IT Picks

WUIS Bedrock 66 Series presents the Missouri-based rock band featuring Brian Henneman (guitar, vocals), Mark Ortmann (drums), John Horton (guitar) and Keith Voegele. These songwriter musicians’ sound has been likened to Woody Guthrie’s folk style in spirit, smarts and satire, rocking stories out about the average Joe. Considered to be the godfathers of the 90s […]

Friday night see two documentaries, Baking Bread, about a Korean-American family who invites an Iranian friend to prepare a final meal for their dying father; and Fresh, a film focused on the production and distribution of healthy food that is good for people and good for the planet. A panel discussion follows with Marty and […]

Based on the true story of the friendship between Cline and her devoted fan, Louis Seger, this production takes its name from Cline’s signature on her letters to Louis. Lori Ann Mitts stars as the legendary singer while Sandra Fritz plays Louise. Musical support provided by Doug Hahn, Gary Davis, Mary Myers and Robb Stark […]

The Japanese drama Still Walking tugs at the heart-strings as it studies the emotional and relational dynamics of three generations of a family assembling back home on the 15th anniversary of the oldest son’s death. Springfield Art Association in cooperation with Kerasotes Showplace Theaters presents this independent foreign film, second in the series of seven […]

SIU Medical School offers the public a five-week series of 10 presentations by SIU faculty physicians for only $10. What a deal to learn more about breast cancer, childhood obesity, chronic diseases, colon cancer, health care reform, influenza, preventive medicine, and new treatments for depression, infertility and stroke. Those completing the program receive a diploma. […]

Springfield Classical Guitar Society ‘s current concert season resumes with a performance by Angelo Favis. Favis has won several international and national solo competitions, taught master classes in New York, Ohio and the Philippines, and is currently assistant professor of guitar at Illinois State University. Future concerts are March 20 with John Johns, and May […]

Middle-class gal Sally Bowles from Chelsea, London, works as a singer at Berlin’s seedy Kit-Kat Club in 1929, trying her best to live the decadent life that the city is known for. In comes new lover Cliff Bradshaw, a young American writer, colorful boarding house characters, a pregnancy and Nazism. Sally refuses to acknowledge the […]

Ralph’s World bops into the capital city Saturday with an assortment of fun songs and a good time for you and your family. Ralph Covert is the man behind the World, a writer and singer of popular children’s music, including Grammy-nominated songs “Green Gorilla” and “Monster and Me,” and a handful of CDs including, “Bad […]

Guest speaker next Monday for the Frontiers International Springfield Club’s 35th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial Breakfast is Joseph A. Brown, S.J., Ph.D. Brown is a Catholic priest, professor and director of the Black American Studies program at Southern Illinois University, published poet and author. Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial BreakfastMonday, Jan. 187:30amSpringfield Hilton […]

Elvis fans are expected to pack downtown’s Hilton Hotel this weekend for the popular Elvis competition. Seventeen Presley tribute artists, selected from over 200, shake, sing and strum for cash prizes. Special guests are KAVAN, World’s No. 1 Rock ‘n Roll Elvis and Alphonse Franklin, a Smokey Robinson look-alike and former lead singer of the […]

This weekend and next, Springfield Theatre Centre presents Earnest Oscar Wilde’s comedy of mistaken identities and deflated Victorian pomposity. No one is quite who they seem to be in this witty farce. Directed by Rebecca Loschen and produced by Jim Leach. The cast includes Matthew Husky as Algernon; Steven Stowers as Jack; Jessica McCormik as Cecily; […]

Poet and hip-hop artist A.D. Carson leads a blended-media seminar titled “Making Lyrics Work on the Page and Making Poetry Work Out Loud” in Dawson Hall, Room 17. Community members ages 16 and older are invited to craft along under his lead. The University sponsors this event, hosted by Quiddity International Literary Journal and public […]