I think people may not realize that they can add more heat. New Oriental, a lunchtime favorite at my work. became too sweet for my tastes but they've always been happy to add more heat if I ask.

I stand corrected. Didnt realize he lived in Strafford now. Sorry, the blunt = bad threads get cringey for me. I'm a research scientist at msu and he's been a huge benefactor to university science research programs throughout his career. His staff have met with Schmitt to try and drive home how important science funding is but I doubt it will help. Sad to say Schmitt and Burleson are going to make Blunt and Long look like benevolent geniuses and both msu and mizzou are going to miss the guy, regardless of how we feel about his politics.

They actually do seem like the only person in the conversation not butthurt.

You're either a lot older than most people here or your classmate was bsing you. Blunt's local residence has been a condo for decades. Mailbox is indoors.

Oh man, I feel like either he's trimmed his beard or is doing something different there now, there was a time when that beard was epic enough to be the whole description. I grew up with Eric R.

It is indeed. I'm a high school friend of a certain bearded KOLR10 videographer.

Just curious, is this a Christmas Story thing? I will always love that scene.

Facebook. If you search for Blues Society of the Ozarks they put this list out every Wed.

On the Facebooks. Check out Blues Society of the Ozarks. They put this out every week somewhere around Wednesday.

Also, Hold Fast Brewery usually has game nights or trivia or stuff like that on Wednesdays.

If you enjoy dancing, Dance with Me has drop in classes for $10 at the Savoy on Commercial. I believe tonight is waltz at 6:30 and line dancing at 7:30. Also here's a list of bands playing, I can personally vouch that Justin Larkin (folk/guitar) Shaun Munday (bass guitar) are both extremely good. Ruthies never disappoints with whoever they'll have. (all credit goes to Blues Society of the Ozarks who puts this together every week)

LIVE MUSIC THIS WEEK!

If we unintentionally missed an event, please add it in the “Comments” section.

Be sure to check directly with the venue for cancellations or changes. Thanks!

12/14-Wednesday

American Legion Post 639: Justin Larkin 6pm

Best of Luck Beer Hall: Shaun Munday 6pm

Bub’s Distillery: Open Mic 7pm

Carrie’s Bar: Wednesday Night Jam presented by Dave Ellis 7pm

Dugout Bar & Grill: Haus Jazz Quartet 8pm

Ruthie’s On C-Street: Live Music TBD 8pm

Tie & Timber Brewing: T & T All Stars 6pm

12/15-Thursday

Archie’s: TBD 8pm

Southbound Bar & Grill: Nate Fredrick and The Wholesome Boys w/Matt Daniel 6:30pm

Wire Road Brewing: Isaac Kenneth 6pm

12/16-Friday

Archie’s: Wicked Shimmy 9pm

Back Home Brewing, Ozark: Luce Cannons 8pm

Bear Creek Winery, Walnut Shade: Modern August 5pm

Carrie’s Bar: Black Note 8pm

Galloway Station: The Good Man Underground 8pm

Good Vibrations. Rogers AR: Nathan Bryce and Loaded Dice 8pm

Hold Fast Brewing: Justin Larkin 7pm

The Lakehouse, Branson: The Yetis (George Hunt & Ron Love) 7pm

Just One More, Republic: Chuck Briseno 9pm

KISS Bar & Grill: Etched in Embers w/ Dark Below and One Night After Love 9pm

Lindberg’s Tavern: Jazz Night 9pm

Mother’s Brewing: Avery Waltz 5pm

Murphy’s Pub, Humansville: Justin Messer 6pm, The County Liners 8pm

The Paddlewheel, Branson: Art Bentley 8pm

The Riff: Jerome Pollock, Carrie Jordan, Nancy Moore, Thomas Whitehead, The Jordan Family 7:30pm

Southbound Bar & Grill: White Oak Revival 9pm

Tie & Timber Brewing: Dallas Jones 7:30pm

Uncle Bob’s Brewpub, Nixa: Ellis Ayers 6pm

Where House Bar: Corey Johnson 7pm

White River Brewing: White River All Stars 6pm

12/17-Saturday

Archie’s: Wicked Shimmy 9pm

Carrie’s Bar: Plush 8pm

Cellar + Plate: Barak Hill 6:30pm

Downstream Casino: Black Note 8:30pm

The Foxhole: Chuck Briseno 8pm

Hotel Vandivort: Barak Hill 11am

KISS Bar & Grill: The Dirty Saints, Thrillfall, & The Panty Droppers 8pm

Lindberg’s Tavern: Jazz Night 9pm

Mulberry Tree Saloon, Marionville: Identity Crisis 7pm

The Paddlewheel, Branson: Thunder Creek Symphony

Queen City Eagle’s Lodge, Plainview RD: CRC Classic Rock 7pm

Show-Me Brewing: The Missing Man Trio 12pm

SS Dockside, Nixa: Corey Brewer 7:30pm

T&A Legends Saloon: Eureka Springs AR: Nathan Dice and Loaded Dice 9pm

Untouchables Brewery, Nixa: Mike, Mac, and the Sidemen 7pm

Where House Bar: Stevie Newman 6pm

Where House Bar: The Silence Between, Spirit Camaro, & Leadership Class 7pm

Wiseguys, Ozark: Hailey Jane 8pm

12/18-Sunday

Bear Creek Winery, Walnut Shade: Justin Larkin 1pm

Hold Fast Brewing: Blues Society of the Ozarks Acoustic Open Jam 3pm

Morning Day Café, Nixa: Barak Hill 1pm

SBC's The Cellar: The Cellar’s Jam Night 5pm

Springfield Brewing Co: Dallas Jones, Molly Healey, Brandon Moore, and Jimmy Rea 5pm

OTC actually just finished an advanced manufacturing training building that does exactly this. It's the big new place at the corner of national and division. MSU and Rolla have been working on their engineering coop program as well. You can now get a mechanical engineering degree there as well as electrical or civil. And don't quote me, but I believe otc offers a couple of years free as part of missouri's A+ scholarship program, which is pretty easy to get for high schoolers. The opportunities are there.

There's a lot of good paying light manufacturing work around here. People seem to overlook it. I worked those jobs through college then spent time in the local manufacturing community as an engineer when I graduated. In fact a lot of manufacturing employers will actually pay for your college if it's a degree that benefits the company. I worked with plenty of engineers who gor their degrees that way.

I don't know why this is downvoted. I grew up here and love the place just fine, but if I had the money to do it I'd buy a small farm just north of town somewhere.

We actually have several of those villages. One of them is near my house, Eden Village. Tiny houses paid for by social security benefits with an onsite social worker.

CU actually gets almost half of their energy from renewables. I think it's 45%. They buy from an energy coop they belong to, and for years they've increased the wind and solar in that portfolio. They've also got a solar farm of their own, customers can choose to have their power come from that.

Definitely agreed on the green spaces and vertical gardens. The most attractive cities I've been in all have that in common, they seem to go from city to forest and back again seamlessly. It's one of the reasons I chose my neighborhood, though sadly they've been taking out a lot of the forested areas lately.

https://www.springfieldcommunitygardens.org/gardens

We actually have at least half a dozen neighborhood gardens and at least one cropshare farm (Millsap out by fellows lake). I think the Grant Beach neighborhood alone has 2 or 3. One is across from my parents house. Hit up Google when spring gets here. They're always looking for volunteers. My neighbor has one too but they usually just do it themselves and put a sign up inviting people to partake when it's harvest time. There's more of that in town than most people realize. Come summer and fall I don't buy a lot of tomatoes or eggs.

I'm sure there were at least 2 agencies. Sheriff's dept might be who responded to 911, then park service would be involved. Add in maybe some horse riders if they need to get farther down the trail faster, and an ambulance at the trailhead that might just be there to take him to a clearing for a medivac chopper, plus dispatchers, plus support staff, it can add up. It's a difficult place to get in and out of.

To be fair I don't see how he could be charged with manslaughter or anything like that. The decedent was an adult with plenty of experience and I assume signed a waiver when he joined the hiking club. The lack of a permit might be the only thing that he could be charged with. But it will be something at least. Remember, Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion.

For a while there was a hiking group in spfd led by a highway patrol guy (who coincidentally got a guy wrongfully convicted of murder years ago). He would have these massive camping weekends to try and sell outdoor goods to yuppies and he'd pull the same stuff. I remember trying to hike another relatively unknown trail and I must've had to stop for 20 carloads of his group in a place that could handle 6 cars at best. I despise big groups on trails. Especially for profit. If someone wants to see the things and places I enjoy I think that's something one should share for free.

Good museums, good restaurants, some kick ass architecture. Tulsa has a lot of art and culture.

I tried some cashew chicken today. Hk inn was packed so I went to the Cantonese place at chestnut and glenstone. I'm not normally a fan of cashew chicken but that was honestly pretty good.

You even lock doors while you're home? I leave the front door open whenever I'm home so my cat can give some stink eye to the neighbors cat. He does the same for his cat. Those cats sure hate each other. I usually lock my front door if I'm going to be gone more than a couple hours, and I lock my car overnight but that's about it. Haven't locked the back door in 20 years.

I'm sort of north central/east. I find it funny that this reddit group seems to view the parts of town I'm from as some sort of post apocalyptic wasteland full of meth fueled warlords. I tease my parents about that. They've lived in grant Beach for about 45 years. Also never had any problems. Most of the north side is lower income but that doesn't necessarily mean higher crime. There are certainly bad areas, but they're generally easy to spot and avoid.

In an ironic twist, much of our crime around this part of town takes place in hotels and businesses owned by persons from the subcontinent. My friend Rishi can tell some wild stories about n. Glenstone hotels he's worked at.

That second part is my problem too. I don't care for it so I can't really judge it. I've always been more of a general chicken fan and in that, Hong Kong inn is lacking. Maybe cashew is something they do well, who knows. Wish I'd heard that about Alamo when they still had it. I've started going to a little indie theater in joplin with a great food menu. Will have to see if they have cashew chicken.

I'm sure everyone will have differing experiences. Always locking my door would be a culture shock to me as well.

As someone who works and socializes with international staff and students at msu I feel confident in saying they'll be okay. Crime generally isn't as bad as those studies show here unless you're a part of it by choice and the op is moving into an environment where they'll have lots of support and fellow international students to help them learn their way around.

I don't know about south siders and kc/stl people but I grew up nearby and it was popular with central grads from my era. And now with their kids. Drury and CHS have some ties because of their proximity. Can't speak to their academics personally but my Rolla roommate did his pre engineering there and he was well prepared. They have a great radio station.

Not sure what you mean by on an island but they were always just part of the neighborhood.

There are swing and line dancing groups around here that are good for people just looking to have a platonic social circle that enjoy getting out and dancing. And at least one bar has a great book club (Hold Fast Brewery). You mentioned back in your country, I don't know where you're from originally but there are several international groups around here. GrupoLatinoAmericano does a lot of social events if you're from a Latin American country (or if you're not and you just want to learn more about them). Also meetup is a good website for looking for friends. I joined a meetup hiking group when I moved back into town after school. Met some cool people that way.

also, welcome to Springfield! :)