Susan Szuch

Country band Alabama and Pat Green will perform in concert May 25 at Thunder Ridge Nature Arena. Here's when tickets go on sale.

New cafe Sips and Scoops serves coffee, ice cream treats and snacks. Also in Springfield restaurant news, Congress tried cashew chicken.

Leong's Asian Diner served cashew chicken, sweet and sour chicken, fried rice and salad with miso-honey dressing to 75 members of Congress last week.

LeVar Burton will discuss how literacy strengthens civic engagement and builds community connections at a Missouri Humanities symposium.

Bento Box is open on Saturdays and Sundays at Sunshine Street and Glenstone Avenue, across the street from Jimm's Steakhouse.

Escolar contains high levels of an indigestible substance called wax esters, which can have a laxative and purgative effect in large quantities.

The second round of winter weather is "gonna be a mess" thanks to snow, sleet and freezing rain, a National Weather Service forecaster said.

This week in restaurant news, Curly Que Barbecue opens a location in a supermarket and Springfield is getting another Chipotle.

According to the Springfield-Greene County Health Department, a coffee stand forced to close because it lacked hot water later reopened.

From the 55-year-old Crosstown Barbecue to Krab Kings, which opened in 2022, here are nine Black-owned restaurants to check out in Springfield.