PHOTO BY METRO CREATIVE CONNECTION Here’s a Halloween party the whole family can enjoy: The Halloween Family Carnival, hosted by the Hoogland Kids, Teens and Juniors. The carnival features booths complete with candy and prizes, your favorite Halloween songs as performed by the Hoogland Kids, Teens and Juniors, a “not-so-scary” haunted house designed to appeal […]
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A Hallows Eve double feature
This Saturday, join the Boo Crew Haunted House crew at the Prairie Capital Convention Center’s Bank of Springfield plaza for an unforgettable evening combining film, fun and food. Bring your chairs and blankets (no outside coolers) and enjoy two terrifying films outdoors on the big screen: the original Friday the 13th and Zombieland. Both films […]
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A spooky, sensory performance
This Halloween, experience a spooky, sensory concert performed by Christopher Holman on the First Presbyterian Church’s Brombaugh Pipe Organ. Musical selections include “Toccata in D-Minor” by J.S. Bach, pieces by composers Dieterich Buxtehude, César Franck and more. Other musical guests include a string ensemble and organist from the Illinois Symphony. Dramatic lighting and interpretative movement […]
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Kasbah fails to rock
Bill Murray in Rock the Kasbah. PHOTO COURTESY OPEN ROAD FILMS It’s never a good sign when, while watching a movie, your mind becomes preoccupied with questions like “I wonder at what point in the production process this went wrong?” and “Didn’t they realize they were making a colossal turd?” or “Do I need to […]
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Happy Halloweeners
The Screamin Vatos play their final gig with a reunion celebration at the Curve Inn on Friday, Oct. 30, 6 to 10 p.m. Always a big night for music, Halloween weekend 2015 seems extra special as All Hallow’s Eve lands on a Saturday. There will be plenty of parties, costumes, prizes, music and merrymaking in […]
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Slow Food Springfield St. Louis brewery tour
A batch of Pale Ale rolls off the line at the Schlafly Bottleworks brewery in Maplewood, MO. PHOTO BY HUY RICHARD MACH/TNS For as long as I can remember, St. Louis has been a beer town. And for most of that time, St. Louis was a one-brewery town. Anheuser-Busch ruled the roost; even sighting a […]
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flower poem # 2
flower poem # 2 tulip bulbs have comeit’s soon time to plant themheard a story once about aperson horticulturally challengedplanted her bulbs upside downthe tulips finally came up in julytheir stems all sinewy evidenceof their frantic effort I was alwaysas a child given a tulip on myearly may birthday one year Ithink I was three […]
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‘We are writing the rules,’ says Obama
Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE The negotiations and the sales push behind Washington’s latest (and biggest) “free trade” agreement amounts to Kabuki theater. What theater? Kabuki. It’s a 17th-century form of Japanese drama, featuring elaborate sets and costuming, rhythmic dialogue and stylized acting and dancing. That does, indeed, nicely sum up the White […]
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Trick-or-treat where Lincoln walked
Children ages 12 and under are invited to don their Halloween costumes on Friday, Oct. 23, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. and enjoy a free trick-or-treating event compliments of the Lincoln Home Employee Association. Though the houses will not be open for tours, there will be candy stops set up at several historic homes in the festively […]
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Funny Frank Ferrante
On Sunday, the Kirkland Center for Fine Arts welcomes award-winning actor/director/playwright Frank Ferrante as he performs his hilarious show portraying the third-born Marx brother, Groucho Marx. Ferrante, accompanied by his pianist, incorporates the audience into the quick-witted, slapstick show, resulting in a crowd-pleasing performance. The two act, 90-minute long show contains many of Groucho’s famous […]
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Octobering for music
Chris Miller, along with Joe Dawkins and Mike Burnett, plays Trail’s End Saloon in Curran on Fri, Oct. 23. I don’t know why, but this weekend shows up like a who’s who of what’s happening here, there and everywhere. Tough choices lie on the entertainment table. Let’s start when Chris Miller, the extraordinary guitarist, singer […]
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Make your own sausage
“Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.” –John Godfrey Saxe Nineteenth century American poet/lawyer Saxe’s quip is still commonly used, though less elegantly phrased – and not just about lawmaking. We wince, shrug and say, “You know, it’s like making sausage….” Everyone understands that the rest […]
