SIUC Events Pack: Shows, Screenings, and Concerts
A packed schedule lists films and screenings at SIUC venues including Longbranch Coffeehouse and Student Center Auditorium, plus theater offerings at Kleinan and Rend Lake College. Events feature Big Muddy Competition screenings, Aardman retrospective, Cabaret, Antonin Show Business, and Celtic Carbondale performances, with multiple free and paid options and local contact numbers.
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Longbranch
E. Jackson
Carbondale
Shellie Fleming
Big Muddy
SIUC
Aardman Studios
Wallace and Gromit
Dreadmachine
Kleinan Theatre
Communications Building
Max Ernst
W.W
McLeod Theater
Antonin
John A. Logan College
Carterville
Texas
Rend Lake College Theatre
Inn
Poshard stable after Marion car crash
Former congressman Glenn Poshard, now SIU Carbondale administrator, lay in Marion Memorial Hospital in stable condition after a rear end collision on DeYoung and Carbon streets. Police ticketed Brooke Beggs for failure to slow to prevent the crash. Terri Tinkler was treated and released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Glenn Poshard
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Poshard
Marion Memorial Hospital
DeYoung
Carbon Streets
Brooke Beggs
Carterville
Beggs
Terri Tinkler
Prime Timers Club showcases antiques and quilts in Carbondale
Linda A Krutsinger reports on the Prime Timers Club monthly exhibit featuring bold quilts, fragile antique books, and carved hair combs. Pauline Phillips, 91, recounts starting her hair comb collection at 35 and now owns about 51 pieces. Alice Hees’s doll collection, including a first ladies replica and a Japanese doll over a century old, draws close inspection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pauline Phillips
Carbondale
Phillips
United States
Alice Hees
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Legislation Could Ban Ryan Plan to Privatize Prisons
Illinois lawmakers push HB 3714 to block Gov. Ryan’s bid to privatize prison food and commissary services. The House passed the measure 1103 and Senate action is imminent. Critics cite job losses. the governor could veto. Hawkinson sponsors with AFSCME backing. judge's TRO tempers privatization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
George H. Ryan
Illinois
Gary Hannig
D-Litchfield
House
Senate
James “Pate” Philip
Rwood Dale
Carl E. Hawkinson
Rgalesburg
Hawkinson
Jim Ryan
Philip
American Federation of State, County
Ryan
Illinois Department of Corrections
IDOC
David S. Luechtefeld
Rokanville
Lance R. Peterson
LaSalle County
Prison Workers Union
Luechtefeld
African culture festival inspires Gen. John A. Logan Center
In Murphysboro Beth Smout led art classes in making masks and kente cloth as students picked an African country to feature. The schoolwide African Festival filled the cafeteria and hallways with displays and food from yams to couscous enjoyed by students and parents alike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murphysboro
Beth Smout
Gen. John A. Logan
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Roy
Bob
Yellow Moon Cafe
Front St
Cobden
Ron Haseker
Mungo Jerry's
Chestnut St
The
Dorians
Church of the Good Shepherd
Orchard and
Schwartz Streets
Vineyard
Wing Hill Vineyard
U.S.51
Jack Martin
Epiphany
Lutheran Church of All Saints
W. Chautauqua St
Randolph County Board
Chester
Steve Binder
Tim Petrowic
Prime Timers Club
Linda A. Krutsinger
Lady Bird Johnson
Hees
Bridge Street
Shumaker Drive
South 20Th Street
Illinois Avenue
Dallas Road
Shacairy Gibbs
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