A touring company of the drama The Miracle Worker makes a stop at UIS’s Sangamon Auditorium for one performance Saturday, April 25 (call 206-6160). The four-month, 40-city national tour comes from the Montana Repertory Theatre in Missoula. William Gibson originally wrote The Miracle Worker as a 1957 television play. It went on to win a […]
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Bards of the Sangamo 4-24-03
New Governor The new Governor seems a stumble. Even his own grumble. Few words are forthcoming Things not exactly humming. What can he do Before there’s a big taa-do? Look South! Look South! Says a local mouth. I do agree. This advice we give for free. Two men, choose one, both very fine Down amongst […]
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Bards of the Sangamo 4-17-03
Opening Day, A.D. 2003 Cold today; Reckon that’s a blessing My numb thumb failed to feel the fish-hook stuck through it; So much blood! Mine–or the trout’s? –John Craig Carpenter Local poets were writing about contemporary events in the Sangamo Journal as early as the 1830s. People’s Poetry wants you to share your thoughts […]
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Overlooked and underappreciated
In a festival that celebrates recorded moments, the highlight may be a live performance. Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert’s fifth Overlooked Film Festival in Urbana-Champaign will feature a special benshi performance next week to accompany the Japanese silent film, I Was Born, But. . . A benshi, Ebert explains, was a performer who stood […]
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Movie Review- City of God
City of God Although overlooked by the Academy for a Best Foreign Picture nomination, Director Fernando Meirelles’ Brazilian slum epic City of God is a profound, stylistically expansive depiction of three decades of child gang warfare on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro with non-actors playing their poverty-ridden lives for the camera. The only other […]
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Movie Reviews- What a Girl Wants, Head of State
What a Girl Wants What seventeen-year-old Daphne Reynolds (Amanda Bynes) wants is to meet her long lost father, an English aristocrat named Lord Henry Dashwood (Colin Firth). Seems a freak accident threw him and pop singer Libby Reynolds (Kelly Preston) together. A whirlwind romance ensued and Daphne was the result. Evil machinations of a family […]
