090414 Edge Magazine

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You Gotta' Eat Funk 'N Waffles.

Film has built-in audience.

14 New Orleans Exploring the Big Easy.

15 On the Mother Road Statues to celebrate Route 66.

Arts & Issues

30th season lineup announced.

19 "Dance Close Up"

Washington University to host unique program.

20 Kemper Museum Fall exhibits announced.

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What’s Happening Friday September 5______

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• Austin Mahone Live on Tour, Fox Theatre, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m.

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

• The Madison Letter w/ All My Vices, Aaron Krause, Plush St. Louis, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• Jerry Castle and The Commonwealth Cult, Tim Carroll, Cody James, Plush St. Louis, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

• Open Mic Night, The Gramophone, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m.

• Mass Appeal, Gramophone, Live, Doors 10:30 p.m.

• FoW presents Rouge Allure, A Runway and Tragle Stunt Show • Feast in the Park, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

• Stages presents Fiddler on the Roof, Robert G. Reim Theatre, Kirkwood, 8:00 p.m., Runs through October 5.

• Sight Lines: Richard Serra’s Drawings for Twain Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through September 7.

• Inspired by Nature: A Collection of Wildlife Art by Robert Bateman, Saint Louis Zoo, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Runs through October 31.

• History Clubhouse: Let’s Build It!, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through October 6.

• Brett Weston: Photographs, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.. Runs

through December 7.

• Tragic and Timeless: The Aet of Mark Rothko Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through September 14.

• Facets of the Three Jewels: Tibetan Buddhist Art from the Collections of George E. Hibbard, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through February 22, 2015.

• Louis IX: King, Saint, Namesake Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs Through November 2.

• Mel Chin: Rematch, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through December 20.

• Jungle Boogie Friday Night Concert Series, Saint Louis Zoo, St. Louis, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

• Stages presents Fiddler on the Roof, Robert G. Reim Theatre, Kirkwood, 8:00 p.m., Runs through October 5.

• Feast in the Park, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

• Sight Lines: Richard Serra’s Drawings for Twain Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs through September 7.

• Mel Chin: Rematch, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs through December 20.

• Inspired by Nature: A Collection of Wildlife Art by Robert Bateman, Saint Louis Zoo, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Runs through October 31.

• History Clubhouse: Let’s Build It!, Missouri History Museum, St.

Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through October 6.

• Brett Weston: Photographs, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.. Runs through December 7.

• Tragic and Timeless: The Aet of Mark Rothko Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs through September 14.

• Facets of the Three Jewels: Ti b e t a n B u d d h i s t A r t f r o m the Collections of George E. Hibbard, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs through February 22, 2015.

• Louis IX: King, Saint, Namesake Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs Through November 2.

Saturday September 6______ • Stages presents Fiddler on the Roof, Robert G. Reim Theatre, Kirkwood, 8:00 p.m., Runs through October 5.

• Sight Lines: Richard Serra’s Drawings for Twain Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through September 7.

• City of Chesterfield Concert Series: Dogs of Society, Chesterfield Amphitheater, Chesterfield, 7:00 p.m.

• The Steeldrivers, Old Rock House, St. Louis, Doors 6:00 p.m.

• Orgone w/the Bump & Hustle DJ’s, Old Rock House, Doors 10:00 p.m.

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People People planner New app helps navigate haunted Alton

A sordid past of murder, war, death and destruction has led to Alton’s haunted present. Through the years, many travelers have investigated and inquired about the unexplained happenings and psychic phenomena found throughout Alton. Several locations that are noted to be extremely haunted, including the infamous McPike Mansion and Milton School, have been featured on television shows on the Travel Channel and Syfy Channel.

And now, you can follow along on our haunted app and share your photos through your very own social media channels (Facebook, Twitter & Instagram). You can also find haunted events, a listing of our haunted tour providers and a gallery of shared haunted photos.

You can download our Haunted App for free in iTunes or Android stores by searching for Haunted Alton or by going to VisitAlton. com/HauntedApp. “This app will allow anyone to share their haunted experience through a photo-sharing system that you can link to your own Facebook, Instagram or Twitter profile,” Brett Stawar, CEO/President of the Alton Regional Convention & Visitors Bureau, explained. “You can also add a caption to the photos and run one of six filters, including original, on the photo before sharing.”

Some of other our haunted locations include: the First Unitarian Church, where a former pastor who committed suicide is known to haunt this historic church, the Piasa Masonic Lodge, where a spirit of a Confederate soldier haunts the basement and more.

How to Share Your Haunted Photo Step 1 – Visit a haunted Alton site.

Open app and click on haunts. Make sure to click on the haunted site you are at.

Step 2 – Click on camera icon after you open the haunted site.

Step 3 – Snap photo and add one of 5 filters if you want or leave as original.

Step 4 – Add a caption and share on your Facebook, Twitter or Instagram accounts. Sharing to personal social media accounts is not required.

(Don’t forget to use hashtags #VisitAlton #HauntedAlton and #EnjoyIllinois) Step 5 – View all shared photos For more information on the haunted app, go to VisitAlton. com/HauntedApp or call the Alton Regional Convention & Visitors Bureau at (800) 258-6645.

cruise. The following day, there will be two, sightseeing cruises and a dinner cruise.

The Spirit of Peoria will then return in late Sept. offering full day, sightseeing, lunch and dinner cruises.

Boarding for the rest of the 2014 cruises will be at The Loading Dock in Grafton. Tickets are $25/ adult, $23/senior and $14 child (4 – 12) for the sightseeing cruise, $55 for the dinner cruise and $45 for lunch cruises. Lunch and dinner cruises include full meals served during a two-hour river cruise.

Full day cruises aboard the Spirit of Peoria are from St. Louis to Grafton. The trip includes: all inclusive ticket pricing, all-you-can-eat meals, professional storytelling, unlimited complimentary drinks, historic information, wildlife sightings, indoor comforts, outdoor relaxation, live entertainment, ragtime piano, round-trip transportation, tax and gratuity.

Cruising time is from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with a shuttle returning passengers back to boarding site.

Spirit of Peoria Schedule

Sept. 23: Full Day: St. Louis to Grafton (9 a.m. – 4 p.m.)

Sept. 23: Sightseeing (5:30 p.m.

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Sept. 24: Sightseeing (9:30 a.m. – 11 a.m.)

Sept. 24: Lunch (12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.)

Sept. 24: Sightseeing (4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.)

Sept. 24: Dinner (7 p.m. – 9 p.m.)

For more details on the cruising schedule or to book a cruise, go to www.VisitAlton.com/Cruise or call the Alton Visitor Center at (800) 258-6645. Seating is limited and reservations are required.

Compton Hill Water Tower welcomes visitors

The historic Compton Hill Water Tower is open for its 15th consecutive season of monthly openings and full moon viewings events.

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Admission to climb the tower is $5 per person; children 6 to 12 are $3; children five and younger are free. Water Tower Society members receive free entry as part of membership. Ample street side parking is available on Russell Blvd.

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By popular demand, the Tower will again open for full moon evenings, beginning at 5:30PM and extending as late as midnight for most months from April through November. “Full Moon Weekends” at the Tower in June, July and August will include food trucks, live bands and festivity.

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People People planner The Hett announces 2014-15 schedule

The Hettenhausen Center for the Arts’ 2014-2015 season presents local and returning favorites and some well-known performers and speakers making their Hett debut.

All programs are open to the public and held at the 488-seat performing arts center at McKendree University in Lebanon, Ill. “Many programs always sell out early so I always advise that you mark your calendar and plan to purchase your tickets early,� said Peter Palermo, director of The Hett.

Reserved seats for all programs will be available Sept. 3 online at theHett.com, at the box office on weekday afternoons, or by calling 618-537-6863 (1-800-BEARCAT, ext.

6863).

Many programs are free, including the Distinguished Speaker Series, films and several concerts.

Ticket prices for select shows range from $15 to $35 for adults and from $5 to $10 for children, with discounts for seniors and students.

A season preview video is online at https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=PkpkvJQcMY0. The new season will feature the following: Sept. 25, 7:30 p.m.: Neil Berg’s 101 Years of Broadway returns by popular demand with an all new musical revue of show tunes.

Oct. 5, 3 p.m.: Soprano superstar Christine Brewer returns to her hometown with friends Craig Terry of the Chicago Lyric Opera and baritone Hugh Russell in a concert to celebrate Lebanon’s bicentennial.

Oct. 19, 3 p.m.: Brian Owens and the Music of Marvin Gaye with the Saint Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra.

Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m.: Classic Albums Live: Abbey Road recreates the Beatles’ hits from one of the world’s greatest albums track for track, note for note.

Nov. 30, 7:30 p.m.: Cantus: All is Calm recalls the remarkable events of December 1914, when German and Allied soldiers met in no man’s land for a Christmas truce during World War I. Using new arrangements of European carols and war songs for a cappella voices, joined by the actors of Theatre Latte Da, to bring this moving moment in history to life.

Dec. 8 and 9, 7:30 p.m.: U.S. Air Force Band of Mid-America salutes the holidays with two nights of free concerts.

Jan. 3, 2015, 7:30 p.m.: Russian National Ballet Theatre: Swan Lake is lavish production of the magical tale of Odette, full of courtly splendor, celebrates Russia’s great national ballet heritage. The instantly recognizable music of Tchaikovsky is set against the wonderfully dark story of good against evil in one of the most famous and beloved of all ballets.

Feb. 4, 7:30 p.m.: The 5 Browns are The Juilliard School’s quintet of siblings, all virtuoso pianists.

March 4, 7:30 p.m.: John Lithgow: Stories By Heart features the well-known actor in his critically acclaimed, one-man theatrical memoir.

M a rc h 11 , 7 : 3 0 p . m . : Mummenschanz, a Swiss performance troupe, captivates audiences without words, using o rd i n a r y m a t e r i a l s t o c re a t e a s u r re a l , c o m i c u n i v e r s e . A playful and uniquely memorable experience!

April 12, 3 p.m.: The St. Louis Brass Band brings the sound of the traditional English brass band to the

Hett.

Nov. 17 and March 30, 7:30 p.m.: Saint Louis Symphony Mondays feature chamber ensembles of Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra musicians.

T h e G e o rg e E . M c C a m m o n Memorial Distinguished Speaker Series will host the following guests: Sept. 16, 7:30 p.m.: Callie Crossley, a Boston journalist and radio host who addresses audiences nationwide about race, gender, politics and the media.

McKendree adds kids' run to Harvest Challenge

A one-kilometer children’s fun run is a new addition to McKendree University’s “Harvest Challenge� road race on Saturday, Sept. 6 in Lebanon, Ill. Adult competitors can

choose their distance, a 5K run-walk or a half-marathon run.

Start time for the 5K (3.1 miles) and 13.1 mile-races is 8 a.m., after a pre-race briefing at 7:40 a.m.

Both courses begin at the center of campus and travel through historic downtown Lebanon and the surrounding area. The 5K route then goes north to Horner Park and returns to the finish line on campus. The half-marathon winds through the scenic farmland of rural northern St. Clair and southern Madison Counties before returning to McKendree.

The “Kids’ K� option, for children ages 12 and under not entered in a longer race, will start at 8:50 a.m. at the Harvest Challenge finish line.

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Brian will be in Saint Louis at the Peabody Opera House on Friday, October 24 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $36.50 and $56.50. Tickets are available at the Ford Box Office at Scottrade Center, all Ticketmaster Ticket Centers, by phone at 800-7453000, or online at ticketmaster.com O n e of t h e mo st re s p e c t e d comedians in the country, Brian Regan is a legendary performer selling out large venues from coast to coast, and earning praise from the press, the public, and fellow comedians: “He is one of my favorite, favorite stand-up comedians.” - Jerry Seinfeld “Honestly, Brian Regan’s the best stand-up working today. Period.” – Patton Oswalt “You’re the guy people look up to…Brian Regan’s the funniest guy…there’s Brian Regan and then there’s other people.” – Marc Maron “I’ll take all of that guy you got…Very funny man.” – David Letterman With his first appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman in 1995, Regan solidified his place on the show and recently made his 26th appearance, the most of any comedian on the CBS show.

Regan’s non-stop theater tour visits close to 100 cities each year since 2005, and continues through 2014. Last August, Regan sold out the legendary, 8600-seat Red Rocks Amphitheater outside of Denver, and in February 2014, Regan performed two sold-out shows at the 12,500-seat EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City.

Occasionally venturing off the stand-up stage, Regan recently

Join the Coal Country Chamber of Commerce on its ninth annual Tour de Coal bicycle ride on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014, at the Benld City Hall-Civic Center, 201 E. Central Ave. in downtown Benld, Ill. (62009).

The Tour de Coal is for riders of all ages and abilities who have an interest in cycling in the Macoupin County, Ill., area.

The ride will be held in conjunction with the 15th Annual Fall Festival held at the Benld City Park, where the bike ride ends.

Choose from a 13.6-mile family ride, a mid-length 35-mile ride or a metric century (64.8 miles).

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Out-of-town visitors to the Tour de Coal can camp Friday night (Sept. 27) 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 willbe available at the registration desk the day of the ride. Preregeistration by Sept. 15 guarantees 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.

Also new this year a portion of each person's registration fee will go to Fight the Fight, a local program which helps families with large unexpected medical costs.

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Ninth Annual Tour de Coal Bike Ride is Sept. 27

some hills. As a former rider has expressed: the ride is Registration is from 6:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the Benld City Hall-Civic Center on the day of the event. You can save money by registering in advance either by mail or through Active.com. Advance registration is $15 per person and $40 for a family of three or more people living in the same household. On the day of the ride, the cost is $20 per person and $50 for family of three or more people living in the same household.

You can register online through t h e r i d e ' s We b s i t e , w w w. coalcountrychamber.com . You also can download a paper registration form at the website or pick one up at St. Louis-, Metro-East- and Springfield, Ill.-area bicycle shops.

The Tour de Coal will have something new this year. There will be a mass start beginning at 7:00 AM for those riding the metric century. If you're wanting to find someone with similar riding skills, this is a good way to find them. It will start at the registration area on Central Avenue (Rt. 138). All other riders will start their ride heading north on Second Street as in the past. The mass start is NOT mandatory for metric century riders. If you plan to ride the metric century and do not want to start at 7:00 AM that is alright too. Again, it is not mandatory. All riders other than the mass start riders can begin their ride anytime prior to the

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The flea market is held monthly on the fourth weekend, beginning with the March flea market. The market schedule will continue through October in Grafton.

The Grafton Riverside Flea is the largest flea market in the Alton region, boasting of more than 75 vendors with a wide selection of antiques, crafts, the usual flea market fare and food. There will be a number of new dealers plus familiar faces. The butterfly man will be there on Saturdays. After shopping for your wares, head over to The Loading Dock restaurant to enjoy its new menu items.

During the 2014 season, the market will be open to shoppers from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the following dates Sept. 27 – 28 and Oct. 25 – 26.

The flea market will be held at the Historic Boatworks, located alongside The Loading Dock, located at 400 Front St. in Grafton.

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appeared in Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. He will also be seen in the upcoming Chris Rock movie Finally Famous, and he voiced the character of Weib Lunk for the 40th episode of The Looney Tunes Show titled, Spread Those Wings and Fly. Recently, Regan was nominated for a 2014 American Comedy Award for Best Concert Comic.

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Following the success of the first annual EffingHAM Music Fest, presenting sponsors Mid America Motorworks and Chicago-based 3-time ACM Nightclub of the Year, Joe’s Bar are thrilled to welcome Joe Nichols, Phil Vassar and a line-up of great Country entertainers Saturday, Sept. 27th, 2014. Joe Nichols takes the Funfest Amphitheater stage with his hit Single, “Yeah.” Holding steady at the #1 spot on the Billboard Country Airplay Chart for three consecutive weeks, it is the second single from his latest album CRICKETS to hit #1. With hits like “Sunny and 75,” “Brokenheartsville,” “Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off” and “Gimme That Girl,” Nichols brings his signature touch to traditional country music and his fans can’t get enough.

Singer-songwriter, Phil Vassar, returns to the Funfest Amphitheater after making his debut on our stage in 2006. Known for hits like “Just Another Day in Paradise,” “In a Real Love” and his latest “Love Is Alive,” Phil learned the ropes of country music co-writing singles with Tim McGraw, JoDee Messina, Collin Raye and Alan Jackson.

With 2 ASCAP Songwriter of the Year awards, a Billboard Country Songwriter of the Year award and countless hits, Phil gives each song a message to make the listener feel something.

Illinois native Drew Baldridge will also be part of the fun at EffingHAM Music Fest, returning to delight fans with his single, “She’s Taken.” Drew’s music is a reflection of his roots in Patoka, Ill., where he developed a passion for writing, playing and singing his own Country songs. The show will open with Midwest-based Matt Poss Band, a group that has been mixing country, rock, bluegrass and blues to create an eclectic sound that appeals to a wide audience for more than 10 years.

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"So You Think You Can Dance", the 11-time Primetime Emmy Award-winning show that sparked America’s fascination with dance,

Center in West Valley City, UT. The dancers will return for the second leg of the tour, starting at the Rabobank Theatre in Bakersfield, CA, on Thursday, Jan. 22.

The official tour routing is available on fox.com/dance.

Fans can sign up for the FOX.com Newsletter to find out how they can get early access to tickets. Tickets go on sale to the public beginning Friday, Aug. 15. Visit fox.com/dance for more information.

Fall’s hottest ticket will feature this season’s most popular routines, as well as original pieces created specifically for the nationwide tour. 19 Entertainment and dick clark productions will present audiences around the country with the opportunity to experience the action brought into their living rooms each week on the beloved summer series, with a variety of sizzling, one-of-a-kind dance routines they have come to expect from their favorite dancers. " S o Yo u T h i n k Yo u C a n Dance" recently received seven 2014 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Reality-Competition Program and Outstanding Host In A Reality or

is set to captivate audiences again this fall – live on tour – with more stops than ever before. Celebrating its momentous 11th season, "So You Think You Can Dance"’s Top 10 finalists will make their way across North America, performing in more than 70 cities, as part of the "So You Think You Can Dance" TOUR 2014.

The Season 11 tour lineup includes the following Top 10 finalists: Bridget Whitman, Casey Askew, Emilio Dosal, Jacque LeWarne, Jessica Richens, Ricky Ubeda, Rudy Abreu, Tanisha Belnap, Valerie Rockey and Zack Everhart. "So You Think You Can Dance" airs Wednesdays (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/ PT tape-delayed) on FOX. Tickets for "So You Think You Can Dance" at the Fabulous Fox on Oct. 8 are on sale online at MetroTix. com, by calling 314-534-1111 or in person at the Fox Theatre Box Office.

Ticket prices start at $39.50. Prices are subject to change; please refer to FabulousFox.com for current pricing.

The tour kicks off on Wednesday, Oct. 1, at the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans and crosses the United States and Canada with more than 70 stops.

The first leg of the tour will finish up on Friday, Dec. 19, at the Maverick

Reality-Competition Program (Cat Deeley), in addition to Outstanding Choreography nominations.

SYTYCD’s outstanding costume team of Marina Toybina and Grainne O'Sullivan also won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for a Variety Program.

“I am thrilled with the spectacular, fresh talent we have discovered this season. I believe these dancers have inspired the choreographers to create remarkable dance numbers each week. I am excited for your favorite dancers to bring their inspiration and routines to even more cities throughout the nation on this year’s tour,” stated Nigel Lythgoe, judge,

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By BILL ROSEBERRY Of The Edge The final stop on my funkadelic food ride around the country came at a jiving, hip spot in Syracuse, N.Y. that's motto is aptly "get down and eat up." More appropriately it is named Funk 'N Waffles.

Funk 'N Waffles was a perfect place for my dad and I's trip visiting restaurants from Edwardsville to Cooperstown, N.Y. and back to come to an end.

Funk 'N Waffles is easily the, most unique, quirky and funky joint I've ever visited during all of my "You Gotta Eat" adventures. I wish I could uproot this hidden gem in Syracuse and bring it to Edwardsville for everyone to enjoy.

The legend of Funk 'N Waffles started when owners Kyle Corea and Adam Gold were in college at Syracuse University.

The dynamic duo would throw shindigs on campus with a dj blasting tunes while they got crazy with a waffle iron. People would flock to these parties in droves, getting down and eating up. When the tandem finished college, they decided to share their funky vibe with the world and opened Funk 'N Waffles.

I learned of the legend of Funk 'N Waffles watching Diners, Drive-ins and Dives and figured if I was cruising past Syracuse it was my chance to get down with one of these funky waffle creations.

Hidden down an alley in downtown Syracuse, Funk 'N Waffles can be found at 727 S. Crouse Ave., Ste. 8, in the basement. Dad and I had to do some searching to find this treasure, but once we found it we knew we were in for some awfully good booty — in the form of waffles that is.

As we strolled down the stairwell we came face to face with a legend in the funk world with a mural of George Clinton outside the front door. We visited on a Saturday morning, so unfortunately their were no funk bands playing, which is a staple at Funk 'N Waffles, but when we opened the doors our ears were still smacked with the soul of some funk beats over the sound system from the likes of Jamiroquai, Stevie Wonder and others. I immediately realized I was walking into one of

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There were crazy paintings adorning the walls, another large mural, this time of Wonder, and the furniture was a ragtag bunch of mismatching tables and chairs, while the booths were from an old fast food joint.

After we soaked in our crazy surroundings we stepped to the counter to get our grub on. I knew what I was ordering. I didn't care that it was just after 9 a.m., my mind was set on the chicken and waffles. I had watched Guy Fieri chow down on them on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives and I had to check them out myself.

Dad on the other hand wasn't sure what he was going to get and I think he was pretty hesitant he even wanted to eat at this crazy place at all. He made his choice though and went with the Earth, Wind and Fire. Yes, the dishes were named after classic funk bands,too.

The Earth, Wind and Fire consists of a whole wheat waffle, topped with bananas, walnuts and is drizzled in honey. Dad jived up this badboy with some maple syrup when it arrived, too. He quickly admitted that it was his favorite meal from the entire trip.

But for me it was all about getting down with the funky chicken. The chicken and waffles came on a buttermilk waffle with a half dozen organic wings, both wings and drummies.

Now I've had chicken and waffles before, but these would put the smack down on any other I've ever tried.

The batter on the wings tasted as if it had maple syrup in it, because of its savory sweetness. They were the best wings I've ever had. Throw in the giant, fluffy waffle and you would think that would be enough to make this dish the bomb, but there was more. Don't hurt yourself now, but the sauce was the king of this funky creation. Comprised of maple syrup, cinnamon and hot sauce, it became like a quirky sweet and sour sauce and I could have guzzled it out of a glass it was so good.

Words can't describe the level of euphoria this crazy meal sent me into. I truly did get down and eat up at Funk 'N Waffles. If I could have, I would have done the worm across the floor to pay homage to this awesome establishment.

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But that insane secret sauce was only the tip of the iceberg on just how freaky Funk 'N Waffles can get.

Just listen to the soulful names of some of the other dishes: there's Star Child, Chocolate City, the James Brownie, Bootsy Brunch, the Jive Turkey and the Mackinac, among a slew of others.

The Jive Turkey will blow your mind. It's one of the most unique culinary creations I've ever heard of, taking a waffle made of stuffing and blanketing it with smoked turkey, garlic mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and gravy. Now if that's not funky, super fly and super freaky I don't know what is.

The James Brownie consists of a brownie waffle with two scoops of ice cream, whipped cream and chocolate sauce.

There's also the Bootsy Brunch, with a bacon-stuffed buttermilk waffle with two eggs and cheddar cheese and the All Shook Up, with a bacon-stuffed waffle with banana, honey and peanut butter. The Florentine is quite weird too, with a buttermilk waffle with spinach, feta cheese and smoked salmon. I could keep going because most of the choices seem to be out of this world.

Patrons can even build their own waffles with toppings like chocolate chips, nutella, caramel sauce, yogurt, white chocolate sauce, tomatoes, spinach, smoked salmon and pulled pork, along with a bunch of other choices.

Don't worry, for all you boring eaters there are sandwiches and salads. There is also the Everyday People, which consists of a buttermilk waffle with maple syrup.

Price-wise, you can go with a half or whole waffle. My chicken and waffles came in at $10.99, because I, of course, ordered the whole waffle. The Earth, Wind and Fire was only $6.49 for the whole. You can even buy T-shirts there, which I did. It displays a waffle on a turntable.

Check out Funk 'N Waffles at www.funknwaffles2.blogspot. com.

If you haven't figured it out, I would definitely return to Funk 'N Waffles. I know it's a little out of the way from Edwardsville, but if you're ever in Syracuse, get a little funk for your soul and check out Funk 'N Waffles when you gotta eat.

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Grand Mufti Sheik Abdul-Aziz Al-Sheik also said in his public statement that terrorism has no place in Islam, and the danger of extremists lies in their use of Islamic slogans to justify their actions that divide people.

King Abdullah has been pressing clerics to publicly condemn Islamic extremist groups since the government made it illegal for citizens to fight in conflicts abroad.

Clerics who do not condemn terrorism in traditional Friday sermons could face penalties, such as having their licenses to preach revoked.

The Islamic State group's advances in Iraq and Syria have heightened security concerns in neighboring countries like Saudi Arabia. The group has declared an Islamic state in the territory it controls, imposing its harsh interpretation of Islamic law.

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Authorities in Argentina say three relatives of Pope Francis have been killed and a fourth critically injured in a highway car crash.

The small car carrying a nephew of the Pope and his family slammed into the back of a truck, killing the wife and children, one 2 years old and the other 8 months old.

Photos showed the passenger side of the car smashed and crumpled beneath the cargo truck. The accident occurred between the cities of Rosario and Cordoba, apparently as the family was returning to Buenos Aires following a holiday weekend.

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Pope hopes to visit United States next year

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis says he hopes to travel to the United States in September 2015 for a possible three-city tour. The visit would include a rally in Philadelphia, an address to Congress and a stop at the United Nations.

He said a Mexico stop on that trip was possible but not decided yet. He also said he might make one-day visit to Spain next year.

Francis made the comment to reporters on his way back from South Korea.

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131 N. Main St., Glen Carbon, IL 288-5700 Rev. William Adams Sunday Morning Worship 8:30 & 10:45 a.m.

Adult & Children’s Sunday School - 9:40 a.m.

Senior High Youth Group Sunday - 6:30 p.m.

Mid-Week - Every Wednesday evening Wed. Night Meal - 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Kids Connection - K-5th grade - 6-7 p.m.

Middle School Bible Study - 6-7 p.m.

Senior High Bible Study - 7-8:15 p.m.

Adult Classes & Prayer Shawl Ministry - 6:30-8 p.m.

Fully Accessible Facilities www.newbethelumc.org e-mail office@newbethelumc.org

407 Edwardsville Rd. (Rt. 162) Troy, IL 62294 667-6241 Dennis D. Price, Pastor Sunday Worship: 8 a.m., 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m. & 10:35 a.m.

Wednesday Worship: 6:30 p.m.

www.troyumc.org

237 N. Kansas Edwardsville, IL

Located 1 Block North of Post Office Early Worship: 8:30 a.m.

Sunday School for all ages: 9:15 a.m.

Child/Youth Choir: 10:15 a.m.

Late Worship w/Chancel Choir: 10:45 a.m.

For Music and Other Activities

618-656-4550

EDEN UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST

ST. PAUL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST 800 N. Main Street Edwardsville (618) 656-4648

Rev. Jackie K. Havis-Shear

3277 Bluff Rd. Edwardsville, IL 656-1500

Rev. Diane C. Grohmann

9:00 a.m. ~ Contemporary Worship 9:45 a.m. ~ Sunday School 10:30 a.m. ~ Traditional Worship

Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m.

Free Friday Lunch - 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Our Facility is Handicap Accessible

www.immanuelonmain.org

ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL

Summit at School Street Glen Carbon, IL 288-5620 Rev. Tony Clavier Holy Eucharist at 10:30 a.m.

St. Thomas Child Care Center Now enrolling infants through Pre-K Call 288-5697

“Where Jesus Christ is Celebrated in Liturgy and Life.”

www.stpauledw.org

MOUNT JOY MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH OF EDWARDSVILLE

“O ye that dwell on earth!

The religion of God is for love and unity; make it not the cause of enmity or dissension.” ~ Baha’u’llah Create love and unity!

The Bahá’is of Edwardsville warmly welcome and invite you to investigate the teachings of the Bahá’i Faith.

For more information call (618) 656-4142 or email: Bahai.Edwardsville@sbcglobal.net P.O. Box 545 Edwardsville, IL 62025 www.bahai.us

327 Olive Street • Edw, IL 656-0845 Steve Jackson, Pastor Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship: 10:45 a.m.

Wed. Early Morning Prayer: 5:00 a.m.

Wed. Bible Study: 7:00 p.m.

903 N. Second Street Edwardville, IL 656-4330 John Roberts, Senior Pastor

Sunday Worship: Traditional Service 8:00 AM Sunday School 9:15 AM Contemporary Service 10:30 AM www.eden-ucc.org

ST. BONIFACE CATHOLIC CHURCH 110 N. Buchanan Edwardsville 656-6450 Very Reverend Jeffrey Goeckner

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

All Are Welcome

310 South Main, Edwardsville, 656-7498 Traditional Worship: 9:00 a.m.

Coffee Fellowship: 10:00 a.m.

Contemporary Worship: 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School: 10:30 a.m.

Youth: 6:00 p.m.

Dr. Brooks, Lead Minister Jeff Wrigley, Youth & Children’s Director www.fccedwardsville.org

www.st-boniface.com

YOUTH PROGRAMS  SENIOR HIGH and MIDDLE SCHOOL

www.fpcedw.org LECLAIRE CHRISTIAN CHURCH 1914 Esic Drive, Edwardsville, 656-0918 “Loving People to Jesus” Shane Taylor, Senior Minister Matt Campbell, Youth and Worship Minister Shawn Smith, Family Life Minister

Sunday Schedule: Worship at 9:30 am and 11:00 am Please see leclairecc.com for more information.

Daycare 656-2798 Janet Hooks, Daycare Director

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Call Lisa at 656-4700 Ext 46

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Movies

QuickGlance Movie Reviews

"Get On Up"

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: One-half star out of four.

There's a delicious moment in "Get On Up," Tate Taylor's new James Brown biopic, when Brown — played by Chadwick Boseman, in a thrillingly magnetic performance — is about to appear on the T.A.M.I. Show, a multi-act concert filmed in 1964.

Backstage, the singer is informed that he and his band won't be closing the show; that honor will be going to an up-andcoming British band called the Rolling Stones. Brown shakes off the disappointment, goes out and blows the roof off the place with the force of those growling vocals and explosive, kinetic dance moves. Then he saunters over to the Stones, just five skinny blokes who don't know what hit them. "Welcome to America," he says.

Did he say that in real life? No matter. The scene illustrates Brown's most important qualities: his ndescribable drive as a performer, and his almost blinding charisma.

For that, kudos go to director Taylor and producers Brian Grazer and Mick Jagger (yes, that Mick Jagger, who's made no secret of Brown's influence on his own famous moves.) But none of it would work, of course, without Boseman, an actor on a remarkable run of late, playing Jackie Robinson in "42" and now this. If he was impressive as the dignified Robinson, he's electrifying as Brown.

And just as Brown, in life, upstaged pretty much everyone — including his bandmates, the Famous Flames — Boseman does that here. The always excellent Viola Davis plays Brown's mother, Susie, but since Susie left her son as a boy, we don't see enough Davis — just a few sad moments from Brown's hardscrabble rural youth, and then one excruciating, wonderfully played scene later, when she comes to see her adult son backstage at Harlem's Apollo Theater.

RATED: PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America "for sexual content, drug use, some strong language, and violent situations.

RUNNING TIME: 138 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three stars out of four.

"Into the Storm"

"Into the Storm" is a movie that addresses the fearsome power of nature. Alas, it also addresses the fearsome power of a bad script to distract us from the fearsome power of nature.

Add to that a set of cardboard characters, and what you have is a movie that should have dispensed with the humans and dialogue altogether, and been a documentary. If, of course, the storms were real. Which they aren't.

The film, directed by Steven Quale, runs only 89 minutes.

And yet, despite the often engrossing special effects, it drags.

It seems there are only so many times you can watch a funnel cloud bear down, while someone yells out: "We gotta get out of here. C'mon!"

The action takes place in one day in the small town of Silverton, somewhere in the heartland. Four high school students have just been killed in a tornado in Oklahoma, which is somewhere nearby.

And yet, Silverton's high school is planning to go ahead with its outdoor graduation, despite the forecast. Maybe this is why Vice Principal Gary Fuller — Richard Armitage, the dwarf leader Thorin of the "Hobbit" movies — is frowning, a state in which he remains throughout the film (his Thorin, though shorter, was much more expressive.) He heads to school with his teenage sons, Donnie and Trey.

Meanwhile, a storm-tracking team is on the chase, led by a driven, self-centered documentary filmmaker, Pete (Matt Walsh). He's spent years developing the perfect storm-tracking vehicle — the Titus, a war tank with giant claws that can bore into the ground amid high winds.

RATED: PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for "sequences of intense destruction and peril, and language including some sexual references."

RUNNING TIME: 89 minutes.

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"Love Is Strange"

A gay couple who have been together for almost four decades are separated — at least physically — by factors beyond their control in "Love Is Strange," the latest tender and meandering exploration of human relationships from indie darling Ira Sachs ("Keep the Lights On," ''Forty Shades of Blue").

Set in the Big Apple, this is a sprawling yet intimate narrative, constructed almost entirely of in-between moments rather than the big turning points and tragedies. The starting point is the housing problem of two newlyweds but longtime lovers, played with enormous generosity by Alfred Molina and John Lithgow, but the film slowly expands its vision to encompass a much larger cast that includes Marisa Tomei and Cheyenne Jackson.

"Love Is Strange" opens on what should be the happiest day in the lives of Ben (Lithgow) and George (Molina), as they get ready in their tasteful Manhattan apartment for their wedding.

Initially somewhat counterintuitively, Sachs ensures that everything looks rather ordinary: they get up, shower, dress, are running late and can't find a taxi. Indeed, as will become clear from the film that follows, this is not the happiest day in their lives exactly because the duo, who've been together for 39 years, have mastered the art of being happy with what they have, every single day.

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

RUNNING TIME: 94 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Not ranked.

"If I Stay"

'Tis clearly the season for exceedingly attractive young adults in mortal peril.

Just two months ago, we had the charming Shailene Woodley as a teen cancer patient, fighting for time while learning about life and love in "The Fault in Our Stars." Last week, we had Aussie heartthrob Brenton Thwaites in "The Giver," risking his life for the sake of truth and memory.

And now we have the sweet Chloe Grace Moretz in "If I Stay," spending the movie in a state of limbo between life and death, after a catastrophic accident shatters her comfy world.

Like all successful YA novels brought to screen, "If I Stay," based on the 2009 teen tearjerker by Gayle Forman, brings with it a ready-made audience. All the filmmakers need do is cast the most appealing couple they can find and stay faithful to the story, and the kids should be happy.

It's safe to say director R.J. Cutler has done that — Moretz is beautiful to look at, and as her rocker boyfriend, Jamie Blackley is satisfyingly sensitive and hunky. And they have good lips. This is one screen couple that knows how to kiss.

If only the dialogue worked as well. Shauna Cross' script lapses into syrupy platitudes far too often. Just as a scene is building, you may suddenly feel like you've walked into a life-size Hallmark card.

RATED: PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for "thematic elements and some sexual material."

RUNNING TIME: 106 minutes.

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

"Life of Crime"

Some may pine for George Clooney's chin or Scarlett Johansson's lips, but no body part should be more envied than Elmore Leonard's ear.

Leonard's dialogue seemed to have walked in off the street. He filled countless pages with the stuff, capturing with preternatural acuity the diverse, often ungrammatical,

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frequently comic ping-ponging sounds of American voices shooting the breeze.

And he did it, like a magician, without showing his hand. "If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it," was one of his 10 rules. He probably would have rewritten these sentences.

It's both why Leonard has been so alluring to filmmakers, and why adapting him is so difficult. His talky, screenplayfriendly books have already produced some 20 movies (including "Out of Sight," ''Jackie Brown," ''Get Shorty" and "3:10 to Yuma") and several TV shows (like the pulpy "Justified").

Now, a year after his death, comes the film "Life of Crime," a largely faithful and appropriately admiring adaptation of Leonard's 1978 novel "The Switch."

It has three very good things going for it: the crinkled face of John Hawkes, the nasal deadpan of Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) and Jennifer Aniston in the kind of comedic-dramatic part she should have always been playing.

Hawkes and Bey play a pair of Detroit criminals — Louis Gara and Ordell Robbie, respectively — who conspire to kidnap the wife, Mickey (Aniston), of a suburban sleaze ball, Frank Dawson (Tim Robbins). Their plan to hold her goes awry when the plot is one-upped by others swirling around Dawson with equally bad motives.

With his mistress (Isla Fisher), Dawson has sneaked off to the Bahamas, where he's hiding money skimmed off his business and plotting a divorce. Is getting rid of his wife even a threat? Also interfering on their home abduction is a country-club acquaintance (a mustachioed, cowardly Will Forte), whose ill-conceived romantic pursuit of Mickey brings him calling at precisely the wrong time.

RATED: R by the Motion Picture Association of America for "language, some sexual content and violence."

RUNNING TIME: 99 minutes.

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

"Sin City: A Dame to Kill For"

After being clonked over the head in 1944's "Murder, My Sweet," Raymond Chandler's immortal private eye Philip Marlowe wryly narrated the experience of being knocked out: "A black pool opened up at my feet. I jumped in."

In "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For," a belated, 3-D sequel to 2005's "Sin City," cultishly-adored graphic novelist Frank Miller and genre-exploiting director Robert Rodriguez have again jumped right into the same dark abyss Dick Powell's Marlowe fell into, into the same noir sea — or, at least, some hyper-stylized version of it. This is hardboiled on heroin.

Both "Sin City" movies are double layers of aesthetic idolatry: Miller, famed for his "Dark Knight" reimagining of Batman, worships at the pulp altar of Chandler and Mickey Spillane, while Rodriguez is slavishly devoted to turning Miller's two-dimensional drawings into cinematic flesh. (Miller's name precedes the film's title and he shares directing credit with Rodriguez.) They each approach their tasks with gusto that can only be admired, even if the results can't.

Like its predecessor, "A Dame to Kill For" was made with an almost entirely digital palate, placing actors — Mickey Rourke, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Eva Green — on a starkly black-and-white canvas in a fictional (but very Los Angeles-like) permanent-midnight metropolis of rampant crime, extreme brutality and skin-baring luridness.

It's described with tough-guy poetry like: "the kind of place your father doesn't want to talk about."

RATED: R by the Motion Picture Association of America for "strong brutal stylized violence throughout, sexual content, nudity and brief drug use."

RUNNING TIME: 101 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Two stars out of four.

Movies

Associated Press

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Chloe Grace Moretz in a scene from "If I Stay."

"If I Stay" has a ready-made audience

By JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press 'Tis clearly the season for exceedingly attractive young adults in mortal peril.

Just two months ago, we had the charming Shailene Woodley as a teen cancer patient, fighting for time while learning about life and love in "The Fault in Our Stars." Last week, we had Aussie h e a r t t h ro b B re n t o n T h w a i t e s i n " T h e Giver," risking his life for the sake of truth and memory.

And now we have the sweet Chloe Grace Moretz in "If I Stay," spending the movie in a state of limbo between life and death, after a catastrophic accident shatters her

comfy world.

Like all successful YA novels brought to screen, "If I Stay," based on the 2009 teen tearjerker by Gayle Forman, brings with it a ready-made audience. All the filmmakers need do is cast the most appealing couple they can find and stay faithful to the story, and the kids should be happy.

It's safe to say director R.J. Cutler has done that — Moretz is beautiful to look at, and as her rocker boyfriend, Jamie Blackley is satisfyingly sensitive and hunky. And they have good lips. This is one screen couple that knows how to kiss.

If only the dialogue worked as well.

Shauna Cross' script lapses into syrupy platitudes far too often. Just as a scene

is building, you may suddenly feel like you've walked into a life-size Hallmark card.

Moretz plays Mia, a beautiful young cellist whose locker at high school is lined with "I Love Yo Yo Ma" stickers. Mia's a classical music nerd. This is tough to believe, first of all because her parents are totally cool former rocker types, and even more because Moretz, with those deep eyes and perfect, pillowy lips, just doesn't look one iota like a nerd. Nice try, though — and if she can make the cello seem cool to the younger generation, all the better.

One day at school, gorgeous Adam, a soft bang falling over his left eye just so, spies her playing the cello from a distance, and

falls for her on the spot, even though he hangs with the cool crowd. He even buys tickets to the symphony for their first date.

(Note to youngsters: This does not happen in any high school we've ever seen — not even on "Glee.")

Mia falls for Adam just as fast. "You know how you meet someone and they just already are the person they're meant to be?" she asks dreamily, in voiceover.

We see this happy meeting in flashback, because Mia is looking back at life from the precipice. That horrific accident has left her trying to decide, in the words of the Clash song, "Should I stay or should I go?" (The fact that the song isn't used seems a wasted opportunity.)

"When the Game Stands Tall" gives a perfect effort

By ROBERT GRUBAUGH Of The Edge I saw a lot of movies this summer and most of them were just plain awful. I'm not above name-dropping, so I'll call "A Million Ways to Die in the West" the worst one (but even a bad cowboy movie is better than no cowboy movie at all, am I right?). One thing that was a continuous source of amusement was the coming attraction ad for a new football movie called" "When the Game Stands Tall." I loved it and even would even tear up at some of the positive messages it jammed into its clichéd clip. Late August was m o n t h s a w a y, b u t S o n y k e p t plugging this little movie week in and week out. I couldn't wait. And then it happened, as it always does, and those darn

critics got their hooks into it. It was slammed for being made on the cheap and without any real emotion. It was just another sports movie with nothing new to offer. But I call 'bull' on that one.

"When the Game Stands Tall" tells the story of the De La Salle Spartans high school football t e a m f ro m c e n t r a l C a l i f o r n i a who didn't lose a game for twelve years during the late 90s and early 2000s. They ran their record to 151-0 during a time when their opponents averaged less than four points per game. This film, though, is about the tragedy faced and gumption displayed by the 2004 team when they lost the season's two opening games and looked completely in disarray after the murder of recently graduated teammate, coach Bob

Ladouceur's (Jim Caviezel) heart attack, and internal friction with some of the cocky senior team leaders. This might be a movie about football, but it has a heart to it that leads much further than just across one field. It tells about a mission to lead boys into manhood and prepare them to shoulder the burdens of the society into which they soon will enter.

Ladouceur only recently retired from his coaching career, but the legacy he leaves behind at the Catholic De La Salle is one of legends. His boys (led in the cast by Alexander Ludwig, Joe Massingill, and Matthew Daddario) have gone on to p l a y p ro f e s s i o n a l s p o r t s a t a very high level for more than a g e ne ra t io n . T he y a l s o l e ad indus try and s up p o rt v ario us charitable and philanthropic

causes like the recently e m b a t t l e d VA . T h e s c e n e i n which the players visit a military re h a b h o s p i t a l i s p a r t i c u l a r l y memorable. Don't mind that, yes, this movie is full of clichés.

All the best ones are rooted in truth. And just like Ladouceur's Spartans, When the Game Stands Tall gives a perfect effort.

"When the Game Stands Tall" runs 120 minutes and is rated PG for thematic material, a scene of violence, and brief smoking. I give this film two stars out of four.

A n o t h e r g re a t m o v i e - g o i n g experience I had this week took place at the grand old Wildey Theatre here in downtown Edwardsville. Thursday night turned into a romp featuring a fiftieth anniversary tribute to the great Elvis film "Viva Las Vegas."

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Like all fine functions in our fair city, Mr. Steve Davis appeared to tell the audience a little about the film, the cast (including va-va-voom Ann-Margret at the height of her popularity), and the King's music that made it all happen. You may have read about the event in these very pages of The Edge already, but I'm here to tell you that these intriguing bookings continue to make the Wildey important to our cultural lives. Support it as often as you can. And if you see me in October when I go to see Dracula, please say hello. " Vi v a L a s Ve g a s " r u n s 8 5 minutes is was released as a movie 'Approved' for all audiences. The content is mostly tame, but does feature one gnarly automobile race at the finish. I give this film two stars out of four.

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Travel

Exploring the Big Easy

By KELSEY SIMS Of The Edge

T

he American capital of Mardi Gras often gets a reputation for being a stinky, dirty party central. Perhaps that is the reason that I was surprised when my family decided to stop there on vacation.

I first visited New Orleans when I attended a fraternity formal there this past March. However, as much as I tried to convince my family that there was so much more to the Big Easy, they still seemed thoroughly unconvinced.

Thankfully, due to certain circumstances, we got the chance to visit the Cajun town as a family this

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Above, New Orleans' French Quarter. Below, a typical New Orleans cemetery with crypts placed above the water table. summer, and were all pleasantly surprised.

On our first morning in New Orleans, I convinced everyone to follow me to the famous Café du Monde, home of the beignets, for breakfast.

For those who aren’t familiar with beignets, they are fried squares of dough completely obscured by a powdered sugar Mount Everest. All health-related issues aside, these New Orleans treats prove to be delicious at any time whether it be morning, noon

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or midnight.

After a filling breakfast, I decided to give my family a tour of the French Quarter.

In this area, you will find the center of nearly all activity in the city. The Creole-styled townhouses, that often go overlooked at night, provide a colorful and lively atmosphere during the daytime.

On both sides of Café du Monde are arguably the two most intriguing parts of the French Quarter: Jackson Square and the

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French Market.

Jackson Square is the heart of all daytime activity. Not only being home to the grand St. Louis Cathedral and a small, but beautiful statue park, the square plays host to a variety of different characters.

Open-air artists display their creations along the side of the park fence. The area is constantly filled with lively jazz music courtesy of various street performers. And tarot card readers chant about whatever fortune or doom will befall various customers.

If Jackson Square is the heart of daytime activity, the French Market is the stomach. The historic market is lined with stands holding various Cajun foods and spices. My dad, anxious to try a dish named Jambalaya, sped quickly toward a stand, the rest of us followed suit, trying various native cuisines of Louisiana.

From there, we took a streetcar to see the River Walk of New Orleans. Although reviews told us it was worth the ride, we left slightly disappointed hoping that a ferry ride to Algiers Island, just across the river, would prove better.

However, both areas, while quaint, lacked the luster of the French Quarter.

What had started off as a fantastic day had turned slightly dull. Thankfully, our next endeavor more than made up for the uneventful afternoon.

On vacation, my family has a tradition of finding non-chain restaurants where locals go for a good meal. Thankfully, this trip, we had the convenience of knowing a local, who recommended a restaurant called Deanie’s Seafood, located in Bucktown, in the suburbs of the city.

Though the restaurant was visually unassuming, the food was far from it. Piled high above our plates, each dish proved more than satisfactory to us, and only left us wishing that our stomachs would allow us to eat more.

Though practically having to roll ourselves out of the diner, we

headed home on a much lighter note, planning for our last day in the city.

The second day, I was on a mission. Being the American Horror Story fanatic that I am, I wanted to know more about the history of hauntings in this culturally spooky city.

That morning my mom and I booked a spot with a local graveyard and voodoo tour group.

My dad and brother, however, decided to venture on (in my opinion) a much scarier expedition, and test their lives on an airboat tour through the alligator-infested swamps of the area (which they both enjoyed).

Our excursion, however, was not what we were expecting.

Our guide walked us quickly through the French Quarter, giving us detailed explanations on the history of the city and its buildings.

Our tour in the graveyard proved strictly fact based, as well.

Thankfully St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 is spooky in itself due to the intricate above ground tombs.

Although we did get to meet a voodoo priestess, she spoke solely in riddles, which no one truly understood, and we left this venture feeling informed, but hardly spooked.

The rest of the day was spent exploring the poverty-stricken Ninth Ward, the area that was hit the worst

by Hurricane Katrina, and the Garden District, home to football legend (at least at my college) Archie Manning.

With only a few hours left in the town, what I hoped to find was a late-night tour that would make up for our first. Thankfully, we found a group that would discuss the French Quarter Phantoms and Vampires.

This tour revolved around both facts and urban legends, presented as such. Discussing the horrors of the Lalaurie House as well as the perceived vampire nuns from the old Ursaline Convent.

Extremely satisfied with our second tour, we left the city on very high spirits, glad that we gave this tabooed city a chance.

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For The Edge

Pictured are the Route 66 statues to be erected in Benld, above, and Staunton, below.

New statues celebrate the Mother Road For The Edge A new series of interpretive statues and corresponding wayside panels are in the process of being installed in nine Route 66 communities along the famous highway in Illinois.

The Illinois Route 66 Scenic Byway coordinated the project, which was funded through grants from the Federal Highway Administration's National Scenic Byway Program and the Illinois Office of Tourism.

Bill Kelly, Executive Director of the Illinois Route 66 Scenic Byway, explained the significance of this latest series of interpretive exhibits along Illinois Route 66. “Statues tell the story of The Road in a way that is unique and unexpected by visitors.

They also serve as a fun photo opportunity”, said Kelly. The Illinois Route 66 Scenic Byway in the past has also worked with community partners to develop a series of 31 wayside exhibits and 14 experience hubs that have already been installed for the enhancement of the Route 66 experience for the traveler.

The “shadow statues” are so nicknamed because they are two-dimensional iron statues depicting a famous scene from the history of Route 66 in Illinois.

Running north to south, the interpretive statues are as follows: • Godley: Miner & Mule – an interpretation of the stripmining of black diamonds in the communities of Braidwood, Coal City, Carbon Hill, Diamond, and Godley that begun in the mid-1800s and ended in 1974.

• Elwood: Rosie the Riveter – the symbol of the female worker during WWII at the Elwood Arsenal, two massive plants that employed 20,000 workers making bombs and shells.

• Pontiac: Motorcycle Police – this exhibit, located at the old Illinois State Police headquarters in Pontiac, tells the story of the beginning of the Illinois State Police motorcycle patrol.

• McLean: Dixie Gas Attendant – interprets Illinois oldest truck stop, The Dixie Truckers Home, opened in 1928 and still in operation today. The historic McLean Depot is also featured.

• Elkhart: Shirley Temple – tells the story of the famous visit

of Shirley Temple to the House by the Side of the Road Café in 1938.

• Sherman: Wayside Park – depicts a picnic during the heyday of Route 66 at one of the few remaining wayside parks along Route 66.

• Gillespie: Miner – Gillespie also was black diamond mining country and central to the development of unions, with organizing conventions and subsequent riots that killed over twenty people.

• Benld: Coliseum Ballroom Dancers – the biggest dance floor between Chicago and St. Louis attracted large crowds, many top- name performers, and the gambling and bootlegging that inevitably came along with it. The Coliseum burned down in 2011.

• Staunton: Illinois Traction System – Electrified interurban railways connected travelers before Route 66 became the major national highway. They became obsolete in the mid-1950s.

For more information, contact the Illinois Route 66 Scenic Byway at 217-525-9308 or visit www.illinoisroute66.info & www.illinoisroute66.org.

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SIUE's Arts & Issues set for 30th season

By JULIA BIGGS Of The Edge The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Arts & Issues prgoram is celebrating its 30th season with a new line up of artists and speakers as well as some familiar favorites – many of which who are also celebrating their own milestones.

The 2014-15 season kicks off with SIUE's Xfest celebrating its fifth anniversary season.

Xfest was created in 2009 by two SIUE theatre professors in an effort to give alternative theatre a platform at SIUE and within the community for artists to discuss and create fresh and unique work.

This year's Xfest will feature four theatrical performances during the week, but it's first performer, Split Knuckle, also simultaneously kicks off the SIUE Arts & Issue's season with its performance of “Endurance” at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 10 in the Dunham Hall Theater on campus.

Split Knuckle is a critically acclaimed company that creates dynamic, physical, visually striking theatre from simple materials.

Their Web site points out that “Through imagination, text, and movement, they create vast landscapes, vivid characters, and epic stories. They make powerful theatre engaging the audience and performers in collective acts of imagination. Using the expressive power of the human voice and body, they tell stories confronting the wonders and challenges of life in our world.”

Split Knuckle's “Endurance” is based upon the story of great British exporer Sir Ernest Shackleton who kept 27 men alive for two years while they were trapped in Antarctica with no hope of rescue. Ninety-five years later, in the worst economic meltdown since the Great Depression, Hartford Insurance man Walter Spivey, struggling to justify his recent promotion and save his employee's job, relives Shackleton's story in “Endurance.” Can one of the greatest leaders in human history inspire him to conquer the corporate world?

The Arts & Issues celebration continues in October when Los Lobos comes to town as the group celebrates its 40th anniversary and the 25th anniversary of their Grammy-winning release La Pistola y El Corazon – which in 1990 won for a Grammy for best MexicanAmerican performaance.

An Nytheatre.com review noted that “These four amazing men create a dozen distinct characters, a dozen particular situations and locales out of thin air, including cracking pack

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Arlo Guthrie, above, and Los Lobos, below, will both be featured as part of the Arts & Issues series. ice, a ship at sea, a singing shower, a packed bus, comically terrifying garbage-can-clad powers-that-be, all impeccably executed.”

“Though the play’s humor, music and hopeful ending belies its more serious overtones, the audience is sent home after an enchanting evening in the theatre tricked by Split Knuckle into strong political and moral soul-searching,” a Curtain Up review stated about “Endurance.”

The Arts & Issues anniversary celebration

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continues on Oct. 16 at 7:30 p.m. when Los Lobos will be performing La Pisotla y El Corazon in the Morris University Center's Meridian Ballroom. The group, for the first time, will be performing the album in its entirety.

Grammy award nominated Sweet Honey in the Rock will be celebrating its 40th anniversary this year and brings its music to the Arts & Issues stage at 7:30 p.m.on Oct. 23 which is also in the Meridian Ballroom.

Sweet Honey in the Rock's ensemble of incredible vocalists capture the complex mixture of blues, traditional gospel hymns, rap, reggae, African chants, hip hop, ancient lullabies and jazz improvisations in its music.

This performance will be sign language interpreted.

Next on the Arts & Issues slate is Rosalind Wiseman, most famously known as the author of “Queen Bees and Wannabes,” and who is also an internationally recognized expert on children, teens, parenting, bullying and social justice. She will be speaking at 7:30 p.m on Nov. 20 about “Owning Up: Creating a Culture of Dignity in Your School and Community.” This event is sponsored by the Madison County Regional Office of Education.

Then in February of 2015, the Arts ad Issues 30th celebration continues as it commemorates three dance companies – two founed by SIUE dance alumni Michael Mizerany and Joseph Mills - and the third, the Modern American Dance Company (MADCO), which was co-founded by Aleine Wiltz who established the academic dance program at SIUE. Stacy West, an SIUE alum, is currently exectuvie/ artistic director of MADCO. The three dance companies - MADCO, Mills/works and Compulsion Dance Theatre - will perform selected original works with MADCO performing an except from Liquid Roads featuring live musicians.

Sponsored by Commerce Bank, this performance will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 21 in the Dunham Hall Theater on campus.

Arlo Guthrie fans won't want to miss his 50th anniversary tour as he makes a stop to the Arts & Issues stage in the spring.

An icon of the “Folk Boom” era, Guthrie's career exploded in the '60s with the release of Alice's Restaurant which he will bring to the Meridian Ballroom stage at 7:30 p.m. on March 7. This performance is sponsored by Scott Credit Union.

Then March 18, Arts & Issues prsents “An Evening with Dave Barry” at 7:30 p.m. in the Meridian Ballroom. Barry spent 25 years writing as a syndicated newspaper columnist.

His humorous columns appeard in more than 500 newspapers, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1988. Barry has since written more than 30 books and novels including his recent work, “Insane City.”

Barry's Web site demonstrates his witty sense of humor pointing out that, “He has also written a number of books with titles like “I'll Mature When I'm Dead,” which are technically classified as nonfiction, although they contain numerous lies. Two of Barry's books were the basis for the CBS sitcom “Dave's World,” which can probably still be seen on cable TV in certain underdeveloped nations.”

Dave Barry's presentation is sponsored by TheBANK of Edwardsville.

The Arts & Issues 30th anniversary season comes to a close on Aprl 2 with Robert Glennon, internationall renowned water resource expert and best selling author of “Unquenchable,” as he presents “America's Water Crisis and What to Do About it?”

Glennon's presentation, which is sponsored by the SIUE Graduate School, takes place at 7:30 p.m. in the Meridian ballroom.

Tickets for any presentation can be purchased online at artsandissues.com or at the Morris University Center Welcome Desk Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Welcome Desk is closed on Sundays. Call 618650-5194 for additional information about the Arts & Issues season or to obtain a brochure.

The SIUE Arts & Issues program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency. Its official media sponsors are the Edwardsville Intelligencer and St. Louis Public Radio KWMU and its official hotel sponsor is Hampton Inn & Suites.

The Arts "Dance Close Up" scheduled at Washington University Middle Ages.

“Short Fables by Franz Kafka”: P e rc u s s i o n i s t H e n r y C l a u d e , teacher of applied music, and St. Louis cellist Tracy Andreotti read four short Kafka fables to original musical accompaniment.

“Lonely”: Centered on the theme of child homelessness, this piece by adjunct instructor Ashley Tate uses the power of dance to build community and awareness.

Tickets Performances begin at 8 p.m.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Sept. 4, 5 and 6. The panel discussion on Somatics will precede the latter, at 6:30 p.m. Saturday.

The panel discussion is free.

Tickets to the performances are $17 for the general public and $12 for students, children, senior citizens and Washington University faculty and staff. Floor-mat seating — in keeping with the event’s intimate, informal atmosphere — is available for $6. Tickets are available at the Edison Theatre Box Office and through all MetroTix outlets.

All events take place in the Annelise Mertz Dance Studio, located in Mallinckrodt Center, 6445 Forsyth Blvd. For more information, call the Box Office at 314-935-6543.

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In “December,” David Marchant explores the fragmentary nature of memory. The dance creates a series of non-linear, moving “photographs” that are formed as viewers open and close their eyes to the rhythms of human breathing.

On Sept. 4, 5 and 6, Marchant, professor of the practice in dance, will present “December” as part of Washington University in St. Louis’ 2014 “Dance Close Up” performance.

The intimate, informal concert — which has helped launch St. Louis’ fall performing arts season since 1995 — will showcase new and original works by dance faculty in the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences and University College. The program will range from ballet and Indian classical dance to contemporary solos and duets.

“Dance is both an art form and a daily practice,” said Marchant, who serves as artistic director for “Dance Close Up.” “It’s an event that you prepare for but also a discipline that you engage in everyday.

“This concert represents an

opportunity for the dance faculty to share the tremendous breadth of styles, backgrounds and approaches that define both our public work — our art and our professional research, so to speak — and the m o v e m e n t p r a c t i c e s t h a t a re fundamental to the way we live our lives.”

In addition, at 6:30 p.m. Sept.

6, Marchant — who coordinates the Somatic Studies Certificate program in University College in Arts & Sciences — will host a panel discussion on “Somatics and Dance: The Mind in the Movement” with faculty from the University College Somatic Studies program, several of whom are also performing dances in the showcase.

First coined by the philosopher Thomas Hanna in 1976, the term “somatics” refers to a spectrum of movement disciplines and techniques oriented around selfawareness and self-knowledge in daily activity, rather than artistic public performance.

Program The program will present 10 works choreographed and performed by full-time and adjunct faculty. Also featured: “ M i s t e r ” : C e c i l S l a u g h t e r, professor of the practice in dance, choreographs and performs this solo about reflecting on a life’s journey.

“Ebb and Flow”: MaryJean Cowell and Cynthia Kahn choreograph and perform this partly improvised duet based in the technique of Michio Ito about shifting energies to original music by local composer James Hegarty.

Cowell is associate professor in dance. Kahn is assistant to the chair.

“Smoothing the Scars”: Adjunct instructor Mary Ann (Rund) Reis explores the often-unconscious physical expressions of cumulative stress, pain and grief, as well as their potentials for release.

“Miss Lily”: Christine KnoblauchO’Neal, professor of the practice in dance and director of the Ballet

Program, enlists a collage of dance styles for this solo character study.

“Shiva as the Embodiment of Rhythm”: Adjunct instructor Asha Prem choreographs and performs this contemporary take on Indian classical dance.

“In the Pocket”: Adjunct i n s t r u c t o r We n d y B a l l a r d choreographs and performs an homage to jazz great Oscar Peterson.

“Au Lavoir”: Adjunct instructor Dawn Karlovsky presents a solo excerpt from her recent performance collaboration with a painter and dance artist in Nerac, France held at a wash-house dating back to the

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Pictured are: David Marchant, at top; Christine KnoblauchO’Neal, at left and Dawn Karlovsky, above. Photos courtesy of Washington University.

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Kemper Museum plans fall exhibits For The Edge Is architecture a trade or an art?

For Alvin Boyarsky, the answer was clear. As longtime chair of the Architectural Association (AA) in London, and one of the most influential figures in 20th-century design education, Boyarsky argued that architecture was not only a profession but also an artistic venture — an open, wide-ranging practice that comprises drawing and publication as much as it engages design and construction.

This fall, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington

connections between contemporary culture and the built environment; the influence of art on architectural practice; and the importance of international, interdisciplinary dialogue.

Through a unique constellation of exhibitions, teaching studios and publication projects, Boyarsky encouraged young architects to embrace the emerging global culture and probe contemporary issues while defining their own visual and spatial languages. Central to this approach was Boyarsky’s conception of drawing, which he saw not only as a representational

transitional moment. At the same time, its emphasis on the tactile and exploratory foreshadows the renewed interest, in our own digital age, in links between the hand and the imagination.

Organizers and sponsors “Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural A s s o c i a t i o n ” i s c o - o rg a n i z e d by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, and the Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design (RISD Museum) in Providence, R.I. It is curated by Igor Marjanović, associate professor

At top: Alex Wall, Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), “The Pleasure of Architecture,” 1983. Poster based on competition drawings for Parc de la Villette, Paris, 1982–83.

Color screen print on paper, 30 11/16 x 20 3/16”. Collection of the Alvin Boyarsky Archive. © OMA. At left: Bernard Tschumi, “#4 K Series,” 1985. Study for “La Case Vide: La Villette,” Folio VIII, 1985. Photostat with hand-applied enamel paint, 16 15/16 x 17”. Collection of the Alvin Boyarsky Archive. Below: Coop Himmelblau, “Su ces,” c. 1969. Color photo-offset lithograph (poster), 27 1/2 x 37 5/8”. Collection of the Alvin Boyarsky Archive.

University in St. Louis will present “Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association,” the first public museum exhibition of drawings from Boyarsky’s private collection.

Featuring early formative works on paper by a generation of prominent architects — including Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Rem Koolhaas and Bernard Tschumi — “Drawing Ambience” explores Boyarsky’s role as a collector of drawings and also, metaphorically speaking, of the ideas and people that have come to define a key moment in architectural history.

Boyarsky’s tenure at the AA — the United Kingdom’s oldest independent architectural school — coincided with a period of great transformation and experimentation. Under his leadership, from 1971 until his death in 1990, the AA helped introduce a wide range of concepts and methodologies that remain relevant today, including new ways of thinking about public space; the

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medium, but also a form of architectural inquiry unto itself.

Encompassing site plans, design proposals, unbuilt works and theoretical investigations, Boyarsky’s collection reflects the collapse of a singular canon of modern architecture and the blossoming of new and varied approaches that are often grouped under the diverse and varied phrase “postmodern architecture.”

Highlights range from Eduardo P a o l o z z i ’ s a p p ro p r i a t i o n s o f pop culture, to the technological utopianism of Archigram’s David Greene and Michael Webb, to the gestural mark-making of Libeskind and Peter Wilson.

The AA of the 1970s and ’80s is often considered one of the last great centers of hand drawing to flourish before the rise of computer-aided modeling and draftsmanship. Boyarsky’s collection of architectural drawings, culled from the work of students and practitioners who passed through the school, constitutes a visual record of an important

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of architecture at the Sam Fox School, and Jan Howard, curator of prints, drawings and photographs and curatorial chair at the RISD Museum.

Support for the exhibition is provided by the William T. Kemper Foundation; the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency; the Regional Arts Commission; the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts; and members of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

Exhibition design is by Boyarsky Murphy Architects in London.

Catalog A fully illustrated catalog will accompany the exhibition. The book situates Boyarsky’s collection within the context of his leadership of the AA and explores the medium of drawing in relation to architectural practices during the pivotal decades of the 1970s and ’80s. In addition to the feature essay, it includes critical analysis and detailed images in extended entries on each of the drawings in the exhibition, as well as personal reflections by Nicholas Boyarsky, Alvin Boyarsky’s son.

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The catalog is co-published by the Kemper Museum and the RISD Museum. It is distributed by the University of Chicago Press.

Hours and opening “Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association” will open with a reception at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 12, and remain on view through Jan. 4, 2015. It will then travel to the RISD Museum, on

view from April 24 to August 2, 2015.

The Kemper Art Museum is located on Washington University’s Danforth Campus, near the intersection of Skinker and Forsyth boulevards. Regular hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily and 11 a.m. to 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 and Twitter.

The Arts Artistic adventures Laumeier announces schedule of events

Laumeier Sculpture Park, in St. Louis has announced it's upcoming schedule of events.

The park is located a 12580 Rott Road, St. Louis. Admission is free; no coolers allowed. Call 314.615.5278 or visit www. laumeier.org for more information.

August 28 Cocktails & Conversation Gain an insider’s look at sculptural materials, installation, conservation and maintenance with Chief Preparator, Nick Lang, and Curator of Interpretation, Clara Coleman.

Refreshments included; reservations requested. Thursday, August 28, 6:00-7:30pm on the Museum Terrace at Laumeier Sculpture Park, 12580 Rott Road, St. Louis, MO. Free; reservations requested. Call 314.615.5278 or visit www. laumeier.org for more information.

September 5 Feast in the Park Eat to your heart’s content as St. Louis County Parks welcomes members of the St. Louis Food Truck Association to Laumeier Sculpture Park on the first Friday of September. Join family and friends to picnic on a wide variety of delicious fare from local culinary entrepreneurs and enjoy live music from

The Steve Ewing Duo. Friday, September 5, 5:00-8:00pm, in The Way Field at Laumeier Sculpture Park, 12580 Rott Road, St. Louis, MO. Admission is free; no coolers allowed. Call 314.615.5278 or visit www.laumeier.org for more information.

Presented by St. Louis County Parks and sponsored by Feast Magazine.

September 5 Free Family Tour: “How’d They Do That?”

Join Laumeier Sculpture Park for a visual tour and scavenger hunt offering a behind-the-scenes look at how large-scale sculptures are built and maintained. Learn how natural phenomena and the environment affect the preservation and deterioration of works of art. Friday, September 5, 5:00-7:00pm, in The Way Field at Laumeier Sculpture Park, 12580 Rott Road, St. Louis, MO. Free. Call 314.615.5278 or visit www.laumeier. org for more information. Supported by PNC Arts Alive and the Trio Foundation of St. Louis.

September 5 Free Family Activity: Feast for Your Eyes What’s your favorite color? Red, yellow, blue, brown and every color in-between – we each have our favorites, as shown in the clothes we wear and the colors of our rooms.

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September 7 Free Docent-Led Tour: Geometric Abstraction – It’s a Matter of Perspective Join Laumeier Sculpture Park for a free docent-led tour of the Outdoor Collection on the first and third Sundays of every month, May – October (no tour on Sunday, October 19, for Harvest Festival). Tour meets Sunday, September 7, at 2:00pm at Tony Tasset, Eye, 2007, at Laumeier Sculpture Park, 12580 Rott Road, St. Louis, MO. Free. Call 314.615.5278 or visit www. laumeier.org for more information.

12580 Rott Road | St. Louis, MO 63127 | 314.615.5278 phone | 314.615.5283 fax | www.laumeier.org Calendar of Exhibitions, Programs and Events Updated: August 20, 2014 September 21 Free Docent-Led Tour: Earthworks & Site Works Join Laumeier Sculpture Park for a free docent-led tour of the Outdoor Collection on the first and third Sundays of every month, May – October (no tour on Sunday, October 19, for Harvest Festival). Tour meets Sunday, September 21, at 2:00pm at Tony Tasset, Eye, 2007, at Laumeier Sculpture Park, 12580 Rott Road, St. Louis, MO. Free. Call 314.615.5278 or visit www. laumeier.org for more information.

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Arts calendar Friday, Sept. 5

Stages presents Fiddler on the Roof, Robert G. Reim Theatre, Kirkwood, 8:00 p.m., Runs through October 5.

Feast in the Park, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Sight Lines: Richard Serra’s Drawings for Twain Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs through Sept. ember 7.

Mel Chin: Rematch, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs through December 20.

Inspired by Nature: A Collection of Wildlife Art by Robert Bateman, Saint Louis Zoo, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Runs through October 31.

History Clubhouse: Let’s Build It!, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through October 6.

Brett Weston: Photographs, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.. Runs through December 7.

Tragic and Timeless: The Aet of Mark Rothko Exhibit, Saint Louis Art

Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs through Sept.ember 14.

Facets of the Three Jewels: Tibetan Buddhist Art from the Collections of George E. Hibbard, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs through February 22, 2015.

Louis IX: King, Saint, Namesake Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs Through November 2.

Saturday, Sept. 6

Stages presents Fiddler on the Roof, Robert G. Reim Theatre, Kirkwood, 8:00 p.m., Runs through October 5.

Sight Lines: Richard Serra’s Drawings for Twain Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through Sept.ember 7.

Inspired by Nature: A Collection of Wildlife Art by Robert Bateman, Saint Louis Zoo, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Runs through October 31.

History Clubhouse: Let’s Build It!, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through October 6.

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Mark Rothko Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through Sept.ember 14.

Facets of the Three Jewels: Tibetan

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Help Wanted General

Now hiring:

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Established property management and building company is seeking an experienced

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1960 Peugeot 403 For Sale!

Contact M. Skretvedt: Home - 618-655-0063 Cell - 618-580-9335 Important Message: It’s illegal for companies doing business by phone to promise you a loan and ask you to pay for it before they deliver. For more information, call toll-free 1-877-FTC-HELP. A public service message from the Edwardsville Intelligencer and the Federal Trade Commission.

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Experience with general apartment appliance maintenance, plumbing, electric, and all other general and preventative maintenance tasks required. HVAC experience helpful. Must have working knowledge of both gas and electrical systems. MUST have a VALID driver’s license, be dependable, clean and self motivated. Must pass background check.

Serious inquires only need apply in person at 100 Regency Centre, Collinsville.

First Student now hiring:

P/T Bus Drivers for Edwardsville School District.

A $500 Sign-on-Bonus after CDL is obtained and paid training. Apply at: 17 Commercial Ct., Glen Carbon, IL 62034 Janitorial Service needs CLEANING PERSON; part-time, night time. 656-0217.

Looking for qualified

New emploment listings weekly in many different fields.

Edwardsville Intelligencer

Tig welder for local service co.

Must have TIG exp. Pipe fitting/ layout a plus.

Hourly + benefits.

Send Resume to: sales@sanitarystainless.net Now hiring F/T & P/T Teachers.

Call 618-667-9350 or 618-667-3131.

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To list your service call the classified department at 656-4700.

The Edwardsville Intelligencer reserves the right to remove ads with past due accounts.

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Weekends Only Option Pay rate is $12/hour for CNA’s working The Weekends Only Option.

Apply in person or send resume to: 400 S. Station Road Glen Carbon, Il 62034 You can also apply online at www.edenvillage.org

CNA Full Time & Part Time Experience the delight and compassion of working in geriatrics.

This person will be responsible for providing exceptional person centered care to our Elders. Must be able to work weekends Apply in person or send resume to: Eden Village Retirement 400 South Station Road Glen Carbon, IL 62034 You can also apply online at edenvillage.org Opening October ‘14 Holiday Inn Express & Suites in Edwardsville!

101 Room property located between SIUE and Edwardsville High School. Now hiring for all positions: *Housekeeping-* *Manager* *Housekeeping-* *Supervisor* *Maintenance Chief* *F/T Night Auditor* *P/T Night Auditor* Please submit resumes and inquiries to: info@hvmemail.com

Qualified and Assistant Teachers for full and part time.

Requirements for Qualified teachers are a minimum of 60 credit hours, 6 of which must be in Early Childhood Education. 618-882-4972 for more information, or drop by with your resume to: 500 Main St Highland IL. We look forward to meeting you!

Patriot Sunrooms seeks

Exp. Installers or Apprentice opportunity for sunrooms, windows and decks. Truck and tools required. Apply at: 3925 Blackburn Road, Edw. Or fax resume to: 618-692-3611.

Position Available Part-time evening cook.

Experience preferred.

Please apply at: Faith Countryside Homes 100 Faith Drive Highland, IL 62249 SELF-MOTIVATED, hard worker for days Mon-Fri; Must be avail.

7am-7pm, no split shift! Local smoke-free cleaning company.

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Service Tech/ Delivery Driver F/T. Must be 21 or older, mechanical skills, CDL with clean driving record, must pass DOT physical, background check & pre-employ drug screen.

Send Resume to: PO Box 835 Edwardsville, IL 62025

Want to make a $1 an hour more?

Social Gastropub is now hiring: Exp Line/Prep Cooks & Dish.

Apply within daily 10:00am-5:00pm. #2 157 Center, E’ville.

We may be looking for YOU! ADVERTISING SALES CONSULTANTS Hearst Media Services is looking for digitally savvy, highly motivated sales professionals to join our team of multimedia sales consultants. If you love to sell and are knowledgeable about digital media, then we have the perfect opportunity for you to join us and help our customers to grow their businesses. In addition to our daily newspaper and website in the Edwardsville and Glen Carbon areas of Madison County, we have partnerships with the biggest names in digital and social media.

With all this we can offer our advertisers unmatched reach and targeting capabilities –from the very local to the national scale.

Do you have experience meeting and exceeding monthly sales goals, anticipating challenges and continually hunting for new customers?

If you are goal-driven, digitally confident and have one to two years of outside sales experience selling to small businesses, then we want to talk to you.

We offer a competitive base salary with unlimited commission potential, paid vacation, full medical benefits and a 401K with company match. To apply, email your resume to aschaake@edwpub.net

Carrier Routes 401 CARRIER NEEDED! RT. 66— Newspaper carrier needed in the area of Stanford Place, Yale Ave, and Amherst Place Approximately 17 newspapers on this route. Papers need to be delivered by 5:00 p.m.

Monday thru Friday and 8:30 a.m. Saturdays.

If you are interested in this route, please call the Intelligencer at 618-656-4700 ext. 20 CARRIER NEEDED! RT24— Newspaper carrier needed in the area of West Lake Dr. & Oak Ridge Approximately 17 newspapers on this route. Papers need to be delivered by 5:00 p.m.

Monday thru Friday and 8:30 a.m. Saturdays.

If you are interested in this route, please call the Intelligencer at 618-656-4700 ext. 20 CARRIER NEEDED! RT40— Newspaper carrier needed in the area of Franklin Ave, Burns Farm Blvd, Circle Dr & Biscayne Dr. Approximately 20 newspapers on this route. Papers need to be delivered by 5:00 p.m.

Monday thru Friday and 8:30 a.m. Saturdays.

If you are interested in this route, please call the Intelligencer at 618-656-4700 ext. 20 CARRIER NEEDED! RT45— Newspaper carrier needed in the area of Barnett Dr, Circle Dr, Dunlap Cove Ct, Thomas Terrace, Schwarz Rd, Cottage Dr, Timber Ln. Approximately 40 newspapers on this route. Papers need to be delivered by 5:00 p.m.

Monday thru Friday and 8:30 a.m. Saturdays.

If you are interested in this route, please call the Intelligencer at 618-656-4700 ext. 20

Furniture

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4’ White Pine Trees: delivered, planted, mulched. $69.50/tree.

Buy 10, get 1 free.

Other sizes/shade trees. (217)886-2316; leave message

Lawn & Garden

Houses For Rent

455

For Sale:

4 bedroom 2.5 bath in The Oaks Subdivision, Avail. 8/1. $2100/mo.

Call 314-640-3264.

1967 IH140 with woods Belly Mower.

In Excellent Condition.

Contact M. Skretvedt: Home - 618-655-0063 Cell - 618-580-9335

4-5br house for rent, near SIUE, E’ville. $1300/mo. Call 618-304-6603

C.K.S. METAL CORP. (618) 656-5306

605 Hill Road 2br-1ba, newly remodeled, near D’town Edw., I-270 & SIUE. $950. 920-2599

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EDWARDSVILLE, IL #1 Copper $2.70/lb. #2 Copper $2.60/lb.

Yellow Brass $1.70/lb.

Stainless $.58/lb.

Painted Siding $.61/lb.

Scrap Alum $.52-.76/lb.

Alum Cans $.60/lb.

Clean Alum Wheels $.72/lb.

Electric Motors $.25/lb.

Seal Units $.17 Batteries $.28 Christmas Lights $.31 Insulated Wire #1-$1.15 #2-$.95 Scrap Iron $150.-$180./Ton

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Estate Sales

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244 Moving Sale Sat. 9/06/14, 10a-5p Sun. 09/07/14, 12p-4p 5634 Renken Rd. Dorsey, Il. 62021 Follow The Yellow Signs Historic home features items of interest including pr. antique English carved oak twin beds, antique bench, dep. era, buffet & china cabinet, ornate triple mirror, quality household items, McCoy pots, lg. grp wicker furnishings, tables, custom lawn furn., huge barn w/ some woodworking equipment, tools, fuel tank, patio heater, smokers, giant Weber grill, Christmas. *Featured Item:* *Super Z Hustler* *zero-turn mower.*

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All Real Estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, status or national origin or an intention to make any such preference limitation, or discrimination.”

Familial status includes children living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.

*Glen Carbon, 3br/2ba $1,200/mo., *Worden, 3+BR/4BA, $1,700/ mo., 514-9954 Remod’d 2br, E’ville new appl’s w/ d/w, w/d hkup. Lawncare incl. $1000/mo. 978-6801

Apts/Duplexes For Rent

Like new 2br ground level, no stairs, Collinsville, $625/mo.

345-9610. Specials!

1BR apt. utilities incl.

Close to downtown & SIU. $750/mo, $750 deposit. 314-574-3858.

1BR loft apt & 1BR duplex $585/mo. + $585dep. 656-8953 2BR bsmnt apt, Esic near Y. $700/mo + dep ALL utilities incl. No pets/smking. 307-4473

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2BR TH, 1 1/2 ba, w/d hkup, like new. $685/mo, 1 yr lease, no pets. 618-692-7147

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Bed - Queen PillowTop Mattress Set New, still in plastic, $175. (618)772-2710.

Can Deliver!

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2 BR 1.5 BA Townhomes SMOKE FREE. 15 minutes to St. Louis and SIUE. I-255/ Horseshoe Lake Rd area. $690 mo includes washer/ dryer, water, sewer and trash service. No pets. www.fairway-estates.net 618-931-4700

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law.

Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis.

To complain of discrimination call HUD toll free at 1-800-669-9777.

The toll free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275.

Houses For Rent

705

2br, 1ba, 2 car garage, walkout basement, W/D hookup, $850/mo + dep. 618-616-5658.

2BR Townhome: quiet Glen Carbon area, Very Clean! All appls includes washer/dryer.

No pets. $695/mo. + dep. 314-378-0513.

3br, 2ba ranch, 2 car oversized gar., hunting, Glen Carbon. $1400/mo 580-8041 or 288-0031

2BR Townhomes, Edw 1.5 BA, w/d hkup, No pets. $750 w/gar; 692-1745; 978-2867.

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12 COVERED BRIDGE, GLEN CARBON Large private wooded fenced lot in Covered Bridge Estates. Well taken care of w/Quartz counters. Stainless stove, fridge & microwave, Anderson windows, new carpet upstairs in 2013. Bathroom floors have warmers which are thermostatically controlled. $245,000 CALL JIM REPPELL 618-791-7663

6131 N. STATE ROUTE 159, EDWARDSVILLE 3BR/2BA - 5 ACRE COUNTRY ESTATE! Hardwood floors, new roof & updated windows.

Two huge barns, fully updated “in-law” suite, summer house/studio w/full bath, oversized 2 car garage, garden shed. City water. $395,000 CALL SUSAN LANDING, MANAGING BROKER 618-779-7777

1702 CAMERON COURT, EDWARDSVILLE EXTREMELY WELL CARED FOR 2 STORY HOME. Corner lot. 3 car garage. Freshly painted.

26 FIELDCREST, MARYVILLE BRICK COMBO RANCH . Hardwood floors.

1240 EMERSON, EDWARDSVILLE LOCATED IN HISTORIC LECLAIRE. 2BR/1BA home with original hardwood floors and arched doorways.

Breakfast nook. Close to school and shopping. $138,500

CALL DEBBIE BURDGE 618-531-2787 www.debbieb.remax.com

21 HALLECK AVENUE, EDWARDSVILLE

New light fixtures. Granite counter & island in kit.

Custom master bath w/Travertine tile. Hot tub. LL game room w/Pool Table. $345,000

Plastered walls. Wood cabinets in kitchen. Main floor laundry room. Huge family room. Secluded patio area. Spacious 3-car garage & finished walkout lower level. $277,900

CALL JIM REPPELL 618-791-7663

CALL SUSAN LANDING, MANAGING BROKER 618-779-7777

MOVE IN READY! Roomy one story on double lot.

Large eat-in kitchen, freshly painted living room w/beautiful gas fireplace & new carpet & trim, hardwood floors & over sized closets. New roof 2013, new water heater 2014. $154,900 CALL DEBBIE BURDGE 618-531-2787 www.debbieb.remax.com

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710

Apts/Duplexes For Rent

2br, 1 full ba, 220 N. Main St. All appls incld. $700/ mo. 217-381-7069

Apts/Duplexes For Rent

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3br TH 1200sq. ft.

Collinsville, $890/mo.

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Lg 2br townhouse in Troy: w/d hkup, no pets, newly remod’d. $550/mo. 660-7228

Available Soon!

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LUXURY 2 BRs located at 270 & 111 Gourmet kitchens, 2 bay windows, washer/dryer included.

WST included. Must See! $675. Call for our move-in specials!

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618-624-4610 cecilmanagement.com Glen Carbon 1BR, all electric, stove, fridge, dw, stacked w/d, FP, trash pd from $615. 618-624-4610 carports available 2BR, 1.5BA, all electric, stove, fridge, wd hookups, from $695. 618-624-4610

Closest apt to SIUE, 2br, washer/dryer, $675/mo. No Pets/ smking. 618-972-3715 FOR RENT: LUXURY TOWNHOMES AND APARTMENTS. 3BR/2BA or 2BR/1.5BA in Highland. $695-$735/mo.

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Arbor Glen Townhome in Glen Carbon NEWER Luxury 2br 2.5ba Open Floor Plan. Each BR has on-suite bath.

Great Loc. Bsmt, deck, all appls, w/d hkup.

Lots of storage. $755/ mo + dep. 618-781-7692

Lots For Sale

Office Space For Rent

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HWY 159-Maryville, 1200sq., 5 offices, rec area. $900/ 346-7878 www.osbornproperties.com

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2 acre lots in Country Grove on Quercus Grove Rd., N. of Carpenter, Edw. schls, all utilities avail including Natural gas, underground electric, etc. Call 656-6414/ 972-0526

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3326 SNIDER DRIVE EDWARDSVILLE $599,900

3300 HERSHISER COURT EDWARDSVILLE $579,900

3301 GARVEY DRIVE EDWARDSVILLE $509,900

Enjoy the best of golf course living in this amazing 1.5 story home. Two story great room, chef's kitchen and finished LL. PR101995

Lovely 4 bedroom, cul-de-sac, large fenced yard, many extras. Call to see! PR101998

$579,000 EDWARDSVILLE DIANA MASSEY TEAM (618)791-5024 (618)791-9298

$240,000 EDWARDSVILLE KAREN MENENDEZ (618)781-0546

SANDIE LAMANTIA (618)978-2384

DIANA MASSEY TEAM (618)791-5024 (618)791-9298

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DIANA MASSEY TEAM (618)791-5024 (618)791-9298

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7008 ALSTON CT. EDWARDSVILLE $469,900

7019 ALSTON Ct. EDWARDSVILLE $449,000

123 OAKSHIRE DR. GLEN CARBON $309,900

36 GINGER CREEK Parkway GLEN CARBON $254,500

50 OAKSHIRE DRIVE GLEN CARBON $264,900

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457 HOEHN STREET EDWARDSVILLE $112,500

124 FAIRWAY MARYVILLE $219,900

905 CHANCELLOR EDWARDSVILLE $198,500

Custom built home on 4 beautiful acres. Open flr plan, 6 bdrms, 5 baths, walkout LL and heated 30x40 garage with 10' doors. PR101523

Portrait of peace backyard! Finished LL, subdivision pool. Location adjacent to everything! PR101705

MOVE IN READY! Lovely 3 bedroom, 2 full bath raised ranch in great location. PR101706

$350,000

$221,000 GLEN CARBON

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VICKI LOWRY (618)741-7178

KAREN CURRIER (618)616-6891

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Impressive 1.5 story nestled on a landscaped oasis w/waterfall and pond, chef's kit, hearth rm, 2 story great rm and finished walkout LL. PR101838

One of a Kind Custom Built 2 story, 4 car garage, 2 story hearth room, 6 bdrms, 5 bths on 3/4 acre lot.

PR101775

Gorgeous, secluded country retreat on 40 wooded rolling acres. Delightful walkout ranch situated on one of 3 lakes. PR101920

Expect to be impressed in this exceptional 1.5 story with amenities galore plus beautifully finished lower level. PR101962

Fish for dinnner! 4 bdrm, 4 bth home on 3 acre lake, 36x30 pole barn.

PR101837

NOT A DRIVE-BY. Smartly updated interior is highlighted by spacious open floor plan, vaulted ceilings, and spectacular views to the lake.

PR101800

$739,000 EDWARDSVILLE

$659,900 EDWARDSVILLE

$595,000 NEW DOUGLAS

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$269,900 EDWARDSVILLE

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3.5 Acre lot plus 1.5 story home built in 1998. Easy highway access with private flat lot and lovely home.

PR101960

BEAUTIFUL 3BR/4BA home in Esic close to bike trails, YMCA, schools with 2624 sf living area. PR101849

Not just rehabbed - TOTALLY reconfigured! 3 spacious bdrms, SS appliances, granite counters, crown molding and wood laminate floors throughout. PR101810

3 bdrm home w/detached garage, updated, wood floors, sunroom.

Move-in ready. Great for rental.

PR101834

Come and see this newer (built in 2011) 3 bedroom, 2 bath elegant home in a town that is 20 minutes from Edwardsville. PR101694

CUTE, CLEAN, COZY! Nice corner lot, close to downtown Edwardsville.

PR101204

$229,900

$215,000 EDWARDSVILLE

$162,500 EDWARDSVILLE

$115,000 GLEN CARBON

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