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Langston Hughes SIUE to host a tribute to a legend.

7 Sounds of summer

St. Louis Symphony announces performances.

11 Small houses

Some Americans seek an alternative.

15 William Kentridge SLAM plans pair of exhibits.

17 "Hall Pass"

Here's a movie you'll want to skip.

18 Flameless candles All the glow without all the mess.

21 1904 Steak House A new dining experience.

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What’s Happening Thursday March 10_________ State Farm MVC Women’s Basketball Tournament -Family Arena, St. Charles, Mo. In The Next Room or the vibrator play - T h e R e p T h e a t re , We b s te r University, Webster Groves, 8 p.m.

Two Gentlemen of Verona -Washington University South Campus Theatre, 8 p.m., www. newlinetheatre.com St. Louis Blues vs. Canadiens -Scottrade Center, St. Louis, 7 p.m.

Friday March 11_________

In The Next Room or the vibrator play - T h e R e p T h e a t re , We b s te r University, Webster Groves, 8 p.m.

Two Gentlemen of Verona -Washington University South Campus Theatre, 8 p.m., www. newlinetheatre.com Thir teenth Annual Highland Historical Society’s Quilt Show -Faith Countryside Apartments, 1331 26th Street, Highland, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., $4 Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, Larry the Cable Guy -Scottrade Center, 8 p.m., St. Louis, Mo. Treasures of Napoleon -Missouri History Museum, Lindell Blvd. at De Baliviere Ave., St. Louis “The Wiz” presented by McCluer High School; 7 p.m.

-FCC Theatre, #1 James J. Eagan Dr., Florissant, Mo., www.

FlorissantMO.com Marriage of Figaro “Sliced and Diced -Presented by UMSL Department of Music and UMSL Opera Theatre, 7:30 p.m., free

SIUE Lovejoy Librar y Antique Sale -Student Fitness Center, SIUE Campus, 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.

S ta te F a r m M V C Wo m e n ’s Basketball Tournament -Family Arena, St. Charles, Mo. Missouri Ballet TheatreConcepts -The Edison Theatre, 6445 Forsyth Blvd., St. Louis, Mo., 314.935.6543, 8 p.m.

“King O’ The Moon” Alton Little Theater, 2450 N. Henry St., Alton, S ta te F a r m M V C Wo m e n ’s Basketball Tournament 7:30 p.m.

Saturday March 12_________

-Family Arena, St. Charles, Mo. Missouri Ballet TheatreConcepts -The Edison Theatre, 6445 Forsyth Blvd., St. Louis, Mo., 314.935.6543, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.

“King O’ The Moon" -Alton Little Theater, 2450 N. Henry St., Alton, 7:30 p.m.

A Night At The Museum -Mineral Springs Mall, 7 p.m. to midnight, 301 E. Broadway, A l t o n , 4 6 5 - 3 2 0 0 , w w w. mineralspringshauntedtours. com In The Next Room or the vibrator play - T h e R e p T h e a t re , We b s te r University, Webster Groves, 5 p.m.

Two Gentlemen of Verona -Washington University South Campus Theatre, 8 p.m., www. newlinetheatre.com SIUE Lovejoy Librar y Antique Sale -Student Fitness Center, SIUE Campus, 9 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Thir teenth Annual Highland Historical Society’s Quilt Show -Faith Countryside Apartments, 1331 26th Street, Highland, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., $4 42nd Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade -noon, begins 18th and Market St. St. Louis Blues vs. Detroit Red Wings, 7 p.m.

-Scottrade Center, St. Louis

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March 10, 2011

People People planner Adventure planned at Daniel Boone’s Home Travel to the land of opportunity during Lindenwood University’s Historic Daniel Boone Home’s Journey to the West event on March 26. In the 19th century, the West beckoned people with its prime land, prosperous trading, and the chance for a new life. Small towns like the Boonefield Village would fill with visitors needing food, goods, and livestock. Travel back in time and learn first-hand what it took to prepare for this journey and make it in the land of opportunity.

The event begins at 9 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m. Admission is $12 for adults, $10 for seniors (55 and older), and $6 for children (age 4-11). The price includes admission to the event as well as seeing the Daniel Boone Home.

Family passes and group rates are available with a two-week prior reservation.

Become immersed in the history of westward travel. As visitors make their way through the village, they will negotiate for goods, trade livestock, purchase materials, and discuss the voyage ahead, just as people did in the past. The site’s historic pioneer village will be transformed into a living history town with men and women preparing for travel. Visitors will be able to view the many historic buildings and live animals, including oxen, horses and sheep.

Guests to the event will also be able to see the Historic Daniel Boone Home brought to life. Visitors will be able to meet Olive Boone and her family and glimpse at what life in the home was really like. This is one of the few times that the Boone Home will be filled with reeanactors portraying the Boone family.

Located at 1868 Highway F in Defiance, Mo., the Daniel Boone Home is the house in which the legendary explorer and frontiersman

spent his final years. The four-story Georgian-style home was built overlooking the Femme Osage Valley. The adjoining Boonefield Village contains a dozen other 19th century building that have been moved from the surrounding area and are used to represent town life on the frontier. Lindenwood University uses the site to educate both visitors and students about the importance of Daniel Boone, his family, and the time period in which he lived.

For additional information contact Amanda Carrow at ACarrow@lindenwood.edu or visit our website at www.lindenwood. edu/boone.

Lewis and Clark Offers Free SKYWARN training The National Weather Service and Lewis and Clark Community College have once again teamed up to offer SKYWARN Severe Weather Spotter training for individuals interested in assisting the National Weather Service during severe weather events.

Seminar emphasis is on training individuals in the local community to properly report wind gusts, hail size, rainfall and cloud formations during such events.

“Anyone can call in hail sizes, but SKYWARN spotters are trained to report hail sizes in terms of coin money size, not marbles, since marbles come in many different sizes and the size of the hail is an important indicator of a thunderstorm’s life cycle for potential damage,” said John Nell, assistant director at Lewis and Clark and facilitator for this program.

This free seminar will be offered from 8:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 19 on the college’s Godfrey campus. The training will be conducted by a meteorologist from the National Weather Service in St. Louis.

“ S K Y WA R N s p o t t e r s a s s i s t the NWS by reporting what is happening in their backyards,” Nell said. “Doppler radar cannot see everything happening in the atmosphere, so the NWS sometimes needs to rely upon ‘ground truth’ reports to issue severe weather warnings.”

Participants will learn basics of thunderstorm development, fundamentals of storm structures, identifying potential severe weather features, information and how to report that information to the NWS and basic severe weather safety.

The program is suitable for weather watchers of all ages, and does not require any prior knowledge of meteorology or weather awareness.

Though training is free, advance registration is requested to assure seating. For more information or to register, call the Enrollment Center at (618) 468-2222.

Rib America rock lineup set U . S . C e l l u l a r p re s e n t s R i b America Festival returning to St. Louis May 27-30, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. daily at Soldier’s Memorial Plaza.

U.S. Cellular presents Rib America Festival is a fun filled event-featuring award winning barbeque, music, and more! Charter Media reserved seats in front of the stage go on sale this Friday, February 18 at 10:00 a.m. at all Ticketmaster outlets. 2011 sponsors for the event include U.S. Cellular, Budweiser, Pepsi, Fabick CAT, Charter Communications and Hilton at the Ballpark St. Louis. The best, award winning, BBQ teams from across the country will be serving up their finest all weekend long!!!

This year’s entertainment line-up includes: Friday, May 27th PUDDLE OF MUDD & MORE TBA

Saturday, May 28th KANSAS TBA MONTROSE MARK FARNER (formerly of Grand Funk Railroad) PAT TRAVERS DEREK ST. HOLMES (formerly w/ Ted Nugent) Sunday, May 29th TBA CANDLEBOX & MANY MORE TBA Monday, May 30th .38 SPECIAL MOLLY HATCHET FABULOUS MOTOWN REVUE & MORE Ti c k e t I n f o r m a t i o n : F R E E ADMISSION before 5:00 p.m. on Friday & before 1:00 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Admission charge is ONLY $6.00 (which includes the concerts) after 5:00 p.m. on Friday and after 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Children 12 & under are free.

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People People planner Science Center to show “SEA REX” The Saint Louis Science Center and 3D Entertainment Distribution invite audiences on an incredible voyage in the next film to open at the OMNIMAX® Theater. SEA REX: JOURNEY TO A PREHISTORIC WORLD, opening Friday, January 14, takes viewers 200 million years back in time for a face-to-face encounter with the T. rex of the seas.

The Science Center is showing the 2D version of the film, formatted for the OMNIMAX. The film sheds light on t h e e x t r a o rd i n a r y p re h i s t o r i c underwater world and its largerthan-life creatures, which with their daunting size and natural ability for predation, were ruling the seas 20 million years before dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

“The Earth’s history, scientifically speaking, is a remarkable one, full of incredible creatures and stories,” said Jackie Mollet, Senior Director of Theater and Exhibitions at the Science Center. “It’s exciting to be able to tell the story of the T. rex of the seas through SEA REX: JOURNEY TO A PREHISTORIC WORLD on our giant screen.”

Moviegoers will meet, in a modern-day aquarium, Julie, an imaginative young woman, and travel across the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods to discover a little-known universe populated by amazing animals: the powerful Liopleurodon, the long-necked Elasmosaurus, the “eye-lizard” Ophthalmosaurus, the ferocious Prognathodon and the gigantic 75foot Shonisaurus.

“SEA REX: JOURNEY TO A PREHISTORIC WORLD is the ultimate combination of science and entertainment,” said Pascal Vuong, the film’s co-writer and director.

The film will be shown at 10am, 1 and 3pm on Monday through Saturday and 1 and 3pm on Sunday.

Schedule subject to change. Tickets are $9 for adults, $8 for children and free for Members with vouchers. To purchase individual tickets, please visit slsc.org or call 314.289.4424 for group sales.

3,000 Bright Blue Butterflies fill Butterfly House for March Morpho Mania The Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House will have the “blues” during the month of March, and they couldn’t be more excited! Witness up to 3,000 bright blue morpho butterflies in free flight – ten times the normal number – when March Morpho Mania® returns, March 1 through 31 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily (closed Mondays). The event is included with Butterfly House admission.

Common Blue Morpho butterflies (Morpho peleides) are a visitor favorite, easily identified by their iridescent blue wings and large eight-inch wingspan. The species is only native to Central and South America, so you can’t ordinarily catch a glimpse of blue morphos in the United States. The 8,000-squarefoot tropical conservatory at the Butterfly House is normally home to roughly 300 of the creatures, but during the month of March, the indoor conservatory will be totally immersed in blue.

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and alkalinity of coffee, paint with chocolate and become a young entrepreneur at the Little Beans Café.

During your visit, stop by the Madame Butterfly Gift Shop to browse for blue morpho- and butterfly-inspired gifts, educational toys, books and souvenirs for all ages.

The Butterfly House is located at 15193 Olive Blvd. at Faust Park in Chesterfield, Mo., accessible from Interstate 64 at exit #19B. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays (closed Mondays). The last ticket is sold 30 min. prior to closing each day.

March Morpho Mania is included with Butterfly House admission of $6 for adults, $4.50 for seniors (ages 65 and over), and $4 for children (ages 3 to 12). Children ages 2 and under and Missouri Botanical Garden members are free.

For more information, visit www.butterflyhouse.org/events/ marchmorphomania.aspx or call (636) 530-0076.

The Butterfly House is an accredited member of the Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA) and a division of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

showcase this impressive collection of butterflies for the fourth year,” said Joe Norton, director of the Butterfly House. “We don’t know of anywhere else in the world where you will find this expansive number of blue morphos at one time. The Butterfly House is a magical place in March.”

Step inside the lushly-planted conservatory to be surrounded by thousands of these cruising creatures. Their brilliant blue color is actually the effect of refracted light on the scales of their wings, and is a useful defense mechanism for fooling predators. At roost, the mottled brown underside of the butterflies’ closed wings helps them to blend in with their surroundings, again fooling predators who mistake their spots for animal eyes.

In the wild, males zoom about during the day to establish territory, attract females and shoo away other males. When hungry, the butterflies stop to feast on delicious rotting fruit, tree sap, dung and dead animal carcasses; at the Butterfly House, their vegetarian diet mainly consists of bananas and other fruits presented on hanging feeding plates.

Common Blue Morpho The Butterfly House obtains its Common Blue Morpho butterflies from El Bosque Nuevo butterfly farming operation in Costa Rica.

The butterfly farm gives locals an alternative income over more damaging forms of agriculture and allows for therestoration of native habitat, increasing the potential for species of native animals and plants to survive in the wild.

Family activities designed for children ages 2 to 12 will be offeredeach weekend from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Lopata Learning Lab: * March 5, 6, 12 and 13: Learn more about butterfly farming. Make a small craft caterpillar and examine how cloth sleeving on the host tree will protect it from predators. Sort, pack and “ship” pretend chrysalides and learn how entomologists unpack and hang them to await emergence. * March 19, 20, 26 and 27: Explore the world of Central American chocolate and coffee farming.

Pretend to harvest pods and beans from imitation cacao and coffee trees, and sort the beans according to weight and color. Test acidity

Circus Flora plans 25th season In celebration of its 25th season, Circus Flora, St. Louis’ beloved, one-ring circus, announces its brand new show, Vagabond Adventures, June 2 through 26 under the airconditioned, red-and-white, big top tent in Grand Center. Presented by Edward Jones, the show comes on the heels of Circus Flora’s triumph with the St. Louis Symphony in January.

Vagabond Adventures is set on the Floating Palace, a real circus venue that traveled up and down the Mississippi River before the Civil War. This majestic riverboat triggers a thrilling caper, picking up where the critically acclaimed Symphony performance left off. Vagabond Adventures reunites circus stars from the last quarter century such as the Flying Wallendas, the St. Louis Arches, the Flying Pages and everyone’s favorite clown, Giovanni

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Vagabond Adventures finds stowaways on board the Floating Palace, with dreams of becoming circus performers. From their lowly, discrete positions, they catch wind of a scheme that threatens the boat. Enthralled by the luscious Lottie Luppu, these unlikely heroes uncover her hidden identity – Lola Montes, a spy for a Spanish/ Argentinean plot to commandeer the barge and abscond with it to Argentina. Through the stowaways’ heroic efforts, the Floating Palace is saved, escapes the treacherous waters of the Gulf of Mexico and returns to delight the audiences of St Louis – the largest city west of the Mississippi.

The always affordable, familyfriendly Circus Flora takes place under the air-conditioned, red-andwhite, big top tent in Grand Center, St. Louis’ arts and entertainment hub, adjacent to Powell Hall (corner of Grand Boulevard and Samuel Shepard Drive). Tickets go on sale March 16; group tickets are now available.

Show times are Tuesday through Thursday at 7 p.m.; Friday and Saturday at 2 and 7 p.m.; Sunday at 1 and 5:30 p.m.; and “Little Top Wednesday” at 10 a.m., a special onehour show for smaller kids or the “kids at heart.” Tickets for Vagabond Adventures are $8 to $44 and go on sale March 16. Call 314-289-4040 or visit www.circusflora.org for tickets and more information. Tickets are also available at the Circus Flora Box Office in the Centene Center for the Arts & Education, 3547 Olive St. Group discounts are now available for groups of 20 or more.

Clayton’s Parties in the Park moves The region’s original outdoor happy hour, Parties in the Park,

hosted by the Clayton Chamber of Commerce, is moving out of Shaw Park and onto the streets of downtown Clayton.

In its 28th season of live music, cold drinks, and meeting up with friends old and new, Parties in the Park is now “Parties in the Park in Downtown Clayton.”

M e r a m e c Av e n u e , b e t w e e n Forsyth Boulevard and Maryland Avenue, will be THE place to be after work this summer, and best of all, admission to one of the city’s most familiar and eagerly anticipated parties in town is free and open to the public.

The revamped Parties in the Park in Downtown Clayton 2011 season kicks off Wednesday, May 11 from 5 to 8:30 p.m., a half hour longer than years past, and continues on the second Wednesday of the month through September.

With live music and a DJ soon to be announced, the Clayton Chamber of Commerce hopes to stimulate the retail and restaurant business in Clayton by moving the party closer to the business district.

The move also falls in line with the city of Clayton’s master plan to have more events on the streets.

“We really wanted do something new this year,” said Ellen Gale, executive director of the Clayton Chamber of Commerce. “We are so excited to bring this Clayton tradition to the heart of the City.

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“We joked that people think Parties in the Park is in downtown anyway, so why not make it true?” said Brent Stevens, president and longtime volunteer of Parties in the Park.

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People Zoo lines up events for spring, summer The following events have been planned at the Saint Louis Zoo. March 26, 2011 Family ZooQuest. 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Winners announced at 1:30 p.m. Members: $40/team; Non-members: $45/team. For information and registration: (314) 646-4544 or www.stlzoo.org.

ZooQuest isn’t your typical scavenger hunt. The quests contain puzzles and problems that require you and your family to travel around the Zoo in order to solve each one. This spring, ZooQuest goes Hollywood with Showbiz ZooQuest! The quest will consist of animal-themed problems and puzzles, so be sure to brush up on your children’s animalthemed movies and shows. Using observation and time-management skills to solve the puzzle -based quests, it’s sure to be a day of education and fun!

March 29, 2011 Conservation Conversations: Patch-Burn Grazing; Is it right for Missouri’s remaining high quality prairies? 7:30 to 9 p.m. The Living World. Free. More information: (314) 781-0900; www.stlzoo.org.

Lecture by Paul Nelson Ecology and Land Management Planner, United States Forest Service.

April 2011 April 6, 2011 Science Seminar Series. Squeaks and Scents: The Neurobiology of Animal Social Communication.

7:30 to 9 p.m. in The Living World.

Free. For information, call (314) 646-4544, or visit www.stlzoo.org.

Sponsored by Saint Louis Zoo and Academy of Science St. Louis.

April 9, 2011 Z o o Q u e s t . 11 : 3 0 a . m . t o 3 p.m. Members: $40/team; Non-members: $45/team. For information and registration: (314) 646-4544 or www.stlzoo.org.

ZooQuest is a challenging questbased program, taking place on Saint Louis Zoo grounds. Part trivia challenge and part scavenger-hunt, it guarantees your team will never look at the Saint Louis Zoo the same way again. You’ll notice signs

you usually walk right past, colors that aren’t usually noticed, and details that make the Zoo unique.

For example, do you know how many animals on the Conservation Carousel have purple saddles?

April 9-10, 16-17, 23, 2011 Breakfast with the Bunny. 9 and 11 a.m. seating times. Zoo Friends members: $20/adult, $18/ child (ages 2-12); Non-members: $22/adult, $20/child (ages 2-12); Children under 2 are free. For reservations: (314) 646-4857. More information: www.stlzoo.org.

Enjoy a full breakfast plus a family photo with the Bunny, treats, costumed characters and free parking. Pre-paid reservations are required and seating is limited.

April 17, 2011 Earth Day: Party for the Planet.

11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For information: 314/781-0900, www.stlzoo.org o r w w w. s t l o u i s e a r t h d a y. o r g .

Celebrate “Earth Day in Forest Park” with Earth-related activities and games, entertainment and animal enrichment at the Zoo. April 23 through September 25, 2011 Stingrays at Caribbean Cove featuring Sharks. Admission is $3.00 for general public and $1.50 for Zoo Friends members. Children under two are free. Feeding is $1.00. Admission is free the first hour the Zoo is open. Group rate for 15 or more is $2.50 per person.

For information: (314) 781-0900 or www.stlzoo.org.

Back by popular demand, cownose and southern rays return to the 17,000-gallon pool at the Saint Louis Zoo this summer.

Visitors can enjoy a hands-on opportunity to touch and feed these gentle and fascinating ocean creatures as they glide through a tropical saltwater habitat. Also, meet some new additions this year – brownbanded bamboo and bonnethead sharks!

April 24, 2011 Enrichment Eggstravaganza.

9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free. For more information: (314) 781-0900 or www.stlzoo.org. Zookeepers will

provide enrichment “egg hunt” activities for the animals.

May 2011 Daily through September 25, 2011 Stingrays at Caribbean Cove featuring Sharks. Admission is $3.00 for general public and $1.50 for Zoo Friends members. Children under two are free. Feeding is $1.00. Admission is free the first hour the Zoo is open. Group rate for 15 or more is $2.50 per person.

For information: (314) 781-0900 or www.stlzoo.org.

Back by popular demand, cownose and southern rays return to the 17,000-gallon pool at the Saint Louis Zoo this summer.

Visitors can enjoy a hands-on opportunity to touch and feed these gentle and fascinating ocean creatures as they glide through a tropical saltwater habitat. Also, meet some new additions this year – brownbanded bamboo and bonnethead sharks!

May 7, 2011 Trivia Gone Wild presented

by Commerce Bank. 6 p.m. $35/ person or $350/table of 10. For information and reservations: 314/646-4771 or www.stlzoo.org.

Get your “beastly bunch” together for the Young Zoo Friends’ trivia night. Proceeds benefit global conservation efforts of the Saint Louis Zoo. Sponsored by Commerce Bank and Culpeppers Grill & Bar. Saturdays and Sundays, May 7-

22, 2011 PNC Bank Sea Lion Show. Sea lion superstars show off their natural abilities with front flipper w a l k s , b a l a n c i n g a c t s , h u rd l e j u m p s i n t h e w a t e r, F r i s b e e throws and lots of splashing!

Daily shows at 11 a.m., 1 and 3 p.m. Admission is $3/person.

Children under two are free. For information: 314/781-0900 or www.stlzoo.org.

May 8, 2011 Mother’s Day Brunch. 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 1 p.m. seating times in The Painted Giraffe. $16.95/adult; $8.50/children aged 2-11. Children under 2 are free. Gratuity included.

For information and reservations: 314/646-4857 or www.stlzoo.org.

Give your mom a one-of-a-kind Mother ’s Day this year: treat her to brunch at the Saint Louis Zoo. Complete with carving and waffle stations, breakfast fare, salads, cheeses, chicken, pasta, desserts and more, brunch at the Saint Louis Zoo is a wild way to spend Mother’s Day! May 10, 2011 Among Gia nts, A Life with Whales. 7:30 p.m. in The Living Wo r l d . F re e . N o re s e r v a t i o n s n e c e s s a r y. M o re i n f o r m a t i o n : www.explorers-stl.com or (314) 231-2306 x1302.

Presentation and book signing

by Charles “Flip” Nicklin, marine biologist, photographer and author of the book Among Giants, A Life with Whales and Face to Face

with Whales. Widely regarded as the world’s leading cetacean photographer, Flip Nicklin, grew up around his father ’s small dive shop on the California coast.

In 1976, he was signed on as a deckhand and diving assistant for a three-month shoot with photographers Bates Littlehales and Jonathan Blair. He went on to become National Geographic’s premiere whale photographer and marine mammal specialist. Over the last quarter century Flip has photographed more than thirty species of whales and dolphins, some so endangered their very survival is in question. His ability to free dive to depths of up to 90 feet (27 meters) allows him to swim near enough to record whale behavior without interrupting it. In 2001 he co-founded Whale Trust, a non-profit organization dedicated to research and public education. Presentation sponsored

by The Explorers Club St. Louis Chapter, Academy of Science St. Louis and Saint Louis Zoo. May 18, 2011 Bowling for Rhinos. 6 to 9 p.m. $25 per person in advance or at the door (space permitting). For information: www.stlzoo.org/ aazk.

St. Louis chapter of American Association of Zoo Keepers hosts a bowling event at Tropicana Lanes to benefit three rhinoceros c o n s e r v a t i o n a re a s i n K e n y a , Indonesia and Sumatra.

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Music

Langston Hughes A tribute to the jazz legend will fill Meridian Ballroom with sweet sounds

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he music of Langston Hughes will fill the Meridian Ballroom on the SIUE campus at 7:30 p.m. on March 24. “The Langston Hughes Project,” a multimedia concert performance entitled “Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz” is the next installment in the SIUE Arts & Issues 2010-11 season.

This multimedia jazz concert performance features Hughes’s 12 part epic poem, “Ask Your Mama,” in which Hughes pays homage in verse and music to the struggle for artistic and social freedom at home and abroad at the beginning of the 1960s.

Hughes scored the piece with musical cues drawn from the blues, Dixieland, gospel songs, boogie woogie, bebop, progressive jazz, Latin “cha cha,” Afro-Cuban mambo music, German lieder, Jewish liturgy, West Indian calypso, and African drumming -- a creative masterwork left unperformed at his death. The musical scoring of the poem was designed to serve not only simply as background for the words but to forge a conversation and a commentary with the music.

Though Hughes originally intended to collaborate with Charles Mingus, and then Randy Weston, on the full performance of his masterwork, Hughes died in 1967 while the piece remained yet in the planning stages.

The Langston Hughes Project’s Musical Director Dr. Ronald McCurdy with the assistance of the Ron McCurdy Live Quartet and a video presentation links the words and music poetry to images of “Ask Your Mama” people, places, events and the works of the visual artists that Langston Hughes admired or collaborated with over the course of his career.

Bridging the Harlem Renaissance, the post World War II Beat writers’ coffeehouse jazz poetry world and the Black Arts performance explosion of the 1960s, the Langston Hughes Project merges the words, sounds and images of this time to recreate that magical moment in cultural history.

McCurdy’s Web site describes the show as “a multimedia performance involving spoken word artist, jazz quartet and a slide presentation of images from the Harlem Renaissance” in which all these components occur simultaneously.

“This multimedia presentation recreates Hughes’s vision of the global struggle for freedom in the early 1960s. African American artists and photographers including Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks, and Romare Bearden link words and music to a kaleidoscopic collection of images,” the Web site further states.

Tickets for “The Langston Hughes Project – Jazz Montage: A Multimedia Concert Performance of Langston Hughes” may be purchased online at

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his summer, the symphony will be playing more than classical music when they perform the music of Michael Jackson, The Carpenters, Neil Sedaka, the Rat Pack, and even Nick Jr. favorites, Max & Ruby.

The ever popular "Sound of Music" score will also be performed, but with a fun twist – as a singa-long. There is something for everyone at Powell Hall this summer.

If you are a symphony lover, but would rather enjoy the symphony in a more casual setting, then the Casual Classics concerts are for you. More of the Casual Classics performances have also been added to this summer's schedule.

Following is the listing of summer concerts that have been recently added to the 2010-2011 “Live at Powell Hall” Concerts.

Neil Sedaka with the St. Louis Symphony Friday, May 13, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.; Tickets: $65 - $37 The history of rock n’ roll wouldn’t be complete without the invaluable contributions of Neil Sedaka. For more than 50 years, Sedaka has written, performed, produced, and inspired countless songs, including Calendar Girl, Breaking up Is Hard to Do and Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen.

Sedaka will perform with the Symphony live for a very special night of timeless classics.

Max & Ruby Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.; Tickets: $45 - $25 Nick Jr.’s animated-television sensations Max and Ruby will come to life on stage in this special production at Powell Hall. Don’t miss preschooler’s favorite pair of bunny siblings, Max and Ruby, as they embark on a musical bus ride to find the greatest present in the world. This fast-paced theatrical production will have the whole audience singing and hopping to original tunes. The St. Louis Symphony will not perform during

this event.

Sing-along Sound of Music Friday, June 10, 2011 at 7 p.m.; Tickets: $35 - $20 Experience The Sound of Music live and join in! This smash hit interactive screening of the classic Julie Andrews film is in glorious, full-screen Technicolor, complete with subtitles so that the whole audience can sing along. A spirited on-stage master-of-ceremonies will lead the crowd through exciting activities to enhance the experience of watching the film in Powell Hall’s beautiful auditorium. Ticket price includes a fun pack of novelties for interacting with the film. It’s a musical adventure for the whole family! The St. Louis Symphony will not perform during this event.

Music of Michael Jackson with the St. Louis Symphony Conducted by Brent Havens Vocals by James Delisco Saturday, June 11, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.; Tickets: $65 - $30 For one night only, the Symphony will perform music spanning four decades of Michael Jackson’s career.

Brent Havens will conduct the orchestra and guest band while

vocalist James Delisco leads in singing Jackson’s electrifying and moving hits. “Music of Michael Jackson” journeys through each era of Jackson’s career from “ABC,” “I’ll Be There,” and “Got to Be There” to “Beat It,” “Thriller,” “The Way You Make Me Feel” and more.

Yesterday Once More: A Musical Tribute to the Carpenters with the St. Louis Symphony Music arranged Jim Brickman Sunday, June 26, 2011 at 2 p.m.; Tickets: $65 - $30 Travel back to the ’70s with the St. Louis Symphony. Relive a time when the Carpenters were the bestselling group of the decade. Don’t miss this beautiful musical tribute to the Carpenters, which will feature some of the most famous ballads and classics from the Carpenters backed by the St. Louis Symphony including: “Ticket to Ride,” “We’ve Only Just Begun,” “Top of the World,” and “Rainy Days and Mondays.”

2011 Casual Classics For all Casual Classics concerts, a festive pre-concert celebration of delicious food and beverages will be held in the sun-lit foyer. In the spirit of the summer, guests are invited to dress casually and comfortably as they experience a night of classical favorites familiar and loved by all. Doors open one hour prior to each concert. Subscribe to all three concerts and receive 20 percent off.

Classical’s Greatest Hits Conducted by Ward Stare Friday, May 20, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.; Tickets: $45 - $25 Enjoy a night of the most popular works in the repertoire, including

Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nacht Musik, Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, and selections from Bizet’s Carmen.

Resident Conductor Ward Stare leads this sensational evening of some of the best classical music ever written.

Symphonic Hollywood Conducted by Richard Kaufman Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.; Tickets: $45 - $25 Guest conductor Richard Kaufman, known for his personal and professional devotion to conducting and supervising music for film and television, will lead the St. Louis Symphony in a wondrous evening of music and behind-thescenes images from legendary motion pictures such as Out of Africa, Forrest Gump, E.T., Ben Hur, Spiderman, The Magnificent Seven, Spirit of St. Louis, and more.

Vegas and the Rat Pack Conducted by Matt Catingub Vocals by Matt Catingub and Anita Hall Friday, June 17, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.; Tickets: $45 - $25 Guest conductor and vocalist Matt Catingub leads a night of nostalgic melodies from the Rat Pack, including an Oceans 11 medley and all your favorites by Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin and more. “Vegas and the Rat Pack” will let you relive the swinging times and swinging music of the Rat Pack era.

Tickets for all the above concerts are currently on sale at the Powell Hall Box Office, online at www. stlsymphony.org, or by phone at 314-534-1700. The Powell Hall Box Office is located at 718 North Grand

Above, the St. Louis Symphony. At left, conductor Brent Havens, who will direct The Music of Michael Jackson with the St. Louis Symphony.

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Music Tuning in SLSYO marks 40th anniversary The St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra (YO), founded in 1970

by St. Louis Symphony Conductor Laureate Leonard Slatkin, celebrates its 40th anniversary throughout the 2010-2011 season. YO Music Director and St. Louis Symphony Resident Conductor Ward Stare will conduct the nearly 100-member orchestra in three exciting concerts at Powell Hall, plus a run-out performance at McKendree University.

As part of the 40th-anniversary celebration, a scholarship fund will be established to provide tuition aid for selected YO members. The fund honors the late Edith Hougland, founding YO manager. “Edith’s years of dedication and hard work were truly remarkable,” said current YO manager Peggy Neilson. “We are happy to establish this fund in her name.”

YO anniversary events were launched in June, when more than sixty YO musicians traveled to New York City to perform at the historic Riverside Church. The program included Mendelssohn’s Reformation Symphony, with Ward Stare conducting. The YO musicians also toured prestigious New York musical institutions, including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and the Juilliard School, attended a performance by the New York Philharmonic, and received coaching from Philharmonic members. The performance received a glowing review from The New York Times, which called it “a terrific concert… inspired to impressive heights,” praising the YO’s “elegant phrasing and nuanced dynamic contrasts…all sections meshing into a vigorous and expressive whole.”

Other anniversary activities include: • A run-out performance on May 1, 2011, at the Hett Center of McKendree University in Lebanon, Illinois, featuring the Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D major, “Titan” Alumni of the YO are encouraged to get in touch with Peggy Neilson, YO Manager, to update contact information and share current progress and experiences. She can be reached at peggyn@stlsymphony. org or 314-286-4407.

Concert II Sunday, March 20, 2011 3:00 PM Ward Stare, conductor First half of program TBA HINDEMITH Symphonic metamorphosis of themes by Carl Maria von Weber Concert III Sunday, May 15, 2011 3:00 PM Ward Stare, conductor First half of program TBA MAHLER Symphony No. 1 in D major, “Titan” Founded in 1970 by Leonard Slatkin, the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra (YO) has had a significant impact on the region’s student musicians for 40 years. The YO consists of young musicians ranging in age from 12-22. Members of the Youth Orchestra represent more than three dozen schools throughout the St. Louis region and some from as far away as Springfield, Illinois, and Rolla and Columbia, Missouri. YO members receive coaching from St. Louis Symphony members during the season. The YO has been a springboard for many young musicians seeking a career in orchestral music – including six current members of the St. Louis Symphony. There are more than

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1,000 YO alumni performing, teaching, and working in fields other than music. In 2008, the YO performed in the Missouri State Capital Building in Jefferson City and spoke with legislators about the importance of music education.

The YO continues its advocacy for music education locally and state wide. Youth Orchestra musicians are selected by annual auditions.

Greenville College Choir performances set The Greenville College Choir will perform a number of concerts in South Central Illinois, St. Louis, Missouri and the Southeastern United States this spring. Weekend performances will take place in various churches in the St. Louis Metro and Metro East areas including a March 6 pre-tour concert at Christ Church Cathedral (St. Louis) and a guest appearance in the Bach at the Sem Concert Series at Concordia Seminary (St. Louis) with The American Kantorei, a professional choral and orchestral ensemble. The Greenville Choir ’s 2011 spring tour will take them to venues in Atlanta (GA), St. Petersburg (FL), Charlotte (NC) and Nashville (TN). This year ’s tour program includes works from Estonia, Norway, England and America and spans a 400-year period.

Founded in 1927 by Dr. Robert W. Woods, the Greenville College Choir has attained a widespread reputation for performing sacred choral music of the highest quality.

The Choir regularly joins with the Greenville Choral Union for concerts of larger choral-orchestral works such as Bach’s Magnificat, Mozart’s Requiem, and the annual Christmas performance of Handel’s Messiah.

In 2008 the Choir w a s i n v i t ed to sing at the American Choral Director Association’s Central Division Convention in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In November 2009 the Choir performed with the Boston Camerata at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis.

The Choir consists of 52 undergraduate students from various fields of liberal arts study, including the College’s five music degree programs. As the flagship choral ensemble of Greenville College, the choir presents as many as twenty off-campus performances

each year as part of its annual tour.

Students’ dedication to the program is consistently made evident by the professional quality of their performances.

Conductor Jeffrey S. Wilson received his Bachelor of Music degree in piano from Augustana College (Rock Island, Illinois). He earned the Master of Music degree in choral music and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting and literature from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. Dr. Wilson has served as conductor of the choir since 1996.

The Greenville College Choir ’s spring semester itinerary currently includes the following performances: Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 9:30 & 10:45 a.m. Worship Services Shadowbrook Baptist Church 4187 Suwanee Dam Road Suwanee, GA 30024 Phone: 770.945.1524; website: http://shadowbrookchurch.org/ home/index.asp Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.

Gainesville First United Methodist Church 2870 Thompson Bridge Road, Gainesville, GA 30506 Phone: 770.536.2341; website: www.gfumc.com Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 6:00 p.m.

Lakeland Light and Life Free Methodist Church 5730 Deeson Road, Lakeland, FL 33810 Phone: 863.858.6361; website: www.lightandlifepark.org Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.

Cornerstone Community Church 6745 38th Avenue North, St. Petersburg, FL 33710-1536 Phone: 727.343.7747; website: www.cometocornerstone.com Friday, March 18, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.

Lake Norman Baptist Church 7921 Sam Furr Road, Huntersville, NC 28078 Phone: 704.892.0143; website: www.lakenormanbaptist.com Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.

The Contemporary Music Center 559 Church Street East, Brentwood, TN 37027 Website: www.bestsemester.com/ cmc Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 10:30 a.m. Worship Service Belmont United Methodist Church 2007 Acklen Avenue, Nashville, TN 37212 Phone: 615.383.0832; website:

www.belmontumc.org Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 4:00 p.m.

Choir Home Concert - Greenville Free Methodist Church 1367 East State Route 140, Greenville, IL 62246 Phone: 618.664.2584; website: http://greenvillefmc.org/ Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 3:00 p.m.

Spring Choral-Orchestral Concert with The American Kantorei The Chapel of St. Timothy and St. Titus, Concordia Seminary 801 Seminary Place, St. Louis, MO 63105 Phone: 314.505.7000; website: www.csl.edu Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 4:30 p.m.

C o m m e n c e m e n t We e k e n d Concert Whitlock Music Center, Greenville College 3 1 5 E a s t C o l l e g e Av e n u e , Greenville, IL 62246 Phone: 618.664.6560; website: www.greenville.edu For further information about the Greenville College Choir please contact the Greenville College Music Department Office at 618.664.6560 or grace.hoenig@greenville.edu.

SLSO makes plans for 2011-12 season The St. Louis Symphony today announced its 2011-12 Season: the orchestra’s 132nd since its founding in 1880, and the seventh under Music Director David Robertson. The 201112 Wells Fargo Advisors Orchestral Series runs from September 16, 2011 through May 6, 2012.

The relationship between dance and music figures prominently throughout the 2011-12 Season.

The centennial anniversary of the famed dance/theater company, the Ballets Russes, figured as an initial inspiration to the planning of the season. Robertson explained: “One-hundred-years ago Sergey Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes was setting the world on fire, culminating with the riotous premiere of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.

Throughout the season we explore the provocative relationship between these two art forms, including an opening weekend that features three of Stravinsky’s great ballet scores: Petrushka, Les Noces and The Rite of Spring.” Other works celebrating the Ballets Russes, which commissioned some of the most innovative composers of the 20th

century, include Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe, Stravinsky’s The Firebird, and excerpts from Schumann’s Carnaval, with orchestration by Ravel. Beginning with this focus on Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, the repertoire expands to include dance as an overall theme throughout much of the season.

St. Louis Symphony President and CEO Fred Bronstein emphasized the audience-development initiatives of the organization as they relate to the new season. “This season underscores both the qualities and strategic focus of the St. Louis Symphony,” Bronstein said.

“Excellence is prevalent, as is the balance of accessibility, creativity and artistic growth. From beginning to end, there is a sense not just of many concerts, but a series of ‘events’ that make the St. Louis Symphony and Powell Hall a destination. There is something for everyone, and I think the season reinforces the point that the serious audience development work successfully undertaken in recent years will continue to be a key element in how we gauge our future success as an institution.”

Highlights of the 2011-12 season include: • Signature Dance Programs in concerts featuring an Opening Weekend of Stravinsky ballets, flamenco guitarist Juan Carmona, and the return of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago • Rach Fest, featuring three Rachmaninoff piano concertos performed over two weekends by Stephen Hough • 3rd Annual Gala with violinist Itzhak Perlman performing Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1, conducted by Music Director David Robertson • The St. Louis Symphony continues its tradition of presenting Adventurous and New Music throughout the 2011-12 Season, including world premieres by Edgar Meyer and Steven Mackey and a United States premiere by Philippe Manoury • In conjunction with the citywide American Arts Experience-St. Louis, David Robertson conducts the world premiere of Edgar Meyer ’s Double Bass Concerto No. 3. Also on the program are works by Copland, Ives, as well as Gershwin’s An American in Paris • Orchestral Favorites including Vi v a l d i ’ s T h e F o u r S e a s o n s , Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 and Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor,” Ravel’s Bolero and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4.

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Thursday, March 10 • Dance Party with Z107.7, The Drunken Fish, Central West End • Ultraviolets, Fast Eddies Bon Air, East Alton, 7 p.m.

Friday, March 11 • Janis Ian, The Rock House, 8:30 p.m., 1200 South 7th Street St. Louis, (314) 588-0505 * Marriage of Figaro “Sliced and Diced” Presented by UMSL Department of Music and UMSL Opera Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

• Ground Floor, Stagger Inn, Edwardsville, 10 p.m.

• Gabie, Westview Wine Cellar and Bistro, Collinsville, 7 p.m.

• “King O’ The Moon” Alton Little Theater, 2450 N. Henry St., Alton, 7:30 p.m.

• Bob and Perry, Villa Marie Winery, Maryville, 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.

• Dan Zane and Friends, COCA, 524 Trinity Ave., St. Louis, Mo., 7 p.m.

• Planet Boogie, 8 p.m., Fast Eddies Bon Air, East Alton

Saturday, March 12 • Here Come the Mummies, The Pageant, St. Louis, Delmar Loop * Marriage of Figaro “Sliced and Diced” Presented by UMSL Department of Music and UMSL Opera Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

• Conquer Root, Stagger Inn, Edwardsville, 10 p.m.

• Pete Morrissey, Westview Wine Cellar and Bistro, Collinsville, 7 p.m.

• “King O’ The Moon” Alton Little Theater, 2450 N. Henry St., Alton, 7:30 p.m.

• Dan Zane and Friends, COCA, 524 Trinity Ave., St. Louis,

Mo., 2 p.m. & 5 p.m.

• Hoosier Daddy’s, 3 p.m.; Planet Boogie, 8 p.m., Fast Eddies Bon Air, 8 p.m.

• Pennsylvania Slim, Grafton Winery, Grafton • The Bluegrass Ball-The Travelin McCourys, Jeff Austin of Younder Mt. String Band, Drew Emmitt, Head for the Hills, 1200 South 7th Street St. Louis, (314) 588-0505

Sunday, March 13 • Mo’ Pleasure, Villa Marie Winery, Maryville, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.

• Open Mic w/Butch Moore, Stagger Inn, Edwardsville, 9 p.m.

• Open Mic w/Bottoms Up Blues Gang, Llywelyn’s Pub, Soulard * Marriage of Figaro “Sliced and Diced” Presented by UMSL Department of Music and UMSL Opera Theatre, 2 p.m., free • “King O’ The Moon” Alton Little Theater, 2450 N. Henry St., Alton, 2 p.m.

• Dan Zane and Friends, COCA, 524 Trinity Ave., St. Louis, Mo.,1:30 p.m. & 3:30 p.m.

• Red Rock, 2 p.m.; Radio Star 7 p.m.; Fast Eddies Bon Air, East Alton • Rock A Billy Revival, Grafton Winery, Grafton • The Bluegrass Ball-The Travelin McCourys, Jeff Austin of Younder Mt. String Band, Drew Emmitt, Head for the Hills, The Rock House, 1200 South 7th Street St. Louis, (314) 588-0505

Monday, March 14 • Madahoochi & Friends, Cicero’s, 9 p.m.

• Keypers Piano Bar, Musical Monday’s Cabaret, 9 p.m.

• Soulard Blues Band, Broadway Oyster Bar, 9 p.m.

• Asking Alexandria, Emmure, Evergreen Terrace, etc., The Pageant, Delmar Loop, St. Louis • Walk the Moon, This City of Takers, BJSR, Bella Ruse,

7:30, The Bluegrass Ball-The Travelin McCourys, Jeff Austin of Younder Mt. String Band, Drew Emmitt, Head for the Hills, The Rock House, 1200 South 7th Street St. Louis, (314) 588-0505

Tuesday, March 15 • Alvin Jett Duo, Hwy. 61 Roadhouse and Kitchen, 7:30 p.m.

• Marquise Knox, Beale on Broadway, 8 p.m.

• “King O’ The Moon” Alton Little Theater, 2450 N. Henry St., Alton, 7:30 p.m.

• Miniature Tigers, The Rock House, 1200 South 7th Street St. Louis, (314) 588-0505

Wednesday, March 16 • Open Mic w/Duck Tape Trio, Stagger Inn, Edwardsville • Tom Hall, Iron Barley, South St. Louis, 6:30 p.m.

• Brian Curran, Broadway Oyster Bar, 5 p.m.

• “King O’ The Moon” Alton Little Theater, 2450 N. Henry St., Alton, 7:30 p.m.

• Tiesto US TOUR, The Pageant, Delmar Loop, St. Louis, Mo.

Thursday, March 17 • Galactic w/special guest-Mike Gordon of Phish, The Pageant, St. Louis, Mo., Delmar Loop • Dance Party with Z107.7, The Drunken Fish, Central West End • Red Light Runners with Singleton, Stagger Inn, Edwardsville, 10 p.m.

• “King O’ The Moon” Alton Little Theater, 2450 N. Henry St., Alton, 7:30 p.m.

• St. Patrick’s Party featuring music by Scott & Michelle, Villa Marie Winery, Maryville, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., 345-3100 for reservations.

• Chris Knight, Off Broadway, 7:30 p.m., 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, Mo. • Dave Mason, The Rock House, 1200 South 7th Street St. Louis, (314) 588-0505

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Close cropping can add garden space

By DEAN FOSDICK Associated Press Gardeners react no differently than anyone else when times are tough: They tighten spending and try to squeeze more from their budgets. Some turn to close cropping — crowding plants as a cheap and easy way to maximize yields from minimal space.

Placing garden plants shoulder-to-shoulder is not a new idea. Native Americans are credited with introducing the “Three Sisters” concept, in which corn, beans and squash were planted alongside one another. The nitrogen-rich climbing beans used the corn stalks for structure, while the ground-hugging squash smothered weeds and reduced soil evaporation. The result: three interdependent and eminently edible crops produced from the same ground.

If done right, massing plants in their growing beds is also an efficient way for urban gardeners to make the most of patios or decks, balconies or fire escapes.

“Many gardeners find themselves in a situation of wanting to grow either more produce in the same amount of space, or grow similar amounts in a reduced area,” said Ben Sturtevant, a marketing specialist with Johnny’s Selected Seeds in Winslow, Maine.

“This leads to finding ways to change methods or use new methods of production.”

Traditional single-row spacing varies, but smaller crops like radishes, leaf lettuces and beets usually are assigned about a foot between the rows, Sturtevant said. Larger plants, including beans, cabbage and broccoli, generally are given 2 to 3 feet.

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This April 20, 2010 photo courtesy of Dean Fosdick shows close cropping in raised beds in New Market, Va. Close cropping is a cheap and easy way to boost yields from small plots. Spacing between plants can be tightened when using traditional row designs or vegetables can be massed in square or diamond patterns such as was done in this raised bed setup.

Garden beds can be compressed, however, if managed properly. That includes letting enough air flow around the plants to prevent mildew, Sturtevant said.

It also means using rich soil, said Derek Fell,

author of more than 100 garden publications.

“If you have a lot of nutrition in the soil, then a lot of plants won’t mind being crowded,” he said.

Rather than planting in single rows, plant

in square or diamond patterns, Fell suggested.

“That’s used extensively in places like Britain where you have space limitations. You can get an amazing amount of production from tight planting.”

Here are some space-saving variations: — Grow vertical. “Cucumbers, some squashes, melons and tomatoes can be trellised very nicely,” Sturtevant said.

— Succession planting. Get a new crop into the ground as soon as the cool-season crop has been harvested. Replace lettuce, radishes and peas with something like beans, beets and turnips.

— Inter-planting. Grow vegetables having different maturity dates side by side. A typical pairing might be radishes, which are fast maturing, with carrots, which take longer.

Space also can be gained by planting a massed row of leaf lettuce between two rows of tomatoes. The lettuce can be eaten before the tomatoes grow tall enough to shade them out.

— Use containers, “a sure way to grow in a limited amount of space,” Sturtevant said.

“Specific (plant) varieties are now being developed for this specialized environment.”

— Select “bush” or dwarf plants, which don’t take as much space or compete as vigorously for soil ingredients.

“Shop around for ‘kit gardens,’ or comparable plant varieties that are made into salads, pizza fixings or herbal teas and seasonings,” said Linda Chalker-Scott, an urban horticulturist with Washington State University’s Puyallup Research and Extension Center. “They’re also a neat way to introduce gardening to the entire family, especially children.”

Bill Bookcase? Chloe chair? What's in a name?

NEW YORK (AP) – Do you have a Chloe in your house? How about a Harry, or a Scarlet?

I’m not talking about your children or pets, but your furniture. Ever wondered how and why retailers come up with names for the things you buy for your home?

The concept’s not new, says Antonio Larosa, the furniture chairman at Savannah College of Art & Design.

“Throughout history, furniture pieces were given the name of a monarch, such as Queen Anne or Louis XIV, to gain favor and influence,” he says.

In modern times, naming furniture is just good marketing. “It’s appealing and friendly to have a ‘Jasmine Chair’ in a catalog rather than the ‘XY 9811.Y Chair,”’ Larosa says. Aside from the visceral connection that consumers might make with a name, it’s also a lot easier for everyone from manufacturer to buyer to reference.

In Europe, Larosa says, designers instinctively treat their finished product like a family member. “They feel they’ve put so much passion into it that it isn’t just a piece of wood or metal, but an integral part of the home.” That’s why you saw feminine names grow in popularity during the 1960s and ‘70s, especially in Italy: Sottsass’ Valentina typewriter.

Mendini’s Anna G corkscrew for Alessi.

There were variations: Poltronova’s “Joe” leather chair, designed in 1970 and now re-edited by the U.S. company Heller, paid homage to Joe DiMaggio.

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Caldera, meaning volcano, becomes a lava-colored Murano glass bowl. And I’m in love with Lola, our Mexican etched goblet and tumbler — the name just says it all!”

Becky Weber, upholstery buyer at Crate & Barrel, provided some additional insight: “We named our new wing chair Astaire because it’s

covered in soft shimmery leather that reminded me of an elegant ball gown — an old-school, iconic dancing reference.

“The Ian white leather sofa pays tribute to Ian Schrager, who pioneered the concept of hotel lobby as ‘club.”’

And Scarlet, a voluptuous chaise, evokes Tara’s heroine, Gearson says.

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Kevin Sharkey, executive creative director for merchandising at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, says products’ names are “an important part of creating an experience for our consumer. A lot of thought goes into names that suggest a way of life that’s inspired and welcoming.”

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Names can’t be too long or short, and mustn’t be offensive in any language.

All have Scandinavian origins.

Beds have Norwegian place names; seating and dining tables have Swedish ones. Your Klippan sofa is named after a pretty town in the southern countryside. Girls’ and boys’ names are used for fabrics, some office furniture and shelving

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Living comfortably with less space Economy has people downsizing

By SUSAN ZEVON Associated Press Tiny houses are going mainstream.

Just look at the Katrina Cottage, originally designed by architects Andres Duany and Marianne Cusato as a dignified alternative to the FEMA trailer for flood-ravaged New Orleans.

The tiny charmers with pitched roofs, nostalgic front porches and 300 to 1,800 square feet are becoming popular elsewhere; Lowe’s home stores sell the blueprints and materials.

The cottages are being used as affordable housing, guesthouses and vacation cottages.

It’s part of a larger trend toward living small.

The average size of the American home expanded from 983 square feet in 1950 to 2,340 square feet in 2004, up 140 percent.

This boom was largely driven by a belief that living big meant living well, and that real estate was a great investment so the bigger the house the better the investment.

The recession is one thing killing that notion. Millions of foreclosures have meant “people have lost a ton of equity,” said Boyce Thompson, editorial director of Builder magazine.

Add in high unemployment and energy costs, and no wonder small might seem better.

According to the American Institute of Architects in 2010, 57 percent of architecture firms reported a decrease in the square footage of homes they designed.

Another factor is people’s desire to live more ecologically, less wastefully.

And there are demographic changes.

Thompson points out that one-third of American home buyers are now single; people are marrying later, and many don’t want to wait until marriage to invest in a house.

Moreover, as Americans live longer, many widows and widowers are downsizing to small homes.

And with elderly parents and grown children returning home, there are more multigenerational families, increasing the demand “for small auxiliary buildings,” Cusato says.

Tiny dwellings allow generations of a family to live side-by-side with privacy.

HOW SMALL IS TINY? Some people don’t just want small; they want minuscule.

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In this photo taken Feb. 13, Santa Fe resident Bruce Dunlap practices guitar at his tiny home in Santa Fe, N.M. Dunlap is one of thousands of Americans who have skirted zoning laws and ditched rent payments to build ultra-small houses.

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as around 1,000 square feet, although “some enthusiasts cap them at the 300- to 400-squarefoot range,” she says.

In “Tiny Houses,” Zeiger presents three-dozen international examples, including some in the United States.

She believes that America’s abundance of land and materials has traditionally made us less conscious of conservation than people are elsewhere, but that is changing.

Cusato credits Sarah Susanka’s book “The Not So Big House” (Taunton), first published in 1998 and expanded in 2009, with starting a movement to change the way builders work.

“People started saying they wanted their houses to be smaller, but better,” Cusato says.

Susanka, who considers a tiny house to be one measuring no more than 500 square feet, once lived in an 8-by-12-foot flatbed trailer truck.

“There has always been a fascination with tiny houses and an underground interest in them that surfaces when the economy goes down,” Susanka says.

The best solution for housing in America, she believes, will be in the middle ground: 1,500 to 2,500 square feet.

“The gift of the recession will be that Americans will believe that bigger is not better,” she says.

MAKING A TINY SPACE LIVABLE “You have to be very disciplined to live in a tiny space,” Susanka says.

Zeiger, who lives in a small studio apartment in Brooklyn,

N.Y., says, “The most important thing that makes a tiny house livable is efficient space planning and clever storage Like on a ship, things need to have dual purposes. You also need good light and air, so that the space isn’t claustrophobic or hut-like, but is a space you want to spend time in.”

Her table, for example, serves as both kitchen table and office desk.

Cusato agrees that light is essential in a small space. She recommends “windows on multiple walls in a room, two at a minimum — three or four are ideal. Tall ceilings — 9 feet in a small space feels great. When living in a tiny house, lots of storage is essential. Nothing makes the walls close in faster than clutter.”

Proximity to a public space is fundamental, she believes, and recommends that porches or terraces connect to street life or a garden.

“The house does not need to be the size of an entire town if it is connected to a town,” Cusato says.

Zeiger notes that it’s easy for urbanites living in tiny spaces to go out and engage with the rest of the world. When her apartment starts to feel cramped, she goes to a neighborhood coffee shop.

And since she doesn’t have space for a lot of bookshelves, she takes full advantage of the public library.

There is also in America the tradition of Thoreau’s Walden, the tiny cottage in the wilderness where natural surroundings become part of the living space.

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Walmart store canned near Civil War battlefield ORANGE, Va. (AP) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is dropping plans to build a store near the Wilderness Battlefield in northern Virginia.

Lawyers representing the Arkansas-based retailer made the announcement Wednesday in Orange County Circuit Court.

The nation’s largest retailer won local approval to build the store near the Wilderness Battlefield. But residents and preservationists went to court to overturn that 2009 decision.

Wednesday was to be the second day of a trial seeking to block the project.

An attorney representing the county has said the case is not about the Civil War, but local land use.

Residents and preservationists argued the store would bring traffic and more commerce to Locust Grove.

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Smokies visits in 2010 nearly match year before GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — The number of visitors to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 2010 nearly matched the figure from the year before, despite landslides, weather extremes and major construction projects.

The National Park Service said on Wednesday that there were 9,463,538 people who came to the 500,000-acre park on the Tennessee-North Carolina border in 2010. That was about 28,000 fewer than in 2009 — the Smokies’ 75th anniversary year.

Park Superintendent Dale Ditmanson says frequent high elevation snows that set December records on Mt. LeConte (leh-KONT’) came after a summer heat wave that pushed the low country into a long string of 90-plus degree days.

Ditmanson says autumn foliage that brightened the slopes on schedule helped rescue attendance.

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The agency released a range of options Wednesday for reducing noise from low-flying aircraft at the iconic park, moving officials closer to fulfilling requirements under a 1987 law.

The Park Service’s preferred alternative would allow 8,000 more flights per year over the Grand Canyon for a total of 65,000, and the limit on the number of daily air tours would be set at 364, an increase of 50. Transport flights and those not carrying tourists would be rerouted so they don’t fly directly over the canyon, and all aircraft would have to convert to quiet technology over the next 10 years.

Acting park Superintendent Palma Wilson said rearranging air traffic and patterns to areas where there are fewer visitors will help restore the natural soundscape of the canyon that includes the wind rustling through pine trees and the roar of the Colorado River.

“There’s something in this plan for everybody, but there’s not everything for anybody,” Wilson said.

“Our mandate by law is to protect this resource.”

Nearly 5 million people visit the Grand Canyon each year, and tour agencies do a brisk business in offering helicopter and airplane flights over the park.

But hikers and tourists on the ground have complained that the aircraft noise interferes with the feeling of solitude and overall natural appreciation of the canyon.

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Friday, March 11 • Treasures of Napoleon, Missouri History Museum, Lindell Blvd. at De Baliviere Ave., St. Louis • “The Wiz” presented by McCluer High School; 7 p.m., FCC Theatre, #1 James J. Eagan Dr., Florissant, Mo., www.FlorissantMO. com • S p l e n d i d H e r i t a g e : P e r s p e c t i v e s o n A m e r i c a n I n d i a n A r t , Missouri History Museum, Lindell Blvd. at De Baliviere Ave., St. Louis, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Marriage of Figaro “Sliced and Diced” Presented by UMSL Department of Music and UMSL Opera Theatre, 7:20 p.m., free • Missouri Ballet Theatre-Concepts, The Edison Theatre, 6445 Forsyth Blvd., St. Louis, Mo., 314.935.6543, 8 p.m.

Saturday, March 12 • Treasures of Napoleon, Missouri History Museum, Lindell Blvd. at De Baliviere Ave., St. Louis • “The Wiz” presented by McCluer High School; 7 p.m., FCC Theatre, #1 James J. Eagan Dr., Florissant, Mo., www.FlorissantMO.com • Marriage of Figaro “Sliced and Diced” Presented by UMSL Department of Music and UMSL Opera Theatre, 7:30 p.m., free • Splendid Heritage: Perspectives on American Indian Art, Missouri History Museum, Lindell Blvd. at De Baliviere Ave., St. Louis, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Missouri Ballet Theatre-Concepts, The Edison Theatre, 6445 Forsyth Blvd., St. Louis, Mo., 314.935.6543, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.

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The Arts Artistic adventures Peyton’s works on display at Kemper Museum One of the most celebrated American painters of her generation, Elizabeth Peyton is among today’s foremost contemporary figurative artists and a renowned chronicler of modern life. Her subjects include personal friends and heroes as well as visual artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe, David Hockney, Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe, and historical and cultural figures ranging from William Shakespeare and Richard Wagner to Eminem and Chloe Sevigny.

In January, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present Ghost: Elizabeth Peyton, the most extensive critical survey of Peyton’s work as a printmaker to date.

Organized by Sabine Eckmann, PhD, the museum’s William T. Kemper Director and Chief Curator, the exhibition will include more than four dozen works produced between 1998 and 2010, ranging from etchings and aquatints to lithographs, monotypes and handprinted Ukiyo-e woodcuts. (Since 2002, all of Peyton’s prints have been produced in collaboration with Two Palms Press, an independent print studio in New York City.)

As a printmaker, Peyton revives the tradition of the ‘painterly print’ or monotype — famously utilized by artists such as Edgar Degas — yet also adapts it and other techniques to her own contemporary practice.

Like her paintings, Peyton’s prints merge the subjective beauty and individuality of her subjects with the formal characteristics and exquisite expressive potentials of her chosen medium. For example, though Peyton’s monotypes, lithographs and woodcuts frequently reproduce the lush and richly textured qualities of the painted brushstroke, her etchings are largely characterized by the delicate, refined contours of the masterfully drawn line. Indeed, it is typical for Peyton’s prints to emphasize — through form, process and brushwork — the hand of the artist at work.

Peyton’s most recent prints, such as the still life Flowers and Actaeon, January 2009 (2009), are among her most painterly and find the artist increasingly shifting between figuration and abstraction. At the same time, Peyton pays homage to a number of historical figures, including the painter Paul Cézanne; German composer Richard Wagner; heldentenor Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld; and Schnorr ’s wife, Malvina, a soprano. She also references works by French sculptor Camille Claudel, notably Claudel’s 1905 group sculpture Vertumnus and Pomona, as well as a mask of Claudel’s face created by her lover and friend Auguste Rodin. These prints, like Peyton’s very earliest, balance a series of dichotomies — high art and popular culture; stylization and subjectivity; realism and fiction; beauty and visual pleasure — while capturing the viewer ’s imagination through dramatic brushwork, intense color and richly modulated surfaces.

Concurrent with its exhibition at the Kemper Art Museum, Ghost: Elizabeth Peyton also will be presented at the Opelvillen in R ü s s e l s h e i m , G e r m a n y. T h a t iteration will be curated by director Beate Kemfert.

Monograph The exhibition will be accompanied by a monograph, Ghost: Elizabeth Peyton, jointly

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published by Hatje Cantz, the Opelvillen and the Kemper Art Museum. An in-depth exploration of Peyton as a critical printmaker, the volume includes an essay by Eckmann as well as contributions by the writer and critic Hilton Als and by David Lasry, director of Two Palms Press. In addition, the monograph — which is designed

by Joseph Logan — features an interview with Peyton conducted

by Kemfert and more than 70 of Peyton’s prints in color.

About the artist Born in 1965 in Danbury, Conn., Peyton earned a bachelor of fine a r t s d e g re e i n 1 9 8 7 f ro m t h e School of Visual Arts in New York.

In the years since, her works have been featured in more than 50 solo exhibitions and dozens of group shows. They are included in major public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum of Contemporary A r t , b o t h i n N e w Yo r k ; t h e Museum of Fine Arts Boston; t h e S a i n t L ouis Art Museum; the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; the Kunstmuseum in Wolfsburg, Germany; and the Museum fur Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland. She lives and works in New York.

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum The Mildred Lane Kemper Art M u s e u m , p a r t o f Wa s h i n g t o n University’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, is committed to furthering critical thinking and visual literacy through a v i t a l p ro g r a m o f e x h i b i t i o n s , publications and accompanying events. The museum dates back to 1881, making it the oldest art museum west of the Mississippi River. Today it boasts one of the finest university collections in the United States.

perform “500 Clown Frankenstein.”

Each of the four evening performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. at either the Dunham Hall Theater or Metcalf Theater.

Ticket prices vary depending on the group performing, but range from $12 to $28.

For more information, call the Fine Arts Box Office at 650-2774 or visit the XFest Web site at www.siue. edu/xfest.

Exhibit will celebrate Island Press Since its formation in 1978, Island Press has evolved from a traditional contract print shop — producing high quality editions in standard media and formats — into a uniquely collaborative and educational enterprise known for complex, large-scale

works by a range of nationally and internationally renowned artists.

I n J a n u a r y, t h e M i l d r e d Lane Kemper Art Museum at Wa s h i n g t o n U n i v e r s i t y i n S t .

Louis will explore that evolution with Island Press: Three Decades of Printmaking. Curated by Karen K. Butler, assistant curator of the Kemper Art Museum, the exhibition will survey more than two-dozen works highlighting the press’ history of technical innovation, artistic experimentation and student participation.

Island Press: Three Decades of Printmaking will open Jan. 28, and remain on view through April 18, 2011. The exhibition is free and open to the public. The Kemper Art Museum is located o n Wa s h i n g t o n U n i v e r s i t y ’ s Danforth Campus, near the intersection of Skinker and

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H o u s e d w i t h i n W U S T L’ s Sam Fox School of Design & Vi s u a l A r t s , I s l a n d P re s s w a s e s t a b l i s h e d b y P e t e r M a rc u s , now professor emeritus of printmaking. Originally called t h e Wa s h i n g t o n U n i v e r s i t y Collaborative Printmaking Wo r k s h o p , t h e p r e s s t a k e s its name from a massively o v e r s i z e d e t c h i n g p re s s — 6 0 inches wide by 120 inches long — that Marcus built in the early 1990s with St. Louis machinist Wa r r e n S a u e r, a d e s i g n t h e y dubbed “The Island Press.”

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SIUE will host XFest 2.0 SIUE’s Department of Theater and Dance recently announced its schedule for XFest 2.0, a four-day celebration of experimental theater that will take place June 1 through 4.

The event, which is open to everyone, will feature four mainstage performances as well as a host of workshops focusing on experimental theater.

Last year ’s XFest featured Red Metal Mailbox, The Flying Carpet Theatre and the UMO Ensemble.

The 2011 lineup is even more expansive as four national acts have been lined up.

“52 Pickup” will be performed by theater simple out of Seattle while LOCO7, based in in New York City, will present “In Retrospect.”

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Saint Louis Art Museum to feature two exhibits by the South African master

By DEBBIE SETTLE Of The Edge

W

illiam Kentridge of South Africa is best known for his animated films. Kentridge constructs these films by making a drawing, filming it, making erasures and changes and filming it again. He meticulously continues this process in unbelievably lighting speed.

He later exhibits his films with the art work displayed alongside.

This spring, the Saint Louis Art Museum will present the work of internationally renowned artist William Kentridge in two related exhibitions – one of film, the other of prints. The exhibitions are meant to celebrate the Dean’s Medal Kentridge will receive from Washington University’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Art this March.

Kentridge works fluidly between the realms of drawing, printmaking, animation and theater. His imaginative visual narratives interweave personal, artistic and political themes.

The exhibitions, William Kentridge: Two Films and Visual Musing: Prints by William Kentridge were curated by Tricia Y. Paik and Eric Lutz, respectively.

Both will be on view at the Museum through May 22, 2011.

William Kentridge: Two Films This edition of the New Media Series offers two short animated films by acclaimed South African artist William Kentridge, "Weighing…and Wanting" (1998) and "Journey to the Moon" (2003).

In both films, Kentridge investigates two ongoing themes in his art: the political and the personal.

"Weighing…and Wanting" tells the story of wealthy industrialist Soho Eckstein, an iconic character in Kentridge’s films. Exploring post-apartheid South Africa, Kentridge offers a thoughtful meditation on the complex identity of his native country. In contrast, "Journey to the Moon" provides an intimate look into Kentridge’s creative processes. Using his signature method of stop-motion animation, Kentridge is filmed whimsically interacting with his own drawings as he pays homage to "Le voyage dans la lune," the 1902 silent film classic by pioneering French filmmaker Georges Méliès.

The New Media Series features installations by

living artists whose work utilizes digital media, engaging the audience through both film and sound.

Curated by Tricia Y. Paik, assistant curator of modern and contemporary art, William Kentridge: Two Films is on view in Gallery 301 through May 22, 2011.

Visual Musing: Prints by William Kentridge This exhibition brings together two recent series of prints by South African artist William Kentridge, "Thinking Aloud" (2004) and "Nose" (2007–2009), comprising 44 works on paper. Both bodies of work blend his own visual iconography with that of stories from literature and theater. The largest series, "Nose" is composed of 30 prints inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s 1836 short story of the same name. Gogol’s tale begins with a Russian bureaucrat waking up to find his nose mysteriously missing. The visual narrative follows the journey of the nose independent of the face. Kentridge elaborates on Gogol’s tale by taking the viewer on an adventure through iconic moments in Russian history and art.

Curated by Eric Lutz, associate curator of prints, drawings, and photographs, with Ann-Maree Walker, research assistant, Visual Musing: Prints by William Kentridge is on view in Gallery 337 from Feb. 25 through May 22, 2011.

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.

The Museum offers a full range of exhibitions and educational programming generated independently and in collaboration with local, national and international partners.

Remember when visiting the museum that it is still under transformation construction. Many of the parking areas have been blocked off, along with exhibit areas. The upper parking lot is still available for your parking convenience, which is located just at the top of Art Hill.

Admission to the Saint Louis Art Museum is free to all every day. Special exhibits may require a ticket to be purchased, but all special exhibits are free to the public on Fridays. For more information about the Saint Louis Art Museum, call 314-721-0072 or visit www.slam.org.

Pictured are some of the works

by William Kentridge that will be featured at the Saint Louis Art Museum.

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QuickGlance Movie Reviews

“Just Go With It”

Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston’s romantic comedy, idiotic even by their usually low big-screen standards, is stuffed with unpleasant narcissists saying and doing the dumbest, often cruelest things in hope of cheap laughs. They fail; there’s barely a titter’s worth of humor in this bloated mess that drones on for nearly two hours. Based on Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman and Goldie Hawn’s 1969 comedy “Cactus Flower,” the movie casts Sandler as a plastic surgeon and supposedly nice guy who has spent two decades pretending to be a mistreated husband so he can score with sympathetic women (yeah, real nice guy). When he finally falls for somebody (Sports Illustrated swimsuit goddess Brooklyn Decker), he enlists his assistant (Aniston) to pose as the wife he’s divorcing.

And the lamebrained lies build from there. Director Dennis Dugan, whose collaborations with Sandler include “Big Daddy” and “Grown Ups,” lets scene after unfunny scene linger painfully. Nicole Kidman somehow got roped into a supporting role in this dreadful affair, but don’t you make the same mistake. Just run from it.

RATED: PG-13 for frequent crude and sexual content, partial nudity, brief drug references and language.

RUNNING TIME: 116 minutes.

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

“I Am Number Four”

Great, another Chosen One. Director D.J. Caruso’s action tale “I Am Number Four” is mostly familiar stuff, presenting the latest teen outsider coming into possession of his latent superpowers just in time to battle evil forces intent on world chaos. While the filmmakers manage some entertaining fight sequences, they offer a standardissue gang of heroes backed by a vague, unoriginal mythology about human-looking aliens finding refuge on Earth after their planet is destroyed. Alex Pettyfer has the title role, one of nine youths being hunted down by the destroyers of their own world before the kids develop genetically inherited abilities that could help them defeat the bad guys, who now aim to invade Earth. One character notes that his upbringing was like an endless episode of “The X-Files,” but even weak installments of that show had more creepy chills and clever twists than this. Co-starring Timothy Olyphant, Dianna Agron, Teresa Palmer, Callan McAuliffe and Kevin Durand.

RATED: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, and for brief language.

RUNNING TIME: 109 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKIING: Two stars out of four.

“Unknown”

A couple of years ago, Liam Neeson starred as a former CIA agent in “Taken,” searching for his kidnapped daughter and kicking as much butt as necessary to find her. Now, he’s continuing this fascinating late-career path, remaining in action-star mode as he creeps ever closer to 60. It’s a chilly little thriller about amnesia, mistrust and lost identity, with the kinds of chases and explosions you’ve seen countless times before. Interchangeable Euro baddies lurk in the shadows, seemingly omniscient and omnipresent, waiting to strike. Nothing and no one is what it seems, which makes the unpredictability somewhat more predictable. Still, Neeson’s alwaysintelligent screen presence, his nuance and gravitas, help elevate “Unknown” beyond its preposterous elements. He gets help from a classy supporting cast, including Frank Langella, Bruno Ganz and Sebastian Koch. And, to be fair, the film from Spanish director Jaume Collet-Serra has its suspenseful moments, including the startling, precisely staged taxicab accident that sends Neeson’s character, Dr.

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Martin Harris, on his dangerous journey. Martin had traveled to Berlin for a scientific conference, but the crash places him in a fourday coma. When he awakens, his wife (January Jones) insists she doesn’t know him and another man (Aidan Quinn) has assumed his identity. Martin seeks help from the cab driver (Diane Kruger) to piece together what happened.

RATED: PG-13 for some intense sequences of violence and action, and brief sexual content.

RUNNING TIME: 106 minutes.

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

“Hall Pass”

The Farrelly brothers continue to strain desperately for their grossout glory days with their latest “comedy” — and, yes, that word is in quotes for a reason. Think about it. What was the last truly, deeply, funny movie they made ... “There’s Something About Mary”? And that was back in 1998. With “Stuck on You” (2003), they came close to achieving that desired mix of humor and heart, and they had a great cast in Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear. But their version of “Fever Pitch” (2005) never worked up any real heat — and that criticism comes from a Boston Red Sox fan. So here are brothers Peter and Bobby Farrelly once again, as writers and directors, trying to mine suburbia for its latent horniness and untapped bodily fluids with singularly uninspired results. Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis co-star as longtime friends Rick and Fred, who are trapped in stereotypically stagnant marriages. Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate play their wives, Maggie and Grace, who are such cliched, spiteful nags, they pretend to be asleep in order to withhold sex from their husbands as a means of gaining control. Are you laughing yet?

Then Maggie and Grace get some advice to give their husbands a “hall pass”: a week off from marriage to pursue all the hotties they’ve been surreptitiously ogling. Naturally, these guys have no idea what to do — because the Farrellys have no idea what to do with them.

RATED: R for crude and sexual humor throughout, language, some graphic nudity and drug use.

RUNNING TIME: 105 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKIING: One and a half stars out of four.

“Of Gods and Men”

Monastic life is anything but tedious in Xavier Beauvois’ masterful drama, based on the real-life tragedy of seven French monks abducted and beheaded during Algeria’s civil war in 1996. The film is largely built of everyday moments as the monks tend to their duties and devotions. Underlying it all is a tangible, terrible tension. These good Christians know there are forces — both in the besieged government and among terrorists who want to bring it down — that no longer want them there, and that their lives are in danger each day they choose to stay. The mostly French-language film is filled with melodic, joyous invocations as the monks sing praise to God and somber, lyrical discourses as they debate their plight and ask heaven for guidance. Lambert Wilson and Michael Lonsdale lead a cast that is, without overstatement, divine. For the monks, the filmmakers chose a range of faces with wonderful expressiveness, the actors revealing tortured souls and soaring spirits, sometimes in the same instant, without saying a word. Despite its outcome, this is a truly rapturous film.

RATED: PG-13 for a momentary scene of startling wartime violence, some disturbing images and brief language.

RUNNING TIME: 122 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKIING: Three and a half stars out of four.

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In this film publicity image released by Sony Pictures Classics, Lambert Wilson, left, and Jean-Marie Frin are shown in a scene from “Of Gods and Men.”

"Of Gods and Men" proves to be a winner

By DAVID GERMAIN Associated Press Monastic life is anything but tedious in Xavier Beauvois’ masterful drama “Of Gods and Men,” based on the real-life tragedy of seven French monks abducted and beheaded during Algeria’s civil war in 1996.

The film is largely built of ordinary tasks and everyday moments: monks tending their crops, treating Muslim villagers at the monastery clinic, caring for their beehives and taking the honey they produce to market, sharing simple meals, and, of course, chanting in devotion during Mass.

Underlying all this is a tangible, terrible tension. These good Christians know there are forces — both in the besieged government and among terrorists who want to bring it down — that no longer want them there. And

the atrocities happening all around them — Croatian construction workers whose throats are slit, young women shot dead because they were not wearing veils — make it unbearably clear to the monks that their lives are in danger each day they choose to stay.

Martyrdom is not something for which any of these unassuming, very frightened men signed up. Their crises of faith range from virtually none at all (one or two unflinchingly say at the outset that it’s their duty to God and humanity to remain at their posts) to quivering terror (some monks confess at the start they want to flee to safety).

What follows is a truly glorious story of brotherhood, no matter what you think of the monks’ faith, servility or judgment, or their choice to sequester themselves in celibacy in the first place. These are men

battling to validate the place they have made for themselves in this life, and watching that struggle, foreign though it is to those of us in the secular world, is fascinating.

Written by Beauvois and Etienne Comar, the mostly French-language film is filled with melodic, joyous invocations as the monks sing praise to God and pursue somber, lyrical discourses as they debate their plight and ask heaven for guidance.

L a m b e r t Wi l s o n a s h e a d m o n k Christian and Michael Lonsdale as monkphysician Luc lead a cast that is, without overstatement, divine. The filmmakers chose a range of faces with wonderful expressiveness, the actors revealing tortured souls and soaring spirits, sometimes in the same instant, without saying a word.

The monks don’t speak their minds often, but when they do, the actors infuse their utterances with bottomless grace and humility yet very human dread and doubt.

These are not saints or angels but men who fear death as much as the next guy.

To the Muslims living nearby, though, the monks are saints, providing medical services and counsel without the slightest preaching of their own faith. The monks are utterly unbiased: Scared as they are when terrorists turn up, the monks will as readily treat a rebel’s gunshot wound as a local child’s skin condition.

Beauvois is deliberately hazy about the circumstances of the monks’ deaths, which were blamed on a radical group, though some observers have suggested the Algerian military was involved.

"Hall Pass" an absurdly bad movie

By ROBERT GRUBAUGH Of The Edge Peter and Bobby Farrelly are capable of making excellent films.

Fever Pitch is one of my all-time favorites. Of course, they can also appeal to the least common denominator when things don’t work out right (what was that one where Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear were conjoined twins?).

Their newest film, Hall Pass, unfortunately falls into the latter category and great care should be taken to avoid this movie at all costs.

It could negatively affect your health and well being.

Two red-blooded American men – normal guys with families and jobs – take on an experiment in Hall Pass that both sounds like a blast and seems like an idiot idea. Rick (Owen Wilson) can’t stop checking out women. It’s his habit not to let a babe pass by without scoping out her situation. It’s innocent enough, but his wife, Maggie (Jenna Fischer) rightfully feels offense each time she

catches him doing it. Rick’s a good guy. He works hard at his real estate job and tries to be a good dad. He’d never really step out on his wife, but Maggie isn’t certain of this last part. She’s afraid their stale love life might cause her goofball hubby to hit the road one day and for good.

Rick’s buddy, the hound dog insurance salesman Fred (Jason Sudeikis), is in a similar place in his life, married to the strict Grace (Christina Applegate) who never lets him have any fun like he did during his carefree college/bachelor years. Fred is constantly on the hunt for a girlfriend, but you quickly get the feeling that he wouldn’t know what to do with her if he caught one.

Grace knows he’s loyal, but also one easy misstep away from being an adulterer.

Together, she and the insecure Maggie take the advice of a marriage expert played by the shrill (but intelligent, I’m told) Joy Behar and give their men a week off from marriage to do whatever they want.

The result is the titular “hall pass” and the results are mixed, if leaning toward squeamish.

Fred’s and Rick’s hall pass is essentially a seven-day vacation from their wives and kids who have packed up and gone to visit grandparents on Martha’s Vineyard.

It starts off innocently with sleeping late and eating barbecued meat for every meal.

They even scarf down a tray of marijuana-laced brownies and go golfing with their equally oafish friends (Stephen Merchant and Larry Joe Campbell).

After a couple of relaxing, disorienting days, Fred and Rick realize that they’re running out of time to chase down all the guilt-free casual sex they can catch.

The humor that follows is unimaginative and frivolous, especially since the boys have been out of the singles scene for a while.

They even turn at one point for sage advice to their oldest friend, a hearty partier played by Richard

Jenkins. The language in this movie is deplorable, which is not necessarily bad. The fact that it’s also uncreative while being crass makes it infuriating to me.

While these losers are trying like mad to win over the girls particularly a fetching Australian barista (Nicky Whelan) and a nanny with killer blue eyes (Alexandra Daddario) - their wives are actually hitting it off with a couple of studs out on the Cape.

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their own hall pass is what the movie uses as a dramatic hook into the catharsis of marriage and “cheating”. Do they or don’t they, we won’t care either way. This is an absurdly bad movie that makes me fear the next ten months until Oscarquality films hit the market.

••• Hall Pass runs 120 minutes and is rated R for crude and sexual humor throughout, language, some graphic nudity, and drug use. I give this film 1/2 star out of four.

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Flameless candles

Taking away the negatives of a peaceful glow

By DEBBIE SETTLE Of The Edge

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andles have made a huge comeback over the last decade.

Decorator magazines are just filled with room makeovers that include the use of candles in the decor.

Craft shows, decor stores, gift shops and even home parties feature candles more now than ever before.

They come in all shapes and sizes and in every aroma known to man.

Some are in jars, some on decorative bases, some on candle sticks, some just are meant to sit alone. They are meant to make a statement and liven up a room.

Candlelight can soften a room and give a romantic feel. Many times candles are used in decor and are not meant to be lit. But most people love the look and the scent of a lit candle.

There are a couple of negative aspects with candles. They can, if not used and monitored properly,

be dangerous. Many house fires have been caused by a lit candle being left unattended, or left too close to drapery, a pillow, a piece of furniture, etc.

Another aspect can be the cost.

Some candles are very expensive and they don’t last very long. You can spend a small fortune buying and replacing candles if you are a person who often enjoys a lit candle.

A company called Enjoy Flameless Candles has found a solution to both of those negative aspects. They have designed a number of candle products that look, feel and smell like a real candle, without the danger of fire or the high cost of replacement after a number of hours of burning.

Traditional wicked candles cause over 15,0000 house fires each year.

With flameless candles, there is no fire risk if a candle is knocked over or placed too close to drapes or furniture. The flameless candles will also not hurt your furniture or carpet with no soot build up or melting wax.

These beautiful candles allow consumers to experience the warm atmosphere and ambiance of candlelight with styles, colors and fragrances to match any décor.

Flameless candles make the perfect addition to any room.

Enjoy is the only brand that features Triple LED technology and a special built in computer chip programmed to create a glow and flicker that will make you think you are looking at a wicked candle.

Each candle runs on batteries that can be purchased at any store.

The larger candles use four “AA” batteries, but have a 300-plus hour battery life. Most traditional pillar candles burn from 20 to 40 hours, tops.

They are safe around pets and children, you can use Enjoy products around the house without worrying. If you forget to blow your candles out at night, you

can rest assured that with Enjoy candles your home will be safe.

Some products even feature a timer that you can set to come on every day at the same time and shut off automatically after a set amount of hours.

There are a number of candle styles to choose from. They have Ivory Smooth and Beeswax Drip Pillars, which are available in 3x4, 3x6, 3x8, 4x9 and 4x8 inches. These are available with a realistic melted edge and have a distinct vanilla fragrance. Available with multihour timer mode or dim/bright mode. Triple-LED offers over 100,000 hours of flickering light.

There are the Ivory Distressed Unscented Pillars, which are available in 3x4, 3x6 and 4x8 inches.

Available with the multi-hour timer mode. Triple-LED offers over 100,000 hours of flickering light.

Ivory and Beeswax Smooth votives come in 2x2.5 inch, and allow you to say goodbye to your candle burning out before your party is over. Includes one CR2032 battery with each candle that lasts 72 hours. Try that with a regular votive. These types of batteries are easily found in most general merchandise or hardware stores.

Another great aspect of the multihour mode feature is you can set it to run for four, six or eight hours.

With the timer mode, you can also put your candles in hard-to-reach places and set it to turn on and off at certain times each day and never have to worry about it.

There are a number of other selections of candles in different styles, colors and textures. The best way to view all of them is to visit Enjoy’s Web site at www. enjoylighting.com. There you will also find complete information on where to buy these candles, which include chain stores such as Target, Michaels and Kmart.

Enjoy Lighting was founded in 2002 and is based in Azusa, Calif. www.enjoylighting.com.

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Remembering the swinging '60s The Rep will host "Beehive The '60s Musical"

By DEBBIE SETTLE Of The Edge

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et out the hairspray and your teasing comb. Put on your pedal pushers and your big headbands.

It is time to celebrate the highenergy musical that will rock out The Rep! "Beehive The ‘60s Musical" by Larry Gallagher is a rafter-raising musical that will be performed on the Browning Mainstage of the Loretto-Hilton Center for the Performing Arts, 130 Edgar Road (on the campus of Webster University), Webster Groves, March 16 through April 10.

A rockin’ musical celebration of the girl groups who unmistakably left their mark on ‘60s music and on many of our lives. Relive music’s golden era and an empowering time in history with “The Name Game,” “The Beat Goes On,” “Respect,” “Natural Woman,” “My Boyfriend’s Back,” “One Fine Day,” “To Sir With Love,” “It’s My Party,” “Proud Mary,” “Downtown” and many more!

Through the hits of Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Shirelles and others, six energetic women and one very hot band take you on a journey through the look, the sounds and the electricity of the times. In what Time Magazine calls, “A Cherry Coke show with plenty of fizz!” "Beehive The ‘60s Musical" will leave audiences of all ages dancing in the aisles.

Bring your girlfriends, bring your mom, bring your sisters, and just try to keep from singing along to these hits that are still rocking our radios

to this day. Many of these iconic songs will bring back memories and take you away to another place and another time. You will not want this magical night to end once you find yourself back in a carefree time singing and dancing with the rest of the audience.

The original stage presentation of "Beehive The ‘60s Musical" was first presented in 1985 and ran for over 18 months Off-Broadway at the Village Gate Theatre in New York City.

The cast of "Beehive The ‘60s Musical" at The Rep is Lauren Dragon as Laura, Lisa Estridge as Wanda, Jennie Harney as Jasmine, Kristin Maloney as Alison (last seen in "The Musical of Musicals – The Musical!"), Debra Walton as Gina and Jessica Waxman as Patti.

The Rep’s production of "Beehive The ‘60s Musical" is directed by Pamela Hunt ("The Musical of Musicals—The Musical!").

The creative staff also includes James Morgan, set designer; John Carver Sullivan, costume designer; Mary Jo Dondlinger, lighting designer; Rusty Wandall, sound designer; Michael Sebastian, musical director; Glenn Dunn, stage manager; and Tony Dearing, assistant stage manager.

Curtain times are Tuesday at 7 p.m.; Wednesday through Friday at 8 p.m.; selected Wednesday matinees at 1:30 p.m.; Saturday evenings at 5 p.m.; selected Saturday nights at 9 p.m.; Sunday matinees at 2 p.m.; and selected Sunday evenings at 7 p.m.

Ticket prices start at just $15 (previews) and $18.50 (regular performances). 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.

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Religion Everyone is a child of God Many of us would proclaim that we don’t bear any ‘prejudice’ against anyone. But I wonder if that would really be true.

I’d like to think I am open minded and that I am accepting, but if I am truly honest I can think of folks that I might judge in a prejudicial manner. Everyone doesn’t have the same life style, same religious beliefs, the same nationality, are of the same race, come from the same economic base, have the same educational background, the same work ethic, and on and on.

We seem to be the most comfortable when we are with those who are ‘just like us’ or at least, very similar in our beliefs and lifestyles.

I have found through the years of working with the various international students my husband and I have hosted that some of the beliefs I had were quite different from those held by the students, but it didn’t seem to interfere with our friendships and trust of each other as time passed. There seemed to

Doris Gvillo be a common bond that in spite of differences united us and friendship, respect and love soon developed.

But the first step we needed to take was to be open and to reach out and get to know one another.

Acceptance truly is the first step to understanding.

Very often in the New Testament we are given ‘guidelines’ to a lifestyle that we should emulate.

Do you recall how in Colossians it says…there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free?

We are reminded to ‘put off’ anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, and filthy language our of our mouths.”

I am always challenged as it goes on to list the qualities we should incorporate into our lifestyles. It suggests that we ‘as the elect of God’…put on certain qualities.

These include tender mercies,

kindness, humility, meekness and longsuffering…and then we are to bear with one another, forgive one another, and to always forgive as we are forgiven.

But…and this is perhaps the biggest challenge of all, we are to ‘put on love’.

Now, I don’t know about you, but ‘putting on love’ seems like quite a task. It isn’t as easy as ‘pretending’ to get along. It certainly isn’t as easy as getting all dressed up and putting on a ‘happy face’.

If we are to try ‘put on love’, we have to first of all realize that all people really are created equal in God’s eyes.

There really aren’t those who are ‘better’ because of influence, wealth, status, race, nationality, education or any other attribute.

Our national constitution says ‘all are created equal’, but I think perhaps the admonition found in scripture is even stronger.

If we aren’t able to incorporate the qualities given, we will find

ourselves acting more judgmental, more unaccepting of differences, more standoffish, and more out of tune with what our God would have us be.

I’m not suggesting we accept bad behavior or the evil that exists in our world, but rather that we don’t judge without knowing facts and that we don’t judge groups of individuals by the actions of one.

It is difficult for us to realize that God ‘loves us all’. No one is ‘special’ and without sin.

Some of the things I see on the television news reports are sickening and I can’t begin to understand the behavior. I am glad that God will be the judge because I am not wise enough.

I sincerely believe none of us have the right to act as superior individuals and look at others as unequal or unworthy.

I can’t say that I always act in ways that don’t at times reflect my judgment of the behavior of others. I hope that even when I

can’t applaud the behavior, I can find it in my heart to recognize that individual is a child of God and God will be the final judge.

I want to incorporate all those qualities listed into my lifestyle and be a loving, caring individual, but I know at times I fail. But failing doesn’t mean we stop trying.

Years ago, when my oldest grandson was in grade school, there was a puppet show that really impressed him and he shared some of the things he learned with us. He was just a little guy but he announced, “Failure is only final when you stop trying.” Let’s never stop trying to live our lives more in tune with God’s ways.

I guess I’ll do what I often do when I close. Here is a quote that I found challenging.

“Prejudice distorts what it sees, deceives when it talks, and destroys when it acts.”

Calif., has said he was following his family tradition by enlisting in the military and entered the Naval Academy in 2004 with plans of becoming an officer. He began to question his goals after graduating from the academy and beginning submarine training.

for parents who rely solely on faith healing to treat their dying children.

A p ro p o s e d b i l l t a rg e t s t h e Followers of Christ, an Oregon City church with a long history of children dying from treatable medical conditions.

State Rep. Carolyn Tomei, DMilwaukie, said the deaths of three children of church members in recent years prompted her to introduce the bill.

House Bill 2721 would remove spiritual treatment as a defense for all homicide charges.

L e g i s l a t o r s a n d p ro s e c u t o r s hope the threat of long prison sentences will cause church m e m b e r s t o re c o n s i d e r t h e i r tradition of rejecting medical

treatment in favor of faith healing.

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

Religion briefs Ensign granted discharge as conscientious objector H A RT F O R D , C o n n . ( A P ) — A junior officer at a Connecticut submarine base has received an honorable discharge after suing the U.S. Navy, saying his religious beliefs prevent him from participating in the military.

Michael Izbicki, an ensign formerly stationed at the Naval Submarine School in Groton, was discharged Feb. 16 as a conscientious objector.

The paperwork he filed to drop his lawsuit was approved and signed by U.S. District Court officials in Hartford

on Tuesday.

Izbicki, who is Christian, said he plans to use the skills he learned in the Navy to remain in some type of public service outside the military.

The American Civil Liberties Union’s Connecticut chapter sued the Navy on Izbicki’s behalf last year after he was twice denied an honorable discharge, which he requested based on his religious opposition to all war and the potential that he might be expected to kill others.

“I believe that Jesus Christ calls all men to love each other, under all circumstances. I believe his teaching forbids the use of violence. I take the Sermon on the Mount literally,” Izbicki wrote in his application for conscientious objector status.

Izbicki, 25, a native of San Clemente,

Oregon lawmakers push to end protection for faith healing as defense when children die PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers say they will push to end legal protection

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Lutheran ST. JAMES LUTHERAN CHURCH 146 North Main Glen Carbon, IL 288-6120 Rev. Robert Weise Sunday Services: 9:15 a.m. Adult Bible Class 10:30 a.m. Traditional Lutheran Worship Service

Episcopal ST. ANDREWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH

Hillsboro At North Buchanan Edwardsville, IL 656-1929 The Rev. Virginia L. Bennett, D. Min. Sunday Services: 8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist Rite I 9:10 a.m. Adult Education 9:30 a.m. Church School 10:00 a.m. Choral Eucharist Rite II Nursery Provided www.standrews-edwardsville.com

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St. Thomas Child Care Center Now enrolling infants through Pre-K Call 288-5697 “Worship in the warm hospitality of a village church.”

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The 1904 Steak House

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Everything you expect – and a whole lot more

By DEBBIE SETTLE Of The Edge

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ince I have never been to Las Vegas, I am always like a kid on Christmas morning when I walk into the casinos that we have in the St. Louis areas. They seem so surreal to me with all of the chandeliers, luxurious bathrooms, fine dining, world class decor, and service at your finger tips.

It makes me feel like I am a millionaire just walking through the hallways.

A great example of this is the River City Casino, located in South St. Louis. It is located off Interstate 55 to Broadway, then to the River City Casino Boulevard. It is located right on the Mississippi and its exterior is nearly as awesome as the interior.

Owned by Pinnacle Entertainment, the parent company of Lumiere Place Casino, River City is yet another example why Pinnacle knows what they are doing when it comes to pampering the patrons in the gaming business.

Many times a casino complex will house one or more eating establishments, which range from breakfast to sandwich to fine dining. When a complex opens, it is not unusual for there to be trial periods for certain dining styles or flavors. They are tried and if gamers or diners are leaning toward something different, the ownership may decide to change. This is the case at River City, which opened

its doors in March of 2010 with Jeff Ruby’s Steak House. For whatever reason, the choice was made to close Jeff Ruby’s, revamp the steak house idea and reopen with a fresh new perspective. Thus, the birth of the 1904 Steak House.

The need to connect with St. Louis history was felt when the plans were discussed to redesign the steak establishment. The 1904 World’s Fair is possibly St. Louis’ most notable historic event and is brought back to the future when you walk into 1904 Steak House.

“In 1904, the world converged on St. Louis to celebrate the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase. When guests gather at 1904 Steak House, we hope they are reminded of the historic significance of the event as they gather with friends to experience the memorable, impeccable service and world class fare River City is known for,” said Neil Walkoff, Pinnacle’s Senior Vice President over River City and Lumiere Place.

Much planning and thought was put into the redesign of 1904 Steak House, right down to minute details.

The main chandeliers are made with 1,904 crystals that are representative

of the 1904 World’s Fair.

The facade of the steak house is reminiscent of Judy Garland’s family home in the classic film “Meet Me in St. Louis.” Other exterior architectural tributes include the Palace of Electricity from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the historic Lemp Brewery of St. Louis, Mo. The “Dancing Waiters” paintings on the walls are from the 1969 film, “Hello Dolly.” These are just a few attributes that make the 1904 Steak House a special destination.

The main thing that 1904 wants to be famous for is the food. The incomparable array of premium USDA Prime dry-aged steaks, which are dusted with a signature spice blend, perfected under 1,600degree radiant heat broilers, are served to individual preference with a choice of flavored butters and complementary sauces.

You cannot say “no” to their seafood, which only includes the finest selections. Flown fresh, the selection includes Raw Oysters, Colossal Shrimp, Jumbo Stone Crab Claws, Block Island Swordfish, Lobster, and the dramatic Seafood Tower.

Don’t skip over the appetizer menu, which is a diverse list of savory starters like Clams River City Casino, Baked French Onion Soup, Oven Cured Tomato Caprese with fresh mozzarella, and more.

The salad selections are just the right touch – a Caesar salad, Mediterranean salad, wedge salad, Our Spinach Salad or the Chophouse Salad.

Don’t forget to top off your perfect dining experience with a

quintet of sorbets or the flaming creme brulee.

Expansive is the best word to describe the 1904 Steak House wine list. The list includes a selection that really is second to none with wines from all across the country and the world. The price list varies from a very reasonable glass to the top selections available. There is also a full bar for your cocktail choice.

Chef William Osloond is the newest edition to the 1904 Steak House, in the capacity of Executive Room Chef. He is passionate about his kitchen and worked diligently to develop the new restaurant’s signature menu. Chef “Bill” honed his chef skills at locations like Jake’s Fine Dining in South Dakota, Elway’s Steak House in Colorado and The Curtis Hotel.

1904 Steak House is open for dinner nightly, Tuesday through Thursday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.; Sunday from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.

The dining room can accommodate large parties with a private dining area available for groups up to 50. However, if private dining is your preference, that is available also. Reservations are encouraged and may be secured by calling 314-388-7630.

The 1904 Steak House is a dining experience that is really impossible to describe properly. It is a place you have to experience yourself to understand the elegance and the exceptional menu quality.

For more information about River City Casino, visit www. rivercity.com.

Above, steak and lobster at the 1904 Steak House at the River City Casino. At left, guests are shown a selection by the restaurant's wine captain.

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Off street parking. No pets. FSBO: 1.5 story, 3BR, 2.5 BA, lg eat-in kit, DR, 3-car gar, XL Available Now. (314)-574-3858 patio, 304 Aberdeen Dr., Glen 2 BR LOFT, newly remodeled: Carbon. $265K. 618/288-4668 DW, micro, stove, frig, garbge disp, w/d hkup. New kit/ba/wi/dr FSBO: 4-5 BR exec. home, Lincoln Knolls, near SIU, $715 incl wt/sw/tr 618/593-0173 Edw: 4.5 BA, NEW ROOF, 2BD duplex, Glen Carbon, full fully remodeled (carpet, walkout bsmt. w/fam. rm, 18x25 hardwd, granite, new applistorage area. No pets, yr. lease, ances, ...); 3500 sf + 1700 sf credit ck, $750/mo. 604-2494 fin. w/o bsmt, 3-car gar, gas 2BR Townhomes 1.5BA, W/D in & wood fp’s, lg lot on cul-deunit. I-255/Horseshoe Lake Rd. sac, beaut. sunrm! $520K. area.15 min to St. Louis & SIUE. 618/ 616-1398.

No pets. No smoking. $640/mo.

618.931.4700.

3 Bdr 1.5 Ba town home, all new flooring, non-smoking, no pets, W/D hook up. Must have proof of FT employment $1050/mo includes water 618-554-2889.

3 BDR, 1.5 BA, Edw. 2-story: 618-624-4610 Newly remodeled; new carpet, www.cecilmanagement.com wood flrs, w/d hk-up off-strt Glen Carbon prkng, $945 /mth. 618/307-4876 1 BR, all electric, stove, fridge, dw, stacked wd, fp from $575.

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2 BR from $675; 3BR from $725 (618)624-4610 Apts, Duplexes, & Homes Granite City Visit our website 1 MONTH FREE RENT, www.glsrent.com 656-2230 2 BR duplex, stove, fridge, dw, hookups, basement $795 (618)624-4610 Livingston 1 MONTH FREE RENT, 2BR, stove, fridge, water, sewer, trash paid. $450.

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FSBO: 2BR Duplex, 2BA, Chancellor Dr., Edw./Esic Sub. 1200sf, gas FP, appl. & w/d incl. Full bsmt, open floor plan, 1 car gar. Owner/Investor oppty. Avail now. $130K. 618/616-1398

Mobile Homes For Sale

815

1997 MOBILE HOME: 3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths. Located in Quail Run, Edwardsville.

618/656-6727, 618/410-0173

Lots For Sale

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SPRING HILL 23 sites on 25 ac. 8 left some walkouts, E’ville schools & utils, 1/4 mi from Gov Pky 4 mi SIUE 5 ac common area & creek $68,400 & up 972-0948.

SUN RIDGE ESTATES 2+ Acre Lots, Edwardsville Call for special prices 618/792-9050 or 618/781-5934 Vacant city lot in Edwardsville on “M” Street, 50x278, Zoned R2 Multiple Family Residential. Call 288-9572 or 550-8426.

Acreage For Sale

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5.2 acres N. of Edwardsville, near Carpenter: city water, Edw. school district. $76,500/OBO. 618/623-1921 or 618/210-5451

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Home Improvements

979

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