Hundreds flock to Prairie Air Show Wing Off

Chicken wings may not bring images of flight to mind, but doing just that was the point of the seventh annual Prairie Air Show Wing Off. "(The wing off) is a correlation between wings and airplane wings," said Brett Krause, the director of the Prairie Air Show. "It’s just a way for us to raise [...]

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River City Roundup – Week 11

Tiny Norris has big-city taste

If you were to snap an extremely long plumb line between Chicago and Kansas City, Mo., it very well could land on this tiny burg in Fulton County. Barbecue-wise, the connection would make sense between those three places. In the middle of nowhere, Picco’s Pit Bar-B-Cue & Steak House might hold its own against those [...]

Capturing the moment

Photographs and sculpture by two local artists will be seen in an exhibit opening next weekend at the Peoria Art Guild. An opening reception for “Community Connections,” featuring the work of Elijah Sansom and Sandra McKenzie Schmitt, runs from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday at the guild, 203 Harrison. The photographs by Sansom, a retired [...]

It speaks to the world

The opening few bars of the music are inchoate, full of mystery – and pregnant with power. Something is stirring in those soft, initial tremolos of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: A whole world perhaps – or even a whole universe. Like that infinitely small compression of matter from which the entire cosmos supposedly sprang in one [...]

WCBU to analyze Lincoln case

Carl Adams is feeling vindicated these days. As an amateur historian who’s followed Abraham Lincoln’s career as a lawyer in Illinois since the mid-1990s, Adams has made a point of researching a case that originated in Pekin involving slavery. But other historians didn’t think the little-known case that came before the Illinois Supreme Court in [...]

What’s Going On

Miller time In the mood for some swing? The world-famous Glenn Miller Orchestra performs at 7 p.m. June 9 at the Civic Center Ballroom. The event features cabaret seating, with tables and a large dance floor for an authentic big-band atmosphere. Tickets, which cost $27 and $37, go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday at [...]

Tiny Norris has big-city taste

If you were to snap an extremely long plumb line between Chicago and Kansas City, Mo., it very well could land on this tiny burg in Fulton County. Barbecue-wise, the connection would make sense between those three places. In the middle of nowhere, Picco’s Pit Bar-B-Cue & Steak House might hold its own against those [...]

‘Pearls’ of wisdom through eyes of a Rat

There was a time when Stephan Pastis dreaded going to work as a lawyer in corporate America. A doodler since childhood, he knew he had taken the wrong career path and dreamed of becoming a cartoonist. He knew the chances of that happening were slim, but it didn’t stop him from creating comic strips in [...]