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First all-district band performance is MondayApr 24, 2015 10:00 am - A recent fifth grade band performance packed the school gym and for those who missed it, there is another opportunity 6:30 p.m. Monday. "Beginning band concerts always d...
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Movie review: Crowe is excellent in the uneven ‘Water Diviner'Apr 24, 2015 1:01 am - Russell Crowe won an Oscar acting, broke eardrums as a singer and now the budding Renaissance man is giving directing a whirl with the Aussie war drama "The Water Divine...
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Movie review: ‘Ex Machina' is the droid you're looking forApr 24, 2015 1:01 am - Come for the sci-fi. Stay for the humanity. With "Ex Machina," writer-director Alex Garland ("28 Days Later") has crafted an intimate, wondrous, unsettling look at artif...
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Movie review: ‘Age of Adaline' is sweet but a little sloppyApr 24, 2015 1:01 am - Staying 29 forever is every woman's fantasy. But, as "Gossip Girl" alum Blake Lively finds out in the predictable but endearing love story "Age of Adaline," that blessin...
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Movie review: Crowe's historical drama ‘The Water Diviner' isn't divine, but it's pretty darn goodApr 24, 2015 1:01 am - Two and a half decades into his feature film acting career, with equal shares of portraying good guys and bad guys to his credit, along with an Oscar for starring in "Gl...
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Movie review: Powerful, tense kidnapping story ‘24 Days' delivers a strong messageApr 24, 2015 1:01 am - There's a slight error in judgment concerning the beginning and the end of this based-on-fact French crime story. It opens in public service announcement mode, with a ch...
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Looking Up: Enjoying the bright MoonApr 23, 2015 11:00 pm - Full moon occurs in only a few days, on Sunday, May 3. We tend to take it for granted these days, but who among us isn't pleased to see the Moon big and bright? We only ...
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Costa Living: Basking in flower powerApr 23, 2015 11:00 pm - I threw out my back last week bending down to smell the roses. Actually, they were rhododendrons. I was in the process of walking the property lines to see what was bloo...
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At 3 a.m. Thursday, the hospital's emergency room suddenly became a ... disaster classroomApr 23, 2015 11:00 pm - The aftermath of the unthinkable -- an F3 tornado that demolished the Madison Street apartments in Du Quoin -- played out in the emergency room at the Marshall Browning ...
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SOFTBALL: Pinckneyville beats Murphysboro for 4th straight winApr 23, 2015 11:00 pm - Maddie Jones drove in the go-ahead run in the top of the seventh for Pinckneyville and the Lady Panthers snuck past the Lady Devils 5-3 for their fourth win in a row aft...