For the first time in over 20 years, I spent a sunny afternoon at the Caribbean Water Adventure located at Knight’s Action Park. I was under the impression, thanks to their jingle (“it’s so neat to meet your baby where the action is”), that it had degraded into some sort of sleazy singles park where […]

Since my low-class car doesn’t merit entry into our single-car garage, it remains outdoors where it has become a depository for avian waste. A large tree extends over our driveway and the curb in front of our house so there is no parking space that is out of the line of fire. One particular evening, […]

If Joe Bartolomucci wrote for Hallmark, your next birthday card would be a text-heavy polemic that provides a firm defense of why the sender is giving you the card, but would fall short of actually wishing you a happy birthday. I say this after reading the silver-penned alderman’s letter-to-the-editor in today’s SJ-R. Written presumably to […]

The biggest complaint about Jack Nicholson, even from his fans, is that he never loses himself in a role. It doesn’t matter if he is a rebellious mental patient or an omni-phobic novelist, his animated eyebrows and dastardly smile are always winking at the audience through the fourth wall. The buzz that surrounded the release […]

K’s Merchandise Mart, a store that may fighting for survival in the Springfield retail arena, deployed a team of human billboards yesterday to draw attention to a jewelry sale targeted at forgetful or procrastinating offspring. Two gentlemen of the scruffy variety were stationed along Wabash Avenue, holding up signs announcing the sale. Their posture seemed […]