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What’s Inside 3

Reunited

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4 No bullies

Girl Scouts complete service project.

10 Exit 12

Edwardsville's longest-running teen band.

15 Shepard shines

Actor finds great role in "Hit & Run."

16 David Stine

Illinois artist featured at St. Louis Art Fair.

17 "My One and Only" The best of George and Ira Gershwin.

20 You Gotta' Eat

Burritos as big as your head.

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What’s Happening Friday September 7______

Man finds his first Corvette

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• Greater St. Louis Hispanic Festival, Kiener Plaza, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

• Great Godfrey Corn Maze, Glazebrook Park, Godfrey, 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

• Arianna String Quartet, Touhill Performing Arts Center, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

• An Under Cover Weekend 6: Night One feat. LucaBrasi, VOLCANOES, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 7:30 p.m.

• Various Hands, Day Above Ground, Deep Thump, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• Soma w/ Tok, Money for Guns, The Gramophone, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

• Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday, Kranzberg Arts Center, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

• Schlafly's Art Outside, Schlafly Bottleworks, Maplewood, 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

• Spacetrain, Fubar, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• Deadfall Fires, Blue Agave, Belleville, 9:30 p.m.

• Langhorne Slim & The Law w/ The Highway Companion, Plush St. Louis, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

• Radio Star, Fast Eddie's Bon Air, Alton, 8:00 p.m.

• St. Louis Art Fair, Downtown Business District, Clayton, 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

• Opening Reception-Leslie Hewitt: Sudden Glare of the Sun,

Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

• My One and Only, StagesRobert G. Reim Theatre, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

Opening Reception-Joan Hall: Marginal Waters, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

• Transparent Reflections, E d w a r d s v i l l e A r t s C e n t e r, Edwardsville, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Runs through September 28.

• Brighton Beach Memoirs, Rep St. Louis: Loretto-Hilton Center, Webster Groves, 8:00 p.m., Runs through September 30.

Saturday September 8______ • Great Godfrey Corn Maze, Glazebrook Park, Godfrey, 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

• Love Me Leave Me, Bunker Hill Festival, Bunker Hill, 4 p.m.

• Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday, Kranzberg Arts Center, St. Louis, 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.

• Schlafly's Art Outside, Schlafly Bottleworks, Maplewood, 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

• An Under Cover Weekend 6: Night Two feat. Via Dove, Dots Not Feathers, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 7:30 p.m.

• The Hipnecks w/ Stickley & Canan and the Hobosexuals, Old Rock House, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

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

• Greater St. Louis Hispanic Festival, Kiener Plaza, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

• M i ke Ke n e a l l y w / R i c k Musallam, The Gramophone, St. Louis, Doors 6:30 p.m.

• A Lesser Hope w/ The Ninth Circle, As Earth Shatters, Fubar, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• Resoldered, Blue Agave, Belleville, 9:30 p.m.

• FarFetched Presents: Brave New World Music Festival, Plush St. Louis, St. Louis, Doors 3:00 p.m.

• Hoosier Daddy's, 3:00 p.m. / Radio Star, 8:00 p.m., Fast Eddie's Bon Air, Alton • St. Louis Art Fair, Downtown Business District, Clayton, 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

• Leslie Hewitt: Sudden Glare of the Sun, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through Dec. 30.

• My One and Only, StagesRobert G. Reim Theatre, St. Louis, 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.

• Transparent Reflections, E d w a r d s v i l l e A r t s C e n t e r, Edwardsville, 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Runs through September 28.

• Brighton Beach Memoirs, Rep St. Louis: Loretto-Hilton Center, Webster Groves, 5:00 p.m., Runs through September 30.

• In the Still Epiphany, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through October 27.

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Rich Hertel with his 1974 dark green Corvette.

Reunited – and it feels so good Holiday Shores man finds – and buys back – his first Corvette

By LAURA SCATURRO Of The Edge

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ast December, after 21 years apart, Rich Hertel of Holiday Shores reunited with his first love - and his wife, Mary, understands completely.

His love – a 1974 dark green Corvette with tan leather interior and t-top. Originally purchased new from the St. Charles Motor Company

by James Smith, one of Hertel’s best friends in high school, the vehicle’s price tag in 1974 was $7,073.50. The equipment listed on the window sticker included: air conditioning, power brakes, V8 engine, telescopic steering wheel, power steering and stereo.

Smith, who had owned several Corvettes in his lifetime, knew Rich had a soft spot in his heart for this car and sold it to him in November, 1983.

The odometer read 47,003 miles.

“I was 39 years old when I bought the car,” Hertel said. “Jim was one to only keep cars for 10 years or so. It was the third or fourth Corvette he had owned. He didn’t get wrapped up in them. He knew I liked the car.”

Hertel treasured his new purchase and enjoyed driving it, versus keeping it garaged only to admire. It was his first Corvette.

“It wasn’t a piece of gold – we really enjoyed it,” he said. “We

trailered our boat with it to Lake Shelbyville and the Lake of the Ozarks. I also occasionally drove it to work. We even drove it to Tampa, Fla. On our way to Florida we pulled into a rest area late at night in Chattanooga, Tenn. We were so tired we both fell asleep in the car.

We woke up to about 30 people surrounding the car looking at it. A Greyhound bus had stopped right behind us to use the rest area.”

In 1991, he decided to sell his love after a short eight-year relationship.

The mileage on the odometer read nearly 96,000.

“The new generation had been out for a couple of years and I had an opportunity to buy another Corvette at a good deal,” Hertel recalled. “I bought a 1988 Corvette convertible that I later sold in 2003.

But, when I sold that 1974 Corvette it bothered me. I often wondered where it was.”

In the meantime, the 1974 Corvette changed hands two more times – in 2004 and 2005 and unknown to Hertel, his past prized possession never strayed more than 150 miles from his home.

In 2005, Barry and Julia Clark from Dongola purchased the vehicle from someone in Ana, a short distance away, and began restoring it.

In early 2006, Hertel received a call from Julia Clark.

“She tracked me down through the Illinois title search,” he said. “I

asked her if she was sure I was an owner. She read off the VIN number and sure enough that was it.”

Clark told him that the car was in primer grey and ready for painting.

She had no idea what the original color was or much about the car in general. Hertel surprised her and told her that he still had the original window sticker and several pictures that would help her bring the car back to its original look.

He also told her the story of the car and how Jim Smith had passed away in 2000 and that there was a lot of sentimental value in it to him.

The two kept in touch off and on over the next six years. Clark sent photos of the Corvette to him during the restoration and kept him upto-date on the awards the car was receiving at the local car shows.

He often jokingly told her that when she was ready to sell it he would be interested.

Hertel said, “I hadn’t seen the car in 20 years, so I called her up and told her that I was coming down to Carbondale with my son-in-law at the end of November 2011 and was hoping I could see the car. She told me that she could do me one better.

She had talked with her husband and they were ready to sell the vehicle.”

Hertel didn’t give it a second thought. He rented a trailer in hopes that he would be bringing his ’74 Corvette back home. When he and his son-in-law, Patrick, turned

the corner onto Clark’s street, the vehicle was parked out in the front lawn. He hadn’t seen this car in over 20 years.

A mere 11,000 miles had been put on the odometer since he sold the vehicle in 1991 and the Clark’s had only added 1,300 miles during the last six years of owing it.

“It didn’t run very well,” he recalled. “It barely made it on the trailer. I learned that it had been sitting for six months covered up in the garage. We agreed on a price and I brought it back home. When we pulled in the drive my wife said she was not surprised.”

Mary Hertel added, “He was in heaven because he didn’t think he would ever see it again.”

Along with the vehicle, Clark provided him with two large cardboard boxes containing all of the original parts that had been changed out over the years as well as the trophies that the Clark’s had earned over the years showing the dark green beauty at local car shows. Hertel said that it even had the original spark plug wires in the box.

Surprisingly, Clark also handed him a large photo album. He said his jaw dropped as he opened it to discover a scrapbook painstakingly created by Julia Clark to capture the history of the Corvette’s life.

The album contained the names of former owners, original price sticker, warranty booklet, owner’s manual,

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vehicle maintenance schedule, a few photos and most of the repair receipts spanning the last 38 years.

Hertel added the original window sticker he kept all of those years.

In April, the Hertel’s added a third bay, or as he likes to say, “the vet cave” onto his garage to house his now antique Corvette.

He has restored the vehicle back to 97 percent of its original parts. It joins a 2000 Corvette convertible he acquired in 2006.

“I’ve been retired since 2004 and it’s fun,” he said. “I tell Mary that I’m going out. She asks where and I tell her out to the garage. I still send emails to Julia once in a while to tell her what I’ve done to the car. It’s still a work in process car.

Sometimes it sits for a few weeks. I don’t spend all my waking hours on it. I tweak it. I want it to stay in the family now.”

Hertel joined the Looking Glass Corvette Club three years ago.

The club has been in existence for more than 35 years. He participates in cruises and activities regularly conducted by the club. For the last six years he has also volunteered as a judge at the annual D.A.R.E. car show in Edwardsville.

Perhaps next year he won’t be able to volunteer as a judge since he would like to begin entering his 1974 Corvette into car shows.

It’s time to show off his first love, after being apart for more than 20 years.

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Pictured with the Cassens bulletin board are Colleen McCracken, Aubrie Goodall, Marta Korte, Lauren McGarr, Kylie Schumacher, Isabella Doyle and Emily Kloostra.

Scouts create anti-bullying campaign

By TARA WEPKING Of The Edge

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hile many adults worried about how their children would spend their time in the summer months, the girls of Junior Girl Scout Troop 370 were working to make a positive impact in their community by creating an anti-bullying campaign that won them the Junior Girl Scout's highest honor.

In May, members of Troop 370, all 10-years old at the time, began working to create an anti-bullying program that could be shared within three local grade schools.

Albert Cassens Elementary, Columbus Elementary and St. Boniface Catholic School – the three schools attended by the girls from Troop 370 – will all be participating in the antibullying campaign designed by the Girl Scout troop.

"All of (the troop members) have either been a victim of bullying or have witnessed it and didn't quite know what to do," explained Stacey McCracken, leader of Troop 370. "They were really encouraged... to go in this direction."

The girls of Troop 370 began brainstorming different bullying scenarios to lend a greater impact on their project.

Eventually, they discerned five different bullying scenarios, which they focused on within the video they created.

"They really wanted to focus on the types of bullying that are more sneaky – more covert than overt. Not the pushing and

shoving, but the sneaky stuff," McCracken said.

Troop members not only wrote, produced and directed a video informing their peers of the dangers of bullying, but also made 1,250 anti-bullying buttons for both students and staff members of the schools. They also installed informative bulletin boards within the three locations. "(One of the principals) asked the girls to put up a bulletin board in her school. Then, it just kind of snowballed from there as far as making sure all three schools had a bulletin board up," McCracken said. "Then it went into producing the little video they gave to each of the schools. They wanted to know that their peers got the message, and that's when they started with the buttons."

McCracken's daughter, Colleen, is a member of the troop.

"The most enjoyable part was probably knowing that there won't be as many people being bullied and as many people bullying other people," she said, before adding, "I liked making the buttons."

Fellow troop member Kylie Schumacher added, "I was able to spend time with my friends and make the bulletin boards.

I felt like I was able to do something that might help stop bullying in my school."

Emily Kloostra, daughter of another co-leader of the troop, felt the project was very important to the community.

"I've been bullied and so have my friends and so have some of the troops, and so we thought we should raise awareness of bullying and try to stop it," she explained.

Kloostra also explained that she enjoyed doing the video,

saying, "We all got to hang out and got to do a lot of laughs because of the bloopers and everything. It was very fun."

Because of their efforts, Troop 370 were awarded the Girl Scout Bronze Award, which is the highest honor a Junior Girl Scout can earn.

According to Erin Johnson, Communications and Marketing Manager for the Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois, in order to achieve the Bronze Award, Girl Scouts must complete a Girl Scout Junior journey to "discover their values, connect with others and take action by completing a service project that is meaningful to their Girl Scout troop."

From there, they must develop a plan to achieve their goals for affecting the community, put the plan in motion and make efforts to inform the community about the Girl Scout Bronze Award project.

"The girls decided they wanted to earn their Bronze Award, (so) they brainstormed ideas of what they could do for their community... and this is what they decided to do," McCracken explained.

"This has been a real gift to our school," said Martha Richey, Principal of Cassens Elementary. "What I think is so great about this is the peer leadership shown. The peer leadership has a very positive influence among students at Cassens.

"It's a wonderful community service project... that blends very well with the anti-bullying education that we continue throughout the year."

For more information about the Girl Scouts organization and its efforts in the area, visit the Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois website at http://www.gsofsi.org/.

Unique sale scheduled at Cahokia Courthouse Old re-enactors never die, they just collect too much stuff. If you know what that means, bargains await you September 22.

The public is invited to a 1700-1800s memorabilia and accoutrements trade fair, a historic re-enactors' yard sale, to be held on Saturday, September 22 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Cahokia Courthouse State Historic Site in Cahokia, Illinois.

T h e t r a d e f a i r w i l l f e a t u re s u c h i t e m s a s p e r i o d clothing and tools, history and reference books, outdoor dining and cooking utensils, reproduction glassware

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and ceramics, herbs, decorative items, and all manner of accessories.

A n y o n e w i t h a n i n t e re s t i n re p ro d u c t i o n a r t i c l e s o r i t e m s re p re s e n t i n g t h e F re n c h a n d I n d i a n Wa r, Revolutionary War, Lewis and Clark Expedition, War of 1812, Civil War, or the Spanish-American War reenacting periods will find something at the trade fair.

Those interested in selling items need to re g i s t e r i n a d v a n c e b y S e p t e m b e r 4 b y c o n t a c t i n g reenactorstradefair@gmail.com. A sales permit fee of $5 in advance must be paid, and sellers may only offer

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period appropriate items. A limited number of spaces may be available on the day of the event for a $10 fee.

The event is sponsored by Fete du Bon Vieux Temps, Inc. and Cahokia Courthouse State Historic Site.

Cahokia Courthouse is administered by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, and is located at 107 Elm Street near the intersection of Routes 3 and 157 in Cahokia, Illinois. Originally built in 1740, Cahokia Courthouse served as the administrative center for the old Northwest Territories and played a key role in the preparations for the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

People People planner Events planned in Alton area Looking for something to do around Alton? The following events will be happening in August: Girls on Grapes, Boys on Brew Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Loading Dock 400 Front St. Grafton, IL 62037 Sample the best wine and food the River Bend region has to offer at the annual Girls on Grapes, Boys on Brew event. Enjoy an afternoon of tastes with participating restaurants, beers and wines presented by different vendors and wineries. Must be 21 to attend. For more information, call (618) 463-7872.

Hartford Community Yard Sale & Fish Fry Sat., Sep. 8, 2012 Yard Sale: 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Fish Fry: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

140 W. Hawthorne Hartford, IL 62048 Come out to the village-wide yard sale and annual Fish Fry. Enjoy great deals found throughout the community. Feed your hunger with the best fish around served up by the Fire Department at the community center. For more information, call 618-251-2680.

Lewis & Clark Music Festival Saturday, Sept. 8 Lewis & Clark State Historic Site

#1 Lewis & Clark Trail Hartford, IL 62048 Join us for the annual Lewis & Clark Music Festival. Traditional music of the late 1700s and early 1800s will be performed by musicians playing fiddles, dulcimers and flutes. Watch, listen, and participate in this wonderful dance and music festival. Admission is free. For more information, call (618) 251-5811.

Mineral Springs Haunted Tour Sat., Sep. 08, 2012 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.

Mineral Springs Mall 301 E. Broadway Alton, IL 62002 Meet at Mineral Springs, walk to 10 other haunted places, return to Mineral Springs for a tour of the building using ghost hunting equipment. Attend a sĂŠance in the pool, followed by a Tarot card reading. Refreshments served.

Admission is $30 for the walking tour, $50 to include dinner and $100 to include an overnight stay. For more information, call (618) 465-3200 or visit www. mineralspringshauntedtours.com.

Rockn' on the River Saturday, Sept. 8 Grafton Harbor 215 W. Water St. Grafton, IL 62037 Grafton Harbor will be the site of the Rockn’ on the River festival. Dave and Kene from the Keystone River Rats are scheduled to perform. There will also food and drinks available.

For more information, call (618) 7867678.

Galena Oktoberfest scheduled

September 22, 2012 is the start of Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany, but it’s also a day of similar celebration in Galena, Ill. The 6th annual Galena Oktoberfest will entertain and delight your entire family and is a whole lot easier on the budget than a flight to Munich. The event takes place at Depot Park, 99 Bouthillier St., just east of the Galena River near the intersection of U.S. Highway 20 and Park Avenue; from noon to 10 p.m. Galena Oktoberfest is hosted by the Galena Lions Club and all of the proceeds help individuals with

sight and sound needs, as well as supporting community projects. Â People of all ages enjoy Galena Oktoberfest, as it features non-stop live music by three bands, polka dancing and lessons, wiener dog races and parade, a beer stein endurance contest, a bean bag tournament, bounce houses and games for the kids, and of course plenty of German-style food, soda and beer The day begins at noon with a cannon blast and the ceremonial tapping of the keg, followed by the ever-famous wiener dog races. Online preregistration is encouraged for both the wiener dog races and the bean bag tournament. Â Take a spin on the dance floor and Jennifer Mulcahey, of Ballroom

by Jennifer, will teach you how to polka. Back-to-back bands include two polka bands, the Jim Busta Band from Spring Grove, Minn. and The Goodtime Dutchmen from Kewaskum, Wisc., as well as local rock favorite Mighty Short Bus from Madison, Wisc. Â Gate tickets to Galena Oktoberfest are $5 for adults and teens, children 12 and under are admitted free.

Parking is free near the festival site.

Festival goers can also take a ride on the free trolley that will be shuttling visitors from the Galena’s historic Main Street to the festival.

For more information about Galena Oktoberfest and the Galena Lions Club, go to www. galenaoktoberfest.com or call 815.331.0180.

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ATTENTION VENDORS Do you offer a service or product that may “catch the eye� of the Moms of our community?

In celebration of our 150th Anniversary we are hosting a Kids’ Activity Day Display you and your business at our Birthday Bash on the campus of SIUE, November 17, 11 am-3 pm. $250 includes: • Table, covering and chairs provided • Two FREE ads announcing your participation at our event. • YOUR name in promotional ads beginning mid October Due to the inflatables and children’s activities, vendor space is limited.

Call 656.4700 Ext. 35 to save your spot!

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People People planner McKendree to host Harvest Challenge 5K Choose your distance, a 5K runwalk or a half-marathon run, in McKendree University’s annual Harvest Challenge road race on Saturday, Sept. 8 in Lebanon.

Start time is 8 a.m., after a prerace course and safety briefing at 7:40 a.m. The 5 kilometer (3.1 miles) and 13.1 mile courses begin on 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 campus.

Wa l k e r s a n d s t r o l l e r s a r e welcome to participate in the 5K only. Medals will be awarded in five age categories to the top male and female competitors in both races, with trophies to the overall winners. “ T h e r e a r e n ’ t m a n y h a l f marathons on this side of the river so our race is a training opportunity for runners who will compete in the Chicago Marathon in October,” said Kim Smallheer, assistant director of athletics at McKendree, who organizes the Harvest Challenge.

Last year ’s event drew more than 200 participants.

The fee is $14 for the 5K and $30 for the half-marathon, with an additional $5 charged to those who sign up on race day. Register in person on campus at the intramural gym inside the Melvin Price Convocation Center on Alton St.; or download and mail in the form on the website mckendree.edu/raceday.

Online registration is also available (for a small fee) at active.com.

Mailed entries must be postmarked

by Sept. 6.

Long-sleeve T-shirts for the 5K participants and short-sleeve “performance” T-shirts for halfmarathoners will be provided, as well as post-race refreshments, while supplies last.

For more information, call 618537-6420 or 618-537-6941 or visit the website mckendree.edu/raceday.

Great Godfrey Maze now open Crop circles have been spotted in the “Out of this World” seven-acre corn maze in Godfrey’s Glazebrook Park. You don’t have to be an astronaut to enjoy the adventure this fall as the Great Godfrey Maze takes you deep into the cosmos.

Thrill seekers will get to blast off on a space adventure beginning Friday, Aug. 31 as the Great Godfrey Maze opens for its 13th season in Glazebrook Park, located at 1401 Stamper Lane in Godfrey. The theme for this year’s maze is “We’re out of this world.” A space shuttle, a planet and an alien are cut into the maze to give visitors an out of this world experience.

Lift off for the 2012 maze will begin at 6 p.m. with a ribbon cutting ceremony and then the maze will be open for the first time this year to travelers wishing to get a little lost.

The movie, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, will be shown on the giant inflatable outdoor screen as the sun sets.

Regular admission fees apply for the maze. Concessions will be available on the grounds.

Mark your calendar for special events at the maze where you can get

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lost in space and enjoy some corny fun. The annual Fall Corn Festival will take place on Saturday, Sept. 29 from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Activities will include: the cow (rocket) train, craft vendors, live music, tractor show and more. Festival admission is free. Regular fees apply to maze and maze activities.

In October, the Haunted Maze opens for those brave enough to venture in. Let the force be with you as you navigate the maze during the Halloween season on Fridays and Saturdays in October. The Haunted Maze will be open from dark to 10 p.m. on Oct. 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, 26 and 27. Regular fees apply.

General admission prices are $6 for 12 and up, $4 for ages 6 through 11 and children 5 and under are free. Operating hours for general admission are: Fridays from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., Saturdays 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sundays from 1 p.m. to dusk. The Maze is available for group tours and birthday parties during regular operating hours. The Maze is also available for school groups and private rentals, Monday through Thursday by reservation.

The Great Godfrey Maze is located in Robert E. Glazebrook Park at 1401 Stamper Lane, a half mile west of Route 67 (Godfrey Road) in Godfrey, Ill. For more information, call (618) 466-1483 or go to GodfreyIL.org.

The Fox to host “The Price is Right Live” On Friday, October 5 at 8 pm The Fabulous Fox Theatre will host “The Price is Right Live.”

Tickets are $32.50, $27.50, $22.50 and $10 and are available at the Fox Box Office or by calling 314/5341111. Order tickets online at www. metrotix.com.

“The Price Is Right Live” is the hit interactive stage show that gives contestants pulled right from the audience the chance to "come on down" to win appliances, vacations and even new cars by playing classic games from television's longest running and most popular game show. From Plinko to Cliffhangers to the Big Wheel, and even the fabulous showcase, all the favorite games are played just like the TV show. Even if your name is not

called to play you still have a chance to win. Guest's names are called out throughout the show to win prizes just for being there.

Playing to near sold out audiences for 6 years, the Price Is Right Live™ has given away or 10 million dollars in cash and prizes and sold over 1.2 million tickets. If you enjoy the rush of emotions experienced while watching the show on television, just imagine the possibilities if you were actually in the audience watching it live.

No purchase is necessary to play.

Register at the box office up to three (3) hours before show time on show day for the opportunity to be selected as a contestant in that day's show. Contestants will be selected in a random drawing. Registration is open to US legal US residents, 18 years or older. Ticket purchase will not increase your chances of being selected to play; odds of being selected depend on number of registrants. Neither ticket purchase nor registration guarantee a spot as a show contestant. For complete rules & regulations, including eligibility requirements, visit the venue box office. To enter theater to watch the show, a ticket purchase is required.

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Mythbusters to appear at The Fox The all-new live show “MythBusters: Behind the Myths,” starring Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, co-hosts of the Emmy-nominated Discovery series "MythBusters,” will debut at the Fabulous Fox Theatre for one performance only on Sunday, November 11 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets go on sale on Thursday, July 12 at 10 a.m. and prices are $75, $65, $55, and $45 with a limited number of Platinum and Gold Circle seats also available. Tickets can be purchased at the Fox Box Office or by calling 314/534-1111. Order tickets online at www.metrotix.com. “ M y t h B u s t e r s : B e h i n d t h e Myths,” presents a fantastical evening of on-stage experiments, audience participation, rocking video and behind-the-scenes stories.

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"MythBusters: Behind the Myths" brings you face-to-face with the curious world of Jamie and Adam as the duo matches wits with each other and members of the audience.

Last winter and spring, the show performed 28-city national tour playing sold out performances all over the country.

One of the Discovery Channel’s most highly regarded and watched series, “MythBusters” is now in its ninth season. Cohosted by Hyneman and Savage, “MythBusters” mixes scientific method with gleeful curiosity and plain old-fashioned ingenuity to create its own signature style of explosive experimentation – and the supporting or de-bunking of urban myths that we live with day to day.

Adam and Jamie have become spokespersons at large for applying science to real life – most recently as hosts of the Discovery Channel special “"iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World,” and have appeared on numerous shows including “Late Show with David Letterman,” “Good Morning America,” “The Late Late Show w i t h C r a i g F e rg u s o n , ” “ T h e Colbert Report,” NPR’s “All Things Considered” and “Morning Edition,” “Countdown with Keith Olberman,” and many more. They were invited to participate in Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Fear And/Or Sanity and have received the Young Artist Award for inspiring young people in the interest of science. “MythBusters” has been invited to participate on a panel at Comic-Con, where their appearances have sold-out four years running.

Adam and Jamie produced and starred in an H1N1 Public Service Announcement for the White House, and were chosen by the President to retest the Archimedes legend using 500 schoolchildren as surrogate soldiers.

They appeared as themselves in the movie Darwin Awards and have made several cameos on other TV

shows, including CSI. And In 2010, Hyneman and Savage received the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism from the Harvard Secular Society.

Roller Derby championship coming to St. Louis The St. Louis Gatekeepers will host the 2012 Men's Roller Derby Association National Championship, "Gateway to the Best." This fast and heavy-hitting weekend takes place October 20-21, 2012 and will feature the MRDA's top eight teams in the end-of-season rankings. Competition for those spots will be especially tough as the MRDA continues in its mission to encourage the growth and development of men's roller derby by nearly doubling in the past year to 20 teams.

The Gatekeepers will work closely with the MRDA to build on the success of last year's inaugural championship. The Gatekeepers, founded in November 2009, have grown to become one of the most successful teams in men's roller derby, skill-wise and in sheer number of skaters. They bring a wealth of tournament knowledge by virtue of participating in last year's championship as well as competing in Spring Roll men's tournament.

The 2012 MRDA Championship will be held at theMidwest Sport Hockey Complex. With a new Sport Court surface installed this past November, Midwest Sport is the premier inline roller hockey facility in the Midwest making it the ideal spot for high-caliber roller derby. And, ample stadium seating will provide a quality spectator experience. The complex is located in beautiful Edgar M. Queeny County Park in the St. Louis suburb of Ballwin, just 20 minutes from the city.

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People People planner Lincoln Museum hosts Civil War exhibit

Sumter National Historic Site, Nancy Ross Chapter of the DAR from Pittsfield, University Museum of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and the Old State Capitol State Historic Site. Visitors can see an original Civil War hospital flag; a field stretcher; a door used as a surgical table; original weapons; a tree trunk from the Battle of Chickamauga with an embedded artillery shell; various medical and surgical tools, including an amputation kit; a crude leg prosthesis; a drum carried by a wounded soldier; and original letters, journals, drawings, clinical photographs and medical records.

“Northerners and Southerners shared similar weapons, military training, and medical knowledge at the beginning of the Civil War,” said Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Executive Director Eileen Mackevich.

“Both sides also shared a lack of p re p a re d n e s s f o r t h e h u m a n carnage that modern warfare would create. This new exhibit shows in very graphic and human terms the wounds and illnesses suffered by soldiers and the herculean task of providing medical care to the sick

The deadliest weapon of the Civil War was one that nobody could see, killing two soldiers for every one felled by gunfire. The extraordinary casualties caused by that invisible killer, disease; the conventional weapons used to create slaughter on an unprecedented scale; horrific injuries suffered on the battlefield; and the heroic efforts of medical personnel to treat soldiers on both sides are described in detail in “To Kill and to Heal: Weapons and Medicine of the Civil War,” a new exhibit that opened May 11 at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield.

This Civil War 150th anniversary exhibit runs through 2013 and f e a t u re s o r i g i n a l i m a g e s a n d artifacts from the Presidential Library and Museum’s collections supplemented by unique artifacts from the Illinois State Military Museum, The Museum of the Confederacy, Rush University Medical Center Archives, Fort

and wounded.”

The experiences of actual soldiers are prevalent throughout the exhibit, including quotes and photographs, lending a human touch to the horror of war. Some of the images come from original medical files and graphically depict the effects of deadly weapons and even deadlier germs on the bodies of Union and Confederate soldiers.

The exhibit opens with the weapons that caused the wounds during the Civil War, including guns, ammunition, artillery and edged weapons. This section also deals with the increased effectiveness of the weapons, and how carefully trained soldiers could create havoc while using them. Union Captain John C. Van Dozer wrote in 1863 about a Confederate sharpshooter his unit encountered: “One mile up

the river from Mason’s house, one fellow, using a Mississippi rifle, killed everything he shot at, man, horse, or mule; he killed 3 men and wounded 2, and killed about a dozen mules.”

Wounds caused by the various weapons and treatment for those injuries are described in a section that includes gun shot wounds, amputations, artificial limbs and anesthesia. Several soldier stories illustrate this section, including this quote from Union soldier David R. Gregg in an 1864 letter to his wife, Sarah Gregg: “it is the awfulest Sight you Ever Saw our Men are Wounded in Evry part of them that I Can describe from the Crown to the Sole of the foot.”

“To Kill and to Heal: Weapons and Medicine of the Civil War” opens about a month after the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Shiloh, the first Civil War battle

with massive casualties on a scale that indicated what the remaining years of the war would bring.

G l e n n a S c h ro e d e r- L e i n i s t h e curator, and she worked closely with an exhibits team consisting of John Malinak, Michael Casey, Carla Smith, Katie Grant, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation, staff from the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, and numerous community groups, institutions, and individuals to create the exhibit.

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Religion Religion briefs Donald Trump to speak at Liberty University LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — “The Donald” is coming to Liberty University.

Media outlets report that the school announced Wednesday that billionaire real estate mogul and TV personality Donald Trump would speak at Liberty’s convocation on Sept. 24.

Liberty holds convocation three times a week, giving students the chance to hear from religious figures, politicians and others while worshipping together at the Christian school founded by the late Jerry Falwell. The school says the weekly meetings are the largest gatherings of Christian students in North America.

Trump entertained the idea of running for president, but instead endorsed Republican candidate Mitt Romney.

Other notable convocation speakers this fall are actor Kirk Cameron, Veggie Tales producer and author Phil Vischer, Auntie Annie’s pretzels founder Anne Beiler and Southern Baptist Convention President Fred Luter.

Leader of Indiana National Guard criticized for video praising religious group’s work INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The leader of the Indiana National Guard asked an evangelical Christian organization to take down a web video he made praising its marriage counseling following a complaint from a military watchdog group.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation argues that Maj. Gen. Martin Umbarger violated military rules and the First Amendment by promoting a religious group in the 33-second video while in uniform, The Indianapolis Star reported Tuesday.

F o r m e r A i r F o rc e a t t o r n e y Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Albuquerque, N.M.-based group, said Umbarger’s message promotes one religious group over others and that such a show of support from a two-star general is intimidating within the military.

“He should be removed immediately and, from our perspective, court-martialed,” Weinstein said.

U m b a rg e r m a d e t h e v i d e o in September 2011 on behalf of Centurion’s Watch, a Christian group based in Indianapolis that offers marriage counseling to military families. It was posted on the nonprofit’s website.

In the video, he says in part: “Any donation or resource that you can give this organization — it’s faithbased, it’s wanting to keep families together with the stresses and strains of being apart, being in harm’s way, risking their lives for this, for this country. I can’t think of a better organization that you can support.”

Umbarger was appointed Indiana’s adjutant general in 2004 by then-Gov. Joe Kernan, a Democrat, and has remained in the position under Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels as leader of more than 15,800 Guard personnel.

Daniels on Tuesday rejected calls for Umbarger’s removal.

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A letter to the diocesan staff from the Rev. Ronald Lengwin, the vicar general, said $1 million has already been saved by 15 employees who have retired, resigned or been reassigned. Still, more of the diocese’s 180 clergy and lay employees may have to be laid off.

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Music Exit 12 blazes a trail for young bands EHS students have grown up on the stage

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n the midst of the recent influx of young high school bands flooding the area today, Exit 12 has managed to keep ahead of the curve with a firm dedication to their craft and gain a steady foothold in the scene they helped build in the metro-east.

Comprised of six local teenagers, all between the ages of 16 and 18, the band is currently celebrating their fourth year of playing shows around the Edwardsville area, and already looks back on their success at that time with a sort of nostalgia.

“We were the only kid band at the time, and Jack (the lead singer) was so small,” Zach Galbierz, the band’s 18-year-old guitar player, said.

“He was so small, and this booming voice just came out,” added 16-year-old Hannah Andres – a more recent addition to the group, having spent a year and a half sharing lead vocals with Jack Desse.

“It was just a wow factor, really,” Galbierz said finally, as the rest of the band nodded their agreement. Desse, for his part, seems to have grown into his 16-year-old height and caught up with the rest of the band, still belting out lead vocals with Andres each show.

“I had an infinite range back then,” he jokingly shared.

Rounding out the band are Brendan Heaton, 16, on drums, with the Romann brothers Randy, 18, and Michael, 16, playing guitar and bass respectively. The band has an obvious rapport with one another, frequently trying to finish another ’s sentences with the occasional pause for commentary by John Romann, Randy and Michael’s father who also functions as the band’s manager.

“Actually, it was kind of me and Zach that started it up,” Randy Roman recalled. “Mike had been playing bass too, so he and I, obviously, we were together on it, and then Brendan played soccer with Mike...”

“Me and Randy were taking guitar lessons from Zach’s dad,” Mike Romann added eagerly.

“That’s kind of how I jumped into it. Randy comes up to me at school one day, and was like, ‘Hey! You wanna play guitar with me in a band?’” Galbierz said.

While the drummer for their first practice couldn’t keep time, the boys quickly rectified that mistake by adding Heaton to the group. When they needed a vocalist to compete for the Route 66 Festival, a suggestion from Desse’s mother that she’d “heard him singing in the car” was good enough for the rest of the band.

From there, as they say, the rest is history. The group has remained in its original lineup for almost a full half-decade, excepting the

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Members of Exit 12 are, from left, Hannah Andres, Randy Romann, Michael Romann, Brendan Heaton, Zach Galbierz and Jack Desse. addition of Andres.

“I’ve always been involved with music,” explained Andres, currently involved in the EHS drama program. “They asked me to fill in for a few shows, and that turned into me joining the band.”

However, despite the obvious connection the group shares (“Everyone is just a huge family, and it’s not something you can easily get away from. And you don’t want to, because it’s just amazing,” Andres explained), they also know how to get down to work – Exit 12 can currently play more than 80 cover songs, and are working on their fourth original number right now.

Almost all members of the group are multi-instrumental, and each brings their own personal influences to the practice space, boasting a wide range of genres not every other local group can offer.

“I like AC/DC style rock,” Randy Romann explained, with Galbierz explaining that he and Andres brought heavier influences to the group.

“Eighties and country!” Heaton interjected, with Desse adding, “I like everything.”

With such a wide range of influences and genres coming together, some clashes are bound

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to occur, but in the end, Randy Romann explained, “It takes a lot of being able to be open to people’s ideas, and being able to stop your own train of thought and listen to what they have to say.”

“We just have to trust each other ’s opinions sometimes,” Andres added. “Sometimes that’s hard to do, but we know each other well enough that we can work together with each other really easily after a while.”

Whatever understanding the group has reached, it appears they’ve found a method that works for them. Exit 12 has not only made appearances at several large local festivals such as the Horseradish Festival and Lake-APalooza on Holiday Lake, where they played to over 1,000 people, but the band has also made a national impact - they have twice auditioned for America’s Got Talent, and have even been featured on commercials promoting the show.

However, in the end, it’s the Youth Summer Concerts, originally set up by manager John Romann, that the conversation naturally returns to time and time again.

“It’s groomed a lot of bands in the area,” the father explained.

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“They see these guys and what these guys have done, and it’s progressed a lot.” Jim Galbierz from Swing City is currently running and managing these shows, and both the band and their manager wished to give him credit for handling such an important part of Edwardsville music, along with the rest of the members’ families for offering their support.

“The parents are heavily involved in this band, and it takes a lot of parent support,” John noted.

Randy Romann and Galbierz are currently preparing to attend their first semester at college. As the band grows and matures, Romann expressed some concerns about the future of the group. Yet with each and every member citing Exit 12 as less of a band and more of a family, the connections forged between the six teens are made even more tangible in face of these concerns.

“I love playing just because it’s a talent that God gave me, and I think using it is a way to give that back,” Heaton explained.

“The fact that I get to play music with (the other members) just makes it even better.”

“They’re not just kids I go out and hang out with,” Randy

Romann added. “They’re solid, they’re my guys. If I need something, I know I can trust them.”

His younger brother Mike echoed the sentiment. “I feel like it’s just a family. I mean I have family in the band, and my dad manages the band, and my mom’s always at practice too, and she sits in and helps out and sells our t-shirts for us... it keeps you busy, and it’s just a lot of fun.”

“I’m blessed to be in this band just because of the relationships that I’ve formed with every one of these guys. I love them to death, and all of the parents too,” Andres added.

“It’s like the coolest feeling ever, because people get to listen to something I’ve made, and I get to share what I’ve done with this music scene,” Galbierz explained.

“Edwardsville has its own scene.

And it’s really cool.”

“There’s a good thing going here,” Randy Romann said.

For more information about Exit 12 and their upcoming shows, including two separate sets at the Italian Fest, visit their website at http://ExitTwelve.com, where you can access links to the band’s Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts.

Music Music calendar **If you would like to add something to our music calendar, email it to theedge@edwpub.net.

Thursday, Sept. 6 Tommy Emmanuel, Sheldon Concert Hall, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m.

Tribal Seeds w/ Ballyhoo!, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

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

Dirty Bourbon River Show, The Gramophone, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

Our Last Night, For All I Am, Casino Madrid, Fubar, St. Louis, Doors 5:30 p.m.

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

Friday, Sept. 7 Arianna String Quartet, Touhill Performing Arts Center, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

An Under Cover Weekend 6: Night One feat. LucaBrasi, VOLCANOES, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 7:30 p.m.

Various Hands, Day Above Ground, Deep Thump, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Soma w/ Tok, Money for Guns, The Gramophone, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

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

Deadfall Fires, Blue Agave, Belleville, 9:30 p.m.

Langhorne Slim & The Law w/The Highway Companion, Plush St. Louis, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

Radio Star, Fast Eddie's Bon Air, Alton, 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 8 Love Me Leave Me, Bunker Hill Festival, Bunker Hill, 4 p.m.

An Under Cover Weekend 6: Night Two feat. Via Dove, Dots Not Feathers, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 7:30 p.m.

The Hipnecks w/ Stickley & Canan and the Hobosexuals, Old Rock House, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

40th Anniversary Bash, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

Mike Keneally w/ Rick Musallam, The Gramophone, St. Louis, Doors 6:30 p.m.

A Lesser Hope w/ The Ninth Circle, As Earth Shatters, Fubar, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Resoldered, Blue Agave, Belleville, 9:30 p.m.

FarFetched Presents: Brave New World Music Festival, Plush St. Louis, St. Louis, Doors 3:00 p.m.

Hoosier Daddy's, 3:00 p.m. / Radio Star, 8:00 p.m., Fast Eddie's Bon Air, Alton

Sunday, Sept. 9 Marcus Miller, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Toxie w/ Bruiser Queen, Brainstems, The Firebird, St. Louis,

Doors 7:30 p.m.

Delhi 2 Dublin, Old Rock House, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Inspectah Deck w/ The 12-6 Movement, Fubar, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Scream Tour 2012 w/ Diggy, OMG Girlz, Jawan Harris, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 5:00 p.m.

Sept. 11th Interfaith Memorial in Music, Sheldon Concert Hall, St. Louis, 5:30 p.m.

Sable, 2:00 p.m. / Ultraviolets, 7:00 p.m., Fast Eddie's Bon Air, Alton

Monday, Sept. 10 Marcus Miller, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

EATMEWHILEIMHOT! w/ Remnants, Fur of Heaven, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 11 The Heartless Bastards w/ Frank Smith, Tenement Ruth, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

My Ticket Home, Fubar, St. Louis, Doors 6:00 p.m.

All American Jazz in Remembrance of 9/11, Sheldon Concert Hall, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m.

Mark Johnson, Laurie's Place, Edwardsville, 6:30 p.m.

Samantha Harlow feat. Adrian Krygowski, Ken Wenzel, Beth Bombara, Cree Rider, Plush St. Louis, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

Tuning in Smash Band featured in benefit concert A free outdoor concert performed

by The Smash Band along with many other festivities will make up the “Smash Bash Concert for the Cause” on Saturday, September 8, 2012. The event will be held at the American Legion, 58 S. State Rt. 157, in Edwardsville with proceeds to benefit Hospice of Southern Illinois, Inc. Doors open for Smash Bash at 5:30 p.m. and Smash Band will play from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. with a special appearance of Hayley Nicole, winner of the Route 66 Talent Contest.

Admittance to the concert is free and donations are gratefully accepted. Along with the concert there will be a wide variety of food vendors, contests, raffles and a silent auction. All food and drink must be purchased at the event. For outdoor seating, attendees should bring lawn chairs. In the case of inclement weather the concert will be moved indoors with limited seating.

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University City Jazz Festival planned The University City Jazz Festival announces a dynamic collection of local and nationally renowned jazz artists showcasing the best in contemporary, straight-ahead, and funky music on Saturday, September 22, 2012 from 12 noon - 8:30 p.m. in Heman Park.

"In many ways, putting together this year's line-up was enjoyable and easy, but it was also a balancing act," said producer and co-artistic director Michael Silverman. Spotlighting diverse talent from the St. Louis area is an important part of the festival.

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QuickGlance Movie Reviews

“Hope Springs”

Here’s how surprisingly effective this movie is: It will make you want to go home and have sex with your spouse afterward. Or at least share a longer hug or a more passionate kiss. You don’t have to be married for 31 years like the stuck-in-a-rut couple Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones play to feel inspired by the film’s message about the importance of keeping your relationship alive. It sounds like a cliche because it is a cliche, and more: It’s a cottage industry, one that’s launched countless afternoon talkshow episodes and shelf after shelf of self-help books. And yet, despite television ads that look alternately wacky and mawkish and suggest pat, glossy superficiality, “Hope Springs” unearths some quiet and often uncomfortable truths. The first produced script from television writer and producer Vanessa Taylor (”Alias,” “Game of Thrones”) explores the complicated dynamics that develop over a long-term relationship with great honesty and little judgment. What looks like a standard rom-com turns into something akin to a contemporary Ingmar Bergman film.

The performances from Streep and Jones go a long way toward elevating the rather straightforward direction from David Frankel, which includes some painfully literal musical selections and a few hokey comic situations.

Their characters, Kay and Arnold, live a sexless life in a comfortable suburb of Omaha, Neb. When Kay finally decides she’s sick of their complacent routine, she insists Arnold join her for a week of intensive couples therapy with a renowned psychologist (Steve Carell). In Maine.

RATED: PG-13 for mature thematic content involving sexuality.

RUNNING TIME: 99 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three stars out of four.

“The Odd Life of Timothy Green”

Novelist and filmmaker Peter Hedges, author of “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” and creator of Katie Holmes’ lovely independent feature “Pieces of April,” strains to Disney-ize the family dysfunction territory he explored so well in those works with this nauseatingly sweet fantasy. Adapting a short story by Ahmet Zappa (son of Frank), writer-director Hedges tries for old-fashioned wholesomeness only to flounder amid a well-intended but sappy tale of a childless couple mystically granted a test run at parenthood. Hedges assembled an impressive cast, led by Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton as parents to a mystery boy (CJ Adams) that comes into their lives, and the actors buy into the story’s conceits wholeheartedly. The characters are simplistic and artificial, though, behaving in ways that often are insultingly naive and sometimes just plain stupid. A movie’s in trouble when the characters are just as unbelievable as the premise.

It’s a very pretty movie to look at, awash in postcard images of rural America and lush colors that turn from verdant to autumnal as the story unfolds. Beneath the pretty pictures is a silly, shallow stab at Capra-corn, the sort of magical story of simple, genuine people mastered by Frank Capra with such films as “Meet John Doe” and “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Sadly, the movie’s is all corn, no Capra.

RATED: PG for mild thematic elements and brief language.

RUNNING TIME: 104 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Two stars out of four.

“ParaNorman”

So much drawing for such an unworthy script. The labor necessary to create a movie like this is colossal, so it’s tempting to applaud it politely, simply because of the admirable work. No one wants to tell 60 puppet makers that their months of toil were ill spent. But the frequently wondrous and whimsical visuals far surpass

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the disappointingly slipshod story of an 11-year-old boy named Norman (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee) who can see and speak to the dead. “ParaNorman” is from the creators of 2009’s “Coraline,” and bears much of the same fantasyhorror spirit. It also has some of the comic elements of the British studio Aardman Animations (”Wallace and Gromit”); “ParaNorman” is directed by Sam Fell (who co-directed Aardman’s “Flushed Away”) and Chris Butler, who also wrote it. Norman’s uncle (John Goodman) bequeaths to him the duty of pacifying a witch that has haunted their town of Blithe Hollow for 300 years. After failing in the ritual, Norman and an improvised gang (Tucker Albrizzi, Casey Affleck, Anna Kendrick, Alex Borstein) flee from a septet of zombies. The running around town takes up much of the film, robbing “ParaNorman” of pace and setting it on a tiresome and frantic trajectory before enough character development has taken place. Blessed with otherworldly animation, it can’t escape the demons of story.

RATED: PG for scary action and images, thematic elements, some rude humor and language.

RUNNING TIME: 92 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Two stars out of four.

“Hit & Run”

Dax Shepard puts his friends, fiancee Kristen Bell, even his own vehicles to good use in this fun little car-chase comedy that’s quite infectious — the good time clearly had by the filmmakers rubs off on the audience. Done on a tiny budget, the movie’s stunts and chases are nothing much, but the lack of resources steers the story away from action and toward the characters, who are wry, irreverent, even endearing. Screenwriter Shepard, the “Parenthood” co-star who directed the movie with David Palmer, tailors the roles to suit his pals, including Bradley Cooper, Tom Arnold, Kristin Chenoweth and “Parenthood” co-star Joy Bryant.

Shepard plays a former getaway driver now in witness protection, who winds up pursued by his old bank robbery gang when he hits the road to get his girlfriend (Bell) to an interview for her dream job in Los Angeles. The result is like a student film made by pros, weirdly idiosyncratic but efficiently paced. It’s well-scripted and well-acted, and if the movie lingers too long on so-so gags and inside jokes Shepard and his friends found particularly funny, it compensates with a freewheeling spirit that pulls viewers along for the ride.

R for pervasive language including sexual references, graphic nudity, some violence and drug content.

RUNNING TIME: 99 minutes.

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

“Premium Rush”

Let’s just be glad Smell-O-Vision never caught on.

Thankfully, the musky odor of sweaty bike messengers doesn’t emanate from director David Koepp’s thrill ride, an enjoyable, two-wheeled action film and flashy ode to the subculture of urban couriers. It’s a silly movie predicated on a simple premise, but it’s satisfying B-movie entertainment that moves with the swiftness of a Schwinn — a ride made particularly fun by Michael Shannon’s enthrallingly comic performance as a dirty cop in mad pursuit of a bike messenger’s cargo. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Wilee, a hardened New York City messenger who’s forsaken a promising career in law for the freedom of riding the city’s congested streets. His dispatch (Aasif Mandvi) sends him on a seemingly innocuous delivery that will prove anything but. Chief among the impediments is Shannon’s detective, whose gambling debts in Chinatown have made him desperate for Wilee’s lucrative delivery. Koepp assembles backstories with flashbacks to earlier in the day, but the film moves with pedal propulsion along with numerous chase sequences made with stunts, rather than visual effects. But

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Shannon as a wide-eyed, exasperated maniac doesn’t just steal the movie, he towers over it. In a two-tire film, he’s an 18-wheeler.

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

RUNNING TIME: 91 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING Three stars out of four.

"For a Good Time, Call ..."

The whole point of calling a phone-sex line is that you know what you're getting, right? You pick up the phone, pay your money and partake in some, um, selfsatisfaction. It's a sure thing. Everyone hangs up happy.

With this comedy, you only think you know what you're getting. It looks like total formula and — for a little while, at least — feels like it, with its broad types who are complete opposites getting thrown together in a contrived, high-concept situation: operating a phone-sex business out of a Manhattan apartment they're forced to share. But the actresses playing the two lead characters — Ari Graynor and Lauren Anne Miller — have such a light and lovely chemistry with each other, and director Jamie Travis keeps things moving so briskly, you find yourself not minding how by-the-numbers the story is.

And then within that by-the-numbers story, there ends up being enough surprises and twists that you find yourself unexpectedly charmed. Brassy party girl Katie (Graynor) and conservative, overachieving Lauren (Miller) both find themselves in need of a roommate. They learn to tolerate each other at first, then become business partners and eventually best friends. The raunchiness will invite comparisons to "Bridesmaids" — although co-star Miller and Katie Anne Naylon wrote their script first — but the exploration of close female friendship has a similar honesty.

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

RUNNING TIME: 89 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three stars out of four.

"Lawless"

If you can accept the notion that Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf and Jason Clarke could be brothers during this century or any other, you might be able to immerse yourself in the artfully pulpy allure of "Lawless," based on the true story of the bootlegging Bondurants. Director John Hillcoat's ultraviolent drama plays like a hot, sweaty, delusional fever dream and is similarly fitful. It can be visceral and operatic, beautiful and brutal but also slow and overlong. The look and the sound of it are the most effective parts, and the most intrinsically tied: Singer-songwriter Nick Cave, a longtime friend and collaborator of fellow Australian Hillcoat (on "The Proposition" and "The Road"), wrote the script and co-wrote the score, so there's a peculiar kind of dark flavor, humor and musicality to the cadence of the dialogue.

"Lawless" is based on "The Wettest County in the World," Matt Bondurant's fictional tale of his grandfather, Jack, and his brothers, moonshine masters who kept the Virginia hills good n' liquored up during Prohibition. They find their tidy little operation threatened when a corrupt Chicago lawman named Charlie Rakes (Guy Pearce) swoops in to shut them down. Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska and Gary Oldman are underused in supporting roles.

RATED: R for strong bloody violence, language and some sexuality/nudity.

RUNNING TIME: 110 minutes.

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

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Associated Press

Shepard shines in "Hit & Run"

By DAVID GERMAIN Associated Press Dax Shepard puts his friends, fiance Kristen Bell, even his own vehicles to good use in “Hit & Run,” a fun little car-chase comedy that’s quite infectious — the good time clearly had by the filmmakers rubs off on the audience.

Done on a tiny budget, the movie’s stunts and chases are nothing much, but the lack of resources steers the story away from action and toward the characters, who are wry, irreverent, even endearing.

Screenwriter Shepard, the “Parenthood” co-star who directed “Hit & Run” with David Palmer, tailors the roles to suit his

pals, including Bradley Cooper, Tom Arnold, Kristin Chenoweth and “Parenthood” co-star Joy Bryant.

The result is like a student film made by pros, weirdly idiosyncratic but efficiently paced. It’s well-scripted and well-acted, and if “Hit & Run” lingers too long on so-so gags and inside jokes Shepard and his friends found particularly funny, it compensates with a freewheeling spirit that pulls viewers along for the ride.

Shepard stars as a guy in witness protection who took the name Charlie Bronson — just why is one of the subtly amusing bits of “Hit & Run.” A former getaway driver for a gang of bank robbers, Charlie betrayed his pals for a sort-of noble reason, but Shepard’s

doesn’t play him as a hoodlum with a halo.

Charlie’s a man who did wrong, is trying to make amends but offers no excuses for his misdeeds and is willing to pay the price should they come back to haunt him.

Of course, they do. Now living in rural California with academic Annie (Bell), Charlie decides to break cover and drive her back to his old stomping grounds in Los Angeles, where she’s got an interview for her dream job running a campus program in conflict resolution.

Through the scheming of her old beau, Gil (Michael Rosenbaum), Charlie and Annie wind up pursued by his old gang, including Alex Demitri (Cooper) and Charlie’s exgirlfriend, Neve (Bryant).

A r n o l d p l a y s f e d e r a l a g e n t R a n d y, Charlie’s witness-protection minder. A hapless blusterer, Randy’s at the center of many of the movie’s physical gags; some are mildly funny, but they’re mostly repetitive and disposable, often putting the brakes on the action so Arnold can launch into another fit of bellowing.

Oddly for a road romp, the main charm of “Hit & Run” comes from the verbal exchanges, either when the characters are standing still or sharing strange intimacies during a high-speed chase.

Shepard and Bell make such a natural couple on screen that it’s easy to imagine them, right or wrong, living out a blissfully perfect relationship in real life.

"Premium Rush" worth a look

By ROBERT GRUBAUGH For The Edge Hollywood is really starting to mess with my schedule, you know? For the fourth week in a row, movies are opening on both Wednesdays and Fridays. I can't figure it out. For years, this has been the modus operandi of studios desperate to try and get a leg up on the competition in July, the month that tickets sales reach their peak.

But the trend hits later this year.

This is August, for crying out loud, the season that school goes back into session and we're treated to timeless classics like "Snakes on a Plane" (2006), "Piranha 3D" (2010), and "Our Idiot Brother" (2011). It's infuriating, really, when deadline day is the same as release day. It usually puts me behind. So I went

looking for a faster title and found a speedy one called "Premium Rush."

Who would find a movie about bicycle messengers entertaining?

Maybe my brother-in-law, but he's off that trek bike and back to running. Maybe Lance Armstrong, but he's had a tough week, too.

When you stick Joseph GordonLevitt in a film written and directed by action stud David Koepp the answer should be 'everyone'. Wilee (Gordon-Levitt) is a character for both the masses and the oddly tight fraternity of delivery people that will love the inside track the narrative takes at times.

Nicknamed "The Coyote Man", after the Looney Tunes character, Wilee is a speed demon who excels at his craft. He's a stripped down version of the others in his industry, pushing his steel framed, fixed-gear

bike around Manhattan at break neck paces to deliver the package that absolutely must get from Here to There quickly, but without a lot of fuss. He even does this without brakes, because the indecision they bring to the equation means serious injury or death. This cavalier spirit, of course, draws the ire and fear of his main competition (Wole Parks) and of his girlfriend (Dania Ramirez). When you combine this charismatic style, unique business, and sexy cast with a fairly standard "corrupt cop" storyline, magic happens.

The crooked cop, in this case, is Detective Monday (Michael Shannon), a tough guy with a bad gambling problem. His losses have forced him to doing some unsavory business for the Chinese mafia.

It centers on a troubled foreign

exchange student (Jamie Chung) and in locating a very valuable movie ticket stub that Wilee is busy messenger-ing from NYU to Chinatown. The movie is a tad formulaic, but there are two things at work here that make the action at least semi-plausible. Much like Gordon-Levitt's career path (he can still be seen on-screen in "The Dark Knight Rises" and headlines September's much anticipated "Looper" with Bruce Willis), Wilee's skills on the bike are impressive.

He can climb stairs, jump cars, and seemingly ignore the laws of physics as easy as the rest of us watch him do it. My favorite move has him sliding under a parked big rig by dismounting and coasting alongside the bike on his sneakers.

It was a gas.

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the cast include a truly menacing villain like Shannon. Best known f o r h i s ro l e i n " Wo r l d Tr a d e Center", and last year's bizarro "Take Shelter," Shannon has that unimpeachable look about him that gives you the thought he might be one stiff breeze away from totally going off the deep end. I mean totally crazy. Like at any minute he could become blissed out Christopher Walken in "The Deer Hunter." Or raging Al Pacino in "Dog Day Afternoon."

When I want a bad guy to play unhinged, Michael Shannon is who I want.

••• "Premium Rush" runs 103 minutes and is rated PG-13 for some violence, intense action sequences, and language.

I give this film two and a half stars out of four.

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The Arts For The Edge David Stine is a small-town Illinois native who turned a love of woodworking into an awardwinning career. St. Louis Magazine named David one of the region’s top 10 green entrepreneurs.

His work has been featured in Forbes Life, The Chicago Tribune, Hamptons Television, The Robb Report’s Collection, designspace, Architectural DC, Fine Woodworking, Cottages & Bungalows, and i4design, not to mention his recent "Best of Show" win in woodworking at the Jackson Hole Art Fair in Jackson, Wyoming.

Born and raised on a dairy farm in rural Dow, David learned the value of hard work from his grandfather and father.

"I grew up on a farm and we did everything manually and ourselves. ...from making soap to cutting timber to butchering we did it all.

The woodworking was a natural outgrowth from that and sure... beat milking cows," said Stine in an email.

David Stine Woodworking epitomizes 21st century American furniture craftsmanship at its best.

Call it rural modernism or rustic sophistication, by any name it is a style sprung from the marriage of classic furniture craftsmanship with an ethos of environmentalism.

Traditional craftsmanship and sustainability are the core of Stine’s work. What sets David apart from other craftsmen is that he sources and harvests all his own material.

Situated on a large farm with an 1871 farmhouse, a woodshop, a kiln, a studio, and a sawmill, David is the fourth generation to steward his family’s land, where he sustainably harvests all his own lumber. He also mills all his own boards and crafts every piece of furniture by hand.

"I use all the woods native to our area. ... I don't have a favorite, I love them all and each has characteristics that make it particularly suited for certain applications. I am involved in the maintaining and harvesting and am the only one who does it in my family. There is no need to replant as we only harvest downed and dead trees and the forest repopulates itself - this is not a clear cut factory operation."

The woods are not just the source of David’s material; they are the source of his inspiration. David mills each board to maximize the wood’s inner beauty. His designs showcase the raw, natural beauty of the wood – graining, knots, live edges, and all. Each piece David creates is one-of-a-kind. No two are alike. Each piece of furniture is a testament to the beauty and majesty of the tree from which it came and to the sustainable spirit of traditional American craftsmanship.

“Today, people want to know where their food comes from, but it is important to me that people know the source of the furniture I create,” David says. “My family grew these trees. I stewarded these trees. I sustainably harvested these trees, I milled these boards myself, and I created gorgeous, one-of-akind pieces of furniture from these very boards. Responsible, traditional craftsmanship. That’s my art and my life.”

David is a graduate of Penn State University and holds a law degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He founded David Stine Woodworking in 1995 in Washington, D.C., while still a

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Above, a table by David Stine. Below, the crowd at the St. Louis Art Fair. law student. After passing the bar, he practiced law for just one year, but office politics and sitting behind a desk soon drove him to return to his first passion, and in 2002, he moved back to the family farm and devoted himself full-time to furniture craftsmanship.

"I was, and still am, a lawyer. I don't practice, but I still have my degree and am a member of the Bar. I only worked as an attorney for a year because I had the opportunity to do something I really loved and to make things rather than just move papers and files around all day and score intellectual points," Stine says. "Law School was great. I loved school and the whole environment around it, but ... the negatives outweighed the positives for me. I never regret my decision to change my career path. I can always go back to it; law is easy, real work is hard."

Clients often travel to Dow to consult with David, walk the woods, choose their boards, and enjoy a hearty meal and a day on the farm.

David’s clients include Mary and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., actor and activist Michael J. Fox, celebrity chef and author Ina Garten, political writer Andrew Sullivan, architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen, actor and

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director Christopher Eigeman, and broadcast journalist Forrest Sawyer.

Unless you count the hand-built timber frame gambrel roofed barn he built for a local vineyard, the largest single project David has done thus far is a table he is currently working on that is 48 inches wide, 10 feet long and three inches thick made from a single slab of black oak. It will take about two weeks to complete this piece, not counting the five years it took to dry the wood and the lifetime of experience it takes to even try a job like it. On average, David makes around 100 pieces each year. Pieces can range from $100 to $15,000, depending on the size and complexity.

This weekend, David will be among the approximately 180 artists from around the United States and Canada who are making an appearance at the 19th Annual St. Louis Art Fair, which will be held in Clayton's central business district.

This will make the second year in a row that he has participated in this event.

"Last year's fair was great. Great weather, crowd, organization... It was also great to meet so many local people who appreciate art and craft," David says. "I also

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participated in the mentor program, which places young artists with established artists like me to try to help further their practical education in the field. It was well run and a nice way to help younger people starting out avoid some of the mistakes I have made. I am really looking forward to the mentor program again this year as well as to meeting even more local people who will hopefully become clients."

The Saint Louis Art Fair (SLAF) is a free, three-day celebration of the visual and performing arts that has continually ranked high among the most prestigious art fairs in the country. The Art Fair will run from 5 to 10 p.m. on Friday, September 7, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, September 8, and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, September 9. The main focus is an easy-access juried exhibition of gallery quality fine art and craft with exhibiting artists. The Art Fair presents live performances, hands on activities for children, a chalk drawing competition and showcases some of St. Louis' top restaurants. The Art Fair collaborates with over 20 local not for profit arts organizations giving them the opportunity to generate earned income and access to over 150,000 potential patrons.

Saint Louis’ art community recently got a $100,000 boost from Sterling Bank in Clayton. It’s the largest donation ever given to the Saint Louis Art Fair, double the previous top contribution of $50,000."

The sponsorship will strengthen the foundation of the event and provide new opportunities for enhancements that build on our mission of celebrating and sharing arts experiences,” said Saint Louis Art Fair Executive Director Cindy Lerick in a press release.

Sterling Bank’s donation is helping support a new Saint Louis Art Fair program called “Create," a program for talented youngsters ages 8-18 who have a flair for art

and dream of becoming professional artists someday. This program is designed to inspire and encourage young artists early in their lives.

Sterling Bank Chairman and CEO Ken Poteet has filled his bank with many valuable antiques and works of art, and wants to further art appreciation in Saint Louis. says, “Fine art lets people express their individuality while uniting them at the same time.”

Returning to the Art Fair this year will be the Walk on Art competition with teams of chalk artists that will beautify Clayton city streets in a contest to see who will win.

There will also be three performance stages featuring live music and entertainment, Pleasures of the Palate, which will offer food from St. Louis’ finest restaurants, and Creative Castle, which lets kids express their imaginative sides through a dozen projects. In addition, the “Art That Sparks” fireworks presentation will send energy over Clayton on Saturday around 10 p.m. The best place to view the fireworks is right near the Main Stage.

Cultural Festivals is a not-forprofit corporation, designated by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)3 organization and is taxexempt in the state of Missouri. All support goes directly toward the presentation of the annual Saint Louis Art Fair and their various cultural outreach programs and services presented throughout the year.

Donations to Cultural Festivals are tax-deductible as a charitable contribution. For more information on the St. Louis Art Fair or Cultural Festivals, go online to www. culturalfestivals.com. You can also email info@culturalfestivals.com or call them at 314-863-0278.

For more information about David Stine Woodworking, please visit www.stinewoodworking.com or contact him at 618-954-8636 or david@stinewoodworking.com.

The Arts STAGES to host "My One and Only"

By TARA WEPKING Of The Edge

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rom Sept. 7 to Sept. 10, STAGES St. Louis will be performing its final show of the season – "My One and Only," a rip-roaring 1920s musical featuring songs from the talents of Ira and George Gershwin.

Originally created as a way to incorporate popular Gershwin tunes from musicals such as "Funny Face" into a single show, "My One and Only" debuted on Broadway in 1983 and was revived as a 2002 production on the West End. Now the musical comes to the Robert G. Reim Theatre in Kirkwood, Mo. Set in 1927, "My One and Only" revolves around famed flying ace Capt.

Billy Buck Chandler, a barnstorming aviator who falls in love with Edythe Herbert, a champion swimmer who used to swim the English Channel.

While Billy dreams of being the first man to complete a solo aviation mission across the Atlantic Ocean, his dreams are momentarily put on hold in favor of attempting to win Edythe's hand in marriage.

However, Edythe – who is currently the star attraction of Russian Prince Nicolai Erraclyovitch Tchatchavadze's International Aquacade – is blackmailed

by the villainous Prince Nikki, who claims to have compromising photos that could damage her career.

A series of high-flying capers ensue in this musical infused with Gershwin hits such as "'S Wonderful," "Funny Face" and "Strike Up the Band." "My One and Only" offers audiences a show full of adventure and romance, as one song leads into another to chronicle Billy's attempts to win Edythe over and into the greatest adventure of all – marriage.

"My One and Only" is the final show in STAGES's action-packed season for 2012, which also included musicals such as "Ain't Misbehavin'," "The Jungle Book," "The Sound of Music" and "Putting It Together: A Musical Cabaret."

Currently celebrating it's 26th year of staging professional quality productions in the St. Louis area (and the recipient of 28 Kevin Kline Awards over the past seven years), STAGES is a notfor-profit company dedicated not only to employing Broadway actors and professional St. Louis actors in regional productions, but also to the education of actors, both young and old alike, within the area.

"My One and Only" brings David Elder back to STAGES as Capt. Billy Buck Chandler, the role that – according to a press release sent out by STAGES on Aug. 23 – inspired him to become an actor himself.

Having starred in "42nd Street" on

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Above are David Elder and Tari Kelly. At left are Lois Enders and Lara Turek.

All four star in "My One and Only."

Broadway, as Phil Davis in the National Tour of "White Christmas" and alongside of Jerry Lewis as Joe Hardy in "Damn Yankees," Elder has also made his mark on the St. Louis stage as the recipient of three Kevin Kline nominations and the award for Best Leading Actor for his portrayal of Bobby Child in the STAGES production of "Crazy for You." Tari Kelly will take the stage as Edythe Herbert, fresh off her role at the Muny as Millie in "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and a year starring in the recent Tony Award-winning production of "Anything Goes."

Steve Isom will play Prince Nikki, reminding audiences once more why he's a St. Louis favorite as he did last summer in the STAGES production of "The Jungle Book" as Baloo.

Directed by Michael Hamilton, with period costumes by Brad Musgrove (described in a press release by STAGES as Broadway's "next-big-thing"), "My One and Only" features choreography

by Dana Lewis, scene design by James Wolk, lighting design by Matthew

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McCarthy and music direciton by Lisa Campbell Albert, with New York Casting completed by Gayle Seay and Scott Wojcik of Wojcik/Seay Casting.

"The 2012 season has been made possible with the support of the Regional Arts commission, and has been funded in part by the Arts & Education Council.

In addition, financial assistance for this project has been provided by the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency," STAGES stated in its press release for "My One and Only."

Additional sponsors for the performances of "My One and Only" include the Edward Chase Garvey Memorial Foundation, Wayne and Patti Withers, Marion and Van Black and Tacony.

Prices for single tickets range between $15 to $55 at the 376-seat Robert G. Reim Theatre, located at the Kirkwood Civic Center 111 South Geyer Road in St. Louis. If interested in purchasing tickets or inquiring further about the performance, call (314) 821-2407 or visit STAGES website at http://stagesstlouis. org.

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The Arts Arts calendar Thursday, Sept. 6 Brighton Beach Memoirs, Rep St. Louis: Loretto-Hilton Center, Webster Groves, 8:00 p.m.

A Room Divided, The Eugene Field House & Toy Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Laleh Khorramian: Water Panics in the Sea, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through October 21.

Urban Wanderers Exhibit, St. Louis University Museum of Art, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Runs through Sept. 16.

Art by Children of Artists, The Sheldon AT&T Gallery of Children's Art, St. Louis, noon to 5:00 p.m., Runs through Sept. 22.

Tr a n s p a r e n t R e f l e c t i o n s , E d w a r d s v i l l e A r t s C e n t e r, Edwardsville, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Runs through Sept. 28.

Friday, Sept. 7 St. Louis Art Fair, Downtown

Business District, Clayton, 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Opening Reception-Leslie Hewitt: Sudden Glare of the Sun, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

G o o d b y e , R u b y Tu e s d a y, Kranzberg Arts Center, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

My One and Only, Stages-Robert G. Reim Theatre, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

Opening Reception-Joan Hall: Marginal Waters, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Tr a n s p a r e n t R e f l e c t i o n s , E d w a r d s v i l l e A r t s C e n t e r, Edwardsville, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Runs through Sept. 28.

Brighton Beach Memoirs, Rep St. Louis: Loretto-Hilton Center, Webster Groves, 8:00 p.m., Runs through Sept. 30.

A Room Divided, The Eugene Field House & Toy Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Contemporary Artists Respond to Art History, Edwardsville Arts

Center, Edwardsville, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Urban Wanderers Exhibit, St. Louis University Museum of Art, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Runs through Sept. 16.

Art by Children of Artists, The Sheldon AT&T Gallery of Children's Art, St. Louis, noon to 5:00 p.m., Runs through Sept. 22.

Laleh Khorramian: Water Panics in the Sea, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs through October 21.

My One and Only, Stages-Robert G. Reim Theatre, St. Louis, 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.

Joan Hall: Marginal Waters, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m.

to 5:00 p.m., Runs through Oct. 13.

Tr a n s p a r e n t R e f l e c t i o n s , E d w a r d s v i l l e A r t s C e n t e r, Edwardsville, 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Runs through Sept. 28.

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G o o d b y e , R u b y Tu e s d a y, Kranzberg Arts Center, St. Louis, 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.

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The Arts Artistic adventures Focus on the Collection exhibition celebrates Italian printers The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the exhibition of 16th and 17th century etchings and engravings in Drawn in Copper: Italian Prints in the Age of Barocci, opening September 14.

This Focus on the Collection exhibition draws from the Museum’s more than 14,000 works on paper to explore prints made by Italian painters turned printmakers. Presenting engravings, known for their precision, and etchings, celebrated for their spontaneous line quality, this exhibition provides a condensed introduction to the state of Italian art in a moment of rich development in technique, style, and subject matter.

It also serves as a complement to the special exhibition Federico Barocci: Renaissance Master, which includes paintings and drawings as well as all of Barocci’s prints.

Drawn in Copper presents eleven works by as many artists who were all predecessors, contemporaries or successors of Federico Barocci and who were active in cities across Italy.

Included are Agostino Carracci and Camillo Procaccini, who worked in Bologna, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione from Genoa, Pietro Testa, who worked in Rome, as well as the Bolognese Antonio Fantuzzi, who worked in France. The painter-etchers of this era, Barocci famously among them, exploited print media as a means of spreading and popularizing their work. They also often depicted new subjects in a time of tumult, upheaval and refinement of doctrine in the Catholic Church.

Curated by Elizabeth Wyckoff, curator of prints, drawings, and photographs, the exhibition offers an introduction to the astonishing advancements made by printmakers of the era and to the relationship between prints and painted works.

Drawn in Copper: Italian Prints in the Age of Barocci will be on view from September 14, 2012 through January 13, 2013 in Gallery 321.

Works on paper may also be viewed by appointment in the Study Room for

Prints, Drawings, and Photographs on the fourth floor of the Cass Gilbert building. Call 314.655.5402 or email paper@slam.org for an appointment or more information.

For more information on Drawn in Copper: Italian Prints in the Age of Barocci or Federico Barocci: Renaissance Master, on special exhibit from October 21, 2012 to January 20, 2013, visit slam.org.

Peabody to host Primus in 3D Primus is excited to announce a unique 3D tour this fall, featuring two sets per evening. Primus comes to Peabody Opera House on October 28th. Tickets are on sale now.

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Touhill enteres 10th season In its tenth season, the Touhill showcases nearly 250 performances a year on the two stages of the performing arts center, representing genres from the entire spectrum of performing arts.

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The author tests LaBamba's claim to see if its burritos really are as big as someone's head.

You Gotta' Eat

LaBamba claims "burritos as big as your head"

By BILL ROSEBERRY Of The Edge

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his edition of “You Gotta Eat” may have me more fired up over any others I’ve ever done.

On a recent trip to Decatur to play in a state softball tournament, myself and a couple of my teammates made a detour through Springfield so I could visit one of my all-time favorite eating spots – Labamba’s. With an advertising slogan of “burritos as big as your head,” Labamba’s is a glutinous paradise of Mexican delicacies.

With 18 locations spread throughout the Midwest in Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, Labamba’s is a deviation from my normal disdain for chain food restaurants.

Normally I prefer a family-owned, one-of-a-kind establishment where the food is unique and doesn’t come off of an assembly line. Labamba’s doesn’t convey that feeling though. It has the atmosphere of a homey, mom-and-pop restaurant and the authentic Mexican cuisine is fresh and created in front of you.

Labamba’s boasts not having a freezer in their kitchen, offering fresh ingredients every day and it shows.

Currently there are seven locations in Illinois, mainly found near college campuses. Illinois locations include: Bloomington, Normal, Champaign, Peoria, Springfield and two in Chicago.

My first Labamba’s experience came at the now defunct location in Charleston near Eastern Illinois University when I was 21 years old. Since then I’ve visited Bloomington, Normal, Champaign and Springfield to fulfill my fix for only one item on the Labamba’s menu — the super burrito.

The menu consists of tacos, quesadillas, a series of highly recommended nacho selections by some friends and tortas –Mexican sandwiches served on a Bolillo, a soft Mexican roll

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– but on each of my visit’s I’ve stayed loyal to Labamba’s allstar, the super burrito. There are also mini and regular burritos on the menu but neither holds a candle to the super.

Since the human head weighs approximately eight pounds, the legendary tagline of “burritos as big as your head” is slightly exaggerated. This is illustrated nicely by the picture of a burrito by my giant melon that accompanies this story. While the super burrito may not be as big as my head, the girth of the rotund treat is easily as large as my forearm.

I visited the Springfield location with two of my softball teammates, Rob and Woody. Rob was a Labamba’s rookie and Woody and I persuaded him to go with the super burrito, which was definitely going to be our selection. Rob quickly commended us on our recommendation and became a Labamba’s fan.

He tried the beef burrito. Other choices for meats include: sausage, steak, barbecue chicken and a steak and pork combo.

Patrons can also get a combination of avocado and beans for the vegetarian selection.

I ordered the barbecue chicken on my burrito, as did Woody, which is marinated in Labamba’s special sauce. The shredded chicken was accompanied with my choice of black beans, lettuce, tomatoes, onion and shredded cheese and served inside a crispy and fresh tortilla. To top things off I asked for Labamba’s hot sauce to drizzle on to give it that extra kick.

The first bite reminded me why I crave these Mexican masterpieces. The ingredients are so fresh and moist and they explode inside your mouth. While the moistness of the ingredients are matched by nothing I’ve ever encountered in a burrito anywhere else, the tortilla never gets soggy and contains the ingredients. Sure some of it falls onto the plate, but overall it holds up really well.

It is by far the best burrito I’ve ever eaten.

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Cost is very affordable at Labamba’s, too. A super burrito costs $8 or $9 and because of its size and is more than enough to comprise an entire meal for most visitors. With a drink a person will spend just over $10 for their meal.

Labamba’s website, www.labambaburritos.com, discusses another tradition of the restaurant on its FAQ page, the always Spanish speaking employees. Labamba’s tackles the issue by stating, “While our hiring door is open to all qualified persons, we truly are an authentic Mexican restaurant and we hire authentic Mexican chefs. We do encourage our employees to improve their English so they can communicate with our customers. We make every attempt to have at least one employee fluent in English on duty at all times.”

While the communication with the workers can prove difficult at times, I can’t argue with Labamba’s philosophy.

Keeping a Mexican atmosphere adds to the experience of the visit and keeps the creation of the food authentic and delicious.

The entire environment — the comfortable and relaxing ambiance, the quality of the food, and the authentic workers — is what makes Labamba’s one of my favorite spots.

Dating back to that initial visit in Charleston, my zest for Labamba’s super burrito must have been endorsed by every expression on my face and movement in my body. As I accepted my first ever super burrito from the portly Mexican chef and ogled at its mammoth size, he promptly eyed my excitement and announced to his fellow workers “dos burritos” as he lifted two fingers in the air. His fellow cooks all looked at me and roared with laughter. It meant they thought I would be coming back for a second super burrito.

Well, I’ll go a little further, how about “una infinidad de burritos.” That translates into an infinity of burritos, because when you gotta eat, I can't think of anything more perfect to have on hand than a Labamba’s super burrito.

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Lawn & Home Care

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Home Improvements

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Air Conditioning/ Heating 976

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Masonry & Concrete

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Electrical

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Sewing/ Alterations

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Help Wanted General

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Carpenters & Project Manager.

Minimum 20 years experience in all phases of residential remodeling. Call 618-254-1882.

Cleaning service taking applications: Full time & Part time day hours Apply @ www.bandrcleaningllc.com First Student is hiring part-time bus drivers for District 7 in Edwardsville, IL. $10.80 per hour and up based upon experience. Training provided. Must be able to pass drug test, background check and have clean driving record. Apply in person at: 17 Commercial Court Glen Carbon, IL 62034 PH. 618-692-4290 Janitorial $9 /hr AFTER 5PM Edwardsville M-F 12.5 hours pr wk Must have Drv’s Lic Auto & Clean Police Rec 618-277-7606 OTR Drivers Wanted!

Health insurance after 90 days plus other benefits. Starting pay based on experience. 217536-9101 or 800-842-0195 Part-time Position Available This is a general labor position working in our newspaper’s post production operation.

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Merchandise

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Music

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Misc.

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American Girl doll collection: Retired/Historic Character/Girls of the Year. Great condition, prices vary.

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618-917-3003.

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Painted Siding $.57/lb.

Scrap Alum $.52-.75/lb Alum Cans $.55/lb.

Clean Alum Wheels $.74/lb.

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2 bedroom 1.5 bath $850 deposit/$850 rent. 714 North Kansas St., Edwardsville. 618409-4925 / 618-616-1124.

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Residential & Commercial Properties for Rent: Office & retail space, apartments, duplexes, homes.

Meyer & Assoc. 656-1824 Property Management Services Available. www.meyerproperties.com

3 Bd 1.5 Bt 2000sf close to dwntwn, possible commercial prop- Apts/Duplexes erty for professionals, off strt 710 prkng, all hrdwd floors refur- For Rent nished, AC, frplc, w/d, frig, stove, microwave, dshwhsr incl, 2 BR TH 1.5 BA, very clean. full unfnsd bsmt. $1350/mo 15min to St. L & SIUE $660 incl w/s/t. Washer & Dryer in unit. $1000/dep. 314-574-3858.

On-site mgr/maint, no pets, no 3 BD, 1.5 BA, large master smoking. 618.931.4700 bdrm. Edw. 2-story: Newly www.fairway-estates.net remodeled. New carpet, wood 1 & 2 bedroom apartments, & 1 floors, w/d hk-up off-strt prkng, $945/mo. Call/text 618/304- small house, w/1 bedroom.

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Sec. 8 not qualified $750/mth 1 BDRM Apartment, W/D $1125 sec. dep. 711 Lake Ave, hookup. Non-smoking, no pets.

Water furnished. $575 per Collinsville. 618-670-5137 month plus deposit. 656-9204 (see virtual tour on youtube: or cell: 444-1004 estate vesting channel) 1 Bdrm Apt $425 at Maryville 3 BR 1.5 BTH fully renovated, 1 W/S/T included, car garage, near dowtown Edw. near public transportation Grandview Sub. New applncs, 618-514-0057 fans, full unf. bsmnt $975/mo + dep. No smoking. 288-3828 1 BEDROOM $500 apartments, 300 S. Main, Edw., Water, sewer, trash paid., coin w/d, 1 yr lease. No pets. Leave mesApts, Duplexes, & Homes sage @656-0923.

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Apts/Duplexes For Rent

Office Space For Rent

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RENTALS!

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Available Now! 2 & 3 bed- For Sale/Lease 1100 sq ft office rooms. Ask about our specials. space. Handicap accessibility.

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CA, off-street parking, Washer & dryer included. No pets/smok- Office space for lease at IL 157 ing, near SIUE $825 per month. and Center Grove Road, up to 2 Bdrm, all new interior, 618-975-0670.

3200sf, $2300/mth. 656-1824 Maryville. 1 level, water, sewer, meyerproperties.com FURNISHED efficiency in trash incld. No pets, no smokLeclaire. Dish TV, internet, noning. Agent owned. $620/mo. smoking male with references.

Call & lve msge 618-977-7657. $520/mo includes all utilities.

2 Bedroom 1.5 bath TH, Edw.; 972-0948.

Washer/Dryer incld $750/mo HAMEL: Without $650 Homes 2 Bedroom Duplex , No pets, Appl. fee required washer/dryer hookup.

For Sale 805 dandiproperties.com No steps, very quiet!

618-520-2813 618-791-9062.

Hire Your Own Agent! Con2 Bedroom townhome on quiet sultant-level realty services, Move in Special Edwardsville street. All appliexclusively for buyers! 20 1st Month 1/2 off ances. No pets. $650 per 2 BR, 1 Bath Glen Carbon years, 3000 buyers and not a month. Deposit required. ReferHome Buyers QUAIL HOLLOW, w/d hook-ups, single seller. ences. 656-2189 Relocation Services, Paul and $675 (618)346-7878 Merrill Ottwein. 656-5588 2 Bedroom upstairs apartment, www.osbornproperties.com www.EdwardsvilleHomes.com 1,000 sq. ft., close to downtown Peaceful 2BR apt. on 2 park-like Edwardsville. All appliances acres. Washer/dryer, garbage House & 10 acres, 6rms 1bth, included $800 per month, disposal and W/T/S incl. No bsmt, city water, septic sys, LP deposit. 314-574-3858. dogs, non-smoking $650/mo. gas, CA. New roof 2011, 2 car 2 BR LOFT, newly remodeled: plus Sec. Deposit 656-8581. detchd gar, large barn, 100amp DW, micro, stove, frig, garbge elec. 5660 Old Alton-Edw Rd. 2 disp, w/d hkup. New kit/ba/wi/dr miles from dwntwn Edw. $715 incl wt/sw/tr 618/593-0173 Roommates 712 $199,500. Call (618)219-2595

PRIMARY CARE RN PHYSICAL THERAPIST Alton Location Competitive Compensation, Generous 401(k) Retirement Plan, Comprehensive Medical/Dental/Vision Package.

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Offering for Sale Gold and Silver Coins & Bullion, collectable coins 155 N. Duncan in Marine

Positive, caring, and reliable individuals needed to drive public transit bus and assist passengers with questions regarding fares, transfers, route information and other aspects of customer service. Assignments include weekends, split shifts, and evenings. All start part time at $15.60/hr. Desire and ability to work with all kinds of people a must. Solid work experience and clean driving record required. Must be able to pass USDOT physical and drug test, obtain IL CDL B license with air brakes and passenger endorsements required. EOE

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SUN RIDGE ESTATES Just past Fruit Rd, Edwardsville 2+ Acre Lots Call for special prices 618/792-9050 or 618/781-5934

Responsible for performing preventative maintenance and minor repair of all gasoline and diesel systems associated with the safe and efficient operation of motor vehicle fleet. Duties include, but are not limited to: oil and filter changes, lubrication, tire inflation, and minor electrical repair.

High School graduation or GED required. Some mechanical or specialized training and experience using Microsoft applications preferred. Must be able to obtain an Illinois CDL license (Class B) with air brake endorsement and pass D.O.T physical exam and drug screen.

Full-time evening position with benefits.

EEO Drug Free Work Environment

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Lots For Sale

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1 excellent 3BR, 1200 sq.ft. TH: Collinsville, near 157/70; 12 min. to SIUE, FP, DW, W/D, ceiling fans, cable, sound walls, offst. prkng. Sm pets OK, yr. lse. $780/mo. 618/345-9610 give AM/PM phone.

2 BR, 1.5 BA, Edw./Glen Cbn., near SIU: W/D hookups, off-st. Share house with 3 male perpkng. $710 up to $745. 692- sons. Smoking environment.

6366. HSI Management Group $325/mth plus deposit, utilities 3 Bdrm 2 Bth townhome, 2 car paid. 656-0498. garage. Very Clean!! All appliances, wshr/dryr & yard mainte- Commercial Space www.glsrent.com 656-2230 1 Bedroom loft apartment, Also nance incld. 723 Slippery Rock, 720 1 bedroom duplex. Clean and Edw. $1250/mo. 618-514-6001. For Rent Big house,Glen Carbon 1800sf: well maintained.

CREDIT 3Bdr 2Bth, LR, 2 car gar,bsmt, CHECK. No pets, no smoking 3/4 Bedroom Duplex $900mthly Barber/Beauty salon space, W/D hookup. Big fenced back$585mth. $585dep. 656-8953. Water, trash, washer, dryer close to downtown. Available yard $1200/mo 314-971-5766. included. 704 Harvard Drive, August 1st. 314-574-3858.

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54 LUCINDA DRIVE GLEN CARBON FRIDAY SEPT. 7th 7:00AM-??

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1324 FRANKLIN, EDWARDSVILLE FRIDAY—8A.M.-7P.M. SATURDAY—8A.M.-3P.M. Exercise Equipment, Lawn Furniture, Portable Hammock, Poker Table, Floor Jack, Singer Sewing Machine, Lamps, Dog Beds/Etc., Housewares/Household, Kitchen Items, More!

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COLLINSVILLE - QUIET COUNTRY FEEL BUT QUICK COMMUTE TO ST. LOUIS. 3BR/2BA ranch w/wooded lot on a lake. Spacious, updated kitchen & hardwood floors in the bedrooms. Partial lookout basement & 2 car garage. $158,000

26 WATERFORD, GLEN CARBON ALL BRICK HOME ON 1/2 ACRE WOOD-LINED LOT. 5BR/ 4BA. 6” exterior walls w/R28 insulation, pella encasement windows w/slim shades & special R4 cooling. Oversized 2 car garage. All brick fireplace heats whole house w/1100 CFM thermostat control. $249,500

CALL SUSAN LANDING, MANAGING BROKER (618) 779-7777

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EDWARDSVILLE-4 BR HOME IN EXCLUSIVE DUNLAP LAKE! Full lake privileges. Lots of extras. Finished walkout LL. Adjoining the kitchen is a spacious family room w/cozy fireplace. $529,000

8749 TRIO LANE, EDWARDSVILLE 15 ACRES LOCATED IN EDWARDSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT. With historic barn, outbuildings, pond & creek. $225,000

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RUMMAGE SALE St. John Church 307 West Clay Collinsville THURSDAY September 6th from 5:00PM-7:00PM FRIDAY September 7th from 9:00AM-1:00PM

Sept. 6, 2012

GLEN CARBON - OUTSTANDING FUNCTION COMBINED W/ELEGANT DESIGN in this 5BR/4BA home. Dramatic 2 story great; gorgeous kitchen w/cherry cabinets & stainless steel appliances; laundry upstairs near the bedrooms & many other fine features. $437,500

CALL LINDA RAYHO (618) 779-2980

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LAKEFRONT HOME on Dunlap Lake!

1.5 story, 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2 fireplaces, & 2 wet bars. $429,900 Edwardsville PR100543 MICHELLE HEINLEIN (618) 781-2322

CUSTOM with open floor plan on 1.87 +/- acres. Fabulous kitchen, master suite, finished LL. $339,900 Edwardsville PR100545 LINDA BEUTEL (618) 779-3225

SPACIOUS RANCH on 2+/- acres, lake privileges, finished walkout, & 2 car garage. $179,900 Edwardsville PR100539 DAVE GIPSON (618) 344-0739

6807 HAMPSHIRE CT., MARYVILE LOADED WITH UPGRADES! Hardwood floors, stainless, granite, bay window, fireplace & finished LL. $179,000 Maryville PR100537 BARB WYATT YUST (618) 407-3238

SITTING ON 2 LOTS on a dead end street, this home is in need of TLC. Great potential! $136,500 Glen Carbon PR100540 SANDIE LAMANTIA (618) 978-2384

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

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

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

74 Sunset Hills Drive, Edwardsville $369,900 OPEN SUN. 1-3 PM KAREN MENENDEZ (618) 781-0546

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401 Valley View Drive, Edwardsville $285,900 OPEN SUN. 1-3 PM KAREN CURRIER (618) 616-6891

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13 Eagle Court, Edwardsville $269,000 OPEN SUN. 1-3 PM GEORGE KEY (618) 581-4323

111 Michelle Drive, Glen Carbon $239,000 OPEN SUN. 1-3 PM BETTY TREAT (618) 830-3952

6560 Athena Drive, Glen Carbon $219,900 OPEN SUN. 1-3 PM BRENDA HOLSHOUSER (618) 789-2742

105 Oaklawn, Glen Carbon $209,900 OPEN SUN. 1-3 PM JUDINE LUX (618) 531-0488

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917 CHANCELLOR DR., EDWARDSVILLE LOCATED IN ESIC! 3BR, large fenced-in backyard and access to bike trail!

Conveniently located to YMCA, schools & shopping. $170,000 Edwardsville PR9979 KARA BEYERS (618) 978-4072

160 JESSICA DRIVE, ST. JACOB HOUSE OF THREES 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, spacious floor plan, privacy fence, close to SAFB. $125,000 St. Jacob PR100214 JUDY CONNOLLY (618) 830-9899

EXPECT TO BE IMPRESSED! 1.5 story w/4 bedrooms, 4 baths, 1 +/- acre, and beautiful landscaping! $459,500 Edwardsville PR100356

COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITY! 1 +/- acre parcel at Rt. 162 & 157.

Easy access to interstate. $324,900 Glen Carbon PR100364

CUSTOM 1.5 STORY w/4BR, 4BA, & finished walkout LL. Main floor master suite w/walk-in closet. $244,500 Glen Carbon PR100474

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SECLUDED WOODED LOT and lovely ranch with 4 bedrooms & finished basement in Edwardsville. $199,000 Edwardsville PR100388

5+ BEDROOM 3 bath, over 4,000 sq. ft. Exceptional wooded cul-de-sac lot. $185,900 Glen Carbon PR100285

VAVAVOOM VILLA! 3 bedrooms, 3 full baths, open floor plan, stainless appliances. $179,000 Edwardsville PR100350

ALL BRICK 3BDR with large back yard, family room on main & lower levels. $158,500 Glen Carbon PR9810

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418 Springer, Edwardsville $129,900 OPEN SUN. 1-3 PM CHRIS MILLER (618) 580-6133

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HIGHLY VISIBLE commercial lot with great highway access. $850,000 Glen Carbon PR9528

BEAUTIFULLY RENOVATED 2 story with focus on amazing Chef’s kitchen. $285,000 Edwardsville PR100042

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Open Sunday 1:00 - 3:00 Hosting Agent: Carrie Brase 2 Sugar Creek Ln., Edwardsville $629,900 Beautiful remodeled 4BR ranch on 1.5 acres.

Open Sunday 1:00 - 3:00 Hosting Agent: Cindy Driesner 1211 S. Oxfordshire Ln., Edw. $465,000 Sophistication & Style in Stonebridge 3BR/4BA.

Open Sunday 2:30 - 4:30 Hosting Agent: Janet Urbanek 134 Barnett, Edwardsville $450,000 Spacious 5BR on Dunlap Lake, 1.4 acres +/-.

Open Sunday 1:00 - 3:00 Hosting Agent: Alex Steiger 28 Lakewood Dr., Glen Carbon $439,500 4BR/3BA all brick pristine remodeled home!

Open Sunday 1:00 - 3:00 Hosting Agent: Carrie Caton 9 Lakeview, Brighton $375,000

Open Sunday 12:00 - 2:00 Hosting Agent: Janet Urbanek 303 Thomas Terrace, Edwardsville $355,000 5BR/3BA lake front home w/open floor plan.

Open Sunday 1:00 - 3:00 Hosting Agent: Linda Shaffer 8926 Wheat Dr., Troy $289,900 4BR/3BA new construction home!

Open Sunday 1:00 - 3:00 Hosting Agent: Marilyn Tebbe 135 Sunray Dr., Highland $159,900 4 bedroom, 3 bath, new price!

Open Sunday 1:00 - 3:00 Hosting Agent: Sharon Joiner 739 Hillsboro, Edwardsville $135,000 3BR/1.5 BA home in Edwardsville.

Open Sunday 1:00 - 3:00 Hosting Agent: Stan Groppel 25 Glen Ridge Dr., Glen Carbon $134,900 3BR/2BA 1 story on cul-de-sac in Jo Ida Subdv.

FEATURED LISTINGS

230 N. Kansas, Edwardsville Historic Edwardsville home with charm & character! $498,000

10 Steinmeyer Woods, Edwardsville Impressive architecture & style!

3 bedroom walkout! $460,000

113 Fox HIll Ct., Edwardsville Beautiful golf course view, new construction. $439,900

585 East Lake Dr., Edwardsville Gorgeous lakefront 4BR/4BA home! $350,000

981 Holiday Point, Edwardsville 3BR/2BA lakefront stunner! $325,000

8721 Wildewood, Worden Lakefront 4BR/3BA with updates & walk-out. $285,000

5 Kensington Ct., Edwardsville Spacious 1.5 story 3BR/3BA on cul-de-sac. $269,900

8739 Wendell Creek, St. Jacob Attractive new construction!

Open plan & finished LL. $255,000

5729 Old Alton/Edwardsville Rd., Edw. Historic 3BR/2BA on 5+ acres. $250,000

819 Willoway, East Alton Large all brick 3BR/2BA home! $179,900

810 Valley, East Alton This beautiful home is larger than it looks! $144,900

2101 Manley Ave., Granite City All brick 3 bedroom with finished basement. $129,900

5129 Stacey Dr., Granite City 4BR/3BA bi-level with walkout patio. $127,900

911 Vine, Collinsville 3BR/2BA bi-level with large backyard! $125,000

1899 Ness School Rd., Bunker Hill 2.2 acre 2BR/2BA, city water, clean. $124,000

518 Jefferson, Edwardsville 2BR/1.5 BA with a fenced yard. $119,900

233 Commercial St., Edwardsville Charming updated 2BR/2BA move-in ready! $115,900

904 Holyoake, Edwardsville 3BR/1BA updated older home. $112,900

32 Sunset, Glen Carbon Updated 2BR/1BA, move-in ready! $100,000

2259 Woodlawn, Granite City 2BR full brick on tree lined street! $99,900

3037 Ash, Granite City Completely remodeled 3BR/2BA, move-in ready. $84,900

2995 Madison Ave. C, Granite City COMMERCIAL: 200 SF high traffic, good parking, multi-business. $79,000

2336 E. 24th St., Granite City Bargain home needs interior TLC. $12,900

xxx Fairmont Ave., Collinsville 23.25 acres +/close to major highways. $1,100,000 5729 Old Alton Edw. Rd., Edw. Beautiful 12 +/- acres. Rolling tree-lined. $200,000 xxx Libra Rd, New Douglas Quiet, wooded 9 acres.

Close to interstate. $77,400

Lots & Acreage

11 Abner, Edwardsville 3BR/1BA great investment opportunity. $74,000

1140 E. Leonard, Staunton Completely redone 2BR on corner lot. $68,000

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

BROWN REALTORS® Independently Owned and Operated

2771 Rt. 66 Business Park, Edw. All masonry building located off I-270. $595,000

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1922 Edwardsville Club Plaza, Edw. Class A office space available. Convenient to Country Club. $18/sq.ft. gross lease available.

4009822 $560,000

216 Buchanan S., Edwardsville 4000 Sq. Ft. retail/office space downtown.

Ideal for a Law firm/professional office. $540,000

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September 6, 2012

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2731 Rt. 66 Business Park, Edw. Prime commercial lot off of I-270.

0.78 acres. $180,000

EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

Lake James Acres, Edwardsville 32 fully developed lots with utilities in place.

4014788 $1,075,000

www.brownrealtors.com On the Edge of the Weekend

xxx E. Ingle Dr., Glen Carbon 6.2 acres level and sloping! $155,000 1890 Fountainbleu Dr., Worden Two lots being sold as one. $27,500 912 Vera Cruz Ct., Edwardsville Very nice large lot on the lake. $149,900

State Rt. 111, Wood River 10 Commercial Lots for sale in excellent location within a TIF district. $367,149