'Stars' take to the River on Labor Day

 They are referred to simply as "The Stars" at the Illinois Valley Yacht & Canoe Club, and they have a legendary 100-year history.   The International Star sailboats were out racing Monday morning on the last holiday of summer - keeling, skimming, tacking, dipping and planing over the sometimes turgid waters of Upper Peoria Lake.

Fall arts take off

We have liftoff! Giving the area fall arts season a sense of early momentum is the appropriately named "Open," a multidisciplinary arts event slated 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday at Memminger Auditorium downtown. Featuring an array of artistic and cultural offerings in the tri-county are...

Bars & Clubs: Sept. 2

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Supernatural: Evening, Fall of Day

Supernatural May 13, 2010 "Swan Song" The CWWell, those are interesting theories, but no. They didn't all die in the crash at the same time. Everything that happened, happened. The flash sideways world wasn't purgatory. The Church was a place...

Guns and poses

Who is Hakan Ayik? In the first of a two-part series, Nick McKenzie looks at the target of one of Australia's biggest investigations into organised crime.