Andrew Mayernich, center, as the Emcee of the Kit Kat Club. PHOTO BY Donna Lounsbury The dark, highly-sexualized Cabaret is an interesting choice for the Muni, that stalwart of wholesome outdoor musical theater where the audience is invited to sing the national anthem before every performance. They went out on a limb, and their ambition […]
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Surviving winter’s end
Switzerland cheese toast with butternut squash apple bisque. PHOTO BY PETER GLATZ Enough, already! I am officially sick of winter. Living in a place that has changing seasons is actually something I prize. That even includes winter. True, I don’t get quite as excited as I did when I was a child about the first […]
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Ouija board, movie lack mystery
Douglas Smith, Ana Coto and Olivia Cooke in Ouija. It isn’t that Ouija, the latest property to hit the screen from Hasbro Toys after G.I. Joe and Transformers, is necessarily a bad movie; it’s simply late to the party. After the recent success of Paranormal Activity, Insidious and Sinister, the whole “haunted house combined with […]
Posted inOpinion
NSA spying is here to stay
On Monday, April 14, the Washington Post and the Guardian U.S. newspapers received the Pulitzer for Journalism Public Service for their reports on NSA spying. In light of their hard work, let’s recap events of the last year. Embarrassed and irritated by Edward Snowden’s leaks, Obama charged last year at a press conference that Snowden […]
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Repeal the Patriot Act
It’s back. The Patriot Act – that grotesque, ever-mutating, hydra-headed monstrosity from the Bush-Cheney Little Shop of Horrors – has risen again, this time with an added twist of Orwellian intrusiveness from the Obamacans. Since 2006, Team Bush, and then Team Obama, have allowed the little-known, hugely powerful National Security Agency to run a daily […]
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Music tonight: Gentle vs. Brutal
Springfield music fans bemoaning a lack of variety in local concert offerings can go ahead and bite their tongues on this particular evening as a former Bon Iver collaborator and a balls-out thrash metal show each prepare to take downtown stages. Field Report The Hoogland Center for the Arts, via Bedrock 66, is playing host […]
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Colorful comedy
This Tony-award winning musical features puppets, with their masters in full view, but don’t let the furry little guys fool you – these fellows are more like the older dudes on Fraggle Rock than the young’ns on Sesame Street. And their bite of sarcasm and realism makes this an adult-audience-only show. The story follows recent […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Colorful comedy
This Tony-award winning musical features puppets, with their masters in full view, but don’t let the furry little guys fool you – these fellows are more like the older dudes on Fraggle Rock than the youngin’s on Sesame Street. And their bite of sarcasm and realism makes this an adult-audience-only show. The story follows recent […]
