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The Old Courthouse African American Heritage Month.

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Exhibit open at the Saint Louis Science Center.

5 Cupid's Undie Run Fundraiser coming to St. Louis.

11 "La La Land"

Film makes Oscar history.

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Black Creativity program.

13 Art in Bloom

Saint Louis Art Museum favorite returns.

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Great Artist Series Bliss to kick off program.

Friday February 10_______ • Road to Pointfest 2017 S:3 Rd:1, Pop's, Sauget, Doors 6:30 p.m.

• Capre Diem feat: Peerless, The New Romans, OTGR, and more, Cicero's, University City, Doors 8:00 p.m.

• PhuturePrimitve, w/Kevin Shpacey, The Ready Room, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

• Valentine'sDay with Eric Bode, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

• Something Rotten!, The Fabulous Fox Theater, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs until February 19, 2017 • Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until July 16, 2017 • 50 Years Of Blood, Sweat And Cheers- A Tribute to The St. Louis Blues, St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs until March 4, 2017 • Love Jones- The Musical, Fabulous Fox Theater, St. Louis, 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

• The Specialist, Holocaust Museum & Learning Center Theater, St. Louis, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

• Beauty and the Beast, Touhill Performing Arts Center, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

• The Ugly Duckling, Coca, St. Louis, 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

• Textiles: Politics and Patriotism,

Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 5, 2017 • New Media Ser ies: Dar a Birnbaum, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

• Until The Flood: Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Loretto-Hilton Center, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.to 11:00 p.m.

• Follies: The Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Loretto-Hilton Center, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

• Mark Bradford, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

• Kings, Queens, and Castles, World Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

• Little Black Dress: From Mournin to Night, The Missouri History Museum, St. Louis • Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until July 16, 2017 • Self-Taught Genius: Treasures f ro m t h e A m e r i c a n F o l k A r t Museum, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Saturday February 11_______ • Wayside, Codework, Tyler Samuels, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 6:00 p.m.

• Marleyfest 10, feat. The Murder City Band w/special guests, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

• Road to Pointfest 2017 Session 1 Finals, Pop's, Sauget, Doors 6:30 p.m.

• Every Time I Die, w/Knocked Loose, Harm's Way, Eternal Sleep, The Ready Room, St. Louis, Doors 6:00 p.m.

• Valentine'sDay with Eric Bode, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

• I t ' s O n l y L o v e , To u h i l l Performing Arts Center, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

• Something Rotten!, The Fabulous Fox Theater, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs until February 19, 2017 • Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until July 16, 2017 • 50 Years Of Blood, Sweat And Cheers- A Tribute to The St. Louis Blues, St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs until March 4, 2017 • Love Jones- The Musical, Fabulous Fox Theater, St. Louis, 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

• The Specialist, Holocaust Museum & Learning Center Theater, St. Louis, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

• Beauty and the Beast, Touhill Performing Arts Center, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

• The Ugly Duckling, Coca, St. Louis, 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

• Textiles: Politics and Patriotism, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 5, 2017

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The statue of Dred and Harriet Scott outside the Old Courthouse in St. Louis.

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n weekends during February 2017, Old Courthouse in downtown St. Louis hosts special programs and events that spotlight history in St. Louis during African American Heritage Month.

Dred Scott Portrait Painting Workshops Saturdays, February 4, 11 and 18; 1:00 p.m.

Discover important history contributing to the American Civil War while creating art. Visitors will work with Park Ranger Tony Gilpin, a professional artist, to contribute to an oil painting of Dred Scott and learn about Mr. Scott’s lawsuit for freedom from slavery. The image is based on one of the few surviving images of Mr. Scott from the period. Supplies will be provided.

Reenactment of the Dred and Harriet Scott Case Saturdays and Sundays, February 4, 5, 11, 12, 18 & 19; 2:00 p.m.

The enslaved Scott family—including Dred, Harriet, and their daughters—sued for their freedom from slavery prior to the Civil War. In one of the Old Courthouse’s restored courtrooms, rangers will facilitate a mock trial, and participants will read printed scripts, taking on the roles of the people involved in Mr. and Mrs. Scott’s 1850 trial.

The USAF Band of Mid-America’s Mobility Brass

Quintet Concert Saturday, February 11; noon Join us in the Old Courthouse Rotunda for a blend of inspiration and entertainment that includes jazz standards, patriotic favorites and more. This component of the United States Air Force Band will appeal to the entire family, with a repertoire spanning five centuries, highlighting the rich diversity of American musical styles.

America’s Greatest Composer: Duke Ellington Saturday, February 18; noon Relying on his experience leading the United States Air Force Band, Park Ranger Steve Frioux leads us down a historic musical path. Utilizing his trombone and years of study, Ranger Frioux connects us to Duke Ellington’s astounding five-decade career.

ARCH TRAM RIDES SUSPENSION REMINDER Journey to the Top tram rides at the Gateway Arch are temporarily suspended to replace the motor generator sets and upgrade the tram’s electrical system. The Visitor Center, The Arch Store, Monument to the Dream documentary film and riverfront via the Arch Grand Staircase remain available to visitors during this time.

Tram rides will resume in spring 2017. Please note: During the temporary suspension of tram operations, entrance to the Arch Visitor Center is free, and tickets are not required.

PARKING AND ROAD CLOSURES REMINDER A list of downtown St. Louis parking locations within

walking distance of the Old Courthouse is available at http://getaroundstl.com. Metered street parking is also available around the Old Courthouse. Visitors are encouraged to check www.gatewayarch.com/directions for up-to-date information on road detours and construction news before their visit.

FOR MORE INFORMATION Visit www.nps.gov/jeff or www.gatewayarch.com; or call 877-982-1410. Reservations are not required, but large groups should call 314-655-1614 to alert the Old Courthouse of their attendance.

ABOUT: The Gateway Arch and the Old Courthouse are part of Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, located on the riverfront in downtown St. Louis.

The Gateway Arch Visitor Center features The Arch Store and Monument to the Dream documentary movie.

The Visitor Center is open daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in th e winter. Th e O ld Cour th ouse which f eatures restored courtrooms and gallery exhibits about the Dredd Scott trials, westward expansion and early St. Louis, is open daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The park is closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas Day and New Year ’s Day. The Courthouse is located at 11 North Fourth Street, St. Louis, MO 63102.

Programs are free and made possible by the generous support from Jefferson National Parks Association and Bi-State Development.

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Saint Louis Science Center

Pictured are three scenes of the activities involved in MathAlive!, an exhibit now open at the Saint Louis Science Center.

comes to the Science Center For The Edge Raytheon is presenting MathAlive! at the Saint Louis Science Center.

This 5,000-square-foot exhibit brings to life all of the different types of mathematics at work, whether in design, application or use, behind the things kids love most -- video

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games, sports, design, music, entertainment, space and robotics.

The exhibition uses immersive and innovative technologies to create fun experiences that help visitors understand how math is used in countless ways. This free special exhibition is designed to answer the age-old question: “Will I ever use all this math they’re teaching me?”

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This interactive exhibition explores diverse themes: Outdoor Action: Adventure Sports Future Style: Style and Design Kickin’ It: Entertainment Game Plan: Video Games and Other Games Robotics and Space.

The Saint Louis Science Center is located at 5050 Oakland Avenue in St. Louis.

For more information, visit www.slsc.org.

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Pictured are participants from past Cupid's Undie Runs.

Cupid's Undie Run coming to St. Louis For The Edge Do something different this February and strip down for charity at the annual Cupid’s Undie Run! The world's largest organized undie run takes place across 37 U.S. cities in February, with thousands of Americans braving the cold in their b e d ro o m b e s t t o r a i s e a w a re n e s s a n d funds for neurofibromatosis (NF)

research.

The valentine’s themed event includes a massive party and a 1 mile fun run, for a great cause.

Cupid’s Undie Run is the flagship event for Cupid Charities with all net proceeds benefiting the Children’s Tumor Foundation. Participants pay a registration fee and fundraise to earn amazing prizes, with rewards from

sponsors and partners such as MeUndies, Bombas and S’well Bottles.

The movement has grown exponentially since its inception in 2010 with 600 participants in DC, with last year ’s run pulling in donations of $3,700,000 across 36 cities. This year the event takes on 47 cities around the globe with the goal of raising over $4 million for charity!

The St. Louis event is scheduled Feb.

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Noon – Doors open & the party starts!

1:00 PM – Awards ceremony 2:00 PM – UNDIE RUN 3:30 PM – Earned open bar closes 4:00 PM – Bag check closes, Cupid’s officially ends To register or find out more, visit http:// cupidsundierun.org

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People People planner Build Benld to host second dance Build Benld is at it again. So many people have asked about the last dance, they've planned another one. The “Coliseum Revisited Dance” is going to be held on Saturday, February 25, 2017. Rich Lang & Gary McClain (formerly The Guild!) and the OWLZ BAND will be playing.

“The Guild was the stuff of great legend,” said Tom Allan, Chairman of the Build Benld Committee, “and Build Benld/Colseum Concertrs and Ubben & Associates is making an effort to once more relive those days. The response to Lang & McClain's surprise guest appearance at last year's 'Memories of the Coliseum' Show was so well received that Build Benld has planned another one.

We don't want the Coliseum to be forgotten, and this is our way to keep the memories alive. Everybody loved the Coliseum and the time spent there.... and they all loved The Guild.”

There are advance tickets sales only with limited seating for this dance. Tickets cost $20 per person and are available to purchase at TJs, Country Corner, and FNB in Benld, Benld City Hall, and Hick Appliances, and United Community Bank in Gillespie – or by phone contact Lynn at 217-835-2330 or Norman 217-835-2130.

Tickets may be purchased at these locations, and can be mailed by calling one of the above Build Benld Committee Members.

The Gillespie Civic Center doors will open at 6pm on Saturday, February 25th. Tickets are $20 per person that includes Cash Bar with Beer, Wine, and Setups – Bring Your Own Liquor and Snacks. Live music starts at 7pm with the OWLZ BAND, a five piece band from the Alton area that plays Chicago, Moody Blues, The Eagles, Mellencamp, Michael McDonald +, playing all of your old favorites. Around 830pm Lang and McClain will take the stage for the rest of the evening (till 11pm). Allan said, “They will be playing many of The Guild's old favorites from the past, and some surprises are planned as well.”

Admission is by advance Ticket Only. No Refunds. No General Admission at Door. Event sponsored by Benld Benld, Coliseum Concerts and Ubben & Associates.

Antiques Roadshow coming to St. Louis

Our certified, flat, fast course is ideal for setting PRs, marathon training runs & the first time half marathoner. It showcases the mighty Mississippi, historic Alton and takes runners across the spectacular Clark Bridge. Open to all ages. Register @altonhalf.com

Fans of Antiques Roadshow, one of the most popular shows airing on the Nine Network, can apply now through April 10 to have their items appraised at an all-day event on Saturday, July 8. Three one-hour episodes will be produced from the St. Louis appraisal event and will be aired in 2018. Antiques Roadshow, the 14-time Emmy Award nominated show, airs Mondays on Nine Network at 7 p.m. Central.

Admission to Antiques Roadshow is free, but tickets are required and must be obtained in advance. Fans can apply now for a chance to receive one pair of free tickets per household. To find out more information and to find a link to apply for tickets, visit http://www.pbs.org/antiques/tickets/.

Following the deadline, ticket winners will be selected at random by a third party and contacted via an email containing their tickets.

“The Nine Network couldn’t be happier to welcome back Antiques Roadshow for the first time in over 15 years,” said Nine Network President and CEO Jack Galmiche. “It’s consistently one of our most-watched shows and gives us a chance to host an event we know our viewers are extremely excited about.”

Antiques Roadshow is also accepting furniture submissions for the 2017 tour. The series is looking for a few pieces of furniture to appraise and display on the set. Selected pieces will be transported to the event and back at no cost to the owner. For more details visit: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/ roadshow/furniture/.

The Nine Network’s own Antiques Roadshow-style event, Trash or Treasure, a partnership with the Kodner Gallery, regularly draws large crowds for appraisals in more than 20 categories. The annual event gives fans another chance to determine the worth of their most prized possessions.

Explore St. Louis guides now available Explore St. Louis is pleased to announce the release of the 2017 Official St. Louis Visitors Guide offering visitors the latest information on what to see and do to plan a St. Louis adventure. The guide is filled with suggestions on great places to eat, shop, play and stay in St. Louis and across the region.

Additionally, the guide highlights what’s new to St. Louis in 2017, including overviews on some of St. Louis’ unique neighborhoods, the CityArchRiver project that is transforming the grounds surrounding the historic Gateway Arch, the booming urban arts scene throughout the region, a look at St. Louis breweries, and a glimpse at what St. Louis has to offer music lovers. There’s also a glance at the Saint Louis Science Center ’s The Discovery of King Tut exhibit, the newly unveiled 4,000-square-foot expansion of the Field House Museum, the debut of the Loop Trolley and St. Louis’ newest concert venue, Delmar Hall.

Approximately 350,000 copies of the 100-page magazinestyle, full-color brochure have been printed and are being distributed across the country. Visitors can view the digital version of the guide at www.explorestlouis.com or pick up a copy of the guide at one of Explore St. Louis’ visitor centers located throughout the area, at the Old Courthouse; America’s Center convention complex; and at the Dennis and Judith Jones Visitor & Education Center in Forest Park. There are two additional centers at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, located by the baggage claim area on the lower levels of Terminal 1 and Terminal 2.

Explore St. Louis is the driving force behind St. Louis’ $5 billion convention and tourism industry, the official destination marketing organization of St. Louis City and County and operator of the America’s Center Convention Complex.

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People People planner Ben Morgan & Band to appear at brewery On April 1, break-out country music artist and native St. Louisan Ben Morgan & Band will headline the Budweiser Prsents Live ON-Stage @ The Biergarten concert event at the AnheuserBusch Biergarten, with opening act Jeremiah Johnson Band.

The concert will feature songs from Ben Morgan’s album Sweet History, which will be released in February, including the title track “Sweet History” and “Age is a State of Mind,” which have been pre-released and are both currently available for download on all major music platforms, including iTunes / Apple Music, Amazon Music, Google Play and Spotify.

General admission, VIP and Screen Package tickets for the concert event are on sale now at biergarten.tix.com. All ticket purchases include a free download of the Sweet History album.

The Anheuser-Busch St. Louis Brewery and Tour Center is the company’s flagship beer hospitality experience, and it’s continually ranked as one of the best brewery tours in the country. The concert will be held at The Biergarten, which is located outside the Tour Center at 12th and Lynch Streets in Soulard.

Concert-goers will be able to taste Anheuser-Busch’s great beer and food, all while listening to the sounds of Ben Morgan & Band.

The Ben Morgan sound reflects a c o u n t r y b a s e , f l a v o re d b y Southern rock and blues influences.

Ben's vocals and guitar solos highlight a stirring combination of driving songs and thoughtful ballads. Song titles from his new album include “Sweet History,” “Age is a State of Mind,” “Wrong From Right,” “Famous in a Small Town,” “Slow Dancing in the Sun,” “Rail Whiskey” and “Getting Out for the Night.” His sound features ambitious guitar riffs and meaningful lyrics, singer/ songwriter ballads, traditional feelgood country melodies, and driving guitar-powered tunes.

For more information about Ben Morgan, visit benmorganmusic.com, facebook.com/benmorganmusic, twitter.com/benmorganmusic and instagram.com/benmorganmusic/.

Zoo offers Valentine adoptions Pop up and take a look around— it’s almost Valentine’s Day! Adopt a burrowing beauty—a black-tailed prairie dog from the Saint Louis Zoo—for someone you love.

For $45, including shipping and handling, the Saint Louis Zoo will deliver the adoption package to anyone in the continental United States. Proceeds go directly toward the care and feeding of the animals.

The package includes a 12-inch plush prairie dog (while supplies last) and a valentine card from you, personalized adoption certificate, color photo with animal facts, car decal, name on the Zoo Parents Donor Wall and Zoo website for one year, and an invitation to the Zoo Parents Picnic.

To a d o p t t h e p r a i r i e d o g , order online at stlzoo.org/ ValentineAdoption, call (314) 6464771 or stop by a Welcome Desk at the north or south entrance of the Zoo. Save $5 when you purchase and pick up your adoption package at the Zoo. Online and phone orders must

be made by Feb. 1 to ensure Feb. 14 delivery. Walk-in orders are available through Feb. 14.

These highly social rodents live in western grasslands in large underground colonies or “towns.”

Their system of underground tunnels helps protect them from coyotes and other predators. Unlike some prairie dogs, the black-tailed prairie dog doesn’t hibernate in winter unless the weather is extreme. A family group, known as a coterie, is comprised of one adult male and three to four adult females with young.

Alton Brown to appear at The Fox Television personality, author and Food Network star Alton Brown has announced “Alton Brown Live: Eat Your Science” (www.altonbrownlive.com) will visit an additional 40 cities in 2017 including St. Louis’ Fabulous Fox Theatre on Sunday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m. Later this year during Thanksgiving week, Brown will make his Broadway debut for eight performances at the Barrymore Theatre. Brown created a new form of entertainment – the live culinary variety show – with his “Edible Inevitable Tour”, which played in over 100 cities with more than 150,000 fans in attendance. The first leg of Eat Your Science sold 100,000 tickets in the 40 cities Brown visited.

Tickets are $60, $50, $40 and are available online at metrotix.com, by calling 314-534-1111, or in person at the Fabulous Fox Box Office.

Brown says fans can expect “all-new everything including songs, new comedy, new puppets, and bigger and better potentially dangerous food demonstrations.”

Critics and fans have raved about the interactive components of B ro w n ’ s s h o w s . H e p ro m i s e s “plenty of new therapy inducing opportunities during our audience participation segments. I don’t want to give too much away, but this time we’re going to play a little game.”

Brown has a knack for mixing together science, music and food into two hours of pure entertainment. “Plus, you’ll see things I’ve never been allowed to do on TV.” Brown, author of the James Beard award winning “I’m Just Here for the Food” and New York Times bestselling sequence “Good Eats,” is releasing his new cookbook through Ballantine Books (an imprint of Random House) on September 27 and it is available for preorder now. “Alton Brown: EveryDayCook”, or EDC as Brown calls it, is a collection of more than 100 personal recipes as well as a pinch of science and history.

He has hosted numerous series including “Cutthroat Kitchen,” “Camp Cutthroat” and “Iron Chef America” and created, produced and hosted the Peabody award

winning series “Good Eats” for 13 years on Food Network; Good Eats can still be seen on the Cooking Channel and Netflix.

Information about Alton Brown or the Eat Your Science tour can be found on Facebook: /altonbrown; Twitter: @altonbrown; Instagram: @ altonbrown; or use the tour hashtag #AltonBrownLive.

Those with an appetite for more Alton Brown can find additional show and ticketing information at www.altonbrownlive.com.

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People planner Events planned in Alton area The Alton Regional Convention & Visitors Bureau has announced the following events.information, call (636) 899-0090.

Bald Eagle Days at Pere Marquette State Park Wednesday, Feb. 15 Tuesday, Feb. 21 Saturday, Feb. 25 Friday, March 03 Starting at 8:30am Pere Marquette State Park 13112 Visitor Center Lane Grafton, IL 62037 A site interpreter at Pere Marquette State Park will be presenting informative programs about bald eagles this w i n t e r. Vi s i t o r s w i l l l e a r n t o distinguish between immature a n d m a t u re b a l d e a g l e s , w h a t eagles eat, why they spend winter months in the area and much more. All programs will begin at the park's visitor center at 8:30 a.m. Reservations a re re q u i re d . T h e re w i l l b e a short video presentation followed by an observational drive to view the wintering bald eagles. Please dress warmly and have a full tank o f g a s . F o r m o re i n f o r m a t i o n or reservations, call (618) 7863323.

Live Bald Eagles at TreeHouse Wildlife Center S a t u rd a y, F e b . 11 – S u n d a y, Feb. 12 Sat u rd a y, Feb. 1 8 – S u n d a y, Feb. 19 Sat u rd a y, Feb. 2 5 – S u n d a y, Jan. 26 10:00 am to 3:00 pm TreeHouse Wildlife Center 23956 Green Acres Road Dow, IL 62022 (618) 466-2990 There will be live bald eagles every weekend in January and F e b r u a r y a t t h e Tr e e H o u s e Wildlife Center. Free admission.

Donations are appreciated. For more information, call (618) 4662990.

Family Eagle Watching Day Saturday, February 11, 2017 12:00pm to 4:00pm Two Rivers National Wildlife Refuge HCR 82 Box 107 Brussels, IL 62013 Vi s i t Tw o R i v e r s N a t i o n a l Wildlife Refuge to learn about bald eagles and how to watch

for them, and then venture out to watch for eagles with a refuge r a n g e r. E d u c a t i o n a l a c t i v i t i e s and presentations will be available at the visitor center.

For more information, call 618883-2524 or visit the refuge website for event details.

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QuickGlance Movie Reviews

"Toni Erdmann"

"Toni Erdmann " is a hard film to love, but that might be the point. The German movie from the clearly talented and incisive writer/director Maren Ade seems like it should be a comedy — the lightly plotted character study is about a father trying to introduce some chaos into his adult daughter's overworked life — but it's far too cutting and uncomfortable to generate much joy.

It all hinges on how you view the father, Winifried, played by actor Peter Simonischek. Winifried is a hearty-looking man, likely in his 60s, who has a mop of unruly gray hair and a penchant for what might generously be described as pranks. He keeps a set of fake teeth in his shirt pocket which he'll pop in from time to time when he wants to take on one of his personas. He'll do this with delivery people, strangers, his mother and his extended family. But those on the receiving end never seem all that amused by Winifried's antics. Strangers don't quite know what to do with him, and his family just kind of disregard his oddities through clenched teeth. Both kinds of interactions can be almost painful to watch and even after two viewings I can't get a handle on how the movie wants us to see him, especially once he decides to concentrate all of his efforts on his 30-something daughter, Ines (Sandra Hüller).

RATED: R by the Motion Picture Association of America for "strong sexual content, graphic nudity, language and brief drug use."

RUNNING TIME: 162 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three stars out of four.

"Hidden Figures"

Theodore Melfi's buoyant "Hidden Figures" is an oldfashioned feel-good movie with powerful contemporary relevance, spearheaded by a trio of unstoppable actresses playing black women who wouldn't be stopped.

Set in 1961 Virginia, the fact-based "Hidden Figures," adapted from Margot Lee Shetterly's non-fiction book, is about three peripheral characters at NASA who made important contributions to the space race. Their workplace, at Langley, is segregated (with separate bathrooms and drinking fountains) and the offices are uniformly run by white males in suits.

But the talent and smarts of mathematician Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), budding engineer Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae) and computer supervisor Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) are becoming impossible to ignore.

Metaphors are all around. While rockets lift off, the women of "Hidden Figures" strive for their own upward movement.

Arithmetic surrounds them, but they're continuously underestimated.

"That's NASA for you. Fast with rocket ships, slow with advancement," says Kirsten Dunst's manager.

Johnson is pulled out of a pool of computers (human ones, though a room-sized IBM makes a late appearance) and brought into the all-white rocket center to check the trajectories and calculations of the scientists rushing to match Sputnik and lift John Glenn (Glen Powell) into space. Their leader is Al Harrison (a fine, scenechewing Kevin Costner), who compassionately responds to Johnson's rise.

But "Hidden Figures," punctuated by bright original songs

by Pharrell Williams (who also collaborated with Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch on the score), avoids many of the typical notes of a civil rights drama and keeps its focus on its three indomitable leads and their characters' private lives. Nobody would mistake it for a deeply complicated examination of segregation and no one will wonder if Melfi's film is going to end on a high note.

RATED: PG by the Motion Picture Association of America for "thematic elements and some language."

RUNNING TIME: 126 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three stars out of four.

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"I, Daniel Blake"

Just like a Michael Moore documentary, there's nothing subtle about a Ken Loach drama.

The 80-year-old British director and social critic has long been an ardent, insistent, eloquent champion of the more vulnerable members of society — particularly working-class folks who are trying to do the right thing but just can't catch a break. Whether he's exploring homelessness, poverty or other social ills, Loach's arguments, and emotions, are always crystal clear.

Loach has been making movies for a half-century — some more effective than others — but he's in beautiful form with "I, Daniel Blake," a searing look at one man's seemingly futile fight against the British welfare system, against the encroachment of technology into our lives, and most of all, against the forces that can conspire to make people feel small and insignificant and, well, not human.

There are moments when "I, Daniel Blake" — which won the Palme D'Or at Cannes — feels like a documentary, and that's largely due to the pitch-perfect cast Loach has assembled, from star Dave Johns — a comedian who is occasionally funny here but also proud, anguished and increasingly angry — down to those with the smallest parts: a security guard, a food bank employee, a kind-hearted worker at an employment office.

RATED: R by the Motion Picture Association of America "for language."

RUNNING TIME: 100 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three stars out of four.

"Live by Night"

Ben Affleck is no doubt an ambitious and tasteful filmmaker, but he's gotten himself in a bit of hot water with the bloated period gangster epic "Live by Night ."

It looks and sounds right and all the elements are there: A conflicted anti-hero with a granite jaw, a fast-talkin', two-timin' moll, crooked cops, and a sweaty loyal partner.

There's the one-last-job-gone-awry, some rum-running, a few epic shootouts and the big questions about whether or not our man has become everything he swore he wouldn't.

It seems like enough to hold audience interest for a few hours, but somehow even with all that going for it (not to mention a parade of recognizable faces), "Live by Night" is dull as sin.

The story is adapted by Affleck from a Dennis Lehane novel of the same name. Lehane is the author of the source material for some good to great films like "Mystic River," ''Shutter Island" and Affleck's first stab at directing, "Gone Baby Gone." It was a decent gamble that "Live by Night" would be pretty good, too.

Affleck has put himself front and center here as the lead, Joe Coughlin, a once good man who became jaded after serving in World War I. He came back to his hometown of Boston, where his father (Brendan Gleeson) is the Police Chief, with the intention of never answering to anyone. We don't ever see Joe as a standup citizen, only robbing banks and sleeping with Emma Gould (Sienna Miller), the mistress of the town's most notorious mob boss Albert White (Robert Glenister). Naturally as soon as Emma and Joe decide to skip town and find a new life somewhere warm (where they come so close to saying that they'll "live by night" it's almost annoying that they don't), things take a turn and Joe is left beaten to a pulp, imprisoned and alone. When he gets out, revenge against Albert White is the only thing on his mind, so he heads to Florida to work for a rival.

RATED: R by the Motion Picture Association of America for "strong violence, language throughout, and some sexuality/ nudity."

RUNNING TIME: 128 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Two stars out of four.

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"The Founder"

Ketchup, mustard, two pickles. In John Lee Hancock's "The Founder," about Ray Kroc and the making of McDonald's, the ingredients for success are ruthlessly simple.

When Kroc (Michael Keaton), a struggling traveling salesmen selling milkshake mixers, first beelines to San Bernardino, California, in 1954 to get a look at Dick (Nick Offerman) and Mac (John Carroll Lynch) McDonald's burger joint, he stands agog at the counter. Moments after he orders, Kroc is handed his burger and fries in a bag, but he might as well have been flame-grilled by lightning. "But I just ordered," he stutters.

Kroc quickly recognizes the revolutionary power of the McDonalds' restaurant and becomes its franchise-driver and the pre-eminent proselytizer of an empire built on burgers. The arches, an invention of Dick's just like its other innovations, will spread "from sea to shining sea," Kroc vows.

As a gathering place for families, it will be "the new American church, open seven days a week," he says.

"It requires a certain kind of mind to see the beauty in a hamburger bun," wrote David Halberstam of the minds behind McDonalds in "The Fifties." Of course, the genius behind McDonald's lied largely with Dick McDonald, who engineered the "speedee service system" of its assembly linelike kitchen, designed its layout and focused its tiny menu.

But the ironically titled "The Founder" is not about him. It's about Kroc, a hard-drinking, slightly shifty Illinois salesman who took the idea of the McDonalds and spread it around the world through sheer (and sometimes unscrupulous) force of will and savvy standardization. In the opening scenes, Kroc, struggling to eke out a living on the road, faithfully listens to Norman Vincent Peale's "The Power of Positive Thinking." ''Persistence, determination alone are all powerful," Kroc absorbs.

"The Founder" is a quintessentially post-war American story about a self-made man largely made by others.

RATED: PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for "brief strong language."

RUNNING TIME: 115 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three stars out of four.

"The Red Turtle"

When was the last time an animated film actual lowered your pulse rate?

In its typical Hollywood form, an animated feature is usually the cinematic equivalent of a sugar rush — a frantic barrage of colors and movement and jokes and sounds.

It's safe to say that "The Red Turtle," a fortuitous collaboration between Japan's famed Studio Ghibli and Dutch animator-director Michael Dudok de Wit, is very, very different. A fable, beautifully drawn in calm, soothing colors, it doesn't even have dialogue, let alone a throbbing soundtrack. Those sounds you hear are the sounds of silence, and eventually they become hypnotic.

As Dudok de Wit tells it, he received an email out of the blue in 2006 from the vaunted animation studio, asking if he'd be interested in working on his first feature (the director is known for his animated shorts.) He was, and he came up with the story of a man cast away on a deserted island.

The director's research took him to his own deserted island, in the Seychelles, where he shot thousands of photographs. He wanted to recreate the feeling of how time stands still in such a place. He spent nine years creating that animated world. And you can tell.

The film begins with a roiling sea. A man is lost in the waves; we don't know how he got there. Finally, he washes up on a tranquil island, inhabited seemingly only by a few friendly crabs on the beach.

RATED: PG by the Motion Picture Association of America "for some thematic elements and peril."

RUNNING TIME: 80 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three stars out of four.

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This image released by Lionsgate shows Ryan Gosling, right, and Emma Stone in a scene from, "La La Land."

"La La Land" makes Oscar history

By JAKE COYLE Associated Press H i s t o r y w a s m a d e a c ro s s Tu e s d a y ' s 8 9 t h a n n u a l A c a d e m y Aw a r d s n o m i n a t i o n s , w h e re t h e re t ro m u s i c a l "La La Land" reaped a record-tying 14 nominations and a wave of AfricanAmerican films, led by the luminous coming-of-age portrait "Moonlight," resoundingly toppled two straight years of "so white" Oscars.

The twin forces — Damien Chazelle's candy-colored love letter to musicals and a broad group of diverse films that also included Denzel Washington's fiery August Wilson adaptation "Fences" and the uplifting African-American mathematician

tale "Hidden Figures" — dominated the nominations .

The 14 nods for "La La Land," including best picture, best actress for Emma Stone, best actor for Ryan Gosling and best director for Chazelle, matched the record hauls of 1997's "Titanic" and 1950's "All About Eve." A disoriented Chazelle, speaking by phone from Beijing, said, "All that I have in my head is 'thank you' a million times over."

Also a record: the six black actors nominated, including "Fences" stars Washington and Viola Davis, Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris of "Moonlight," Ruth Negga of "Loving" and Octavia Spencer of "Hidden Figures." Dev Patel, the BritishIndian star of "Lion," was also nominated, making it seven actors of color nominated out

of 20.

It made for a stark contrast to the last two years of all-white acting nominees, a disparity that prompted widespread outrage throughout the film industry and led academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs to revamp the academy's membership.

Jenkins, who was nominated for directing and adapted screenplay, said the eight nominations for "Moonlight" and those for other films showed that people were eager to put themselves in the shoes of others.

"Moonlight," ''Fences" and "Hidden Figures" were each nominated for best picture.

"I love the American film industry and to see it this year, I feel, really reflect the world that we all live and work in, it gives me hope," Jenkins said by phone from Amsterdam. "It

heartens me. There's a lot of work being done to make this year not be an anomaly."

Nine films out of a possible ten were nominated for best picture. The others were: Denis Villeneuve's cerebral alien thriller "Arrival," Kenneth Lonergan's New England family drama "Manchester by the Sea," the West Texas heist thriller "Hell or High Water," the "Lion," and Mel Gibson's World War II drama "Hacksaw Ridge."

Redemption was everywhere: for a previously diversity-deficient Oscars, for the old-fashioned musical and even for the longshunned Gibson. Days after the birth of his ninth child, the "Hacksaw Ridge" director was also unexpectedly nominated for best director over the likes of Martin Scorsese ("Silence") and Clint Eastwood ("Sully").

"Gold" doesn't live up to the standard

By ROBERT GRUBAUGH For The Edge A sane-minded movie critic could easily become frustrated and be driven crazy trying to follow the career of Matthew McConaughey, a talented figure with an Oscar on his resume, w h o s e l a s t ro l e w a s p l a y i n g a showman koala. For every genuine gem like "Dallas Buyers Club" in his filmography there is a "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" that haunts his earlier days as a playboy lead for hire. I loved "Free State of Jones" last year, but "Gold" perplexes me. What would cause a svelte and handsome actor to go paunchy and bald (well, a 'skullet')? Only full commitment to a role that he felt was substantial, I suppose. And that's the problem with "Gold", it's

a meaty role in a thin film, one that is undeserving of his talent and one of the few occasions I would ever say that a two-hour running time was too brief. I was let down by a movie that once had a plum Christmas Day opening date and that was pushed at the last minute.

Never a good sign.

"Gold" is loosely based on the Bre-X mining scandal from the mid-1990s, but it's so tangentially related that it hardly follows t h e s a m e p ath. K e nny We lls (McConaughey) is a prospector for his granddaddy's mining corporation out of Reno. He's a wide-eyed dreamer who's thrilled to take the reins from his father when the time comes to lead mineral location into the 21st Century. But the late '80s are harsh for Kenny. He's down to his last dime and a joke in

his industry when he blows off to Indonesia in search of Mike Acosta (Edgar Ramirez), a hot hand looking for his own second act resurgence. Together the two set out into the thickest of jungles, build a mine, work to f i n d i n d i g e n o u s l a b o r, c h a i n smoke Marlboros, get laid back by malaria, and strike it rich with the biggest mother lode of the day.

Their gold mine is producing results that get some attention from Wall Street, investors, all their dependents back in the civilized world, and the media.

A rumored $30 billion in assets has a way of doing that! But it happens so quickly - a rocket ship success, as the movie calls it - that you see a house of cards starting to sway. Just as soon as their ship comes in, fraud is rumored and Mike disappears.

Kenny, left holding the bag, is vilified and implicated by everyone, including his fiancé and biggest fan (Bryce Dallas Howard). His billions disappear.

His shares of the company he called into existence are suddenly worthless shells that Mike had been selling out from under him all along. The FBI investigates.

Tyrants try to nationalize the claim, but there's nothing to be had. It's all gone just as quickly as it comes. And that's where the real problem with this movie is.

It's got no substance.

You could make an argument that "Gold" is a good companion piece to "Wolf of Wall Street", another McConaughey picture f ro m 2 0 1 3 . B o t h f e a t u re t h e yuppie obsession with wealth in the glorious "greed is good" days of poorly-regulated 1980s,

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but "Gold" tries to be more noble. In the middle scenes, Kenny is recognized for being the best in his profession and he quotes poetically in tribute to his dreamer brethren. "Wolf" never pretended any of its characters were good people or working to do something beyond making a buck. And yet it was m o re e n t e r t a i n i n g . E v e n t h e supporting "villains" in this one (Corey Stoll, Bruce Greenwood) are lame. And Kenny's drunken dalliances are rather timid, even when skinny-dipping with " i n v e s t o r re l a t i o n s s p e c i a l i s t " Rachael Taylor. You have my permission to skip it.

"Gold" runs 121 minutes and is rated R for language throughout and some sexuality/nudity. I give this film one star out of four.

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The Innovation Studio, pictured above and below, another element of Black Creativity, is an exciting space for youth to experiment and explore new ideas through hands-on activities.

MSI hosts Black Creativity program For The Edge The Black Creativity program is an annual tradition at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago.

The program, which is centered around Black History Month, invites students, teachers, families and the public to explore the legacy of rich contributions and achievements made by African Americans, while encouraging deeper interest in science and technology among youths.

The programming focuses on innovation, inspiring children to develop their creativity and become the inventors of tomorrow.

The Innovation Studio, which provides a creative space to inspire young inventors about future possibilities and opportunities in STEM, is another element of Black Creativity. Powered by guests’ own curiosity and inspired by sciencerelated challenges, guests will have access to a variety of materials and tools to create and prototype their solutions to issues in space travel, sleep and more. A gallery highlighting past and current African American innovators serves as inspiration.

The space will be open to the general public daily beginning January 21 through March 4; facilitated session times are offered at various times throughout the day. School and community groups may contact MSI’s Group Center at 773684-1414 to reserve a workshop. The Innovation Studio is included in Museum Entry.

Additionally, a Career Showcase will be offered on February 25, 2017, offering guests the chance to explore innovative careers in science and art. Professionals in art, science and engineering will be stationed throughout the Museum for hands-on activities and oneon-one discussions.

School groups can reserve 30-minute sessions with a scientist or engineer in the Jr. Science Cafés during Black Creativity. Each session is an exciting opportunity for students to interact with professionals and learn about cutting-edge research from experts. To book a school group session, call (773) 684-1414.

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Black Creativity 2017 is presented by Allstate. Black Creativity partners are Adobe CDW, ComEd, Dover Inc., ITW, Lexus, Nicor Gas, and Peoples Gas. United Airlines is the official airline of Black Creativity. Media sponsors are Comcast and NBC 5 Chicago.

About the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago (MSI) The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago (MSI), one of the largest science museums in the world, offers world-class and

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uniquely interactive experiences that inspire inventive genius and foster curiosity. From groundbreaking and award-winning exhibits that can’t be found anywhere else, to hands-on opportunities that make you the scientist—a visit to MSI is where fun and learning mix.

Through its Center for the Advancement of Science Education (CASE), the Museum offers a variety of student, teacher and family programs that make a difference in communities and contribute to MSI’s larger vision: to inspire and motivate children to

achieve their full potential in science, technology, medicine and engineering. Come visit and find your inspiration! MSI is open 9:30–4 p.m. every day except Thanksgiving and Christmas day. Extended hours, until 5:30 p.m., are offered during peak periods.

The Museum is grateful for the support of its donors and guests, who make its work possible. MSI is also supported in part by the people of Chicago through the Chicago Park District. For more information, visit msichicago.org or call (773) 684-1414.

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Saint Louis Art Museum

The Saint Louis Art Museum celebrated Art in Bloom, its annual celebration of art and flowers, in 2016.

Saint Louis Art Museum to host an annual favorite For The Edge Art in Bloom, the annual festival of fine art and fresh flowers, returns to the Saint Louis Art Museum on Friday, Feb. 24 through Sunday, Feb. 26. Tickets for the festival’s special programs—including a lecture and demonstration by celebrity florist Jeff Leatham—went on sale this week.

Floral designers and garden club members will create imaginative displays celebrating works of art in the galleries during one of the museum’s most popular programs. Art in Bloom is open to the public every day of the festival at 10 a.m.

Museum members can come early at 8 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 24 and Saturday, Feb. 25.

Although it’s free to tour the galleries and see floral installations, tickets are required for some programs, including a featured presentation by Leatham, artistic director of the Four Seasons Hotel George V in Paris and floral artist to the stars.

Leatham is known throughout the world for his breathtaking floral installations. He will speak in the museum’s Farrell Auditorium on Friday, Feb. 24 at 11 am. Leatham will sign books purchased at the museum immediately following the lecture. Tickets to the lecture are $25 or $20 for museum members.

Also on Friday, Art in Bloom visitors can learn about growing beautiful flowers in the city. Karen “Mimo” Davis and Miranda Duschack, owners of Urban Buds: City Grown Flowers, will discuss their experiences as farmer-florists and give a hands-on floral demonstration at 2 pm. Tickets to the demonstration are $15 or $10 for museum members.

On Friday evening, visitors can enjoy French wines at a cash bar in Sculpture Hall from 5 to 7 pm. From 7 to 10 pm that night, the museum’s monthly SLAM Underground event offers is a lively approach to experiencing art, music, cocktails and the art-inspired floral arrangements.

At 11 am on Saturday, Feb. 25, visitors can learn how to create a memorable event at the demonstration Entertaining French Style. Panorama Executive Chef and General Manager Ivy Magruder will present French cuisine concepts and Mike Ward from Ward on Wine will pair those dishes with the perfect French wines. Veronica Theodoro, editor in chief of St. Louis At Home Magazine, will give tips for creating tablescapes incorporating floral arrangements. Tickets to

Entertaining French Style are $15 or $10 for museum members.

At 3 pm on Saturday, visitors can unwind with a glass of wine while drawing a still life at the hands-on workshop Sip and Sketch. Tickets are $45, or $40 for museum members, which includes one glass of wine.

Sunday, Feb. 26 is Art in Bloom Family Day, and all children’s activities that day are free. Children can create their own flower-inspired art, take a self-guided scavenger hunt throughout the galleries and enjoy storytelling. Family Sundays are supported by Wells Fargo Advisors.

Museum members can enjoy exclusive early morning entry to Art in Bloom on Friday and Saturday from 8 to 10 am, as well as discounts on all ticketed programs.

Art in Bloom is presented by Caleres. Additional support is

provided by St. Louis Magazine and 106.5 The Arch. Tickets for Art in Bloom programs may be purchased at the museum or through MetroTix, which charges a service fee. A complete list of programs and ticket prices can be found at slam.org/bloom.

The Saint Louis Art Museum is one of the nation’s leading comprehensive art museums with collections that include works of art of exceptional quality from virtually every culture and time period. Areas of notable depth include Oceanic art, pre-Columbian art, ancient Chinese bronzes and European and American art of the late 19th and 20th centuries, with particular strength in 20th-century German art. Admission to the Saint Louis Art Museum is free to all every day. For more information, call 314.721.0072 or visit slam.org.

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The Arts Arts calendar Thursday, Feb. 9 Something Rotten!, The Fabulous Fox Theater, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs until Feb. 19, 2017 Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until July 16, 2017 50 Years Of Blood, Sweat And Cheers- A Tribute to The St. Louis Blues, St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs until March 4, 2017 Love Jones- The Musical, Fabulous Fox Theater, St. Louis, 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

The Specialist, Holocaust Museum & Learning Center Theater, St. Louis, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Beauty and the Beast, Touhill Performing Arts Center, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

The Ugly Duckling, Coca, St. Louis, 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Textiles: Politics and Patriotism, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 5, 2017 New Media Series: Dara Birnbaum, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Until The Flood: Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Loretto-Hilton Center, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.to 11:00 p.m.

Follies: The Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Loretto-Hilton Center, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Mark Bradford, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Kings, Queens, and Castles, World Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Little Black Dress: From Mournin to Night, The Missouri History Museum, St. Louis Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until July 16, 2017 Self-Taught Genius: Treasures f ro m t h e A m e r i c a n F o l k A r t Museum, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 10 Something Rotten!, The Fabulous Fox Theater, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs until Feb. 19, 2017 Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until July 16, 2017 50 Years Of Blood, Sweat And Cheers- A Tribute to The St. Louis Blues, St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs until March 4, 2017 Love Jones- The Musical, Fabulous Fox Theater, St. Louis, 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

The Specialist, Holocaust Museum & Learning Center Theater, St. Louis, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Beauty and the Beast, Touhill Performing Arts Center, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

The Ugly Duckling, Coca, St. Louis, 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Textiles: Politics and Patriotism, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 5, 2017 New Media Series: Dara Birnbaum, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Until The Flood: Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Loretto-Hilton Center, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.to 11:00 p.m.

Follies: The Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Loretto-Hilton Center, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Mark Bradford, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to

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Little Black Dress: From Mournin to Night, The Missouri History Museum, St. Louis Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until July 16, 2017 Self-Taught Genius: Treasures f ro m t h e A m e r i c a n F o l k A r t Museum, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 11 It's Only Love, Touhill Performing Arts Center, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

Something Rotten!, The Fabulous Fox Theater, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs until Feb. 19, 2017 Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until July 16, 2017 50 Years Of Blood, Sweat And Cheers- A Tribute to The St. Louis Blues, St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs until March 4, 2017 Love Jones- The Musical, Fabulous Fox Theater, St. Louis, 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

The Specialist, Holocaust Museum & Learning Center Theater, St. Louis, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Beauty and the Beast, Touhill Performing Arts Center, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

The Ugly Duckling, Coca, St. Louis, 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Textiles: Politics and Patriotism, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 5, 2017 New Media Series: Dara Birnbaum, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Until The Flood: Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Loretto-Hilton Center, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.to 11:00 p.m.

Follies: The Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Loretto-Hilton Center, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Mark Bradford, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Kings, Queens, and Castles, World Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis,

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Little Black Dress: From Mournin to Night, The Missouri History Museum, St. Louis Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until July 16, 2017 Self-Taught Genius: Treasures f ro m t h e A m e r i c a n F o l k A r t Museum, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 12 Something Rotten!, The Fabulous Fox Theater, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs until Feb. 19, 2017 Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until July 16, 2017 50 Years Of Blood, Sweat And Cheers- A Tribute to The St. Louis Blues, St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs until March 4, 2017 Love Jones- The Musical, Fabulous Fox Theater, St. Louis, 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

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Beauty and the Beast, Touhill Performing Arts Center, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

The Ugly Duckling, Coca, St. Louis, 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

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Cheers- A Tribute to The St. Louis Blues, St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs until March 4, 2017 Love Jones- The Musical, Fabulous Fox Theater, St. Louis, 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

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Beauty and the Beast, Touhill Performing Arts Center, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

The Ugly Duckling, Coca, St. Louis, 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Textiles: Politics and Patriotism, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 5, 2017 New Media Series: Dara Birnbaum, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Until The Flood: Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Loretto-Hilton Center, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.to 11:00 p.m.

Follies: The Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Loretto-Hilton Center, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Mark Bradford, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Kings, Queens, and Castles, World Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Little Black Dress: From Mournin to Night, The Missouri History Museum, St. Louis Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until July 16, 2017

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Until The Flood: Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Loretto-Hilton Center, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.to 11:00 p.m.

Follies: The Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Loretto-Hilton Center, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Mark Bradford, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Kings, Queens, and Castles, World Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Little Black Dress: From Mournin to Night, The Missouri History Museum, St. Louis Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until July 16, 2017 Self-Taught Genius: Treasures f ro m t h e A m e r i c a n F o l k A r t Museum, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

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The Arts Artistic adventures Westport to present "Menopause The Musical" GFour Productions, winner of 44 Tony Awards and 54 Drama Desk Awards, proudly brings the international hit show "Menopause The Musical" to the Playhouse @ Westport Plaza, 635 Westport Plaza, in St. Louis for weekly performances beginning Friday, January 6, 2017 and running through Sunday, February 12.

Ticke t s a re o n s a l e n o w a n d available at the Playhouse @ Westport Plaza Box Office, online at playhouseatwestport.com, or by calling 314-534-1111. Greater d i s c o u n t s f o r g ro u p s o f 1 0 + available by calling 314-616-4455.

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"Menopause The Musical" is a groundbreaking celebration of women who are on the brink of, in the middle of, or have survived “The Change.” Now celebrating 14 years of female empowerment through hilarious musical comedy, "Menopause The Musical" has evolved as a “grassroots” movement of women who deal with life adjustments after 40 by embracing each other and the road ahead.

Set in a department store, four women meet while shopping for a black lace bra at a lingerie sale.

After noticing unmistakable similarities among one another, the cast jokes about their woeful hot flashes, mood swings, wrinkles, weight gain and much more.

These women form a sisterhood and unique bond with the entire audience as they rejoice in celebrating that menopause is no longer “The Silent Passage.”

Performance schedule at P l a y h o u s e @ We s t p o r t P l a z a , b e g i n n i n g F r i d a y, J a n u a r y 6 through Sunday, February 12: Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m.

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The laughter-filled 90-minute production gets audience members out of their seats and singing along to parodies from classic pop songs of the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s.

"Menopause The Musical", now in its fourteenth year of production, is recognized as the longestrunning scripted production in Las Vegas and continues to entertain nightly at Harrah’s Las Vegas. The hilarious musical has entertained audiences across the country in more than 450 U.S. cities, nearly 300 international cities and a total of 15 countries. For more information, visit www.MenopauseTheMusical. com.

The Hett announces 2016-17 schedule The 2016-2017 season at McKendree University’s Hettenhausen Center for the Arts celebrates the arts with a multicultural line up of performers hailing from Ireland to Inner Mongolia, as well as a bestselling author and family favorites. “’McKendree Presents’ is the premiere arts and culture series in Southern Illinois. Each year we aim to entertain, move and inspire our audience. Our eleventh season is no exception,” said Peter Palermo, director of the Hett.

Reserved seats will be available to the public starting on Sept. 6 at noon, however Friends of the Hett can purchase tickets June 27 at noon.

For information on becoming a Friend of the Hett, visit theHett.com or call 618-537-6863. All events are open to the public and held at the 488-seat performing arts center on McKendree’s Lebanon, Ill., campus.

Ticket prices range from $5 to $26, with discounts for seniors and students. Many programs are free, including the film series and student concerts.

Preview the new season online at theHett.com. “McKendree Presents” will feature the following: Feb. 11, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.: Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia: Brown Bear, Brown Bear and Other

Treasured Stories blends puppetry and striking scenic effects, bringing to life storybook favorites by Eric Carle.

Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m.: Arts Midwest World Fest: Le Vent du Nord is considered a driving force in progressive Canadian folk music.

March 2, 7:30 p.m.: The Willis Clan features 12 singersongwriter siblings whose breakout performance on “America’s Got Talent” led to a reality TV show and over 60 performances at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry.

March 23, 7:30 p.m.: Philip Fortenberry is a versatile conductor, director and pianist known for his incomparable technique, featured in the HBO Liberace biopic “Behind the Candelabra.”

April 25, 7:30 p.m.: Parsons Dance is a New York modern dance company hailed for its athleticism, joyfulness and technical skill.

The Distinguished Speaker Series will present: March 7, 7:30 p.m.: the idea lab brings together informative and performative speakers for a night of fascinating, informal discussion modeled after the popular TED Talks. (To apply as a speaker, visit theHett.com before Sept. 1.)

April 12, 7:30 p.m.: Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of “Eat, Pray, Love,” which spent 57 weeks atop The New York Times Bestseller List.

The free Film Art Series will screen “Saving Private Ryan,” Sept.

27; “Macbeth,” Nov. 21; “Do the Right Thing,” Feb. 7; “Dear White People,” Feb. 23; “The Birth of a Nation,” Feb. 28; and Best Picture nominees to be announced in the spring. All begin at 7 p.m.

The McKendree University Series showcases a variety of student talent (some dates may be subject to change): p.m.; April 2, 2 p.m.: Theatre Department Play • April 18, 7:30 p.m.: Chamber Ensemble Concert • April 21 & 22, 7:30 p.m.: Show Choir Performance • April 27, 7:30 p.m.: Dance Recital • May 1, 7:30 p.m.: Jazz Ensemble Concert • May 4, 7:30 p.m.: Concert Band Concert ·• May 5, 7:30 p.m.: Choral

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SLAM to present works of Degas The Saint Louis Art Museum will present Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade, February 12–May 7, 2017, in the Main Exhibition Galleries, East Building.

Admission is free.

Edgar Degas's fascination with high-fashion hats and the young women who made them is the inspiration for this groundbreaking exploration of the Paris millinery trade from about 1875 to 1914.

Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade will feature 60 paintings and pastels, including key works by Degas that have never been exhibited in the United States, as well as an array of period hats.

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exhibition is the first to examine a crucial and little-known area of Degas's decades-long study of Parisian modern life. The exhibition situates Degas's output within the context of the work of his fellow Impressionists who were also fascinated by hats, including Édouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Mary Cassatt, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The exhibition relates these artists to the enormous industry of hat production and consumption in Paris in the late19th and early-20th century.

Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade is curated by Simon Kelly, the Museum's curator of modern and contemporary art, and Esther Bell, curator-in-charge of European painting at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Tickets for the exhibition go on sale November 22.

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Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture Arts & Issues presents the first feature-length documentary about the revolutionary and brilliant Chicago architect Louis Sullivan (1856-1924).

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• Home sales in Madison County increased 3.99% (3,492 homes sold) over 2015, while sales in St. Clair County increased 10.9% (3,135 homes sold).

• Homes in the St. Louis Region appreciated approximately 5.01% in the 12-month period ending in Sept. 2016, the last report available.

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he trajectory is always different.

In his final years, Frédéric Chopin (1810-49) moved from graceful Romantic reveries to bracing, dissonant textures.

Robert Schumann (1810-56), his health in sharp decline, grew more intimate but also more restless and experimental.

Johannes Brahms (1833-97) exchanged large-scale grandeur for subtle introspection.

“The question of ‘late style’ has long been of interest to writers and philosophers,” says pianist Jonathan Biss. “What effect do years of accumulated knowledge and experience, combined with, perhaps, the realization that death is near, have on artistic creation?”

At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, Biss will explore that question with “Late Style,” a solo recital highlighting late works by Schumann, Chopin, Brahms and the contemporary Hungarian composer György Kurtág (b.

1926).

Presented by the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, the program will launch Washington University’s new Great Artist Series, which also will feature recitals by Yefim Bronfman (April 23) and Nathan Gunn (May 5). All three performances will take place in the E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall.

In addition, the university’s Assembly Series will host a panel discussion titled “Late Moves: Music and Creativity” at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, in the Danforth University Center.

Participants will include Biss as well as Dolores Pesce, the Avis Blewett Professor of music, and Brian Carpenter, professor of psychological & brain sciences.

Todd Decker, professor and chair of music, will moderate.

Program Biss notes that some composers reach their “late periods” as early as their 30s while others arrive in their 80s.

“The change is not consistent from composer to composer: some become more concise, others more expansive,” Biss continues.

“Some become fixated on death, others find an almost child-like innocence. Some composers wrote their most adventurous music in their late periods, and others pursued an extreme simplicity.”

The program will open with “Gesänge der Frühe (Songs of Dawn),” Op. 133, Schumann’s final work for piano, completed in 1853, just three years before his death. Next will be selections from Volume VII of Kurtág’s “Játékok (Games),” an ongoing series — now in its fourth decade — of piano miniatures paying homage to the composer ’s artistic and intellectual circle. That will be followed by “Polonaise-Fantasie,” Op. 61 (1846), one of Chopin’s final published works, inspired by the Polish dance.

After intermission, the program will feature three works by Brahms, beginning with the second movement from “Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5” (1853), which the 20-year-old

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Brahms wrote while a house guest of Schumann’s. The program will conclude with two sets of piano pieces, “Klavierstücke,” Op. 119 and “Klavierstücke,” Op. 118, both of which Brahms wrote in 1893, or three years after announcing his retirement.

Known for virtuosic energy

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and control, Biss has drawn worldwide praise for the “balance between clarity and wildness” (Kansas City Star) that he brings to both classic and contemporary works. His repertoire ranges from Mozart and Beethoven, through the Romantics to Janáček and Schoenberg, to commissions from

contemporary composers such as Leon Kirchner, Lewis Spratlan, and Bernard Rands. His numerous albums include several recordings of Schumann as well as two short Kurtág pieces, included on “Piano Sonatas” (2009), which NPR Music named one of its best albums of the year.

Biss studied at Indiana University and at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he joined the piano faculty in 2010. A prolific writer, he is author of the best-selling ebook “Beethoven’s Shadow” (2011) and “A Pianist Under the Influence” (2012). He also led the first massive open online course (MOOC) offered by a classical music conservatory, “Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas,” which has reached more than 100,000 people in more than 160 countries.

Tickets and schedule The Great Artist Series will continue April 23 with Yefim Bronfman performing music of Béla Bartók, Schumann, Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky.

Nathan Gunn will conclude the series May 5 with music of Schumann, Samuel Barber, Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf and Charles Ives.

Subscriptions to all three recitals are $90 and include premier reserved seating, postconcert receptions with the artists (when available), and all ticketing fees. Single tickets are $35, or $32 for seniors and Washington University faculty and staff, and $15 for students and children.

Single tickets go on sale Sept. 1.

Performances take place in the E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall of the 560 Music Center, located at 560 Trinity Ave., at the intersection with Delmar Boulevard. Tickets are available through the Edison Theater Box Office, 314-935-6543, or at edison. wustl.edu.

••• Yefim Bronfman, piano - April 23, 2017 at 7:00 P.M. Program: Bartok - Suite, Op. 14, Sz. 62, BB 70 Schumann - Humoreske in B-flat Major, Op. 20 Debussy - Suite bergamasque Stravinsky - Petrushka “His energy emanates from his fingers and swirls out of the piano with such perfection that every note grabs the ear with an expressive, singing quality. When his hands swept the full length of the keyboard in arpeggios and scales, Bronfman made it all look effortless” – The Washington Post ••• Nathan Gunn, baritone - May 5, 2017 at 7:30 P.M. Program: Schumann - Dichterliebe, Op. 48 Barber - Church Bell at Night Schubert - Die Taubenpost Wolf - Der Musikant Ives - General William Booth Enters into Heaven “Nathan Gunn commands an operatic baritone whose mighty heft and richness confer an outsize authority on everything he touches.” - The New York Times

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Music Tuning in Diz Strohman Big Band to perform The Diz Strohman Big Band is returning for 2017. They are kicking off this year on Sunday, February 26 at 3pm at the Edwardsville American Legion.

Located at 58 S. State Rt. 157 across the street from Lincoln Middle school. Stephanie Strohman will be the featured vocalist. Come and enjoy the sounds of the Big Band era. Ticket prices are $8 per person or $15 per couple. Food will be available. For more information, please call 314-656-7219.

Rock of the '70s Tour planned Four-famed acts will appear at The Family Arena in St. Charles on Oct. 14.

Foghat’s live performances show why the band is still around today and why they will be able to keep on rockin’ as long as they want. This band truly is timeless. Constant touring is part of their DNA and the band just loves to play. Their live show is as intense as ever with the incredible energy and musicianship that one would expect and hope for from a seasoned band with such a long musical history and they are bringing their fans along for the ride. Foghat fans are everywhere and these days their audience consists of all ages.

From the young kids who play Guitar Hero III and know all of the lyrics to ‘Slow Ride’, to the Dazed & Confused generation of 30-40 somethings and the ‘boomers’ who bought Foghat’s first vinyl or 8 track!

Firefall was one of the first bands to bring the creative and musical richness of the Rocky Mountain area to the forefront of the industry. They helped spearhead the birth and continuation of the country rock / folk rock sound of the 70's. The band continues to dazzle audiences with their exuberant and rocking performances - this was no 'light rock' band. FIREFALL is a group of exceptional musicians and singers, with a repertoire of recognizable songs few bands can match. Their many hits - "You Are The Woman," "Just Remember I Love You," "Strange Way," " Cinderella," "Mexico," " Livin' Ain't Livin'," " So Long," " Goodbye I Love You," " Sweet and Sour" and others - are faithfully recreated with a freshness rare in live performances of such classics.

Formed from the cream of Atlanta’s studio musicians, the Atlanta Rhythm Section (actually hailing from nearby Doraville, Georgia) came together in 1970 after working on a Roy Orbison recording session. In 1977, “So In To You” became the band’s breakthrough single, reaching the U.S. Top 10, and the album from which it came, A Rock And Roll Alternative, went gold.

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From their beginnings in midSixties Ohio as a group of friends playing cover tunes to the present-day unit featuring founding member/ pedal-steel innovator John David Call, veteran bassist Mike Reilly, propulsive drummer Scott Thompson and guitar ace Donnie Clark, Pure Prairie League continues to embellish the rich 43-year history of one of Country-Rock’s pioneering forces.

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Menzel to appear at The Fox After releasing her fifth solo studio album idina. last fall, Tony Awardwinning superstar Idina Menzel announced today that she will head out on a 50+ city global spring & summer tour that will include a stop at the Fabulous Fox Theatre on Tuesday, August 15 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $150, $85, $65, $45 and can be purchased online at metrotix. com, by calling 314-534-1111, or in person at the Fabulous Fox Box Office.

The tour will begin in Japan on March 29, 2017 and visit Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo before Idina begins the North American leg of the tour on April 7, 2017 with a hometown Long Island show in New York at the Nassau Coliseum.

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January 18. Tickets for the general public will go on sale Friday, January 27 at 10 am local time. Please visit www.idinamenzel.com/tour for all details. .Called “the Streisand of her generation” by The Denver Post, Idina has captivated audiences at sold-out concerts around the world with her irresistible charm, wit and unparalleled vocal prowess.

Throughout the tour, Idina will lead audiences through a special journey of songs from idina., as well as other classic pop, musical theater favorites and her own personal catalogue. “[Idina] sings beyond anyone’s idea of reasonable vocal or emotional limits…” – New York Magazine “[Idina has a] tear-down-thehouse voice and commanding personality...” – Variety Idina willl play the role of CC in the contemporary remake of the classic film Beaches, which premieres Saturday, January 21 on Lifetime at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Her voice is also featured on the Beaches EP, which includes classic songs from the 1988 original film, along with new tracks recorded specifically for the remake. The EP was released on January 13 by Warner Bros. Records and is available for purchase now at https://wbr.ec/wbmw.

Tony Award-winning icon Idina Menzel has a diverse career that traverses stage, film, television and music. Idina's voice can be heard as Elsa in Disney’s global box office smash FROZEN, in which she sings the film’s Oscar-winning song “Let It Go,” and in the follow-up short, FROZEN FEVER. After Idina’s performance of the multi-platinum song at the 86th annual Academy Awards, she made history as the first person with both a Billboard Top 10 hit and a Tony Award for acting.

Idina capped 2016 with the release

of her fifth original solo studio album idina., and filmed Lifetime’s remake of Beaches, set to air January 21, 2017, in which she portrays the role of ‘CC,’ made famous by Bette Midler. Idina earned her first Tony nomination as Maureen in the Pulitzer Prize winner Rent, and won the award for her performance as Elphaba in Wicked. Other notable roles include Rachel Berry’s mother, Shelby Corcoran, on the hit television show Glee as well as starring opposite Susan Sarandon and Amy Adams in Disney’s Enchanted.

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Idina starred in her own PBS special, Barefoot at the Symphony, with an accompanying live album of the same name, and her highly successful 2015 international concert tour included a sold-out performance at Radio City Music Hall. Idina also performed the National Anthem at Super Bowl XLIX in February 2015, which was the most-watched television program in U.S. history.

In addition to cast albums, Idina’s prolific recording career includes the solo albums idina., I Stand, Here and Still I Can’t Be Still.

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Road to Pointfest 2017 $3 Showdown, Pop's, Sauget, Doors 6:30 p.m.

Lightrider, Oddsoul And The Sound, Casper Webs, Cicero's, University City, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Bruce Barth Trio, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 10 Road to Pointfest 2017 S:3 Rd:1, Pop's, Sauget, Doors 6:30 p.m.

Capre Diem feat: Peerless, The New Romans, OTGR, and more, Cicero's, University City, Doors 8:00 p.m.

PhuturePrimitve, w/Kevin Shpacey, The Ready Room, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

Valentine'sDay with Eric Bode, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Every Time I Die, w/Knocked Loose, Harm's Way, Eternal Sleep, The Ready Room, St. Louis, Doors 6:00 p.m.

Valentine'sDay with Eric Bode, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 12 Afton Music Showcase K-Ci & JoJo, w/(TBA), The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Open Mic with Mark Z, Cicero's, University City, 8:00 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 14 Valentine's Day with Erin Bode, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 15

Colony House, w/Deep Sea Diver, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Mike Stern Band, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 16 Young MA, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Dorothy, w/The Georgia Flood, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Mike Stern Band, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 17 Sting: 57th & 9th Tour, The Pageant, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

Bezz Believe, Jade, Sizzle, Beastkingz, Don Dizy, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

Scrambled, w/(TBA), Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

Skillet, w/Sick Puppies, Devour The Day, Pop's, Sauget, 8:00 p.m.

Shapes, Tre Serpenti, The Right Hooks, Cicero's, University City, Doors 7:30 p.m.

Mike Stern Band, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 18 Valerie June, w/Patrick Hockett, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

P. R . E . A . C . H , w / Z e u s R e b e l Waters, LO-ER-KACE, Luhh B,

ODDITY, Deezy Da Paperboy, Rec Riddles, G.Bravo, High55, Pop's, Sauget, 7:00 p.m.

We Are United Local Showcase, Cicero's, University City, Doors 8:00 p.m.

Mike Stern Band, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 19 Bon Jovi: This House is Not for Sale Tour, Scottrade Center, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Gemini Syndrome, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

CWAH Charity Benefit feat.

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Saturday, Feb. 11 Wa y s i d e , C o d e w o r k , Ty l e r Samuels, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 6:00 p.m.

Marleyfest 10, feat. The Murder City Band w/special guests, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

Road to Pointfest 2017 Session 1 Finals, Pop's, Sauget, Doors 6:30 p.m.

Santana returning to St. Louis

Santana will bring his Tr a n s m o g r i f y To u r 2 0 1 7 t o the Fabulous Fox Theatre on Wednesday, July 12 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $150, $125, $99, $89, $79, $69 and may be purchased online at metrotix.com, by calling 314-5341111, or in person at the Fabulous Fox Box Office.

For forty years and as many albums later, Santana has sold more than 100 million records and reached more than 100 million fans at concerts worldwide. To date, Santana has won ten GRAMMY Awards and three Latin GRAMMY Awards. He won a record-tying nine GRAMMYs for a single project for 1999’s Supernatural (including Album of the Year and Record of the Year for “Smooth”) as well as three Latin GRAMMY’s. He has also received the Billboard Century Award (1996), was ushered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1998), received the Billboard Latin Music Awards’ Lifetime Achievement honor (2009), and was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors Aw a r d ( 2 0 1 3 ) . A m o n g m a n y other honors, Carlos Santana has been cited by Rolling Stone as #15 on their list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.” And, with the 2014 release of Corazón, Santana surpassed the Rolling Stones and is one of only two music acts in Billboard history to score at least one Top Ten album for six consecutive decades from the 1960s on.

April 15, 2016 marks the release date of Santana IV, the wildly anticipated studio album that reunites the revered early ‘70s lineup of guitar icon Carlos Santana (guitar, vocals), Gregg Rolie (keyboards, lead vocals), Neal Schon (guitar, vocals), Michael Carabello (percussion) and Michael Shrieve (drums).

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Religion

Give thanks and embrace the unexpected As I have said many times, I am an early riser and am usually showered, dressed, have my bed made and ready to go out to my kitchen between six fifteen to six thirty.

I then move on to the front door so I can go out and get my morning newspaper. I then fix myself whatever breakfast I want for that day.

Since I will be eating alone, I can also read my morning paper. After eating, I move my dishes from the table and begin to complete the paper ’s crossword puzzle.

Some days all goes well and I can complete it without too much difficulty, but on other days I struggle and finally go to my crossword puzzle dictionaries for assistance. That works great if what I’m looking for isn’t popular music or movies. Then, I’m as they say, I am up the creek without a paddle. And I must admit defeat.

I don’t like to ‘give up’ and stop trying. That isn’t only when the puzzle can’t be completed. I think that is true with most things in my life. If I have decided to do something, I feel frustrated and even sometimes angry when for some

Doris Gvillo reason, my plan doesn’t work out.

I ask myself why I should expect success and peace to fill my life and why failure and sorrow seem to surprise me.

I’m very old now and I’ve lived long enough to know that my plans don’t always work out, that good and bad are part of life, that joy and happiness come but also pain and sorrow.

I have been reading several articles lately that speak about our ‘journey through life’ and how what we have planned very often never happens. Life brings many surprises and unexpected times. I suppose by now I’ve learned it isn’t what happens but how we react to what happens that is important.

I think I’ve finally grasped the concept that whatever does happen, we can move ahead, perhaps slowly, perhaps sadly, or perhaps with joy and excitement. It isn’t so much what happens but how we respond to the events life brings our way.

I have learned in these over eighty years to realize that whatever does happen, I am never alone. God is

with me, guiding me, challenging me, using me and always loving me. But I also know that at times He must be disappointed in me when I falter or fail.

But the reassuring promise that He is always with me helps me to pick up the pieces of broken dreams and move ahead trusting God’s promises..

My years are many and looking back, I see times of plenty and times of want, times of joy and times of sorrow, times of health and times of illness, but I’ve always felt secure that whatever was happening, I wasn’t alone. God was with me and if I doubted that, it wasn’t God who had made distance between us, it was me, myself and I. They say growing old isn’t for sissies and I think I can attest to that. Things that were so easy can become difficult. Sometimes the old brain works great and sometimes I think mine takes a holiday as it seems I get forgetful.

When I am feeling lost, forsaken, bewildered, or sad, I must remember that I also felt that way as a child, a teenager, as a younger adult, as a parent, and grandparent.

So now that I’m a great grandparent, I’m sure that those days will still come when I feel down, depressed, sad, lonely, angry,

hurt, and lost, but I am confident that, ‘This too shall pass”. I know that I’ve said this before also, but it is something that makes me smile and also offers me comfort and assurance.

I recall when Bill and I had been married for some time making the remark, “Isn’t it strange that we used to sit so close in our car and now we have so much room between us?” His reply was, “I’m driving, I haven’t moved.”

S o i t i s w i t h o u r G o d , H e re m a i n s constant. If we feel lost and alone, maybe we need to realize He is waiting patiently…it is we who have moved away.

OUR God is a loving God who is always with us, so in times of joy and sorrow we can always trust God’s assurance that we are never alone. What m o re c o u l d w e a s k ? W a re s o v e r y blessed.

I hope each day that you and I re m e m b e r t o b e t h a n k f u l f o r b e i n g a part of God’s family. Our God loved us enough to send Jesus as our Savior. What greater love can there be?

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

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Sacrament of Reconciliation: Wed., & Thurs. - 6 pm Saturday - 3:30-4:00 pm Saturday Vigil Mass - 4:15 pm Sunday Mass 8:15 am, 10:15 am, 5:15 pm Spanish Mass - 12:15 pm Daily Mass Schedule - Mon., 5:45 pm Tues., Thurs., Fri. - 8:00 am Wed., & Thurs. - 6:45 pm

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