If you’re looking for a unique and serene Christmas activity to welcome in the season, the Franciscan Nativity Festival takes place at the Chiara Center throughout the first weekend in December. Experience the deeper meaning of the Incarnation through a display of more than 100 nativity sets from around the world. Loaned to the Chiara […]
Christmas
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Getting ready for Christmas
Finely grating the rinds of two lemons for lemon pecan pound cake. PHOTO BY TOM WALLACE/MCT “God invented Christmas as a trial for women,” a friend said to me many years ago. I laughed – it was funny – but I also felt a little sad that she was so cynical. But every year since […]
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Night lights
The Springfield Jaycees invite folks to line the streets of downtown for the 42nd annual Christmas parade on Saturday, Dec. 7. The evening parade featuring Santa and the theme Holiday Stories begins at Jefferson and Seventh, heads west to Fifth Street, runs south on Fifth to Capitol, then snakes east, then north on Sixth Street. […]
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Downtown adornment
Downtown Springfield, Inc. presents its Old Capitol Holiday Walks on Thursdays through Christmas, plus a kickoff date on Wednesday, Dec. 4. Mayor Mike Houston will light the holiday tree at 5:30 p.m. on the Old State Capitol Plaza at the corner of Sixth and Adams streets and there will be holiday music. What is not […]
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Acts of kindness buoy a harrowing Impossible
Director Juan Antonio Bayona puts us through the wringer with The Impossible, a harrowing film recounting one family’s improbable survival of the 2004 tsunami that occurred in the Indian Ocean. Employing cutting-edge special effects and an unflinching approach toward recreating the severity of the disaster which claimed an estimated 230,000 lives and displaced 1.7 million […]
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Downtown delight
Mayor Mike Houston helps Downtown Springfield, Inc., kick off its annual Old Capitol Holiday Walk, Dec. 5 at 5:30 p.m. with a tree lighting ceremony on the Old State Capitol Plaza at the corner of Sixth and Adams. Southeast High School Sensations will sing holiday music and the Horace Mann Singers will stroll and carol […]
