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The Carbondale Connection to Seattle's Signature Hot Dog

Hanna Raskin, the restaurant critic for our sister paper Seattle Weekly, has just published an oral history of Seattle's signature street food, the "Seattle Dog," a hot dog topped with onions and cream cheese. As it happens, the hot dog's history has a local-ish connection.

Maurice Leon Wiggins Gets 16 Months in Jail for Southern Illinois University Bomb Threat

​Maurice Leon Wiggins, 23, the Chicago man who threatened to bomb three dormitories at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and then rape and kill 30 women, was sentenced to 16 months in prison, three years supervised release and a $100 fine plus court costs. He could have been sentenced to ten ... More >>

Miles Davis' East St. Louis Childhood Home Is Falling Apart

Andrew TheisingMiles Davis' East St. Louis childhood home in October 2011.​There was a deep puddle the width of the entire dirt road, so Dr. Andrew Theising, a political science professor at Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville, wheeled his car over the gravel shoulder instead. He was taki ... More >>

Miles Davis' Childhood Home Is Falling Apart In East St. Louis

Andrew TheisingMiles Davis' East St. Louis childhood home in October 2011.​There was a deep puddle the width of the entire dirt road, so Dr. Andrew Theising, a political science professor at Southern Illinois University -- Edwardsville, wheeled his car over the gravel shoulder instead. He was ta ... More >>

More SIU-Carbondale Professors Threaten Strike

Illinois' budget woes have placed heavy constrictions on the state's higher education system, putting professors' contracts in jeopardy and portending layoffs. The situation is nearing the boiling point at Southern Illinois University's Carbondale campus, where yesterday a fourth faculty union vot ... More >>

Maurice Wiggins: Chicago Man Indicted for Bomb Threat at Southern Illinois University

siu.eduThreat allegedly promised to blow up dormitories and kill 4,000 people.​A federal grand jury indicted a Chicago man last week for threatening to blow up buildings at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale last month. According to the indictment, Maurice Wiggins, 23, made the threat Augu ... More >>

St. Louis Chefs Are an Educated Lot

Chrissy WilmesChris Williams of Franco studied at the Culinary Institute of America in New York.​Last week Eater asked chefs if they thought culinary school was worth the time and expense for aspiring chefs. The answer was a resounding "probably not." The discussion made us wonder how well-e ... More >>

Rugby Burn: Gravely injured in a fluke house fire, Iraq War vet Stephen Ellis is dead set on returning to the sport he loves

Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know Coming to SIU Carbondale

Michael Feldman is bringing his shtick to southern Illinois.​One of NPR's funniest shows is coming to Southern Illinois University Carbondale for a live broadcast next Saturday, March 26, at 10 a.m.Whad'Ya Know, hosted by the very dry and very funny Michael Feldman, last broadcast from Carbondale ... More >>

Wheel Deal: Rugby Rams Aim to Return to National Tournament

St. Louis Rugby Rams​Fresh off their first run in the national tournament last year, the St. Louis Rugby Rams -- the toughest quadriplegic men and women in the city -- will open the 2011 sectional tourney this Friday to see if they can make it back-to-back appearances. The Rams, who participa ... More >>

Deaths Stun St. Louis Medical Marijuana Community

Two men actively involved in campaigning for medical cannabis in Missouri died in recent weeks, saddening St. Louis' tight-knit community of marijuana activists.Gary Davey, former president of the Greater St. Louis chapter of NORML, died Sunday, May 9, of a heart attack. He was 48.Rik Ebner, manager ... More >>

Will There Be a Tuition Freeze at Mizzou or What?

Image source​The University of Missouri Board of Curators will meet this Friday, April 16, to discuss, among other things, whether there will be a freeze on in-state tuition for the 2010-2011 school year. It's a subject of intense interest at the moment because even though Governor Jay Nixon ... More >>

Tweakers 'N Diggers: Looters are pillaging Native American burial grounds to finance their meth habits

U.S. Snooze: Wash. U. Remains Best University in Missouri, Still Number 12 Nationwide

flickr.com/photos/34284761@N04​Yesterday, just in time for the arrival of this year's freshman class at Washington University, U.S. News and World Report released its annual college rankings for 2010. Wash. U. came in at number 12, tying with Northwestern. (Just call 'em the Princeton and Yale of ... More >>

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene

Featured Review: As I Only Can...Belong

Friday Night Lights: F5 Records Hip-Hop anchors Hi-Fidel and Serengeti collaborate on an electroshocked ode to excess

Shawn Colvin

8 p.m. Wednesday, December 10. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Dark Side of the The Boss

The Jersey bad boy still embodies the ambivalence of working class America, even if he's a happily married zillionaire.

Timothy Krajcir: Inside the Mind of a Serial Rapist and Murderer

Musical Chronicle

They’ve Got Spirit

Unreal's Press Release of the Week

Full Court Press

DJ Crucial ropes in an all-star cast of collaborators for his latest album

Vodka and Grapefruit

Unreal gets the lowdown on the Dirty Dog, meets plants who love a free lunch and finds a blogger who can't get enough Favre. Plus, Scientology's "volunteer ministers" are bringing relief to hurricane victims -- but not the kind you'd think.

No Thanks, Deer

Unreal evades some bloodthirsty deer, chats up a man who'll pay $10K for a wife and gets creeped out by a pint-size beauty-queen doppelgänger. Plus, behold the Rachel Show!

The Basement Tapes

Kenautis Smith has the beat, and for a little cash it's yours

Exception to the Rule

Amy Goodman shares her ideas for getting Democracy Now!

Forever Young

Greendale stays true to Neil

Party With Arthur!

(The aardvark, not the drunk)

Orange Mind-Eraser

Stagger Inn ... Again, 104 East Vandalia, Edwardsville, Illinois, 618-656-4221

Sounds Around Town

Week of April 23, 2003

Bump and Grind

Strip-club disc jockeys spin to the beats of different drummers

Best College-Town Bar

Stagger Inn... Again

Cult of Babs

The chef responsible for the luscious repast in Babette's Feast brings his artistry to Southern Illinois

B-Ball, Anyone?

St. Louis gets another pro-sports franchise. Let's not screw it up, OK?

Spit and Cigarettes

Week of February 27, 2002

Trailer-Park King

Self-proclaimed hoosier Rosco Villa shines a rock & roll light on fucked-up lives

Arabian Knight

Jack Shaheen crusades against cinema's depiction of Reel Bad Arabs

Artists' Collective

SIU-Edwardsville photography prof Fern Logan emphasizes the black in "black-and-white"

Best Local Girl Made Bad

Darva Conger

Raise Haruf

Southern Illinois University-Carbondale professor Kent Haruf tells a good story

A Twist of Faith

From her small-town Baptist roots to her run for public office, Jeanette Mott Oxford has relied on her religious convictions to overcome fear and prejudice -- including her own.

HEAD EAST

EAST Art 99 beckons art-lovers to the Illinois side of the Mississippi

FOUND IN THE TRANSLATION

Esperantists convene to talk up the virtues of their international language

Short Seens

Hit Parade

Listening Post