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"An American in Paris" at the Fox page 14

You Gotta Eat page 19

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Friday December 23_____

Christmas at Union Station.

4 Missouri's parks Passports available to visitors.

11 "La La Land" A film worthy of its hype.

12 Welcome 2017

Quad Cities set for the new year.

13 New at CAM

The works of Nicola Tyson.

14 At The Fox

"An American in Paris" scheduled.

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K&S Hawaiian BBQ in Springfield.

• El Monstero – The Definitive Pink Floyd Experience, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• Josh Mannis, The Motel Brothers, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• Road to Pointfest 2017 S:2 Rd:1, Pop's, Sauget, St. Louis, Doors 6:30 p.m.

• Tear Out The Heart, The Ready Room, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• The Nutcracker presented

by Saint Louis Ballet, Touhill Performing Arts Center, St. Louis, 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

• A Christmas Carol, LorettoHilton Center for Performing Arts, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs until December, 24, 2016 • Kramer Marionette TheatreL The Night the Toys Came to Life, Kramer Mariennette Theatre, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., Runs until December 31, 2016 • 2016 IPHF Hall of Fame Exhibition, International Photography Hall of Fame Exhibition, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until February 4, 2017 • TOYS of the 50's, 60's and 70's, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until January 22, 2017 • Love Jones- The Musical, Fabulous Fox Theater, St. Louis, 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

• The Specialist, Holocaust Museum & Learning Center Theater,

St. Louis, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

• 2016 IPHF Hall of Fame Exhibition, Internation Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until February 4, 2017 • Beauty and the Beast, Touhill Performing Arts Center, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

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

• Textiles: Politics and Patriotism, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 5, 2017 • Conficts of Interest: Art and War in Modern Japan, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until January 8, 2017 • New Media Series: Dara Birnbaum, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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

• Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until July 16, 2017 • Self-Taught Genius: Treasures f rom the A mer ican Folk A r t Museum, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Saturday December 24_____ • A Christmas Carol, LorettoHilton Center for Performing Arts, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.,

Runs until December, 24, 2016 Kramer Marionette TheatreL The Night the Toys Came to Life, Kramer Mariennette Theatre, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., Runs until December 31, 2016 • 2016 IPHF Hall of Fame Exhibition, International Photography Hall of Fame Exhibition, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until February 4, 2017 • TOYS of the 50's, 60's and 70's, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until January 22, 2017 • Love Jones- The Musical, Fabulous Fox Theater, St. Louis, 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

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

• 2016 IPHF Hall of Fame Exhibition, Internation Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until February 4, 2017 • Beauty and the Beast, Touhill Performing Arts Center, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

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

Textiles: Politics and Patriotism, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 5, 2017 • Conficts of Interest: Art and War in Modern Japan, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until January 8, 2017

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All aboard for Christmas Fourteen new attractions and experiences will make Holidays at Union Station the biggest holiday hot spot in St. Louis.

The Santa Express Train Ride is the centerpiece of this expanded holiday event. Real trains pull out of St. Louis Union Station - the 1894 National Historic Landmark terminal through December 30, 2016.

Trains will leave the station at 4:45, 6:15, 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays.

Magical and castle-like St. Louis Union Station will stand in for The North Pole throughout the holiday season with fun indoor and outdoor holiday activities for everyone. The station will be decorated with elaborate seasonal displays and twinkling with holiday decor designed to rival the biggest holiday celebrations in the nation. A new Fire & Light Show under the outdoor train shed will create a spectacular backdrop for family activities and photos.

Before and after the Santa Express train ride, visitors can enjoy the Glacier Park outdoor ice skating rink at Union Station. Next to the rink, guests can whoosh down an ice slide on a snow tube or do battle in a snowball fight arena. Inside St. Louis Union Station's North Pole Village, visitors can follow the smell of fresh gingerbread to Mrs. Claus' Kitchen where Christmas goodies will be available for purchase and train passengers will receive complimentary gingerbread cookies and hot chocolate.

Photos by Bill Tucker

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Missouri Division of Tourism

Above, the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. Below, Wilson's Creek National Battlefield.

A passport to Missouri's parks Program encourages visitors to see all six sites For The Edge In commemoration of the National P a r k S e r v i c e ’ s 1 0 0 t h a n n i v e r s a r y, t h e superintendents of Missouri’s six national parks announced a statewide initiative that encourages park-goers to “Find Your Park” and explore the Show-Me State.

The Missouri National Parks Passport Challenge kicks off today, and challenges the public to visit every national park in Missouri by December 31, 2017. Those who do so are eligible for rewards, including the Grand Slam Grand Prize.

“As we enter the next 100 years of the National Park Service, we wantto inspire visitors to explore the national parksnear us,” says Mike Ward, Superintendent, Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.

“From the gorgeous landscapes of Ozark National Scenic Riverways in southeastern Missouritothe siteof the first major Civil War battle west of the Mississippiat Wilson’s Creek, fromthe family home of Harry S Truman to the birthplace and childhood home of George Washington Carver,fromthe sprawling former plantation that was home to UlyssesS. Granttotwo of Downtown St. Louis’ most iconic landmarks...our state’s natural and historic treasures are well worth visiting.”

CHALLENGE DETAILS Pick up a free Show Me National Parks: A Passport for Missouribooklet at any of Missouri’s six national parks.

Each park has a stamping station located in its visitor center. (Be sure to check the park’s hours of operation before visiting.)

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Stamp your Passport on that park’s page.

After collecting stamps from your first three parks, have your Passport verified and signed at the park visitor center to receive your first prize: a Passport Challenge water bottle. After collecting stamps fromall six parks, haveranger verify andsign your Passport to receive your second prize: a

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Prizes can be redeemed at any of the Missouri national park visitor centers.

Finally, make sure to register your Passport at www.MONationalParks.com/enterusing the unique code on the back of your bookletto be entered to win the Grand Slam Grand Prize: four tickets to a 2018 season

Kansas City or St. Louis home baseball game, plus a one-night hotel stay. The Grand Prize winner will be announced by Monday, January 8, 2018.

The six national parksin Missouri are: • Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis: This memorial includes the Gateway Arch and Old Courthouse, two iconic St. Louis landmarks.

• Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site, St. Louis: Thesite features White Haven,thehome of our 18thpresident • Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Ozark Highlands, Van Buren, Mo.: The first national park to protect a river system.

• Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield, Republic, Mo.: The site of the first major Civil War battle west of the Mississippi River.

• George Washington Carver National Monument, Diamond, Mo.: The site where young George Washington Carver grew up.

• Harry S Truman National Historic Site, Independence, Mo.: It includes Truman’s home, the family farm and more.

You can findout more about the parks, including fun facts,and full contest rules at www.MONationalParks.com.

The superintendents present at the announcement were: Mike Ward, Jefferson National Expansion Memorial; Tim Good, Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site; Ted Hillmer, Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; Carol Dage, Harry S Truman National Historic Site; Larry Johnson, Ozark National Scenic Riverways; and Jim Heaney, George Washington Carver National Monument.

People People planner Alton Brown to appear at The Fox

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

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

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

Critics and fans have raved about the interactive components of Brown’s shows.

He promises “plenty of new therapy inducing opportunities during our audience participation segments. I don’t want to give too much away, but this time we’re going to play a little game.”

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

“Alton Brown: EveryDayCook”, or EDC as Brown calls it, is a collection of more than 100 personal recipes as well as a pinch of science and history. He has hosted numerous series including “Cutthroat Kitchen,” “Camp Cutthroat” and “Iron Chef America” and created, produced and hosted the Peabody award winning series “Good Eats” for 13 years on Food Network; Good Eats can still be seen on the Cooking Channel and Netflix.

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

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

MoBOT announces upcoming schedule

The Missouri Botanical Garden has announced its schedule for the upcoming months.

• Member Speaker Series: History of the Climatron January 17, 2017 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Missouri Botanical Garden – Ridgway Visitor Center – Shoenberg Theater • Members Event: Orchid Show Preview February 3, 2017 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm Missouri Botanical Garden –

The National Children’s Cancer Society presents “An Evening with the Cardinals”

Ridgway Visitor Center – Orthwein Floral Display Hall • Member Speaker Series: All About Orchids February 4, 2017 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Missouri Botanical Garden – Ridgway Visitor Center – Shoenberg Theater The National Children’s • Orchid Show 2017 Cancer Society (NCCS) is thrilled February 4, 2017 - March 26, 2017 to announce the Fifth Annual 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Missouri Botanical Garden – “An Evening with the Cardinals” Ridgway Visitor Center – Orthwein on Saturday, January 21st, 2017 featuring Hall-of-Famers Lou Brock Floral Display Hall and Red Schoendienst along with • Orchid Nights Cardinals Hall of Fame broadcaster February 9, 2017 Mike Shannon. These baseball 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm legends and long-time friends will • Celebrate the Gospel Concert share behind-the-scenes stories and February 12, 2017 reminisce about their illustrious 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm careers. As in previous years, Dan • Missouri Botanical Garden McLaughlin of Fox Sports Midwest Trivia Night—Garden Style will serve as emcee and host a February 18, 2017 moderated question and answer 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm Missouri Botanical Garden – session.

The evening will also include Ridgway Visitor Center – Monsanto silent & live auctions featuring oneHall • Science and EarthWays Center of-a-kind memorabilia. A patron cocktail party and dinner will Open House February 25, 2017 - February 26, precede the event. All proceeds support the organization’s mission 2017 of providing emotional, financial 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm and educational support to children Metro St. Louis region with cancer, their families and • Orchid Show 2017 survivors.

February 4, 2017 - March 26, 2017 Since 1987, NCCS has distributed 9:00 am - 5:00 pm over $63 million to more than 40,000 Missouri Botanical Garden – Ridgway Visitor Center – Orthwein children with cancer. For more information on “An Evening with Floral Display Hall the Cardinals,” visit thenccs.org/ • Orchid Nights cardinals or contact Emily Hickner March 9, 2017 a t e h i c k n e r @ t h e N C C S . o rg o r 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm • Meet Me (Outdoors) in St. Louis 314.446.5226.

The National Children’s Cancer Garden Weekend!

Society, headquartered in St. April 1, 2017 - April 2, 2017 Louis, Missouri, is a not-for-profit 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Missouri Botanical Garden – Doris organization providing emotional, financial and educational support I. Schnuck Children's Garden to children with cancer, their • Chinese Culture Days families and survivors. For more April 22, 2017 - April 23, 2017 information call 314-241-1600 or 9:00 am - 5:00 pm visit thenccs.org or facebook.com/ Open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily The Missouri Botanical Garden is thenccs. located 4344 Shaw Blvd., St. Louis.

Regular hours – Open daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Free carriage rides will also be available following the fireworks from 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.

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Westport Plaza has two newly renovated Sheraton hotels and several on-site dining and entertainment options, including: Backstreet Jazz & Blues Club, Bradford's Pub, Dino's Deli, Drunken Fish, Funny Bone Comedy Club, Fuzzy's Taco Shop, Imo's Pizza, Jive & Wail, Kobe Japanese Steakhouse, McDonalds, Patr ick' s Westpor t G r ill, Paul M i n e o ' s Tr a t t o r i a , S t a r b u c k s , St. Louis Bread Company and TrainwreckSaloon.

the month of December. From a visit by Santa to New Year's Eve fireworks, Westport Plaza has something for every family this holiday season.

"Each holiday season, we look forward to providing events and attractions that make Westport Plaza a great, family-friendly destination.

Wi t h m u l t i p l e winter-themed offerings, visitors to Westport will have a memorable holiday experience," said Craig Cobler, Senior Vice President of Development for Lodging Hospitality Management.

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People People planner Saint Louis Zoo to host kids' film festival

The Saint Louis Zoo is hosting Big Eyes, Big Minds— an international film festival showcasing award-winning films made for kids, about kids and sometimes by kids. The St. Louis I n t e r n a t i o n a l C h i l d re n ’ s F i l m Festival features international a n i m a t e d s h o r t f i l m s t a i l o re d to children age 2 to 18 years.

However, adults will find the films equally appealing.

A n e x p e r i e n c e d w r i t e r, director and producer of television films, Festival Director Mab el G a n a l so p ro d u c e s t h e highly respected Singapore I n t e r n a t i o n a l C h i l d re n ’ s F i l m F e s t i v a l , w h i c h re a c h e s 3 , 0 0 0 children each year.

The St. Louis festival will showcase a selection of the best new children’s films from around the world. Its programs include culturally diverse and value-affirming films that kids can connect with. The goal is to expand perspectives and stimulate critical thinking. The organization also works to cultivate film appreciation, increase knowledge of the craft o f f i l m m a k i n g a n d p ro v i d e a platform for kids to screen their own films.

A f t e r e a c h s c re e n i n g , Z o o Education Department staff will offer a range of crafts and

activities related to the animals featured in the films.

Dates are Saturdays, Jan. 28, Feb. 4, Feb. 18 and Feb. 25, 2017 Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. — Screenings for ages 2 to 7 and 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. — Screenings for ages 5 and up Crafts and activities follow each set of screenings Films will be shown at the Anheuser-Busch Theater at Saint Louis Zoo in The Living World, One Government Drive Admission is $10 per person for ages 2 and up. Children under 2 are free.

Visitors Center: Puppet Show –Photo Area – Christmas Tree Display – Community Music Performances – Wreath Display & Silent Auction – Children’s Crafts – Story Time Guild Center: You won’t want to miss the Lego® Display, Lego® Maze, Lego® Photo Area and Lego® children’s playroom, presented by Electric Pros.

Family Night Tuesdays: Bring the family and receive discounts on activities.

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Union Station to host holiday extravaganza

The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate and Shrine staff invite you to the annual Way of Lights Christmas Display, November 18 to December 31, 2016 at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows in Belleville.

Outdoors: Over one million white lights are featured along a 1.5 mile route depicting the Journey to Bethlehem.

Camel, Donkey & Pony Rides – Petting Zoo – Kettle Corn – The Journey with live animals – S’Mores Fire Pit –Photo Area Carriage Rides by St. Louis Carriage Company. Reservations phone number: 314-621-3334 Rides are available: Sunday through Friday (No Saturdays)

The happiest season of the year is going to be bigger and better than ever at St. Louis Union Station.

This year 14 new attractions and experiences will make Holidays at Union Station the biggest holiday hot spot in the Midwest.

The Santa Express Train Ride is the centerpiece of this expanded holiday event. Real trains pull out of St. Louis Union Station - the 1894 National Historic Landmark terminal - beginning November 18 and continuing through December 30, 2016.

Trains will leave the station at 4:45, 6:15, 7:30 and 8:30 p.m.

Wednesdays through Sundays.

Hotel ticket packages for The Santa Express and Holidays at Union Station activities are on sale now.

Individual Santa Express tickets went on sale Tuesday, August 30 at 9 a.m.

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Magical and castle-like St. Louis Union Station will stand in for The North Pole throughout the holiday season with fun indoor and outdoor holiday activities for everyone. The station will be decorated with elaborate seasonal displays and twinkling with holiday decor designed to rival the biggest holiday celebrations in the nation. A new Fire & Light Show under the outdoor train shed will create a spectacular backdrop for family activities and photos.

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Inside St. Louis Union S t a t i o n ' s N o r t h P o l e Vi l l a g e , visitors can follow the smell of fresh gingerbread to Mrs. Claus' Kitchen where Christmas goodies will be available for purchase and train passengers will receive complimentary gingerbread cookies and hot chocolate.

Good girls and boys can enjoy a storybook time featuring cookies and milk with Mrs. Claus on Saturdays at 3, 5 and 7 p.m. throughout the season. They will leave the experience with a Mrs. Claus-autographed copy of Twas the Night Before Christmas.

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People People planner Zoo announces upcoming events

The Saint Louis Zoo has announced its schedule for the fall and winter.

For more information, visit www. stlzoo.org.

Dec. 1-4, 7-11, 14-23, & 26-30, 2016 U.S. Bank Wild Lights. 5:30-8:30 p.m. $7/members, $8/non-members Monday-Thursday $9/members, $10/non-members Friday-Sunday Children under 2 are free.

More info: (314) 646-4771 or stlzoo. org/wildlights.

Get a glimpse of the North Pole at the Saint Louis Zoo, where you can walk through an arctic wonderland of twinkling holiday light displays. Enjoy special menus, fireside storytelling, family activities and more. Sponsored

by U.S. Bank, Prairie Farms Dairy, and Build-A-Bear Workshop at the Zoo, with media support by 102.5 KEZK. Dec. 24, 2016 (Christmas Eve): Zoo open 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Dec. 25, 2016 (Christmas Day): Zoo is closed.

Dec. 27, 2016 Raja’s 24th Birthday. Celebration from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at River’s Edge, weather permitting. Raja the bull elephant turns 24. More info: (314) 7810900 or stlzoo.org.

Dec. 31, 2016 (New Year’s Eve): Zoo open 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Jan. 1, 2017 (New Year’s Day): Zoo is closed.

Museum celebrates Route 66 in St. Louis

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

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

Visitors will get their kicks learning about the motels, custard stands and tourist traps that could be found along the road as it passed through St. Louis. Route 66 through

St. Louis wound its way from the bridges through downtown streets and depending on the year, provided travelers with several options for navigating through the city to the county and west.

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

Route 66 opened on Nov. 11, 1926, as the major highway connecting Chicago and Los Angeles. Route 66 bore the hardships of the Great Depression, taking migrants west to find a new life. It carried military transports through World War II. At its height in the 1950s and '60s, tourists traveled its length to see the sights of the Southwest and California. Route 66 bore witness to the rise of the car culture. It helped create a fascination with drive-in theaters and drive-in restaurants, with

motels and cabin courts, with tourist shops and tourist traps.

By the 1970s, the interstate system offered a more efficient way to get around the country and rendered Route 66 obsolete. The Mother Road was officially decommissioned in 1985, with many of the states removing the shields before that.

Although Route 66 is long gone, relics of it still remain across St. Louis.

Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis serves as a vehicle to transport visitors back to a time when car travel was an adventure and mom-and-pop diners and motels ruled the road.

Admission is free.

The Missouri History Museum is located in Forest Park. For more information, visit www.mohistory.org.

Airshow to mark SAFB's 100th anniversary

Scott Air Force Base will celebrate its centennial anniversary in June of 2017. To commemorate this historic milestone, the base will host an open house and airshow featuring the U.S. Air Force's Thunderbirds, set for June 10-11, 2017.

The land today known as Scott

AFB was initially leased in June of 1917, and by September of that year, it was officially established as Scott Field. Scott AFB is the fourth oldest continuously active base in the U.S. Air Force, and the only Air Force base named in honor of an enlisted member, Corporal Frank S. Scott.

Scott Field originally served as a pilot training field during World War I and hosted a modified Curtiss JN-4 “Jenny” aircraft used as an air ambulance. By 1921, the mission at the field changed and Scott became a lighter-than-air station hosting balloons and dirigibles.

By 1937, the lighter-than-air era ended for the entire Army Air Corps and the War Department intended to move the General Headquarters Air Force from Langley Field, Virginia to Scott Field. America’s entry into World War II would change that plan.

The Army Chief of Staff changed Scott’s primary mission in 1939 making it a communications training location. Even after the birth of the U.S. Air Force in 1947, Scott AFB would continue as a communications training installation graduating over 150,000 communications operators and maintenance personnel by 1959.

By 1964, Scott became responsible

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G F o u r P ro d u c t i o n s , w i n n e r of 44 Tony Awards and 54 Drama Desk Awards, proudly brings the international hit show "Menopause The Musical" to the Playhouse @ Westport Plaza, 635 Westport Plaza, in St. Louis for weekly performances beginning Friday, January 6, 2017 and running through Sunday, February 12. Tickets are on sale now and available at the Playhouse @ Westport Plaza Box Office, online at playhouseatwestport.com, or by calling 314-534-1111. Greater d i s c o u n t s f o r g ro u p s o f 1 0 + available by calling 314-616-4455.

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Set in a department store, four women meet while shopping for a black lace bra at a lingerie sale. After noticing unmistakable similarities among one another, the cast jokes about their woeful hot flashes, mood swings, wrinkles, weight gain and much more. These women form a sisterhood and unique bond with the entire audience as they rejoice in celebrating that menopause is no longer “The Silent Passage.”

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

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"Rules Don't Apply"

Warren Beatty doesn't want us to regard "Rules Don't Apply," in which he stars as Howard Hughes, as a Howard Hughes film. It's actually a movie about late '50s Hollywood, he says, and the sexual puritanism of the era.

Indeed, Beatty doesn't appear for a long while in this muchawaited film, which he co-wrote, directed and starred in — perhaps partly to prove his point that he's not the main attraction. But come on — it's Warren Beatty, a legend who hasn't made a film for 15 years, playing America's most famous eccentric, controversial billionaire until ... well, until you know who. Of COURSE it's a Howard Hughes movie.

And that's not a bad thing, because whatever you think of the new film, Beatty at 79 retains much of that youthful charisma — he may have wrinkles, but the features are still boyish — that's made him a Hollywood fixture for more than a half-century, from "Splendor in the Grass" to "Bonnie and Clyde" to "Shampoo" to "Heaven Can Wait" to "Reds."

As for "Rules Don't Apply," it's many years — decades, actually — in the making, brings together a who's who list of on-and-offscreen talent, looks gorgeous — and still feels strangely uneven and tonally confusing. But if you can get over that, it's undeniably entertaining and at times, even quirkily mesmerizing.

RATED: PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America "for sexual material including brief strong language, thematic elements, and drug references."

RUNNING TIME: 126 minutes.

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

"Allied"

Deeply nostalgic moviemaking is rendered with digital precision in Robert Zemeckis' highly manicured World War II romance "Allied."

Zemeckis' control of his camera is absolute, if selfconsciously so. In "Allied," with Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard, he has resurrected the espionage thriller in all its classical glamour with a knowingness that's both impressively grand and stiffly hollow. The crisp period images of "Allied" never feel far removed from their storyboards. "Allied," despite its high-wattage stars, feels a bit like an R-rated "Tintin."

For Zemeckis, the director of "Back to the Future" and "Cast Away," the distance between animation and live-action is little to none, and beside the point, anyway. He has lately, with "The Walk," ''Flight" and now "Allied," been on a laudable mission to re-empower the big-screen drama with well-crafted, special effects-assisted spectacles that project human-sized stories onto widescreen canvases.

"Allied," big and sturdy, always fills the screen. But its gleaming surfaces are missing something underneath.

The film begins with a lone parachutist drifting as softly as a leaf onto the Moroccan desert in 1942. He is Max Vatan (Pitt), a Canadian spy working for the British, so handsomely outfitted that he could have fallen not from the sky but out of another firmament: "Lawrence of Arabia."

He's promptly picked up by his contact and handed a case full of guns, a wad of cash and — most lethal of all — a wedding ring. He rendezvous with a French agent in Casablanca, a location chosen as if to summon the spirits of old-fashioned cinema. From his first encounter in a nightclub with Marianne Beausejour (Cotillard), they are already in their roles. While secretly plotting to assassinate a Nazi official, they pose as a married couple.

Under Marianne's guidance, they go to great lengths to put up appearances.

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

RUNNING TIME: 124 minutes.

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

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"Miss Sloane"

There's never a hair out of place in "Miss Sloane ," a painstakingly slick political thriller from director John Madden about a brilliant lone wolf lobbyist consumed with the win. It's a wannabe Aaron Sorkin-meets-Shonda Rhimes glimpse into the hollow and cynical world of inside the beltway dealings from first-time screenwriter Jonathan Perera that's never quite snappy, insightful or salacious enough to be as fun or damning as it should be.

All the pieces are there, especially in the film's subject — the steely Elizabeth Sloane (Jessica Chastain), a pill-popping master manipulator who is always at the ready with a perfect quip, biblical verse or history lesson for the moment. She's the kind of do-it-all wonder woman who is just as comfortable working a room of scuzzy Washington insiders or pleading the fifth at an intimidating congressional hearing as she is directing a team of spooks to illegally surveil someone with a camera-equipped cockroach.

Elizabeth Slone's mantra is that lobbying is all about foresight and making sure you play your trump card after the other guys play theirs. Our first glimpse of her in action shows her willfully neglecting Senate ethics rules by arranging some luxury travel for a congressman and his family to try to sway him on a palm oil tax initiative. She's a mercenary who is out for the win at all costs, and she's the best at it.

But she also has principles, and leaves her top firm for the opposition when a powerful gun group asks her to devise messaging to turn women against universal background checks for gun ownership. Her cavalier dismissal of a massive new client for her firm enrages her boss, a scenery chewing Sam Waterston, and makes the audience a little more intrigued about why this woman does what she does.

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

Running time: 132 minutes.

ASSCOATED PRESS RANKING: Two stars out of four.

"Jackie"

History, lately run amok, is ordered with such tidy, forceful finesse by Natalie Portman's Jacqueline Kennedy in in the piercing "Jackie." Summoning a journalist to Hyannis Port in 1963, not long after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, she coolly sets the record for her late husband's legacy, coining "Camelot" and shaping the mythology. Some details that don't fit the narrative she simply crosses out. "I don't smoke," she tells the Life magazine reporter (Billy Crudup), with a cigarette dangling between her fingers.

Pablo Larrain's "Jackie," a work of probing intimacy and shattered stereotype, is an electrifyingly fractured portrait of the former First Lady. Gone is the image of the wan, serene Jackie. Here, instead, is a savvy public-relations operator, a steely widow in grief and a woman redefining herself amid tragedy. "I'm his wi--" she begins saying after Dallas.

"Whatever I am now."

The more complicated view of the mysterious Kennedy is inspired partly by the revelatory private interviews conducted

by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and released in 2011. She was not purely her pillbox-wearing public image, not merely a totem of grace, the candid tapes revealed.

Throughout "Jackie," we feel her discomfort at playing a starring role in an American fairy tale turned nightmare.

The disharmony, sounded by Mica Levi's knotted, gloomy score, is always there between persona and person. "We're the beautiful people, right?" she sarcastically quips. Exiting Air Force One, she deadpans to her husband (Caspar Phillipson), "I love crowds." In Larrain's hands, Kennedy's pained public performance is a kind of sacrifice. "Jackie" is at once a deconstruction of the Jackie Kennedy fable and a dramatization of its making.

RATED: R by the Motion Picture Association of America for "brief strong violence and some language."

RUNNING TIME: 100 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three stars out of four.

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"La La Land"

Musical lovers, take a bow. Your favorite art form is having quite the cultural moment.

On Broadway, of course, we've got the "Hamilton" phenomenon, making the stage musical feel more vital and relevant than it has in years. And we have popular live TV revivals like "Grease" and "Hairspray."

Now, in time for Christmas, there's the eye-popping, heartlifting "La La Land," which both honors and modernizes the screen musical to such joyful effect that you might find yourself pirouetting home from the multiplex.

OK, perhaps we exaggerate. "La La Land," created by the copiously talented writer/director Damien Chazelle and featuring the dream pairing of Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, is not for everyone.

Perhaps you don't like music, or singing, or dancing. Or romance, or love, or beautiful people falling in love. Or sunsets, or primary colors, or pastels. Or stories. Or, heck, the movies themselves. If you don't like any of those things, maybe stay home.

Otherwise, be prepared: By the end, something will surely have activated those tear ducts. The one complaint I overheard upon leaving the film was: "I didn't have enough Kleenex."

The first obvious gift of "La La Land" is its sheer originality.

Let's start with the music. Unlike in so many other films, nobody else's hits are used here. The affecting score is by Justin Hurwitz, with lyrics by Benji Pasek and Justin Paul (also getting kudos for Broadway's "Dear Evan Hansen.")

Our setting is Los Angeles, and so it begins — as it must — on a jammed freeway. But unlike Michael Douglas in "Falling Down," the drivers here simply brush off their frustrations, exit their cars, and break into song and dance.

This virtuoso number, "Another Day of Sun," which was filmed on a freeway interchange with some 100 dancers toiling in sizzling temperatures, establishes Chazelle's high-flying ambitions. It also tells us we'd darned well better be ready for people to break out into song — because that happens in musicals. And it introduces our main characters.

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

RUNNING TIME: 128 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Four stars out of four.

"Neruda"

Chilean director Pablo Larrain is on a hero's quest to destroy the conventional biopic it seems. He turned the postassassination days of Jacqueline Kennedy into an atmospheric examination of mythmaking and the public and private self in "Jackie," and in "Neruda ," the story of a poet on the run, into a thrilling meditation on authorship.

The stories of both Jackie Kennedy and Pablo Neruda are already compelling on their own, but Larrain manages to go beyond the specifics and get to their essence through powerfully and uniquely cinematic storytelling. Larrain is not interested in dramatizing a Wikipedia page, but getting to the truth in spite of the facts. In this way, even though he explains relatively little, he reveals quite a lot.

New York Times Book Review critic Selden Rodman said of Pablo Neruda that "no writer of world renown is perhaps so little known to North Americans." I certainly didn't know anything about the Chilean poet, and that fact is likely inextricably linked with my assessment and enjoyment of the film, but not to its artistic merits, of which there are many.

Neruda was and is that rarest of creatures — a popular poet of the people.

"This man would pull a piece of paper out of his pocket and 10,000 workers would go silent to hear him recite poetry," says one character in the film.

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

RUNNING TIME: 107 minutes.

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

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

"La La Land" something to sing about

By JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press Musical lovers, take a bow. Your favorite art form is having quite the cultural moment.

On Broadway, of course, we've got the "Hamilton" phenomenon, making the stage musical feel more vital and relevant than it has in years. And we have popular live TV revivals like "Grease" and "Hairspray."

Now, in time for Christmas, there's the eyepopping, heart-lifting "La La Land," which both honors and modernizes the screen musical to such joyful effect that you might find yourself pirouetting home from the multiplex.

OK, perhaps we exaggerate. "La La Land," created by the copiously talented writer/

director Damien Chazelle and featuring the dream pairing of Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, is not for everyone.

Perhaps you don't like music, or singing, or dancing. Or romance, or love, or beautiful people falling in love. Or sunsets, or primary colors, or pastels.

Or stories. Or, heck, the movies themselves.

If you don't like any of those things, maybe stay home.

Otherwise, be prepared: By the end, something will surely have activated those tear ducts. The one complaint I overheard upon leaving the film was: "I didn't have enough Kleenex."

The first obvious gift of "La La Land" is its sheer originality. Let's start with the music.

Unlike in so many other films, nobody else's

hits are used here. The affecting score is by Justin Hurwitz, with lyrics by Benji Pasek and Justin Paul (also getting kudos for Broadway's "Dear Evan Hansen.")

Our setting is Los Angeles, and so it begins — as it must — on a jammed freeway. But unlike Michael Douglas in "Falling Down," the drivers here simply brush off their frustrations, exit their cars, and break into song and dance.

This virtuoso number, "Another Day of Sun," which was filmed on a freeway interchange with some 100 dancers toiling in sizzling temperatures, establishes Chazelle's high-flying ambitions. It also tells us we'd darned well better be ready for people to break out into song — because that happens in musicals. And it introduces our main

characters.

Sebastian (Gosling) is a struggling jazz pianist, with stubborn dreams of opening his own club. Mia (Stone) is an aspiring actress, working as a barista while auditioning for TV parts. They clash on the freeway. She gives him the finger.

They have a second bad meeting at a piano bar. Finally they meet a third time, at a party.

Suddenly, they find themselves on a bench overlooking the Hollywood Hills at dusk. And then ... they dance.

Is it Astaire and Rogers (or Charisse)? Yes and no. Stone and Gosling are charming musical performers, but way less polished and ethereal than their cinematic forbears. This human quality in their first duet makes us root for them.

"Office Christmas Party" fits the season

By ROBERT GRUBAUGH For The Edge There is a dearth of quality film programming the first two weeks of December in most years.

It’s a necessary evil for many of us as we plan our holiday parties, finish up some last minute Christmas shopping, hit the books for final exams, and brace for the onslaught of the great year-end movies.

In a nice bit of exception to this rule, “Office Christmas Party” hit the screens this weekend to show us what happens when a good company that happens to be facing internal crisis decides to let loose and really let the h o l i d a y s p i r i t f l y. T h e re a re drugs and booze and all kinds of Human Resources violations afoot in this people-behaving-

badly from story artists Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, two fellas that know the inner workings of the genre from their hit “Hangover” series. This one is cheeky and loaded with yuletide pathos, but don’t look for it to be anything more than a much welcome distraction from your Seasonal Affective Disorder.

Floundering Zenotech is hurting this year when the Interim CEO (Jennifer Aniston, turning a cameo into a nice s u p p o r t i n g ro l e ) t h re a t e n s t o shut down the Chicago branch t h a t h e r j u v e n i l e b r o t h e r, Clay (T.J. Miller), runs at the behest of their doting, recently deceased father. Little brother was better liked by daddy, but he’s also kind of a screw-up and profits aren’t coming in at the rate they need to be under his

oversight. But the good news is that Clay is incredibly loyal to his people, even if they’re losers (Vanessa Bayer), lay-abouts (Rob Corddry), or nearly criminals (Andrew Leeds, Oliver Cooper).

Despite the direct orders to the c o n t r a r y, C l a y c o n v i n c e s C I O Josh (Jason Bateman) to help him through a holiday bash to win over the lucrative contract of an old-school businessman (Courtney B. Vance, recent Emmy winner) that they need to keep the office open.

J o s h i s u s u a l l y t h e s t u f f y, no-nonsense type, but he’s also part of the reason why Zenotech has been laying up and playing it safe.

He barely pauses before changing direction and following Clay into the deep.

Joining the ensemble – which

t r u l y h a s n o re a l l e a d – a re Olivia Munn as the too pretty lead programmer with some innovative ideas and amazing hair, Kate McKinnon as the HR manager tasked with towing the line of morality, and a pack of supporting character actors who bring as much silliness to the story as they do diversity to the cast. Comedian Jillian B e l l ro u n d s i t o u t a s a p i m p patrolling the get-together as an opportunity to bring in some extra money for her Russian gang.

There is no shortage of gags about sex, cocaine, or bodily functions here.

Throwing vending machines out of the office tower, jousting with flaming Christmas trees, and more fetish jokes than y o u c a n s h a k e a s t i c k a t a re

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among the highlights. For me, McKinnon steals the show. A great repertory performer, and “SNL” hero, she does what she’s done so many times before: taken the spotlight by simply being deft at being daffy. Her c h a r a c t e r, M a r y, i s f l a t u l e n t , obsessed with parrots, and just as susceptible to violating workplace rules as the rest of us when the opportunity presents itself.

G r a b s o m e c o o k i e s , a s t i ff eggnog, and sit back to enjoy your own little Christmas party with this movie. ‘Tis the season.

“Office Christmas Party” runs 105 minutes and is rated R for crude sexual content and language throughout, drug use, and graphic nudity. I give this film two and a half stars out of four.

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Quad Cities preparing to ring in the new year

For The Edge The Quad Cities doesn’t let a holiday go by without some special events, and New Year ’s Eve and New Year’s Day are not exceptions.

The close of the old year and the beginning of the New Year brings exciting and affordable events and hotel packages.

The grown-ups get to have their New Year's Eve fun at night, but the kids get to celebrate the arrival of 2016 during the daylight hours! It’s a treat for the younger crowd! The Family Museum’s Noon Year's Eve festivities on Saturday, December 31 include music, noisemakers, hats and plenty of confetti! The event is from 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. at the Family Museum, 2900 Learning Campus Dr. in Bettendorf, Iowa.

For more information, contact 563344-4106 or www.familymuseum. org.

Ring in 2017 with the hottest party in town at the Quad-Cities Waterfront Convention Center, 2021 State Street in Bettendorf, Iowa, on New Year's Eve! Doors open at 8:30 p.m. Dance the night away with The Travolta’s—the ultimate 70’s dance band with party favors and a countdown to midnight. General Admission (Standing Room Only) tickets are $20. For more information and to order tickets, contact 800-THE-ISLE or www.theislebettendorf.com.

Also inquire about hotel packages with the adjacent Isle Casino Hotel Bettendorf.

It’s a salute to Sun Records and the birth of Rock and Roll at Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse, 1828 3rd Ave. in Rock Island, Ill. Choose from a matinee or evening performance starring Robert Shaw and the Lonely Street Band with the music of Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and more. Tickets include dinner, show, party favors, balloon drop, and champagne toast. Doors open at 11:45 a.m. with the matinee show at 1 p.m. Then doors open at 7:30 p.m., and the evening show begins at 9:15 p.m. For reservations, call 309-786-7733. For more information, visit www.circa21.com A night of Stax Records, Motown, Muscle Shoals, James Brown & more will be performed this New Year’s Eve at the River Music Experience, 129 Main St. in Davenport, Iowa.

Each of these powerhouse, soul, hitmaking machines will be featured in their own soul revue. The backing

bands will feature members of The Candymakers, along with some the best musicians we could gather.

Hint: A whole lot of singers! Doors open at 8 p.m.; show at 9 p.m. For more information and tickets, visit www.rivermusicexperience.org Bottom’s Up Quad City Burlesque is the only performing Burlesque troupe in the Quad Cities! This special NYE show is back! Starring some of the finest and most beautiful Burlesque dancers to create an unforgettable show at The Speakeasy, 1818 3rd Ave. in Rock Island, Ill. Admission includes a countdown to midnight and a champagne toast to ring in 2017! (Guests must be 18 or older.)

Doors open at 9 p.m.; show at 10 p.m. Tickets are $25. Contact The Speakeasy at 309-786-2667 or www. thecirca21speakeasy.com T h e B e s t We s t e r n P l u s SteepleGate Inn, 100 W. 76th Street, Davenport, Iowa, is party central with two different party areas on New Year’s Eve. Dance to the live music of the Funktastic Five or a DJ keeping the bass pumping at the

dance club 1 Hundred West with party favors, appetizers and then a champagne toast at midnight.

Their overnight package can also include a dinner and New Year ’s Day breakfast. Separate party tickets available. Call 563-3866900 for reservations or visit www. steeplegateinn.com.

Celebrate twice on New Year ’s Eve at the new Rhythm City Casino Resort, 7077 Elmore Ave. in Davenport, Iowa. There will be toasts at 12 noon and midnight.

Open free to the public, Orchestra 33 performs from 10 p.m. to 12:15 a.m. with a large repertoire of songs including pop, swing, funk, Motown and classic rock. All three restaurants will be open on New Year ’s Eve. Ruthie’s Steakhouse asks for reservations, and the Draft Day Sports Lounge and Robert’s B u ff e t w i l l n o t b e a c c e p t i n g reservations. For more information, visit www.rhythmcitycasino.com Jumer ’s Casino & Hotel, 777 Jumer Drive in Rock Island, Illinois, has a lot options on New Year ’s Eve starting at 10 a.m. when the All

You Can Eat Lobster Tail & Prime Rib Buffet opens. The River City 6 plays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and then returns from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.

The Hotrods start playing at 9 p.m.

Ring in the New Year at midnight with a ball drop, confetti cannons and non-alcoholic champagne toast.

Or if you cannot stay up that late, there will be party favors and nonalcoholic champagne at 12 noon.

For more information, visit www. jumerscasinohotel.com Celebrate the New Year with Steventon's in LeClaire. They'll have live music by North of 40, a variety of hors d'oeuvres and a champagne toast at midnight.

Ti c k e t s a re $ 7 5 e a c h . P l e a s e call ahead to reserve yours at 563.289.3600. Complimentary local transportation home provided.

Be the last one out of the Mississippi on December 31, or first one in the Mississippi River in 2017 with the Saukenuk Paddlers Canoe & Kayak Club for the Last Out and First In Floats both at 1:00 p.m. at the Marquette Street boat ramp in Davenport, Iowa. (For

experienced paddlers only.) For more information, visit http:// www.saukenuk.org Attend the annual HangoverFest at the Cordova In ter national Raceway to rev up the New Year.

The HangoverFest is designed for street-driven vehicles with racing open for everyone on Sunday, January 1, 2017. Gates open at 10:00 a.m. with racing from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Race for $25 or come to watch for $8. Relax in the indoor heated café and Zoomies Pub with food and drink specials, free aspirin, and $1 Bloody Mary’s for those not racing. Cordova International Raceway is located at 19425 IL Route 84 North, Cordova, Illinois. For more information, call 309-654-2110 or visit www.racecir.com.

F o r m o re o v e r n i g h t N e w Year ’s Eve packages, go to www. visitquadcities.com.

Discover these and many more marvels on the Mississippi River in the Quad Cities. Contact the Quad Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau at 800-747-7800 or visit their website at www.visitquadcities.com.

The Quad Cities is located on the Mississippi River and is made up of the riverfront cities of Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa, and Moline, East Moline and Rock Island in Illinois. The area is just a 2-½ hour drive from Des Moines, Iowa, and Chicago, Illinois. It is easily accessible via I-80, I-74, I-88 and several major state highways.

Above, Jumer's Casino and Hotel in Rock Island. At left Robert's Buffet at Rhythm City Casino Resort in Davenport, Iowa. Photos courtesy of Jumer's and Rhythm City.

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The Arts

Courtesy of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

A painting by Nicola Tyson, whose work will be on display Jan. 27 through April 16 at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.

For The Edge The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) will present the works of Nicola Tyson Jan 27, 2017 through Apr 16, 2017.

A British-native currently living in upstate New York, Nicola Tyson is engaged in the reimagining of the figure, or more precisely reimagining the gaze upon the female body.

She is noted for her “psycho-figuration,” a practice that erases the distinctions between representation and abstraction and expresses the inner psyche of its subjects. Her portraiture undermines specificity, bodies morphing into creatures or unidentified selves turned inside out. Although often comic in nature, these representations of fractured personae also possess a quiet poignancy.

An extensive selection of Tyson’s small, graphite-on-paper drawings will be on view—numerous drawings brought together to gain an accumulative power. A number of Tyson’s dynamic large-scale ink drawings will also be part of the exhibition. The artist chooses to create drawings swiftly so as not to impede the imaginative process, “… to stay just ahead of the cage of language,” she has said, “the linear mind and rational decision-making. I just let the forms grow themselves—self-organize….” Despite

Tyson’s rapid facility, the individual works reveal extraordinary draftsmanship. Likewise, although her paintings contain a loose and gestural quality, they also convey a subtle mastery, distinguishing Tyson as a colorist with a distinctive chromatic palette and painterly inclinations. A number of Tyson’s large-scale paintings will be on view, as well as new works from her ongoing Portrait Heads series. In the early 2000s Tyson began her investigations into portraiture through a monoprint process, quickly achieving her image by painting acrylic on glass, then pressing the glass onto paper. These headshots gaze unnervingly at the viewer, ghoulish, as if protective layers of self have been stripped like bark from a tree, yet with personality and humanity retained.

Tyson is frequently associated with such artists as Maria Lassnig and Tyson contemporary Nicole Eisenman, b oth have exhibited at CAM, and their feminist re d e f i n i t i o n o f t h e f e m a l e f i g u re i n relationship to identity and the social gaze.

Tyson is also aware of her male forbearers and their expressions of the female body, artists that include Édouard Manet, Egon Schiele, Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann, and Francis Bacon. Her epistolary monologues to these artists have been collected into a

book, Dead Letter Men, and Tyson performs readings of the letters, often as part of her exhibitions. The letters are funny, satirical, pointed, personal, self-reflective, and pose underlying questions of “Who draws the figure?” and “Whose figure is it?” She will read from Dead Letter Men at CAM, Thursday, April 6, 6:30 pm.

In the process of reconstructing or breaking down the figure, Tyson’s surreal depictions of morphed humanity contain a gentle humor.

Her gaze reveals the physicality of the body and its vulnerabilities, and the capacity to laugh at those vulnerabilities—the shared human comedy.

Nicola Tyson (b. 1960, London; lives and works in upstate New York) has been exhibited internationally and is included in major collections such as Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Hirshhorn Museum; Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C; and Tate Modern, London.

Recent exhibitions include Works on Paper

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at the Petzel Gallery, New York (2016), Living Dangerously, a two-person show with Angela Dufresne, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH, (2016), “Goodbye/ Hello,” Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, (2015), Trouble in Happiness, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA (2014), and Nicola Tyson: Bowie Nights at Billy’s Club, London, 1978, Sadie Coles HQ, London, (2013). Tyson attended Chelsea School of Art, St. Martins School of Art, and Central/St. Martins School of Art in London.

Tyson also works with photography, film, performance, and the written word.

CAM is located at 3750 Washington Blvd in St. Lous.

Hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m. until 8 p.m.

Wed–Sun 10:00 am–5:00 pm General operating support is provided by the Regional Arts Commission; Whitaker Foundation; Emerson; Trio Foundation of St. Louis; Arts and Education Council; Missouri Arts Council, a state agency; Wells Fargo Advisors; the Board of Directors; and Members of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.

For more information, call 314.535.4660 or visit info@camstl.org.

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Pictured are two scenes from "An American in Paris," which will run from Jan. 17 to Jan. 29 at The Fox.

The Fox to host "An American in Paris" For The Edge "An American in Paris", the most awarded new musical of 2015 and winner of four Tony Awards , will play in St. Louis at the Fabulous Fox Theatre for a two-week engagement January 17 – 29.

Tickets for "An American in Paris" at the Fabulous Fox are on sale now online at MetroTix.com, by calling 314-534-1111 or in person at the Fabulous Fox Box Office. Ticket prices start at $25. Prices are subject to change; please refer to FabulousFox.com for current pricing. "An American in Paris" is part of the U.S. Bank Broadway Series.

Performances of "An American in Paris" at the Fabulous Fox run January 17 – 29. Show times are Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 7:30 p.m., Saturday afternoons at 2 p.m. and Sunday afternoons at 1 p.m. There will also be an evening performance on Sunday, January 22 at 6:30 p.m. and a matinee performance on Thursday, January 26 at 1 p.m.

Jerry Mulligan and Lise Dassin will be played by Garen Scribner and Sara Esty, who performed these leading roles on Broadway.

Joining them are Etai Benson (Wicked) as Adam Hochberg; Emily Ferranti (Wicked, Dreamgirls) as Milo Davenport; Gayton Scott (Gypsy, The Women) as Madame Baurel; and Nick Spangler (The Book of Mormon, Rogers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella) as Henri Baurel.

Leigh-Ann Esty (Miami City Ballet) and Ryan Steele (Newsies, Matilda) join the cast as the Lise and Jerry alternates. Rounding out the ensemble are: Karolina Blonski, Brittany Bohn, Stephen Brower, Randy Castillo, Jessica Cohen, Jace Coronado, Barton Cowperthwaite, Alexa De Barr, Ashlee Dupré, Erika Hebron, Christopher M. Howard, Colby Q. Lindeman, Nathalie Marrable, Tom Mattingly, Caitlin Meighan, Alida Michal, Don Noble, Sayiga Eugene Peabody, Alexandra Pernice, David Prottas, Danielle Santos, Lucas Segovia, Kyle Vaughn, Laurie Wells, Dana Winkle, Erica Wong and Blake Zelesnikar.

Inspired by the Academy-Award winning

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film, "An American in Paris" is the romantic story about an American soldier, a mysterious French girl and an indomitable European city, each yearning for a new beginning in the aftermath of war. Directed and choreographed by 2015 Tony Award-winner Christopher Wheeldon, the show features the music and lyrics of George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin,

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and a book by Craig Lucas.

The creative team is also comprised of Tony Award-winners Bob Crowley (set and costume designer) and Natasha Katz (lighting designer); Jon Weston (sound designer); 59 Productions (projection designer); Rob Fisher (musical score adaption, arrangement and supervision); Todd Ellison (musical

supervisor); David Andrews Rogers (musical director/conductor); Christopher Austin and Bill Elliott (orchestrations); Sam Davis (dance arrangements); Telsey + Company/ Rachel Hoffman, C.S.A. (casting); Rick Steiger (production supervisor); Dontee Kiehn (associate director); and Sean Kelly (associate choreographer).

"An American in Paris" won four 2015 Tony Awards, four Drama Desk Awards, four Outer Critics Circle Awards, the Drama League Award for Best Musical, three Fred and Adele Astaire Awards, and two Theatre World Awards. The musical was included on the Year’s Best lists of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, The New Yorker, the Associated Press, The Hollywood Reporter, and The Pittsburgh PostGazette. The Masterworks Broadway Original Broadway Cast recording of "An American in Paris" was nominated for the Best Musical Theater Album Grammy Award.

The score of "An American in Paris" includes the songs "I Got Rhythm," "Liza," "'S’Wonderful," "But Not For Me," "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise," and orchestral music including "Concerto in F," "Second Prelude," "Second Rhapsody/Cuban Overture" and ""An American in Paris"."

The production opened to widespread critical acclaim at the Palace Theatre on Broadway on April 12, 2015 after its world premiere at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris November 22, 2014-January 4, 2015. The New York production closed on October 9, 2016 after playing more than 600 performances.

A West End production of "An American in Paris" will start in March 2017 at the Dominion Theatre.

The producers are Stuart Oken, Van Kaplan and Roy Furman by special arrangement with Elephant Eye Theatrical, Pittsburgh CLO and Théâtre du Châtelet.

For more information, visit www.

AnAmericanInParisBroadway.com.

The Arts Arts calendar Friday, Dec. 23

The Nutcracker presented

by Saint Louis Ballet, Touhill Performing Arts Center, St. Louis, 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

A Christmas Carol, Loretto-Hilton Center for Performing Arts, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs until Dec. , 24, 2016 Kramer Marionette TheatreL The Night the Toys Came to Life, Kramer Mariennette Theatre, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., Runs until Dec. 31, 2016 2016 IPHF Hall of Fame Exhibition, International Photography Hall of Fame Exhibition, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until February 4, 2017 TOYS of the 50's, 60's and 70's, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until January 22, 2017 Love Jones- The Musical, Fabulous Fox Theater, St. Louis, 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

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

2016 IPHF Hall of Fame Exhibition, Internation Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until February 4, 2017 Beauty and the Beast, Touhill Performing Arts Center, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

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

Textiles: Politics and Patriotism, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 5, 2017 Conficts of Interest: Art and War in Modern Japan, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until January 8, 2017 New Media Series: Dara Birnbaum, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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

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

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

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

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

Saturday, Dec. 24

A Christmas Carol, Loretto-Hilton Center for Performing Arts, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs until Dec. , 24, 2016 Kramer Marionette TheatreL The Night the Toys Came to Life, Kramer Mariennette Theatre, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., Runs until Dec. 31, 2016 2016 IPHF Hall of Fame Exhibition, International Photography Hall of Fame Exhibition, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until February 4, 2017 TOYS of the 50's, 60's and 70's, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until January 22, 2017 Love Jones- The Musical,

Fabulous Fox Theater, St. Louis, 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

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

2016 IPHF Hall of Fame Exhibition, Internation Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until February 4, 2017 Beauty and the Beast, Touhill Performing Arts Center, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

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

Textiles: Politics and Patriotism, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 5, 2017 Conficts of Interest: Art and War in Modern Japan, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until January 8, 2017 New Media Series: Dara Birnbaum, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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

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

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

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

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

Sunday, Dec. 25

Kramer Marionette TheatreL The Night the Toys Came to Life, Kramer Mariennette Theatre, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., Runs until Dec. 31, 2016 2016 IPHF Hall of Fame Exhibition, International Photography Hall of Fame Exhibition, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until February 4, 2017 TOYS of the 50's, 60's and 70's, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until January 22, 2017 Love Jones- The Musical, Fabulous Fox Theater, St. Louis, 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

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

2016 IPHF Hall of Fame Exhibition, Internation Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until February 4, 2017 Beauty and the Beast, Touhill Performing Arts Center, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

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

Textiles: Politics and Patriotism, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 5, 2017 Conficts of Interest: Art and War in Modern Japan, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until January 8, 2017 New Media Series: Dara Birnbaum, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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

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

Mark Bradford, Contemporary

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

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

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Travel Under IS rule, Mosul descended into darkness MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — The first and second stones did not kill her. But the woman accused of adultery by Islamic State group extremists would not survive the third.

The woman's killing in a public square was, for those who witnessed it, the cruelest moment in the descent of this once proud city into fear, hunger and isolation under 2 ½ years of rule by the militants.

Iraq's second-largest city Mosul was once arguably the most multicultural place in Iraq, with a Sunni Muslim Arab majority but also thriving communities of Kurds, Shiites, Christians and Yazidis. Together, they had created Mosul's distinct identity, with its own cuisine, intellectual life and economy.

But t h e I sl a mi c S t a t e g ro u p t u r n e d Mosul into a place of literal and spiritual darkness. It began with promises of order and a religious utopia that appealed to some, but over time, the militants turned crueler, the economy crumbled under the weight of war and shortages set in.

Those who resisted watched neighbors who joined the extremists turn prosperous and vindictive. Parents feared for the brainwashing of their children. By the end, as Iraqi troops besieged Mosul, the militants hanged suspected spies from

lampposts.

The Associated Press interviewed more than two dozen residents who have left Mosul since Iraqi troops began retaking outlying districts last month. They gave a glimpse into life in a place that has been virtually sealed off from the outside under the rule of the Islamic State group.

For many among Mosul's Sunni Arabs, IS rule started as a respite from what they considered the heavy hand of Iraq's Shiiteled central government in Baghdad.

Iraqi soldiers melted away, and in those first few weeks, people were happy to see hated security checkpoints pulled down and traffic moving smoothly.

But within a month, the homes of Mosul's Christians and other minorities were tagged with official stickers — for "statistical purposes," IS officials said, according to Mosul Eye. Christians and Shiites soon fled.

"If you turned in a Kurdish family, they gave you a car," said Hassan Ali Mustapha, a retired prison guard. He said he moved to a home deserted by a Kurdish family, after the family asked him through a mutual friend to keep the extremists from taking it over.

The group imposed the severe vision of Islamic law that they had introduced across

their zone of control. Dress was strictly re gulate d, and clothes manuf acturer s were told the acceptable measurements by Islamic State offices. Women were required to hide their faces and don black down to their fingertips. The fine for violations — even as small as the wrong kind of stocking — was 25,000 dinars, around 20 dollars.

Repeat offenders got lashes.

There was another, widely feared and loathed punishment as well: Female enforcers used a metal-toothed device to deliver vicious, infection-prone "bites" o n w o m e n t h e y d e e m e d a s d re s s i n g improperly, according to two women.

The group's propaganda insisted all was fine. John Cantlie, a British journalist held hostage by the Islamic State group for four years, has made periodic appearances in videos filmed in Mosul, showing a market, an efficient IS motorcycle police force and a city continuing to function.

Away from the cameras, however, the economy fell apart. The government in Baghdad cut off the salaries it had been paying civil servants, and airstrikes cut into Islamic State's oil revenue and cash re s e r v e s . I n f r a s t r u c t u re a n d s e r v i c e s initially provided by IS broke down.

Electricity cuts forced people to rely on oil lamps. Communications cut off, although

people still managed to make periodic, hushed calls to Alghan FM, a radio station founded by an exiled Mosul resident that has become a sounding board to those trapped in the city.

"Four months ago, satellite television went down. Six months ago, it was the internet," said the station's founder, who asked to identified only by his first name, Mohammed, for his safety. "ISIL wanted people to be isolated completely."

To further instill fearful obedience, IS forced people to watch as they hacked off hands and lashed, beheaded or stoned offenders.

The fighters routinely herded people into squares and markets to watch, residents said.

The woman's killing in Mosul's Samah district shook to the core those in the crowd forced to watch as their neighbor was dragged before them. It was in August, after the militants had lost strongholds in other parts of Iraq and Syria, prompting them to heighten their repression.

Several witnesses described to The Associated Press how the woman and her alleged lover were paraded blindfolded through the streets. The militants summoned everyone they could find to watch.

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

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Dining Delights

Bill Roseberry/The Edge

Above, Hawaiian BBQ pork chops with a side of macaroni salad, white rice and pineapple at K&S Hawaiian BBQ in Springfield. Below, oney garlic chicken wings.

K&S Hawaiian BBQ in Springfield

By BILL ROSEBERRY Of The Edge Looking for a quirky and unique place to eat while driving through Springfield brought me to my latest food stop — K&S Hawaiian BBQ. Located at 2355 W. Monroe St. in Springfield, K&S was inside a strip mall and had more of a classic Chinese restaurant feel to it. There was plenty of table seating inside the large, open restaurant, but it had a pretty uneventful atmosphere.

I set up shop in an inconspicuous table along the wall and watched my surroundings. It was fairly dead when I arrived early on a Saturday evening, but picked up quickly as the dinner rush began.

The menu was a hodgepodge of Thai, Chinese, Vietnamese, Hawaiian and even a little Korean fare. There was everything from fried rice to bulgogi to pad thai to pho (pronounced fuh).

I was intrigued by the Hawaiian BBQ portion of the menu though and went that route, but first I started with an appetizer and a unique drink selection.

I'll start with my beverage of choice. I decided to try a Ramune, which is a Japanese style soda. I went with an orange flavor, but when it arrived it was clear in color.

The major uniqueness of the Ramune is the distinctiveness of its bottle. It's a glass bottle with a thin neck and sealed with a marble. You have to puncture the top and push the marble inside the tapered neck of the bottle to open it. The marble rattles around inside the drink and can somewhat inhibit the flow of the soda. It takes a little practice to

drink it correctly, as it must be tilted a certain way to get it to flow correctly.

It would have been nice if my server would have offered some assistance. I'm sure most people that try their Ramune line are rookies. Unfortunately, she made n o a t t e m p t t o h e l p me w h i l e I figured out how to open the bottle. Of course I'm a man and didn't ask for any help either.

Once I tasted the drink it had a strong orange taste to it and was extremely sugary. I could see it

being a popular beverage for kids.

It was good, but a little too much sugar for my taste.

I went with a pretty pedestrian flavor. Lemon-lime is the original f l a v o r, b u t R a m u n e c o m e s i n such weird flavors as: chili oil, curry, coconut, kimchi, octopus, teriyaki and wasabi. I'll stick to the orange.

As for my appetizer, I went with their honey garlic chicken wings. The sauce was very sweet from the honey, but barely had a hint of garlic and had no spice

k i c k w h a t s o e v e r. H o n e y w a s definitely the power behind these wings and while they were good, they weren't quite what I expected.

Now it was time for my main course. I wavered over getting a bowl of Pho, or a Thai noodle dish, but it was called K&S Hawaiian BBQ after all, so that was the direction I went.

I ordered the Hawaiian BBQ por k chops, which were accompanied by white rice, macaroni salad and pineapple.

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The pineapple was the touch that pushed me to order this dish, but I only knew it was available from looking at pictures on Yelp. There was no reference to pineapple coming with it on the K&S menu.

The pineapple was the star of the dish when it arrived. It was a thick slab of the sweet fruit, which I gobbled up quickly.

The pork chops were more like pork cutlets, very small, thin and boneless. They were said to be marinated in barbecue sauce on the menu, but were served dry and were fairly dry in taste. The so called barbecue sauce that came on the side reminded me more of a moo shu pork sauce you would find at a traditional Chinese joint.

The macaroni salad was pretty straight forward, nothing special.

It was like what you would get at the deli at Schnucks or Shop 'N Save; a pretty strange cohort for my order in my opinion.

Overall the experience was just OK. Maybe I screwed up on my order, because it was quite busy by the time I finished up my meal and I noticed most of the patrons eating Thai noodle dishes.

There were other quirky choices that caught me eye like the Portuguese sausage fried rice, the crispy ocean scallops, Hawaiian BBQ short ribs and a slew of noodle and rice dishes and Pho choices.

To check out the whole menu and what K&S has to offer, visit w w w. h a w a i i a n b b q s p r i n g f i e l d . com.

Price-wise it was pretty re a s o n a b l e . I ' d s a y n e x t t i m e you're in Springfield it might be worth a visit, but there's probably someplace better in the area when you gotta eat.

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