IT Picks | Thursday, January 24,2013

Foot-stompin’ bluegrass

The Travelin’ McCourys bring their amazing pickin’ and foot-stompin’ bluegrass sounds to the Hoogland Center for the Arts. The group springs from the award-winning bluegrass Del McCo

IT Picks | Thursday, January 24,2013

Passion and fashion

By Anita Stienstra

Don’t miss attending one of three dinner-theater productions at the Hoogland Center for the Arts of Love, Loss and What I Wore. The show stars some of the most fabulous female talent in Springfi

IT Picks | Thursday, January 24,2013

Classical stirrings

By Anita Stienstra

The Illinois Chamber Orchestra’s next concert, Pure Passion, at First Presbyterian Church will warm you up for an approaching Valentine’s Day. Hear Elgar’s elegant and moving “

IT Picks | Thursday, January 17,2013

Cultural comparatives

By Anita Stienstra

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