021518 Edge Magazine

February 15, 2018 Vol. 15 No. 25

St. Louis Home & Garden Show page 3

“Chicago” at The Fox page 14

You Gotta Eat page 26

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Home & Garden Show Event scheduled March 8 to March 11.

Pest management Taking care of your indoor plants.

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You Gotta Eat D’Arcy’s Pint in Springfield.

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What’s Happening Friday, February 16 Greg Fitzsimmons, Helium Comedy Club, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.

Hot Country Nights: Gary Allen, Ballpark Village St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

St. Louis Music Festival, Chaifetz Arena, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Welcome Home, The Weekend Classic, Intervention, Secondary, Free Parking, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Over The Rhine, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Singer-Songwriter Showcase, The Ready Room, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

The Humans presented by The Rep, LorettoHilton Center for Performing Arts, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs until March 4, 2018 Bud, Not Buddy, Grandel Theatre, St. Louis, Runs until February 25, 2018 Orchid Show, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Runs until March 25, 2018 Panoramas of the City, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until August 1, 2018 #1 in Civil Rights: the African American Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 14, 2018

Saturday, February 17 Greg Fitzsimmons, Helium Comedy Club, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.

The Great Backyard Bird Count, Gateway Arch Riverfront, St. Louis, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Firebird 9th Anniversary Party w/Hell Night, Valley, Spacetrucker, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Lil Xan, The Ready Room, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

The Humans presented by The Rep, Loretto-Hilton Center for Performing Arts, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs until March 4, 2018 Bud, Not Buddy, Grandel Theatre, St. Louis, Runs until February 25, 2018 Orchid Show, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Runs until March 25, 2018 Panoramas of the City, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until August 1, 2018 #1 in Civil Rights: the African American Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 14, 2018

Sunday, February 18 Blank Range, w/The Mindframes, Creamer, The Ready Room, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Rebelution, w/Raging Fyah, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

CWAH Charity Benefit feat. Johnny O’Neal, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 6:00 p.m.

The Humans presented by The Rep, Loretto- H ilton Cen ter f or Per f or min g Arts, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs until March 4, 2018 Bud, Not Buddy, Grandel Theatre, St. Louis, Runs until February 25, 2018 Orchid Show, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Runs until March 25, 2018 P a n o r a m a s o f t h e C i t y, M i s s o u r i Histor y Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until August 1, 2018 #1 in Civil Rights: the African American Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m.

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People Home & Garden Show returns to St. Louis For The Edge The 41st Annual Builders St. Louis Home & Garden Show returns to America’s Center Thursday, March 8 through Sunday, March 11.

One of the largest quality consumer home shows in North America, the Home & Garden Show gives area consumers the opportunity to see, learn about and buy the latest home products and services from nearly 400 companies under one roof. Local companies and hundreds of experts will help homeowners find just what they need to complete their next home project.

The Show is produced by the Home Builders Association of St. Louis.

The Builders Home & Garden Show is actually six shows in one, showcasing the latest in Lawn & Garden, Kitchen & Bath, Interior Design, Pool & Spa, New Construction and Home Products. More than 1,400 booths fill nearly 380,000 square feet and provide consumers with an excellent buying opportunity, competitive pricing and side-by-side comparison between companies. See patios, pools, lighting, decks, windows, doors, furniture and everything imaginable for the home, inside and out.

It’s a Garden Party!

Stroll through more than 2 5 , 0 0 0 s q u a re f e e t o f beautiful gardens and outdoor living spaces, with fabulous flowers, water features and the newest ideas and innovations from dozens of companies. The Belgard Challenge will

feature the latest hardscape products and design ideas and the opportunity to win a beautiful outdoor fireplace worth $5,200!

Plus, show visitors can get a demonstration of virtual reality through Belgard Design Studio, which allows homeowners to experience their new outdoor space during the design phase of the project.

Visit the Lifestyle Stage for seminars by nationally known gardening expert D o n E n g e b re t s o n , t h e R e n e g a d e G a r d e n e r.

Audiences will learn how to craft cool and creative containers, perfect for those with limited gardening space and discover tips and techniques for gardening to attract birds, bees and butterflies. Local home improvement experts will share information about “shouse” designs, the hot new trend in home building that combines a shop and a house in a complete design.

Tour an impressive 1,400 square foot contemporary home, built by Energy Panel Structures (EPS), with interior design by Yo u t o p i a D e s i g n s a n d beautiful finishes by local companies. This threebedroom, two-bath home is tailor-made to highlight a view, with walk-out patio doors from the great room, master suite and second bedroom and a see-through fireplace on the patio wall.

For those in the market for a new home, the New Construction Zone is the place to go to find the home of their dreams, whether they are looking to build or buy. There will

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A display at a previous Home & Garden Show.

be builders for large, small and custom homes, from the mid 100’s to 2 million or more, and information about subdivisions from all over the St. Louis metro area.

See a fun tiny home being built at the Show by students from the Carpenters Joint Apprenticeship Program.

At just 96 square feet, this adorable home boasts a small kitchenette and sleeping loft.

And speaking of tiny homes, show visitors can tour four tiny homes – on wheels! The Vintage Trailer Tour will feature f o u r q u i r k y, u n i q u e campers, brought to the Show by members of Sisters on the Fly, outdoor adventure group for women. Sisters on the Fly encourages women to get up, get out, become more

adventurous and have a more fulfilling life. The group offers a variety of adventure trips and many members have their own trailers. The fun trailers at the Show will include a 1968 Scout, a 1968 Shasta, a 1972 Shasta and a 1978 Scamp, restored and decked out with style.

Vi s i t t h e I ’ m S t i l l Gorgeous Designer Rooms, sponsored by St. Louis Homes & Lifestyles, for design ideas and inspiration. Beautiful, eclectic rooms created by local shops and artisans prove that rooms don’t need brand new furniture and accessories to be gorgeous.

The Home & Garden Show is always a fun destination for the whole family. Kids and adults alike will love Dock Diving Dog Shows,

presented by No Leash Needed. These talented performance dogs will make a splash diving into the pool, flying for frisbees and showing off their best tricks and obedience.

Volunteer to be a part of the show, cheer from the seats and stick around afterward to meet the furry stars of the show!

The Children’s Garden Club once again offers a variety of free projects for kids. They will enjoy fun, hands-on projects they can make at the Show and take home.

Area homeowners won’t want to plan or remodel their kitchen or bath until they visit the Kitchen & Bath Showcase to see the newest styles and design ideas in cabinetry, appliances, lighting, plumbing fixtures and countertops. A wide variety of pools and spas will be on display and ready for purchase in the Pool & Spa Showcase.

The Lawn & Garden Marketplace features a large selection of landscaping materials, equipment and supplies.

Memories of Elvis, the 16th Annual Flower Show, has creative floral designs based on popular songs by Elvis Presley and beautiful horticulture specimens.

The Interior Design Marketplace features furniture, window and wall treatments, flooring and accessories from across the country, with many products new to the area.

Come to the Show to register to win great items!

One lucky visitor will win

a $3,900 Backyard Prize Package from Swingset Factory Depot. Prize package includes a Toucan Fort Swingset and Ryval Basketball Hoop, with installation. The St. Louis - Kansas City Carpenters Regional Council is offering four show visitors the chance to win $2,500 toward the closing costs on a new home, with qualified builders (restrictions apply).

Show hours are T h u r s d a y, M a r c h 8 through Saturday, March 10, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and S u n d a y, M a rc h 11 , 1 0 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission price is $10 for adults, $4 for children ages six to twelve, and free for children five and under.

Adults can visit the Show after 5 p.m. for just $5!

Special show discounts are available with coupons from Schnucks.

Pre-purchase tickets online to receive $2 off adult admission any show day and included is a full year ’s subscription to Better Homes & Gardens (a value of $6).

Sponsored by American Family Insurance, Official Insurance Partner.

Discounted parking is available at select lots near America’s Center, with reserved parking available at some lots.

Visit the Show’s website for details and links to parking websites.

Valet parking will also be available for $20 at the main entrance to America’s Center on Washington Avenue.

For more information, visit STLHomeShow.com.

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People planner Circus Flora adds new show

Circus Flora is proud to introduce a brand-new show with dazzling acts that few St. Louis circus-goers have seen before.

“The Case of the Missing Bellhop” makes its debut April 19 (through May 13), as Circus Flora transports audiences to the famous Balding Hotel – a getaway for dignitaries and nobility from around the globe. At this exclusive hotel, staff and crew have unusual skills, and people go about their business with no questions asked. But when a beloved bellhop goes missing, the Balding begins to attract attention, secrets proliferate, and questions abound! What happened to the bellhop, and who knew about it?

“It’s always an honor to bring the world-class Circus Flora performers together under the Big Top each year,” said Artistic Director Jack Marsh. “This spring, we have the added excitement of welcoming everyone to our brandnew, permanent home in Grand Center for a one-of-a-kind mystery.”

Tickets are bound to go fast for the madcap adventure and they’re on sale January 19th at Metrotix.com, by calling 314534-1111, or in person at the Fabulous Fox Theater Box Office, located at 531 North Grand Boulevard. Ticket prices start at just $12, making the Circus a memorable and affordable outing for the whole family.

Performances of “The Case of the Missing Bellhop” take place Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings at 7 p.m.,

Saturday and Sunday afternoons at 1 p.m., and on Super Saver Sundays at 5:30 p.m. and Little Top Fridays at 10 a.m. (except April 20, 2018).

In order to ensure everyone can enjoy the magic, Circus Flora will present a Peanut-Free preview on Thursday, April 19, at 7 p.m. for guests affected by peanut allergies. On Wednesday, May 2, at 7 p.m., there will be a special onehour Sensory-Friendly performance for adults and children on the autism spectrum, as well as attendees with visual impairments or other sensory sensitivities.

All performances of “The Case of the Missing Bellhop” will take place at Circus Flora’s new, permanent location at 3401 Washington Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63103. For more information, please visit www.circusflora.org.

across the region.

Inside this convenient and eye-catching guide are feature stories as well as timely information on what’s new in St. Louis for 2018 including: • Gateway Arch grounds. Reimaged just for you, the Arch project transformation will be completed in July but locals and visitors alike are discovering there is much to enjoy right now.

Check out the guide’s two-page map on the new Gateway Arch grounds.

• The Loop Trolley. Opening this year, vintage-style cars glide along a 2.2 mile fixed route between The Loop and Forest Park.

• Sunken Cities: Egypt’s Lost Worlds. On March 25, the Saint Louis Art Museum will become the first North American art museum to tell the epic story of one of the greatest finds in the history of underwater archaeology. This exhibit runs through September 9.

Other guide highlights include articles on unforgettable attractions you’ll only find here, the many urban trails Explore St. Louis is pleased to announce the release of the 2018 Official St. Louis Visitors Guide, a convenient in the region, and an itinerary on gay-friendly, fun-filled and informative full-color publication filled with the latest St. Louis. In addition, there are stories on local artisans information on planning an excellent and exciting St. Louis and handcrafting, family activities to explore year-round and St. Louis signature foods. The 2018 Visitors Guide adventure.

Featuring the new Loop Trolley on the cover, this glossy also contains a colorful map on the museums of St. Louis, “Give your home a a calendar of events, insider tips, other maps, help on 104-page magazine offers a variety of suggestions on new great look, navigating the city, an abundance of listings and charts. a great price!” outstanding places to eat, shop, play and stay in St. Louisforand

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People planner Sheldon Art Galleries announces exhibition schedule

The Sheldon Art Galleries announces the Winter/ Spring 2018 exhibition schedule, with a public opening reception on Friday, March 2, 2018 from 5-7 p.m.

Galleries open until 9 p.m. for First Fridays in Grand Center. Gallery hours are Tuesdays, Noon – 8 p.m.; Wednesdays – Fridays, Noon – 5 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m.

– 2 p.m. and one hour prior to Sheldon performances and during intermission.

Admission is free. For more information on exhibitions, visit TheSheldon.org.

More information about each individual exhibit available upon request.

Deborah Douglas: Past, Present, Future Tense March 2 – April 21, 2018 Bellwether Gallery of St. Louis Artists St. Louis-based artist Deborah Douglas works with a variety of materials, including oil, enamel, watercolor, ink, graphite, collage and digital prints.

In her large-scale works on paper, she deals with issues of domesticity that include references to food, relationships, gender and equality. The exhibition is made possible in part by Elissa and Paul Cahn.

Gallery Talk: Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 6 p.m.

Deborah Douglas speaks about her work and influences. Admission f re e , b u t re s e r v a t i o n s are encouraged. Contact Paula Lincoln at plincoln@ thesheldon.org or 314-5339900 x37.

The World of Spectacular Strings Through April 21, 2018 Gallery of Music

Drawn from The Sheldon’s Hartenberger World Music Collection, this exhibit features over 100 unique stringed instruments from around the world.

Highlights include a rare Rubab from Afghanistan, an unusual pochette (pocket) violin from France, a double bass and violin made from matchsticks, a harpsichord once owned by former St. Louis resident comedienne Phyllis Diller, a Gibson guitar signed by B.B. King, and a special edition KISS logo Gene Simmons “Axe” bass, among many other rare instruments. The exhibition is made possible in part

by Dr. Aurelia and Jeffrey Hartenberger.

Gene Mackey: In Tribute March 2 – April 21, 2018 Bernoudy Gallery of Architecture The exhibit pays tribute to the life and work of St. Louis based architect Gene Mackey, founder of the firm Mackey Mitchell Architects, known for the Alberici Headquarters, a LEED Platinum building; the Central Institute for the Deaf, Dennis & Judith Jones Visitor and Education Center in Forest Park; Christian Brothers College High School; the design of the A. Wessell Shapleigh Fountain at the Missouri Botanical Garden and the current renovation of Soldiers Memorial and Court of Honor.

Bride of the Desert: An Exploration of Palmyra March 2 – April 21, 2018 Gallery of Photography Once a thriving caravan city of the Roman frontier during the 1st – 3rd centuries CE, Palmyra contained an array of temples, colonnaded streets, theatres and commercial areas.

Today the city, now in wartorn Syria, has been almost c o m p l e t e l y d e s t ro y e d .

Curated by photo historian David R. Hanlon, the exhibit

presents a group of 19th century and contemporary photographs of Palmyra and others from local public and private collections

by Michael J. Fuller, Frank Mason Good, David R. Hanlon, John Henry Haynes, Don McCullin and others.

Augmenting the exhibition will be motion graphic and virtual reality pieces created for this exhibition by designers at St. Louis Community College.

The exhibition is made possible by Yvette and John Dubinsky, with additional support from Christner, Inc., Jeremy Hinton; and Barbara and Arthur McDonnell, with in-kind support from Olin Library Special Collections, Washington University in St. Louis.

Gallery Talk: Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 6 p.m.

Lecture by Dr. Michael Fuller, Professor Emeritus, St. Louis Community College, Board Member, Archaeological Institute of America, St. Louis chapter and Co-Director of American archaeological expedition to Tell Tuneinir, Syria (19862001), with introduction by exhibition curator, David R. Hanlon. Admission free, but reservations are encouraged.

Contact Paula Lincoln at plincoln@thesheldon.org or 314-533-9900 x37.

School Focus: Cardinal Ritter College Prep Student Exhibit March 2 – April 21, 2018 AT & T G a l l e r y o f Children’s Art Drawings, paintings and ceramics by students of Cardinal Ritter College Prep High School, under the tutelage of art department chair, Richard Hunt are featured in this multi-media exhibit.

Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artists Collective: Pick the City UP March 2 – April 21, 2018 Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg GalleryThe exhibition

presents an overview of recent Saint Louis Story Stitchers projects that focus on stopping gun violence and furthers the message through music videos, colorful documentary photographs, youth poetry from the Curating Teen Voices portfolio and music and spoken word events.

St. Louis Story Stitchers is a non-profit organization in St. Louis founded in 2013

by Susan Colangelo, whose mission is to document Saint Louis through art and written and spoken word to promote understanding, civic pride, intergenerational

relationships and literacy.

Funding for this exhibition was provided in part by Missouri Foundation for Health through a grant to Saint Louis Story Stitchers.

The not-for-profit Sheldon Art Galleries exhibits works by local, national and international artists in all media. Over 6,000 square feet of the galleries’ spaces on the 2nd floor are permanently devoted to rotating exhibits of photography, architecture, music art and history, and children’s art. A sculpture garden, seen from both the atrium lobby and the

connecting glass bridge, features periodic rotations and installations, and the Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg Gallery on the lower level features art of all media.

The Sheldon actively supports the work of St. Louis artists in all mediums and features a dedicated gallery with museumquality exhibits by St. Louis artists, past and present.

Financial Assistance to the Galleries are provided by the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency and by the Regional Arts Commission and the Arts and Education Council.

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Aphids, a common pest of indoor and outdoor plants, suck plant juices, causing leaves to yellow, brown, wilt or become distorted.

Safely manage pests on indoor plants

By MELINDA MYERS For The Edge Winter can be hard on gardeners and our indoor plants.

Low light, shorter days and dry air stress our houseplants while helping insects thrive. Don’t despair if insects have moved in and your plants are struggling with yellow or speckled leaves. Instead, invest a bit of time and effort managing these pests and keeping your plants looking their best.

Start by making sure your plants receive the proper amount of light and water. A healthy plant is better able to resist and recover from insect infestations. Check the plant tag, internet or plant book for the recommended growing conditions.

Make needed adjustments in your plant’s care. Then take a closer look at the upper and lower leaf surfaces and stems of the plants for clues to the cause of the problem. Here are some of the more common indoor plant pests and organic options, safe for children and pets, for managing them.

Fungus gnats are those small fruit fly-like insects that flit around your house. They feed on plant roots and organic matter in the soil. They usually don’t harm the plants, but certainly are annoying.

Just sprinkle an organic insecticide like Summit Mosquito Bits, that contain the active ingredient Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis on the soil surface. This naturally occurring bacterium only kills the larvae of fungus gnats,

black flies and mosquitoes.

Aphids are common pests of indoor and outdoor plants.

These small teardrop shaped insects suck plant juices, causing the leaves to yellow, brown, wilt or become distorted. They secrete a clear sticky substance known as honeydew.

Mites cause similar damage, but are too small to see without a hand lens. If you suspect mites, shake a leaf over a white piece of paper and watch for specks, the mites, moving across the paper. Don’t wait until you see webbing to control these pests.

At that point there are thousands of mites making it difficult to control.

Both these types of pests can be managed in the same way. Start by placing plants in the sink or tub and knock the insects off the plant with a strong blast of water.

Follow with several applications of insecticidal soap to kill the adults. Repeat as needed. Or suffocate all stages of the insects with a lightweight horticulture oil like Summit Year-Round Spray Oil (SummitResponsibleSolutions. com).

Bumps on the stems and leaves of plants that can be easily scraped off with a thumbnail are scales. Their shells protect the adults and eggs from predators, weather and most insecticides. A similar pest, mealybug, has white waxy strands on its body for protection. Mealybugs can be found on stems, leaves and area where leaves and stems meet.

Both types of insects suck the plant juices, causing

leaves to yellow and plants to decline. And just like aphids and mites, they secrete honeydew. Both are difficult to control and require persistence on your part.

For mealybugs, remove the hard scale covering with your thumbnail or old toothbrush. Use a cotton swap dipped in alcohol to dissolve its waxy covering and kill the insect. Then spray with insecticidal soap to kill the immature insects. This takes time and persistence to control these pests.

Or apply a lightweight horticulture oil, like that used for mites and aphids, to suffocate both the adult and immature stages of these pests. Continue to watch for outbreaks and treat as needed.

No matter what products you choose, natural or synthetic, make sure they are labeled for the plant and pest you are treating. And always read and follow label directions carefully.

Investing time in managing pests as soon as they appear means healthy and more attractive plants to brighten your indoor décor now and for years to come.

Melinda Myers has written more than 20 gardening books, including Small Space Gardening. She hosts The Great Courses “How to Grow Anything” DVD series and the nationally syndicated Melinda’s Garden Moment TV & radio segments.

Myers is a columnist and contributing editor for Birds & Blooms magazine and was commissioned by Summit for her expertise to write this article. Myers’s web site is www. melindamyers.com.

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People planner be entertaining urban audiences with a national tour this winter and spring that will include a stop in St. Louis a t t h e F a b u l o u s F o x T h e a t re w i t h 3 performances only on March 9 and 10. The show is produced, written and directed by Mark E. Swinton.

Tickets are $41.50 to $61.50 and are available online at metrotix.com, by calling 314-534-1111, or in person at the Fabulous Fox Box Office.

The show follows musician Sugarbread Robinson, who, together with his best friend and artistic partner Ronald, embarks on a road trip from Los Angeles to the Deep South to Sugarbread’s hometown in search of inspiration for their upcoming music project. But when the duo set off a chain of events that sets the town aflutter, will

“Guess Who Showed Up at Dinner” coming to The Fox

Mark E. Swinton’s “Guess Who Showed Up at Dinner”, the raucous musical about meddlesome family and head-over-heels love, is heading to stages across America. The crowdpleasing comedy, led by Cassi Davis (Tyler Perry’s House of Payne and The Paynes), Palmer Williams, Jr. (Tyler Perry’s House of Payne and The Haves and The Have Nots), Tony Hightower (Tyler Perry’s Madea on the Run and The Haves and The Have Nots) and C h a n d r a C u r r e l l e y - Yo u n g ( Ty l e r Perry’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Madea’s Big Happy Family) will

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“We invite you and yours to escape with a very special evening of live theater that will both entertain you and feed your spirit, an evening of great music, laughter and love,” said Swinton (Tyler Perry’s Boo2: A Madea Holloween, The Haves and Have Nots and If Loving You Is Wrong), an award-winning playwright and fi lm, television and theater director and producer who worked with Tyler Perry for more than a decade.

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People planner “The Book of Mormon” returning to The Fox

Back by popular demand, “The Book of Mormon” returns to St. Louis for a limited engagement May 29 – June 3 at the Fabulous Fox Theatre. Singleare on sale now. Tickets will be available at the Fabulous Fox box office (531 North Grand Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63103), all MetroTix outlets, by visiting www.metrotix. com or by calling 314-5341111. Group orders of 15 or more may be placed by calling 314-535-2900.

“The Book of Mormon”features book, music and lyrics by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone. Parker and Stone are the four-time E m m y Aw a rd - w i n n i n g creators of the landmark animated series, “South Park.” Tony Award-winner Lopez is co-creator of the long-running hit musical comedy, Avenue Q. The musical is choreographed

by Tony Award-winner Casey Nicholaw (Monty Python’s Spamalot, The Drowsy Chaperone) and is directed by Nicholaw and Parker.

“The Book of Mormon”is the winner of nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Score (Trey P a r k e r, R o b e r t L o p e z , Matt Stone), Best Book ( Tr e y P a r k e r, R o b e r t Lopez, Matt Stone), B e s t D i re c t i o n ( C a s e y Nicholaw, Trey Parker), B e s t F e a t u re d A c t re s s (Nikki M. James), Best Scenic Design (Scott Pask), Best Lighting Design (Brian MacDevitt), Best Sound Design (Brian Ronan) and Best Orchestrations (Larry Hochman, Stephen Oremus); the New York Drama Critics Circle

Award for Best Musical; five Drama Desk Awards including Best Musical, the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album; four Outer Critics Circle Awards, including B e s t Mu s i c a l , a n d t h e Drama League Award for Best Musical.

“The Book of Mormon”features set design by Scott Pask, costume design by Ann Roth, lighting design by Brian MacDevitt and sound design by Brian Ronan.

Orchestrations are by Larry Hochman and Stephen Oremus. Music direction and vocal arrangements are

by Stephen Oremus.

The Original Broadway Cast Recording for “The Book of Mormon” winner of the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, is available on Ghostlight Records.

Celtic Woman returning to The Fox

Celtic Woman (www. celticwoman.com), the multi-platinum international music sensation, is returning with a brand new live show for an extensive North American tour beginning Spring 2018 with a stop in St. Louis on Wednesday, June 13 at the Fabulous Fox Theatre. The much-anticipated concert, ‘Homecoming,’ will play in more than 90 U.S. and Canadian cities from coastto-coast.

Tickets are $107, $77, $67, $57, $47 and are available online at metrotix.com, by calling 314-534-1111, or in person at the Fabulous Fox Box Office.

Celebrating Ireland’s rich musical and cultural heritage, Celtic Woman combines finest musical talent with epic stage

productions to present a unique, inspiring live experience. From the debut, Celtic Woman has touched the hearts of a huge global audience. Now, with Homecoming, Celtic Woman brings the next chapter of an extraordinary musical journey. It’s a universal celebration of life. It’s traditional, it’s contemporary. It’s

y e s t e r d a y, t o d a y a n d tomorrow.

Continuing its remarkable legacy of introducing some of Ireland’s most talented singers and musicians onto the world stage, the Grammy winning group Celtic Woman --featuring the angelic voices of Susan McFadden, Mairéad Carlin, Éabha McMahon and

the breathtaking Celtic violinist Tara McNeill, accompanied by a full ensemble of musicians and dancers -- will embark on a four month tour. The 90-city trek will take Celtic Woman across the country before wrapping June 17 in Rosemont, IL. Following its debut on PBS in 2005, Celtic Woman has achieved massive

success encompassing twelve chart-topping albums, nine DVDs and nine public television specials leading to sales of over ten million albums, with platinum success in nine countries. Each of the twelve CDs— including 2016’s Voices of Angels—has reached #1 on Billboard’s World Albums chart.

Beyond Random Acts of Kindness Day

February 17th is known as “Random Acts of Kindness Day.” It is a day where people do random things for others, big or small, from leaving a dollar on the vending machine, to picking up litter on the ground. While it feels good to do these little things, there is a much larger impact that you can make, and that is in the life of a CASA child.

Court Appointed Special Advocates serve as a voice for abused and neglected children in juvenile court cases in Madison, St. Clair & Monroe counties.

CASA volunteers are specifically trained to advocate for children in foster care. Volunteer advocates get to know the child and speak to everyone involved in the child’s life, including their family members, teachers, doctors, lawyers, social workers, and others. members, teachers, doctors, lawyers, social workers, and others.

You can’t control where abused children come from, but you can have something to do with where they end up.

“We realized we were making an impact in the life of a CASA child when the child began to greet us at the door with a smile and enthusiasm to share a new experience with a close friend.”–Walt & Georgia, CASA, Madison County.

Unfortunately, 177 children are waiting for advocates to speak up for them in court.

For more information, visit www.casaofswil.org or call 618-234-4278

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People planner Laumeier Sculpture Park announces schedule

Laumeier Sculpture Park, located 12580 Rott Road in St. Louis, has announced its upconing schedule.

For more information call (314) 615-5278.

November 4, 2017–March 4, 2018 2017 Kranzberg Exhibition Series Yvonne Osei: Tailored Landscapes For Laume i e r ’ s 2 0 1 7 Kranzberg Exhibition Series, conceptual artist Yvonne Osei creates a largescale photo installation to occupy the breadth and width of the indoor gallery, constructing an environment where textile creates landscape. Inspired by both the cultural and physical landscapes of the Park, Osei weaves design motifs from her home country of Ghana into her photographic and videographic documentation of the Park to create new and unique patterns for L a u m e i e r. U s i n g h e r textural understanding of fashion design to mold and manipulate an adhesive fabric, Osei creates an environment that uses the architecture of the gallery as figure and form. With Tailored Landscapes, Osei continues her inquiry utilizing the import of textiles as a medium to celebrate diversity in culture and in nature.

Saturday, November 4, 2017–Sunday, March 4, 2018, in the Aronson Fine Arts Center at Laumeier Sculpture Park, 12580 Rott Road, Saint Louis, Missouri.

Free. Call 314.615.5278 or visit www.laumeier. org for more information.

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supported by Nancy and Ken Kranzberg.

February 17 Youth & Teen Workshop: Anime & Manga Cartooning Learn Japanese animation styles and illustrate in ink, marker, graphite and more!

Pack a lunch for your expedition through the world of cartooning. Draw characters and create a story in the form of a comic book or graphic novel. Laumeier ’s oned a y A r t Wo r k s h o p s provide participants with a focused experience within a particular medium, process or concept.

Wo r k s h o p s a re t a u g h t by local, experienced Artist-Instructors and are designed to encourage artistic development and self-expression. Saturday, February 17, 10:00 a.m.– 2:00 p.m. in the Kranzberg Education Lab at Laumeier S c u l p t u re P a r k , 1 2 5 8 0 Rott Road, Saint Louis, Missouri. $60, ages 8 to 15.

Call 314.615.5278 or visit w w w. l a u m e i e r. o r g f o r more information.

February 17 Teen & Adult Workshop: Landscaped Photo Collage Join Laumeier ’s 2017 Kranzberg Exhibition Series artist Yvonne Osei for an afternoon of creative expression in the Park AND in the studio! Learn the art of collage using cell phone photography to create a visual narrative of Laumeier ’s landscape.

Explore techniques and strategies to combine collage with photographic imagery, including creative destruction, subtraction and addition, layering, transparency, symbolism and hidden messages.

Photography skills not required. Laumeier ’s one-day Art Workshops provide participants with a focused experience within

a particular medium, process or concept.

Wo r k s h o p s a re t a u g h t by local, experienced Artist-Instructors and are designed to encourage artistic development and self-expression. Saturday, February 17, 12:00–3:00 p.m. in the Kranzberg Education Lab at Laumeier S c u l p t u re P a r k , 1 2 5 8 0 Rott Road, Saint Louis, Missouri. $60, ages 16 and up. Call 314.615.5278 or visit www.laumeier.org for more information.

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People planner Zoo conducting children’s film festival

Big Eyes, Big Minds International Children’s Film Festival of Saint Louis is returning to the Saint Louis Zoo for its second year on Saturdays, Feb. 3, 17 and 24.

The festival features award-winning films made for kids, about kids and sometimes by kids.

The live-action and animated short films range from 2 to 27 minutes long and are tailored to children 1 to 16 years old; however, adults will find the films equally appealing.

Special to this year’s event are book-tofilm adaptations, including the wickedly awesome Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes, as well as the clever and funny, You Are Not Small.

After each screening, education staff from the Zoo and Endangered Wolf Center will offer a range of crafts and activities related to the animals featured in the films.

The mission of the film festival is to provide children with diverse and imaginative works to broaden their view of the world, foster critical thinking and inspire creative expression.

Film screenings will be held at 10:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 2:15 p.m. on Saturdays, Feb. 3, 17 and 24 (no films on Feb. 10) at the AnheuserBusch Theater in The Living World at the North Entrance of the Zoo. The morning screening features films recommended for ages 1 and up, and the afternoon screenings feature films recommended for ages 6 and up.

Admission for each screening is $8 per person for Zoo members and $9 per person

for non-members. Children under age 2 are free. Children under 12 years old must be accompanied by at least one adult. Tickets may be purchased at the door on the days of the event or online at stlzoo.org/filmfest.

About the films Visit stlzoo.org/filmfest for more information and film descriptions.

Creatures Great And Small (10:30 a.m.; 46-minute program for ages 1 and up) In this collection of 11 animated films, you’ll meet all kinds of friends, big and small, and learn that size is just a matter of perspective. Films include: Lili Loves Food (Denmark), Crocodile (Germany), You Are Not Small (U.S.), Bat Time (Germany), Some Thing (Germany), Celebrate Today (U.S.), Once Upon A Blue Moon (U.K.), Awesome Beetle’s Colours (Latvia), Where’s the &Fish?

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People planner Registration open for Litchfield Pickers Market

Registration for the 2018 Litchfield Pickers Market is open! The Litchfield Tourism Office and Prairie Pickers are happy to announce that the Pickers Market is coming back to Litchfield, Illinois in 2018!!!

If you love antiques and vintage items, this market is for you. This is the largest, specialized open air market in the region.

The Litchfield Pickers Market will return, for its fourth year, every second Sunday of the month from April to October, with the exact 2018 market dates being: April 8, May 13, June 10, July 8, August 12, September 9, and October 14. Mark your calendar NOW and plan to visit downtown Litchfield, Illinois between 9 AM to 3 PM (for your GPS use 400 North State Street.) Live musical entertainment will be scheduled for the duration of each event, and the official entertainment schedule will be posted soon! Make sure to follow all of the updates on the “Litchfield Pickers Market” Facebook page. This year is going to be a great one!

A t t e n t i o n Ve n d o r s : Ve n d o r r e g i s t r a t i o n IS OPEN. Forms with market guidelines can be found online at w w w. V i s i t L i t c h f i e l d . c o m / e v e n t s / LitchfieldPickersMarket or at Litchfield City Hall located at 120 East Ryder Street, Litchfield, IL. All items sold at the market must be prior to 1980.

Crafts, party-line products, yard sale style items are not be permitted. Please review the registration guidelines for exact qualifications

prior to registering. Annual passes and monthly passes are available. Register for every market or just a few.

The Litchfield Tourism Office and Prairie Pickers welcome returning vendors as well as new vendors. Complete details regarding each type of pass available can be found on the application. Vendors who wish to renew their 2017 annual contracts must have their completed 2018 application received by February 2, 2018. Vendor registration is open until the deadlines indicated on the registration form or until each market is full.

If you have any questions after reviewing the application, please call the Litchfield Tourism Office at 217-324-8147 or e-mail: tourism@cityoflitchfieldil. com.

Gateway Arch Park Foundation launches new website

The Gateway Arch Park Foundation has launched a n e w w e b s i t e (w w w.

ArchPark.org) highlighting the renovated spaces at Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, Gateway Arch, riverfront, and Kiener Plaza – together referred to as Gateway Arch Park. The new website also highlights public events, the Foundation’s membership program and ways the community can support the Arch.

While the previous site conveyed the CityArchRiver project and construction updates, the new site focusses on completed park spaces and how the public can enjoy and support the new Arch experience.

Visitors can learn about the legacy of the historic

CityArchRiver project on an interactive timeline.

Popular features from the old website remain, such as the interactive webcams.

“As we near the grand opening of the new park, museum, and visitor center, this new website shows the transformed and active Gateway Arch Park in exciting ways,” said Ryan McClure, director of communications and activation for Gateway Arch Park Foundation. “We want folks to see that this is their park to enjoy and use with many activities and events all year.”

The website makes it easy for visitors to find events in the Gateway Arch Park area and find information on planning their own event – public or private.

Visitors can also support the mission of the Gateway Arch Park Foundation by becoming a Gateway Arch Park Friend or shop for new merchandise on the Foundation’s online store – including two new t-shirts designed by STL Style House.

In early 2018, the Foundation, working with the National Park Service, will launch a new section of the website featuring stories from the new Museum at the Gateway Arch, which will have a grand opening July 4, 2018.

Bill Maher coming to The Fox

Fox Concerts is thrilled to announce that comedian and Emmy-nominated talk show host Bill Maher will bring his live stand-up tour to the Fabulous Fox Theatre on Saturday, August 25 at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $125, $85, $65, $55, $45 and are available online at metrotix.com, by calling 314-534-1111, or in

person at the Fabulous Fox Box Office.

For more than twenty years, Bill Maher has set the boundaries of where funny, political talk can go on American television. First on “Politically Incorrect” (Comedy Central, ABC, 1993-2002), and for the last fourteen years on HBO’s “ R e a l Ti m e , ” M a h e r ’ s combination of unflinching honesty and big laughs have garnered him 38 Emmy nominations. Maher won his first Emmy in 2014 as executive producer for the HBO series, “VICE.” In October of 2008, this same

combination was on display in Maher ’s uproarious and unprecedented swipe a t o rg a n i z e d re l i g i o n , “Religulous,” directed by Larry Charles (“Borat”). The documentary has gone on to become the 8th Highest Grossing Documentary ever.

In addition to his television program – which has featured such visitors as President B a r a c k O b a m a , Vi c e President Joseph Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kerry Washington, Michael Steele, Howard D e a n , M i c h a e l M o o re , Eva Longoria, Drew

B a r r y m o re , R e v. J e s s e J a c k s o n , G e n . We s l e y Clark, Susan Sarandon, K e v i n C o s t n e r, G a r y Hart and Pat Buchanan.– Maher has written five bestsellers: “True Story,” “Does Anybody Have a P ro b l e m w i t h T h a t ?

Politically Incorrect’s Greatest Hits,” “When You Ride Alone, You Ride with Bin Laden,” “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer,” and most recently, “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass.”

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People planner The Rep announces the lineup for its 2018 Ignite!

Festival of New Plays

Three nationally renowned playwrights will present public readings of their newest scripts at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis’ Ignite! Festival of New Plays, running March 28 – April 7, 2018.

Launched in 2012, the festival offers St. Louis theatre lovers the chance to see in-development scripts performed by professional actors, and then offer their feedback directly to the playwrights in postperformance talkbacks.

This year ’s festival features: Hurricane Colleen by Tammy Ryan 7:30 p.m. March 28 & 29* Six months after their sister Colleen has died of cancer, two women rent a beach house in Melbourne, Florida to scatter her ashes. But when a tropical depression suddenly turns into a hurricane and strange encounters with wildlife occur, the sisters struggle to ride out the storms both outside and inside.

Wind-Up Girl, book and lyrics by Sarah Hammond, music by Will Aronson 7:30 p.m. April 3 Based on a true story, this imaginative new musical has Rene Descartes, the father of modern philosophy, attempting a very unusual project after being left bereft by the death of his daughter. A moving historical fantasy about the irrational machinations of the human heart.

Nonsense & Beauty by Scott C. Sickles

7:30 p.m. April 7 In 1930, the writer E.M. Forster met and fell in love with a policeman 23 years his junior. Their relationship, very risky for its time, evolved into a 40-year love triangle that was both turbulent and unique. Based on a true story, Nonsense and Beauty captures the wit and wisdom of one of the last century’s great writers.

All performances will take place at The Rep’s Emerson Studio Theatre (130 Edgar Road), except for the March 29* reading of Hurricane Colleen, which will happen at UMSL at Grand Center (3651 Olive Street).

Tickets will cost $10 for single performances or $25 to see all three readings.

Those tickets will go on sale January 15.

Notable Ignite! alumni include Dael Orlandersmith’s Until the Flood, which world premiered at The Rep in 2016 and is playing at theatres throughout the nation in 2018, The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar, Gidion’s Knot by Johnna Adams and Soups, Stews and Casseroles: 1976

by Rebecca Gilman.

For more information on Ignite!, visit repstl.org.

The Rep announces its 2017-18 Studio Theatre season

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis has announced its 2017-2018 Studio Theatre season: Heisenberg, October 25-November 12, 2017, Faceless, January 17-February 4, 2018 and Caught, March 7-25, 2018.

Heisenberg, by Simon Stephens and directed by The Rep’s Augustin Family Artistic Director Steven

Woolf, opens the season.

A serendipitous encounter at a London train station propels two very different people into a shared orbit.

Georgie is crass, deeply odd and impulsive. On a whim, she kisses the neck of Alex, a much older and more subdued man who is sitting by himself. In the unexpected conversations that follow, Georgie and Alex discover shared passions amidst the uncertainty of personal connection. This lifeaffirming play uncovers the extraordinary in the everyday.

Next up is Faceless,

by Selina Filligner and directed by BJ Jones. Two young women face off in a courtroom, locked in a battle of wills and theologies. Susie Glenn, 18, is on trial. Radicalized online into planning acts of terrorism, she’s zealously committed to her cause. Her prosecutor, Claire Fathi, is a Harvardeducated Muslim woman who lives the faith that Susie professes to understand. Their edgy exchanges create a propulsive, escalating tension that makes this

brilliantly topical play a true legal thriller.

The Studio Theatre series concludes with Caught, by Christopher Chen and directed by The Rep’s associate artistic director Seth Gordon. In the era of “fake news,” Caught creates a bracingly unique experience that will keep you wondering what’s real and what’s theatre. An art exhibition by a Chinese dissident is the first phase of a multilayered puzzle, wh ich presents the audience with an ever-changing set of rules. Chen’s piece deftly

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Season ticket packages for The Rep’s 2017-2018 Studio Theatre series are on sale now. By purchasing season tickets, subscribers can save substantially over t h e c o s t o f p u rc h a s i n g individual show tickets and enjoy exclusive benefits. Studio Theatre subscription packages range from $108-$167 for all three shows.

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The Arts

For the Edge

A scene from “Chicago,” which will be performed at The Fox March 2, 3 and 4.

“Chicago” coming to The Fox For The Edge “Chicago” is BACK IN TOWN at the Fabulous Fox Theatre March 2-4 and it’s PURE ENTERTAINMENT! Tickets for “Chicago” at the Fabulous Fox are on sale now 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. “Chicago” is part of the U.S. Bank Broadway Series.

Performances of “Chicago” at the Fabulous Fox run March 2-4. Show times are Friday and Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m., Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. and Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. There will also be an evening performance on Sunday, March 4 at 6:30 p.m.

With a legendary book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb,

“Chicago” is now the #1 longest-running American musical in Broadway history -- and it still shows no sign of ever slowing down!

Produced by Barry and Fran Weissler, “Chicago” is the winner of six 1997 Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Cast Recording.

Set amidst the razzle-dazzle decadence of the 1920s, “Chicago” is the story of Roxie Hart, a housewife and nightclub dancer who maliciously murders her on-the-side lover after he threatens to walk out on her.

Desperate to avoid conviction, she dupes the public, the media and her rival cellmate, Velma Kelly, by hiring “Chicago”’s slickest criminal lawyer to transform her malicious crime into a barrage of sensational headlines, the likes of which might just as easily be ripped from today’s tabloids.

The national tour is directed by David Hyslop and choreographed by David Bushman. Walter Bobbie is the director of the original New York Production and Ann Reinking was the original choreographer in the style of Bob Fosse. “Chicago” features set design

by John Lee Beatty, costume design by William Ivey Long, lighting design by Ken Billington and sound design by Scott Lehrer. The production also features orchestrations by Ralph Burns, supervising music direction by Rob Fisher.

“Chicago” is a production not to be missed.

And all the reviewers agree. Time Magazine calls it “A Triumph,” Newsweek raves “Smashing” and Entertainment Weekly sums it up by calling “Chicago” “Broadway’s Most Electrifying Show.”

Visit www.”Chicago”TheMusical.com for more information.

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Arts calendar Thursday, Feb. 15

The Humans presented by The Rep, Loretto-Hilton Center for Performing Arts, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs until March 4, 2018 Bud, Not Buddy, Grandel Theatre, St. Louis, Runs until Feb. 25, 2018 Orchid Show, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Runs until March 25, 2018 Panoramas of the City, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until August 1, 2018 #1 in Civil Rights: the African American Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 14, 2018

Friday, Feb. 16

The Humans presented by The Rep, Loretto-Hilton Center for Performing Arts, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs until March 4, 2018 Bud, Not Buddy, Grandel Theatre, St. Louis, Runs until Feb. 25, 2018 Orchid Show, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Runs until March 25, 2018 Panoramas of the City, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until August 1, 2018 #1 in Civil Rights: the African American Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 14, 2018

Center for Performing Arts, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs until March 4, 2018 Bud, Not Buddy, Grandel Theatre, St. Louis, Runs until Feb. 25, 2018 Orchid Show, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Runs until March 25, 2018 Panoramas of the City, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until August 1, 2018 #1 in Civil Rights: the African American Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 14, 2018

Bud, Not Buddy, Grandel Theatre, St. Louis, Runs until Feb. 25, 2018 Orchid Show, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Runs until March 25, 2018 Panoramas of the City, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until August 1, 2018 #1 in Civil Rights: the African American Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 14, 2018

Tuesday, Feb. 20

The Humans presented by The Rep, Loretto-Hilton Center for Performing Arts, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs until March 4, 2018 Bud, Not Buddy, Grandel Theatre, St. Louis, Runs until Feb. 25, 2018

The Humans presented by The Rep, Loretto-Hilton Center for Performing Arts, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs until March 4, 2018

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The Humans presented by The Rep, Loretto-Hilton Center for Performing Arts, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs until March 4, 2018 Bud, Not Buddy, Grandel Theatre, St. Louis, Runs until Feb. 25, 2018 Orchid Show, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Runs until March 25, 2018 Panoramas of the City, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until August 1, 2018 #1 in Civil Rights: the African American Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 14, 2018

Sunday, Feb. 18

The Humans presented by The Rep, Loretto-Hilton Center for Performing Arts, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs until March 4, 2018 Bud, Not Buddy, Grandel Theatre, St. Louis, Runs until Feb. 25, 2018 Orchid Show, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Runs until March 25, 2018 Panoramas of the City, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until August 1, 2018 #1 in Civil Rights: the African American Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 14, 2018

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Artistic adventures The Muny announces its 100th season lineup

The Muny announced today its epic seven-show 100th season in Forest Park.

Befitting this historic year, The Muny will be the first theatre in the U.S. to produce two Tony award-winning Best Musicals: Jersey Boys and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway. The exhilarating season also includes two great family classics: an alltime Muny family favorite, Annie, and, in its first production in 36 years, The Wiz. Joining these four shows will be two great American musical classics: Gypsy and Singin’ in the Rain. And finally, in its longawaited return to the Muny stage after nine years, a show dear to the hearts of so many St. Louisans, Meet Me In St. Louis.

The seven shows are: Annie, Gypsy, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, Jersey Boys, Meet Me In St. Louis, Singin’ in the Rain and The Wiz. “This is an incredible moment in our history to celebrate a 100th season, and I think these titles are a great nod to our history and future,” said Muny President and CEO Denny Reagan. “I’m excited to share with our audiences the memories

and thrills these shows will bring next summer.”

“We wanted to go big for the 100th, and this season is really big,” said Muny Artistic Director and Executive Producer Mike Isaacson. “It promises so many great nights of beauty, power, joy and passion.

These seven shows celebrate The Muny’s august past and point us toward our incredible future. Here we go!”

World Wide Technology (WWT) and The Steward Family Foundation have once again made a leadership gift to continue as the Muny’s 2018 Season Presenting Sponsor. They became the first overall season sponsor in the history of The Muny in 2014 and continue that role through 2018.

“Both WWT and The Steward Family Foundation are committed to The Muny and to making exceptional musical theatre, accessible to everyone,” said David Steward, Chairman and Founder of WWT. “This year’s season promises to be spectacular and will showcase how much the performing arts enrich our community.”

Muny gift cards for the 100th season are now available online and at The Muny Box Office. For more information, visit muny. org or call (314) 361-1900.

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Artistic adventures SWIC to celebrate music, theatre, film and art

You can see student films, enjoy a senior art s h o w, h e a r t h e U S A F Band of Mid-America and listen to a radio café broadcast…all at Southwestern Illinois College this fall.

The college’s arts series, called the Southwestern Illinois Creative Arts Syndicate, features a variety of events ranging from a presentation about Shakespeare in Love b y A s s i s t a n t P ro f e s s o r o f S p e e c h a n d T h e a t re J u l i e Wi l l i s F e b . 1 4 t o the SWIC Jazz Festival Feb. 24 and the Film and

Mass Communication p ro g r a m s ’ o p e n h o u s e April 24.

“There is something for everyone whether you’re into chamber music, love art or want to find out more about filmmaking,” said Nicole Dutton, Schmidt Art Center curator. “We want our students and the community to enjoy the arts right here in the Metro East.”

The spring 2018 SWICARTS calendar is below. For details on individual events, visit swic.edu or facebook. com/swicarts.

FA C U LT Y S P E A K E R SERIES · Feb. 14 – Shakespeare in Love: Julie Willis, 3 p.m., MC Theatre

· A p r i l 11 – F i l m Faculty: Dan Cross, 3 p.m., LA Theatre (1370) FILM · Fe b . 15 – YouTub e Stars Danny Gula & Jon Stamm of Vat19.com, 7 p.m., The Schmidt · March 8 – SWIC Student Film Screening, 7 p.m., LA Theatre (1370) ART For exhibition information, visit swic. edu/theschmidt. · Jan. 18 – Exhibition o p e n i n g re c e p t i o n , 4 - 7 p.m., The Schmidt · March 2 – Senior Art Competition, The Schmidt · March 22 – High S c h o o l S t u d e n t S h o w, The Schmidt · April 26 – SWIC S t u d e n t S h o w, T h e

Schmidt MUSIC F o r c o n c e r t information, visit swic. edu/music. · F e b . 11 – M u s i c Faculty Recital: Ed Jacobs and Diana Umali, 3 p.m., The Schmidt · Feb. 24 – SWIC Jazz Festival, featuring saxophonist Jeff Coffin, all day, Main Complex · March 25 – Explore the Sound IV, 7 p.m., St. Paul United Church of Christ · March 27 – SWIC Concert Band: Spring on the Quad!, 2:30 p.m., The Quad · April 4 – Chamber Music Series: An American in Paris, 7 p.m., The Schmidt · April 11 – USAF Band of Mid-America, 7 p.m., Varsity Gym · May 6 – SWIC

Concert Band: Cinematic Serenades, 3 p.m., Varsity Gym · May 8 – Choir concert: Elemental Music, 7 p.m., Union United Methodist Church · May 9 – Music Student Honors Recital, 3 p.m., The Schmidt · May 9 – Jazz Band & Guitar Ensemble: Swing, Spring, & Strings!, 7 p.m., MC MEDIA ARTS · April 24 – Open house: Film and Mass Communication, 5-7 p.m., LA 1342 and 1350 BLUE STORM RADIO BROADCASTS · Jan. 14 – First Sunday F re e F i l m F e s t , 2 p . m . and 6 p.m., LA Theatre (1370) · Feb. 4 – First Sunday F re e F i l m F e s t , 2 p . m . and 6 p.m., LA Theatre

(1370) · Feb. 7, 14, 21, 28 – SWIC Radio Cafe b ro a d c a s t , 11 a . m . , Kamm Lounge · March 4 – First Sunday Free Film Fest, 2 p.m. and 6 p.m., LA Theatre (1370) · March 7, 21, 28 – SWIC Radio Cafe b ro a d c a s t , 11 a . m . , Kamm Lounge · April 1 – First Sunday F re e F i l m F e s t , 2 p . m . and 6 p.m., LA Theatre (1370) · April 4, 11, 18 – SWIC Radio Cafe broadcast, 11 a.m., Kamm Lounge · April 21 – Vinylthon broadcast, LA 1342 · May 2, 9 – SWIC Radio Cafe broadcast, 11 a.m., Kamm Lounge · May 6 – First Sunday F re e F i l m F e s t , 2 p . m . and 6 p.m., LA Theatre (1370)

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Music

Danny Wimmer Presents

A view from the 2017 Louder Than Life festival in Louisville, Ky.

Louisville to host music festivals For The Edge Two successful music festivals have led to a long-term commitment by Danny Wimmer Presents (DWP). The producer of Louder Than Life and Bourbon & Beyond has announced the signing of a 10-year lease for Champions Park. The lease provides for the continued production of both events as well as a future country music festival planned for 2019.

DWP is contributing $500,000 towards improvements at Champions Park that may include installing a multiuse path system to replace the older and damaged golf cart paths, adding permanent fencing, lighting, and water fountains.

Held on back-to-back weekends, the first-ever Bourbon & Beyond (September 23 & 24, 2017) and the fourth annual Louder Than Life (September 30 & October 1, 2017) drew a combined 110,000 people to Champions Park, with 80 percent coming from outside the city of Louisville.

Dates for the 2018 festivals were recently announced.

The second annual Bourbon & Beyond is set for Sept. 22 & 23, and the fifth annual Louder Than Life will be held the following weekend on Sept. 29 & 30.

“We are proud of the faith and trust placed in us by the city and citizens of Louisville. Louisville has become our second home and we are committed to increasing our presence and investment in the community. Over the coming year, we expect to have several more announcements about additional initiatives we are taking in Louisville,” said Danny Hayes, CEO of Danny Wimmer Presents.

“Music festivals like Bourbon & Beyond and Louder Than Life put Louisville on the national stage and enhance our city’s reputation as being an authentic musical festival destination,” said Karen Williams, President & CEO of the Louisville Convention & Visitors Bureau. “They draw a large number of out-of-state visitors to our city to enjoy a weekend of music by top, national performers, and also experience Louisville’s one-of-a-kind attractions and award-winning culinary scene.”

The inaugural Bourbon & Beyond was a first-of-its-kind festival, giving Kentucky’s world-renowned bourbon equal billing with a roster of music talent that included Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Stevie Nicks, Steve Miller Band, Eddie Vedder, and Buddy Guy, plus Amos Lee, Joe Bonamassa, Gary Clark, Jr., Paul Rodgers, Band Of Horses, and more. The festival was a celebration of

legendary musicians, award-winning bourbons, master distillers, chefs, bartenders, and many other artisans, and an unforgettable showcase of the craftsmanship, soul and spirit of Louisville.

The fourth annual Louder Than Life marked the festival’s biggest year, drawing 60,000 fans to headlining performances from Ozzy Osbourne, Zakk Wylde and Prophets Of Rage. In 2017, Louder Than Life solidified its standing as one of America’s premier hard rock destination festivals.

Los Angeles-based Danny Wimmer Presents is the producer of some of the biggest rock festivals in America, including Rock On The Range, Monster Energy Aftershock, Monster Energy Welcome To Rockville, Monster Energy Carolina Rebellion, Chicago Open Air and more.

For those planning a visit to Louisville for these events or any of the many other festivals in Louisville, the Louisville CVB provides several planning resources, including suggested itineraries at GoToLouisville.com/ myexperience, the monthly Lookin’ at Louisville video series, a searchable list of events at www.gotolouisville. com, a free Louisville Visitors Guide and complimentary hotel booking service via 1-888-LOUISVILLE.

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Music calendar Friday, Feb. 16

Hot Country Nights: Gary Allen, Ballpark Village St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

St. Louis Music Festival, Chaifetz Arena, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

We l c o m e H o m e , T h e We e k e n d Classic, Intervention, Secondary, Free Parking, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Over The Rhine, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

S i n g e r- S o n g w r i t e r S h o w c a s e , T h e Ready Room, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 17

Firebird 9th Anniversary Party w/Hell Night, Valley, Spacetrucker, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Lil Xan, The Ready Room, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 18

Blank Range, w/The Mindframes, Creamer, The Ready Room, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Rebelution, w/Raging Fyah, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

CWAH Charity Benefit feat. Johnny O’Neal, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 6:00 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 20

Hot Country Nights: Brett Young, Ballpark Village, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

New Politics, w/Dreamers, The Wrecks, The Ready Room, St. Louis, Doors 6:30 p.m.

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Tuning in Sheldon to celebrate the music of Debussy The Sheldon presents Debussy and Friends on The Sheldon Classics series, Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 8 p.m. in the perfect acoustics of the Sheldon Concert Hall.

Concertmaster David Halen, along with fellow members of the St. Louis Symphony, mark the 100th anniversary of Claude Debussy’s death in 1918 with a program that includes music by Debussy, Ravel and other composers of the era. Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel were the most prominent figures associated with impressionist music.

Their music is noted for its sensory content and frequent use of nontraditional tonalities. Symbolism, the prominent French literary style of the period, directly inspired both.

David Halen began playing the violin at the age of 6, and earned his bachelor’s degree at the age of 19. In that same year, he won the Music Teachers National Association Competition and was granted a Fulbright scholarship for study with Wolfgang Marschner at the Freiburg Hochschule für Musik in Germany. As co-founder and artistic director of the Innsbrook Institute, Halen coordinates a weeklong festival in June consisting of exciting musical performances and an enclave for aspiring artists. In August, he serves as artistic director of the Missouri River Festival of the Arts in Boonville, Missouri.

Tickets are $30 orchestra/$25 balcony/$15 student, and 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 more information, call The Sheldon at 314-533-9900 or visit TheSheldon.org.

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Happy Together Tour coming to St. Charles

The Sheldon presents Livingston Taylor, Friday, February 23, 2018 at 8 p.m. in the perfect acoustics of the Sheldon Concert Hall. Known for his warm stage presence and diverse repertoire, Livingston Taylor has created wellcrafted original songs for over 50 years, earning Top 40 hits with songs such as “I Will Be in Love with You,” “I’ll Come Running” and “I Can Dream of You.” Livingston Taylor has been a force on the folk music scene with a 50 year career including performance, songwriting and teaching. He has toured and collaborated with major artists such as Linda Ronstadt, Jimmy Buffett, Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull and brother James Taylor. Over the years, he has recorded fourteen albums, and three retrospectives. He is a natural performer, peppering his shows with personal stories, anecdotes and an ineffable warmth that connects him to his fans. Taylor currently maintains a performing schedule of more than 100 shows per year, which include club, theater, college and full symphony repertoire.

Single tickets are $40 orchestra/$35 balcony 1/$30 balcony 2 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.

Music fans have been enjoying the hits of the sixties and seventies since the Summer of Love and beyond. They get to relive those moments on the renowned Happy Together Tour 2018, which is going on its 9th consecutive year. This summer, the Happy Together Tour returns with six headline artists who delivered the biggest hits of the era: The Turtles, Chuck Negron, formerly of Three Dog Night, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, The Association, Mark Lindsay, former Lead Singer of Paul Revere & The Raiders and The Cowsills.

The Turtles continue to be the signature headliners of the Happy Together Tour. As always, founding member and singer Mark Volman will bring his infamous antics to the stage, however, for medical reasons, this summer the voice of The Archies, Ron Dante will stand in for singer Howard Kaylan. Dante’s youthful sound is best known on hits such as “Sugar, Sugar” and “Jingle Jangle,” which makes him the perfect understudy for the The Turtles’ chart stoppers.

The show is Saturday, August 18 at 7:30 p.m. at The Family Arena in St. Charles.

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“12 Strong”

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In the days and months following the Sept. 11 attacks, a small U.S. Special Forces unit led an offensive against the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. They worked in harsh conditions alongside a local warlord and his men, an uneasy alliance at best, and, even with all the technology and money of the U.S. military, executed the successful mission largely on horseback.

The operation — Task Force Dagger — was classified for years and explored later in Doug Stanton’s 2009 book “Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan.” It provides the basis for “12 Strong,” a long-in-the-works adaptation from producer Jerry Bruckheimer (“Black Hawk Down”) and director Nicolai Fuglsig, a Danish photojournalist who has shot the War in Kosovo, a Levi’s short film, and a Coca-Cola spot in his eclectic career.

Films about U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have a somewhat dicey track record.

They can veer from too sentimental to too macho and bloviating depending on who’s in front of and behind the camera. But “12 Strong” is, while perhaps not the deepest entry, a very solid movie with an engaging story, script and cast led by Thor himself, Chris Hemsworth.

Only slightly camouflaged behind a modern haircut and some manicured stubble, Hemsworth is Capt. Mitch Nelson, who is on leave with his young daughter and wife (played by his real-life spouse Elsa Pataky) but springs into action at the sight of the World Trade Center falling on the news.

RATED: R by the Motion Picture Association of America for “war violence and language throughout.”

RUNNING TIME: 130 minutes.

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

“Maze Runner: The Death Cure”

Moviegoers who come late to the “Maze Runner” franchise, which now numbers three, will doubtless have one very reasonable question: Where, pray tell, are all the mazes I was promised?

Alas, the maze of “Maze Runner” — referred to as “the Glade” by the few dozen teenagers who were mysteriously dropped into it — has been in t h e re a r v i e w s i n c e t h e f i r s t 2 0 1 4 i n s t a l l m e n t , a modestly budgeted YA adaption and a bit of a “Hunger Games” knockoff. But what the two sequels, first “Maze Runner: Scorch Trials” and now “Maze Runner: The Death Cure,” have lacked in labyrinths, they have made up for in running.

L i t e r a l ru n n i n g b u t a l s o a g e n u i n e l y k i n e t i c forward movement. The “Maze Runner” films, which have all been directed by former visual effects supervisor Wes Ball, move better than the average dystopia. So many fantasies bog themselves down with backstory and world-explaining, but the chief pleasure of the “Maze Runner” films is that the characters are perpetually grasping their predicament right along with the audience.

And like the previous chapters, “Maze Runner: The Death Cure” picks up right in medias res.

RATED: PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for “for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, language, and some thematic elements.”

RUNNING TIME: 142 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Two stars out of four.

“The Insult”

In the provocative Lebanese film “The Insult ,” a minor conflict over a gutter between two ordinary men in Beirut spirals and escalates to the level of national significance with the stability of the country hanging in the balance.

The film, from director Ziad Doueiri (“West Beirut,” ‘’The Attack”), on Tuesday became Lebanon’s first foreign language Oscar contender. It’s also, somewhat fittingly, caused a fair amount of controversy internationally, being banned in countries like Jordan.

The insult in question begins as almost a misunderstanding. A man tasked with bringing the apartments in one part of Beirut up to code, fixes an illegal drainpipe that has been leaking dirty water on himself and his workers. The owner tells him not to touch his apartment and smashes the newly installed pipe. The construction worker shouts an expletive at him.

The rub is that one man, the construction worker Yasser Salameh (Kamel El Basha), is a Palestinian refugee. The other, the owner of the apartment Tony Hanna (Adel Karam), is a Lebanese member of the Christian Party.

Everyday offenses and clashes of egos aren’t just annoyances. In this context, they take on the weight of everyone’s history, prejudices and traumas.

Tony, who runs hot through most of the film, is incensed by the Yasser ’s swearing and becomes wholly obsessed with getting an apology — much to the bafflement of his very pregnant wife, Shirine (Rita Hayek).

RATED: R by the Motion Picture Association of America for “language and some violent images.”

RUNNING TIME: 113 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING:Three stars out of four.

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Movies Vega stars in “A Fantastic Woman”

By KATE WALSH Tribune News Service There’s an interaction in the middle of Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio’s “A Fantastic Woman” that perfectly describes the film’s conflict and asserts its core thesis. Two women meet in a downtown Santiago parking garage to exchange the car of the recently deceased Orlando (Francisco Reyes). It’s the first meeting of his girlfriend, Marina (Daniela Vega) and his ex-wife, Sonia (Aline Küppenheim), and Sonia is anxious to get her eyes on Marina. “Just flesh and bones,” is how Marina describes herself to Sonia — she’s just another human body, like everyone else. But to Sonia, Marina is something else, a “chimera,” a mythical fire-breathing monster, part lion, part goat, part serpent.

There is something mystical and magical about Marina. Her unwavering gaze, powerful presence, intoxicating singing voice and her ability to see and interact with the dead — it’s all otherworldly.

But Sonia’s intended assessment is much baser; she’s referring to Marina’s gender. She is a trans woman, and when Sonia refers to her as the “chimera,” an interspecies monster, it’s a cruel denial of her humanity, her “flesh and bones,” her existence. In “A Fantastic Woman,” Lelio explores the aggressions and oppression that Marina endures when something as profoundly human as death occurs.

Older businessman Orlando and Marina, a nightclub singer and waitress, are deeply in love, in the throes of a relationship that’s exciting, comfortable and sexy. They’re planning for a future: trips, moving in together, the culmination of a yearlong “soap opera,” as described

by Sonia. When Orlando wakes up in the middle of the night dazed, with labored breathing, Marina rushes him to the hospital, where he suddenly dies, and her entire world gets pulled out from under her — the apartment, the dog, the car, her love.

In the days following Orlando’s death, Marina’s rights, and her humanity are denied, criminalized, pathologized and violated, by everyone from the doctors at the hospital, who believe her a suspect, the police, who believe her a

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This image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Daniela Vega in a scene from, “A Fantastic Woman.” victim, and Orlando’s family, who believe her a perversion. Despite her vocal protestations, no one ever listens to or believes her, allows her to be an autonomous individual or understands she’s mourning the death of her lover.

“Isn’t saying goodbye to a loved one a basic human right?” Marina demands of Gabo (Luis Gnecco), Orlando’s brother, after she’s ejected from his wake.

Despite it all, Marina fights, because she must. Vega turns in a stunning, fierce and vulnerable performance, casting

spells with her eyes. Lelio makes her the focus, and again and again her eyes break the fourth wall, whether riding an elevator, readying herself in a mirror or performing a fantasy dance number through the depths of her pain. Each time it’s a confrontation with the audience, an assertion of her soul. Marina is fighting simply to exist, and the film celebrates that existence.

“A Fantastic Woman” wouldn’t be the same without Vega — she makes the film what it is, shapes it with her body and

spirit. As Marina she is heartbreaking, hopeful and undeterred, marching through her grief and trauma, leaning into the wind that tries to blow her down. She is powerful and delicate simultaneously, in equal measure.

Lelio crafts a world that’s realistically, distressingly unfair, violent and dark. But with Vega in the lead, her arresting screen charisma lends itself to some truly lovely and wonderful bits of fire and magic, proving to be quite the fantastic woman indeed.

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Movies “Mudbound” is a moving film

By ROBERT GRUBAUGH For The Edge It was a boon for entertainment when Netflix started making original content.

They started the transition with series like “Orange is the New Black” and “House of Cards”. Some are great, like “Stranger Things”. Others are less so, like “Fuller House”. And then came the features in what I considered an anathema, movies that you didn’t have to leave your house to see. I appreciate the comforts of life, but going to the cinema is the one social experiment I always stand behind. Now they have fifteen Oscar nominations in their short history, including eight for the new epic film “Mudbound” which I will review for you this week. It’s epic not necessarily in its scope - being an intimate story of a poorer black family of tenant farmers surviving on a poor white family’s cotton farm in post-World War II Mississippi - but its epic in its storytelling. It may only be 134 minutes, but it echoes “Roots” and “The Thorn

Birds” in its vast, world-making structure.

“Mudbound” was adapted by director Dee Rees and Virgil Williams from the novel by Hillary Jordan.

The Jackson family has been working the unforgiving earth on their farm for many generations. They toil from sunrise to dark every day of the year merely to eke out a survival for themselves among the uncompromising weather of the American South. The great dream of land ownership and aspiration to more lives strongly within their patriarch, Hap (an excellent Rob Morgan), but his ambition is tempered with the common sense of his position and the welfare of his strong wife, Florence (Mary J. Blige, turning heads for her subtle performance). They have to be practical to protect their many children amidst the turbulent times.

When their eldest son, Ronsel (Jason Mitchell), goes off to war, it’s a rending of the family that tears at the audience too. But there’s the farm and the mules to look after and contemplation of

Ronsel’s fate is reserved for those few solemn minutes at mealtime prayer and before bed.

Along come the McAllans. Henry (Jason Clarke) and Laura (Carey Mulligan) have their own daughters to protect and think that buying a big working farm might be their ticket to future prosperity as well. Unfortunately, they bring along Pappy (a vile Jonathan Banks), Henry’s elderly father, to mutter ham-fisted racial epithets while doing nothing to improve life for anyone.

Laura was an older new bride and she’s not cut out for the drudgery of the life her husband has laid out for them. She clings to her piano and her children as a way of keeping her own wits under a baking sun and muddy yard.

When Henry’s brother, Jamie (Garrett Hedlund), comes home from the war, he’s a new source of confidence for her.

Jamie and Ronsel have different experiences in war. One’s a bomber pilot and the other a tank operator. What they find in common is that race does

not matter a hill of beans when you are saving your brothers in combat or charming frauleins in the brothels on leave. They find each other back in Mississippi by coincidence, but the friendship between them is the strong sort built on a shared history of atrocity.

Each of the main characters shares in narrating this movie, ably and in great voice, foreshadowing the next blow to strike at their linked families. When Laura’s feelings for Jamie grow beyond fondness, a problem arises. When Pappy has opportunity to retaliate against Ronsel for becoming more than his old station in life allowed, it leads to tragedy.

I was moved by “Mudbound” because of the hate and fear and infidelity and brutal violence. It’s overall message of love, though, was what most shocked me in the end.

“Mudbound” runs 134 minutes and is rated R for some disturbing violence, brief language, and nudity. I give this film three stars out of four.

“Before We Vanish” on the silly side

By JUSTIN CHANG Los Angeles Times Late into the Japanese sciencefiction pastiche “Before We Vanish,” an extraterrestrial visitor wanders into a Tokyo church where several children are singing “Jesus Loves Me.” There’s nothing especially scary about the scene as it plays out: The creature has taken possession of an earthly body and, for the most part, looks and sounds like an ordinary human male. But there is something unmistakably chilling about this sudden juxtaposition of the sweet, the sacred and the sinister.

What will become of these innocent kids when the inevitable alien invasion occurs?

Will Jesus still love them even if they are no longer, strictly speaking, themselves?

The prolific writer-director Kiyoshi Kurosawa doesn’t supply an answer to that last question, Western religion not being

an especially significant cornerstone of his work. Which is not to suggest that his movies, this one included, are lacking in spiritual dimensions — quite the contrary.

For most of its unhurried, perversely suspense-free 130 minutes, “Before We Vanish” plays like a witty, low-key throwback, a goofily deadpan tribute to “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” “Starman” and other endlessly recyclable touchstones of science-fiction cinema. But beneath its cheeky, scattershot surface is a surprisingly earnest core, as well as a sincere inquiry into what exactly humanity stands to lose in the face of its looming extinction.

That gloomy fate is announced at the outset, not long after the movie dispenses with its most unnerving image: an ugly crime scene presided over by a teenage girl in a blood-spattered school uniform. She may look like a Quentin Tarantino fantasy, but Akira (Yuri Tsunematsu), or what used to be Akira, is actually something much

more dangerous. Her body has unwittingly become host to an alien who has come to Earth to prepare the way for an eventual takeover.

Together with her alien cohort Amano (Mahiro Takasugi), Akira commandeers a local journalist named Sakurai (Hiroki Hasegawa) to serve as their “guide,” who will acquaint them with the human populace they are about to wipe out. The three of them travel across Tokyo, pausing for the occasional bloodbath triggered by Akira’s violent paranoia, and so that they can extract important qualities — feelings, values, instincts, bits of knowledge — from the humans they meet. (“I took his conception of work,” one of them notes, shortly after turning an overbearing businessman into the office prankster.)

Unknown to Akira and Amano, there is a third alien in their midst, inhabiting the body of a man named Shinji (Ryuhei Matsuda). Shinji’s abrupt change in personality is not lost on his estranged

wife, Narumi (Masami Nagasawa), especially since he gives her a pretty direct explanation for it. (“To tell the truth, I’m an alien,” he says.) In one of the movie’s more amusing developments — shades of Dougie Jones in “Twin Peaks: The Return” — Shinji’s possession has a surprisingly restorative effect on their marriage. There are casually profound implications to that joke: Might we all do a better job of loving one another, perhaps, without all the emotional calluses, the rigid expectations, that accumulate over time?

Until it climaxes with a series of nonetoo-persuasive CG explosions, all in service of a bizarre homage to “North by Northwest,” “Before We Vanish” is a clever, endearing example of speculative fiction executed at a purely conceptual level. That we never see the aliens in their presumably grotesque original form may underscore the movie’s roots in a stage play by Tomohiro Maekawa (which Kurosawa adapted with his co-writer, Sachiko Tanaka).

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Dining Delights

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A buffalo chicken ponyshoe off the “famous shoes” portion of the menu at D’Arcy’s Pint located at 661 W. Stanford Ave. in Springfield.

D’Arcy’s Pint in Springfield

By BILL ROSEBERRY For The Edge I have been urged to visit D’Arcy’s Pint in Springfield for a long time by a lot of different people. Now that I’ve been there, I can say it’s definitely not a disappointment.

D’Arcy’s Pint is located at 661 W. Stanford Ave. in Springfield. It’s been a staple in the state’s capital since opening in 1998. From burgers to pizza to classic Irish fare to D’Arcy’s famous horseshoes, there’s a little bit of everything when it comes to comfort food.

I visited with my parents and my buddy Mike recently

after spending a day at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. If you haven’t been there, it’s well worth a visit, too. You’ll learn plenty about our 16th president.

Of course all that learning builds up an appetite and D’Arcy’s was just what the doctor ordered.

Once you walk in you realize just how big D’Arcy’s is.

You come to the hostess station and then the restaurant splits into two sides. To the left is a big dining room and to the right is the bar with a bunch more seating.

We went to the bar side. There are tons of square tables, which were stuffed with patrons on our visit. The long bar runs the length of the front wall with a ton of seating

there, too. It really does have an old school Irish pub feel.

We were seated at a small table past the bar and near the back wall, right next to a fireplace. It was a perfect quiet area and once we were settled in it was time to start studying a menu.

Now Springfield has a little stake in culinary history.

It’s the creator of the horseshoe and while D’Arcy’s had nothing to do with the gluttonous open face sandwich’s start, it has perfected it and taken it to the next level. I knew that was the direction I was going before I stepped foot in the door, it was just figuring out what I wanted to put on it from the plethora of choices.

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Dining Delights Eat Continiued from Page 26 While mulling it over I went with an appetizer to get my brain percolating. I ordered the stuffed long hot peppers to get started.

I’m calling fake news on these.

There was nothing hot about them, instead they should have been called stuffed long delicious peppers. While there was no spice kick whatsoever, they were fantastic.

They were actually long sweet peppers, but heaping with ground sausage, ricotta cheese and a delectable marinara sauce which had all been baked into the peppers. The flavor was oh so sweet with a little bit of a crust to them from the bake, but the creaminess of the ricotta still intact. They were phenomenal.

My mom also got things started with some potato skins.

T h e y w e re v e r y g o o d t o o , but not unique from skins I’ve had at other places. They were simply skins filled with cheese, bacon and scallions and served with sour cream. I pilfered a couple bites and they had a nice crispness to them and hearty flavor.

Now it was time for the main event. Mom and dad went with the Irish theme. Mom got shepard’s pie and dad ordered corned beef and cabbage.

I tried a little bit of both.

The shepard’s pie was so good, served with beef and veggies in a creamy sauce housed under a blanket of mashed potatoes and baked to perfection. It was such a great comfort food. The mashed potatoes were creamy as heck, but had a little crust on the edges and all the innards were piping hot and delicious.

Dad’s corned beef and cabbage was good, too. The beef wasn’t overly salty like you’ll get sometimes when ordering corned

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The long hot stuffed peppers off the appetizer menu at D’Arcy’s Pint. beef and the pieces of cabbage were huge. He was extremely pleased.

Mike just went with a grilled chicken Caesar salad, but there was a method to his madness.

He was the only one of us to go with a dessert, ordering pumpkin cheesecake. He raved about it’s deliciousness, popping with great pumpkinny goodness and served with that cheesecake creaminess.

As for me, I went all Dr. Frankenstein and created a monster off of the horseshoe portion of the menu.

First I decided to go with a ponyshoe and I was glad I did, because it came out bursting off the plate. The larger horseshoe version is served on a platter

according to our server. It’s definitely not on any diet plans.

I started with the traditional Te x a s t o a s t , b u t a d d e d a buffalo chicken patty, bacon strips, grilled onions and diced tomatoes before being finished off with crinkle cut fries and a white cheddar cheese sauce. It also came with side containers of ranch and hot sauce, but I declined to add them. There was plenty on my beast already.

While the buffalo chicken didn’t have much kick to it, it was tender and juicy and had a great taste. The real all-star was D’Arcy’s white cheddar cheese sauce. It was popping with creaminess and just added to the whole experience. The grilled onions were a nice touch, too.

Unfortunately the bacon and tomatoes were mostly lost in everything else that was going on with it.

It was definitely the most creative shoe I’ve ever eaten and one of the better ones.

What is interesting is all the great and quirky items you can get on a shoe at D’Arcy’s.

Here are some of the choices: h a m , c o r n e d b e e f , t u r k e y, Italian sausage, pork tenderloin, walleye and pastrami. There is even a chili cheese dog horseshoe, consisting of a quarter pound all-beef hot dog topped with chili, scallions and cheese.

There are unique weekly horseshoe specials on the menu also. Ask the server about that

on your visit.

To check out the whole menu at D’Arcy’s, visit their website at www.darcyspintonline.com.

There is plenty to choose from on the menu, from soups and salads, to burgers, a section called pub grub, pasta, steaks, sandwiches, pizza and chicken.

They even have something called the protein plate, which gives you choices of a hamburger steak, grilled chicken or a grilled pork tenderloin accompanied with cottage cheese and tomato wedges.

It was a just a fun atmosphere with plenty of good comfort food available and I’m ready for a return anytime. D’Arcy’s Pint is definitely a place to go when you gotta eat.

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The Edge's own Bill Roseberry, famous for his You Gotta' Eat restaurant reviews, has put together his thoughts on a number of local eateries.

Enjoy.

Foundry Public House 126 N. Main St. Edwardsville A hip newer spot on the Edwardsville food scene, visit here to get your gourmet burger fix and relax with some friends.

Great burgers, including the J-Bird topped with a sunny side up egg. The chicken wings are pretty good, too. Try the sweet heat, they aren't really spicy, more of a sweet chili taste. If you're looking for

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a unique experience check out the salmon reuben. It will confuse your palate at first, but you won't be disappointed. It's small, so can get a little packed, but has friendly service and a pretty good craft beer menu to pass the time.

The Original Pancake House 8817 Ladue Rd. St. Louis If you're looking for a top notch breakfast place, this is it. Literally some of the best bacon I've ever had. We're talking fat slices and juicy as heck. It could almost be called pork belly. The bacon pancakes are the way to go, with chunks of bacon blanketing

buttermilk pancakes and topped with whipped butter and warm maple syrup. The hash browns are top notch, too, maybe the best I've had. Get there quick, it's only open 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday and it gets quite busy. There are locations around the country, but only in Ladue and Chesterfield locally.

Champaign is the next closest.

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happy hour, or grab a great meal. The mussels and fries is one of their signature dishes on the appetizer menu. Make sure to check out the buffalo chicken toasted ravioli, served with Sriracha sauce, they are outstanding. You can't go wrong with the muffuletta, which comes in a quarter, half and full sandwich.

I recommend the quarter, this sucker is a monster.

Cool, laid back, old school pub atmosphere and includes plenty of seating.

O'Connell's Pub 4652 Shaw Blvd.

St. Louis Cheap, simple and good.

That's a good rundown of O'Connell's Pub in St. Louis. The burgers are tremendous. They're huge and very succulent. It's just a great old-style Irish pub, with good beer selections and simple food made to perfection. Across the street from Shaw's Garden and not far from Forest Park, so there are great activities to follow if you visit.

Tucanos Brazilian Grill 1520 S. 5th St. St. Charles Sensational. I almost don't have the words to describe this meat mecca.

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