Local artists have a chance to have their work seen all over the world, with a Joy Post Office competition for their December holiday cancellation. This is the 25th year for the post office contest.
Cooters is hosting a live band, Nitrix on Saturday, June 5 from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Longing for the days when he felt like a "real ogre," Shrek is duped into signing a pact with the smooth-talking Rumpelstiltskin. Shrek suddenly finds himself in a twisted, alternate version of Far Far Away
The Rockridge High School Music Department will present Babes in Arms Saturday May 8, at 7 p.m. and Sunday May 9 at 2 p.m. Tickets are five dollars and may be purchased at the door.
Casting Crowns will perform on Friday, July 16, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. at the
Adler Theatre. Tickets are now on sale.
A 124-year-old "signature quilt" with the name Aledo, Illinois on it was recently acquired by an Oakland California man on eBay.
GALESBURG-- The Sandburg Days festival for the mind will begin on Thursday, April 22, and run through Sunday, April 25, with activities honoring Galesburg-born, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Lincoln biographer, Carl Sandburg. Come celebrate with the community through educational and recreational activities that range from an art walk to a poetry slam to presentations about Illinois history.
Sherrard High School Drama Departments will be presenting Godspell on April 8, 9, and 10 at 7 p.m. at Sherrard High School. Tickets can be purchased at the door. Tickets will cost $6 for adults $4 for students. All seating is general admission!
Celebrating Monmouth, Illinois’ historic tradition of creating quality stoneware and pottery is the idea behind our annual Pottery on the Square Swap Meet event on June 26, 2010 starting at 8 a.m. Monmouth’s history with stoneware and pottery dates back to the 1890’s and continues today with Western Stoneware and Maple City Pottery, both of Monmouth.
Celebrating Monmouth, Illinois’ historic tradition of creating quality stoneware and pottery is the idea behind our annual Pottery on the Square Swap Meet event on June 26th, 2010 starting at 8 a.m.. Monmouth’s history with stoneware and pottery dates back to the 1890’s and continues today with Western Stoneware and Maple City Pottery, both of Monmouth.
Spring has arrived, so bring your questions and listening ears to the Master Gardeners’ classes on Saturday, April 10 and May 15 at 9 a.m. at the Extension Office in Aledo. Elaine Wheeler will have gardening for beginners, advanced, and children and Lois Ricketts will speak on composting and the Farmers’ Market for April. In May, Laura McGinnis will have annuals and perennials, Lois Ricketts – roses, and Elaine Wheeler-ornamental grasses. These are FREE to the public, but, please call the Extension Office, 309-582-5106, so they will have the appropriate number of handouts.
Joe Mathieu has illustrated more than 100 children’s books and has created thousands of illustrations for Sesame Street books and other products.
Nothing kills the mood before a show like a clunky cell phone announcement or fundraising pitch from the stage.
Five questions with Femke Hiemstra about "Rock Candy," her lovely and surreal book of collected art.
Leon Chiappini hooks a tire-sized cymbal around his finger and spins it like a basketball. He hits it and listens for the ding, the gravel and the growl: elements of crash that the average ear can’t hear. If it’s not perfect, Chiappini tosses it in the reject pile. “After 49 years, I’d better know if it’s good,” he said with a laugh.
I like to think of film critic Roger Ebert as a sieve. When Hollywood releases a film, it's probably going to go through him. And after taking in a flick and sharing his thoughts, his readers are left with just the stuff that they can use - a solid opinion, a little humor, an idea of whether or not they'll be wanting to shell out their money to take a look themselves.
Checklists, writes Boston surgeon and author Atul Gawande in his book “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right,” are considered by many to be beneath us. Yet Gawande proves, without a doubt, that checklists — cognitive safety nets — save lives, millions of dollars and untold heartache, whether the task is flying an airplane, building a skyscraper or operating on an adrenal gland.
Bruce Brown of Springfield first discovered comic books as a child. A specialist recommended them to Brown’s parents to help their son overcome some reading difficulties. Now he not only enjoys reading comic books, he writes them, too. Brown’s latest graphic novel, released earlier this year, is “Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom.”
Jonathan Dee’s new critically acclaimed novel “The Privileges” starts with a wedding, impressive for the deft writing that conveys the controlled chaos, the edgy anxieties, the many tensions springing from family members’ vying needs.
In bestselling author Chris Bohjalian’s “Secrets of Eden,” some mysteries untangle themselves as we approach the last pages of his cleverly told novel.
