Performing Art

Les Mis local

Bringing the international hit to the Springfield stage

Joshua Ratz could have done anything on Father’s Day. He could have spent time with his 19-year-old stepson. He could have helped his pregnant wife care for their infant. He could have worked on

Feature

A teaching forest

Guy Sternberg’s arboretum demonstrates the value of native trees

Guy Sternberg planted his first trees when he was five years old – in his sandbox. The silver maple seeds he collected on the way home from kindergarten class would sprout and begin to grow. For

Food - Julianne Glatz

A commanding General Tso’s chicken

“We had friends who went to China, and they went to Peking where they make the ducks, and what they say is that the food over there is not as good as here. You can’t get a sauce as sweet a

Film - Chuck Koplinski

No Clark makes for cold Steel

One of the crucial aspects of superheroes is the notion of the secret identity, the physical and psychic split in the character that delineates the real person from the heroic persona. Whenever this n

Film - Chuck Koplinski

Midnight a bracing look at the realities of love

Richard Linklater’s Before films are a special collection of movies that not only takes an unique look at romantic love but reminds us how engaging the fine art of conversation can be in capable

Film - Chuck Koplinski

Purge lacks the strength of its flimsy convictions

James DeMonaco’s The Purge hints – and I mean hints – that it might be a socially relevant film that imagines that today’s divide between the “Haves” and the &ldquo

Music - Tom Irwin

A jumpin’ June to enjoy

There’s so much to talk about I’m not going to pretend to fabricate an introduction or lead you down a merry path of assumed meticulous and attempted mellifluous wordplay and just get on w

Band Spotlight

What thou Will

When the “about” section of a band’s Facebook page says, “A malicious onslaught of diabolical debauchery and brutal blasphemy!!!!!” you know they mean business. What thou