News | Thursday, September 3,2009

Fifty years later, celebrating diplomacy on an Iowa farm

The menu served to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and U.S. farmer-business man Roswell Garst in 1959 at Hotel Fort Des Moines was served again at the hotel last Friday, Aug. 28: split pea soup, cele

Performing Art | Wednesday, November 23,2005

The play’s the thing

"Degrees of Lucky," a one-act play written by the late Judy Dyer, premieres Monday at UIS

By Yosh Golden

“My radiation oncologist cruelly resisted my pleas. I begged him to irradiate the unaffected breast so it would be big and perky and glow in the dark like the one they

Feature | Wednesday, October 12,2005

Native ways

American Indians celebrate and protect their heritage at Cahokia Mounds gathering

By Yosh Golden

When Tom Bedonie attended reservation boarding school, celebrating his Navajo heritage was something to be avoided. If he used his native language, Bedonie says, “I had

History | Thursday, August 18,2005

Loneliness

Grandmother’s memories of lives extinguished in 1945

By Yosh Golden

The June day is perfect for a wedding — bright sunshine, water merrily cascading from the large metal statutes in the fountain, a slight breeze playing with the bride’s dark hair

Guest Opinion | Thursday, May 5,2005

A mother’s love

By Yosh Golden

My father, Yoshizo, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and was 26 at the time of my birth. My mother, Sachie, was born in Portland, Ore., and was 23 when she stepped out of Ap

Feature | Thursday, October 14,2004

Life interrupted

By Yosh Golden

I travel 500 miles from Springfield to Little Rock, Ark., to tack a note on the conference message board: "I would like to talk with anyone from Rohwer who knew Shizu Yoshimura, Ayako Arishita,