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Tags: IT Picks, Springfield, Illinois Times, Nan Bulli, calendar, Springfield Theatre Centre, Hoogland Center for the Arts, Tick, Tick… BOOM!, Rent, Jonathan Larson, New York City, playwright David Auburn, Off-Broadway, London, IT Picks

Tags: IT Picks, Springfield, Illinois Times, Nan Bulli, calendar, Springfield Theatre Centre, Hoogland Center for the Arts, Tick, Tick… BOOM!, Rent, Jonathan Larson, New York City, playwright David Auburn, Off-Broadway, London, IT Picks

Tags: Community & Lifestyle, Amy Alkon, Advice Goddess, advice columns, California, Springfield, relationship coach, dating, marriage, social psychologist George A. Young, potential loss of freedom, motivational state, commitment, ultimatum, statement, Advice Goddess

Tags: Film, Chuck Koplinski, Illinois Times, film, movies, January, low-budget horror films, The Devil Inside, Mama, director Jason Zada, The Forest, Natalie Dormer, Aokigahara Forest, Mount Fuji, Taylor Kinney, Yukiyoshi Ozama, Film - Chuck Koplinski

Tags: Band Spotlight, Tom Irwin, Illinois Times, Springfield, Pub Crawl, Angela Perley & the Howlin Moons, Columbus, Ohio, Midwest, Angela Perley, Chris Connor, Billy Zehnal, Maxwell Button, Adam White, Ed Davis, Hey, Kid, American Songwriter magazine, Magnet magazine, PopDose, Band Spotlight

Tags: Commentary, Jim Hightower, Common Sense, Illinois Times, Springfield, big corporations, taxes, Carl Icahn, CEOs, U.S.-based multinational corporations, Congress, foreign bank accounts, offshore tax havens, Pfizer pharmaceuticals, uncompetitive tax code, American-rais, National - Jim Hightower

Tags: Poetry, Jacqueline Jackie Jackson, Springfield, Illinois Times, poetry, poem, deception poem # 1, grandfather, mom, genuine plum pudding, holiday dinner, grampa, grama, guests, mother, the contents of a 7-up bottle, flames, confection, wasted matches, setting 7-u, Poetry

Tags: Commentary, Jim Hightower, Common Sense, Illinois Times, Springfield, War on Christmas, Peace on Earth, Words of Mass Destruction, happy holidays, merry Christmas, Jesus, Constantine the Great, Marxists, Sarah Palin, Merry Christmas crusaders, Indiana State Sen. Jim, National - Jim Hightower

Tags: Politics, Rich Miller, Capitol Fax, Springfield, Illinois Times, Illinois legislative politics, Byzantine ballot access laws, highly partisan legislative district map-drawing process, heavily concentrated populations of partisan voters in Chicago, Democrats, collar, Politics - Rich Miller

Tags: IT Picks, Springfield, Illinois Times, Nan Bulli, calendar, 12th Annual Holiday Interfaith Breakfast, Christmas, Temple B’rith Sholom, Christmas day, Senior Services Center of Central Illinois, IT Picks

Tags: IT Picks, Springfield, Illinois Times, Nan Bulli, calendar, Best of Midwest Comedy Showcase, Mason City Limits Comedy Club, Mason City, central Illinois, Chicago, St. Louis, Comedy Central, The Tonight Show, Late Night with Dave Letterman, HBO, Conan, The Bob and T, IT Picks

Tags: IT Picks, Springfield, Illinois Times, Nan Bulli, calendar, Neo-Surrealism: Third Eye Exhibit, Pharmacy member artists, Wendy Allen, Bill Crook, Jim Edgecomb, Felicia Olin, Diane Schleyhahn, Jeff Williams, Peoria-based installation artist Jessica Bingham, Project 1, IT Picks

Tags: Community & Lifestyle, Amy Alkon, Advice Goddess, advice columns, California, Springfield, Evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers, The Folly of Fools, Neuroscientist Tali Sharot, instinctually smart, breaking up, Advice Goddess

Tags: Film, Chuck Koplinski, Illinois Times, film, movies, Sisters, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Universal Pictures, director Jason Moore, Saturday Night Live alum Paula Pell, siblings Kate and Maura Ellis, Madison Davenport, James Brolin, Dia, Film - Chuck Koplinski

Tags: Music Features, Tom Irwin, Now Playing, Illinois Times, Springfield, Pub Crawl, central Illinois, holiday spirit, holiday season, Christmas, New Year’s Eve, Chris Knight, Chicago, Tom “Dooley” Woolsey, Tony Berkman, “Dance Off”, Christmas tunes, Katy Perry, Mil, Music - Tom Irwin

Tags: Band Spotlight, Tom Irwin, Illinois Times, Springfield, Pub Crawl, Lowder & Manning, Jaigh Lowder, Jill Manning, Next Time Around, Dave Leonatti, Nightsounds, WUIS, Coast to Coast AM, George Noory, New Year’s Eve, First Night Springfield, Barrel Head, Hill Prairie Wine, Band Spotlight

Tags: Poetry, Jacqueline Jackie Jackson, Springfield, Illinois Times, poetry, poem, Christmas, Christmas lullaby, my mother, my oldest sister, first Christmas, baby, Bethlehem manger, little Lord Jesus was born, sleep, Mary, Poetry

Tags: Politics, Rich Miller, Capitol Fax, Springfield, Illinois Times, Gov. Bruce Rauner’s campaign, OODA Loops, Gov. Quinn, Rep. John Bradley, Rauner’s Turnaround Agenda, House Speaker Michael Madigan, City Club of Chicago luncheon, Chris Robling, Illinois Republica, Politics - Rich Miller

Tags: Commentary, Jim Hightower, Common Sense, Illinois Times, Springfield, Exxon, climate change, corporate interests, fossil fuel contaminants, global climate, carbon dioxide release from the burning of fossil fuels, James Black, Roger Cohen, Earth’s climate, rainfall, National - Jim Hightower

Tags: Community & Lifestyle, Amy Alkon, Advice Goddess, advice columns, California, Springfield, bad temper, verbal attack, fight-or-flight defense system, adrenaline, Braveheart, Monty Python movie, Scots, English, Mother Teresa, social psychologist C. Daniel Batson, emotional respo, Advice Goddess

Tags: Food Features, British desserts, Christmas, custard sauce, desserts that include infusions of alcohol, Food columnists, Häage, Illinois Times, Julianne Glatz, liquor-plumped fruit, puddings, raspberry purée, spirited holiday desserts, Springfield, sweet stuff, trifles

Tags: Politics, Rich Miller, Capitol Fax, Springfield, Illinois Times, Chicago Police Department, Laquan McDonald, police officer, cop, Chicago’s mayoral election, Chicago City Council, Department of Children and Family Services, Freedom of Information Act, Cook County, Politics - Rich Miller

Tags: Poetry, Jacqueline Jackie Jackson, Springfield, Illinois Times, poetry, poem, daughter demi, small pleasures, small treats, Wisconsin, popcorn, lola and kevin’s pool, ice cream cones, little kids, Poetry

Tags: IT Picks, Springfield, Illinois Times, Nan Bulli, calendar, Memorial Medical Center’s Festival of Trees, central Illinois, Memorial’s Festival of Trees, community improvement, trees, wreaths, swags, Candy Cane Express Train, gingerbread village, “little elves, IT Picks

Tags: Community & Lifestyle, Amy Alkon, Advice Goddess, advice columns, California, Springfield, new boyfriend, behaviors, habits, personality traits, psychologist Art Markman, Smart Change, love, Advice Goddess