Congress=Wall Street?

by | Apr 15, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal

Well, this isn’t emblematic or anything: From anonymous midlevel workers to former House and Senate majority leaders, more than 125 former Congressional aides and lawmakers are now working for financial firms as part of a multibillion-dollar effort to shape, and...
Women's Roles

Women's Roles

by | Apr 15, 2010 | Stage

One is considered Shakespeare’s most “masculine” play. The other takes place in two largely female domains: feminist academia and the minimum-wage workplace. This weekend, those contradictory worlds clash in two productions on area campuses, both of...
StageStruck: Chekhov's Eye

StageStruck: Chekhov's Eye

by | Apr 15, 2010 | Stage

“But suddenly,” says the narrator of Anton Chekhov’s satirical short story “The Death of a Clerk,” about to describe an unexpected, life-changing sneeze. And then he pauses. “This ‘but suddenly’ occurs often in...
Ticking Clocks, Dragging Feet

Ticking Clocks, Dragging Feet

by | Apr 15, 2010 | News

Back in February, Springfield City Hall offered a promising timeline for returning full library services to the Mason Square neighborhood: City Solicitor Ed Pikula told the Advocate at the time that the Springfield Urban League would need to vacate its building at 765...