PHOTO BY METRO CREATIVE CONNECTION “What’s your favorite cuisine?” It’s a question I’m frequently asked – and one I’m never comfortable answering. Do I really have to choose? My answer at any given moment may depend on the season, a cookbook I’ve been reading, a restaurant at which I’ve recently eaten, recipes I’ve been developing, […]
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Monuments Men missing momentum
George Clooney as Frank Stokes George Clooney’s The Monuments Men has the sort of pedigree that Oscar winners are made of. What with an all-star cast, including former Academy Awards recipients Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Jean Dujardin (as well as Clooney) and Bill Murray, John Goodman and Bob Balaban, as well as a subject matter […]
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Get creative with leftovers
I’ll never again be able to make some of the best things I’ve created in my kitchen. Not because they were complicated and/or expensive, although I’ve made a few of those, too. It’s because those creations – they couldn’t accurately be called recipes – were concocted from bits of leftovers or things that would spoil […]
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The Master a challenging look at the displaced
Since its premiere early this month at the Toronto International Film Festival, much of what’s been written about P.T. Anderson’s The Master has focused on the film’s complexity as well as the viewer’s inability to mine all it has to offer in a single viewing. This comes as no surprise as the director’s work is […]
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Transcendent talent
The Imagine Foundation in Jacksonville lives up to its motto, “Reaching out through the arts,” as it presents a night of other-worldly fun Aug. 17. Catered to adults 18 years and older, the soiree is called Dark Gypsy Jubilee. Besides an art exhibition, the “art experience,” as Executive Director Clare Lynd-Porter calls it, includes vendors, […]
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Native scribes
Grab a coffee and bun before you visit with local authors at the library this Saturday, March 26. Books cover a wide range of subject matters and genres such as fiction, non-fiction, children’s books, World War II, African-American Federal Marshalls, Vietnam, and more. Spotlighted will be: Bob Moore, Tom Jones, George Heroux, Rodney Moore, Springfield […]
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Springfield’s own Rosie the Riveter
“All the day long, Whether rain or shine, She’s a part of the assembly line. She’s making history, Working for victory, Rosie the Riveter…” -from the 1943 song, “Rosie the Riveter” by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb Rosie the Riveter – Roseville Big Band During World War II, Anna (“Ann”) Hayden, who’s now 92 […]
