides as the Illinois Senate was preparing to vote on legalizing medical marijuana.Dr. Dora Dixie, an addiction specialist from Chicago, argues that marijuana is highly a

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor 5/16/13

Schools and Ohio

By Letters to the Editor

MONEY SPEAKSIn his article, “Looking for Mr. Right,” (May 9) James Krohe Jr. makes several valid points regarding the failings of the school board as well as the problems inherit in search

Politics - Rich Miller

Illinois’ rocky political landscape

By Rich Miller

Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady resigned last week just as a new statewide poll showed big trouble for his political party’s brand.Brady had been under pressure to resign ever since

News

Betting on bikes

City may adopt bike plan as infrastructure improvements begin

By Patrick Yeagle

Kevin Greene of Springfield still remembers getting his first bicycle as a child. “It took me a long time to figure out how to ride a bike, but once I learned, I never looked back,” Greene

Advice Goddess

Tail from the crypt

By Amy Alkon

I’ve been with my boyfriend for two years. I do have trust issues, having been cheated on in past relationships. My boyfriend’s best friend of six years, a beautiful and intelligent woman,

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