IT Picks | Thursday, January 17,2013

Cultural comparatives

Dr. Ali Nizamuddin, professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Springfield will speak at Unity Church on Jan. 20, noon to 1 p.m. The public is invited to the talk on the comparati

IT Picks | Thursday, January 17,2013

Civil War artifacts

By Anita Stienstra

This week the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library opened its third installment of the Boys in Blue Civil War exhibit. Featured is the Battle of Vicksburg, Emancipation Proclamation, Civil War p

IT Picks | Thursday, January 17,2013

Rousing romance

By Anita Stienstra

Springfield Theatre Centre presents Couplings, a two-act play written and directed by Ken Bradbury. Love is in the air and in this production as audience members follow eight ways to have a relationsh

IT Picks | Thursday, January 17,2013

Super strings

By Anita Stienstra

The category-shattering string trio, Time for Three, plays at Sangamon Auditorium, UIS on Saturday, Jan. 19. Members Zachary De Pue, violin; Nicolas Kendall, violin; and Ranaan Meyer, double bass, car

IT Picks | Thursday, January 10,2013

Breaking the ice

By Anita Stienstra

January is national skating month and the Springfield Figure Skating Club, Springfield Youth Hockey and the Springfield Park District are hosting a It’s Great to Skate event Saturday, Jan. 12. W

IT Picks | Thursday, January 10,2013

Heartfelt musical

By Anita Stienstra

The Fantasticks is a funny and romantic musical playing at the Hoogland Center for the Arts, Jan. 11-13 and 18-20. The world’s longest-running musical, The Fantasticks, by Tom Jones and Harvey S

IT Picks | Thursday, January 10,2013

Dynamic duo

By Anita Stienstra

The Springfield Classical Guitar Society hosts its next concert at Faith Lutheran Church on Saturday, Jan. 12. Featured are local favorites Kamen Petkov and Russel Brazzel on violin and classical guit

IT Picks | Thursday, January 10,2013

Rocking musical

By Anita Stienstra

Only 50 seats are available for each showing of the critically acclaimed off-Broadway rock musical hit, Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Limited seating includes a unique onstage view of each performance in

IT Picks | Thursday, January 3,2013

High flying

By Anita Stienstra

Don’t miss the world-famous basketball team, the Harlem Globetrotters, when they come to the Prairie Capital Convention Center on Wednesday, Jan. 9, at 7 p.m. High-flying dunks … eye-popp

IT Picks | Thursday, January 3,2013

Climate change

By Anita Stienstra

The next Paul Mickey Science Series lecture will to be held in the Illinois State Museum Thorne Deuel Auditorium on Jan. 9. Dr. Eric Grimm, ISM curator and chair of botany, will present, “The Sc