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How to cook a wolf
As long as we end up beating the Reaper, these past weeks of self-quarantine really haven’t been awful. Amid bad news and increasing fears we have been gifted a rare period of respite to reflect and reassess. Life as we knew it will never be the same. The future? It’s not yet been written. As […]
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Creating your vision of an inspired life
I’ve loved cooking ever since I was a teenager. I enjoy cooking so much that late in life I started doing short, unpaid apprenticeships at notable restaurants in order to broaden my culinary skills. I’d approach a chef and say “I’m old and a bit slow, but I’m neat and precise.” I started planning my […]
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Ritchie back in comfort zone with clever Gentlemen
To say that Guy Ritchie’s career has been spotty is a bit of an understatement. Bursting on the scene with the brash gangster flicks Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000), his frenetic style and post-modern take on the genre proved to be Britain’s response to the Quentin Tarantino phenomenon. However, a […]
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Dolittle: A generic talking animal adventure
Silly me, in anticipation of Dolittle, I read Hugh Lofting’s Newbury Award-winning The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle, the second book in his series about the veterinarian who can talk to animals. If possible, I always like to check out the source material of any big screen movie adaptation so I can see what similarities the […]
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Prosecutor quits under fire
A Sangamon County assistant state’s attorney who landed in trouble at a bar last spring has resigned after being pulled over last month on suspicion of drunken driving. University of Illinois Springfield police ended their investigation without arresting or citing Edward Brandt when he refused to perform field sobriety tests after being stopped for driving […]
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Frozen II a bit muddled
I was expecting some snappy tunes and a few scene-stealing moments from Josh Gad’s Olaf in Disney’s current cash cow Frozen II. What proved surprising was a scene of small-scale genocide aimed at the indigenous people that live in an enchanted forest that borders Arendelle, the home of Anna and Elsa. It and its ramifications […]
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Evidence of huffing found in homeless man’s demise
A homeless man found dead a week ago had apparently been huffing, according to Springfield police reports. In September, Ahmad Basheer Verdell became the face of homelessness in Springfield as he urged the city council to approve an east side homeless center on 11th Street that would also include a detox unit and services for […]
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Ford v Ferrari in the winner’s circle
With all of its meticulously rendered, in-your-face, just-a-bit-too-loud racing sequences, at its core Ford v Ferrari is really nothing more than a buddy movie. That’s not meant to be a backhanded compliment but speaks to the engine that drives this exceptionally engaging dive into automotive history, a look at how a personal slight led to […]
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Fate a tired, redundant sequel
It’s time to put this to rest. Without question, Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a seminal piece of science fiction, a film that, much like many of its characters, has transcended time to become a part of our pop culture lexicon. Its dire warnings about technology taking over our lives has unfortunately proved prescient, while […]
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Emmerich’s Midway a surprisingly sincere effort
Over the course of four days in June 1942, a vastly outnumbered American naval force pulled off a successful surprise attack on the Japanese Navy at a remote atoll known as Midway. Still smarting from the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States Navy marshaled their battered forces and set out to check the […]
