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What’s Inside 3
New at SLAM
Work by Horace Pippin acquired.
4 Winter exhibits
SWIC's Schmiddt Art Center has plans.
9 "Daddy's Home" A silly romp with Will Ferrell.
14 Groundhog Day
Woodstock celebrates ties to film.
15 Shoppers paradise The Lake of the Ozarks.
16 The art of the bicycle
Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.
20 Up close with owls Area expert gives presentation.
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What’s Happening Friday Jan. 8_____________ • Patton Oswalt, w/Mike Macrae, The Pageant, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. • The Rep presents The Lion in Winter, Loretto-Hilton Browning Mainstage, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m., Runs through January 31, 2016 • Marvel Universe LIVE!, Scottrade Center, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. • The Perceptive Mechanism, The Kranzberg Arts Center, St. Louis, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs through January 30, 2016. • Kota: Digital Excavations in African Art, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Runs through March 19, 2016. • Julie Malone: Luminous, Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through January 23, 2016. • Silver Seas: An Odyssey by Ernest H. Brooks II, International Photography Hall of Fame, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through December 30. • A Walk in 1875 St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through February 14, 2016. • Raqs Media Collective: Art In The Age Of Collective Intelligence, Laumiere Sculpture Park, St. Louis, 8:00 a.m. to Half Hour Past Sunset, Runs Through February 14, 2016. • Leica: 100 Years of Excellence Exhibit, International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St.
Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through April 24, 2016. • St. Louis Modern, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through January 31, 2016. • 92.3 WIL Hot Country Nights, Presented by FORD- Dan + Shay • The Bad Plus, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m • Lil Reese, Pops, Sauget, Doors 7:00 p.m. • Jake's Leg, Cicero's, University City, Doors 8:30 p.m. • Life on Mars, w/ Murphy and the Death Rays, Without MF Order, Stinkbomb, Josh Violent The Banjo Rat, The Demo, St. Louis, Doors 7:30 p.m.
Saturday Jan. 9_____________ • The Bad Plus, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. • The Lion's Daughter “Existence is Horror” Release Show, w/Black Fast, Fister, Hell Night, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m. • Memories of Elvis, feat, Steve Davis & The Midsouth Revival, w/ Rivertown Sound & Double Trouble, Thomas Hickey as Buddy Holly, Anna Blair as Patsy Cline, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 6:00 p.m. • The Road to Pointfest 2016, Pops, Sauget, Doors 6:30 p.m. • Butterfly Boomerang presents, Collider, Forgetting January, The Scamps, Bucko Toby, Strikes Back,
Zach DeMarco, Cicero's, University City, 7:00 p.m. • Ty p h o o n J a c k s o n , w / I a n Mcgowan and The Good Deeds, Marie and The Americans, The Demo, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m. • The Rep presents The Lion in Winter, Loretto-Hilton Browning Mainstage, St. Louis, 9:00 p.m., Runs through January 31, 2016 • Marvel Universe LIVE!, Scottrade Center, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m., 3:00 p.m., and 7:00 p.m. • Perpetual Motion, Coca, St. Louis, 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. • The Perceptive Mechanism, The Kranzberg Arts Center, St. Louis, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs through January 30, 2016. • Kota: Digital Excavations in African Art, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Runs through March 19, 2016. • Julie Malone: Luminous, Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through January 23, 2016. • Silver Seas: An Odyssey by Ernest H. Brooks II, International Photography Hall of Fame, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through December 30. • A Walk in 1875 St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through February 14, 2016. • Raqs Media Collective: Art In The Age Of Collective Intelligence, Laumiere Sculpture Park, St. Louis, 8:00 a.m. to Half Hour Past Sunset, Runs Through February 14, 2016.
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Horace Pippin, American, 1888-1946; Sunday Morning Breakfast, 1943; oil on fabric; 16 x 20 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Museum Funds; Friends Fund; Bequest of Marie Setz Hertslet, Museum Purchase, Eliza McMillan Trust, and Gift of Mrs. Carll Tucker, by exchange 164:2015; Image courtesy Alexandre Gallery, New York
Museum acquires work by Pippin For The Edge
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he Saint Louis Art Museum announces the acquisition of Sunday Morning Breakfast, a 1943 painting by the esteemed African-American artist Horace Pippin. The purchase was approved unanimously on Monday evening by the museum’s board of commissioners. The painting will be on view in gallery 337 starting on Friday (Dec. 18).
Sunday Morning Breakfast was offered by the Alexandre Gallery in New York. The price was $1.5 million. Depicting a scene drawn from the artist’s childhood memories, the painting is one of the finest examples of the African-American domestic scenes for which Pippin is best known, said Brent R. Benjamin, director of the Saint Louis Art Museum. “Sunday Morning Breakfast will occupy a place of pride in the museum’s American art galleries and will underscore the Saint Louis Art Museum’s ongoing commitment to build
the collection through thoughtful and strategic acquisitions,” Benjamin said. Benjamin said the purchase builds on—and will complement—acquisitions beginning in the 1940s of significant works by African-American artists, including Edward Mitchell Bannister, Eldzier Cortor, Robert S. Duncanson, Norman Lewis, Kerry James Marshall, Faith Ringgold, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Kara Walker and Charles White. Sunday Morning Breakfast depicts a warm family scene. Two young children sit at a central table, as a woman serves them breakfast. A man sits on the left, watching the simple moment. A kettle whistles on boil, the stove glows orange, and the children eagerly await their freshly plated breakfast. “Pippin’s reputation rests on the sophisticated balance between abstract design and an evocative, simple narrative, which Sunday Morning Breakfast exemplifies in the charm of its family scene balanced by the modernist geometric order of the room,” said M. Melissa Wolfe, the museum’s curator of American art.
Pippin celebrated his connection to folk art, showing with other major folk artists of the time like Grandma Moses, while moving successfully into the milieu of early 20th-century American modernism by also showing with artists Jacob Lawrence and Charles Sheeler, Wolfe said. “The painting will serve as a bridge within the broader American collection to reveal complex and often-overlooked relationships between styles and practices typically presented as quite disparate.” Wolfe said. “Pippin’s work shares interests equally with our great works by Thomas Hart Benton, Ralston Crawford, and Alexander Calder. It brings new connections that will push the viewer to see the collection afresh.” Wolfe, who will oversee the reinstallation of the museum’s American art galleries next year, said Sunday Morning Breakfast will have a permanent presence as a major cornerstone of the American collection, along with works by Benton, George Caleb Bingham, William Merritt Chase, John Singleton Copley, John Steuart Curry, Philip Guston, Winslow Homer, Norman Lewis, Ben
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Shahn and Henry Ossawa Tanner. Pippin (1888-1946) became an artist by way of the battlefields of World War I, where he served in an infantry unit known as “Harlem’s Hellfighters.” He lost the use of his right arm after a sniper shot him in the shoulder, and he took up drawing as a therapeutic outlet upon his return from Europe. After his work was “discovered” at a local art exhibition in 1937, four of Pippin’s works were included in the Museum of Modern Art’s 1938 exhibition Masters of Popular Painting. In just a few short years he was heralded by other major figures in American art, and he received the support of influential patrons such as collector Albert C. Barnes and Hollywood figures Edward G. Robinson, Albert Lewin, and Charles Laughton. By the time of his death from a stroke in 1946, Pippin’s work already had been included in major exhibitions and the permanent collections of several museums, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art and the Phillips Collection.
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The Arts
Schmidt Art Center to host exhibitions For The Edge The William and Florence Schmidt Art Center at Southwestern Illinois College opens its 2016 schedule with eclectic solo exhibitions featuring paintings, glass-infused typewriter sculptures and objects from Papua New Guinea. Treasures from the college’s permanent collection of objects from Papua New Guinea make a rare appearance for this exhibition. Works planned for display come from a donation by Charles J. Stathis in 1999, as well as 1990s purchases made through the Student Committee for the Visual Arts. The collection includes costumes and masks, canoe prows, spirit boards and food bowls. Most of the objects that will be in the exhibit, “Function & Ceremony: The Art of Melanesia,” have never been displayed before due to their fragility or sacred nature. Artist Paula Haniszewski, chair of the SWIC art department, brings paintings that explore the ideas of personal, professional and political transformation in the contemporary American landscape in her exhibition “Smile Like You Mean It.” She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and a Master of Fine Arts from the New York Academy of Art. When she relocated to St. Louis, she became the assistant director/curator at the acclaimed Philip Slein Gallery. She joined the college’s art department as an adjunct instructor in 2009. Haniszewski became an assistant professor in 2011. She coordinates two-dimensional design, drawing and painting. She assumed the chair position in 2014. Typewriter Tim, who is St. Louis artist Tim Jordan, brings his exhibition “Zen and the Art of Typewriter Tim” to The Schmidt. His art incorporates typewriters and typewriter parts. The inspiration to turn typewriters into art dates back to 1993 when he returned home from college and found an old typewriter in his parents’ basement calling his name. Not only does he turn typewriters into sculptures, he also turns them into a percussion instrument. While at University of Kansas, he started playing the Typewriter as a percussion instrument and sculpting with them, earning the name "Typewriter Tim." He still plays typewriters in concert and his art inspiration mixes clear glass and old typewriters. He is an award-winning artist whose work is regularly commissioned. An opening reception will be held from 6-8 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 14 at the center, located on the SWIC Belleville Campus, 2500 Carlyle Ave. An artist talk begins at 6 p.m., followed by a concert from artist Typewriter Tim. For more information about these exhibitions, The Schmidt, and its exhibitions schedule and arts education programs, visit swic.edu/ theschmidt or call 618-222-5ART (5278).
Above: Function & Ceremony: The Art of Melanesia exhibition, Featured image is Canoe Prow, Trobriand Islands. At right, Zen and the Art of Typewriter Tim exhibition, featured image is untitled. Photos for The Edge.
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The Arts Arts calendar Thursday, Jan. 7
The Rep presents The Lion in Winter, Loretto-Hilton Browning Mainstage, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m., Runs through Jan. 31, 2016 The Perceptive Mechanism, The Kranzberg Arts Center, St. Louis, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs through Jan. 30, 2016. Kota: Digital Excavations in African Art, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Runs through March 19, 2016. Julie Malone: Luminous, Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through Jan. 23, 2016. Silver Seas: An Odyssey by Ernest H. Brooks II, International Photography Hall of Fame, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through December 30. A Walk in 1875 St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through February 14, 2016. Raqs Media Collective: Art In The Age Of Collective Intelligence, Laumiere Sculpture Park, St. Louis, 8:00 a.m. to Half Hour Past Sunset, Runs Through February 14, 2016. Leica: 100 Years of Excellence
Exhibit, International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through April 24, 2016. St. Louis Modern, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through Jan. 31, 2016.
Friday, Jan. 8
The Rep presents The Lion in Winter, Loretto-Hilton Browning Mainstage, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m., Runs through Jan. 31, 2016 Marvel Universe LIVE!, Scottrade Center, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. The Perceptive Mechanism, The Kranzberg Arts Center, St. Louis, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs through Jan. 30, 2016. Kota: Digital Excavations in African Art, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Runs through March 19, 2016. Julie Malone: Luminous, Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through Jan. 23, 2016. Silver Seas: An Odyssey by Ernest H. Brooks II, International Photography Hall of Fame, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs
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Saturday, Jan. 9
The Rep presents The Lion in Winter, Loretto-Hilton Browning Mainstage, St. Louis, 9:00 p.m., Runs through Jan. 31, 2016 Marvel Universe LIVE!, Scottrade Center, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m., 3:00 p.m., and 7:00 p.m. Perpetual Motion, Coca, St. Louis, 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. The Perceptive Mechanism, The Kranzberg Arts Center, St. Louis, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs through Jan. 30, 2016.
Kota: Digital Excavations in African Art, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Runs through March 19, 2016. Julie Malone: Luminous, Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through Jan. 23, 2016. Silver Seas: An Odyssey by Ernest H. Brooks II, International Photography Hall of Fame, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through December 30. A Walk in 1875 St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through February 14, 2016. Raqs Media Collective: Art In The Age Of Collective Intelligence, Laumiere Sculpture Park, St. Louis, 8:00 a.m. to Half Hour Past Sunset, Runs Through February 14, 2016. Leica: 100 Years of Excellence Exhibit, International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through April 24, 2016.
Sunday, Jan. 10
The Rep presents The Lion in Winter, Loretto-Hilton Browning Mainstage, St. Louis, 2:00 p.m. and
7:00 p.m., Runs through Jan. 31, 2016 Perpetual Motion, Coca, St. Louis, 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. Marvel Universe LIVE!, Scottrade Center, St. Louis, 12:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. The Perceptive Mechanism, The Kranzberg Arts Center, St. Louis, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs through Jan. 30, 2016. Kota: Digital Excavations in African Art, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Runs through March 19, 2016. Julie Malone: Luminous, Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through Jan. 23, 2016. Silver Seas: An Odyssey by Ernest H. Brooks II, International Photography Hall of Fame, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through December 30. A Walk in 1875 St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through February 14, 2016. Raqs Media Collective: Art In The Age Of Collective Intelligence, L a u m i e re S c u l p t u re P a r k , S t . Louis, 8:00 a.m. to Half Hour Past Sunset, Runs Through February 14, 2016.
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The Arts Artistic adventures Saint Louis Art Museum hosts St. Louis Modern
The Saint Louis Art Museum this fall presents St. Louis Modern, a major exhibition exploring the St. Louis region’s significant contributions to midcentury modern design through more than 150 objects drawn from the permanent collection and more than 30 museums and private lenders around the country. The ticketed exhibition will be on view from Nov. 8 through Jan. 31, 2016. Organized chronologically and thematically, the exhibition traces the emergence of modern design and its embrace in St. Louis during a 30-year period bookended by the 1935 start of planning for a major national monument on the St. Louis riverfront to the 1965 completion of Eero Saarinen’s modernist masterpiece, the Gateway Arch. St. Louis Modern features a wide variety of modern design objects and artworks that were designed or made by St. Louis-based architects, artists and designers; or purchased and used locally. In addition, galleries will highlight significant architectural commissions, public sculpture, murals and stained glass; and feature both rare and renowned examples of mass-produced design. “Planned to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the completion of the Eero Saarinen’s magnificent Gateway Arch, St. Louis Modern highlights St. Louis artists, architects, and designers whose work helped shape the midcentury modern aesthetic in America and raised our city’s profile as a center of design locally, nationally and internationally,” said Brent R. Benjamin, director of the Saint Louis Art Museum. “The civic theme is echoed by the generosity of our many local lenders whose passionate collecting of this material underscores the enduring popularity of this movement.” St. Louis Modern explores several themes, including machine-age; aerodynamic design; mass-market design; the influence of architects and tastemakers; embellishments; and Scandinavian design. Design objects and artworks will include furniture, glass, silver and other metalwork, textiles and industrial design objects as well as paintings, drawings, photographs, models for sculpture, and stained glass. Many have never been exhibited before and their makers have been rediscovered through new research conducted for the exhibition. Architects, artists and designers featured in St. Louis Modern include Harris Armstrong, Harry Bertoia, Frederick Dunn, Charles and Ray Eames, Dorothy Liebes, Samuel A. Marx, Isamu Noguchi, Victor Hugo Proetz, Siegfried Reinhardt, Eero Saarinen and Pipsan Saarinen Swanson. Locally made industrial designs included in the exhibition range from the diminutive—a Dazey rocket-shaped ice-crusher— to the grand—a sleek 1954 Chevrolet Corvette representing the first model year that was manufactured in St. Louis and embodying the embrace of innovative materials and streamlined styling. All tickets to St. Louis Modern are timed and dated. Admission is free for Members. For the general public, tickets are $14 for adults, $12 for seniors and students, $6 for children ages 6 to 12, and free for
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The Fox to present "Newsies"
Casting has been announced for the St. Louis engagement of Disney’s "Newsies". The Tony Awardwinning production will begin performances at the Fabulous Fox Theatre on Tuesday, January 19 for a limited engagement through Sunday, January 31. The production features Joey Barreiro as “Jack Kelly”, Steve Blanchard as “Joseph Pulitzer”, Morgan Keene as “Katherine”, Aisha de Haas as “Medda Larkin”, Stephen Michael Langton as “Davey”, Zachary Sayle as “Crutchie”, and John Michael Pitera and Ethan
Steiner alternating the role of “Les.” Rounding out the cast are Mark Aldrich, Josh Assor, Bill Bateman, Josh Burrage, Kevin Carolan, Benjamin Cook, DeMarius Copes, Nico DeJesus, JP Ferreri, Sky Flaherty, Kaitlyn Frank, Michael Gorman, Melissa Steadman Hart, Stephen Hernandez, Meredith Inglesby, James Judy, Eric Jon Mahlum, Nicholas Masson, Alex Prakken, Michael Ryan, Jordan Samuels, Andrew Wilson, Chaz Wolcott, Iain Young and Anthony Michael Zas. In St. Louis, "Newsies" will play Tuesdays through Fridays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 1 p.m. There will also be a 1 p.m. matinee on Thursday, January 28 and a 6:30 p.m. evening performance on Sunday, January 24. Tickets are available at the Fabulous Fox Box Office, by calling MetroTix at 314-534-1111, or via the Internet at MetroTix.com.
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choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, who won a 2012 Tony Award® for his work. The entire creative team has reunited to bring the break-out smash musical to audiences across North America. When it opened on March 29, 2012 "Newsies" was intended for a Broadway run of just 101 performances. The show’s fiercely devoted fans had other ideas, however; they propelled the show to a run of 1005 performances, attendance of more than 1 million and a gross of over $100M. For more information, visit "Newsies"TheMusical.com, Facebook.com/"Newsies" and Twitter.com/"Newsies". The St. Louis engagement of "Newsies" is presented by arrangement with the Fabulous Fox Theatre and is a subscription offering of the U.S. Bank Broadway Series.
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Movies
QuickGlance Movie Reviews
"The Big Short"
In Adam McKay's comic and clear-eyed adaption of Michael Lewis' "The Big Short," a handful of finance speculators __ outsiders and oddballs __ predict a downturn in the housing market only to realize, to their horror and immense profit, that they've effectively bet against America, and won. It's a rollicking, outrage-fueled odyssey through the financial collapse of 2008, from the carefree offices on Wall Street to the vacant subdivisions in Florida, that gradually reveals not just a market bubble but a colossally bankrupt system and a nation that blissfully teetered into absurdity. As one of the pre-eminent comedy directors, McKay has shifted into a more realistic, dramatic world only to find a farce too ridiculous for satire. And as anyone who has been paying attention to McKay's comedies can attest, his humor has always come laced with biting political subtext: the TV news of "Anchorman," George W. Bush-era America in "Talladega Nights," white collar crime in "The Other Guys." He has kept his loose and antic style, leaving his starry cast __ including Steve Carell, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt __ ample room for improvising. They are part of the enticements of "The Big Short," which strains hard to make the complex finance of its subject digestible and entertaining, including occasional instructional interludes from the likes of Margot Robbie (in a bubble bath), Anthony Bourdain and Selena Gomez — eye candies for brief explanations of collateralized-debt obligations and other instruments of financial minutia. RATED: R by the Motion Picture Association of America for "pervasive language and some sexuality/nudity." RUNNING TIME: 130 minutes. ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three stars out of four.
"Son of Saul"
"Son of Saul" doesn't just get under your skin — it goes straight to the bloodstream. There, it churns and festers as you try to make sense out of the senseless horror of the Holocaust and the plight of the Sonderkommando — Jewish prisoners forced to assist the Nazis with the genocide. This isn't a movie that's interested in the big picture, redemption or reflection, though. Understanding is not in its vocabulary. This is inhuman cinema of desperation. It is disturbing. It is immediate. It is haunting. And it's something that few will ever want to see more than once. Hungarian filmmaker László Nemes has created what feels like a new cinematic language to tell this hyper-focused story of a Sonderkommando, Saul (Géza Röhrig) across two days at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in October 1944. We rarely leave Saul's point of view. In this way, the film feels like one long tracking shot. The camera watches him from the front and follows him from behind — we grow accustomed to recognizing him from the blood red X messily painted on his back. Things go in and out of focus regularly — possibly as Saul comprehends them. He helps usher the prisoners into the gas chambers. We hear their screams, but we see his face, not theirs. He scrubs the bloody floors clean when it's over. RATED: R by the Motion Picture Association of America for "disturbing violent content, and some graphic nudity." RUNNING TIME: 107 minutes. ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three and a half stars out of four.
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens"
J.J. Abrams may not elevate the language of "Star Wars," but he sure is fluent in it. "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is no more and no less than the movie that made us love it in the first place. In fact, it's basically the same thing. Isn't that what we all wanted anyway?
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It's hard to talk rationally about "Star Wars." It is a deeply silly thing, with a genuine, undeniable hold on our culture. Chalk it up to nostalgia, collective arrested development or the ineffable. But for many, the magic of "Star Wars" is inseparable from the magic of the movies and, hey, that's no small thing. These movies make us lose ourselves in the spectacle. They make us forget our best instincts. They make us love the advertising as much as the art. They make us kids again. In this way, "The Force Awakens," the seventh movie in this improbable yet inevitable series, delivers. It's a movie made by someone who loves "Star Wars" deeply. Someone who can see more clearly than even its creator what made it so special to so many people. Abrams has taken everything that we adore about that first film, delicately mixed up a few elements, and churned out a reverent homage that's a heck of a lot of fun to watch. From the opening scroll to the sequel-setup ending, he manages to hit each beat of its 38-year-old predecessor. Abrams has essentially passed the torch on to its new cast by making them amalgamations of the originals. You'll know it when you see it. Who cares if it's "Star Wars" MadLibs? There's the resistance-affiliated droid, who ends up stranded on a desert planet carrying a secret message (BB8). There's the nobody with the dead-end job and a Jedi obsession (Daisy Ridley's Rey), who has a life-changing encounter with said droid. There's the reckless kid uncertain of his allegiances (John Boyega's Finn). There's the cocky pilot (Oscar Isaac's Poe Dameron). There's the powerful, masked villain, too (Adam Driver's Kylo Ren). The plot is as unwieldy and MacGuffin-filled as one might expect. It almost serves no purpose to go into the specifics at this point beyond the fact that the galaxy is in disarray, an evil army is growing (as is a resistance), and a series of coincidences help Rey collect a "Wizard of Oz"-worthy posse to help get BB-8 back to its rightful owners. This time, it's all because of Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill). He's vanished. Those are the first words on the screen and the last we'll say about the big mystery. RATED: PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for "sci-fi action violence." RUNNING TIME: 135 minutes. ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three stars out of four.
"Daddy's Home"
If you've seen a preview — or even a poster — for "Daddy's Home," you can imagine how the movie goes. Will Ferrell is buttoned up, straight-laced and dutiful, a newlywed stepdad delighting in fatherhood. Mark Wahlberg is tough, edgy and mysterious, the birth father who disappeared. The film is about their battle for the kids' affection, dad versus stepdad (also the film's slogan). Don't you just already know that, in the end, they'll do what's best for the kids? Of course you do. This is a Hollywood movie, after all. So it's all about the journey, and writer-director Sean Anders ("Horrible Bosses 2") doesn't take his story or his stars beyond what's expected. It's the poster, or the trailer, for 96 minutes. That's not to say it's all bad, especially if you like alphamale puffery. Ferrell and Wahlberg may play familiar, predictable archetypes, but they're still charming, charismatic movie stars being ridiculous onscreen. Ferrell is Brad Whitaker, a quiet, stable guy eight months into his marriage with Sarah (Linda Cardellini). He always wanted to be a dad, and he's excited about the relationship he's developing with her two young kids. That fledgling bond is threatened by a surprise visit from Dusty Mayron (Wahlberg), Sarah's ex and the kids' biological father. Instantly, the dad-fight is on. It's not clear how long Dusty has been gone, but it's obvious he's everything Brad is not. Brad works at a
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smooth-jazz radio station and cries every time one of his stepkids says something sweet. Dusty is muscular and freewheeling and hints that he's some kind of mercenary. Wahlberg does lots of shirtless pushups in the film. The tough guy-nice guy dichotomy is a setup for various showdowns of stereotypical masculinity: building stuff, handling bullies, even penis size (seriously). RATED: PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for "thematic elements, crude and suggestive content, and for language." RUNNING TIME: 96 minutes. ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: One and a half stars out of four.
"Joy"
Jennifer Lawrence is a force, whether as the hero of "The Hunger Games" or the overburdened, inventive single mother she plays in "Joy." The Oscar winner is in every frame of David O. Russell's new film, shining even among a star-studded cast with a performance that brings continuity to the writer-director's ambitious but flawed story about the dogged persistence of a determined entrepreneur. Lawrence plays the title character, Joy, whose last name is never revealed but who's based on real-life homeshopping magnate Joy Mangano, creator of the Miracle Mop and an executive producer of the film. Text onscreen at its opening says it is "inspired by true stories of daring women, one in particular." Russell's eighth feature film (and third collaboration with Lawrence) introduces Joy in the years before she makes herself a millionaire. Working in a meaningless job, she struggles as the financial and emotional center of a dysfunctional, multigenerational family. She lives in a crumbling house with her grandmother (Diane Ladd), her soap-opera obsessed mom (Virginia Madsen), along with her two children and her ex-husband, who lives in the basement. Flashbacks and daydreams show Joy as a bright, imaginative child who reluctantly followed a more conventional path when family responsibilities took hold. But when a flash of inspiration hits after years of life dissatisfaction, she bets her future on it. Wi t h m o r a l s u p p o r t f ro m h e r g r a n d m o t h e r a n d ex-husband, seed money from her father's wealthy girlfriend (Isabella Rossellini), and a glimmer of hope from a QVC executive (Bradley Cooper), Joy stakes everything she has on her new invention: a self-wringing mop with a machine-washable head. Along the way, she experiences elation and despair, personally and professionally. Lawrence brings all the power and intensity required to portray a devoted mother and fierce businesswoman growing up through her 30s, even if the actress looks sweetly youthful throughout. It's her fire and range that speaks. And the 25-year-old star doesn't take anything away from older actresses, who relish in delicious opportunities of their own. Rossellini, 63, is perfectly cast as an Italian w i d o w, w h i l e 8 0 - y e a r- o l d L a d d g l o w s a s a d o t i n g grandmother and the film's narrator. Madsen, 54, melts into her character, a recluse in oversized glasses whose whole world is a TV soap opera starring Susan Lucci. Lucci, 68, plays a powerful heroine in the fictional soap that's meant to be analogous to Joy's journey of self-discovery, but the technique doesn't really work, especially since the mother's obsession with the show seems to border on mental illness. Still, it's great to see Lucci back in her element. RATED: PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for "brief strong language." RUNNING TIME: 124 minutes. ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three stars out of four.
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This photo provided by Paramount Pictures shows, Will Ferrell, from left, Mark Wahlberg and Linda Cardellini in the film, "Daddy’s Home."
"Daddy's Home" a silly romp By JAKE COYLE Associated Press If you've seen a preview — or even a poster — for "Daddy's Home," you can imagine how the movie goes. Will Ferrell is buttoned up, straight-laced and dutiful, a newlywed stepdad delighting in fatherhood. Mark Wahlberg is tough, edgy and mysterious, the birth father who disappeared. The film is about their battle for the kids' affection, dad versus stepdad (also the film's slogan). Don't you just already know that, in the end, they'll do what's best for the kids? Of course you do. This is a Hollywood movie, after all. So it's all about the journey, and writer-
director Sean Anders ("Horrible Bosses 2") doesn't take his story or his stars beyond what's expected. It's the poster, or the trailer, for 96 minutes. That's not to say it's all bad, especially if you like alpha-male puffery. Ferrell and Wahlberg may play familiar, predictable archetypes, but they're still charming, charismatic movie stars being ridiculous onscreen. Ferrell is Brad Whitaker, a quiet, stable guy eight months into his marriage with Sarah (Linda Cardellini). He always wanted to be a dad, and he's excited about the relationship he's developing with her two young kids. That fledgling bond is threatened by a surprise visit from Dusty Mayron (Wahlberg), Sarah's ex and the kids' biological father.
Instantly, the dad-fight is on. It's not clear how long Dusty has been gone, but it's obvious he's everything Brad is not. Brad works at a smooth-jazz radio station and cries every time one of his stepkids says something sweet. Dusty is muscular and freewheeling and hints that he's some kind of mercenary. Wahlberg does lots of shirtless pushups in the film. The tough guy-nice guy dichotomy is a setup for various showdowns of stereotypical masculinity: building stuff, handling bullies, even penis size (seriously). It could all be cute enough, but Brad is so naive as to be completely unbelievable. This grown man never once suspects a shred of insincerity or manipulation from a handsome and mysterious romantic rival? Hasn't he ever
read a book or seen a movie? And if Brad is trying to win over his family with extravagant gifts like basketball playoff tickets, why would he buy a seat for Dusty? Then there's the sexist subplot about virility and maternity. Brad is sterile, and even though Sarah is happy with her kids and her career, what she really wants is another baby — so much so that she giddily cheers and runs off to call her mother at the mere thought of the possibility. Thankfully, Dusty knows the best fertility doctor in town. Ultimately, "Daddy's Home" has a sweet message about the challenges and rewards of fatherhood. It even advocates for dance-offs as a means of conflict resolution. It's pure silliness, but it would have benefited from a little more smarts.
"The Danish Girl" misses the mark By ROBERT GRUBAUGH For The Edge The great bulk of the storytelling in "The Danish Girl" relies on the fleeting and precious ideals of human sexuality. To think that I can express an intelligent argument in this brief space to understand that concept it preposterous. The greatest minds of every facet of human endeavor have tried and failed to be so succinct. Instead, I'll provide criticism on the touted performances of the film's two leads because they are catching all the headlines right now instead of the subject matter that would have been a shade more formidable a decade ago. No one had as successful of a 2015 as Alicia Vikander, the ingénue who broke in with "Ex Machina", a fantastic science-
fiction film that stunned art house crowds in the Spring. As a sentient machine, she proved that love and longing were as strong as cunning and desire. Her first big budget picture was "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", a stylish remake of the '60s TV series that failed to connect in any way whatsoever with audiences in August. She is the undercard to her co-star in this movie, but I thought she had the best performance in the picture. I speak of Eddie Redmayne, the only actor who maybe had a bigger 2015 than Vikander. He won the Oscar for playing Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything" and was announced as the lead in next year's "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", the return to the "Harry Potter" universe. He even avoided the stigma that comes with
crap-tastic roles like his villainous royal in February's abysmal "Jupiter Ascending". So, we're agreed, right? These two are primed for some great project to do together? I thought Tom Hooper's "The Danish Girl" might be that movie, but I was sad to find it a thin and fictitious account of a truly interesting tale of finding oneself in the modern world. Redmayne's Einar Wegener is a talented landscapes painter living in Copenhagen in 1925 with his artist wife Gerda (Vikander) when he begins to notice a change in himself that has obviously been a long time in building. With little foreshadowing and seemingly no basis in character development, Einar is stricken with a growing need to live his life as Lili Elbe, the woman he feels himself to be on the inside. He uses his delicate features
and timid nature to outwardly build himself into the shy Lili. Credit Redmayne's natural skill for being able to come across as feminine when different actors might not have been able to carry the range. As Lili emerges - at first to the kinky delight of Gerda - Einar is lost to a world that has expectations of him. Worse, his double life is manifesting itself into physical sickness as he lives a lie from day to day. The medical world at the time was ill-equipped to handle either the physiological or emotional tolls that were being paid by the young artist. Fleeing Denmark and persecution, Einar/Lili and Gerda flee to Paris where thinking is freer and help is less inclined to result in straightjackets. Together the pair (more accurately a trio in most sequences), join up with Einar's
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childhood friend, Hans (Matthias Schoenaerts), and a cutting edge doctor (Sebastian Koch) who thinks he can help Lili by helping Einar become the first person to have gender reassignment surgery. So there it is. The movie is fact-based, but highly influenced by artistic license into something that almost isn't distinguishable from the true events that forms its framework. And where are we now? I dare say that human beings are as far from understanding their place in the pantheon of sexual expression as they've ever been. This eagerly anticipated film has only muddled that idea further. " T h e D a n i s h G i r l " r u n s 11 9 minutes and is rated R for some sexuality and full nudity. I give this film one star out of four.
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Music Tuning in Sheldon Classics series set to begin
The Sheldon presents with Bjorn Ranheim, Shawn Weil and Friends on The Sheldon Classics series, Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 8 p.m. in the perfect acoustics of the Sheldon Concert Hall. Cellist Bjorn Ranheim and violinist Shawn Weil, members of the St. Louis Symphony and genre-defying acoustic quartet, The 442s, present an eclectic program in collaboration with musical friends. The program includes virtuosic duos by Kodály and Stefan Freund, Schoenfield's sparkling “Café Music” with pianist Peter Henderson, and a new work by composer Adam Maness for The 442s and vocalist Brian Owens. Also featured will be the premiere of a commissioned piece by University of Missouri-Columbia student Erin Hoerchler. Cellist Bjorn Ranheim, who was appointed to the St. Louis Symphony (SLSO) in 2005, also holds the principal chair of the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder, Colorado, and is a member of the Sun Valley Summer Symphony in Idaho. He has performed and toured with the orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Cleveland and Detroit, and has held principal and assistant principal cello positions with the New World Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra and Aspen Festival Orchestra. Ranheim i s h i g h l y v i s i b l e t h ro u g h o u t the St. Louis region, presenting recitals, educational programs, and chamber music performances. He is a member of the Chamber Music Society of St. Louis and Washington University’s Eliot Piano Trio with St. Louis Symphony Concertmaster David Halen, and pianist Seth Carlin. A native of Chicago, Shawn Weil was appointed to the St. Louis Symphony in April 2005. Weil is a violinist with the Sun Valley Summer Symphony and, for four seasons, was co-concertmaster of the New World Symphony. During his tenure at the New World Symphony, he was invited to represent the institution in chamber music performances domestically in Manhattan and the Hamptons, and internationally in Prague, Rome and Monte Carlo. He has collaborated with Michael Tilson Thomas, David Robertson, Alasdair Neale and the Miami String Quartet. An active educator and mentor, Weil is on the violin faculty of Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina, and is frequently involved with the Education and Community Partnership Program of the SLSO. Special guests The 442s are an acoustic instrumental quartet named for the modern standard tuning of 442 Hertz. The group features Bjorn Ranheim and Shawn Weil, along with Sydney Rodway on bass and mulit-instrumentalist Adam Maness, who brings the group together with innovative and inspired compositions. This unique collaboration, formed in the spring of 2012, explores the boundaries of jazz, classical, folk and rock music. Tickets are $30 orchestra/$25 balcony/$15 student, and are on sale now through MetroTix at 314534-1111, through The Sheldon’s website at TheSheldon.org, or in person at The Fox Theatre Box Office, 534 N. Grand Blvd. For more information, call The Sheldon at 314533-9900 or visit TheSheldon.org.
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McMurtry to perform at The Sheldon
To u r i n g i n s u p p o r t o f Complicated Game, his first new album in six years, James McMurtry makes his Sheldon debut, performing some of the most heralded folk music of his career. Considered "America's fiercest songwriter" by CNN, Grammy nominated singer/ songwriter McMurtry uses poignant, literate storytelling to make the characters he sings about come alive. McMurtry has inspired and worked with artists such as Jason Isbell, Robert Earl Keen and John Mellencamp, and is a staple on the Americana Music charts. With multiple Americana Music Awards and a 25+ year career to his credit, McMurtry’s vast catalog of lyrics - with topics both personal and political – continue to ring true. McMurtry will perform on March 25, 2016 at 8 p.m. at the Sheldon Concert Hall Tickets are $27 orchestra/$22 balcony. Call MetroTix at 314-5341111 or visit TheSheldon.org.
The Sheldon to host Tom Chapin
T h e S h e l d o n p re s e n t s To m Chapin, Friday, January 22 at 8 p.m. in the perfect acoustics of the Sheldon Concert Hall. Tom Chapin has been called “one of the great personalities in contemporary folk music” by The New York Times, a claim supported by a career that spans five decades, over 20 albums, and three Grammy Awards. A creative and diverse singer/songwriter hailing from the musically prominent Chapin family that includes late brother Harry and father Jim, a jazz drummer, Tom
Chapin promises an evening of heartfelt, insightful folk music. Chapin was born in 1945 in New York City. He starred in the ABC TV series “Make a Wish,” which ran from 1971 until 1976, and in 1976, released a solo LP, Life Is Like That. In 1979, he issued Mother Earth, entering the scene as a children’s entertainer, though his music for kids has been equally embraced by adults and children alike. Much of Chapin’s music is rooted in the folk tradition of Pete Seeger and the Weavers, however he has also written several blues songs. His music often features the syncopated rhythms of Latin music, and Chapin often includes one classical piece with each children’s album. In 2015, in recognition of his 70th birthday, Sundance records issued his folk album 70. The album features backup by collaborators Jon Cobert and Micahel Mark, as well as Guy Davis, John Guth and the Chapin Sisters. Single tickets are $40 orchestra/$35 balcony. Tickets are on sale now through MetroTix at 314-534-1111, through The Sheldon’s website at TheSheldon.org, or in person at The Fox Theatre Box Office, 534 N. Grand Blvd. For a VIP concert experience, All-Access tickets are available by calling 314-533-9900, ext. 17. For more information, call The Sheldon at 314533-9900 or visit TheSheldon.org.
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The 2016 Experience Hendrix Tour will stop at the Fox Theatre for an 8 p.m. show on March 8. Live at the Fabulous Fox Tuesday, March 8 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $100, $85, $60, $50, $40, $30 and are available online at metrotix.com, by calling 314-5341111, or in person at the Fabulous
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Fox Box Office. Hailed by critics and fans alike as the ‘Guitar Event Of The Year,’ the multi-artist celebration known as the Experience Hendrix Tour is set to return in 2016. These special concert performances present legendary artists who join together to pay homage to Jimi Hendrix. This next edition of the Experience Hendrix Tour will encompass twenty seven performances this coming February and March, stopping in more than two dozen cities along the east coast, midwest and southern states. Now in its second decade, the tour celebrates the musical genius of Jimi Hendrix by bringing together a diverse array of extraordinary musicians, ranging from blues legend Buddy Guy to Black Label Society and former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde, as well as Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Eric Johnson, Dweezil Zappa and many others. Billy Cox, bassist for both the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Band of Gypsys, anchors a rhythm section that provides the foundation for exciting renditions of such signature Hendrix favorites as “Purple Haze” and “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”. Jimi Hendrix was a pioneer i n b o t h ro c k a n d b l u e s , a n d expanded the possibilities of what could be achieved with the electric guitar, forever altering the course of music history. Likewise, the Experience Hendrix Tour is
developing a rich history of its own. By 2004, the first Experience Hendrix Tour came to fruition with a three-date string of shows on the west coast, starting in Hendrix’s hometown of Seattle. By 2008, the Experience Hendrix Tour had become a full-fledged, coast-tocoast expedition that continues to date, without showing any signs of slowing down Audiences are presented the opportunity to see great artists paying homage to Hendrix and collaborating with each other in ways they’d never do in their own live shows. “It is such an honor to be asked back for another run,” says blues/gospel/ rock guitar prodigy Jonny Lang, who has played every tour since 2008. “The music of Jimi Hendrix speaks to each of us in indelible ways. It’s another chance to celebrate his legacy.” Multiple Grammy-winner and 2015 Kennedy Center honoree Buddy Guy, who was both an inspiration to as well as a personal friend of Jimi’s, is also ecstatic to partake in his sixth Experience Hendrix Tour. The stance he takes is akin to that of a missionary: “Jimi Hendrix was one of the greatest guitar players ever and we all need to keep his music alive.” "It's an honor to celebrate Jimi Hendrix's legacy and greatness with so many other amazing players, who have become great friends and family to me,” echoes Zakk Wylde.
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The Bad Plus, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Kevin Griffin from Better Than Ezra, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m. Ty l e r B r a d f o r d Wr i g h t , w / Deaf By Audio, Noji, Cicero's, University City, 7:00 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 8
92.3 WIL Hot Country Nights, Presented by FORD- Dan + Shay The Bad Plus, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m Lil Reese, Pops, Sauget, Doors 7:00 p.m. Jake's Leg, Cicero's, University City, Doors 8:30 p.m. Life on Mars, w/ Murphy and the Death Rays, Without MF Order, Stinkbomb, Josh Violent The Banjo Rat, The Demo, St. Louis, Doors 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 9
The Bad Plus, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. The Lion's Daughter “ E x i s t e n c e i s H o r ro r ” R e l e a s e Show, w/Black Fast, Fister, Hell Night, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m. Memories of Elvis, feat, Steve Davis & The Midsouth Revival, w/Rivertown Sound & Double Tr o u b l e , T h o m a s H i c k e y a s B u d d y H o l l y, A n n a B l a i r a s Patsy Cline, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 6:00 p.m. The Road to Pointfest 2016, Pops, Sauget, Doors 6:30 p.m. Butterfly Boomerang p re s e n t s , C o l l i d e r, F o rg e t t i n g Jan., The Scamps, Bucko Toby, Strikes Back, Zach DeMarco, Cicero's, University City, 7:00 p.m. Ty p h o o n J a c k s o n , w / I a n Mcgowan and The Good Deeds, Marie and The Americans, The Demo, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, Jan. 10
Crucible, w/Toothgrinder, Ghost Key, Lo And Behold, Formations, Another Day Drowning, FUBAR, St. Louis, Doors 6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 12
University City, 7:00 p.m. Charly Bliss, w/Bruiser Queen, Town Cars, The Demo, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m. Wi l d B e l l e , w / Wi l d h o n e y, The Ready Room, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.
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92.3 WIL Hot Country Nights, Presented by Ford – Eric Paslay, Ballpark Village, St. Louis, 6:00 p.m. S y m p h o n y W h e r e Yo u Worship, Second Baptist Church, Richmond Heights, 7:00 p.m. B r a i n w a v e s , w / F re e t h i n k e r, BlueBerry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m. Falling Fences, Wildey Theater, Edwardsville, 7:00 p.m. Local Cover/Unplugged, Pop's, Sauget, Doors 6:30 p.m. Fight for Midnight, w/Jeske Park, Phi, Ghost, The Public, Cicero's, University City, 7:00
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Woodstock celebrates connection to Bill Murray film For The Edge Every day is Groundhog Day in Woodstock, Ill., and if you're among the millions of fans who view the classic film "Groundhog Day" over and over again, this McHenry County town 50 miles northwest of Chicago is throwing a wintertime party you'll not want to miss. Woodstock is where the movie starring Bill Murray and Andie McDowell was filmed in 1992, and since its release the following year, it has acquired a cult-like following. In the movie, Murray woke up here morning after morning after morning, and you can, too, during Woodstock's "Groundhog Days" festival, January 24 through February 2. Groundhog Days celebrates the making of the movie, when the town stood in for Punxsutawney, Pa., home of the legendary forecasting rodent. Things get off to a sparkling start at 6 p.m., Thursday, Jan 28,
with the Awakening of the Groundhog Ceremony at the Woodstock Opera House. Celebrations conclude with Woodstock Willie's official prognostication at sunrise on Tuesday, Feb. 2, in Woodstock Square, followed by the Groundhog Day Breakfast and walking tours of filming sites. In between, events include: Groundhog Trivia Contest. Woodstock Willie's Wine Party. Groundhog Day Dinner Dance. Groundhog Tales with Emmy-winning storyteller Jim May. Chili Cook-Off. Groundhog Bowling. Rotary Bag Toss Tournament. 'Switchback' Concert with Celtic music & dancers. Lion's Club Pancake Breakfast. The Making of Groundhog Day (movie memorabilia exhibit). District 200 Education Foundation Dinner & Auction
Groundhog Day Movie Symposium. Drink to World Peace. Groundhog Day Movie Showings. Walking Tours of Filming Sites. During events in Woodstock Square and on the walking tour, step on a plaque that reads "Bill Murray Stepped Here," set into the spot where the actor plunged into a huge slush puddle in the movie. The walking tour includes 14 sites where memorable movie scenes such as that were shot. A favorite is the exquisitely appointed Royal Victorian Manor Bed & Breakfast, portrayed in the movie as the Cherry Street Inn, the boarding house where Murray woke up over and over and over again Most Groundhog Days events are free, but some require tickets purchased in advance. For a full list of events, dates and times, log on to www.woodstockgroundhog.org. Plan an Overnight in Woodstock and McHenry County Woodstock is located an easy driving
distance from Chicago, Rockford, and Milwaukee. Woodstock Square is located 1 mile west of the intersection of Lake St. and Ill. Rte. 47, just 12 miles north of I-90. For an even more enjoyable experience, take Metra for relaxing travel to Woodstock! The Woodstock Station is in the heart of downtown, within walking distance of all Groundhog Days events. Complete Metra schedules can be found at www.metrarail. com. McHenry County is just an hour's drive northwest of Chicago, bordered on the north by Wisconsin, and on the south by I-90. The Fox River winds down from the Chain of Lakes through the towns on the eastern side of the county, while country roads meander the western side. For visitor information, including links to the above attractions, plus lodging and dining options throughout McHenry County, go to www.VisitMcHenryCounty.com or phone 815893-6280. Follow on Twitter and Facebook.
Pictured above is Woodstock's official Groundhog Day Ceremony. At left, Willie the Groundhog poses with members of the Red Hat Society. Photos for The Edge.
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Travel It's a shoppers' paradise, too There's more to the Lake of the Ozarks than water sports For The Edge When most people think of Central Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks, generally on-the-water activities like boating or fishing come to mind. Or, the area's two state parks or 14 championship golf courses. But, in a recent multistate survey of over 2,000 visitors, the activity most people participate in while staying at the "Best Recreational Lake" in the nation is... shopping! From kitschy souvenir shops to top brand-name outlet stores and from antique shops to specialty boutiques, plus nationally known retailers and "big box" stores, the Lake of the Ozarks is a shopper's paradise. Visitors can find everything they need and even a few things they didn't know they needed at the Lake. Of course, browsers are welcome, too. Osage Beach Premium Outlets Located off Osage Beach Parkway in Osage Beach, this 61-acre, 13-building shopping "city" is Missouri's premier (and largest) outlet center. It features more than 110 top-name manufacturer outlets that sell directly to the consumers, offering quality and bargains in clothing, housewares, electronics, shoes and personal items. Some of the most popular shops at the mall include The Gap, J. Crew, Brooks Brothers, Polo/Ralph Lauren, Liz Claiborne, BCBG Maxazria, Banana Republic, Eddie Bauer, Nike, Adidas, Levi's, Clarks, Coach Leatherware, Le Creuset, Mikasa and more. Extended hours are offered during the Christmas season and special sales are offered throughout the year. Customers at Premium Outlets can save anywhere from 25 percent to 65 percent off re g u l a r p r i c e s . F o r s h o p p e r s looking for a bite to eat as well as great deals, the center is home to several snack shops and a handful of restaurants are in close proximity as well. Osage Beach Premium Outlets is open throughout the year. For more information, including a complete store directory and hours of operation, visit www. PremiumOutlets.com/Osage/, or call 573-348-2065. The Landing on Main Street
What first started as a homemade candy and gift store in the '50s, has transformed into a quaint Victorianthemed shopping village with over 20 different shops, complete with wooden sidewalks, a water wheel and wishing well. When Les and Geanie Blair first purchased the land in 1959, they were looking to move their confection operation out of their basement and bring it to the public. Over the years, the family built up the village around the original candy story, now named Blair & Company Confectionery, and added boutique shops - including clothing, shoes, hand-made crafts, jewelry, antiques, candles and home decor - as well as a bakery, tea room and more. The Landing on Main Street is now one of the most popular shopping centers in the Lake area. Three
generations of Blairs are still very much involved in the operation and visitors can visit the original candy store to watch as the confectioners make sweet treats from scratch, and sample and purchase what's been made. In addition to all of the shops, there is the Main Street Music Hall, which offers two entertaining variety shows throughout the year and a special Christmas show during the holiday season. And, several bistros offering soups, sandwiches, sweets and other provisions are also interspersed throughout the village. The Landing on Main Street, located at 5845 Osage Beach Parkway in Osage Beach, is open throughout the year. For more information, visit www. FunLake.com/the-landing-on-mainstreet, or call 573-348-5101. Boutiques, Antiques and More
Visitors to the Lake will enjoy finding that special something at various boutiques and specialty shops sprinkled around the area. Dozens of antique and vintage shops sell immaculate treasurers f ro m y e s t e r y e a r. H a n d - m a d e jewelry, fine art, housewares and crafts are easy to find. Looking for fine Amish furniture, nauticali n s p i re d d e c o r, E u ro p e a n o r Mexican imports, exotic plants, souvenir T-shirts or hand-sewn moccasins? You can find it all and then some at the Lake of the Ozarks. Bagnell Dam Boulevard The historic, mile-long Bagnell Dam Strip, adjacent to Bagnell Dam in Lake Ozark, is the original tourist area of the Lake and features a funky, retro vibe. One of the original, oversized "Muffler Men," a towering fiberglass icon of the 1960s, welcomes shoppers as they travel across the Bagnell Dam and enter the heart of "The Strip." The string of shops here includes specialty stores like Leather Man, which specializes in customized leather goods and apparel; Grandma's Candy Kitchen, home to rich, homemade chocolates and 20 flavors of its award-winning fudge; and, Summer USA, the Lake's go-to source for swimwear. For vintage hounds, there's Richard's Relic Shack, which offers a unique selection of Native American jewelry, blankets, arrowheads and more; and A Vintage Boutique, home to one of the largest selections of antique and designer jewelry and accessories in the Midwest. The Dogpatch store, which opened in 1947 and has become a Lake institution, is the longest continually operated store at the Lake. Generations of visitors return to bring their children and grandchildren to hear the welcoming "howdy" from the hillbilly mannequin seated in the store's rocking chair. Dogpatch features an assortment of Ozark souvenirs and gifts, classic
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Americana memorabilia and just about everything in-between. Shop and Stay Packages Just how popular is shopping at the Lake of the Ozarks? Well, let's just say that many shoppers make repeat trips to the Lake and even build entire weeks and/or weekends out of hunting for the perfect gifts or the hard-to-find "somethings" they've been looking for. Many of the Lake area lodging properties offer "Shop and Stay" or "Shop 'til You Drop" packages that include coupon books to the Osage Beach Premium Outlets worth hundreds of dollars in savings, and some even throw in a pre-paid gift card for up to $50. Most of the Lake's main shopping centers are conveniently located within a short drive or even a short walk from the various lodging properties. To find more information on the different lodging options - including fullservice luxury resorts, family-owned resorts, bed and breakfasts, hotels, motels, condominium and home rentals, campgrounds and RV parks - visit the "Accommodations" page on www.FunLake.com. To find out more about shopping, accommodations, as well as re s t a u r a n t s a n d y e a r- a ro u n d attractions at the "Best Recreational Lake" in the nation, call the Lake of the Ozarks Convention & Visitor Bureau (CVB) at 800-FUN-LAKE, or visit the CVB's award-winning website www.FunLake.com.
Above, Camden on the Lake Resort is one of many Lakearea lodging properties to offer "Shop and Stay Packages." At left, The Landing on Main Street is one of the most popular shopping centers at the Lake. Photos courtesy of the Beenders-Walker Group.
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Travel Museum of Science and Industry adds The Art of the Bicycle For The Edge Bikes, bikes and more bikes! The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago (MSI)’s new permanent exhibit, The Art of the Bicycle, takes guests through the evolution of bike engineering in a beautiful gallery juxtaposing nine rare bicycles from the Museum’s collection with 14 of today’s most cutting-edge bikes on the market. This exhibit is included in general admission. Though the first bicycle design was simple, that initial spark of innovation inspired creative minds to invent a personal form of transportation that continues to evolve today. This exhibit will inspire guest’s inner-inventor as they traverse through the displays, gaining a sense of how bicycle engineering has advanced during an almost 200-year span. “This exhibit highlights the ‘inventive genius’ that has helped the bicycle become one of the m o s t p o p u l a r, e n j o y a b l e a n d environmentally-friendly forms of transportation,” said Kathleen McCarthy, the Museum’s director of collections. “The bike is special in that the changes made to its engineering were mainly made by its riders, who were continually inspired to improve designs and make the machine more safe, reliable and adaptable.” Historic bikes on display include: A replica of an 1818 Draisiene Wa l k i n g M a c h i n e , f r o m t h e Museum’s collection is the forerunner to today’s bicycles. The machine had a wooden frame and metal wheel rims, but no pedals; riders would move the machine by pushing away from the ground using their feet. The Kirkpatrick McMillan—a 1931 replica from the Museum’s collection—was originally introduced in 1839. Invented by Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick McMillan, this bike changed
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the way the world thought of transportation when he added pedals to his version of the “walking machine.” The American Star High Wheel, a model from the late 1800s, has a small wheel in front and a large wheel in back. The pedal moves up and down rather than in a circular motion. The High Wheel provided a smooth ride, but at the expense of safety and maneuverability; riders could easily go “head over heels” if they hit a bump. The Safety Bicycle, from the late 1880s and early 1900s allowed for a more reliable, mass-produced mode of transportation—and was easy for women to ride, too. In fact, its invention prompted women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony to state: “The bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.” The 1965 Sears Spaceliner highlights America’s infatuation with outer space during this time; the Spaceliner ’s sleek lines and chrome finish appealed to the nation’s interest in rockets and spacecraft. Current bikes on display include: The fully functioning Cardboard Bicycle, created by Israeli inventor Izhar Gafni, is a one-of-a-kind prototype made for this exhibit. Despite being made of cardboard, it’s waterproof, fireproof and even has brake and pedal mechanisms made out of recyclable materials. Soon to be on the market for only $20, it could be an affordable transportation option for many. Hybrid-electric cars are increasingly popular and now motorcycles can be hybrids, too! The new PiMobility Electric Hybrid bike can operate as motorcycle, a bicycle, or both. The frame of the 2013 Cannondale Super6 EVO is so lightweight it weighs a remarkable one-and-a-half pounds. Made from governmentapproved, ballistic-grade BallisTec
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carbon fiber, it shows how engineers continue to push the boundaries of bicycle design and performance. The ElliptiGO 8S is the Draisiene “Walking Machine” of today. This interesting cross between a bike
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and elliptical trainer, allows riders to take the experience of an indoor elliptical to the outdoors. Users stand during their ride, moving their feet in smooth circular motions to propel the bike forward. The 2012 Surly Moonlander was designed to go where most bikes and their riders wouldn’t dare. Created for riders seeking extreme environments and unique terrains, its extra-wide tries provide greater traction on sand, gravel, snow and ice. The TERN Collapsible Commuter 2013 model is an easy-to-fold bike perfect for urban commuters to store in an office, train or even in a suitcase. “As guests will see in our exhibit, there is now a bicycle means to fit almost every need, terrain or riding style” said McCarthy. About the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago (MSI) The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago (MSI), one of the largest science museums i n t h e w o r l d , o ff e r s w o r l d class and uniquely interactive experiences that inspire inventive genius and foster curiosity. From groundbreaking and awardwinning exhibits that can’t be found anywhere else, to hands-on opportunities that make you the scientist—a visit to MSI is where fun and learning mix. Through its Center for the Advancement of Science Education (CASE), the Museum offers a variety of student, teacher and family programs that make a difference in communities and contribute to MSI’s larger vision: to inspire and motivate children to achieve their full
potential in science, technology, medicine and engineering. Come visit and find your inspiration! MSI is open 9:30–4 p.m. every day except Thanksgiving and Christmas day. Extended hours, until 5:30 p.m., are offered during peak periods. The Museum is grateful for the support of its donors and guests, who make its work possible. MSI is also supported in part by the people of Chicago through the Chicago Park District. For more information, visit msichicago.org or call (773) 684-1414 or (800) GO-TO-MSI outside of the Chicago area.
Above, the American Star High Wheel bike, from the late 1800s, provided a smooth ride, but at the expense of safety and maneuverability. Riders could easily go “head over heels” if traveling over even the smallest bump. At left, the fully functioning Cardboard Bicycle is a one-of-a-kind prototype made special for this exhibit Photos by J.B. Spector, Museum of Science and Industry.
Religion Religion briefs Kentucky gov removes names of clerks from marriage licenses
Bevin said he issued the executive order to "ensure that the sincerely held religious beliefs of all Kentuckians are honored."
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has ordered the state to prepare new marriage licenses that do not include the names of county clerks in an attempt to protect the religious beliefs of Kim Davis and other local elected officials. In a news release Tuesday, the state's new Republican governor said he has issued an executive order directing the Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives to issue the revised marriage license forms to all county clerks. Davis, the Rowan County clerk, spent five days in jail for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses because she said doing so would violate her Christian beliefs. Attorney Laura Landenwich, who represents same-sex couples suing Davis, says Bevin may have exceeded his legal authority. She says Kentucky statutes "require that the clerk's name appear on the license itself."
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Abbott gets mock nativity scene removed from Texas Capitol
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has succeeded in getting a holiday display featuring some American Founding Fathers and the Bill of Rights in a manger removed from the state Capitol. The "winter solstice" display was created by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which promotes the separation of church and state. It showed Benjamin Franklin, the Statue of Liberty, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington peering down at the Bill of Rights, and was approved for display by the State Preservation Board. Christmas trees and other holiday decorations are displayed at the Capitol. But the manger scene was removed Tuesday after Abbott called it a "juvenile parody" whose
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U.S. Muslim leaders organize in response to bias, harassment
WASHINGTON (AP) — American Muslim leaders are planning voter registration drives and open-house days at mosques to fight a rise in anti-Muslim harassment. U.S. Muslim leaders also pledged to counter recruitment efforts by extremists such as the Islamic State group. The plans were announced Monday in Washington, one day after an emergency summit on anti-Muslim bias drew about 100 leaders from across the country. Among the participants were the Council on AmericanIslamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America and the Muslim Public Affairs Council.
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figures represented a "replacement for Jesus Christ." Abbott recently urged the city of Orange, Texas, to keep a traditional city hall nativity scene despite opponents' threats of legal challenges.
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People People planner Grafton Eagle Festival planned
The Grafton Chamber of Commerce invites the public to experience an exciting opportunity to give one of America’s most iconic creatures an up-close and personal view. Grafton Eagle Festival will occur on and January 23, 2016. “We appreciate this great bird for many reasons, Grafton Mayor Tom Thompson said. “Not only is it the symbol of our country and great American patriotism, but it is a part of the wildlife right here in our own backyard. We are very grateful to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and the World Bird Sanctuary for helping us offer everyone the chance to see this magnificent bird.” Spotting Scopes will be available at the Loading Dock, the 3rd Chute Bar and Grill and t h e G r a f t o n Vi s i t o r s ’ C e n t e r. The Loading Dock also has an ice skating rink. Children’s craft activities will be available at the 3rd Chute Bar and Grill from 11 a.m. till 2 p.m. “ T h e e a g l e s a re b e a u t i f u l , ” said Kathy Draper, Owner of 3rd Chute Bar and Grill. “You need to see them in person. They just have an amazing effect on people. We’ve decorated an entire room with eagle pictures. It’s called the ‘Eagle’s Nest.’ People can view the items and even eat in there.” S p o n s o r e d b y t h e Wo r l d Bird Sanctuary, up-close eagle viewing will be available from Noon-3pm at the Grafton Visitors’ Center. Pictures with the Eagle can be taken for a small donation. The City of Grafton is pleased to sponsor the IDNR presentation: FISH-N-EAGLES: The Wintering Bald Eagle and the Fish They Eat. 11am-1pm at City Hall. Visitors will learn to distinguish between a mature Eagle and a juvenile Eagle and learn about fishing opportunities the area has to offer. The program also includes a short video and refreshments. With the curving and bending o f t h e G re a t R i v e r s N a t i o n a l Scenic Byway, Grafton, Illinois
( w w w. e n j o y g r a f t o n . c o m ) i s making its appeal as the premier draw for visitors seeking to view an eagle in the wild. Grafton a l s o o ff e r s a re a l r i v e r t o w n experience, unique shopping, succulent dining, authentic lodging and water recreation. On the National Scenic Byway, Grafton and its panoramic views are one of the ten best drives in the United States. Grafton representatives are ready to help individuals, couples or families plan the perfect getaway to Grafton. “We’re the unique getaway that’s only minutes away. Most of us know stories of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn and the great paddlewheel boats, and we have it all here. Grafton is connected with that lifestyle of how people lived in the early days, but in addition there are activities for the kids like eagle
Titles added to McKendree film series
The Hettenhausen Center for the Arts at McKendree University has added three recent releases to its Film Series in 2016: Feb. 1, 7:30 p.m.: “Straight Outta Compton” – A biographical drama about the group N.W.A., which emerged from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles in the mid1980s and revolutionized hip hop culture. Co-presented with Campus Activities Board (2015, rated R; 147 min.) Feb. 21, 2 and 7 p.m.: “Bridge of Spies” - During the Cold War,
an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for a Soviet-captured American U2 spy plane pilot. Starring Tom Hanks, directed by Steven Spielberg. (2015, rated PG-13; 141 min.) April 3, 2 and 7 p.m.: “The Revenant” - In the 1820s, frontiersman Hugh Glass survives a bear mauling and a vicious winter as he sets out on a path of vengeance against members of his hunting team who left him for dead. Leonardo DiCaprio stars. (2016, rated R; 156 min.) “ We ’ v e h a d m u c h s u c c e s s bringing current movies to the Hett during award season,” said Peter Palermo, director of the Hettenhausen Center. “This year’s offerings are all early favorites to bring home Oscars and Golden Globes.” Admission is free for McKendree
University students, faculty and staff members and $5 for the general public. There is no charge for the following: January 27, 7 p.m.: “The Devil’s Backbone” – Set during the last week of the bloody Spanish Civil War, a sensitive boy is sent to an isolated orphanage full of dark secrets, horrors, and the dead. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. (2001, rated R; 106 min.) March 23, 7 p.m.: “We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks” – A fascinating, no-holds-barred documentary about the birth of controversial website WikiLeaks and its outlaw creator, Julian Assange. (2013, rated R; 130 min.) Some films contain adult themes or language and may not be appropriate for everyone. The series is sponsored by the Leon and Helen Church Family Foundation. For more information, visit theHett. com, or call 618-537-6863.
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People People planner King's daughter to speak at annual Abraham Lincoln Symposium Banquet
Bernice A. King, the daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, will be the featured speaker at the annual Abraham Lincoln Association Symposium Banquet on Friday, February 12 in Springfield. Ms. King will accept the Association's Spirit of Lincoln Award on behalf of her parents and will speak on the topic, “Lincoln, King and the Civil Rights Movement.” The banquet, held to observe the 207th birthday of Abraham Lincoln, will be held at the President Abraham Lincoln Hotel in downtown Springfield. A reception starts at 6 p.m. followed by dinner at 7 p.m. Tickets are $85 each and can be obtained online at www. abrahamlincolnassociation.org or by calling (866) 865-8500. Bernice A. King is the Chief Executive Officer of The King Center, which was founded by her mother in 1968. Born the youngest daughter of the late Coretta Scott King and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther K i n g , J r. , B e r n i c e b e g a n h e r oratorical journey when she spoke in her mother’s stead at the United Nations at age 17. On January 30, 2007, the first anniversary of her mother’s death, Bernice returned to her alma mater at Spelman College to announce the establishment of the “Be A King Scholarship in honor of Coretta Scott King.” This came about after she served as a law clerk in the Fulton County, Georgia Juvenile Court system, where Bernice perceived that a growing number of teens have been victims of society and of an ineffective legal system based on retribution instead of rehabilitation. Bernice spearheaded the Washington, D.C. commemoration on August 28, 2013, the 50th Anniversary of the March on Wa s h i n g t o n a n d h e r f a t h e r ’ s famous “I Have A Dream” speech. She founded Be A King, whose mission is to re-brand and re-image generations of people to elevate the way they Think, Act, Live, and Lead. Bernice received the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Advocate Award from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc. She has written Hard Questions, Heart Answers: Speeches and Sermons. The banquet is one of many activities scheduled each year to commemorate Lincoln's birthday. The annual Abraham Lincoln Association-Benjamin Thomas Symposium begins Thursday, February 11 at 7 p.m. in the Old State Capitol Hall of Representatives with a free presentation by author and Lincoln historian Douglas L. Wilson on “Herndon in His Own Voice.” The Symposium, which is free and open to the public, continues Friday, February 12 with the George L. Painter Looking for Lincoln Lecture from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the Lincoln Home Visitor Center featuring “Lincoln and Mormon Country” presented by Bryon C. Andreasen. “Lincoln, Immigrants, and the Atlantic World” will be presented at 11 a.m. by Jason Silverman and Louise Stevenson in the Old State Capitol's Hall of Respresentatives. T h e T h o m a s F. S c h w a r t z Symposium luncheon, which begins
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this immersive exhibit, visitors will be able to engage in the exploration of Mars by actually learning how to program rovers that are modeled like the real rovers that are on the planet right now. We hope this one-ofa-kind exhibit ignites curiosity and inspires our younger visitors to continue to support and participate in space exploration.” Guests have two portions of the exhibit to choose from to begin their Mars experience. In the Saint Louis Science Center ’s main building (located at 5050 Oakland), guests can engage with on e area of th e exhibit, named Mission: Mars – Control.
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People Owl expert conducts local program By STEVE HORRELL shorrell@edwpub.net That Owl Guy was at it again. The Owl Guy had already given a talk on Oct. 1 at the Edwardsville Public Library about his favorite topic: the Great Horned Owl. It starred Sarah, the huge female, and her mate for more than a decade, Charles. For more than 10 years now, the Owl Guy – actually Mark H.X. Glenshaw, a leading expert on the hunting and feeding of the Great Horned Owl – has been speaking to groups about owls and leading what he calls Owl Prowls at Forest Park. On Saturday Glenshaw was in Edwardsville again, for an e a r l y a f t e r n o o n t a l k a t Wi l d Birds Unlimited, on Troy Road. Glenshaw told the dozen people who showed up that by the end of the year he will have led 70 Owl Prowls at Forest Park, each time spotting at least one owl. As he did at Edwardsville Library talk, Glenshaw showed still photos and video clips of owls, most of them of Sarah and Charles, and most showing them perched on tree limbs or swooping down from them. A remarkable clip began with Charles perched 70 feet atop a dying pine tree as rain started pouring down from the skies. Caught in a downpour, owls will tend to ignore it or, at best, ”just kind of work with it,” Glenshaw said as the video began unfolding. “ B u t C h a r l e s ” – a n d h e re Glenshaw slowed down for effect – “took . . . a . . . shower. Hold on to your hat when you see how he does this.” The microphone captured the rain shower and Charles’ response, which was to ever-so-slowly spread his wings and pivot slowly to capture the water. It was somewhat reminiscent of a peacock displaying for a peahen. The maneuvering drew gasps from the visitors. Glenshaw said he has seen it only once or twice in the past decade.
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Other were startling as well. Great Horned Owls are near the top of the food chain, and it’s hardly unusual for them to take down raccoons, wood ducks, skunks, and even the Snowy Owl and the Great Gray Owl, both larger than the Great Horned. As a result, their gizzards fill with fur, bones, feather, insect exoskeletons. Those are all ejected from the mouth in a quick movement known as “dropping a pellet.” They aren’t hurt, but it’s hardly pleasant,
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Glenshaw assured them. Any cat owners in the room? he asked. Several people raised their hands. “It’s intense, and they finally get it out, and they shake it off,” he said of the fur balls cats expel. “It’s very dramatic, and it should be scored with an aria by Puccini or Verdi,” At that point, Glenshaw lowered his voice and added, “And then, seconds later, they’re fine.” Glenshaw played that clip. The
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white area under Charles’s throat? That’s called a gular sack, he told them. “That’s g-u-l-a-r for those of you playing along at home,” he quipped. An obvious pellet came up the owl’s throat, causing the sack to visibly expand. When it expanded again, the bird leaned forward, and out came the pellet. The people seated in chairs edged forward towards the projector and screen. Glenshaw spoke about “duetting,” the term used to describe the acts of male and female owls who are near each other and hoot in turn. It serves a dual purpose, he said. Being territorial creatures, duetting is the owl’s way of telling intruders to stay out, or else. It’s used in courtship, and, later, to maintain the relationship and strengthen the bond. Charles has a classic male hoot, Glenshaw noted. “Few . . . low . . .long . . . deep notes,” is how he explained it. “Hoohoo-hoohoo.” Sarah has softer, shorter higher notes, and more of them. Glenshaw pursed his lips and made breathy sounds. “Hoohoohoo. hoohoohoo,hoo.” The visitors watched video clips showing Charles and Sarah hooting separately, then together. Sarah died recently, much to Glenshaw’s dismay. Any way you looked at it, Sarah was a great Great Horned Owl, as a mom, as a hunter, and as a protector. “Cream of the crop, A-plus, allstar, Oscar-winning Great Horned Owl,” he told the gathering. Earlier this year, most likely in late summer, Sarah died. In a Sept. 7 blog post with the mournful headline “Sarah is Gone,” Glenshaw detailed, in heart-wrenching detail, his search for her. Finally, after seven weeks of searching with nothing to show for it, he announced her death.
One of the most frustrating things about following Great Horned Owls is that little is actually known about them. Most notably, no one has put their finger on an average life expectancy. The research shows that it could be anywhere from 8 to 14 years. The oldest confirmed Great Horned Owl death was 28 years, 7 months. “ I often tell people that if I could ask the owls one question it would be, ‘How old are you?’ Glenshaw wrote in his blog, Forest Park Owls. Charles and Sarah are at least 11 to 14 years old, he wrote. Still, it’s quite possible they were older. “One of the unavoidable facts is that as the number of years that I observed and studied the owls happily grows and grows the number of years that the owls have to live sadly shrinks and shrinks. It is quite possible that Sarah died naturally of old age.”
Above, Sarah does a double wing stretch in Forest Park. At left, Charles, left, and Sarah perch in a tree in Forest Park in 2012. Photos for The Edge.
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A COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE has made this Associate a leader in the real estate market.
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