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4 Triathlon team Godzilla conquers New York.

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Event planned at Shaw Nature Reserve.

11 "War Dogs" A crazy story.

14 Rolling into autumn Events planned along Route 66.

19 Art in Edwardsville

Annual fair scheduled to begin Sept. 23.

23 Kemper Museum 10th anniversary exhibit planned.

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• The Gateway Cup, St. Louis • St. Nicholas Greek Festival, St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, St. Louis • NOW Night Out feat. Fifth H a r m o n y, H o l l y w o o d C a s i n o Amphitheater, St. Louis, 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

• The Used, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• Flying House, w/(TBA), Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• Fall Art Fair at Queeny Park, Greensfelder Recreation Center, St. Louis, Runs until September 4, 2016 • Universoul Circus, Downtown St. Louis (Parking Lot Near Dome), Runs until September 5, 2016 • Ernst Haas: Color Brought to Life, International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until October 8, 2016 • Great Rivers Biennial: Lyndon Barrois Jr., Nanette Boileau, and Tate Foley, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

• Mark Bradford, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until September 11, 2016 • Kings, Queens, and Castles, World Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until September 11, 2016 • Her Turn: The Revolutionary Women of Chess, World Chess Hall

of Fame, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs until September 4, 2016 • A Decade of Collecting Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

• Little Black Dress: From Mournin to Night, The Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, Runs until September 5, 2016 • Nomad Studio: Green Air, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

• Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until July 16, 2017 • The Women of 1916 Exhibition, Historic Hawken House Museum, St. Louis, 11:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Runs until November 10, 2016 • Self-Taught Genius: Treasures f ro m t h e A m e r i c a n F o l k A r t Museum, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs until September 11, 2016

Saturday September 3______ • The Gateway Cup, St. Louis • St. Nicholas Greek Festival, St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, St. Louis • Big Muddy Blues Festival, Laclede's Landing, St. Louis • St. Louis Scott Gallagher Friendlies, World Wide Technology Soccer Park, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

• The Used, The Pageant, St.

Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m • We Should Leave This Tree, w/ Pallenova, Project, 3 Of 5, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 • A Night In The Clouds presented by BackYard Hoodlums, Cicero's, University City, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• 40th Annual Japanese Festival, Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, Runs until September 5, 2016 • Fall Art Fair at Queeny Park, Greensfelder Recreation Center, St. Louis, Runs until September 4, 2016 • Universoul Circus, Downtown St. Louis (Parking Lot Near Dome), Runs until September 5, 2016 • Ernst Haas: Color Brought to Life, International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until October 8, 2016 • Great Rivers Biennial: Lyndon Barrois Jr., Nanette Boileau, and Tate Foley, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

• Mark Bradford, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until September 11, 2016 • Kings, Queens, and Castles, World Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until September 11, 2016 • Her Turn: The Revolutionary Women of Chess, World Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs until September 4, 2016 • A Decade of Collecting Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

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oin the Coal Country Chamber of Commerce on its eleventh annual Tour de Coal bicycle ride on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016, at the Benld City Hall-Civic Center, 201 E. Central Ave. in downtown Benld, Ill.

Saturday, September 24, will mark the 11th Anniversary of the Tour de Coal. This family oriented bicycle ride is for cyclists of all levels of expertise and is held in conjunction with this year's 17th Annual Coal Country Chamber of Commerce's Fall Festival held at the Benld City Park.

The Tour de Coal will honor Joseph Magnani, a professional bicycle racer who grew up in Mt. Clare, Ill, a small mining town near Benld and went on to a career in cycling over in Europe. Jim Marcacci, a member of the Tour de Coal committee and cycling enthusiast, found Joseph Magnani's story hidden on the internet and was amazed to learn that the area had one of the first Americans to race professionally in Europe. The Tour de Coal Committee would like to perpetuate Mr. Magnani’s name for future rides. After all, he raced against some of the greats and finished ahead of them too and he was the only U.S. racer to compete against Italian legends Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi.

There is a definite tie-in concerning Joe Magnani and the Tour de Coal other than the fact that he was from the area. Joe’s father was a coal miner and coal is the reason we have this annual event!

For a much more complete account of Joseph Magnani’s career and life go to: http://bikeraceinfo.com/ riderhistories/JosephMagnani.html This year's Tour de Coal will offer

three different ride lengths. Cyclists can choose from a 13.6 mile "family ride", a mid-length 35-mile ride or a metric century (64.8) miles. The terrain is flat to a few rolling hills.

Riders can preregister on active. com or print out and mail in the registration form on the Coal Country Chamber website: www. coalcountrychamber.com . Riders

can also find paper copies of the registration form at St. Louis-, Metro-East- and Springfield, Ill.-area bicycle shops.

Check in and/or register on the day of the event from 6:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the Benld City Hall-Civic Center. Preregistration is $20 per person and $45 for a family of three or more people living in the same household. For those who do not preregister, registration on the day of the ride is $25 per person and $50 for the family.

This year a portion of each person’s registration fee will go to The Partnership for Educational Excellence. The well-known Partnership is a not-¬for-¬profit 501(c)(3) educational foundation dedicated to improving educational opportunities for children in the accredited schools of Community Unit School District 7 (CUSD7) in Macoupin County, Illinois. Its web site is http://www.thepartnership7. org .

Other proceeds from Tour de Coal are used by the Coal Country Chamber of Commerce which encompasses the communities of Benld, Dorchester, Eagarville, East Gillespie, Gillespie, Mount Clare, Sawyerville and Wilsonville. The Chamber sponsors events such as a free Summer Concert Series, the Fall Festival, and Snack with Santa.

Out-of-town visitors to the Tour de Coal can camp Friday night (Sept. 23) at Benld City Park, which is just 1 block north of the Benld

Civic Center. For information about camping, contact Mickey Robinson at (217) 710-5218 or mrer@ madisontelco.com.

Bananas, bottled water and oatmeal cookies will be available at the registration desk and the six rest stops the day of the ride. Preregister by Sept. 17 to be guaranteed a t-shirt.

Late registration will be honored with T-shirts while supplies last. At registration, riders are also given a redeemable ticket for a choice of sandwich and soft drink at the Coal Country Chamber of Commerce food booth at the Fall Festival in the Benld City Park.

The 11th Tour de Coal is provided by the Coal Country Chamber of Commerce and the Tour de Coal Committee. 2016 sponsors are: Carlinville Area Hospital; COUNTRYFinancial of Gillespie - Tina Olroyd, Financial Representative; FNB - Benld Banking Center; Goodman Real Estate and Insurance Agency; Hicks Maytag Home Appliance Center of Gillespie; Madison Communications; Michelle’s Pharmacy of Gillespie; Quality Flooring of Gillespie; State Farm of Benld/Gillespie - Jessica Ely Agent; Sullivan Drugs, Inc.; and United Community Bank of Gillespie.

For more information about the Tour de Coal, contact Coal Country Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Mickey Robinson at (217) 710-5218 or mrer@madisontelco.

Pictured are scenes from previous Tour de Coal rides.

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Team Godzilla members in the Adirondack Mountains in New York.

Locally-based Ironman team thrives in its culture

By STEVE HORRELL Of The Edge Part of the ethos of the Ironman culture is the notion that anyone who sets out to swim 2.4 miles, ride a bicycle for a 112 miles and finish the day off with a 26.2-mile run has a high level of individual focus.

And Team Godzilla certainly has that in spades.

But what sets the Edwardsvillebased training club apart from other training clubs, say its members, is its strong culture of support and collaboration.

N i n e t e e n Te a m G o d z i l l a members returned from the Lake Placid Ironman recently, where that spirit of support played a big part in helping each of them finish the grueling event in the Adirondack Mountains of New York.

“Even though we’re all competitive people, we all want to see each other perform well,” says Doug Bristow, who began training with Team Godzilla – also known as the Metro Tri Club – in 2009.

He competed in the Lake Placid Ironman for the first time on July 24 though he has finished three others, in Louisville, Ky, Madison, Wisc. and Sandusky, Ohio.

“What’s a really unique thing to Team Godzilla is that a lot of triathlon participants want to individually accomplish their best times. They may even want to beat other people,” Bristow said.

“But what’s unique to the culture that’s in this club is that we want to excel but we want everybody else to be there with us.”

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Ray Weshinskey finished despite having had heart by-pass surgery r e c e n t l y. B i l l P e t e r s o n , h a s competed in most of them since the Lake Placid Ironman began in 1999. And for at least seven others, Lake Placid was their first Ironman.

In recent years Team Godzilla has been attracting more and more runners who hope to be able to conquer Lake Placid.

This year just happened to be a special collaboration of a bunch of different people working toward a goal of finishing Lake Placid, Bristow said.

It was the first Ironman for Eric Neilson, Emily Schnell, John Sikes, Kyle McLaughlin, Mark Zahm, Carolan Cross, and Donna Polinske.

Of the three events, Polinske says the least intimidating was the swim in Mirror Lake. “It’s a very calm lake,” she said. “You get hit, you get kicked, but the water itself is not like Lake Michigan where you get waves and swells. The lake is ideal.”

Polinske and Bristow agreed that the marathon run – two big loops in the Adirondacks – was tolerable, with only a few hills to worry about. The bigger challenge by far was the biking. While the first half of the biking is mostly downhill, the last 12 to 20 miles are uphill through the Adirondacks. “It’s one of the most challenging courses in the United States for an Ironman event,” Polinske said.

Polinske is 50 and has several half marathons under her belt. She started the Lake Placid Ironman with the usual nerves but quickly

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Polinske was grateful for the volunteers who were scattered t h ro u g h o u t t h e a re a h e l p i n g competitors with such awkward tasks as stripping off their wet suits and changing into biking gear during the change-over to biking.

She and the other competitors also fed off the energy of hundreds of fans who lined the course. “People cheer you on no matter who you are,” she said.

“It’s an incredible experience.”

Despite her strong performance, Polinske says she will be giving triathlons a permanent rest and focusing instead on competing in the Half-Ironman. Finding enough time to be with her family and keeping up with her job were more difficult than she thought.

During peak weeks she spent 18 to 21 hours of training. “That’s a part-time job on top of everything else you’re doing,” she said. “On a big weekend you might have a seven-hour bike ride on Saturday and maybe a three-hour run on Sunday. It’s just a lot to handle.”

Polinske has been running marathons for about a decade. She joined Team Godzilla after one of her running friends began training with a member of the Tri Club and urged her to join.

Bristow agrees that the hardest challenge was biking the Adirondacks.

To prepare for the steep hills, Bristow had to drive over to High Ridge, Mo. Except for a slight hill on the SIUE campus known as

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Whiteside, there are few places in Edwardsville that can replicate the 7,000 feet of climbing necessary to conquer the Lake Placid Ironman.

Many of the bikers go out to Whiteside on Tuesday evenings and power up the hill repeatedly, Bristow says.

Considering the pain and anguish an Ironman imposes on the competitors, why would anyone do it?

“I think it’s just to maximize our potential and see what our bodies can do,” Bristow said. And years ago Bristow volunteered at a summer camp for people with disabilities and one of the campers told him that, as an ablebodied person, he would have opportunities that the campers there would never have.

“I’ve always felt that I never want to waste my opportunity that God has given me to do all the different things I can do with my body,” Bristow said. “So why not take it and see what it’s capable of?”

The supportive culture at Te a m G o d z i l l a u n d o u b t e d l y helps people get through the h u rd l e s t h a t t r a i n i n g f o r a n Ironman impose. The Ironman is an individual sport but the emotions associated with getting through a tough bout of training are emotions that are shared by everyone who has to do it. And friendships that develop from running with someone for three hours, or biking with them for three hours, or swimming laps in a pool with them are strong.

“You really develop a sense of camaraderie,” Bristow says.

“Especially with Team Godzilla, there’s a sense that a rising tide lifts all ships. We’re all working together.”

The team, he says, has an inviting culture that rubs off on the Edwardsville community as a whole. Still, he has sympathy for those who find the training demands daunting.

Bristow says he will take a b re a k f ro m i t f o r t h e n e x t few years. but will likely begin training for one two or three years after that. When he competed in his first Ironman, his wife was pregnant with their first child.

Now they have three.

And he will make it difficult to balance work, family and training for his next Ironman. “It’s definitely something that I want to do my entire life, it’s just not something I can do every year.”

T h e 1 9 p e o p l e f r o m Te a m Godzilla who finished the 2016 Lake Placid Ironman are: • Donna Polinske • Amy Ogden •Carl Dake • Carolan Cross • Doug Bristow • Doug Havlin • Emily Schnell • Eric Neilson • Jeff Germer • John Sikes • Bill Peterson • Kyle McLaughlin • Mark Zahm • Mike Hovatter • Ray Weshinskey •Robin Misukonis • Russ Darbon • Tayna Steinkopf • Tyler Kostich

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Missouri Botanical Garden

Pictured are scenes from previous Prairie Days at Shaw Nature Reserve. This year's event is Sept. 17

Prairie Day set at Shaw Nature Reserve For The Edge Take a step back in time for Prairie Day at the Shaw Nature Reserve, Saturday, Sept. 17 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Interact with early settlers and explore what life was like on the great American frontier during this biennial event. Kids and adults alike will enjoy a day of historical activities and exhibits, storytelling, music and food. Event admission is $6 for adults, $2 for children (ages 15 and under) and $3 for Missouri Botanical Garden members and free for members children( ages 15 and under). Visit www.shawnature.org or call (636) 451-3512 for more information.

This family event portrays prairie heritage through funfilled activities and demonstrations. The Reserve’s 250-

acre tall grass prairie provides an authentic backdrop for the day’s cultural festivities. Take a guided hike with a naturalist to learn about the land and its unique natural characteristics. Visit the teepee and watch as blacksmiths and bow and arrow makers hone skills from days gone by.

Basket weavers, quilters and artists will create and display traditional art pieces. Ride in a hay wagon and play pioneer games such as the “atl-atl throw,” stilt walking and rolling hoops. Learn living history first-hand as characters re-enact the lives of early prairie inhabitants.

Experts from the Endangered Wolf Center, Greater St. Louis Archaeology Society and the Missouri Prairie Foundation will be on hand to answer questions and share information with the public.

Visitors will be able to choose from a wide assortment of prairie wildflowers and grasses available for purchase from a local native plant nursery. Live bands will entertain the crowds with a variety of modern and traditional folk tunes.

Enjoy bison burgers and a variety of homemade baked goods.

Prairie Day is sponsored by the Shaw Nature Reserve and Missouri Department of Conservation.

The Shaw Nature Reserve is located on the south side of Interstate 44 at exit #253 in Gray Summit, Mo. (less than 10 miles past the Six Flags exit). For more information, visit www.shawnature.org or call (636) 451-3512.

The Shaw Nature Reserve is a division of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

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People People planner Museum celebrates Route 66 in St. Louis

On Nov. 11, 2016, Route 66 celebrates its 90th anniversary. To mark this milestone, the Missouri History Museum developed Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis, a 6,000-square-foot exhibition that explores the local history of the world-famous highway. Route 66: Main Street through St. Louis is open from June 25 through July 16, 2017.

Route 66 touched eight states and connected more than 100 cities from Chicago to Los Angeles. St. Louis was the largest city in between. As the road meandered through the city, it passed by a number of stops that were unique to St. Louis – from popular restaurants to scandalous motes. Route 66: Main Street through St. Louis tells St. Louis' distinctive story on the Mother Road.

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learning about the motels, custard stands and tourist traps that could be found along the road as it passed through St. Louis. Route 66 through St. Louis wound its way from the bridges through downtown streets and depending on the year, provided travelers with several options for navigating through the city to the county and west.

Locals will recognize some of the iconic places they still visit today such as Ted Drewes, Crown Candy Kitchen, Carl's Drive In and The Chase Hotel. They will also rediscover places that are gone with the passage of time such as the Coral Court Motel, the Parkmoor, the Chain of Rocks Amusement Park and the 66 ParkIn Theatre. Artifacts include neon signs like the original sign from the La Casa Grande Motel on Watson, and classic cars including a 1963 Corvette Stingray convertible and a 1957 Airstream Travel Trailer.

Route 66 opened on Nov. 11, 1926, as the major highway connecting

Chicago and Los Angeles. Route 66 bore the hardships of the Great Depression, taking migrants west to find a new life. It carried military transports through World War II. At its height in the 1950s and '60s, tourists traveled its length to see the sights of the Southwest and California. Route 66 bore witness to the rise of the car culture. It helped create a fascination with drive-in theaters and drive-in restaurants, with motels and cabin courts, with tourist shops and tourist traps.

By the 1970s, the interstate system offered a more efficient way to get around the country and rendered Route 66 obsolete.

The Mother Road was officially decommissioned in 1985, with many of the states removing the shields before that. Although Route 66 is long gone, relics of it still remain across St. Louis. Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis serves as a vehicle to transport visitors back to a time when car travel was an

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adventure and mom-and-pop diners and motels ruled the road.

Admission is free.

The Missouri History Museum is located in Forest Park.

For more information, visit www. mohistory.org.

Family Arena set to host Jerry Lewis

A consummate entertainer and world-renowned humanitarian, Jerry Lewis is not just a cultural icon in the U.S. and France, he’s one of “The Most Recognized Personalities on the Planet,� named so by Newsweek magazine. He is also the only entertainer ever to be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

One of the most successful performers in show business history – with worldwide box office receipts in excess of $800 million (when most tickets were sold for 25-50 cents) – Jerry has received global acclaim for

his groundbreaking comedy. “An Evening with Jerry Lewis� features Jerry sharing incredible stories, telling timeless jokes and showing clips from his most iconic films and from special moments throughout his life and career.

Ample time is allowed for the audience to ask Jerry questions. This is truly a walk through history with a Hollywood legend.

"An Evening with Jerry Lewis" is scheduled Saturday, November 12 at The Family Arena in St. Charles.

Tickets go on sale Friday, May 20 at 10 a.m. and can be purchased at the Family Arena Ticket Office or online at www.metrotix.com.

Prices: $80 (Gold Circle), $70 (Floor), $60 (Lower Level), $50 (Upper Level) To charge by phone call MetroTix at 314-534-1111. For help purchasing accessible seating, please call The Family Arena ADA Hotline at 636896-4234.

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People People planner Du Quoin State Fair lineup announced

2016 is shaping up to be a blockbuster year for Du Quoin State fairgoers.

State Fair Manager Kevin Gordon is pleased to announce the first of what will be many Du Quoin State Fair Grandstand announcements.

"We have some really big things planned for the 2016 Du Quoin State Fair," said State Fair Manager Kevin Gordon. "This 10-day fair is a true southern Illinois tradition.

We believe that music is something that brings people of all walks of life together, and it is our hope that we bring in artists to the Grandstand who do just that."

O n F r i d a y, S e p t e m b e r 2 n d country music superstar Jamey Johnson will take the Grandstand stage for what is sure to be an unforgettable concert. One of the most highly regarded and wellliked county musicians in Nashville, Jamey Johnson is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and an award winning singer/songwriter. He is best known for his songs "In Color" and "High Cost of Living." He's also penned songs for Trace Adkins, George Strait, James Otto and Joe Nichols.

Fairgoers should prepare to party on the closing day of the Du Quoin State Fair. On Monday, September 5thSugar Raycomes to town to help southern Illinois celebrate Labor Day. The singer/songwriter/actor has a resume of top-10 hits, multiplatinum albums, and countless

sold-out tours to his credit. The 5th annual Summerland Tour will stop at more than 25 cities this summer, including Du Quoin, and will feature great live music from Sugar Ray, Everlast, Lit, and Sponge at the 2016 fair.

An on-sale date for the above mentioned acts has not been set at this time.

Ticket prices for each of the shows are listed below: Friday, September 2: Jamey Johnson Tier 2 - $15 / Tier 1 - $20 Monday, September 5: Sugar Ray / Everlast / Lit / Sponge Tier 2 - $19 / Tier 1 - $24 More details regarding ticket sales, special events, and additional grandstand acts will be released in the coming weeks and months.

Dates for the 2016 Du Quoin State

Fair are August 26 - September 5.

The Fox to host the Octonauts

Explore. Rescue. Protect!

"Octonauts" announced a brand new, action-packed and interactive theatre show for the very first time in the U.S. The Octonauts and the Deep Sea Volcano Adventure (www. octonautsliveus.com) features brand new and fan favorite songs led by the entire Octonauts eight-member crew including Captain Barnacles, Lieutenant Kwazii and Medic Peso, as they invite audiences aboard an underwater quest through a world full of adventure, interactivity, and tons of sea life surprises. The tour will head coast-to-coast visiting more than 60 cities including St.

Louis on Friday, October 14 at 6 p.m. at the Fabulous Fox Theatre.

Tickets are available online at metrotix.com, by calling 314-5341111, or in person at the Fabulous Fox Box Office. The Octonauts and the Deep Sea Volcano Adventure is a high-tech production featuring costume characters and animated projections to a massive screen on stage. "We are thrilled for kids and families to see Octonauts come to life on stage," said Amy Koudelka, SVP of Product Development and Brands, Silvergate Media. “The Octonauts and the Deep Sea Volcano Adventure is an opportunity for Octo-Cadets to be a real part of the action.�

The tour comes on the heels of new Octonauts episodes premiering throughout the year on Disney Channel and Disney Junior. Seasons one, two and three are also available

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Audiences can expect a high level of interactivity with their favorite characters on stage.�

The Octonauts will be the official mascots for World Oceans Day, June 8 at participating zoos, aquariums and museums. In addition, many new Octonauts products continue to roll out as part of key licensing deals with Fisher Price, Penguin, Ncircle and Leapfrog.

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"Suicide Squad"

The superhero movie is at a strange crossroads. It generally either takes itself too seriously ("Man of Steel," ''Batman v Superman") or delights in not caring a bit ("Deadpool"). The choice, dear moviegoer, is yours. Do you prefer your costumed heroes to brood or to break bad?

Right now, good is out; self-proclaimed "edginess" is in; and a cape might get you turned away from the nightclub.

Riding the trend is David Ayer's day-glo superhero circus "Suicide Squad," a gleefully nihilistic, abysmally messy romp that delights in upending the genre's conventions and tries desperately to, like, totally blow your mind with its outre freak show.

It's less of a movie than a long trailer that doesn't provoke as much as it thinks it does. It's stitched together by an endless jukebox of everything from "House of the Rising Sun" to K7's "Come Baby Come," a soundtrack gimmick taken straight from "Guardians of the Galaxy" (which more successfully gave the superhero movie new moves). It's employed three times before the opening credits have even finished rolling, an early cue to the filmmaking talent at work.

Despite the train wreck of "Batman v Superman" (the last DC Comics challenge to Marvel's dominance), excitement is high for "Suicide Squad" thanks to a marketing campaign that rivals the presidential ones and the promise of some punk in the poppy, PG-13 realm of the superhero movie.

But the nastiness of "Suicide Squad" is superficial, merely fetishized gestures of ultra-violence that will impress few beyond 13-year-old boys. (Sorry, that's unkind to 13-year-old boys.)

RATED: PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for "sequences of violence and action throughout, disturbing behavior, suggestive content and language."

RUNNING TIME: 123 minutes.

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

"Little Men"

When a generous patriarch dies, the lives of two families are altered in Ira Sachs' beautifully poignant slice of life drama "Little Men ."

In the film, Brian Jardine (Greg Kinnear), a struggling actor, his wife, Kathy (Jennifer Ehle), a psychotherapist and the breadwinner of the family, and their 13-year-old son Jake (Theo Taplitz) uproot their Manhattan lives and move into Brian's late father's home in Brooklyn.

On the ground floor of the residence is a tiny store that sells handmade dresses. The owner, a Chilean woman, Leonor Calvelli (Paulina Garcia) also has a young son, Tony (Michael Barbieri), who Jake quickly befriends.

Jake is an old soul with an artist's eye and sensitivity. Tony is a charismatic neighborhood kid with a thick Brooklyn accent and acting ambitions. They're both angling to get into the same art school too. Their friendship is pure, immediate and quite charming â&#x20AC;&#x201D; these two kids are some true talents.

But there's an unspoken tension lingering below the surface in Leonor's interactions with the Jardines. She knows what's coming even if the audience can't quite see it yet. They live side-by-side in relative peace for a time, and then the conversation happens: Brian tells Leonor that she needs to sign a new lease and pay more rent.

Leonor had been shielded from the changing tides of the neighborhood under the charity and protection of Brian's father.

They were friends, and he liked the "glamour" of having the shop there, she explains. But Brian is not his father and he and his sister are thinking practically about the space. What do they owe this woman, after all? And hasn't she gotten by for longer than she would have under any other circumstance?

But even at a discount, Leonor can't afford the new rent.

RATEDL PG by the Motion Picture Association of America for "thematic elements, smoking and some language."

RUNNING TIME: 85 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Four stars out of four.

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"Pete's Dragon"

After an exhausting summer buffet of set pieces, superheroes and whatever s-word you might use for "Suicide Squad," the gentle "Pete's Dragon" is a welcome palate cleanser. Where other summer movies are chest-thumping, it's quiet; where others are brashly cynical, it's sweetly sincere; where others are lacking in giant cuddly dragons, "Pete's Dragon" has one.

Few may remember the 1977 Disney original, in which a young boy's best friend was a bubbly dragon invisible to others. As part of Disney's continuing effort to remake its animated classics in live-action, "Pete's Dragon" has been confidently reborn as an earnest tale of green-winged wonder.

David Lowery, a veteran of the independent film world and the director of the lyrical crime drama "Ain't Them Bodies Saints," inherits a far bigger film. But his "Pete's Dragon" still maintains the homespun feel of an American fable. Spielberglight, you might call it.

The film begins, in the "Bambi" tradition, in parental tragedy.

Pete's family is driving through a remote Pacific Northwest forest with Pete nestled in the backseat of the station wagon, reading a children's book about a dog named Elliott. A deer sprints out and, in poetic slow-motion, the gravity of the car's interior is upended. The car flips off the road and Pete staggers from the crash.

Flashing forward six years, Pete (Oakes Fegley) is a wild 10-year-old orphan living in the woods alone except for his magical companion, the dragon Elliott. As far as CGI creatures go, Elliott is an irresistible one. Furry as a fairway, he's like an enormous emerald-green puppy. Far from the "Game of Thrones" dragon variety, he's more adept at chasing his own tail than breathing fire.

RATED: PG by the Motion Picture Association of America for "action, peril and brief language."

RUNNIING TIME: 103 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three stars out of four.

"Sausage Party"

It's happened. Someone has outdone the "Team America" puppet sex scene and even made it look somewhat quaint in comparison. Anyone even vaguely interested in the very R-rated animated film "Sausage Party " has likely heard whispers about the food orgy. Words can't even begin to do this sequence justice, but I guarantee you've never seen anything like it in a mainstream studio movie. It's jaw-dropping.

Of course it's compliments of the minds that blew up a foreign leader in "The Interview" and reveled in the comedy of rape by demon in "This is the End." Yes, co-writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have used their singular and delightfully twisted imaginations once more to concoct what is easily the year's most audacious film. And it's packaged in animation cutesy enough for Pixar.

In the grand tradition of "Toy Story," ''Sausage Party" imagines the lives of the foodstuffs in the local supermarket aisle. But it doesn't merely anthropomorphize the food. It gives them sexuality, lust, ethnicities and even religion. "Sausage Party" is just as much a sweet story about belief and faith as it is a vehicle for the filthiest jokes you've never dared imagine.

Frank (Seth Rogen), a non-descript hot dog, waits somewhat impatiently with his fellow mates to be selected by the gods (humans) to be taken to a paradise in The Great Beyond (purchased). Everyone in the store knows something good is out there waiting. The foods and condiments and sweets begin every day with a rousing song about The Great Beyond and the Gods, each putting their own spin on it (i.e. the German mustard has added a line about exterminating Juice).

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

RUNNING TIME: 89 minutes.

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

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"Ben-Hur"

Remaking a film that won 11 Academy Awards invites inevitable comparison, but the latest adaptation of "Ben-Hur" distinguishes itself from William Wyler's 1959 epic by retooling key character and story elements. It's still a big, biblical-era tale of power, loyalty and vengeance, only refocused through rosecolored lenses with an eye toward appealing to the lucrative faith-based audience.

Produced by the power couple behind "The Bible" miniseries, Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, this "Ben Hur" is like an abbreviated, more Christ-centered take on Wyler's film.

It boasts similar sweeping desert landscapes, well-dressed Roman armies and heart-pounding equestrian action. Some shots pay clear homage to the Oscar-winning classic. The violence here is far more graphic, thanks to modern special effects (and sensibilities). This film is also an hour and 40 minutes shorter than Wyler's epic (thank goodness).

But where Wyler's version is ultimately about family and unrequited romance, director Timur Bekmambetov is more interested in redemption and the words of Jesus Christ.

Jesus was silent and his face unseen in Wyler's film. Played handsomely by Rodrigo Santoro, Jesus has a lot to say here.

Screenwriters Keith Clarke and Oscar winner John Ridley ("12 Years a Slave") start with the premise and characters from the original 1880 novel. Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston) and Messala (Toby Kebbell) are like brothers until Messala becomes a Roman officer who falsely accuses Judah of betrayal. Messala condemns Judah to slavery and jails his innocent mother and sister. After years of captivity and an unlikely escape, Judah befriends a horseman who insists he exact vengeance against Messala during the celebrated Roman chariot race.

RATED: PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for "sequences of violence and disturbing images."

RUNNING TIME: 124 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Two stars out of four.

"War Dogs"

"War Dogs " is too good of a true story not to get the Hollywood treatment, even if the end result doesn't entirely do justice to the moral ambiguities and larger geopolitical implications of one of the craziest hustles in modern American history.

Essentially, in 2007, a couple of 20-something stoners from Miami Beach landed a nearly $300 million contract from the Department of Defense to supply ammunition to the Afghan military. And, unbeknownst to the U.S. government at the time, many of the supplies they were selling were over 40 years old, manufactured in China and basically unusable.

It's an absolutely insane story of the ambition, delusion and megalomania of a few young strivers who managed to find a lucrative place in the international arms game. The events have been chronicled extensively in the press over the past eight years, including by journalist Guy Lawson, whose Rolling Stone article "The Stoner Arms Dealers" and book became the basis for the film.

Director and co-writer Todd Phillips, best known for chestthumping comedies like "The Hangover" trilogy, reaches beyond his comfort zone to tell this complicated and fraught tale. The film struggles to find the right tone, and instead of consistency goes for a more disjointed kitchen-sink approach that juggles satire, bro fantasy and high-stakes thriller with varying results.

Miles Teller stars as David Packouz, a struggling massage therapist who takes up with Efraim Diveroli (Jonah Hill) in a moment of desperation. A much shadier figure but a childhood friend nonetheless, Efraim has the plan to game the government contracts system and make a few bucks from the war.

RATED: R by the Motion Picture Association of America for "language throughout, drug use and some sexual references."

RUNNING TIME: 114 minutes.

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

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"War Dogs" tells a crazy story

By LINDSAY BAHR Associated Press "War Dogs " is too good of a true story not to get the Hollywood treatment, even if the end result doesn't entirely do justice to the moral ambiguities and larger geopolitical implications of one of the craziest hustles in modern American history.

Essentially, in 2007, a couple of 20-something stoners from Miami Beach landed a nearly $300 million contract from the Department of Defense to supply ammunition to the Afghan military. And, unbeknownst to the U.S. government at the time, many of the supplies they were selling were over 40 years old, manufactured in China and basically unusable.

It's an absolutely insane story of the

ambition, delusion and megalomania of a few young strivers who managed to find a lucrative place in the international arms game.

The events have been chronicled extensively in the press over the past eight years, including by journalist Guy Lawson, whose Rolling Stone article "The Stoner Arms Dealers" and book became the basis for the film.

Director and co-writer Todd Phillips, best known for chest-thumping comedies like "The Hangover" trilogy, reaches beyond his comfort zone to tell this complicated and fraught tale. The film struggles to find the right tone, and instead of consistency goes for a more disjointed kitchen-sink approach that juggles satire, bro fantasy and high-stakes thriller with varying results.

Miles Teller stars as David Packouz, a

struggling massage therapist who takes up with Efraim Diveroli (Jonah Hill) in a moment of desperation. A much shadier figure but a childhood friend nonetheless, Efraim has the plan to game the government contracts system and make a few bucks from the war.

David gets to play the family guy who just wants to provide for his beautiful partner Iz (a one-note Ana de Armas) and newborn daughter. The audience has to care about someone after all, and it was never going to be Efraim, a schemer who fetishizes "Scarface," money, women and guns, and who goes from general creep to all out sociopath as the film progresses. Hill makes him sleazy to the core, with a hyenalike laugh that will make your skin crawl (possibly out of embarrassment).

As with so many of these fast-rise-andfaster-fall stories, at first David and Efraim are having a "Hangover"-style blast — running from armed militia in Iraq to hand deliver Italian guns to an American outpost, and doing cocaine in the clubs with South Beach babes all around. The tone in this first part feels almost a little too light-hearted and gleeful for the subject matter. Are we supposed to think of these dudes as subversive heroes and delight alongside them in the money, the drugs and the adrenaline of engaging in something so risky?

It's never quite clear.

Things do get substantially darker (and more over the top) when the guys take on the $300 million contract that will eventually be their downfall. This is where the film, and Teller in particular, really come alive.

"Jungle Book" easy-going family fare

By ROBERT GRUBAUGH For The Edge There’s a natural inclination to turn away from the movies late in the Summer as the start of school looms and Labor Day approaches.

The audiences thin and the quality of movies drops dramatically as the studios brace for the ultimate jolt that concludes their blockbuster season of high profile tentpole releases. Look at this past weekend if you don’t believe me. The $100 million project “BenHur”, a sword-and-sandals remake no one was clamoring for, opened to a paltry $11 million figure that has got to be considered lucky by the nitwits who allowed this project to proceed. I have nothing against chariot races, or even the occasional butchering of now

classics, but to delude anyone into thinking that an epic in late August is a good idea – even when stocked with the dulcet narrating tones of Morgan Freeman – is a joke I don’t find very funny at all. Now, to be fair, I haven’t watched “Ben-Hur” yet. That’s not the point of what I’m trying to convey.

I may have not watched “Ben-Hur”, but the greater concern is that I don’t want to watch “Ben-Hur”.

So what did I watch this week? It wasn’t the true tale of gunrunners selling arms for the U.S. in Afghanistan that is called “War Dogs”. Miles Teller and Jonah Hill front that one. I also didn’t see “Kubo and the Two Strings”, a critically loved look at some animated story about something or other. I was so bored by the trailer,

I struggle even to give you a proper synopsis. Did I not go to the movies this week? Please. That would be a greater injustice than surviving a terrible show. Instead, I ventured to one of the last remaining ‘discount’ theatres in our area and took in the Jon Favreau version of “The Jungle Book” that I missed during its original run earlier this summer.

As ridiculous luck would have it, it also returns this week in IMAX 3D at select locations.

“The Jungle Book” is a live action remake of the Disney tale about man-cub Mowgli (Neel Seethi), a character immortalized in a series of tales by Rudyard Kipling. His adventures with Baloo the Bear (Bill Murray) and King Louie (Christopher Walken) are intertwined

with life lessons from Bagheera (Sir Ben Kingsley), a black panther foster father. The slick look of the movie makes it fun without being cheesy. It’s easy-going family fare with a darkness to it that tinges on the edges of scary. I loved hypnotic Scarlett Johansson’s hypnotic boa constrictor, Kaa, even if it gave me a chill. Idris Elba voices villain Shere Kahn, a wily tiger that would gladly eat Mowgli to cement his power struggle for Indian jungle supremacy. While not a musical as its predecessor was, this “Jungle Book” has musical elements to it and a jazzy animated sequence over the credits. Murray especially is a laugh riot, as he usually is, even when being upstaged by both kids and animals.

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So if you find yourself in similar circumstances that I faced down, don’t bail on your favorite form of entertainment. It’s your patriotic duty to love film. Just watch out for the junk on the current calendar (“Hands of Stone”? “Mechanic: Resurrection”?) and go back to some of the under-sung gems we were treated to in the past three months.

“Central Intelligence”, “The Nice Guys”, and “Secret Life of Pets” were all slam dunks. Even the third “Purge” movie is really good. And you won’t hate yourself for going to watch it come the next morning.

“The Jungle Book” runs 106 minutes and is rated PG for some sequences of scary action and peril. I give this film two and a half stars out of four.

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he Illinois Route 66 Scenic Byway will be out in full force at a number of Central Illinois Route 66 upcoming events, and has also been providing support for these activities and projects along the Mother Road.

Williamsville celebrates the Route 66 International traveler with the unveiling of a multi-directional mileage sign celebrating the top visiting countries along Illinois Route 66. Members of the Sangamon Valley Woodcarvers have designed and produced placards representing U.S. cities and countries from around the globe on a carved sign post with a Route 66 logo as a topper. The cost of the sign was partially funded through a grant program from the Illinois Route 66 Scenic Byway. The sign sits outside the newly constructed Williamsville Public Library and Museum at 217 North Elm Street. The dedication is Saturday September 10th at 2:30pm as part of the Williamsville Fall Festival on September 9th and 10th.

The Salt Creek ABATE Motorcycle Club, Route 66 Heritage Foundation of Logan County and the Illinois Route 66 Scenic Byway will be hosting a new Motorcycle Cruise-In event on Saturday September 17th from 11am to 3pm at The Mill on 66. The cruise-in is being held as part of

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and in conjunction with the Abraham Lincoln Railsplitting Festival and the 90th Anniversary of Route 66 (1926-2016).

All statewide ABATE club members are invited as well as all motorcyclists.

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This year ’s Abraham Lincoln National Railsplitting Festival will be held Saturday and Sunday September 17th & 18th at new locations in Lincoln, Illinois, all of which are located on Historic Route 66 – Postville Courthouse State Historic Site, Postville Park and The Mill. The event is a celebration of the pioneer days that influenced Abraham Lincoln’s early life, including his time as a lawyer on the 8th Judicial Circuit.

Traditional Saturday festival activities include the Women's Firewood Split, Log Rolling Contest, Cross Cut Saw Competition, Antique Tractor Games, Team Railsplitting Contest, Jr. Railsplitting Contest and the Amateur Railsplitting Contest - all at Postville Park, located at 5th and Washington Streets (Route 66). Sunday Railsplitting

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festival activities include a Community Church Service, the Dean Tibbs Tomahawk Throw, the Ray Begolka Corn Shelling Contest, a Stick Horse Rodeo, Water Boil Contest, Outhouse Races, Trick Riding & Drill Team by Rita Coleman, the Re-Christening of the City Lincoln at 3pm and the National Railsplitting Contest at 3:15pm. Live Bluegrass music will be featured all day Saturday and Sunday at Postville Courthouse located at 914 5th Street.

The Second Annual Route 66 Miles of Possibility Conference will be held in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois from October 20-23. As with the inaugural event last year in Edwardsville, the conference will feature several informative speakers covering a variety of topics related to Route 66, as well as many fun activities.

The festivities begin on Thursday evening, October 20th, with a Hot Dog Roast at Sprague’s Super Service Station located at 305 Pine Street in Normal. The Tudor-Revival style building was built in 1931 on Route 66, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Town of Normal recently purchased the building to continue the restoration.

Conference sessions begin with a keynote speaker on Friday, October 21st at The Chateau Hotel and Conference Center, 1601 Jumer Drive, Bloomington, then move to Downtown Bloomington. Friday evening is the 90th birthday celebration for Route 66, which includes a dinner and dance party at the Eagle’s Club, 313

S. Main, Bloomington. Route 66 Hall of Fame members will be recognized by Steve Nalefski, McLean County representative of the Route 66 Association of Illinois.

Entertainment includes a local band favorite, Wagon Load a Trouble, and stand-up comedy by Terri Ryburn, who is also the conference organizer.

On Saturday, October 22nd, the conference continues with the second keynote speaker at The Chateau Hotel and Conference Center. Conference sessions will be held once again in Downtown Bloomington at the McLean County Museum of History/Cruisin’ with Lincoln on 66 Visitors Center and the Ensenberger Building. A Route 66 Normal Short Film Festival takes place Saturday evening at the Normal Theater, 209 North Street, Normal.

On Sunday, October 23rd, a number of activities will be offered for conference attendees. A bus tour to Pontiac and Atlanta, Illinois will be led by Route 66 historian, author and preservationist, John Weiss. A Haunted Route 66 tour in Downtown Bloomington, will be guided by Deborah Senger from Spirits of Bloomington/Timeless Presentations, the author of an upcoming book entitled, Haunted Bloomington-Normal, Illinois.

The 10th Anniversary showing of the Disney movie “Cars” will also be shown at the Normal Theatre that day.

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Saint Louis Cathedral Concerts, a nonprofit that brings worldclass musical artists from around the world to St. Louis, announces its fourth series of free chamber music concerts . Performing in each concert are Celeste Boyer, violin; Bjorn Ranheim, cello; Jennifer Mazzoni, flute; and Matthew Mazzoni, piano.

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Religion Pope lays out vision for promoting family issues VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Wednesday outlined his vision for how the Vatican will promote family and life issues, naming an American moderate to head the new Vatican office for families and laity and directing related institutes to give merciful care to spiritually wounded Catholics.

Dallas Bishop Kevin Farrell, a former Legion of Christ priest whose brother is also a top Vatican official, now becomes the highestranking American at the Holy See. Francis appointed the Irish-born Farrell on Wednesday as he formally created the new Dicastery for the Laity, Families and Life, which combines several Vatican offices into one.

Francis also named an Italian moderate, Monsignor Vincenzo Paglia, to head two academic institutes affiliated with the new laity office — one dealing with bioethics, the other with marriage — and told Paglia he should focus on promoting the merciful side of church doctrine.

Combined, the appointments signal a more moderate direction for Vatican offices responsible for hot-button, culture war issues such as abortion, contraception, marriage and divorce.

Farrell is known as a moderate with a warm, friendly approach that balances a strong emphasis on social justice issues with

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a defense of church teaching on issues such as abortion.

Paglia too is a moderate, an Italian who was responsible for investigating and pushing through the beatification of slain El Salvador Archbishop Oscar Romero over opposition from Latin American conservatives who accused Romero of Marxist sympathies.

The two institutes Paglia now heads — the Pontifical Academy for Life and the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family — both were created during the pontificate of the conservative Polish pope to assert church doctrine on core sexual morals, bioethics and marriage. The institutes' members were often hard-liners and their conferences often featured only like-minded academics.

In a letter to Paglia, Francis said he wanted the institutes to now focus on imbuing church teaching on life and marriage issues with mercy, opening dialogue with other academic and scientific centers, Christian and not.

"Bowing before the wounds of mankind, to understand them, treat them and heal them is the job of a church that believes in the light and strength of the resurrected Christ, able to go even to places of tension and conflict like a field hospital," Francis wrote to Paglia.

Farrell's new office is expected to work in tandem with Paglia's institutes and will

conservatives who dismiss the pope as confusing and insufficiently faithful.

Farrell seems very much on message with Francis on some key issues. He has spoken out for the rights of immigrants, including writing in 2010 on his blog that "immigration reform is a moral issue."

H e d r e w t h e i r e o f m a n y Te x a s conservatives when he praised President Barack Obama's executive action this year tightening gun regulations. Farrell, writing on his blog, criticized a new open carry state gun law as a sad reflection of "the cowboy mentality."

When the U.S. Supreme Court made same-sex marriage legal nationwide last year, Farrell wrote that the church would never accept gay marriage, but also emphasized that gays and lesbians should be treated with respect and compassion.

Both positions are in line with Francis and church teaching.

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include many lay Catholics in top positions.

That is part of the pope's aim to reinvigorate the participation of ordinary Catholics in the church and get away from what he has long criticized as an overly "clericalized" hierarchy.

The statutes of Farrell's office, released in June, say it will have three sections: laity, family and life. The life section is designed to coordinate initiatives promoting "responsible procreation" and supporting initiatives to help women choose alternatives to abortion.

In a statement on the Dallas diocesan website — written in both English and Spanish in a reflection of Farrell's predominantly Latino flock — the bishop said he was humbled by the unexpected appointment and would leave his home of 10 years with mixed emotions.

Farrell, a tweeting and blogging 68-year-old, said he looked forward to defending life and promoting the laity and family in accordance with Francis' recent teaching document on family life, "The Joy of Love."

The document has been controversial because it opened the door for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive Communion.

Farrell has defended Francis' emphasis on mercy over divisive social issues in the face of criticism from some American

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The Arts Edwardsville Art Fair returning in September

By JULIA BIGGS Of The Edge The Edwardsville Arts Center is finalizing plans for its third annual Edwardsville Art Fair that will take place Sept. 23, Sept. 24 and Sept.

25 in the Edwardsville City Park located at 101 S. Buchanan. The Edwardsville Art Fair, a juried fine art show with prizes worth a total of $15,000, will feature over 100 accomplished artists from several states.

The artists will have exhibits set up under tents on the Edwardsville City Park ground that encircles the Edwardsville Library. EAC Interim Director Liz Link said that this year’s layout will be a little different to accommodate the additional artists.

“We’re going to block off the street between the library and Domino’s and put two rows of tents on either side of the street - on the street itself rather than up on the grass,” she said.

Always popular each year at the Edwardsville Art Fair is the Children’s Tent with its Create IT and Take IT activities. On both Saturday and Sunday kids will again be able to create their own take-home art projects with the free art materials that will be provided.

The Kids Art Gallery also returns this year. Artists participating in the fair will each be donating a piece of their artwork to the Children’s Art Gallery.

Children can visit the Children’s Art Gallery and purchase one item for $50 as a way to start their own art collection. “Fifty dollars for one of those pieces of art work is a deal. The work is worth more than $50,” Link emphasized. “And all proceeds from the Children’s Art Gallery fund the weekly free Saturday art classes for kids (at the EAC).”

Tickets for the Children’s Art Gallery can be purchased in advance by calling or visiting the EAC at 655-0337. Children will enter the Children’s Art Gallery in the order of the ticket purchases.

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Pictured are views from previous Edwardsville Art Fairs.

Local restaurants including Sugo’s, Peel Pizza, Mariachi’s, County Seat Cafe, Sacred Grounds Cafe, Source Juicery, and Zapp Thai will have food and drink for sale at the Art Fair. And a full schedule of entertainment will take place on the stage.

The art fair will kick off Sept. 23 at 7 p.m. and run through 10 p.m. that night. The art fair hours are then 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Sept. 24 and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sept. 25. In the event of inclement weather, the Edwardsville Art Fair will be moved indoors to the Edwardsville High School

gymnasium.

T h e E d w a rd s v i l l e A r t F a i r would not be possible without all the volunteers and local sponsors.

“Simmons Hanley Conroy LLC of Alton is sponsoring Hospitality again this year for the third year in a row,” EAC Gallery Manager Carolyn Tidball said.

“Our art fair artists absolutely adore the volunteers. They bring food, coffee, and hot chocolate to artists and provide booth sitting services so artists can take a break. Three days selling artwork

outside can be exhausting, so it’s very important to us that our artists are well taken care of and our volunteers always exceed our expectations.”

There are still several volunteer positions available. “Friday morning volunteers are especially needed, because ar tists need lots of help setting up their tents and transporting loads o f a r t w o r k , ” Ti d b a l l a d d e d .

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and we’re looking forward to working with them again this year.” Sign up to volunteer at www. edwardsvilleartscenter.com.

Prizes worth a total of $15,000 will be awarded to the artists in the 2016 Edwardsville Art Fair. These awards are generously provided by local people and businesses.

Mathis, Marifian & Richter Ltd. of Belleville is again sponsoring the Best of Show Award worth $1,500.

The Named Award Sponsors for $750 include First Clover Leaf Bank, TheBANK of Edwardsville, Ed and Barbara Hightower, JF Electric, Anderson Hospital, and In Memory of Bernadine L. Werner.

In addition, there are 12 Best of Category Awards for $600 each, of which six currently have sponsors - Edwardsville Online, Coldwell Banker Brown Realtors, Dan and Caroline Anderson, Jennifer Ladd Allstate Agency, Scherer Law Firm, and Lewis Rice. Tidball pointed out that there are still slots open for six more sponsors in Best of Digital and Graphic Design, Fine Craft, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Sculpture and Wood.

The $200 Merit Awards are sponsored by Joan and Al Wentz, Scheffel Boyle, Family Physicians of Madison County, Borden Dental Arts, Bard and Didriksen Pediatrics, Edwardsville Township, in Memory of Dennis DeToye and Lucco, Brown, Threlkeld and Dawson LLP. In addition, Scott Credit Union is sponsoring the Children’s Create IT and Take IT tent on Saturday, but Sunday’s $1,000 sponsorship is still needed. Entertainment is sponsored by Gori Julian, VIP Tent is sponsored by Lifetouch, and The Children’s Art Gallery is sponsored

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collection is not a static thing, a project to be finished. A collection lives and breathes and evolves over time. It is shaped and sharpened by changing circumstances, changing priorities and changing interpretations. A collection is not an answer, but a lens through which to question the world.

As one of the oldest university museums in the nation, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis has long focused on acquiring significant art of its time. This fall, the museum marks the 10th anniversary of its Fumihiko Maki-designed facility with an ambitious, building-wide installation — the largest the museum has ever mounted — of its esteemed permanent collection.

“Real / Radical / Psychological: The Collection on Display” steps back from a decade of thematic presentations and, for the first time ever, presents the permanent collection in chronological fashion. Divided into three galleries — “The Long Nineteenth Century,” “Modernism and the Twentieth Century” and “Contemporary Moments” — the installation will provide new context for familiar highlights while also featuring rarely seen works and pieces that have been transformed through recent conservation.

Throughout each of the galleries, the leitmotifs real, radical and psychological illuminate how these notions have guided artistic production from the nineteenth century to today.

“Real” encompasses various approaches to depicting the visible world, both illusionistic and abstracted, as well as more subjective interpretations of a given reality. “Radical” includes politically driven aesthetic practices, particularly those that challenge artistic traditions and conventions, often resulting in images of both utopian and dystopian futures.

“Psychological” investigates conceptions of the self and the internal world as well as the volatile states of the unconscious mind and its bodily manifestations.

‘The Long Nineteenth Century’ Presented in a salon-style hang in the museum’s Garen Gallery, “The Long Nineteenth Century” reflects the richness of the museum’s collection of landscapes, genre painting, and portraiture, along with a rotating display from the vast collection of works on paper, from an era that stretches from the time of the American and French revolutions of the late eighteenth century to the dawn of World War I in 1914.

This era witnessed radical ruptures and transformations that led to the creation of new nations and constitutional governments and to major advances in communication, technology and trade.

In the first half of the century, artists associated with Romanticism challenged Enlightenment values of empiricism, secularization and rationality, stressing subjective individualism and emotion.

Within this context landscape became a newly independent genre capable of conveying personal and often spiritual experiences, as shown in a variety of works by the French Barbizon school and American Hudson River school painters.

By mid-century, Realism arose as a critical manifestation of certain artists’ concerns with creating a truly democratic art that would represent the material condition of contemporary life. Empirical observation of the exterior world became a particular concern for many artists as numerous scientific and technological innovations changed the way the world is measured and how goods are produced and distributed.

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Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925–2008), “Choke,” 1964. Oil and silkscreen on canvas, 60 x 48. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Weil, 1972. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, New York.

Thomas Eakins’ “Portrait of Professor W. D. Marks” (1886) captures both the likeness and equipment of a prominent electrical engineer in meticulous detail, aided by the technology of photography.

In France, the figure of the peasant was a particularly popular subject for Realist artists, whether used in anecdotal contexts such as Jules Breton’s tavern scene (1858), or in works that sought to capture the realities of agrarian labor in detail, as in Léon Lhermitte’s harvesting scene (1883).

‘Modernism and the Twentieth Century’ In the Bernoudy Permanent Collection Gallery, “Modernism and the Twentieth Century” presents art from the early 20th century through the postwar years — a period that includes some of the collection’s most important works of European and American modernism. Both propelled by, and reacting against, the realities of modern progress, and in response to the brutality of two devastating world wars, artists visualized the human condition through new and often experimental modes of expression.

Various forms of abstraction and semiabstraction emerged in such radical movements as Expressionism, Cubism, Constructivism, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. For example, Theo Van Doesburg’s “Compositie VII: de drie Gratiën

(Composition VII: The Three Graces)” (1917) presents a dynamic interplay of abstract form and color that — via its title — references a trio of female dancers. The artist prized dance as much as abstract art as an expressive and creative form, revealing his faith in the promise of utopian new worlds.

By contrast, Marsden Hartley’s abstracted “The Iron Cross” (1915) uses both recognizable symbols and abstract shapes to pay homage to a German officer and friend killed during the early stages of World War I. Paintings by artists including Max Beckmann, Karl Zerbe and Max Ernst mediate experiences of exile and loss during World War II. The bold gestures of Willem de Kooning’s “Saturday Night” (1956) suggest the external and dynamic effects of American postwar urban industrial culture on individual experience, while French artist Pierre Soulages’ large-scale “Peinture 200 x 265 cm, 20 mai 1959 (Painting 200 x 265 cm, 20 May 1959)” (1959), delves into the internal qualities of painting, connecting the medium to the physical process of its making.

‘Contemporary Moments’ In the Barney A. Ebsworth Gallery, “Contemporary Moments” includes works by an international array of artists from the late 1960s until today. During this cacophonous period, much artistic focus

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shifted away from progressive modernist paradigms and toward a material and conceptual pluralism.

Valie Export, Howardena Pindell and Martha Rosler, among others, produced charged artworks that variously incorporate newly emerging art forms such as performance, language, photography and video to question underlying structures of social control and oppression. Employing parody, pointed critique, and, in the case of Export’s “Touch Cinema” (1968), radical self-exposure and provocation, these artists confronted normative assumptions of gender, race and the ways the mass media shape perceptions of identity.

Barbara Kruger’s adoption of advertising techniques emphasized the coercive authority of language while work by Renée Cox and Catherine Opie, among many others, brought renewed attention to the politics of the body — be it the black male body in the case of Cox’s photographic collage, or the gay, lesbian and transgendered subjects of Opie’s reverent photographic portraiture.

Many recent acquisitions will be highlighted here as well, reflecting a range of contemporary artistic positions that give visual expression to the impact of the new digital age and the associated paradoxes of unprecedented mobility and virtual technologies. These include works that expand the practice of painting via digital design methods, as exemplified in the art of Michel Majerus or Corinne Wasmuht, and others who create large-scale, seductive photographs, such as those by Andreas Gursky, Trevor Paglen and Wolfgang Tillmans, which seem to question the indexical quality of the medium.

In addition, four works in the museum’s May Department Stores Foyer cross the timeframe of the overall installation, each reflecting distinct points of intersection between art and politics, including American slavery, World War II, the Vietnam war, and 9/11 and its aftermath (respectively): Thomas Ball’s “Freedom’s Memorial” (1875), Alexander Calder’s “Bayonets Menacing a Flower” (1945), Robert Rauschenberg’s “Choke” (1964) and Alfredo Jaar’s “May 1, 2011” (2011).

Organizers Support for this installation is provided by the William T. Kemper Foundation, Elissa and Paul Cahn, Nancy and Ken Kranzberg, the Hortense Lewin Art Fund, and members of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

The exhibition is curated by Sabine Eckmann, the William T. Kemper Director and chief curator; Meredith Malone, associate curator; and Allison Unruh, associate curator.

Spotlights Catalog In conjunction with the installation, the new collection catalog “Spotlights: Collected by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum,” will be available.

It assembles 46 monographic essays that explore preeminent and lesser-known artworks by artists ranging from Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Georges Braque and Willem de Kooning to Olafur Eliasson and Carrie Mae Weems. Both well-known and emerging scholars offer an array of perspectives on an equally diverse range of artworks to illuminate one of the most distinguished university art collections in the United States.

About the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum “Real/Radical/Psychological: The Collection on Display” opens with a public reception from 6-10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9, and remains on view through Jan. 15, 2017.

The museum is located on Washington University’s Danforth Campus, near the intersection of Skinker and Forsyth boulevards. Regular hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. daily except Tuesdays, and 11 a.m.-8 p.m. the first Friday of the month. The museum is closed Tuesdays.

For more information, call 314-935-4523; visit kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu; or follow the museum on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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The Arts Artistic adventures Rep announces Studio Theatre series

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (The Rep) has announced its 20162017 season of performances in the Studio Theatre: Mothers and Sons, October 26-November 13, 2016; Constellations, January 18-February 5, 2017; and The Royale, March 8-26, 2017.

The Studio Theatre series opens on October 26 in the Emerson Studio Theatre at the Loretto-Hilton Center for the Performing Arts with Mothers and Sons by Terrence McNally.

Mothers and Sons is a moving illustration of how societal changes have mpacted gay Americans in the past three decades. The show spotlights the journey of Katharine, a woman who is still coming to terms with the AIDS-related death of her son 20 years prior. She seeks out her sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former partner, Cal,

only to discover that he now has a husband and a six-year-old son. As she and Cal explore memories of someone they both loved, Katharine begins a rocky journey toward reconciliation with the side of her son that she never understood.

The Studio Theatre series continues with Constellations

by Nick Payne. This daring, twoperson show illuminates the limitless possibilities contained within one relationship. When Roland and Marianne meet at a party, a multiverse of potential outcomes unfolds. Each choice they make unlocks a series of branching story paths â&#x20AC;&#x201D; some wonderful, some tragic. Payneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s genre-busting new play explores these alternate universes with wit, wonder and an overflowing sense of life. Hailed

by The New Yorker as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a singular astonishment,â&#x20AC;? Constellations creates a vibrant collision of love and theoretical physics.

Closing the series is The Royale,

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by Stuart Carden. The brutal rhythm of boxing underscores this brilliantly stylized drama. Rising black prizefighter Jay â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Sportâ&#x20AC;?

Jackson dominates his opponents, but the harsh social realities of the early 1900s force him to fight twice as hard to earn recognition outside of the ring. Loosely based on iconic fighter Jack Johnson, The Royale brings us ringside to one manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quest for victory against all odds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our Studio Theatre season has incredible stylistic diversity,â&#x20AC;? said Steven Woolf, The Repâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Augustin Family Artistic Director. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mothers and Sons is a beautiful and understated piece, Constellations is an impressive feat of unconventional storytelling, and The Royale makes full use of lighting and sound to capture the audienceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s imagination. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a remarkable collection of shows that

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