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BADELF

Local man makes music in retirement.

9 "Promised Land"

Hollywood takes on controversial subject.

14 Winter at the Foundry Upcoming programs announced.

15 Up next at The Fox

"Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical."

16 "Wicked"

What's all the fuss about?

17 "4,000 Miles"

The Rep to host new production.

20 You Gotta' Eat Dinner at Craft Chophouse.

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What’s Happening Friday January 18_ ______ • Yo Gabba Gabba Live, Fox Theatre, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m.

• The Loop Ice Carnival, Jan. 18, The Delmar Loop, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

• The Black Rep presents The Piano Lesson, Grandel Theatre, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

• James and the Giant Peach, COCA, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m.

• DaVinci Machines II: The Australian Exhibition, Bank of America Plaza Building, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Runs through May 31.

• T h e R e p e r to r y T h e a t re presents Good People, LorettoHilton Center Mainstage, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

• T h e R e p e r to r y T h e a t re presents 4000 Miles, Loretto-Hilton Center Studio Theatre, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

• Waka Winter Classic, Old Rock House, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

• Bonz, Midwest Avengers, Rise to Sundown, Found Under Fire, Fubar, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• Carrie Newcomer, Sheldon Concert Hall, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

• The Bad Plus, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

• Ari Hest, The Wildey Theatre, Edwardsville, 8:00 p.m.

• Aaron Mansfield w/Ross

Christopher, Cicero's, University City, Doors 8:30 p.m.

Saturday January 19_ ______ • Fifth Third Bank Family Winter Carnival, Soulard Market Park (8th and Lafayette), St. Louis, 11:00 a.m.

• The Black Rep presents The Piano Lesson, Grandel Theatre, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

• James and the Giant Peach, COCA, St. Louis, 2:00 p.m.

• T h e R e p e r to r y T h e a t re presents Good People, LorettoHilton Center Mainstage, St. Louis, 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.

• T h e R e p e r to r y T h e a t re presents 4000 Miles, Loretto-Hilton Center Studio Theatre, St. Louis, 5:00 p.m.

• Tr i s te n w / S c o t t L u c a s , Rollercoaster Club, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

• Heartsfield, Old Rock House, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

• Jess Hernandez and the Deltas w/Pawns and Kings, We are Voices, Indian Blanket, The Gramophone, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

• Bloc Party w/IO Echo, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• Charlie Wilson w/Mint Condition, Fox Theatre, St. Louis,

8:00 p.m.

• Jake's Leg, The Wildey Theatre, Edwardsville, 8:00 p.m.

• Paper Anchors w/Shellbach, LO G O S, Th e G l a s s C ava l r y, Cicero's, University City, Doors 8:30 p.m.

Sunday January 20_ ______ • The Black Rep presents The Piano Lesson, Grandel Theatre, St. Louis, 2:00 p.m.

• T h e R e p e r to r y T h e a t re presents Good People, LorettoHilton Center Mainstage, St. Louis, 2:00 p.m.

• T h e R e p e r to r y T h e a t re presents 4000 Miles, Loretto-Hilton Center Studio Theatre, St. Louis, 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

• DaVinci Machines II: The Australian Exhibition, Bank of America Plaza Building, St. Louis, 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Runs through May 31.

• The Planets, Powell Symphony Hall, St. Louis, 3:00 p.m.

• Jay N Waylon, 2:00 p.m. \ Ultraviolets, 7:00 p.m., Fast Eddie's Bon Air, Alton • Yojimbo, The Gramophone, St. Louis, Doors 7:30 p.m.

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BADELF cranking out techno tunes in retirement Former SIUE employee still trying to finish writing two books

By LAURA SCATURRO Of The Edge

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fter a 31-year career in the Audio Visual department as a media coordinator at SIUE, Ed Franklin retired in 2009 not knowing what his next plan would be, but knowing that he would, indeed, find a plan. He intended to pursue a license in real estate, but the housing market was less than flourishing. He did begin writing two books, but then writer ’s block crept in and he set the projects aside.

This left the sci-fi movie buff, sports car aficionado and World War II model plane collector scrambling for something to do.

Franklin then capitalized on what he knows best – technology and music – and became an indie electronic musician and sound artist known as BADELF. He created his debut CD entitled "Kate’s Gone" in 2009. He has produced four additional CDs since his debut and his fan following has grown from one, his wife, Kim, an accounting financial analyst, to more than 700 throughout the world.

Not bad for what he refers to as “your average black guy who grew up in Alabama” which is also the scenario for one of the two books he wants to publish.

“There’s two books I’m working on and I’m at about 90 pages each,” he said. “One is science fiction where a creature comes from the future in a time machine back to our time to learn about our society.

The other is the life and times of an average black guy. It’s somewhat an autobiographical work," Franklin said.

"You know, a lot of times people don’t have exciting lives. They never got to land a plane, or own a Ferrari, or go to Europe. But they lead very fulfilling lives. This is a story about my life and the people in my life. The forward in the book will read: There will be no explosions, no machine guns or wrecked automobiles, or anything like that. It’s just a story of an average black guy who grew up in Alabama.”

Franklin’s love of music started in Alabama where he played trumpet in his high school band and while attending Auburn University he was ranked 15 out of 45 in the trumpet section.

“I wasn’t the best but I wasn’t at the bottom either,” he said. “I thought for a long time I would be in a band as a trumpet player but that didn’t work out.”

He admits that female companionship was a turning point in his life and that it led

him up north to Edwardsville where he received a scholarship to finish his degree at SIUE. He majored in liberal arts with a minor in music and graduated in 1982.

He began working at SIUE in 1977 and in 1985 met the future love of his life, Kim, when she was a student at SIUE. Later in 1995, when Kim returned to school to work on her graduate degree, they renewed their friendship, which lead to courtship and marriage.

They’ve been inseparable for the last 15 years.

After purchasing his new 25 key electronic keyboard in 2009, the musician noticed that a music demo software disk was included in the packaging.

Franklin found his plan after retirement has been defined as an electronic dance music artist and musician ever since.

“The software was called Ableton Live 8,” he said. “What that software did, in just the demo of it, was just fantastic.

It allows you to write and perform music like there are ten musicians in the room.

You could play violin, drums, guitar, etc. I was so impressed with it, that I decided to plunk down $350 for the whole package.”

Franklin has been in a number of bands throughout his life and explained that all of sudden he was able to create all the musical sounds and tones without the various degrees of musician conflict he had previously experienced being a part of a band.

“This was my opportunity to show the world my vision – or lack thereof,” he says with a smile.

“After learning the software, which has a pretty high learning curve, my first two CDs were basically mediocre because I was still learning the software. The third CD was actually pretty good, I thought.

A couple of my friends who are musicians agreed.”

Electronic dance music is the music genre category under which Franklin’s CDs are classified.

According to Wikipedia, electronic dance music is electronic music produced primarily for the purposes of use within a nightclub setting, or in an environment that is centered in dancebased entertainment. It is a set of percussive music genres that largely stem from the production methods of disco music, techno music, house music, and trance music.

In 2012, the American Music Awards added a Favorite Electronic Dance Music category. Artists are nominated based on sales and airplay, and the winner, chosen by fans in online voting If you’re still uncertain about what electronic music sounds

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The artwork for "Contoller" by BADELF. like, recall the television series "Miami Vice" and its opening synthesized instrumental music of Jan Hammer, or the Academy Award-winning synthesizerheavy score for the film "Chariots of Fire."

Most of the music Franklin writes is instrumental but a few tunes include vocals – including voiceovers performed by his wife.

After his debut CD in September, 2009, he chalked up his first sale the following month.

His music can be found on iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, Great Indie Music, Spotify, iHeart Radio and Jango Radio.

For the last year he has been pursuing play time on Pandora and Sirius Radio to no avail.

“I have a lot of fans now in Europe, through Jango. com which is pay for play,” he said. “I pay them money for exposure. It’s the cheapest place I’ve found. I pay $10 for 250 plays. It’s not as popular as Sirius or Pandora, but they’re popular in Europe, Asia and North America. Most of my fans are from eastern European countries. Someone from France bought an entire album from me once.

“Since I’ve started using the software, computer technology has become so user friendly that anyone can produce

music like I’m doing from a computer. Even with little or no music knowledge, this new user friendly add on software called “Massive”, by Native Instruments has allowed an explosion of people using this technology to get their own music out there. Everyone wants to be Skrillex, Deadmau5 or Porter Robinson, who are current popular artists who have come up in the past three to five years and are very, very wealthy now with little or no outlay in cash. My competition has grown.”

Indeed, Franklin hasn’t made millions, but he has made a few dollars. His wife is waiting for the big payoff so they can enjoy a night out with a lobster dinner.

While waiting for that day, Franklin used some of his royalties and sprung for a lobster dinner at the local Red Lobster once.

“I’m not expecting to get rich,” he said. “But I am expecting that one day to make a song that gets played – one song that will make a little money, maybe $10,000 or $20,000 to buy my next Corvette.”

Franklin uses his desk top computer along with the keyboard to produce his music in the basement of his Glen Carbon home. Titles of his

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other CDs include: "Cyborg Whale," "In a Bad Situation," "Advance of the Angry Horde" and " Controller." He recently released two songs for Christmas - "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" and "Christmas is Near."

“Since I’m old and decrepit, when I finish a CD I usually take two to three weeks off because this is a job,” he explains. “I write everything myself. The problem is, if I lay off too long, then I have to start relearning all the techniques I learned the months before.

There are sometimes 20-35 adjustments to get a particular sound I like. Now, I save that special sound in a file to retrieve later on.

“The thing that I like about it – I really, really enjoy it. A lot of people fish and a lot of people play golf – that all costs big money. And, my wife says that she always knows where I am."

To hear a sample of Franklin’s electronic dance music visit http://bedelf. wix.com/band#!discography.

To see his recently produced video slideshow arrangement of Christmas favorite “Hark!

The Herald Angels Sing” with Anime, Gamer and Scifi holiday images visit http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=UKiR8r7atWE.

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People People planner Scooby-Doo is coming to St. Charles The Family Arena in St. Charles will present SCOOBY-DOO LIVE! MUSICAL MYSTERIES at 1 p.m. on April 20.

The much-loved ScoobyDoo and the Mystery Inc. Gang take center stage in an all-new family musical, SCOOBY-DOO LIVE! MUSICAL MYSTERIES. Featuring everyone's favorite characters from one of television's longest-running animated series, SCOOBY-DOO LIVE! MUSICAL MYSTERIES will thrill audiences.

In this exciting new production, Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. Gang have been called upon to help solve an epic mystery. A trouble-making ghost is haunting a local theatre and Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, Velma, a n d S c o o b y - D o o a re o n t h e i r way in the Mystery Machine t o c r a c k t h e c a s e . Wi t h c r a z y ghosts, perplexing puzzles, and an abundance of Scooby Snacks, it's Scooby-Doo and friends at their best, travelling across the country, solving mysteries wherever they go.SCOOBY-DOO LIVE! MUSICAL MYSTERIES f e a t u re s b i g m u s i c a l n u m b e r s including the evergreen ScoobyDoo theme song, "Scooby-Doo, W h e r e A r e Yo u ? , " a l o n g s i d e original groovy tunes including "Round Every Corner" and " We ' r e M y s t e r y I n c . " F i l l e d with wacky new characters and uproarious antics, SCOOBY-DOO LIVE! MUSICAL MYSTERIES has young audiences on the edge of their seats in traditional ScoobyDoo fashion from the moment the lights go down.Doors open 45 minutes prior to show time.

Everyone age 2 and older must have a ticket.

If child reached his/her 2nd birthday, a ticket is required. One free child per each paid ticket.

Ti c k e t s a re a v a i l a b l e a t t h e Family Arena box office or through MetroTix.

Jim Henson's Pajanimals coming to the Peabody Opera House For the first time ever, The Jim Henson Company’s Pajanimals

are packing their bags and hitting the road to bring a brand new live musical production to the Peabody Opera House on Saturday, March 16. Tickets went on-sale to the general public for most cities beginning November 17 at www. pajanimalslive.com.

Tickets for the show at the Peabody Opera House may be purchased at the Ford Box Office at Scottrade Center, all Ticketmaster Ticket Centers, by phone at 800-745-3000, or online at livenation.com.

Pajanimals Life: Pajama Playdate (www.pajanimalslive.com) is filled with lively music, interactive dance fun and silly adventures all set in the cozy, comfy environment of the Pajanimals world. This fun and nurturing show is designed to introduce kids and families to their first theater experience.

Seen in the U.S. every night on the 24-hour preschool channel Sprout and NBC Kids on Saturday mornings, Pajanimals has quickly become a favorite for preschoolers and their parents so fans of all ages are encouraged to wear their favorite pajamas to the show and join in on the fun.

“Pajanimals is one of our most beloved shows, and families are invited to see these characters live on stage and share a special Pajanimals adventure with Squacky, Cowbella, Apollo and Sweet Pea Sue,” said Lisa Henson, CEO of The Jim Henson Company.

“Our team always envisioned the property as a theatrical experience f o r f a m i l i e s everywhere. We know this new live show will be something that will create a lasting memory.”

“Families will be dancing in the aisles and singing the songs along with the Pajanimals. We encourage all children and caretakers to wear their favorite pajamas for an awesome play date with Pajanimals” says Jonathan Shank, executive producer of Pajanimals Live!

The Pajanimals are teaming up with CID Entertainment to offer a very special Pajanimals Party Package! Packages include premium reserved seating in the first 10 rows of the theater, a meet & greet photo opportunity with the Pajanimals in an exclusive party room plus a poster and a VIP laminate. Enhance your Pajama Playdate experience with this super fun party package! For

more information, visit www. cidentertainment.com/pajanimals.

Pajanimals Life: Pajama Playdate incorporates costumes a n d s e t s c re a t e d b y T h e J i m Henson Company. Written by Pajanimals co-creator Alex Rockwell along with, Bradley Zweig (Sid the Science Kid), the live show stars favorite characters including Squacky, Sweetpea Sue, Cowbella and Apollo who sing all of the Pajanimals’ greatest hits as well as new songs created exclusively for the live show.

The tour is produced by Red Light Management and will be choreographed and directed by Myles Thorogood. It is based on the television series created by Alex Rockwell and Jeff Muncy.

Tour news and updates can be found at www.pajanimalslive. com.

Events planned at the Shaw Nature Reserve The 2,400-acre Shaw Nature Reserve in Gray Summit is the perfect setting for you and your family to explore and enjoy the natural world! A host of events and programs are available throughout the fall and winter months: Jan. 10: Native Plant School: Control and ID of Common Invasive Plants. Native Plant School is a year-round series of indoor/outdoor classes in the W h i t m i re Wi l d f l o w e r G a rd e n at the Shaw Nature Reserve that covers various aspects of native landscaping. Native

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Plant School at the Shaw Nature Reserve is underwritten by Grow Native! and Wild Ones Natural Landscapers. 1 to 4 p.m. Carriage House. $15. Advance registration r e q u i r e d ; w w w. m o b o t . o r g / classes or (314) 577-5140. For a complete list of adult classes at the Missouri Botanical Garden’s family of attractions, visit www. mobot.org/classes.

Jan. 11 through 12: Wildlife in Winter Overnight. This program offers games and hands-on activities to focus on some of the strategies used by animals to help them survive the frigid t e m p e r a t u r e s o f w i n t e r. I n addition, there will be a campfire, s’mores, and the option to go on a night hike (weather permitting).

Families with children six and over. Friday at 7 p.m. through Saturday at 11 a.m. Dana Brown Overnight Center. $60. Advance r e g i s t r a t i o n r e q u i r e d ; w w w. mobot.org/classes or (314) 577-5140. For a complete list of youth and family programs at the Missouri Botanical Garden’s family of attractions, visit www. mobot.org/classes.

Jan. 20: Maple Syrup from Tree to Table. Everything you need to know to start making your own maple syrup at home! This class will cover the materials you’ll need to the procedures used to turn sap into syrup. Class will be held outdoors, so please dress for the weather. For families with kids ages eight and up. 1 to 3 p.m.

Carriage House. Included with Shaw Nature Reserve admission.

Advance registration required; www.mobot.org/classes or (314) 577-5140. For a complete list of youth and family programs at

the Missouri Botanical Garden’s family of attractions, visit www. mobot.org/classes.

Jan. 26: Introduction to Herbal Soap Making. Learn how to make your own cold-pressed soap using vegetable oils and pure, therapeutic essential oils. Stir the pot as various vegetable oils, botanicals and other ingredients are added for a specific blend.

Each participant will receive a cured bar of soap to take home.

Other soaps will be available for purchase. 9 a.m. to noon. Adlyne F re u n d C e n t e r. $ 2 4 . A d v a n c e r e g i s t r a t i o n r e q u i r e d ; w w w. mobot.org/classes or (314) 5775140. For a complete list of adult classes at the Missouri Botanical Garden’s family of attractions, visit www.mobot.org/classes.

F e b . 2 t h ro u g h 3 : I t ’ s Yo u r We e k e n d O v e r n i g h t . A re y o u looking for time to yourself?

Bring your books, hiking boots, camera, paints, bicycle, binoculars, laptop or whatever!

Spend all the time you want doing what you want, either by yourself out on the trails, or perhaps with others in front of a fire. The cost includes meals and a dormitory-style overnight in a delightful historic log lodge.

An optional class on felting your own wool hat will be offered for an additional $25. Adults only.

9 a.m. Saturday to 11 a.m. on Sunday. Dana Brown Overnight Center. $90. Advance registration required; www.mobot.org/classes or (314) 577-5140. For a complete list of youth and family programs at the Missouri Botanical Garden’s family of attractions,

People People planner Winter events planned in the Alton Area Alton Little Theater: Almost Maine Jan. 18 - 27 Evening Shows Tues. - Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday matinee at 2 p.m.

2450 N. Henry St. Alton, IL 62002 On a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. As the Northern Lights hover, Almost's residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways.

Alton Restaurant Week Friday, Jan. 18 - Sunday, Jan. 27 Various Restaurants Alton, IL 62002 Dine with us during the 2nd annual Alton Restaurant Week.

Starting Friday, Jan. 18, many of the locally-owned restaurants in Alton will come together to offer diners a taste of some of their best menu items. For diners, there are no passes to buy, coupons to carry or cards to punch. We ask that you simply pull up a chair and join us for a great meal for lunch or dinner, offered at a fixed price, at the participating restaurant of your choice between Jan. 18 - 27. Lunch is priced at $10 (plus tax and gratuity) and dinner is $25 (plus tax and gratuity).

Participating restaurants include: Alton Sports Tap, Bossanova, Castelli's at 255, Franco's at the Holiday Inn, Gentelin's on Broadway, Rib City Alton, State Street Market, Aunt Sam's Uptown Eatery, My Just Desserts, Olga’s Kitchen, Grafton Winery & Brewhaus, Mississippi Half Step, Pere Marquette Lodge, Chez Marilyn, Johnson’s Corner and Tony’s Restaurant. For more information, call (800) 258-6645 or go to www.AltonRestaurantWeek. com.

Eagle Photo Workshop Saturday, Jan. 19 and Feb. 16 Noon Lewis & Clark Confluence Tower 435 Confluence Tower Drive Hartford, IL 62048

Join a photography workshop at the Tower on Saturday to learn tips from a professional on how to take the best eagle photos. You will then be able to try it yourself from 150 feet up in the air! Free event admission. Admission to tour the Tower. For more information, call (618) 251-9101 or visit www.

ConfluenceTower.com.

Eagles over the Confluence: Bird of Prey Display Saturday, Jan. 26 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Lewis & Clark Confluence Tower 435 Confluence Dr. Hartford, IL 62048 Bald Eagles usually steal the spot light, but what about the other birds of prey? Come to the tower to witness the other large birds that live by our confluence.

Treehouse Wildlife Center will be at the Tower with some of their resident raptors. See these hawks and owls up close and listen to their handlers tell you facts and stories about the birds. Treehouse Wildlife Center is a rehabilitation center for wildlife. Injured animals will stay at the center permanently or until they are ready to be released into the wild. At the center, there are large outdoor habitats for the animals that will be released and there are indoor havens for the permanent residents. Treehouse Wildlife Center has one full-time and one parttime staff member and both are paid through a grant from a local foundation. The remaining staff is volunteers. Display is free. There is an admission to tour the Tower.

Maple Syrup at the McCully Heritage Project February through March McCully Heritage Project Kampsville, IL 62053 The McCully Heritage Project will be tapping maple trees and making maple syrup February to March 2013. Once the sap starts flowing it will be cooked from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every 2nd or 3rd day, over an open campfire, just outside the McCully Heritage Project pavilion. Scheduling of this event is completely weather dependent, check t h e M H P h o m e p a g e a t w w w. m c c u l l y h e r i t a g e . o rg o r “ l i k e ”

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us on Facebook for updates on the schedule or to find out when the sap is cooking. The public is invited to participate, and to learn about how trees are tapped and sap is collected and turned into maple syrup. Contact Michelle Berg Vogel at (618) 653-4687 or info@mccullyheritage.org for more information.

Itchy Brother's Chainsaw Wood Carving Saturday, Feb. 2 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Lewis & Clark Confluence Tower 435 Confluence Tower Drive Hartford, IL 62048 Wa t c h t h e I t c h y B r o t h e r s Chainsaw Art carve wooden sculptures with their tools to send a salute to the Bald Eagle. See the pair carve these pieces live.

The men of Itchy Brothers Chainsaw have over 30 years of combined experience. Luke Harris and Donnie Johnson are former Laclede Steal employees.

They start their demonstration with larger chainsaws to carve a w a y t h e s p a re w o o d . T h e n , the pair use feature saws and sanders to get the full detail through. The chainsaws will start at 10 a.m. and they will continue to carve until finished. Event is free. There is an admission to tour the Tower.

Southern Gospel Monthly Concert Series Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013 7 p.m.

Bethalto Church of God 800 E. Bethalto Drive Bethalto, IL 62010 Enjoy the sounds of Southern Gospel at the monthly Southern Gospel Concert Series. This month, be entertained by "One Voice" from Marion. For more information, call (618) 259-0065.

Native American Tribute to the Bald Eagle Saturday, Feb. 9 Noon – 4 p.m.

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Moose Lodge 730 Wesley Drive Wood River, IL 62095 This event from the Great Rivers Choral Society is a madrigal dinner concert. This Madrigal Play and Dinner Concert is a recreation of the Renaissance feasts, our audience will be dazzled with t h e s t u n n i n g p a g e a n t r y, t h e humor, the succulent food and extraordinary music. The evening begins with a greeting from the Jester, followed by the Royal Procession. In this script, the Jester falls head-over-heels, cap over booties, in love with a beautiful young woman, Robin d'Cradle. As the plot thickens the Jester writes a "feeble and pedestrian" poem to impress Robin (it does not), find a real live mythical beast, a unicorn, to impress her (it does not)), and finally consults the Wizard who gives him a vial of love potion.

This is sure to be a "hit"! For more information, call (618) 465-2315 or go to www.GRCS-SING.org.

Masters of the Sky President's Day Weekend Saturday, Sunday & Monday, Feb. 16 - 18 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

National Great Rivers Museum #2 Lock and Dam Way East Alton, IL 62024 Witness the "Masters of the Sky" birds of prey demonstration.

Come see eagles, falcons, owls and other birds of prey at this educational and informational program presented by the World Bird Sanctuary. Show times at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Admission fee: $5 for Adults; $3 for children 12 and under; 3 and under are free. Only 10 tickets per person.

Also, there will be a free eagle display at noon and 2 p.m. for 30 minutes in the gallery on Feb. 16 18. For more information, call the National Great Rivers Museum at (877) 462-6979.

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Lewis & Clark Confluence Tower 435 Confluence Dr. Hartford, IL 62048 Celebrate the elegance and significance of our nation’s symbol throughout North American history. Listen and learn about Native American traditions from Kathy Dickerson. Look at her authentic hand crafted Native American artwork. Dickerson, a member of the Kiowa Tribe in Oklahoma, is a local advocate for keeping American Indian traditions alive. In 2004, she founded the American Indian Educational Resources of St. Louis, an organization of Indian artist and craftspeople whose mission is to educate the community about Indians past and present.

With her making her own braintanned hides and crafts, she has learned that there is a history to share with the public. Dickerson has demonstrated at the St. Louis Art Museum and the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. Along with Kathy, there will be some Native American dancing in the visitor ’s center at the Tower. Watch the dancers perform on every hour starting at noon. Event is free.

There is an admission to tour the tower.

Eagle Photo Workshop Saturday, Feb. 16 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Lewis & Clark Confluence Tower 435 Confluence Tower Drive Hartford, IL 62048 Want to know the tips and tools to catch an amazing shot of one of those majestic birds? Come to the Tower and listen to a local expert photographer's pointers. There will be two hour long sessions, the first at 1 p.m. and the second at 3 p.m. The event is free. There is an admission to tour the Tower.

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People People planner Zoo looks to recruit frog watchers

MoBOT plans trivia night

Make it your New Year resolution to jump in and become a FrogWatch USA volunteer with the Saint Louis Zoo! St. Louis-area “citizen scientists” are needed to monitor frogs and toads from their backyards, parks, fields, creeks or just about anywhere. The information gathered can ultimately lead to practical and workable ways to stop amphibian decline.

You do not have to be a frog or toad expert join FrogWatch. You won’t even need to see or touch these amazing amphibians to participate.

All you need is an interest in frogs and toads and attend a training session at the Zoo. You’ll be asked to make a commitment to monitor a site of your choosing for at least three minutes twice a week throughout the breeding season, which ranges from about February to August.

“In just a couple of hours, we will train you to distinguish the croaks, peeps and various calls of the 10 most common frog and toad species around the St. Louis area,” says Michael Dawson, an education naturalist at the Saint Louis Zoo and coordinator of the new St. Louis chapter of FrogWatch USA. “Breeding calls vary greatly and are often mistaken for birds or insects. Their volume ranges from a soft musical trill to a deafening chorus.”

If you’re ready to take that leap, the Saint Louis Zoo will host trainings on Saturdays, Jan. 26, Feb. 23 and March 9 from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Zoo. Registration is requested. Register online at www. stlzoo.org/frogwatch, or call (314) 646-4551. The sessions are offered for students entering grade nine and up to adults.

FrogWatch USA is the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ flagship c i t i z e n s c i e n c e p ro g r a m t h a t allows individuals and families to learn about the wetlands in their communities and help conserve a m p h i b i a n s b y re p o r t i n g t h e calls of local frogs and toads. For over ten years, FrogWatch USA volunteers have been trained to enter their information. Ongoing analyses of this data have been used to help develop practical strategies for the conservation of these important species.

For more information and to hear some frog calls, visit www.stlzoo. org/frogwatch or www.aza.org/ frogwatch.

Join the Young Friends of the Missouri Botanical Garden for an evening of fun and Gardeninspired trivia. Reserve your spot now for the fifth annual “Trivia Night–Garden Style” on Saturday, Feb. 16. Doors open at 6 p.m.; trivia begins promptly at 7 p.m. Cost is $300 for a table of 10 and includes admission to the Orchid Show and complimentary Schlafly products.

Outside alcohol is not allowed; a cash bar will be available. Bring creative dishes; judges will award prizes for tastiest food-contest entries. Advance registration is required by calling (314) 577-9570 or visiting www.mobot.org/trivia.

Young Friends Trivia Night Attendees will battle wits in ten rounds of trivia, each containing ten questions. The themes will be loosely related to the Garden and the upcoming 2013 “Foodology: Dig In!” exhibition will be prominent.

Mulligans may be purchased with cash, with a maximum of ten allowed per table. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top two teams with attendance prizes awarded b e t w e e n ro u n d s . B r i n g y o u r checkbook or credit card to bid on auction items including hotel stays, sports tickets and gift certificates from local businesses. All proceeds support restoration of the Garden’s historic structures.

Tr i v i a N i g h t – G a rd e n S t y l e will be held in the upper level of the Ridgway Visitor Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd. in south St. Louis.

Seating is limited and advance registration is required; call (314) 577-9570.

Young Friends is a program for young professionals dedicated to advancing the mission of the Garden. For more information, email young_friends@mobot.org.

For general information, visit w w w. m o b o t . o rg o r c a l l ( 3 1 4 ) 577‑5100 (toll-free, 1‑800‑642‑8842).

Follow the Garden on Facebook and Twitter at www.facebook. com/missouribotanicalgarden and http://twitter.com/mobotnews.

Orchid Show, Feb. 2 to March 31.

The show offers visitors a once-ayear opportunity to see a rotating display of hundreds of orchids from the Garden’s expansive permanent living collection. The Garden is currently celebrating the 25th anniversary of its permanent presence in Madagascar and the Orchid Show further commemorates the research and conservation efforts made during the Garden’s tenure.

This year visitors will get a peak at life in Madagascar as native plants, artifacts and water falls make their way to the 5,000-square-foot Orthwein Floral Display Hall. Visit a Malagasy village with bamboo huts complete with palm leaf roofs.

Stroll along the curved paths to uncover water features, living plant walls and bamboo structures. View native artifacts including weavings, clothing and canoes. Lemurs, which are native to Madagascar,

MoBOT to host Orchid Show Escape the Missouri winter and journey to Madagascar during the Missouri Botanical Garden’s annual

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will also be featured in the display with replicas made from botanical materials. Interpretive pieces will educate visitors about the Garden’s ongoing research in Madagascar.

More than 600 orchids will be displayed just as they would be found in their natural habitats with terrestrial orchids at ground level and ephiphytic orchids suspended atop tree branches. Orchids vary in size and color and include a number of varieties including, Laelia, Epidendrum, Oncidium, Paphiopedilum, Cattleya and Cymbidiums.

The Garden’s sizeable orchid collection includes more than 7000 individual orchid plants representing approximately 280 genera and more than 2,500 unique orchid taxa. Throughout the year, Garden horticulturists care for the collection behind the scenes in the private greenhouse range.

Horticulturists juggle temperatures inside the greenhouse range to force the winter bloom of as many plants as possible for the annual Orchid Show. Spent blooms are replaced with new ones on a daily basis to maintain the quality during the length of the show. Photographers are welcome to use hand-held cameras to capture the Orchid Show for personal enjoyment; tripod and monopod usage is not permitted indoors.

Orchid Show admission is $5 per person (ages 3 and older), in addition to general Garden admission ($8 for adults; $4 for St. Louis City and County residents, with free admission Wednesdays and Saturdays until noon; free for children ages 12 and younger).

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EMMANUEL CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST 33 . ro n treet d ar ds ille 0 Pastor Carlos Bryant 618-931-3707

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Religion We don't always have to speak our minds Do you ever read something and think, “Wow, this is some really good advice” and then wonder why you don’t incorporate it into your lifestyle?

This could apply to eating habits, exercise possibilities, and most certainly our interactions with other folks.

The simple advice I read was “I don’t always have to be right and I don’t always have to say everything I think.”

Can you imagine how many arguments and hurt feelings would never ever occur if we followed that simple sounding (but hard to do) advice.

When we are convinced we are ‘right’, we are inclined to argue.

Perhaps we are right, but becoming angry and belligerent really doesn’t convince many folks of your viewpoint. And, there might just be a possibility that we are ‘wrong’.

Then it can be a really big ‘oops’.

Quite often we speak in haste and later regret our remarks. I’ve often remarked that I don’t think I’d ever make the diplomatic appointments. And, you know what (here is a very non-diplomatic thought) I’m not sure many of those in power in our land are so great at this concept either. They seem to

Doris Gvillo speak with honor and truth and we later find out it was smoke and mirrors.

Now on my part, that definitely wasn’t very diplomatic. It is hard to express some of our feelings without hurting others, isn’t it?

At my age, I’ve learned that it isn’t too difficult to listen to those with very different views than mine and remain quiet and sometimes even be swayed by another ’s sincerity and views. And if we disagree, I think we can disagree without being disagreeable.

I grew up in an era when we were told what not to talk about… religious beliefs, politics, and ‘money’. I suppose if we were to avoid these topics that folks often disagree about, peace would reign. But then perhaps honesty would fly out the door.

Being honest, however in my opinion, doesn’t justify being cruel or indifferent to those with whom you disagree.

I suppose that is where the part of the advice I read comes into play. “I don’t always have to be right.”

I do have the right to my

opinion. Certainly. But that doesn’t necessarily equate to being ‘right’. We have all been known to be ‘wrong’ on occasion.

And is ‘being right’ so important that we would want to alienate our family members, friends, or coworkers. And if right is very, very important, can’t we find a way to express our ideas without demeaning other ideas?

The article I read came from my Guidepost devotional book.

It was from an article written by a woman who was speaking about peace in her marriage. And I am pretty confident that her advice would equate to much less fighting and more understanding.

And, I’m also sure that it wouldn’t mean she had become a ‘pushover ’.

Always demanding that you are ‘right’ can be a very obnoxious behavior. I have yet to meet many people who are ‘perfect’. Maybe you have, but I rather like the idea that while I ‘goof’ so do others.

I know that realizing that what I am so sure is ‘right’ may not always be totally true, and that maybe if I would listen, I could be persuaded that I’m wrong. And even we disagree; I can still be polite and kind while I cling fast

to my own personal opinion.

As for the words, “I don’t always have to say what I think”, that is excellent advice for everyone, not just me.

Someone says, “Do you like my new haircut?” What if you think it’s a disaster? Do you really think that individual wants to hear that?

It might be hard to find a response but just smiling and saying “It’s very different” might suffice. I don’t want to be told my choices are bad, wrong, tacky or anything else. Do you?

Most of us could begin to incorporate a little more diplomacy into our responses when such a response would cause another pain. And, I’d also suggest most of us could learn to think first and speak later or perhaps ‘swallow’ that angry or bitter response.

I view this advice as avoiding saying something hurtful and incorporating kindness into your words. I am not suggesting lying or being deceitful…just a little more kind and diplomatic.

And, I’ve checked scripture for some advice also. Let me just share a few quotes with you.

“Let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger…”

This is from James l: 19-20. And even more strongly expressed in Proverbs 8."If you stay calm, you are wise…” And Proverbs 15 “Hot tempers cause arguments but patience brings peace.”

And lastly, from Corinthians “Love isn’t quick-tempered”. And Corinthians also suggests “God does not want us to be in disorder but in harmony and peace.”

And I suppose lastly because I have always found the beatitudes full of guidance for our everyday living, is this one…Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God.” I don’t usually make New Year ’s resolutions because, frankly, I usually don’t follow through and then I feel like a failure.

But perhaps a good resolution would be to do as I quoted in the beginning…”Remember we don’t always have to be right.

And, We don’t always have to say everything we think.”

I’m often quick to respond, so I am going to work hard at trying to speak kindly, be less judgmental, and remember I do ‘goof’ up so I couldn’t possibly always be right.

him on Christmas Day.”

U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear Georgia gun lawsuit

release of thousands of pages of personnel files that would identify Roman Catholic priests accused of child molestation and their leaders in the church.

The ruling by Superior Court Judge Emilie Elias contradicts a previous order in 2010 by another judge that allowed the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to redact the names of church higher-ups.

Attorneys for the archdiocese previously said they planned to make the confidential files public by the middle of this month with the names of the church hierarchy blacked out.

It was unclear how long it would take to adhere to the new ruling.

Church attorneys expressed concern about combing through 30,000 pages of documents.

Doris Gvillo is a member of Eden United Church of Christ.

Religion briefs Medgar Evers’ widow to offer invocation for Obama WASHINGTON (AP) — The widow of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers is expected to deliver the invocation at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration on Jan. 21.

T h e P re s i d e n t i a l I n a u g u r a l Committee announced Tuesday that Myrlie Evers-Williams would deliver the prayer. It comes 50 years after her husband was gunned down in the driveway of his Mississippi home. The inauguration falls on Martin Luther King Jr. Day Evers-Williams is a distinguished scholar at Alcorn State University in Lorman, Miss. She was chairwoman of the NAACP from 1995 to 1998.

Inaugural organizers said the Rev. Louie Giglio of Atlanta’s Passion City Church will deliver the benediction for Obama’s swearingin.

In a statement, Obama says EversWilliams and Giglio represent ideals of justice, equality and opportunity that he pursues.

In 2009, the Rev. Rick Warren delivered the invocation.

Christian group lists the world’s worst persecutors LONDON, Ont. (AP) — North Korea continues to be the worst country in the world to be a Christian, according to the new World Watch List released by Open Doors USA. The list ranks North Korea as the world’s worst persecutor of Christians for the 11th year in a row, followed by eight nations where Open Doors says “extreme Islam poses the largest threat for Christians,” led by Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Open Doors International spokesman Paul Estabrooks noted that persecution of Christians has increased in 11th-ranked Syria, where civil war has driven thousands into exile, and in African countries where Islamist extremism is on the rise.

In North Korea, Estabrooks said severe persecution of Christians has not eased under new leader Kim Jong Un. The Open Doors report says Christians are persecuted in at least 60 countries, and says persecution worldwide grew worse last year.

Iranian pastor reported free after Christmas arrest WA S H I N G T O N ( A P ) — A n Iranian pastor whose rea r re s t o n C h r i s t m a s D a y w a s condemned by two U.S. congressmen is free again, according to the American Center for Law and Justice.

ACLJ Executive Director Jordan Sekulow said his g ro u p ’ s C h r i s t i a n c o n t a c t s i n Iran reported that Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani was released Monday and was at home once again with his family.

Nadarkhani, who was raised i n a M u s l i m f a m i l y, s p e n t almost three years in prison before his release in September.

The ACLJ says he had faced a possible death sentence for refusing to renounce his Christian faith.

O n F r i d a y, P e n n s y l v a n i a Congressman Joseph Pitts, who is Christian, and Minnesota C o n g re s s m a n K e i t h E l l i s o n , a Muslim, issued a joint statement denouncing Nadarkhani’s re-arrest and calling for his i m m e d i a t e re l e a s e . T h e y s a i d that given Iran’s “persecution o f P a s t o r Yo u c e f b e c a u s e of his Christian faith, it was particularly cruel to imprison

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Gay marriage flap: Gallaudet reinstates official WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s leading university for the deaf and hard of hearing has reinstated its chief diversity officer, who was suspended for t h re e m o n t h s a f t e r s i g n i n g a petition circulated by opponents of gay marriage in Maryland.

Gallaudet University president T. A l a n H u r w i t z a n n o u n c e d the reinstatement of Angela McCaskill in an email Monday to students, faculty and staff. The brief statement didn’t elaborate on the reasons for McCaskill’s re i n s t a t e m e n t , a n d u n i v e r s i t y officials declined further comment.

McCaskill has said she is not a n t i - g a y. S h e s a i d s h e s i g n e d the petition at her church after listening to a sermon about marriage, adding that she felt it was important for Maryland voters to decide the issue.

Many on campus said they felt McCaskill was the wrong person to lead an office that promotes diversity. But people on both sides of the gay marriage debate in Maryland, where McCaskill lives, said she shouldn’t be punished for exercising her First Amendment rights.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won’t overturn a Georgia law banning firearms in churches and other places of worship.

The high court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from GeorgiaCarry.org, which wanted the justices to overturn a lower court decision upholding Georgia’s ban on guns in churches and other places of worship.

GeorgiaCarry.org argued that t h e l a w b u rd e n s “ re l i g i o u s l y motivated conduct by regulating how or what a worshipper can do with a weapon while he is worshipping.”

But the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the lower court’s dismissal of the lawsuit brought by GeorgiaCarry and the Rev. Jonathan Wilkins of the Baptist Tabernacle of Thomaston, Ga. The Supreme Court, without comment, refused to reconsider that ruling.

Judge: Release unredacted priest files LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California judge has ordered the

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Associated Press

This publicity film image provided by Focus Features shows Matt Damon starring as Steve Butler in Gus Van Sant's contemporary drama, "Promised Land."

Hollywood faces fracking in "Promised Land"

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press

realistic treatment of drilling and fracking. It’s not that kind of film.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The new movie “Promised Land” digs into the fierce national debate over fracking, the technique that’s generated a boom in U.S. natural gas production while also stoking controversy over its possible impact on the environment and human health.

Written by and starring Matt Damon and John Krasinski, the film comes at an opportune time for a big-screen exploration of the issues surrounding the shale gas revolution, with cheap natural gas transforming the nation’s energy landscape and “fracking” now a household word.

But viewers shouldn’t necessarily expect a

EDITOR’S NOTE — The author, Michael Rubinkam, covers the fracking industry in Pennsylvania for The Associated Press. With “Promised Land” opening nationwide on Friday, he offers this view from the ground.

Lending an air of authenticity, the movie was shot in Pennsylvania, where thousands of wells have been drilled and fracked in recent years as industry heavyweights pull huge volumes of gas from the sprawling Marcellus Shale, a rock formation deep below the surface of the Earth.

But “Promised Land” spends little time explaining how energy companies actually go

about pulling natural gas out of the ground, and what little explanation the movie does provide is simply not very accurate.

The Focus Features release instead concentrates on another aspect of the drilling boom — the battle for hearts and minds as gas companies seek to lease land for drilling while environmentalists warn of the perils of punching a bunch of holes in the ground. Bewildered landowners, meanwhile, are left to sort out the competing claims and counterclaims.

It’s potentially fertile territory. In real life, drilling companies injected millions of dollars into moribund local economies, transforming sleepy villages in Pennsylvania and other states into boomtowns almost overnight. But the industry also sowed division, pitting neighbor

against neighbor as some residents complained of ruined water wells and other environmental degradation. Many others, judging by recent public opinion surveys, heralded the prosperity that drilling creates and the abundant homegrown energy it produces.

Even here, though, the movie seeks to entertain more than enlighten, with an implausible plot twist undermining what could have been a realistic portrayal of life as it is really lived in the gas fields.

“Promised Land” follows Steve Butler (Damon), a gas company salesman who shows up in an economically struggling small town in Pennsylvania that happens to sit atop a vast reserve of gas. His task: To get residents to sign on the dotted line.

Two films that fail to kick off the year in style

By ROBERT GRUBAUGH For The Edge Most people spend their Januaries at the movies in pursuit of one of two things: horror films or catching up on the big holiday releases that they missed during the Yuletide hullabaloo. And that includes me, of course, but I go one further to that third option that many forget even exists.

Yes, Virginia, there are movies released every week, including some that do a fair job of hiding that fact with their skimpy marketing campaigns, no frills production, and sickly box office performance. This week I took in a double-feature of that type of show including "Promised Land" and "Not Fade Away," two pics I had high hopes for.

Matt Damon, believe it or

not, had parts in more than a dozen movies before his career took off like a rocket after Good Wi l l H u n ting. This week the established movie star is back with Promised Land which reunites him with GWH director Gus Van Sant.

After sixteen years, Damon is coming into the best part of his career and I even detect a little graying around the temples for the perpetuallyyouthful headliner of the Bourne and Ocean's franchises. This one, unfortunately, is not his best movie, though the acting by all involved players is what saves it from the scrap heap.

Natural gas company salesmen Steve (Damon) and Sue (Frances McDormand) are a power duo that move around country for their employer, Global, selling small towns on the concept of

fracking, drilling out resources f ro m b e d ro c k , b e n e a t h t h e i r (often bankrupt) farms, trailers, and businesses. By all accounts they are the rock stars of their industry. This all changes as they visit their newest mark, a small Pennsylvania farming community populated by eager clients (Lucas Black), skeptical shopkeepers (Titus Welliver), shy schoolteachers ( R o s e m a r i e D e Wi t t ) , a s h i f t y environmentalist (John Krasinski, who co-wrote the screenplay with Damon), and a semi-retired town spokesperson (Hal Holbrook).

Their normal plays don't work, Global gets labeled as a sinner, and Steve and Sue are left floundering for the better part of the movie, even though we know their corrupt employer will eventually win out in this barely-afloat little burg. The whole tale is untold and all we're

left with is an unfinished story that feels like under-baked brownies.

"Promised Land" runs 106 minutes and is rated R for language.

I give this film one star out of four.

••• The other movie I saw this week is "Not Fade Away" from Sopranos creator David Chase.

The flavor of "Not Fade Away" is supposed to reflect the t u r b u l e n t 1 9 6 0 s a s s e e n f ro m the perspective of a young man coming of age in New Jersey sometime between the JFK assassination and the end of the Vietnam War. In that regard, I trust that Chase has used his own experiences to fully flesh out the story of Douglas (John Magaro), t h e p ro t a g o n i s t o f t h e m o v i e , successfully. Influenced by the music of the Rolling Stones, Douglas and his friends (Jack

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Huston, Will Brill) form a band at the end of their high school days that they keep coming back t o o v e r c o l l e g e b re a k s w h e n parties need a jolt.

The whole thing is a looseygoosey jive on rock 'n roll and the change in social norms as depicted by Douglas' dad's (James Gandolfini) criticism of his son's relationship with drugs, long hair, and a troubled girl (Bella Heathcote) who has mental illness in her family history. I just wish the plot had been a little more engaging than the disjointed soundtrack (at times) was. " N o t F a d e Aw a y " r u n s 11 2 minutes and is rated R for pervasive language, some drug use, and sexual content. I give this film half of one star out of four.

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“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”

Stuffed with Hollywood’s latest technology, Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” prelude is some eye candy that truly dazzles and some that utterly distracts, at least in its test-run of 48 frames a second, double the projection rate that has been standard since silent-film days. It’s also overstuffed with prologues, flashbacks and long, boring councils among dwarves, wizards and elves as Jackson tries to mine enough story out of J.R.R. Tolkien’s mythology to build another trilogy.

Remember the interminable false endings of “The Return of the King,” the Academy Award-winning finale of Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings”? “An Unexpected Journey” has a similar bloat throughout its nearly three hours, in which Tolkien’s brisk story of intrepid little hobbit Bilbo Baggins is drawn out and diluted by dispensable trimmings better left for DVD extras. Two more parts are coming, so we won’t know how the whole story comes together until the finale arrives in summer 2014. Part one’s embellishments may pay off nicely, but right now, “An Unexpected Journey” looks like the start of an unnecessary trilogy better told in one film. Martin Freeman stars as homebody Bilbo, the reluctant recruit of wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) on a quest to retake a dwarf kingdom from a dragon. The 48-frame version offers remarkably lifelike images, but the view is almost too real at times, the crystal pictures bleaching away the painterly quality of traditional film and exposing sets and props as movie fakery.

RATED: PG-13 for extended sequences of intense fantasy action violence, and frightening images.

RUNNING TIME: 169 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Two and a half stars out of four.

“Les Miserables”

Tom Hooper ’s extravaganza, big-screen telling of the beloved musical is as relentlessly driven as the ruthless Inspector Javert himself. It simply will not let up until you’ve Felt Something — powerfully and repeatedly — until you’ve touched the grime and smelled the squalor and cried a few tears of your own. It is enormous and sprawling and not the slightest bit subtle. But at the same time it’s hard not to admire the ambition that drives such an approach, as well as Hooper’s efforts to combine a rousing, old-fashioned musical tale with contemporary and immediate aesthetics.

There’s a lot of hand-held camerawork here, a lot of rushing and swooping through the crowded, volatile slums of Victor Hugo’s 19th-century France. Two years after the release of his inspiring, crowd-pleasing “The King’s Speech,” winner of four Academy Awards including best picture, Hooper has vastly expanded his scope but also jettisoned all remnants of restraint. But he also does something clever in asking his actors to sing live on camera rather than having them record their vocals in a booth somewhere as is the norm, and for shooting the big numbers in single takes. The intimacy can be uncomfortable at times and that closeness highlights selfindulgent tendencies, but the meaning behind lyrics that have become so well-known shines through anew. Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway and Russell Crowe star.

RATED: PG-13 for suggestive and sexual material, violence and thematic elements.

RUNNING TIME: Running time: 158 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Two and a half stars out of four.

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“Jack Reacher”

The idea of watching a movie in which a sniper methodically manufactures his own bullets, practices weekly at a gun range, then waits quietly in an empty parking garage before shooting five people dead may not sound like the most appealing form of entertainment during these tragic days.

Nevertheless, it’s important to assess “Jack Reacher” on its own terms, for what it is and what it isn’t. Besides being caught in some unfortunate timing, it’s also clever, wellcrafted and darkly humorous, and it features one of those effortless bad-ass performances from Tom Cruise that remind us that he is indeed a movie star, first and foremost. OK, so maybe Cruise doesn’t exactly resemble the Reacher of British novelist Lee Child’s books: a 6-foot-5, 250-pound, blond behemoth. If you haven’t read them, you probably won’t care.

Even if you have read them, Christopher McQuarrie’s film — the first he’s directed and written since 2000’s “The Way of the Gun” — moves so fluidly and with such confidence, it’ll suck you in from the start. Jack Reacher is a former military investigator who’s become a bit of a mythic figure since he’s gone off the grid. When the deadly shooting occurs at the film’s start, authorities believe they’ve quickly found their man: a sniper who’s ex-Army himself. He reveals nothing during his interrogation but manages to scribble the words “Get Jack Reacher” on a notepad before winding up in a coma. But when Reacher arrives and reluctantly agrees to help the defense attorney (Rosamund Pike) investigate, he finds the case isn’t nearly as simple as it seems.

RATED: PG-13 for violence, language and some drug material.

RUNNING TIME: 130 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three stars out of four.

“On the Road”

Walter Salles’ adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s famous novel was made with noble intentions, finely-crafted filmmaking and handsome casting, but, alas, it does not burn, burn, burn. This first ever big-screen adaptation of the Beat classic doesn’t pulse with the electric, mad rush of Kerouac’s feverish phenomenon. Salles (”The Motorcycle Diaries”) approached the book with reverence and deep research, and perhaps that’s the problem — that its spirit got suffocated by respectfulness and affected acting. If anything has made “On the Road” so beloved, it’s not its artful composition, but its yearning: the urgent passion of its characters to break free of themselves and post-war America. As our Dean Moriarty, Kerouac’s stand-in for Neal Cassady, Garrett Hedlund (”Tron”) gives his all in an ultimately failed attempt to find Moriarty’s wild magnetism within him. As the center of the book and the film — the Gatsby to our narrator Sal Paradise (Sam Riley) — he’s crucial to “On the Road” working. The women, afterthoughts in the book, have more fire. Salles has focused particularly on the carnality of Kerouac’s tale, and it threatens to overtake the film. As Moriarty’s first wife, Marylou, Kristen Stewart has a slinky sensuality that briefly dominates the movie. But her character is never developed beyond her sexy bohemia. In a few scenes as Moriarty’s heartbroken second wife, Kirsten Dunst makes the strongest impression. Elisabeth Moss, also as one left behind, excels, shouting: “They dumped me in Tucson! In Tucson!”

Viggo Mortensen, Steve Buscemi, Terrence Howard and Amy Adams all make cameos, mostly suggesting the prestige of the project.

RATED: R for strong sexual content, drug use and language.

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RUNNING TIME: 123 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Two stars out of four.

“This Is 40”

Every inch a Judd Apatow movie, from the pop culture references and potty mouths to the blunt body humor and escapist drug use. And like all of Apatow’s movies, it’s a good 20 minutes too long. But within that affectionately messy sprawl lies a maturation, an effort to convey something deeper, more personal and more substantive. That goes beyond the casting of his real-life wife, Leslie Mann, as half the couple in question, and the Apatow children, Maude and Iris, as the family’s daughters in this sort-of-sequel to the 2007 hit “Knocked Up.”. As writer and director, Apatow seems more interested in finding painful nuggets of truth than easy laughs.

Much of the banter between longtime Los Angeles marrieds Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Mann) can be very funny, but frequently it’s raw and painful as they have the kind of conversations about kids, finances and sex that might make many people in the audience feel an uncomfortable shiver of recognition. The film takes place during the three-week period when Pete and Debbie are both turning 40 (although Debbie likes to pretend she’s still 38). Birthday parties, fights about money, school confrontations, bratty kid flare-ups and awkward attempts at reconciling with parents are among the many events that occur during this vulnerable time of transition. The strong supporting cast includes Albert Brooks, John Lithgow, Jason Segel and a surprisingly funny Megan Fox. RATED: R for sexual content, crude humor, pervasive language and some drug material.

RUNNING TIME: 133 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three stars out of four.

“Promised Land”

An experience that’s alternately amusing and frustrating, full of impassioned earnestness and saggy sections. Director Gus Van Sant has the challenge of taking the topic of fracking and trying to make it cinematic. Working from a script by co-stars Matt Damon and John Krasinski, based on a story by Dave Eggers, he succeeds in fits and starts. The impoverished small town that’s the tale’s setting, a place in need of the kind of economic rejuvenation fracking could provide, is full of folksy folks whose interactions with the main characters don’t always ring true. “Promised Land” has its heart is on its sleeve and makes its pro-environment message quite clear, but it’s in the looser and more ambiguous places that the film actually works. Damon stars as Steve Butler, a salesman traveling the country on behalf of a bland behemoth of an energy corporation. Having grown up on an Iowa farm himself and seeing how an economic downturn can devastate a small town, Butler seems to be a true believer in what he’s selling. But he’s also a pragmatist, as evidenced by the playfully cynical give-and-take he enjoys with his partner, Sue (a sharp Frances McDormand). Famously for his efficiency in persuading rural residents to sell their land for the drilling rights, Steve runs into a major challenge when he and Sue arrive in depressed McKinley, Pa., where an outspoken old-timer (Hal Holbrook) and a flashy, charismatic environmental crusader (Krasinski) dare to question the company’s methods.

RATED: R for language.

RUNNINT TIME: 106 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Two stars out of four.

Music People planner Daughtry, 3 Doors Down to perform at Peabody M u l t i - p l a t i n u m ro c k b a n d s Daughtry and 3 Doors Down have announced plans to continue their joint co-headline tour into 2013.

The excursion began November 17 in Tunica, MS at 3 Doors Down's 9th Annual Better Life Foundation event, and night after night has attracted packed houses in venues across The U.S.. Leg one of the tour will wrap on 12/15 at Anaheim's Theatre at the Honda Center, with Fresno, CA at the Save Mart Center on 12/13 and a national live AXS TV appearances in Broomfield, CO at 1st Bank Center on 12/11.

Tickets for the Jan. 30, St. Louis show at Peabody Opera House are on sale now. Tickets are $81, $61, $51, and $41. Tickets may be purchased at the Ford Box Office at Scottrade Center, all Ticketmaster Ticket Centers, by phone at 800745-3000, or online at ticketmaster. com. There is a facility fee on all tickets purchased at all locations, including at the Scottrade Center Box Office. Additional Ticketmaster service charges and handling fees apply to all tickets purchased through Ticketmaster outlets, by phone or online. For disabled seating, call 314-622-5420 The first ever co-headline U.S. tour will resume on January 25th at the Verizon Theatre in Dallas, and continue in to March, 2013.

The opening act will be Aranda.

"We're very happy to continue the tour with 3 Doors Down, and look forward to getting this show to the fans that we missed on the first leg of this tour!" says lead singer Chris Daughtry. 3 Doors Down singer Brad Arnold shares, "This tour with Daughtry has been amazing, and we are excited to keep it rolling into 2013! See you on the road my friends!"

Daughtry's set features the band's new single "Start of Something G o o d , " f ro m t h e i r n e w g o l d certified album Break The Spell along with a plethora of smash hits and fan favorites including “Home,” “It’s Not Over,” “Feels Like Tonight” and “No Surprise” from platinum-selling Leave This Town and its blockbuster-selling and record-breaking self titled debut. 3 Doors Down has just released the quintet's first ever Greatest Hits package, and the band's set brings repertoire from their nine #1 chart-toppers to the stage, including "Kryptonite," "It's Not My Time," "When I'm Gone, "Here Without You" alongside others and new tracks "One Light" and "Goodbyes." The band's lead single from The Greatest Hits "One Light" has hit the Top 15 at Active Rock radio and continues to make strong moves at the format.

Before You Exit to perform at Fubar The pop/rock trio, know as Before You Exit, have announced that they will be joining Action I t e m ' s ' T h e R e s o l u t i o n To u r ' kickedoff on January 4th, 2013.

These young pop-rockers combine catchy hooks, charm, with the great musicianship to make an adorable group you will be seeing everywhere in 2013! They will be performing at Fubar on February 2nd. See full tour dates below and watch the bands' video

announcement here: http://bit.ly/ SSLuEE. To purchase tickets, please visit: BeforeYouExit.com/tour.

The Orlando-based band began a few years ago with brothers Connor McDonough, 19, (Vocals/ Guitar) and Riley McDonough, 17, (Vocals), only recently did the band bring in younger brother Toby McDonough, 14, on vocals. The trio gigs live augmented by Thomas Silvers (Drums) and Braiden Wood (Guitar). Unlike many bands of brothers, Oasis and The Black Crowes come to mind, the trio work harmoniously. "We actually get along really well. We all have our thing and work in categories by preference," Connor says. "I write vocal melodies, Riley writes lyrics, and Toby helps with both.

There are never fights because each of us can do our own thing, but also contribute to each other."

Set to release their brand new EP in February 2013, the three brothers have crafted a soaring p o p ro c k a l b u m o f u p l i f t i n g relationship songs that effortlessly blend sharp hooks with bright and buoyant rock. The album standout

and first single, "I Like That", is a tune with tenderly romantic lyrics and big pop-rock beat. Ryan Daly and Anthony Improgo, along with Connor McDonough, produced the new album. "They really listened to what we wanted to do and let us try out our ideas, no matter how crazy," Connor says laughing.

"Because of that, we feel really connected to the way the recording turned out," Riley adds.

Before You Exit released their debut EP, Letting Go, in March 2011, which has been critically acclaimed by the likes of MTV, J14, Seventeen, Just Jared, just to name a few. After the release, the band has been gaining great buzz from touring in support of Allstar Weekend and All Time Low.

Swift schedules two shows in St. Louis Six-Time Grammy winner Taylor Swift Returns to Scottrade Center March 18th and 19th.

Tickets available at the box office, all Ticketmaster locations, on-line

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Swift recently announced that she will launch a North American stadium and arena tour in early 2013 in support of her blockbuster new album, RED. On The RED Tour, Taylor is currently slated to headline 62 shows in 45 cities in 29 states and 3 provinces in 2013. The tour will kick-off on March 13 in Omaha, Nebraska and continue through September. Acclaimed singer/ songwriter Ed Sheeran, whose duet with Taylor from her RED album, “Everything Has Changed,” has already reached the #1 position atop iTunes all-genre Top Songs chart, will be a special guest on all of the shows on the tour.

The 2013 dates will include eleven stadiums – Detroit’s Ford Field, Dallas’s Cowboys Stadium, Toronto’s Rogers Centre (2 shows), Winnipeg’s Investors Group Field, Vancouver’s BC Place Stadium, Pittsburgh’s Heinz Field, Philadelphia’s Lincoln

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Financial Field, Foxborough, Mass.’s Gillette Stadium (2 shows) and Chicago’s Soldier Field.

Taylor ’s RED Tour is set to be one of the most-anticipated musical events of 2013, as Taylor ’s live shows are renowned worldwide for bringing her music to life with what Variety has dubbed “supreme spectacle” and Billboard has hailed as an “overwhelming experience… that blended the pacing, the music and the artist's personality in a way that transfixed.” During the course of every show, Taylor plays a variety of instruments and performs her biggest hits and fan favorites from her four Big Machine Records albums.

“I didn’t think I could be any more excited about my RED album, but then I start thinking about how I’m going to put the new show together for The RED Tour,” says Taylor. “I have so many ideas about how to really bring this music to life, and I can’t wait to share the new show with all my fans!”

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Music Tuning in Bon Jovi to perform in St. Louis As Bon Jovi gears up for a monumental year, the all-American rock icons have announced the first set of U.S. dates, taking them from coast to coast on their “BON JOVI Because We Can – The Tour.” The tour will kick off in Uncasville, Conn., on February 9, treating fans to one-night-only performances in U.S. arenas nationwide, plus multiple stadium shows including a two-night stand at MetLife Stadium in the band’s home state of New Jersey.

The tour will roll through St. Louis on March 13 for a performance at the Scottrade Center.

Ensuring that there is truly something for every fan, Bon Jovi is offering a wide range of ticket options, starting at $19.50 (plus service charges). Tickets will go on sale in select markets beginning Friday, November 30. Visit www.

BonJovi.com for up-to-date information. #BecauseWeCan “As AEG Live embarks on its fourth collaboration with one of today’s greatest original rock bands, it is no surprise that they are going to sell out stadiums and arenas around the globe, since Bon Jovi has consistently delivered the goods to their hardcore and new fans alike,” said Randy Phillips, President & CEO of AEG Live. “‘Because We Can - The Tour’ will again showcase Bon Jovi’s immense catalog of hits and some incredible new music from the forthcoming What About Now album and the signature state-ofthe-art production that have become the hallmarks of Bon Jovi tours.”

Overwhelming demand for the band’s previously announced Canadian dates has already led to second shows in Montreal and Toronto, and Bon Jovi has plenty more in store. The band will expand

their current tour schedule with additional North American dates including Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, MA; Ford Field in Detroit, MI, and many more. The current tour itinerary is listed below, with further details to come.

The tour, promoted by AEG Live in the U.S., Canada and the U.K., will debut brand new songs from Bon Jovi’s upcoming album What About Now, to be released in Spring 2013, loading even more ammunition into the band’s huge arsenal of hits. The group’s return to the road in 2013 will launch the latest chapter in an ongoing blockbuster run which has already secured Bon Jovi’s status as the essential live rock band – having performed more than 2,700 concerts in over 50 countries for more than 35 million fans. “BON JOVI Because We Can – The Tour” will make its way across the globe with dates in Europe, the Far East, Africa, Latin America and Australia.

Sheldon Gala 2013 to feature Bobby McFerrin The Sheldon Gala 2013 featuring Bobby McFerrin “SpiritYouAll” on Thursday, April 25, at 8:15 p.m. at the Sheldon Concert Hall.

Gala tickets are on sale now, starting at $500 and include preconcert dinner, preferred concert seating, complimentary valet parking and a tax deduction. Call The Sheldon at 314-533-9900.

Single tickets go on sale March 13 at 10 a.m. Tickets are $50 orchestra/$45 balcony and are available beginning March 13 through MetroTix at 314.534.1111 or online at www.TheSheldon.org. For more information, call The Sheldon during normal business hours, Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Best known for his international hit song, “Don't Worry, Be Happy,”

10-time Grammy-winner McFerrin is one of today’s most prolific and eclectic performers. Earning acclaim for his stunning rendition of the Bach prelude “Ave Maria,” his unparalleled interpretations of Beatles songs, and collaborations with everyone from cellist Yo-Yo Ma to pianist Chick Corea and comedian Robin Williams, McFerrin draws on all genres, refusing to fit into any one musical category. He has conducted the Vienna Philharmonic, performed with the St. Louis Symphony and consorted with the Muppets on Sesame Street, never failing to impress with his diversity and range.

Drawing on all genres, demonstrating matchless improvisational skills and an ability to create new vocabularies on the fly, his music is always accessible and inviting.

McFerrin’s 2013 Gala performance will be a “homecoming” for the artist, whose father, the great opera singer Robert McFerrin, Sr., the first African-American male singer to perform at the Met in New York City, lived in St. Louis for many years and performed several times at The Sheldon, once with Bobby and his sister Brenda in a special benefit concert appearance in 1987. With his new project, SpiritYouAll, McFerrin pays homage to his father and the generations of Americans who sang of shared joy and pain through the songs commonly known as Negro Spirituals.

Toby Mac to host Winter Jam The groundbreaking Winter Jam Tour Spectacular, the #1 tour in the world (first quarter) for two consecutive years, revealed its

blockbuster 2013 artist and city line-up during a special launch event held earlier this evening at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. The tour comes to Scottrade Center, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013, with the show starting at 6 p.m.

Founded and hosted by Grammynominated Christian music mainstay NewSong and presented by World Vision, the Winter Jam 2013 Tour Spectacular will be headlined

by GRAMMY®-winning, multiplatinum recording artist TobyMac. The 44-city tour will also feature RED, Matthew West, Jamie Grace, Sidewalk Prophets and Royal Tailor, with a message from national speaker Nick Hall. In addition, the Youth Music Vault Pre-Jam Party will include performances from Jason Castro, OBB and Capital Kings.

Kicking off its 18th year January 4 at the Charleston Civic Center in Charleston, West Virginia, the tour is slated to stop at Chicago’s Sears Centre Arena; Philips Arena in Atlanta; Cincinnati’s U.S. Bank Arena; Oklahoma City’s Chesapeake Energy Arena; the FedEx Forum in Memphis, Tennessee; The Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri; and Charlotte, North Carolina’s Time Warner Cable Arena, among other leading venues, before concluding March 30 at San Antonio’s AT&T Center.

Winter Jam admission is $10 at the door, with no ticket required.

“As we prepare for Winter Jam’s 18th year, we are more passionate than ever about the ministry that drives the tour,” said Eddie Carswell, creator of Winter Jam and founding member of NewSong.

“Led by TobyMac, this year’s lineup represents the diversity—and

future—of Christian music. And we are thrilled that Nick Hall will be back with us to share the Gospel message, as that has always been the heart of Winter Jam.” Promoted by Premier Productions, Winter Jam 2013 Tour Spectacular partners include the University of Mobile, Teen Missions International, Premier Christian Cruises, Xtreme Conferences, Camp Electric, Wayne E. Bailey Produce, and Texas TransEastern. At each show, World Vision will host the Hoops of Hope Youth Leader Reception, a free backstage event open to all youth pastors and leaders in attendance.

Earlier this year Winter Jam shattered its own record to become the #1 tour in the world (first quarter) for the second consecutive year, according to Pollstar ’s 2012 Worldwide First Quarter Ticket Sales Charts - Top 100 Tours.

Headlined by Grammy-nominated alternative rockers Skillet, the 47city tour saw 32 sold-out concerts and surpassed last year ’s record attendance by more than 10,000, playing to a total of nearly 535,000 people.

The Winter Jam Tour Spectacular, created by NewSong in 1995, has featured the genre’s biggest names— including Skillet, Newsboys, Jeremy Camp, Steven Curtis Chapman, Third Day, Francesca Battistelli, Tenth Avenue North and Fireflight— and has introduced Christian music to new audiences across the country, while providing a powerful platform for the Gospel message.

Five-time Grammy Award winner and multi-platinum selling artist TobyMac is known as one of the industry’s “most innovative and visionary artists” (Billboard).

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Thursday, Jan. 17 Natural Child w/The Brainstems, Rat Heart, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

Ultraviolets, Fast Eddie's Bon Air, Alton, 7:00 p.m.

Aristeia, Polarization, Wrath of Vesuvius, Fubar, St. Louis, Doors 6:00 p.m.

The Bad Plus, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 18 State and Madison w/Equal Squeeze, St. Jimmy, Flood Logic, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Waka Winter Classic, Old Rock House, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

Junebug w/ Karen Choi, The Skekses, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

Big George Brock and the New House Rockers, The Gramophone, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Corey Smith w/Connor Christian and Southern Gothic, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Slatkin conducts The Planets, Powell Symphony Hall, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

Spin the Bottle, Fast Eddie's Bon Air, Alton, 8:00 p.m.

Bonz, Midwest Avengers, Rise to Sundown, Found Under Fire, Fubar,

St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

C a r r i e N e w c o m e r, S h e l d o n Concert Hall, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

The Bad Plus, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Ari Hest, The Wildey Theatre, Edwardsville, 8:00 p.m.

Aaron Mansfield w/Ross Christopher, Cicero's, University City, Doors 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 19 Tr i s t e n w / S c o t t L u c a s , Rollercoaster Club, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

Heartsfield, Old Rock House, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

Jess Hernandez and the Deltas w/ Pawns and Kings, We are Voices, Indian Blanket, The Gramophone, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

Bloc Party w/IO Echo, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Charlie Wilson w/Mint Condition, Fox Theatre, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

Slatkin conducts The Planets, Powell Symphony Hall, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

Jay N Waylon, 3:00 p.m. / Spin the Bottle, 8:00 p.m., Fast Eddie's Bon Air, Alton The Atlantis Dialogue, Triangle Blue, Fighting Mad, Fubar, St. Louis, Doors 6:00 p.m.

The Bad Plus, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Jake's Leg, The Wildey Theatre, Edwardsville, 8:00 p.m.

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Sunday, Jan. 20 The Planets, Powell Symphony Hall, St. Louis, 3:00 p.m.

Jay N Waylon, 2:00 p.m. \ Ultraviolets, 7:00 p.m., Fast Eddie's Bon Air, Alton Yojimbo, The Gramophone, St. Louis, Doors 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 22 The Schwag, Old Rock House, St. Louis, Doors 9:00 p.m.

Geographer w/On and On, The Sun and the Sea, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

The Used w/We Came as Romans, Mindflow, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 6:00 p.m.

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Lucy's Palace w/Matt Rowland, Tara Lynn Schmittigens, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

The Brothers: An Evening of A l l m a n B ro t h e r s M u s i c , T h e Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Pictures at an Exhibition, Powell Symphony Hall, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

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Devon Allman, Cicero's, University City, Doors 8:00 p.m.

Me, The Last Stanza, Seven Eighteen, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 6:30 p.m.

The Stone Sugar Shakedown w/ The Justin Torres Loop Project, The Gramophone, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

Jay N Waylon, Fast Eddie's Bon Air, Alton, 6:00 p.m.

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American Idle, Fast Eddie's Bon Air, Alton, 7:00 p.m.

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Scott H. Biram, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

Lamar Harris w/Dawn Weber, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

FireFall, The Wildey Theatre, Edwardsville, 8:00 p.m.

Dance Floor Riot, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

The Almost w/All Get Out, M a k e s h i f t P ro d i g y, H i g h w a y Headline, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Lamar Harris w/Dawn Weber, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

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The Arts Foundry announces winter programs

By KRISTA WILKINSON-MIDGLEY Of The Edge The Foundry Art Centre, located in the beautiful Frenchtown district of Historic St. Charles, is a fantastic source of art in the St. Louis region. The center features everything from a Smithsonian-caliber art gallery hosting national juried exhibitions to working artist studios where visitors can watch the creative process and buy art directly from the artists.

There are also special events, concerts and classes taking place throughout the year. The Foundry has now released its schedule of upcoming exhibitions, classes and events for Winter/Spring 2013. Take a look at the list below and get your creative juices flowing.

Bob Kuban Band Grab your dancing shoes and get ready to boogie with the Bob Kuban Band on Friday, Jan. 18. It all started back in 1966 when Bob Kuban and the In-Men blazed their way to the top of the charts with their horn-driven slice of blue-eyed soul, “The Cheater!”

While Bob has been an undeniable success in the past, he's continued to 'hit it big' year after year. The Bob Kuban Brass entertained at the closing ceremonies at the 1994 Olympic Festival. They also opened for Michael McDonald (formerly of the Doobie Brothers) and Kenny G at a Democratic fundraiser with President Bill Clinton as the guest speaker.

In a poll published by the St. Louis PostDispatch, the Bob Kuban Brass was second only to the Grammy award-winning St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.

Concert takes place Friday, Jan. 18. Show begins at 7:30 p.m.; doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Tickets cost $20 for general admission; $15 for FAC members.

Hudson and the HooDoo Cats Hudson and the HooDoo Cats is a JumpSwinginRockinBoogieBluesaBilly, or for short, a JitterbugaBilly band, was founded in Austin, Texas, and has been thriving in St. Louis for more than 15 years.

With a whopping 4,000 performances under their belts, Hudson and the HooDoo Cats focus on swingin' shufflin' blues, ‘50s rock and roll and rockabilly, and medium tempo dance music, as well as many original songs penned by founder and songwriter, Hudson Harkins.

The band has long been a favorite of St. Louis area swing dance clubs and music fans. They have performed for high profile corporate clients such as American Airlines, Anheuser-Busch, Southwestern Bell, Ameristar Casinos, as well as a recorded song and video for the St. Louis Cardinals on Fox Sports Network.

Concert takes place Friday, Feb. 15. Show begins at 7 p.m.; doors open at 6 p.m.

Tickets cost $15 for general admission; $10 for FAC members.

Continuing Exhibitions “Watercolor II: Paper & Pigment” Now - Feb. 1 A juried exhibition encouraging the broadest range of personal styles and applications of the liquid medium. The exhibit is juried by award-winning St. Louis watercolor artist Carol Carter. Free and open to the public.

Gallery III : “Group 4 Award Winners – Fiber TwentyTen” Featured artists include Anne Parker and Luanne Rimel.

Ameristar Gallery: “From Fusion: Science and Art” Featured artist is Liz Lee - “Prophetic Drawings: the Winter Solstice 2012” Upcoming Exhibitions “PaperWork In, On, and Of Paper VI” Feb. 8 - March 22 This juried exhibition is open to all artists working in any media that utilizes paper as an integral component of expression.

All types of two-dimensional and threedimensional work will be exhibited.

An opening reception will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 8. The exhibition is free and open to the public. FAC Artists will be in studio during reception.

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Featured artists will include Robert Davis, Jr., Mary Beth Shaw, Jill Rumoshosky Werner, Christa Denney and Adam West.

Ameristar Gallery: “Emerging Artist Series” Featured artist is Bonnie Smith Galleries I & II: “Luminous Language” March 29 - May 10 An opening reception will be from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, April 5. The exhibition is free and open to the public. FAC Artists will be in studio during reception.

"Painting is by nature a luminous language." The words of painter Robert Delaunay ring true still today as the power of painting bridges language barriers, connects generations, and crosses cultures.

“Luminous Language” is a juried exhibition celebrating the universal art of

x 20 inch canvas, plus all the other supplies required for the project (students are welcome to bring their own).

Students 21 and over may bring their favorite bottle of wine or drink. Water and soda will be available for purchase.

Classes take place from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Grand Hall of the Foundry Art on Jan. 17, Feb. 12, March 14, April 16 and May 16.

Cost is $35 per person per class; $30 for FAC members per class. Sign up for three classes for only $70. (phone reservations only) “Palette Knife Landscapes with Diane Papageorge” January 2013 Break away from brushes! Try your hand at this non-traditional approach to painting and create a landscape that is truly

painting. Artists using any paint media including (but not limited to) oils, acrylics, watercolors, and gouache are welcome to enter. Traditional or experimental styles, as well as any genre, will be considered for the exhibition.

Awards will include the Going Solo Award in Gallery III or $1,000. Group III Award - Juror will select three artists for a group exhibition in Gallery III. Artists may submit up to three works for a non-refundable processing fee of $35.00. Foundry Art Centre members may submit up to three works for a non-refundable processing fee of $24.00.

Matthew Cornell, who holds a BFA from California State University, Long Beach, is the juror for the exhibition. His work has been exhibited across the United States and he has won numerous awards, including first prize in painting at Winter Park Art Festival in 2008 and 2009.

Visit the Foundry Art Centre website for full submission requirements at www. foundryartcentre.org.

Featured Classes If you've ever wanted to find your niche or dabble in something new and unfamiliar, this is your opportunity. All classes are taught by artists who work in each discipline. The Foundry Art Centre has a broad student base interested in learning new and exciting things within the arts. If you are an artist who would like to share your talent and teach at our facility, contact Jess at jess@foundryartcentre. org.

Class sizes for all classes/workshops/series are limited; advance registration is required.

“Canvases & Cocktails” The Foundry Art Centre is hosting a series of fun evening workshops that are great for a date night, girl’s night, or just a friend’s night out. Canvases & Cocktails is a guided art-making experience. The instructor will guide you step by step through the evening's project The Foundry Art Centre will provide a 16

inspirational.

“Stylized Still Lifes! with Noemi Oyarzabal” February 2013 Spruce up your favorite room or an empty wall with this modern take on a classic still life. The stylized approach emphasizes color, expressive shapes and fun!

Advanced registration for each session is required.

“Paper Quilling with M. Leticia Seitz” Saturday, May 11 in the FAC's Community Classroom (upstairs on the left in Studio 13) Curl strips of paper to make fabulous art!

Celebrate the arrival of spring with colorful flowers, butterflies, and more! Create your own unique bouquet, or add your designs onto cards, bookmarks, or brooches. This workshop is a perfect Mother's Day present or a treat for yourself as the weather warms up. Workshop is geared for participants age 16 and over.

Cost is $60 per person; $55 for FAC members. Class fees include a catered lunch.

“Encaustic Workshop with Lisa SisleyBlinn” Saturday, May 25 in the FAC's Community Classroom (upstairs on the left in Studio 13) Paint, draw, melt, add paper, texture and much more! This introductory course will teach you the basics of working with encaustic media. If you have never dabbled in encaustics before or are even at an intermediate level, this class will introduce participants to great methods and projects.

Learn step by step while still personalizing your own project!

Cost is $65 per person; $60 for FAC members.

Children’s Classes Late enrollment for all Children’s Class series will be prorated.

“Multi Media Art Studio with Fran Null” Classes take place from 4 to 5:15 p.m., Tuesdays, February through May in the FAC's Community Classroom (upstairs on the left in Studio 13).

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This 11-week class is designed to offer children grades K-4 the opportunity to dabble in a variety of mediums, develop new skills, and improve creativity. Students will explore sculpture, painting, drawing, collage, weaving, and much more! All materials are provided. If you participated in Fran's Fall 2012 classes, the projects in Spring are all new, no project from the Fall will be repeated.

Cost is $117 per FAC member; $130 for nonmembers.

“Mixed Media with Darrell Null” Classes will take place from 4 to 5:15 p.m. every Wednesday, February through May in the FAC's Community Classroom (upstairs on the left in Studio 13).

This 11-week mixed media class will encompass a wide variety of media and techniques; painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, photography, and more! It will provide children in grades 5 through 8 with the opportunity to try out new techniques and improve creativity. All materials are provided.

Cost is $117 per FAC member; $130 for nonmembers.

“Jungle Boogie! with Kelsey Amann” Classes will take place from 4 to 5:30 p.m. every Wednesday, February through April in the Baue Family Children’s Gallery.

Children ages 3 through 6 are invited to boogie down in the new 11-week preschool class which will include acting, singing, dance and crafts all centered around a jungle theme.

Children will read and learn songs from popular children's jungle stories interspersed with art projects, and then act out their favorite scenes.

Cost is $117 per FAC member; $130 for nonmembers.

“Young Storytellers with Kelsey Amann” Classes will take place from 4 to 5:30 p.m. every Thursday, February through April in the FAC's Community Classroom (upstairs on the left in Studio 13).

In this 11-week after-school class, children in grades 1-5 will learn the basics to create their own stories, design characters and real props, and then act out their favorite parts!

Action, mystery, comedy, fairy tales and more - your child will be weaving stories and expanding their creativity each week.

Cost is $117 per FAC member; $130 for nonmembers.

Other events Foundry Art Centre Book Club & Social Club meets Thursday, Feb. 21 with a social at 6:30 p.m.; discussion is from 7 p.m. until 8:30 p.m.

Upcoming dates will take place on March 21, April 18, and May 16.

Join the Foundry Art Centre and indulge yourself in lively discussions on literature!

Discussions will be held the third Thursday of every month featuring a new book.

Book selections will include: “In One Person” by John Irving (January), “Mennonite in a Little Black Dress” by Rhoda Janzen (February), “The Twenty-Seventh City”

by Jonathan Franzen (March), “Gone Girl”

by Gillian Flynn (April), “Sutton” by J. R. Moehringer (May).

Free Family Fun Day Noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 10.

Come enjoy an afternoon of free fun at the Foundry Art Centre! Check out the new attractions in the Baue Family Children’s Gallery, as we open our children’s library and reading area.

The Foundry’s Puppet Theatre will also be debuted with live puppet shows!

Children 12 and under are welcome to create art projects based on our featured book of the month and enjoy puppet-making projects and light refreshments. The event is free and open to the public.

The Foundry Art Centre is located at 520 N. Main Center, St. Charles, Mo. Hours are Tuesday through Thursday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m.

Admission is free, and donations are welcome.

For additional details regarding the classes, exhibitions, events and concert performances happening at the Foundry Art Centre, visit www.foundryartcentre.org.

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Photos by John Marcus

Pictured are two views of "Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical."

The Fox will present "Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical"

By KRISTA WILKINSON-MIDGLEY Of The Edge Get ready for a night of glitz and glamour like none other when “Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical” rolls into St. Louis’ Fabulous Fox Theatre Jan. 29 through Feb. 10.

“Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical” is written by Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott and adapted from Elliott’s hit 1994 film “The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert.”

The live stage show includes all of the film’s humor and heart and features a hit parade of more than 20 dance-floor favorites. Songs include “It’s Raining Men,” “Finally” and “I Will Survive.”

Show information states it is the story of a “trio of friends, on a road trip of a lifetime, who hop aboard a battered old bus searching for love and friendship in the middle of the Australian outback and end up finding more than they could ever have dreamed.”

The national touring production stars Wade McCollum (“Tick/Mitzi”), Scott Willis (“Bernadette”) and Bryan West (“Adam/ Felicia”).

Joe Hart stars as “Bob,” a middle-aged

mechanic who ends up helping the three friends when their bus breaks down en route.

“He’s searching for himself, just like everyone else in the piece,” said Hart, during a phone interview from Minneapolis, Minn., ahead of the tour’s Jan. 8 opening at the Orpheum Theatre. “Bob helps them out and through a course of events he ends up journeying on with them…”

Hart has previously appeared on Broadway in “Bonnie & Clyde,” “The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public,” and the national tours of “Annie Get Your Gun” and “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,” as well as the 1982 film of the same name alongside Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds. He has also appeared in numerous films and television shows.

According to Hart, who is based in L.A., working on “Priscilla” has been an amazing experience both for its dazzling visuals and its heartfelt message of love, friendship and acceptance.

As the father of two young boys, Hart said he particularly liked the interaction between the father and son characters.

“It’s a beautifully told story,” said Hart.

He described working on the production as

“amazing,” and praised the show’s costume designers Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner for creating such outlandish and beautiful outfits for the three divas.

“I just gawk at them nightly. The costumes are just extraordinary,” said Hart.

“Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical” opened on Broadway in March 2011 at the Palace Theatre. The Hollywood Reporter called Priscilla “funny and fabulous! Joyous entertainment with eye-popping visuals and unexpected heart!” NY-1 News raved “Beneath all that glitz beats a great big sequined heart!” WOR Radio sang “All the songs you’ve loved for years will blow you out of your seat!”

The musical won a 2011 Tony Award for Best Costume Design for Academy Award winners Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner’s designs. It received three Best Musical award nominations from the Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Award organizations. Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner were also honored with 2011 Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Costume Design.

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had its world premiere in Sydney in 2006.

To date, it is the most successful Australian musical of all time.

Simon Phillips directs the musical with choreography by Ross Coleman. Musical supervision and arrangements by Stephen ‘Spud’ Murphy, set design by Brian Thomson, costume design by Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner, lighting design by Nick Schlieper, sound design by Jonathan Deans and Peter Fitzgerald and make up design by Cassie Hanlon.

Performances of “Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical” at the Fox Theatre run Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 3 at 7:30 p.m. There is a matinee Thursday, Feb. 7 at 1 p.m.

To purchase tickets, visit MetroTix.com, call 314-534-1111 or visit the Fox Theatre Box Office at 531 N. Grand Blvd.

Ticket prices start at $15. Prices are subject to change; please refer to FabulousFox.com for current pricing.

For more information about the national tour, visit: www.priscillaontour.com. Follow Priscilla on Twitter or on Facebook.

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For The Edge

Above, Christine Dwyer, left, and Jeanna de Wall in a scene from "Wicked.' Below, Dwyer with Billy Harrigan.

"Wicked" a hit with Fox audiences Even a rocker can appreciate a talented cast

By BILL TUCKER Of The Edge "It's about all the stuff that happened before 'The Wizard of Oz' story."

That was my wife's summation of "Wicked" about six hours before we ventured across the river to the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis for the Dec. 29 evening performance.

That's all I knew.

That and the fact I'd scored dozens – maybe hundreds – of points for giving her tickets as a Christmas gift to a musical I knew she really wanted to see.

That it was at the Fox was enough for me.

If there is a more beautiful, throw-youback-into-another-era theater anywhere in the country, I'd sure like to see it.

I'd pay money for a tour, heck with the performance.

It's easy to imagine sitting in the theatre – with 4,000 other souls – watching a real blockbuster like "Gone With the Wind" or "Casablanca" on the big screen.

But it was "Wicked" we came to see and see – and hear – we did.

My take – I didn't fall asleep and Christine Dwyer is an amazing vocalist.

Granted, musicals aren't necessarily my thing as my tastes lean more toward the Eagles, Bob Seger and R.E.O. Speedwagon.

Still singing is singing and Dwyer can definitely sing.

She portrays Elphaba, the green-skinned, misunderstood heroine who becomes the Wicked Witch of the West.

Dwyer is an amazing talent who really

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does bring her character to life.

Jeanna de Wall, who portrays Glinda – or Galinda, depending on where you come in – also has a wealth of talent and good looks, but doesn't project from stage to balcony quite like Dwyer.

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Those two are the stars of "Wicked,' with dozens of others filling in supporting roles.

I'm not going to rehash the story here, but I will say my wife's synopsis was a bit off.

There are elements of the Oz story that do pop up in "Wicked." They go a

long way in explaining the movie – pay particular attention to anything involving a cat.

Further, "Wicked" was considerably funnier than I expected, given that laughs were few and far between in the 1939 movie.

The music, too, was more contemporary than I would have guessed, but I suppose that was as much out of necessity than anything else.

Some parts of "Wicked" were just a bit on the disturbing side. If you've seen it you'll know what I mean, if not, suffice it say that goats don't really work as professors.

Or do they?

Four days after seeing "Wicked," I received a press release from the Fox announcing that the musical had grossed $2,755,070 for the week ending Dec. 30.

Not only was that a house record for the Fox, it was also the highest gross for a week of performances in North American touring theatre history.

Pretty impressive.

Would I go again?

Can't say yes, can't say no.

It's still sinking in and I'm sure we'll have the soundtrack CD before too much longer.

In terms of musicals I've seen – and this list isn't exhaustive – I'd rate it above "George M." but below "Mama Mia!" and "Kiss Me, Kate."

For individual performances, however, no one in a musical has struck me as being as talented as Dwyer.

She's the real deal and – like the Fox itself – was worth the price of admission.

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"4,000 Miles" The Rep to present a funny, heart-warming production that will touch every life

By KRISTA WILKINSON-MIDGLEY Of The Edge Twenty-one-year-old Leo arrives at his grandmother’s Greenwich Village apartment fresh off of a cross-country bike ride and reeling from a devastating loss. His grandmother Vera is a feisty 91-yearold communist dealing with the realities of old age. Over the course of a month, these two unlikely roommates will find in each other the healing and answers they need.

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (The Rep) continues its 2012–2013 Studio Theatre series with “4000 Miles,” the funny and moving drama by playwright Amy Herzog.

This heartfelt production is playing now through Feb. 3 in the Emerson Studio Theatre at the Loretto-Hilton Center for the Performing Arts, 130 Edgar Road (on the campus of Webster University), in Webster Groves.

“4000 Miles" premiered in June 2011 at the Duke on 42nd Street as a part of Lincoln Center Theater’s LCT3 programming initiative and starred Mary Louise Wilson as Vera and Gabriel Ebert as Leo. The production then re-opened the following spring at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater as part of the Lincoln Center Theater’s regular season with the original cast reprising their roles.

Jane Page (“Rabbit Hole”) is directing The Rep’s production of “4000 Miles.” Rita Gardner stars as Vera alongside Dan McCabe as Leo. McCabe was last seen in “The Lieutenant of Inishmore.” Other cast members include Lisa Helmi Johanson as Amanda, and Katie McClellan (last seen in “Over the

Tavern”) as Bec. The creative staff also includes Robert Mark Morgan, set designer; Jason Orlenko, costume designer; John Wylie, lighting designer; Rusty Wandall, sound designer; and Emilee Buchheit, stage manager.

Curtain times are Tuesday at 7 p.m.; Wednesday through Friday at 8 p.m.; Saturday evenings at 5 p.m.; selected Saturday nights at 9 p.m.; Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. and Sunday evenings at 7 p.m.

Ticket prices are $39 (previews), $47 (weeknights, Saturdays at 9 p.m. and Sundays) and $60 (Fridays at 8 p.m. and Saturdays at 5 p.m.).

To purchase, visit The Rep Box Office, located inside the LorettoHilton Center, charge by phone by calling (314) 968-4925, or visit The Rep’s Online Box Office at www. repstl.org.

Foodies and wine lovers will also want to mark their calendars for the 11th Annual St. Louis Food & Wine Experience, taking place Jan. 25 through 27 at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel, 212 N. Kingshighway Blvd, St. Louis, Mo. Tickets are on sale now.

More than 90 exhibitors will fill the Main Floor of the Khorrassan Ballroom with an enticing array of gourmet foods and more than 700 wines from the world’s top producers. General admission is from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 26; and noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 27.

The Starlight and Zodiac Ballrooms will house the Premier Tasting event from 7 to 10 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 25. This extra special experience will feature an international selection of hardto-find and library wines, special

magnums and vertical tastings.

Cocktail attire is requested.

The VIP Reserve Room will be transformed into an oasis of wine for both experienced and novice connoisseurs. The event’s wine specialists have pulled out the very best they have to offer to create a kick-off that is truly special.

Proceeds from the St. Louis Food & Wine Experience will benefit The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis.

Tickets sales cover only 60 percent

of The Rep’s annual expenses, which include educational outreach programs such as in-school theatre visits by The Rep’s Imaginary Theatre Company and open captioning for deaf and hard-ofhearing theatre lovers. The Food & Wine Experience helps bridge that gap.

Metered parking is available on all surrounding streets. The hotel valet is directly off of Kingshighway Boulevard and is

$13. Guests may also self-park in The Chase’s garage off of Maryland Avenue or self-park in the Argyle garage off of Euclid. Both garages cost $5.

No one under age 21 will be admitted to the St. Louis Food & Wine Experience.

To purchase tickets online or for more information about the event, visit www.repstl.org. Tickets will also be available at the door and from Schnucks’ service desks.

Artistic adventures Schmidt Art Center plans events for children Your children, grandchildren, nieces or nephews can engage their imagination and creativity thanks to the Creative Kids series at the William and Florence Schmidt Art Center, located at the Southwestern Illinois College Belleville Campus, 2500 Carlyle Ave. Seven sessions are planned between Jan. 19 and May 4. The classes begin at 12:30 p.m. and last one hour. Participation is $5 per person and the sessions are open to children ages 5 and older. Register by the Wednesday before the session you wish to attend to ensure available supplies.

“Creative Kids classes are the perfect way to spend time with the child or children in your life, all of you creating art that explores the world around you,” notes Curator and Facility Coordinator Nicole Dutton. “You’ll be introduced to some amazingly imaginative and creative works.”

In each session, children, and their adults, will explore art currently on exhibition at the center; learn about the artists; find the artist within themselves; and leave with a masterpiece or two that they create.

This spring’s schedule includes: • Making the Cut – Jan. 19: Children will get inspired by exhibiting artist M.A. PapanekMiller’s prints and create their own with this collagraph print technique.

• Scrap It Up – Feb. 2: Who says collages have

to be made with paper? Sun Smith-Foret creates large-scale fabric collages based on popular films, and kids will create their own miniature versions inspired by their favorite movies.

• Absorbing Artwork – Feb. 16: Inspired by Carol Stewart’s colorful still lifes, children will experiment with salt, glue and food coloring to create vibrant, abstract paintings.

• Ready, Set, Glue! – March 23: Kids will learn about the centuries-old art of resist dyeing and try their hands at creating their own batiks.

• String It Together – April 27: Budding artists will love this springtime project, using yarn, buttons and glue to make mosaic-like flowers.

• Fun With Shrinky Dinks – May 4: Mother’s Day is just around the corner! Show Mom some love with your own handmade pendant.

For more information about the series, upcoming exhibitions or other upcoming Schmidt Art Center activities, visit swic.edu/sac or call 618-222-5ART (5278).

Sheldon to present Boccia's early works The Sheldon Art Galleries presents, Edward Boccia: Early Work, February 22 – May 18, 2013. Gallery hours are Tuesdays, Noon – 8 p.m.; Wednesdays - Fridays, Noon – 5 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. and one hour prior to Sheldon performances and during intermission.

Admission is free. For more information on exhibitions, visit the galleries’ website at thesheldon.org/galleries.asp. The exhibition is made possible in part by Christine Casten.

The exhibition was put together in memory of Edward Boccia, who passed away in September of 2012. Drawn from the estate of the artist, it features 40 drawings and paintings made

by Boccia between 1941 and 1969. Known for his large diptychs, triptychs and polyptychs, Boccia infused his canvases with mythological and Christian imagery. His paintings exhibit an affinity to works by Max Beckmann and other German Expressionist and Fauve painters. The early drawings, created while he was in Europe during World War II, share the dynamic movement and quality of line found in drawings by Vincent Van Gogh, and the expressive humanism found in Rembrandt’s portraits and self-portrait prints. Boccia also found nourishment in Classical Greek and Italian mythology and Christian symbolism, intertwining these with contemporary themes of love, lust and the human condition.

Edward Boccia was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1921. While still a high school student, he took classes at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts. After graduating, the young artist attended the Art Students League of New York. He continued his art education by attending the renowned Pratt Institute in New York on scholarship, where he met Madeleine Wysong, his future wife. In 1942, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in the 603rd Engineer Camouflage Battalion.

Boccia served in a camouflage division with other art school students whose primary duty was to fill fields with inflatable rubber artillery and tanks as a decoy for German planes. Boccia landed in Normandy one week

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after D-Day, then served in England, France, Germany and Luxembourg until the end of the war in 1945. During the war, Boccia never stopped drawing and painting; he painted in cafes and from foxholes, sometimes during heavy fire, using art supplies sent from home. The exhibition includes several portraits of fellow soldiers and civilians that he encountered, along with landscapes and seascapes made while he was stationed overseas.

When Boccia returned home in 1945, he attended Columbia University, earning a Bachelor's degree in 1948 and a Master’s degree in 1952 on the GI bill. While completing his Master's degree, Boccia served as Dean of the Columbus Art School, Ohio, and taught painting and drawing. He was recruited by the School of Fine Arts, Washington University in St. Louis in 1951, where he served first as Assistant Dean and later Professor of Art until his retirement in 1986. In 1958, Boccia spent a sabbatical year in Rome, which yielded many paintings and drawings, proving to be fruitful time. Several works from this period are also included in the exhibition.

Edward Boccia is also the focus of the major painting exhibition, Edward Boccia: Figurative Expressionist, at the St. Louis University Museum of Art, 3663 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108, from Friday, January 18 to March 3, 2013.

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The Arts Artistic adventures Kemper to feature work of Georges Braque In the early 20th century, Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso invented Cubism and shook the foundations of Western art. But in the 1930s, as the rise of fascism brought new urgency to questions of aesthetics and politics—questions that entered mainstream consciousness with Picasso’s Guernica (1937)—Braque’s fractured still lifes and bourgeois interiors remained emphatically inward-looking.

Yet Braque’s painting was not as separate from outside events as Braque might have it. While his attention to the private, secluded realm of the still life suggests disengagement with historical and political circumstances, the paintings themselves convey a more complex narrative. Indeed, the artist’s exactingly internal gaze was precisely what made his work relevant to questions of art, engagement and responsibility.

So argues Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928-1945, the first major U.S. museum exhibition dedicated to Braque in 16 years.

Co-organized by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis and The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the exhibition is also the first to situate Braque’s work within the cultural and political upheavals leading up to, and through, World War II—a period that has been virtually unexplored in scholarship on the artist.

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collections in the United States and Europe, Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928-1945 brings together 42 paintings representing an overlooked moment in the painter’s career: after the early, pioneering days of Cubism and the neoclassical retour à l’ordre, but before the late series of large-scale paintings featuring billiard tables, birds, and the atelier. By presenting multiple groupings of closely related works side by side, the exhibition reinforces the slow, experiential viewing that is central to his art, providing a rare opportunity to understand the mastery behind Braque’s dedicated and focused attention to the still life and to the methods and materiality of painting.

For the first time in more than 80 years, Braque’s “Rosenberg Quartet� (1928-29), created for his dealer, Paul Rosenberg, is here reunited. Another grouping features The Blue Mandolin, Still Life with Glass and Still Life with Fruit Dish, Bottle, and Mandolin, all completed in 1930. Though depicting similar objects—gueridon tables, mandolins, compote bowls—the three paintings are executed in distinct palettes and from different vantage points.

The effect is to highlight Braque’s gift for rendering familiar worlds unfamiliar, or even hallucinatory.

Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928–1945 is curated by Karen K. Butler, assistant curator at the Kemper Art Museum, and

by RenĂŠe Maurer, assistant curator at The Phillips Collection. The exhibition will open at the Kemper Art Museum Jan. 25, 2013, and remain on view until April 21. It then will travel to The Phillips Collection

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Thursday, Jan. 17 The Black Rep presents The Piano Lesson, Grandel Theatre, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m.

DaVinci Machines II: The Australian Exhibition, Bank of America Plaza Building, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Runs through May 31.

The Repertory Theatre presents Good People, Loretto-Hilton Center Mainstage, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

The Repertory Theatre presents 4000 Miles, Loretto-Hilton Center Studio Theatre, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

Wildlife Rescue Exhibit, Saint Louis Science Center, St. Louis, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Runs through February 3.

Generating the Future: Edna Patterson Petty, COCA, St. Louis, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs through January 13.

Pre-Columbian Mayan Artifacts, Edwardsville Arts Center, Edwardsville, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Runs through February 8.

Young Artists Celebrate the Centennial, Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, Noon to 5:00 p.m., Runs through February 9.

Arnold Newman: Luminaries of the Twentieth Century in Art, Politics and Culture, Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, Noon to 5:00 p.m., Runs through January 19.

Federico Barocci: Renaissance Master, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through January 20.

Juan William Chávez: Living Proposal Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, 8:00 a.m. to Sunset, Runs through January 20.

Friday, Jan. 18 The Black Rep presents The Piano Lesson, Grandel Theatre, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

James and the Giant Peach, COCA, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m.

DaVinci Machines II: The Australian Exhibition, Bank of America Plaza Building, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Runs through May 31.

The Repertory Theatre presents Good People, Loretto-Hilton Center Mainstage, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

The Repertory Theatre presents 4000 Miles, Loretto-Hilton Center Studio Theatre, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

Wildlife Rescue Exhibit, Saint Louis Science Center, St. Louis, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Runs through February 3.

Pre-Columbian Mayan Artifacts, Edwardsville Arts Center, Edwardsville, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Runs through February 8.

Edward Curtis: Visions of Native America, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs through June 16.

Young Artists Celebrate the Centennial, Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, Noon to 5:00 p.m., Runs through February 9.

Arnold Newman: Luminaries of the Twentieth Century in Art, Politics and Culture, Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, Noon to 5:00 p.m., Runs through January 19.

Federico Barocci: Renaissance Master, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs through January 20.

Juan William Chávez: Living Proposal Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, 8:00 a.m. to Sunset, Runs through January 20.

Saturday, Jan. 19 The Black Rep presents The Piano Lesson, Grandel Theatre, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

James and the Giant Peach, COCA, St. Louis, 2:00 p.m.

The Repertory Theatre presents Good People, Loretto-Hilton Center Mainstage, St. Louis, 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.

The Repertory Theatre presents 4000 Miles, Loretto-Hilton Center Studio Theatre, St. Louis, 5:00 p.m.

DaVinci Machines II: The Australian Exhibition, Bank of America Plaza Building, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Runs through May 31.

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By BILL ROSEBERRY Of The Edge If you're looking for an elegant and intimate dining experience, then maybe Craft Chophouse is for you.

Craft Chophouse is new to the culinary scene in Edwardsville, opening in 2012. I recently decided to attempt a sophisticated eating adventure there with my friend Candice and enjoyed the atmosphere immensely.

From the walnut trim, to the stone pillars, to the wine wall, to the dim lighting, the ambiance is comfortable, relaxing, friendly and cosmopolitan. Our waiter was very helpful and professional, reciting us the house specials and breaking down entree choices in laymen terms.

One distinct characteristic of Craft Chophouse is having three separate menus –brunch, lunch and dinner. We visited during dinner hours, thus having to open up the pocket books for the more pricey dinner menu. The brunch and lunch menus are more reasonably priced.

I was split on the food. Both Candice and I enjoyed certain choices, others not so much. We did taste a slew of different menu items though.

I started the night with the apple braised pork belly on the appetizer menu. The fatty pork belly sat on a bed of white bean puree and was topped with caramelized apples and crisp apple chips. It was quite delicious. The sweetness of the apple blended well with the zest of the pork and the creaminess of the bean puree for a distinctive and enjoyable flavor.

Candice started with the jumbo lump crab cakes. The pair of cakes sat on a bed of frisee and arugula along with a lobster bisque sauce and was topped with flakes of Parmesan cheese. It was satisfactory. The crab cakes weren't the favorite item she ate, but the lobster bisque sauce was very tasty. Next came

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my Caesar salad. My salad was extremely fresh and delicious.

It was drizzled with a creamy garlic anchovy dressing and left me wanting more.

Finally the main courses arrived. Both of us craving steaks and myself being a consummate gentlemen, I let Candice order the 12 ounce New York strip steak while I settled for the seafood of the day. It was all in the name of culinary research for you, the reader.

The New York strip was tender and extremely succulent. All of Craft Chophouse's steaks are said to be hand selected and local.

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moisture. The longer the beef is wet-aged the more moisture it accumulates, hence why Craft Chophouse's steaks are so juicy.

I would highly recommend trying one of Craft Chophouse's signature steaks on your visit.

The seafood of the day dish couldn't compare to the steak. This dish was a concoction of stewed tomatoes, fresh cod, shrimp and salmon and topped off with garnishes and spices. I was impressed with the freshness of the fish, the salmon especially,.

As for sides, I had the truffle lobster mac and cheese, which was OK. I also received some fresh garlic toast which was very

scrumptious.

Candice got garlic mashed potatoes, sprinkled with bacon and green onions which were very delicious and I would highly recommend.

For the refined restaurant enthusiast I believe Craft Chophouse offers a unique dining experience. The three separate menus present a smorgasbord of choices. The brunch menu includes items like: a number of different quiches and omelets, a breakfast wrap, Banana Foster's French Toast, a roasted vegetable skillet and salad and sandwich selections.

The lunch menu has soups, sandwiches, salads and appetizers. The baja fish tacos and the ultimate pastrami stand out to me. Cod is used in the fish tacos, which are served in a soft tortilla with lettuce, pineapple pico de gallo and chipotle tartar sauce. The ultimate pastrami consists of thinly sliced pastrami, house slaw, whole grain mustard and creamy Swiss cheese on buttered marble rye bread.

The dinner menu really revolves around the steaks and chops at Craft Chophouse.

They take pride in their cuts of meats and from my minimal experience it shows. The cheapest chop or steak you can get is the 16 ounce "1855" Porterhouse pork chop for $24.

The most expensive is the Paprika Charred Colorado Lamb Chops priced at $48.

You will spend some money if you choose to eat dinner at Craft Chophouse. My meal was over $50 on my visit. The brunch and lunch menus are much more affordable with the most expensive item only reaching $12 on the brunch menu and the lunch menu topping out at $12 for its most expensive item, too. Brunch is only available from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sundays. Lunch is available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Craft Chophouse is closed on Mondays. Check them out online at www. craft-chophouse.com.

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4 BEDROOM house for rent in Lebanon across from McKendree College, large back yard, washer/dryer hookups 618-660-7228.

Apts/Duplexes For Rent

710

2 BR, 1.5 BA, Edw./Glen Cbn., near SIU: W/D hookups, off-st. pkng. $710 up to $745. 6926366. HSI Management Group 3 bedroom, 1 BA, 1 car garage, duplex. Glen Carbon, near WalMart. No pets. $900/mo., $900 deposit. Available now. 618278-4745.

Accepting applications for 1 bdrm unit in Edw. Fridge, stove, window AC’s furnished.

618-466-8296 / 618-530-6939

in unit. No smoking. No pets. I255/Horseshoe Lake Rd area.

618-931-4700

Apts/Duplexes For Rent

Roommates

710

Edwardsville - Silver Oaks II Bluff View, New Open Plan, 2 Bedroom W/Garage, Sec Sys, New Fitness Center, $890/mo.

618.830.2613 www.vgpart.com

2 Bdrm 1 Bth Apt ($625) Washer & Dryer Hookups Call/text Jamie 618-550-3309

Mobile Homes For Rent

MP30 PROPERTIES All utilities paid!!!

ESIC AREA 3 Bedroom 2 Bath Duplex 1 - 2 Car Garages $900 - $925 Rent 618-541-5831 or 618-558-5058

Roommates

Independent senior living, all on one level. 1 & 2 bdr available. No pets, non-smoking.

Handicapped accessible.

Liberty Square Retirement Ctr.

715

2 Bdrm, 1 bath, W/D, $550/mo.

Glen Carbon.; W/T/S; no pets: 1st + last months and security deposit. 618-780-3937.

Commercial Space For Rent 720 Barber shop, retail or office space, close to downtown on St. Louis Street. 314-574-3858.

Office Space For Rent

725

HWY 159-Maryville, 1200 SQ., 5 offices, rec area. $1050/mth (618)346-7878 www.osbornproperties.com Office space for lease at IL 157 and Center Grove Road, up to 3200sf, $2300/mth. 656-1824 meyerproperties.com

712

Roommate Wanted to live with 4 others in 5-Bedroom House.

Pool. 10 minutes from SIUE. $400/400.

Includes utilities/trash/cable/internet.

Jackie: 314/487-0237 Roommate wanted, preferably mature female $400 month.

Glen Carbon, will have own bedroom, bathroom, separate entrance. 618-610-1709.

Homes For Sale

805

Beautiful Glen Carbon Home 3 Bedroom 2.5 Bath, Finished Basement. New AC, Roof, Water Heater. 975-2186.

Granite City 4541 Walter Ave. 3bdr 2bth SF, 1150sf “fixer Share house with 3 male per- upper”. Owner financing or cash sons. Smoking environment. discount $1500 down $611mth, $67.50 weekly plus $300 803-978-1540 or 803-978-1545. deposit, utilities paid 656-0498.

Progressive Property Network Inc.

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2 bedroom apartment, Water, Sewer, Trash Paid 50 Devon Ct., Edw. 618-791-9062

712

Share large nice home with one male, will have 2 rooms and bath plus utilities paid.

Maryville 667-2025.

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1 Bd Apt $700 2 Bd Apt $825 Carpet, freshly painted. Washer & dryer on premises. Call or Available Feb. 1st 2 bedroom text Jamie 618-550-3309 2.5 bath duplex w/basement in The Orchards in Glen Carbon Quiet, 2 bed, 1.5 bath Conve$950/mth, 1st mth & dep rqr’d. niently located Montclaire area townhouse. Fully equipped No pets. 618-558-0544 kitchen, washer/dryer hookup Available Now! 2 & 3 bed$700/mth. 288-7802 rooms. Ask about our specials.

S/F DUPLEX in Esic on nice 692-9310 www.rentchp.com quiet cul-de-sac. 3BR 3BA, kit, Cottage apartment one bedscrned patio, bsmt, 1 car atchd room: great location near gar. 1-year lease, $1100/mth SIUE. New kitchen. NO pets. $1100 dep; 876-7682/410-4629 $600 month. Call 692-6110.

Two bedroom townhouse, patio Duplex: 2 BEDROOM in Glen end unit. 1 1/2 baths, w/d Carbon on quiet cul-de-sac hookup. Available now. $665 @25A Fox Meadow. Attached per month-NO PETS-1 yr lease garage. $800 mth $800 deposit.

692-7147.

Available now. 618-560-1312.

2 BDRM, 1.5 BATH TOWNHOUSE in Glen Carbon. Close to SIU & I-270. No pets. 1 year FOR RENT: LUXURY TOWNlease. $645-$675/mo. HOMES AND APARTMENTS. 2 or 3 BDRM/2 BATHS next to 618/288-9882.

Highland High School, Korte 2 Bdrm, 2 story Town House in Rec. Center & 27th Street 1100Edw., close to down town and 1300 sq. ft. These huge units easy access to bike trail. 1.5 bth. boast hardwood floors in the Laundry hookups. $675/mth. kitchen & hall. Walk-in master Trash/water incld. 618.978.2433 closets, ceiling fans throughout, 2 Bedroom 1 bath apartment full size W/D included in most with access to swimming pool. and many more amenities. $585 month. Quiet Granite City Only $695-$735/month. $500 area, 2701 Center Street. Call deposit. Call (618)830-4985.

Wilkendevelopment.com 618-219-5688 if interested.

2 BEDROOM HOME for rent.

Freshly painted, carpet. 2 BR LOFT, newly remodeled: $850/mth. 306 Buchanan. Call new kitchen, bathroom, winor text Jamie @ 618-550-3309. dows and doors. Dishwasher, 3 BDRM, 2 BATH, 1600 sq ft, w/d hook ups $695 incl wt/sw/tr 1218 Lindenwood, Edw: fncd 618/593-0173. yd, frplc, gar, frig, stove disp’l, 2 BR TH 1.5 BA. town house w/d hook-up. $1050 month. $660/mo. Quiet. Clean. Includes Look, then call 288-0048. some utilities. Washer & dryer

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Call 667-0430

2 BR, 1 Bath Glen Carbon 4BR 2.5BA, Gln Cbn wooded QUAIL HOLLOW, w/d hook-ups Large 2 bedroom townhouse in Troy: w/d hookup, off-street area; fenced; mstr ste/walk-in $675 (618)346-7878 parking, newly remodeled. closts. 2car att. gar. $1495. www.osbornproperties.com $550 per mth. 660-7228. www.simproperties.net. Call/ text 618-447-9919, 307-4876

622 S. Lincoln Ave., O’Fallon, IL www.HomesByWhitney.com Courtney 618-401-9765 • Whitney 618-779-1380

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1 or 2 Bedroom (efficiency) $550 monthly plus utilities and deposit 288-5618.

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EDWARDSVILLE - CUSTOM QUALITY 4 BEDROOM/4 BATH HAS ALL THE BELLS & WHISTLES. Open floor plan & over 4700 sq.ft. Large custom patio w/real rock water feature, wood burning fireplace, and hot tub outside. 3 car garage. $649,900

ALTON - 40 ACRE COUNTRY RETREAT. 4BR/4BA. Open floor plan, 2 story great room, gourmet kitchen w/ stainless Wolf appliances. Great for outdoor entertaining.

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IMPRESSIVE! 6BR/5BA 1.story w/beautiful views of Sunset Hills Golf Course. Well designed kit, finished walkout LL. $549,000 Edwardsville PR100704 DIANA MASSEY TEAM (618) 791-5024 (618) 791-9298

OPPORTUNITY IS KNOCKING! Custom built luxury home.

High end finishes throughout.

Priced for quick sale $299,500 Edwardsville PR100702 SANDY LANE (618) 782-7766

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ATTRACTIVE 3BR/3BA HOME in prime location. Silestone kitchen counters, SS appliances, hardwood floors. Finished bsmt. $199,900 Edwardsville PR100701 SANDY LANE (618) 782-7766

GREAT LOCATION! 4BR/4BA w/large private fenced yard. Plenty of room for growing family

SHADED BUILDING LOT in established neighborhood, near Dunlap Lake.

1025 St. Louis Street, Edwardsville $498,500 OPEN SUN. 1-3 PM DIANA MASSEY TEAM (618) 791-5024 (618) 791-9298

$34,900 Edwardsville PR100706 KAYE GREZLAK (618) 972-1771

$164,900 Edwardsville PR100705 DIANE BRANZ (618) 409-1776

CONGRATULATIONS OPEN HOUSE SUN, JAN 20, 1-3 PM OPEN HOUSE SUN, JAN 20, 1-3 PM OPEN HOUSE SUN, JAN 20, 1-3 PM OPEN HOUSE SUN, JAN 20, 1-3 PM CONGRATULATIONS JUDINE LUX (618) 531-0488 CHRIS MILLER (618) 580-6133

DIANA MASSEY TEAM (618) 791-5024 (618) 791-9298 A COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE has made these Associates a leader in the real estate market.

7008 Alston Court, Edwardsville $469,900 OPEN SUN. 1-3 PM SANDIE LAMANTIA (618) 978-2384

357 Lake Drive East, Edwardsville $449,500 OPEN SUN. 1-3 PM DIANA MASSEY TEAM (618) 791-5024 (618) 791-9298

1 Timber Stone Court, Glen Carbon $434,500 OPEN SUN. 1-3 PM DIANA MASSEY TEAM (618) 791-5024 (618) 791-9298

37 Cheshire, Maryville $269,000 OPEN SUN. 1-3 PM JEANNE HORNBERGER (618) 444-8899

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7034 Savannah Drive, Glen Carbon $263.500 OPEN SUN. 1-3 PM TODD LINNEMEYER (618) 520-5516

3124 Alexandria, Glen Carbon $219,900 OPEN SUN. 1-3 PM ADAM HORNBERGER (618) 444-8681

3154 Alexandria, Glen Carbon $219,900 OPEN SUN. 1-3 PM ADAM HORNBERGER (618) 444-8681

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CUSTOM RANCH has open floor plan, hardwood floors, SS, custom cabinetry, & finished LL. $235,000 Glen Carbon PR100646

SPACIOUS L-SHAPED KITCHEN/DINING opens to living room, 2 car oversized heated garage, corner lot. $130,950 Staunton PR100599

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105 CHATTANOOGA DR., EDWARDSVILLE SPACIOUS with polished hardwood, a roomy eat-in kit leading to screened porch, & finished LL. $329,000 TONYA CRANE (618) 709-9374

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NICE & NEAT w/updated kitchen, finished basement, & 1 car garage on corner lot. $117,000 Edwardsville PR100622

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Open Sunday 1:00 - 3:00 Hosting Agent: Donna Hart 37 Joel Drive, Glen Carbon $179,000 4BR/2.5BA brick ranch, 3 seasons room & workshop.

Open Sunday 1:00 - 3:00 Hosting Agent: Linda Shaffer 8925 Wheat Drive, Troy $304,900 1.5 Story, 4BR/3BA home with 3 car garage.

Open Sunday 1:00 - 3:00 Hosting Agent: Carrie Caton 8721 Wildewood, Worden $274,500 Lakefront 4BR/3BA with updates & walk out.

Open Sunday 1:00 - 3:00 Hosting Agent: Stan Groppel 25 Olivia Lane, Glen Carbon $225,000 4BR/3BA, inground pool!

Open Sunday 2:00 - 4:00 Hosting Agent: Roxanne Portell 6407 Oak Drive, Moro $209,900 Brick ranch 3BR/3BA, inground pool.

Open Saturday 1:00 - 3:00 Hosting Agent: Linda Wheaton 150 S. Kingdom St., Bethalto $145,000 Spacious 4BR/2BA home, move in ready!

Open Sunday 1:00 - 3:00 Hosting Agent: Carrie Brase 3247 Franklin Avenue, Granite City $134,900 Great all brick ranch home!

Open Sunday 1:00 - 3:00 Hosting Agent: Angie Daniels 2449 Hemlock, Granite City $100,000 Spacious 2 story 4BR/3BA, nice neighborhood.

Open Sunday 1:00 - 3:00 Hosting Agent: Paula Rickey 2475 Center Street, Granite City $72,900 Fabulous house at a fabulous price!

17102 Liberty Ridge, Grafton 3BR/2BA home on 15 acres of privacy! $150,000

305 OFarrell, Collinsville Quality Walk-Out Ranch with a convenient location. $144,900

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1087 Prestonwood Dr., Edwardsville Well maintained and price to sell! $299,000

1028 Hawkridge Run, Belleville Fabulous 2 story home, perfect for your growing family! $274,900

7 Greenbriar, Glen Carbon 4BR/3BA home with lakefront & wood setting. $249,900

20 Crabapple Lane, Glen Carbon Spacious open floor plan with finished lower level. $181,250

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307 Picker, Wood River Beautifully remodeled brick ranch. $95,500

2408 East 25th St. Granite City 2R/1BA home with large kitchen & study. $45,000

16385 Boxwood Court, Brighton Amazing Lot! Great Lake View! Lots of Potential! $42,900

439 Country Club View, Edwardsville Spacious Move In Ready Condo.

Great Location! $259,900

3935 Sequoia, Edwardsville Adorable 3BR/2BA in great location! $210,000

73 Julie Drive, Glen Carbon 3BR/4BA with fireplace and finished basement. $195,900

406 Vandalia, Collinsville 5BR/2BA with fabulous interior! $170,000

421 Orchard Court, Troy Updated, move in ready 3BR/2BA. $134,900

400 E. Fayette St., Bunker Hill Well maintained & updated 3BR/2BA. $124,900

600 Douglas Place, Alton Nice 3BR home with many updates. $99,900

9 Country Lane Court, Granite City All brick home w/large back yard on a cul-de-sac $89,000

660 Lincoln Avenue, East Alton 2 bedroom/1.5 bath with lots of updates. $64,900

2137 Cleveland, Granite City Single family with income potential! $57,000

363 S. Second Street, Livingston Recently updated 2BR/1BA home. $52,900

4541 Walter, Granite City 3 bedroom/2 bath home with patio & fenced yard. $38,500

1013 S. Church, Belleville 2 bedroom brick combo home with Sunroom! $31,500

15554 Rita, Gillespie 1 bedroom/1 bath home in Gillespie. $29,000

609 E. Garfield, Belleville 4 bedroom/2 bath home with fenced yard. $26,500

7357 Providence Rd., Edwardsville This is a custom built jewel box, 4BR/4BA! $400,000

6C Glen Ed Professional Park C, Glen Carbon COMMERCIAL: Great location with lots of parking! $99,500

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535 Veteran’s Parkway, Livingston Mini Mart, auto shop with 3 fuel tanks, 1 diesel tank & 2 stock rooms near I-55! $400,000

214 S. Main Street, Edwardsville 1,321 SF retail/office space with high visibility. $142,500

1352 Biscay, Edwardsville Spacious lakefront 4BR/5BA home. $279,900

Lots & Acreage

xxx Blackburn Rd., Edwardsville Level 15.58 acres, interstate access. $1,500,000 xxx Fairmont Ave., Collinsville 23.25 acres +/close to major highways. $1,100,000 xxx Libra Rd, New Douglas Quiet, wooded 9 acres.

Close to interstate. $77,400

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77 Kingsley Way, Glen Carbon One of the last lots in prestigious Fields Crossing! $62,500 3503 Boomerang Dr. (lot 5), Marine Level, cleared 2 acre building lot. $44,900 0 North Union, Staunton Almost 3/4 an acre on the edge of town. $25,000

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2734 Route 66 Business Park, Edw. Prime commercial lot off I-270.

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724 W. Hwy. 50, O’Fallon Almost 1/2 acre site on corner lot at busy intersection near 3 other businesses. $279,000

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889 Malibu Way, Edwardsville 1 acre lakefront, 4BR/2BA! $274,900

700 Block-Washington Ave., Alton 23 Acres of land zoned residential.

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