Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com LOWERED EXPECTATIONS I have just finished reading your article on the proposed […]
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Backstage pass
Two productions of note take place this week and next on local stages. Edward Albee’s drama Three Tall Women opens Friday at Springfield Theatre Centre, playing Feb. 6-8 and Feb. 13-15. Ed Smith directs the 1994 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, which features Marian Levin, Marla Johnson, and Shirene Thomas. Three Tall Women brought Albee back in […]
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Now Playing 2-5-04
Are you ready for another action-packed, fun-filled, adventure-laden week in the bars and clubs of Illinois’ capital city? Well, it’s coming your way regardless of how you act, so why not open your arms and ears and embrace the inevitable with all the full-blown passion available in your heart and soul. Or just go out […]
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Quick Takes
TANGLED WEB Try to Google “Sangamon County Democratic Party,” and more than 2,000 addresses appear. The first is the wrong one: www.il-democrats.org/sangamon/. Up until Tuesday, it provided woefully outdated information — unless you’re still interested in candidates from the November 2002 elections. As of Tuesday, that site now says just one thing: “We have Moved.” […]
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Movie Reviews
The triumph of the U.S. hockey Olympics team over a heavily favored Soviet squad is among the greatest underdog stories in sports history. It’s also one of the best known, making it a challenge for any filmmaker who’s trying to chronicle the team’s improbable march towards glory. Director Gavin O’Connor and screenwriter Eric Guggenheim do […]
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Letters 2-5-04
We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times, P.O. Box 5256, Springfield, IL 62705 Fax: (217) 753-3958 E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com UNBELIEVABLE, BUT NOT UNEXPECTED I wish to thank freelance writer Bob Schaper for the […]
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Knoepfle 2-5-04
prayer room poem commemorated here those who died in the torpedoing of the uss dorchester february 3, 1943 george fox john washington alexander goode charles poling died praying together refusing the overcrowded lifeboats their jackets given to others four chaplains a minister a minister a rabbi a priest so memorable a text all that they […]
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New school
Heartland Peace Center of Springfield is starting a new school focused on social-justice issues. Among the volunteer teachers: Proshanta Nandi, UIS sociology professor, Tavia Ervin, a minister with the Church of the Brethren, and Terri Jackson, UIS director of minority leadership in public service. The curriculum of the new Heartland Peace Academy includes strategies for […]
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Letters 1-29-04
Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com COMMON SENSE ON DRUG USE President Bush’s plan to pour millions into […]
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Movie reviews
The Big Bounce [PG-13] Surfer-drifter-con man Jack Ryan (Owen Wilson) goes to Hawaii and lands a job caring for an Walter Crewes (Morgan Freeman), a judge on the island. “A movie that more than once confuses the line between laid-back and lethargic, it wanders around slack-jawed and weirdly inert.” (Sean Burns, Philadelphia Weekly) ShowPlace West, […]
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Quick Takes
PUTTING THE “COIN” IN COINCIDENCE City Council has scheduled three more budget meetings (all beginning at 5 p.m. in council chambers): A “re-cap” session on Feb. 4, a public hearing on Feb. 10, and a special meeting to vote on the budget on Feb. 19. The timing of that last meeting came as a shock […]
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Letters 1-22-04
Letters policy We welcome letters, but please include your full name, address and a daytime telephone number. We edit all letters for libel, length and clarity. Send letters to: Letters, Illinois Times. P.O. Box 5256. Springfield, Illinois 62705. Fax: (217) 753-3958. E-mail: editor@illinoistimes.com CONNECTING THE DOTS After reading a letter to the editor in the […]
