Based out of South City, St. Louis, CaveofswordS travels in otherworldly ways in the sound sphere, spending time in advancing the cause of art, dance, poetry and music. Calling their genre DubWave, band mates Sunyatta, Eric, Zagk and KVN develop sincere electronic music full of mood-manipulating sounds and image-based lyrics. Defying categorization but encouraging participation […]
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Redford and Nolte make for a pleasant Walk
Robert Redford as Bill Bryson and Nick Nolte as Katz in A Walk in the Woods. Much like its two main characters, A Walk in the Woods is a film that’s comfortable and familiar. There are no surprises to be had while watching it; the platitudes it espouses we’ve heard ad nauseum and the events […]
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Bustin’ out all over
Joe and Joey Tenuto play father and son blues all around town this weekend. Oh my goodness, where do we begin? TheSeptember run on getting all the happenings in before autumn falls upon us is in full swing. Look out! The Krannert Center at the University of Illinois Urbana hosts the Ellnora Guitar Festival this […]
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Bug-off poem #1
Bug-off poem #1 Do I see you pout? Do I see you cry?Do you dance about? I’m telling you why The bad bed bugs have come into town. Have you made a list? It’s surely not mice Cannot be fleas, mosquitoes or lice The bad bed bugs have come into town They’ll bite you when […]
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Ratatouille
PHOTO BY PETER GLATZ Ratatouille got me my first new kitchen floor. I’m not talking about the 2007 Disney movie but the classic French vegetable stew (pronounced ra-ta-TOO-ee) that gave the movie its name. We’d moved into our historic farmhouse a month before. Farm kitchens are usually envisioned as large, warm and welcoming, but the […]
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Cycle through Springfield’s sites
As a precursor to Sunday’s 100-mile Capital City Century bike race, enjoy a free, 8-mile bike ride led by Naomi Greene and Jim Hajek of the Springfield Bicycle Club. The ride will occur on Saturday, Sept. 12, from 1-3 p.m. Cruise past the Lincoln Home, Lincoln’s Tomb, the Lincoln Herndon-Law Office, and other historical sites […]
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A monument fit for a robber baron
Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE Occasionally I see something that is so bizarre, so out of place, so wrong that I have to assume I’m hallucinating. For example, I could have sworn I was delusional when I heard about the National Park Service’s Pullman National Monument in Chicago. George Pullman? My mind boggled. […]
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Artists from all across America
Enjoy art, music and children’s activities this weekend during the Art Spectacular at Thomas Rees Memorial Carillon in Washington Park. The tenth-annual art fair is ranked as the “Best Fine Art Fair in Springfield” according to Greg Lawler’s 2010 Art Fair Sourcebook, and is considered one of the “Best 100 Fine Art Fairs in the […]
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Presidential pets
Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune/MCT American presidents love their pets. The Obamas adopted a dog named Bo shortly after Barack’s election in 2009, the Clintons brought Socks the cat and Buddy the dog to Washington, and John F. Kennedy kept a pony named Macaroni on White House grounds. What other typical and atypical pets have called the […]
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Three evenings of culture, learning
PHOTO COURTESY HTTP://JACKSONVILLEIL.ORG/PRAIRIELAND-CHAUTAUQUA/ Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt once referred to the Chautauqua, the adult education movement made popular in the 19th and 20th centuries, as, “The most American thing in America.” Chautauqua festivals included musical shows, storytellers, communal suppers and evenings with reenactors representing famous Americans. Modeled after a traditional Chautauqua, the 17th Annual […]
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Reflecting on racial climate
PHOTO BY CURTIS COMPTON/TNS The Fall 2015 ECCE Speaker Series begins Tuesday at 6 p.m. with a panel discussion examining the historical, social and political lineage nurturing the racial climate that resulted in the June 17 Charleston shooting and the rise of racially charged aggression on college campuses and in the workplace. The panel features […]
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Music labors
Skibbereen plays the Old Capitol Farmers Market on Saturday morning at Fourth and Adams. As we roll into the end-of-summertime weekend anchored by Labor Day on Monday, this seems like a good spot to reflect on an eventful summer of great music and incredible events. Sorry, though, we just don’t have time to look back, […]
