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Tags: Food Features, activities, daycare, dinner leftovers, Food columnists, food made fresh, fruits, garlic, getting creati, healthy, Illinois Times, Julianne Glatz, kids’ lunches, lunch at home, onions, produce farm, scallions, Springfield, summer, summer camp, vegetables

Tags: IT Picks, Springfield, Illinois Times, Nan Bulli, calendar, Springfield SOHO Music Festival, Washington Street, Old State Capitol, local bands, family area, kid’s carnival, inflatables, face painting, carnival games, activities, acoustic family stage, SOHO 10K ru, IT Picks

Tags: Band Spotlight, Tom Irwin, Illinois Times, Springfield, Pub Crawl, Band Spotlight, Jeff “Drum Junkie” Bechtel, Mark “Big Guy” Bott, Braxton “$Money$” Clark, “Father” Hank Stoutamyer, Alex “Chi-Town” Borisov, band garden, Blue Grouch Pub, 3rd Person Ba, Band Spotlight

Tags: IT Picks, Springfield, Illinois Times, Nan Bulli, calendar, Temple B’rith Sholom, Jewish Federation, 2nd Annual Film Series, award-winning films from around the world, Deli Man, Erik Greenberg Anjou, documentary, iconic delicatessens of America, Katz’s, 2nd Ave, IT Picks

Tags: IT Picks, Springfield, Illinois Times, Nan Bulli, calendar, 54th Annual International Carillon Festival, 11 carillon concerts, the world’s leading carillonneurs, Washington Park, Patrick Knox, Angela Paul-Pryer, carillon studies, Dew Chili Parlor, Rees Carillon S, IT Picks

Tags: Film, Chuck Koplinski, Illinois Times, film, movies, Springfield, Cameron Crowe, Jerry Maguire, Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, Bill Murray, Alec Baldwin, John Krasinski, Danny McBride, Aloha, Air Force, Hawaii, private contractor, Carson Welch, cor, Film - Chuck Koplinski

Tags: Music Features, Tom Irwin, Now Playing, Illinois Times, Springfield, Pub Crawl, central Illinois, June, SOHO 11, Service Organization for Humanitarian Opportunity, SoJo, Eric Welch, Luca Giordano, Quique Gomez, Italian guitarist, Chicago-style blues, Europe, Eric “Guit, Music - Tom Irwin

Tags: IT Picks, Springfield, Illinois Times, Nan Bulli, calendar, Nipper Wildlife Sanctuary, Master Naturalist Summit, University of Illinois Extension Master Naturalist volunteer program, bird hike, native plant hike, using drones in conservation efforts, drone demonstr, IT Picks

Tags: Music Features, Tom Irwin, Now Playing, Illinois Times, Springfield, Pub Crawl, May, central Illinois, summer, outdoor activities, Tony Sicilia, Hendrix, VFW Hall on Stockyard Road, Walnut Street Winery, Rochester, Downstate Unplugged, Steely James, Curve Inn, “Best of, Music - Tom Irwin

Tags: Film, Chuck Koplinski, Illinois Times, film, movies, Springfield, Thomas Vinterberg, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, late 19th-century England, Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge, circumstance, coincidence, marriage, r, Film - Chuck Koplinski

Tags: Poetry, Jacqueline Jackie Jackson, Springfield, Illinois Times, poetry, poem, mitch, cows, fish, coral reef, Poetry

Tags: IT Picks, Springfield, Illinois Times, Nan Bulli, calendar, Invincible: A Tribute to Michael Jackson, number one Michael Jackson tribute show in the world, Prairie Capital Convention Center, the King of Pop, The Jackson 5, Bessie Award-winner Darrin Ross, Grammy Aw, IT Picks

Tags: Food Features, 1848-1868, Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, Cokie Roberts, Europe, First Lady, Food columnists, Illinois Times, Julianne Glatz, Mary Todd Lincoln, New York Historical Society, Springfield, Strawberry party, The Strawberry Festival

Tags: IT Picks, Springfield, Illinois Times, Nan Bulli, calendar, Next to Normal, 2010 Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary rock musical, suburban families, bipolar disorder, grieving, loss, ethics in modern psychiatry, suburban life, depression, mental illness, Mental, IT Picks

Tags: Commentary, Jim Hightower, Common Sense, Illinois Times, Springfield, President Barack Obama, TPP, Trans-Pacific Partnership, free trade agreement, Sherrod Brown, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, stealth power grab, NAFTA, WTO, Korea FTA, Wall Street reform, Buy Ame, National - Jim Hightower

Tags: Band Spotlight, Tom Irwin, Illinois Times, Springfield, Pub Crawl, Band Spotlight, Unity the Band, Fuji, Kai “Pita” Katobalavu, Perkins, Ryan Peerenboom, Jeremy “Chunk” Schroetter, Kelvin Ayres, Alana Miron, Appleton, Wis., WAMI’s, Wisconsin Area Music Industry, Band Spotlight

Tags: IT Picks, Springfield, Illinois Times, Nan Bulli, calendar, The Lincoln Monument Association, old-fashioned ice cream social, cake, ice cream, lemonade, historical interpreters, historic tree tour, trees, tree stones, historic trees, educational children’s activi, IT Picks

Tags: Food Features, Black-Seeded Sim, deer’s tongue, Food columnists, green lettuces range Lollo Rosso, iceberg lettuce, Illinois Times, Julianne Glatz, leaf lettuces, lettuces, mass-produced iceberg, real iceberg, spicy arugula, Springfield, Thousand Island-esque dressing

Tags: Film, Chuck Koplinski, Illinois Times, film, movies, Springfield, Road Runner cartoon, ACME, Inc., George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road, a glorious ode to vehicular destruction, Fast and Furious, economic equality, sexual equality, Thomas Hardy, Australian Outbac, Film - Chuck Koplinski

Tags: Music Features, Tom Irwin, Now Playing, Illinois Times, Springfield, Pub Crawl, May, central Illinois, Memorial Day, Memorial Day weekend, guitarist Tony Sicillia, VFW Hall on Stockyard Road, BoS Plaza, Prairie Capital Convention Center, Frankie Ballard, Bob Seger, Howli, Music - Tom Irwin

Tags: Community & Lifestyle, Amy Alkon, Advice Goddess, advice columns, California, Springfield, Illinois Times, dating, long-distance dating, phones, texting, failing to return texts, setting boundaries, respecting boundaries, overriding wishful thinking-driven gullibility, Advice Goddess

Tags: IT Picks, Springfield, Illinois Times, Nan Bulli, calendar, Abe’s River Race, family fun, boat race, Sangamon River, canoes, kayaks, wooden boats, Irwin Bridge, Lincoln’s Riverside Park, Riverbank Lodge, Petersburg, IT Picks

Tags: Poetry, Jacqueline Jackie Jackson, Springfield, Illinois Times, poetry, young-old, old-old, old-old mother, mom, mother’s day, mother poem, grandma, growing older, aging, “Sylvia”, “I Love Life”, “Moon and Sea” love songs, comfort, listening, Poetry

Tags: Politics, Rich Miller, Capitol Fax, Springfield, Illinois Times, political columns, secret state legislative working groups, Turnaround Agenda, private legislative caucus meetings, Gov. Bruce Rauner, Republican state Reps. Patricia Bellock and David Leitch, Democra, Politics - Rich Miller

Tags: Commentary, Jim Hightower, Common Sense, Illinois Times, Springfield, harsh climate conditions, Climaticus Non-vocalism Extremism, CNE Syndrome, Republican political officials and candidates, denial of human-caused climate change, climate change, global warming, Gov., National - Jim Hightower