Sunshine & Bright Returns
There’s this line in Maurice Sendak and Arthur Yorinks’ The Miami Giant about a boat landing in Miami that goes, “So I swerved a bit.” That line of that very odd book, which manages to be funny and just a smidge unsettling at once, came to me...Wellness: Making Access to Good Food a SNAP
For years, the farmers’ market in Springfield’s Forest Park neighborhood accepted paper food stamps from shoppers—an option that ensured that low-income families had easy access to fresh, local produce. But that changed about a dozen years ago, said...
Stage: Nutritious Treats
“Theater is not dead; it is the definition of alive. In these days when you can’t even get a real person on the phone to place a complaint with the electric company, what a luxury to have living breathing humans in front of you, fervently believing in a...
Stagestruck: First Impressions
All four summer theater shows I caught last week begin with a defining sound: a musical motif, a ship’s horn, a laugh, a hammer on nail. Each one, heard before the lights even come up, gives us an aural clue to what we can expect of the play’s style and...E-Edition
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