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EAC adds to class lineup.

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Herb Days

Annual favorite returns to MoBOT.

11 "Beauty and the Beast" A live-action version of the classic.

13 McHenry County Butchers, bakers and beer.

14 "The Lion King"

The Fox to host the Disney classic.

19 New in Branson "Raiding the Country Vault."

• Howlin' Fridays: Skeet Rodgers & the Inner City Blues Band, National Blues Museum, St. Louis, 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

• Mipso, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• Gary Owen, w/(TBA), The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• Lalo, w/Travis Teel Page, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• OG Maco, w/Young Greatness, Pop's, Sauget, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• ScribeCash, Miles Gaines, T D U B z , a n d m o re , C i c e ro ' s , University City, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• A Night Market, Guerilla Food Truck, The Ready Room, St. Louis, 6:00 p.m.

• Funky Butt Brass Band and Friends, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

• Motown the Musical, The Fabulous Fox, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Runs until March 26, 2017 • Million Dollar Quartet, The Rep, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Runs until April 9, 2017 • Morpho Mardi Gras, Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House, Chesterfield, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. , Runs until March 26, 2017 • Orchid Show 2017, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 31, 2017 • Degas, impressionism, and the

Paris Millinery Trade, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until May 7, 2017 • Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until July 16, 2017 • The Royale, The Rep, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Runs until March 26, 2017

Saturday March 25_________ • St. Louis Blues vs. Calgary Flames, Scottrade Center, St. Louis, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

• So iLL Showdown Climbing Competition Finals, Climb So Ill, St. Louis, 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

• David Russell: St. Louis Classic Guitar Society, Ethical Society of St. Louis, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

• Nikee Turbo & Con, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 9:00 p.m.

• Conor Oberst, w/The Felice Brothers, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• Hoodat B- Creedence Clearwater Revival Experience, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• Road To Pointfest 2017 S:3 Rd:4, Pop's, Sauget, Doors 6:30 p.m.

FRESH Birthday Bash, Cicero's, University City, Doors 9:00 p.m.

• Funky Butt Brass Band and Friends, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

• Motown the Musical, The

Fabulous Fox, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Runs until March 26, 2017 • Million Dollar Quartet, The Rep, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Runs until April 9, 2017 • Morpho Mardi Gras, Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House, Chesterfield, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. , Runs until March 26, 2017 • Orchid Show 2017, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 31, 2017 • Degas, impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until May 7, 2017 • Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until July 16, 2017 • The Royale, The Rep, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Runs until March 26, 2017

Sunday March 26_________ • Kodak Black, w/(TBA), The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• Williams Brothers, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

• D i z S t ro h m a n B i g B a n d , American Legian, Edwardsville, 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Sachs Butterfly House, Chesterfield, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. , Runs until March 26, 2017

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People EAC adds mosaics to adult class lineup SIUE student teaches on Monday nights

By JULIA BIGGS Of The Edge

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he Edwardsville Arts Center has added a new art class to its adult class lineup. In late January, the EAC added a stained glass mosaics class on Monday nights which has been quite popular.

EAC Gallery Manager Carolyn Tidball explained that they added the class after Kelsey Seidel, an SIUE student majoring in art education, expressed interest in teaching it.

“We’ve been wanting to do a stained glass class for a long time, but we didn’t have a teacher to do it. We found Kelsey and she was interested in teaching it. We had all the supplies that we were just waiting to use. So we’re pretty excited about it,” Tidball said.

Stained glass mosaics is offered every Monday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. “It’s a three-hour long class because you need a little bit of time to plan a design, glue all your glass pieces down and add the grout,” Tidball explained.

It’s $15 per class but registration is required. Register and pay online at

www.edwardsvilleartscenter.com

and click on the education pull down menu.

“We have all the glass cut and prepared to glue down and then you draw your own design,” Tidball noted.

“We have some examples that you can choose from or use as inspiration. You do all the gluing of the glass down and choosing where the glass goes, and then grouting afterwards.”

Although the EAC supplies the precut glass and grout, participants need to bring with them a couple of supplies.

“We ask students to bring a glass picture frame and then that glass is used to glue the pieces on. You put it in the frame when your piece is done,” Tidball said.

“You can hang it on a wall in your house or in a window to let the light shine through. We also ask students to bring Goop glue. It can be found at Home Depot or Lowe's.”

Most stained glass mosaics class participants take two or three classes to finish their project. “It just depends on how quick you go and how complex your design is. Depending on what you do, I think it’s possible to get it done in one class,” Tidball added.

She emphasized that the stained glass mosaics class is not a drop-in class like several of the others offered at EAC. “You do have to register for it online.

There’s a link on our website where you can register and pay for it online,” Tidball pointed out.

The new stained glass mosaics class joins several other adult evening classes that are offered every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Mondays are drawing classes, Tuesdays are ceramics and Wednesdays are painting and ceramics classes. All of these classes are drop-ins which means

no registration is required.

The EAC also offers two other evening art events each month. Paint and Party, with Sarah Willig, happens the first Thursday of each month. Paint and Party is $35 and takes place at Cleveland-Heath in Edwardsville. Food is not included.

There’s also First Friday Watercolor with Marty Spears which takes place the first Friday of every month at the EAC. The First Friday Watercolor class is $25.

All supplies are provided for both Paint and Party and First Friday Watercolor and both require online registration. Visit the EAC’s website or Facebook page for the upcoming April 6 Paint and Party and April 7 First Friday Watercolor paintings that will be made at the corresponding events.

In addition to the adult classes, the EAC offers free art classes for kids every Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. No registration is required for the Saturday kids’ classes – simply drop-in.

Visit www.edwardsvilleartscenter. com for more information.

Pictured are stained glass pieces created at the Edwardsville Arts Center.

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People Take a trip to Warm Springs Ranch in Boonville, Mo. For The Edge Warm Springs Ranch will open its gates to guests from around the world for the ninth season on Saturday, March 25. With more than 70 Budweiser Clydesdales and foals roaming the pastures, guests who visit Warm Springs Ranch have the opportunity to experience the iconic and world-famous Budweiser Clydesdales up close and personal.

The 300-acre breeding facility is located in the heart of Missouri in Boonville. While taking part in one of the daily tours, guests can enjoy seeing the vast countryside where the Budweiser Clydesdales spend their time, along with the 25,000-square-foot breeding barn, veterinary lab and pastures with customized, walk-in shelters.

During the tours, guests learn about the history of the Budweiser Clydesdales and the meticulous care and attention that goes into raising them. Dedicated staff is on-site around the clock to ensure the highest quality of care for each horse and that all new baby Clydesdales born at the Ranch are welcomed into the world in comfort and safety.

Several foals, including Pete, Halie, Cain and Juneau, were born at the Ranch already this year, with many more on the way!

“Warm Springs Ranch gives visitors a chance to get an inside look at where these beloved and beautiful animals are born, bred, trained and cared for,” said Jeff Knapper, General Manager of Budweiser Clydesdale Operations.

“The Budweiser Clydesdales symbolize the quality and care Anheuser-Busch puts into everything they do and we’re looking forward to another busy season where we can showcase that effort.”

New this season, visitors will have the unique opportunity to get an out-of-this-world experience that hasn’t occurred for nearly 100 years.

On August 21, the solar eclipse will take place across the United States.

and Boonville is located directly within the path for optimal viewing.

To bring the best experience possible to the thousands anticipated to visit the area, Warm Springs Ranch will host a viewing event, complete with eclipse glasses, parking, two 10-ounce samples of Budweiser, food vendors and more. Tickets can be purchased online starting March 10 at warmspringsranch.com and will cost $50 for those age 19 and older, $25 for ages 6-18 and children under age 5 are free.

“We’re thrilled to welcome visitors for our ninth season and we’re especially looking forward to offering a special viewing experience of the solar eclipse,” said John Soto, Supervisor of Warm Spring Ranch. “What a unique way to watch the solar eclipse in beautiful Boonville, right alongside the Budweiser Clydesdales.”

Warm Springs Ranch offers guided walking tours twice a day, except for Wednesdays, at 10 a.m.

and 2 p.m. The tour costs $14 per person and lasts one-and-a-half hours. The guided walking tour give guests the opportunity to interact with Clydesdale handlers, see the Clydesdales’ harness, luxury trailer and 1903 beer wagon, and take a picture with a Clydesdale. Guests 21 and older will also have the opportunity to sample Budweiser.

In addition, Warm Springs Ranch also offers a VIP tour once a day, allowing guests to climb aboard a custom-built vehicle to enjoy a private excursion across the facility’s 300-plus acres. In addition to the experiences offered on the guided walking tour, the VIP tour also takes visitors on a private walking tour of the 25,000-square -foot breeding facility, gives a peek inside the special foaling area and a offers the chance to view the traveling hitch equipment. A VIP tour can accommodate up to 16 guests and has a flat fee of $500, no matter the number of guests on the

tour. Reservations are required for both tours.

To reserve a tour spot and to find more information on the Ranch and the Budweiser Clydesdales, visit www.warmspringsranch.com.

About the Budweiser Clydesdales Anheuser-Busch’s Budweiser Clydesdales are an enduring symbol of Budweiser ’s heritage, tradition and commitment to quality. The hitch team will make appearances across the country in 2016, never failing to draw a crowd wherever they go. This year marks the 83rd anniversary of the Budweiser Clydesdales, which made their first appearance on behalf of AnheuserBusch on April 7, 1933, when they delivered a case of Budweiser to the White House in celebration of the repeal of prohibition of beer.

About Anheuser-Busch For more than 160 years, Anheuser-Busch and its worldclass brewmasters have carried on a legacy of brewing America’s

most-popular beers. Starting with the finest ingredients sourced from Anheuser-Busch’s family of growers, every batch is crafted using the same exacting standards and time-honored traditions passed down through generations of proud Anheuser-Busch brewmasters and employees. Best known for its fine American-style lagers, Budweiser and Bud Light, the company’s beers lead numerous beer segments.

Budweiser and Bud Light Lime Lime-A-Rita were named Brands of the Year for the Beer and the Spirits, Malt Beverages and Wine categories, respectively, by Ace Metrix® in 2014. Anheuser-Busch is the U.S. arm of Anheuser-Busch InBev and operates 17 local breweries, 21 distributorships and 23 agricultural and packaging facilities across the United States. The company committed to investing more than $1.5 billion in its U.S. brewing, agriculture, packaging and distributing operations by 2018.

Its flagship brewery remains in St. Louis, Mo., and is among the global company’s largest and most technologically-capable breweries.

Visitor and special beermaster tours are available at its St. Louis and five other Anheuser-Busch breweries.

For more information, visit www. anheuser-busch.com.

Pictured are two views from Warm Springs Ranch in Boonville, Mo. Photos courtesy of Warm Springs Ranch.

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Missouri Botanical Garden

Pictured are two scenes from previous Herb Days Plant Sales at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Herb Days returning to MoBOT

For the Intelligencer The 15th annual Herb Days Plant Sale, presented by The St. Louis Herb Society and the Missouri Botanical Garden, will take place Friday, April 28 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. If any plants remain, Saturday hours will be from 9 a.m. to noon on April 29. Missouri Botanical Garden members have the opportunity to shop on Thursday, April 27 from 5 to 8 p.m.

This event offers novice and experienced home gardeners the opportunity to purchase hard-tofind herbs for culinary, ornamental and decorative use. A portion of proceeds from the sale will benefit the Missouri Botanical Garden.

More than 120 varieties of herbs will be available. This year, The St. Louis Herb Society is offering more than 11,000 plants, a 30 percent increase over last year. This includes several native p e re n n i a l h e r b s a t t r a c t i v e t o butterflies, hummingbirds and other pollinators. Plants will be sold in two pot sizes: 4-inch pots will sell for $4.00 each and 5.5-inch pots will sell for $6.00 each. Visitors wishing to purchase multiple plants are asked to bring boxes.

Herb Society members will be on hand to answer questions, share recipes and give personalized advice on selecting, planting, growing and using herbs. In addition to the sale, the Herb Society is holding a number of talks and workshops on Friday, April 28. From 9 to 10 a.m., Kitchen Conservatory owner Anne Cori will present a talk called, “Put a Little

Lemon in Your Life,” focusing on lemon-scented herbs. Following Cori’s talk, four 20-minute

workshops will be held. “Kids in the Herb Garden” will be at 10 and 11 a.m., “Birds and the Bees (and

Butterflies too)” also at 10 and 11 a.m., “Container Gardening with Herbs” at 10:30 and 11:30 a.m.

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and “Herbal Vinegars, Dips and Spreads” at 10:30 and 11:30 a.m.

The talks and workshops will all be held in the Ridgway Visitors Center. Visitors may attend just one or all four of the workshops with regular garden admission.

“Herbal Cookery: From the Kitchens and Gardens of The St. Louis Herb Society,” the awardwinning cookbook, will be available for purchase, along with spice blends created by members of The St. Louis Herb Society.

The St. Louis Herb Society is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1941, “to further the use and knowledge of herbs.” Its members have planned, planted and maintained the herb garden behind the historical Tower Grove House – Missouri Botanical Garden founder Henry Shaw’s home – on the grounds for more than 40 years. They tend the Herb Garden on Tuesday mornings from April through October. The organization also offers classes and a speaker’s bureau.

The Herb Sale is included with Garden admission of $12; St. Louis City and County residents enjoy discounted admission of $6 and free admission on Saturday morning until noon. Children ages 12 and under and Garden members are free.

The Missouri Botanical Garden is located at 4344 Shaw Blvd. in south St. Louis, accessible from Interstate 44 at the Vandeventer exit and from Interstate 64 at the Kingshighway North and South exit. Free parking is available on site and two blocks west at the corner of Shaw and Vandeventer.

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People People planner Build Benld Craft Fair and Flea Market set

The 7th Annual Build Benld Craft Fair and Flea Market will be held on Saturday, May 13, 2017 at the Benld Civic Center.

Rental space is $25 per 8 ft table.

Vendor registrations are now open and are accepted on a first comefirst served basis. Space is limited so reserve yours early. Deadline for registration is Friday, May 5th.

Registration form is available on Build Benld facebook page, and if you have questions or want to request a registration form be mailed to you, call Norman (Market Coordinator) at 217-835-2130.

Apollo 11 exhibit coming to St. Louis The Saint Louis Science Center is proud to announce that it is one of four science museums nationwide to host “Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission,” a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. The exhibition will feature the Apollo 11 command module Columbia, marking the first time in 46 years the module has left the museum, as well as 20 artifacts from the historic mission. After the exhibition tour, the artifacts will return to the Smithsonian for a new exhibition, also titled “Destination Moon,” which will open in 2020.

“Destination Moon” will be at the Saint Louis Science Center from April 14 to Sept. 3, 2018. The 49th anniversary of the moon landing is July 20, 2018.

“St. Louis played a vital role in the Space Race, with McDonnellDouglas serving as a key leader in the development of the Mercury and Apollo mission technology,” said Bert Vescolani, president and CEO. “We are honored to have the opportunity to host this exhibition, which represents an iconic period in our country’s history. We are the only museum in the Midwest to host this exhibition, which is so special for the city of St. Louis. We feel very honored because we know that for many people this will be a once- in-alifetime chance to see these artifacts.”

In addition to the Apollo 11 command module Columbia, the only portion of the historic spacecraft to complete the first mission to land a man on the moon and safely return him to Earth, the exhibition will feature: • Star Chart: The chart shows the positions of the sun, moon and stars at the time Apollo 11 was scheduled to leave Earth’s orbit and head for the moon.

• Rucksack #1, Survival Kit: One of two rucksacks filled with equipment to help the crew survive for up to 48 hours in the event of an emergency landing somewhere on Earth. The kit includes three water containers, a radio beacon and spare battery, three pairs of sunglasses, six packages of desalting chemicals, a seawater desalter kit, two survival lights, a machete and two bottles of sunscreen.

• Aldrin’s Extravehicular Visor: Buzz Aldrin wore this outer helmet while on the surface of the moon. It fit over his clear pressure-bubble helmet.

• Aldrin’s Extravehicular Gloves: These gloves have an outer, cutresistant shell of Chromel-R fabric across the hands to prevent fatal air leaks caused by handling sharp objects and gauntlets to protect against solar heating. The blue fingertips were made of silicone

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rubber to provide more sensitivity for touching.

Vescolani said, “‘Destination Moon’ will help visitors of all ages to appreciate the accomplishment of the Moon Landing and all of the work that went into making it happen. We hope the exhibition inspires our guests to think about what is next in space discovery.

Perhaps one of them will play a role in exploring Mars and beyond.”

Saint Louis Science Center The mission of the Saint Louis Science Center is to ignite and sustain lifelong science and technology learning. Named a Smithsonian Institution Affiliate in 2016, the Saint Louis Science Center features more than 700 interactive exhibits, as well as a five-story OMNIMAX Theater, Boeing Hall and the James S. McDonnell Planetarium. For more information about the Saint Louis Science Center, please visit slsc.org.

Fort de Chartres to host event

Fort de Chartres State Historic Site is helping gardeners prepare for spring with two special events that offer heirloom seeds, advice on preparing raised beds and tips on pruning trees.

The event is the annual Fort de Chartres Jardin Potager Weekend on March 25 and 26. Visitors are welcome to join volunteers on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. to discuss direct sowing seeds in the garden. After a break, work will begin on preparing raised beds and planting seeds for the approach of spring. Heirloom seed packet samples will be available, too.

These events are free and open to the public. For more information, email Carol at heritage@fdcjardin. com, visit the Fort de Chartres Jardin Potager Heirloom Project website at www.fdcjardin.com, or look them up on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ fdcjardin.

Fort de Chartres was built by the French military in the 1750s, serving as the seat of government and chief military installation when France controlled the territory. The fort’s powder magazine is the oldest building in Illinois.

The site, a national historic landmark since 1960, is operated by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. IHPA protects the state’s historic resources, which contribute to education, culture and the economy.

IHPA sites include ancient burial mounds, forts and buildings erected by settlers, and homes connected to famous Illinoisans.

It is located at 1350 IL Route 155, 4 miles west of Prairie du Rocher. It is open Thursday-Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. A site donation of $4 for adults, $2 for children, or $10 per family is suggested.

Zoo announces summer programs

From the ever-popular Camp KangaZoo to individual programs for all ages, the Saint Louis Zoo’s Education Department has classes, overnight experiences and daytime adventures for everyone in the family.

Camp KangaZoo Camp KangaZoo campers can choose to attend one or two full-day camps with the themes "Ecology-Everything’s Connected” and “Extreme Animals.” Monday through Thursday, campers will play games, meet animals, enjoy sing-alongs and view dynamic Zoo exhibits. On Thursday nights, they’ll sleep at the Zoo and wake up with the birds! Camp KangaZoo scholarships

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are available for families with financial need.

Younger children can hop "out of the pouch" and into the Zoo at Camp Joey. Half-day and full-day sessions are available for children who are at least 4 years old and entering kindergarten.

New this year, the Zoo is offering specialty camps for kids entering grades 4-9. Topics include Zoo Careers, Junior Zoologist, Junior and Senior Marine Biologist. Teen Camp is available for youth entering grades 7-9.

Overnights Families with kids ages 5 and up can attend the Prehistoric Animals and Their Cousins or the Under the Sea-lion overnight programs.

Summer Programs Zoo programs for young children and youth keep growing minds sharp in the lazy summer months. The Zoo offers a variety of animal topics for various ages. Kids can learn about birds, mammals and reptiles, see stingrays up close, examine dinosaur fossils, create animal habitats, sing animal songs, identify animal tracks, touch biofacts, tour the Zoo and meet the animals.

For youth in grades 2-8, the Zoo offers Keeper-for-a-Day at the Emerson Children’s Zoo, A Day with the Rays and Advanced Day with the Rays at Stingrays at Caribbean Cove.

Engineer-for-a-Day is available for those 7 years old and up. A Junior Sea Lion Trainer program is available for ages 10 to adult.

Scouts can learn about animals and sleep under the stars while working toward fulfilling their badge requirements at the Snooze at the Zoo programs. Scout overnight programs are for Cub Scouts, Webelos, Girl Scout Brownies, Juniors and Cadettes.

Adult programs include evening safari tours, wine and cheese night prowls, painting nights, overnights and more.

Registration Early bird mail-in or drop-off registration forms must be received by March 6. Online registration begins March 7 for Zoo members and March 9 for general public. Program fees vary.

For a complete list of programs, registration forms, online registration, camp scholarship applications and more information, visit stlzoo.org/ education. Registration for programs is not available by phone. For questions, call (314) 646-4544, option #6. All proceeds support the Saint Louis Zoo.

Antiques Roadshow coming to St. Louis

Fans of Antiques Roadshow, one of the most popular shows airing on the Nine Network, can apply now through April 10 to have their items appraised at an all-day event on Saturday, July 8. Three one-hour episodes will be produced from the St. Louis appraisal event and will be aired in 2018. Antiques Roadshow, the 14-time Emmy Award nominated show, airs Mondays on Nine Network at 7 p.m. Central.

Admission to Antiques Roadshow is free, but tickets are required and must be obtained in advance. Fans can apply now for a chance to receive one pair of free tickets per household.

To find out more information and to find a link to apply for tickets, visit http://www.pbs.org/antiques/ tickets/. Following the deadline, ticket winners will be selected at random by a third party and contacted via an email containing their tickets.

“The Nine Network couldn’t be happier to welcome back Antiques Roadshow for the first time in over 15

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years,” said Nine Network President and CEO Jack Galmiche. “It’s consistently one of our most-watched shows and gives us a chance to host an event we know our viewers are extremely excited about.”

Antiques Roadshow is also accepting furniture submissions for the 2017 tour. The series is looking for a few pieces of furniture to appraise and display on the set. Selected pieces will be transported to the event and back at no cost to the owner. For more details visit: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/ roadshow/furniture/.

The Nine Network’s own Antiques Roadshow-style event, Trash or Treasure, a partnership with the Kodner Gallery, regularly draws large crowds for appraisals in more than 20 categories. The annual event gives fans another chance to determine the worth of their most prized possessions.

Explore St. Louis guides now available

Explore St. Louis is pleased to announce the release of the 2017 Official St. Louis Visitors Guide offering visitors the latest information on what to see and do to plan a St. Louis adventure. The guide is filled with suggestions on great places to eat, shop, play and stay in St. Louis and across the region.

Additionally, the guide highlights what’s new to St. Louis in 2017, including overviews on some of St. Louis’ unique neighborhoods, the CityArchRiver project that i s t r a n s f o r m i n g t h e g ro u n d s surrounding the historic Gateway Arch, the booming urban arts scene throughout the region, a look at St. Louis breweries, and a glimpse at what St. Louis has to offer music lovers. There’s also a glance at the Saint Louis Science Center’s The Discovery of King Tut exhibit, the newly unveiled 4,000-squarefoot expansion of the Field House Museum, the debut of the Loop Trolley and St. Louis’ newest concert venue, Delmar Hall.

Approximately 350,000 copies of the 100-page magazine-style, fullcolor brochure have been printed and are being distributed across the country. Visitors can view the digital version of the guide at www.explorestlouis.com or pick up a copy of the guide at one of Explore St. Louis’ visitor centers located throughout the area, at the Old Courthouse; America’s Center convention complex; and at the Dennis and Judith Jones Visitor & Education Center in Forest Park.

There are two additional centers at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, located by the baggage claim area on the lower levels of Terminal 1 and Terminal 2.

Explore St. Louis is the driving force behind St. Louis’ $5 billion convention and tourism industry, the official destination marketing organization of St. Louis City and County and operator of the America’s Center Convention Complex.

Friends of The Sheldon to host wine tasting

The Friends of The Sheldon present the 18th Annual Sunset at The Sheldon Wine & Beer Tasting, Friday, May 5, 2017 from 6:30 p.m. until sunset in The Sheldon Ballroom and on the Observation Deck. Proceeds benefit Sheldon Educational Programs.

Patrons will have the opportunity to taste and purchase wine and craft beers with great new offerings from Lohr Distributing, enjoy delectable hors d’oeuvres and desserts, bid on silent auction items and listen to live music from Lisa Campbell and Tim Albert of Uncle Albert, as the sun sets over the city.

Space is limited! Reservations are $75 and include a tax deduction.

For reservations, call The Sheldon’s Development Department at 314533-9900.

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Airshow to mark SAFB's 100th anniversary

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

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

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

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

Visitors will get their kicks learning about the motels, custard stands and tourist traps that could be found along the road as it passed through St. Louis. Route 66 through St. Louis wound its way from the bridges through downtown streets and depending on the year, provided travelers with several options for navigating through the city to the county and west.

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

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On April 1, break-out country music artist and native St. Louisan Ben Morgan & Band will headline the Budweiser Prsents Live ON-Stage @ The Biergarten concert event at the AnheuserBusch Biergarten, with opening act Jeremiah Johnson Band. The concert will feature songs from Ben Morgan’s album Sweet History, which will be released in February, including the title track “Sweet History� and “Age is a State of Mind,� which have been pre-released and are both currently available for download on all major music platforms, including iTunes / Apple Music, Amazon Music, Google Play and Spotify.

General admission, VIP and Screen Package tickets for the concert event are on sale now at b i e rg a r t e n . t i x . c o m . A l l t i c k e t purchases include a free download of the Sweet History album.

The Anheuser-Busch St. Louis Brewery and Tour Center is the company’s flagship beer hospitality experience, and it’s continually ranked as one of the best brewery tours in the country.

The concert will be held at The B i e rg a r t e n , w h i c h i s l o c a t e d outside the Tour Center at 12th and Lynch Streets in Soulard.

Concert-goers will be able to taste Anheuser-Busch’s great beer and food, all while listening to the sounds of Ben Morgan & Band.

The Ben Morgan sound reflects a country base, flavored by Southern rock and blues influences. Ben's vocals and guitar solos highlight a stirring combination of driving songs and thoughtful ballads.

Song titles from his new album include “Sweet History,� “Age is a State of Mind,� “Wrong From Right,� “Famous in a Small Town,� “Slow Dancing in the Sun,� “Rail Whiskey� and “Getting Out for the Night.� His sound features ambitious guitar riffs and meaningful lyrics, singer/ songwriter ballads, traditional feel-good country melodies, and driving guitar-powered tunes.

Ben cultivated his unique, “new country� sound at a young age learning to play from his parents, both accomplished musicians. As he grew older, Ben began fleshing out his musical knowledge by playing in several bands, and adding music theory studies and university coursework. Ben then returned to the road and built a reputation as a crowd-pleasing, instrumentally-gifted vocalist, while playing the Midwest and select eastern U.S. venues.

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

By 1937, the lighter-than-air era ended for the entire Army Air Corps and the War Department intended to move the General H e a d q u a r t e r s A i r F o rc e f ro m Langley Field, Virginia to Scott Field. America’s entry into World War II would change that plan.

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

By 1964, Scott became responsible for all aeromedical transportation within the U.S, and by 1975, the base was responsible for worldwide patient movement.

Throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s, the Scott AFB’s mission continued to evolve and change with the addition of new aircraft and units.

Scott’s present flying mission showcases the integration of the Active Duty, Reserve, and National Guard components of the U.S. Air Force.

The 375th Air Mobility Wing (Active Duty) and the 932d Airlift Wing (Reserve) fly operational support airlift for priority passengers in the C-21 and C-40 aircraft respectively, while the 126th Air Refueling Wing (IL Air National Guard) conducts worldwide KC-135 air refueling missions.

Scott AFB is also host to U.S. Transportation Command, Air Mobility Command, 18th Air Force, 618th Air Operations Center, Air Force Network Integration C e n t e r, D e f e n s e I n f o r m a t i o n S y s t e m s A g e n c y, t h e A r m y ’ s Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, 635th Supply Chain Operations Wing, and a number of other mission partners.

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

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

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

Critics and fans have raved about the interactive components of Brown’s shows. He promises “plenty of new therapy inducing opportunities during our audience participation segments. I don’t want to give too much away, but this time we’re going to play a little game.�

Brown has a knack for mixing together science, music and food into two hours of pure entertainment. “Plus, you’ll see things I’ve never been allowed to do on TV.�

Brown, author of the James Beard award winning “I’m Just Here for the Food� and New York Times bestselling sequence “Good Eats,� is releasing his new cookbook through Ballantine Books (an imprint of Random House) on September 27 and it is available for preorder now. “Alton Brown: EveryDayCook�, or EDC as Brown calls it, is a collection of more than 100 personal recipes as well as a pinch of science and history. He has hosted numerous series including “Cutthroat Kitchen,� “Camp Cutthroat� and “Iron Chef America� and created, produced and hosted the Peabody award winning series “Good Eats� for 13 years on Food Network; Good Eats can still be seen on the Cooking Channel and Netflix.

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

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

By the 1970s, the interstate system offered a more efficient way to get around the country and rendered Route 66 obsolete.

The Mother Road was officially decommissioned in 1985, with many of the states removing the shields before that. Although Route 66 is long gone, relics of it still remain across St. Louis. Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis serves as a vehicle to transport visitors back to a time when car travel was an adventure and mom-and-pop diners and motels ruled the road.

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People People planner Sturgill Simpson coming to The Fox Sturgill Simpson will embark on a series of tour dates later this year, including a stop at the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis on Thursday, September 21. Other stops include New York’s Radio City Music Hall, Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre and L.A.’s Greek Theatre as well as previously announced headline slots at Louisville’s Forecastle Festival July 14-16 and Birmingham’s Sloss Music & Arts Festival July 15-16.

The performances will feature material from throughout Simpson’s catalog and is his way of thanking fans—both old and new— for a series of unprecedented years.

Tickets are $62.50, $42.50, $37.50, $32.50, $28 and are available online at metrotix.com, by calling 314-5341111, or in person at the Fabulous Fox Box Office.

The 2017 tour celebrates a series of breakthrough years for the acclaimed singer, songwriter and performer who is nominated for Album of the Year and Best Country Album at this weekend’s 59th Annual Grammy Awards for his acclaimed new album, A Sailor ’s Guide To Earth. Simpson is also confirmed to perform on the live awards show, which will broadcast on CBS from L.A.’s S t a p l e s C e n t e r t h i s S u n d a y, February 12 at 8/7c with host James Corden.

Out now on Atlantic Records (purchase here), A Sailor ’s Guide To Earth continues to receive overwhelming critical acclaim with recent “Best of 2016” coverage running at The New York Times, t h e L o s A n g e l e s Ti m e s , N P R Music, Rolling Stone, Stereogum, Pitchfork, Salon, Billboard, The Atlantic, Paste, SPIN, American Songwriter among many others.

M o re o v e r, s i n c e t h e a l b u m ’ s release, Simpson has performed on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” “Conan,” “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” “Charlie Rose” and, most recently, the 2017 debut episode of “Saturday Night Live.”

"Back To The Eighties" tour coming to St. Charles 102.5 KEZK presents “Back To The Eighties” The Retro Futura Tour featuring Howard Jones plus The English Beat, Men Without Hats, Modern English, Katrina (from Katrina & The Waves) & Annabella’s Bow Wow Wow on Aug. 19 at the Family Arena in St. Charles.

It was in 1983 that Howard Jones first burst upon the contemporary music scene with his very English songwriting, pioneering synthesizers and thought provoking lyrics. The first two albums, ‘Humans Lib’ and ‘Dream into Action’, brought Howard a host of hits including ‘New Song’,‘Things Can Only Get Better,’ ‘What is Love?,’ ‘Pearl In The Shell,’ ‘Like to Get To know You Well,’ ‘Hide And Seek’ (performed at Live Aid), ‘Look Mama,’ and ‘No One Is To Blame’, which reached No.1 in the US. Howard has sold over 8 million albums across the globe and is one of a select group of British artists who have comprehensively ‘broken America’.

Hailing from working-class Birmingham, England, Dave Wakeling and The English Beat entered the music scene in the 1979 a time of social, political and musical upheaval. They managed to fuse all of their respective musical influences - soul, reggae, pop and punk - into a unique sound that was highly danceable. Today Wakeling tours with an amazing all-star ska backing band playing the hits of The English Beat and General Public.

Modern English are an English rock band best remembered for their songs ‘I Melt with You,’ ‘Hands Across the Sea,’ and ‘Ink and Paper.’

The new wave synth pop collective Men Without Hats were formed in 1980 by brothers Ivan and Stefan Doroschuk. Ivan was the leader of the group, writing the majority of the songs and providing the lead vocals.

Taken from their debut, the single ‘The Safety Dance’ became a major hit, peaking on the American charts at number three in 1983. Driven by an insistent three-chord synthesizer

riff, the song was one of the biggest synth pop hits of the new wave era.

Katrina and The Waves had their first big break in 1984 when The Bangles covered their song ‘Going Down To Liverpool’. This drew attention to the group and lead to a deal with Capitol Records. Their first album was a substantial critical and commercial success and ‘Walking on Sunshine’ was a worldwide hit earning top ten spots around the globe. Since then, the song has been broadcasted over 2,500,000 times in the U.S. Annabella Lwin, at the tender age of 14, was one of the most photographed, talked about and popular vocalists in the early 80’s with her band, BOW WOW WOW, who enjoyed success with massive hits such as ‘I Want Candy’, ’Do U wanna Hold Me?’, ‘Go Wild in the Country’ and ‘C30, C60, C90, Go!’ Her unique vocals defined the sound of a new and energetic pop culture; he r me mo rab le p e rfo rmanc e s

influencing and inspiring a brand new wave of up–and–coming artists such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, No Doubt, Smashing Pumpkins and Green Day amongst others.

Tickets can be purchased at the Family Arena Ticket Office or online at www.metrotix.com. and are $95 (Gold Circle), $85 (Floor), $65 (100 Level Sidelines), $60 (100 Level Endzone), $45 (Upper Level) To charge by phone call MetroTix at 314-534-1111. For help purchasing accessible seating, please call The Family Arena ADA Hotline at 636896-4234.

Events scheduled in Litchfield area

The Litchfield Tourism Office has worked alongside local organizations to bring to you the most up to date calendar of 2017 Annual Litchfield Events. Events are added to the online calendar throughout the year; for the most up

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VisitLitchfield.com/events, sign up on Tourism’s event e-blast list, or like ‘Visit Litchfield Illinois’ on Facebook.

2017 Event Calendar: 2017 Litchfield Pickers Market Every second Sunday of the month from April - October (2017 Market Dates: April 9, May 14, June 11, July 9, August 13, September 10, October 8) 9 AM - 3 PM Downtown Litchfield beginning on the corner of Union Ave. (Route 16) and State St. This open air market, specializing in items prior to 1980 and refurbished vintage and antique items, brings hundreds of vendors to the streets of downtown Litchfield.

Hosted by: Litchfield Tourism For more information: www.

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"Get Out"

Fifty years after Sidney Poitier upended the latent racial prejudices of his white date's liberal family in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," writer-director Jordan Peele has crafted a similar confrontation with altogether more combustible results in "Get Out." "Do they know I'm black?" Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) asks his white girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) as they get ready to leave their city apartment for a weekend at her parents' rural estate. "No," she replies. "Should they?"

"It seems like something you might want to mention," he sighs. "I don't want to get chased off the lawn with a shotgun."

It's a joke but it's also foreshadowing — and just a hint of the frights to come. In Peele's directorial debut, the former "Key and Peele" star has —as he often did on that satirical sketch series — turned inside out even supposedly progressive assumptions about race. But Peele has largely left comedy behind in a more chilling portrait of the racism that lurks beneath smiling white faces and defensive, paper-thin protestations like, "But I voted for Obama!" and "Isn't Tiger Woods amazing?"

Those are the kinds of things that Rose's father, Dean (an excellent Bradley Whitford), says as he and his wife, Missy (Catherine Keener), heartily welcomes his daughter's boyfriend.

"How long has this thang been going on?" Dean asks with forced emphasis on "thang."

But the warm welcome is only skin deep. A deeply bizarre atmosphere takes hold at the house, where all the hired help is black. They are a spooky, robotic bunch, with dead eyes and zombie-like demeanors that would have stood out even in "The Stepford Wives." Something clearly is off, though Peele takes his time letting the mystery thicken.

"RATED: R by the Motion Picture Association of America for "violence, bloody images, and language including sexual references."

RUNNING TIME: 103 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three stars out of four.

"Contemporary Color"

"Bitter Harvest"

In 2015, former Talking Heads front man David Byrne staged an unconventional show in which he paired up 10 contemporary musicians and performers with color guard teams — those baton and saber twirling staples of small town parades and high school football games. The musicians, including the likes of St. Vincent, Lucius, Ad-Rock, Zola Jesus and Nelly Furtado, composed original songs that the color guard teams then used to choreograph a corresponding routine. The unique spectacle, which took place at Brooklyn's Barclays Center, is chronicled with experimental verve in the documentary "Contemporary Color," from filmmaking brothers Bill and Turner Ross.

Narrative is of little consequence in "Contemporary Color."

The Ross brothers show some interest in the excitable high school students from various parts of the country who have devoted most of the free time of their young lives to their color guard teams. This strange, high profile gig will also be the last time many are performing together. But the audience doesn't get to know any individual well enough for that to have any sort of emotional impact.

Maybe it'll remind some of their long lost high school passions, but the most remarkable thing about these youngsters is what happens when they're on the stage moving in tandem in an eye-popping swirl of sequins and flags. You forget that just a minute ago they were giggly and emotional and inarticulate in that way that most normal people are when a camera is pointed at them.

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

RUNNING TIME: 107 minutes.

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

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"Logan"

"Logan " is not for the faint of heart — not just because of its brutal violence, but because it packs an emotional wallop you don't typically expect from a comic-book movie.

Featuring Hugh Jackman's final turn as Wolverine, "Logan" isn't a shiny, colorful, superhero-style film, either. It's gritty, dark, and a deeply satisfying conclusion for fans who've followed the clawed character through Jackman's past eight movie outings with the X-Men and alone as Wolverine.

Writer-director James Mangold, who also directed 2013's "The Wolverine," clearly loves the character as much as Jackman does, and both seem liberated by this film's R rating. "Logan" is not a kids' movie. It's viscerally violent — lots of claws-throughthe-face shots — and emotionally profound as it explores the relationship between Logan and Professor X (Patrick Stewart).

Viewers would need some basic familiarity with these characters to fully appreciate the story told in "Logan." If you don't know anything about the relationship between the title mutant and Charles Xavier (Stewart), the arc they experience in this film would be far less impactful.

(The quick version: Professor X is the de-facto leader of mutants, who most appreciates them and their powers. Logan has resented the immortality that comes with his mutant-ness, and has a lot softer heart than his claws would indicate.)

It's the near future, and Logan is a hard-drinking limo-driver for hire. As one of the few remaining mutants, he keeps a low profile while caring for an aging and ill Professor X, who's hidden in a secret silo just south of the Mexican border. Half the time he babbles nonsense, but the professor tells him there's a young mutant coming their way, and soon they're charged with Laura, a little girl who doesn't speak but has deadly claws like Wolverine.

RATED: R for "strong brutal violence and language throughout, and for brief nudity."

RUNNING TIME: 141 minutes.

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

"Stalin's tyranny could destroy their country. But not their love."

Yep, that's the tagline for "Bitter Harvest," the new movie about young love during the Holodomor, the 1932-33 forced famine in Ukraine orchestrated by Josef Stalin that killed millions. And if it sounds like a schmaltzy, soap opera-like treatment of a serious and historic tragedy, well, that's because it is.

That's too bad, because teaching important history to younger generations via popular culture is always a worthy cause. It's just that soaking this sobering story in a soppy romance does little to advance that cause.

"Bitter Harvest," directed by George Mendeluk, stars the British actor Max Irons (son of Jeremy) as Yuri, the thoughtful grandson of a venerated Ukrainian warrior, and Samantha Barks as Natalka, the village girl he loves. Barks finds a bit more depth of character between the lines of the gooey, unsubtle script by Mendeluk and first-time screenwriter Richard Bachynsky-Hoover; Irons, who might play a good Romeo one day, is reduced to smoldering soulfully as his country implodes.

We're introduced to these characters as children, in a seemingly idyllic life in the countryside, frolicking in the woods and swimming in the river. "My Ukraine," Yuri intones in an earnest opening voiceover, was a place "where legends lived and anything was possible." Yuri's father (Barry Pepper) inculcates a love of freedom in the young boy. "No one can ever take away our freedom," he tells Yuri, in words that we know will echo in his head — and we do mean literally — years later.

"Remember that!"

RATED: R by the Motion Picture Association of America "for violence and disturbing images."

RUNNING TIME: 103 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: One star out of four.

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"Beauty and the Beast"

The Disney "live-action" remakes, of which the new "Beauty and the Beast" is but one in an assembly line, are starting to resemble an iPhone software update. Click a button and that old cartoon interface changes Belle into Emma Watson, the Beast into Dan Stevens and maybe fixes a few bugs in the system.

"Beauty and the Beast," that "tale as old as time" (or, to pinpoint it, 1740, when the French fairy tale was published), could certainly use a few tweaks. It is, after all, a fable about finding beauty within that ends, curiously, with the once superficial prince falling for a beautiful woman he's kidnapped, whose name literally means beauty. If you'd like to untangle those ironies, please, be our guest.

Director Bill Condon's film — let's call it "Beauty and the Beast 2.0" — often feels in search of a purpose beyond the allbut-certain dollar signs. Much of the live-action/digital effects makeover is less lifelike than the Oscar-winning 1991 animated film: It's gained a dimension but lost a pulse. The merely fine acting and the lavish production design (the sumptuous sets nearly swallow the performers whole) dutifully strive to make this a worthy enterprise.

Opposites attract, of course. And this "Beauty and the Beast" is equal parts dispiriting and enchanting: overflowing in handsome craft, but missing a spirit inside. Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's songs still have their infectious kick, but most of the big musical moments feel more like very good covers of the originals. (There are also three less-memorable new songs by Menken and Tim Rice.)

RATED: PG by the Motion Picture Association of America for "some action violence, peril and frightening images."

RUNNING TIME: 129 minutes.

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

"Kong: Skull Island"

Not since Marlon Brando in "Apocalypse Now" murmured of "the horror" has such a brooding beast lurked deep within a war-ravaged jungle as the King Kong of "Kong: Skull Island."

Yes, the big ape is back, this time with a rollicking Vietnam War backdrop and the Creedence Clearwater-thumping soundtrack to match. The year is 1973, Nixon is pulling troops out of Vietnam and American explorer Bill Randa (John Goodman) has convinced a senator (Richard Jenkins) to bankroll a quick expedition on the way out to an uncharted South Pacific island where "myth and science meet."

Unlike Brando's Colonel Kurtz, we don't have to wait very long for our errand boys — a cobbled-together team lead

by Lieutenant Colonel Packard (Samuel L. Jackson) — to encounter Kong on the exotic island. No sooner has their swarm of helicopters penetrated the island's permanently stormy perimeter is Kong swatting them away like flies, and the soldiers —fresh off the failed war — yet again find themselves in a gruesome quagmire.

What's a gorilla got to do with Vietnam? Well, that's the 800pound metaphor in the room.

"Kong: Skull Island" is the latest in a long line of reboots going back to the 1933 original. The disappointment of Peter Jackson's lavish but bloated 2005 attempt pushed producers to explore some other kind of evolution for the chest-pounding primate. Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts (whose only previous feature was the indie comedy "The Kings of Summer") has uprooted the tale from its imperialist origins (beware of what you plunder abroad) and commissioned Kong as a stand-in for the folly of Vietnam.

RATED: PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for "intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and for brief strong language."

RUNNING TIME: 118 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Two stars out of four.

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This image released by Disney shows Emma Watson as Belle, right, and Kevin Kline as Maurice in a scene from "Beauty and the Beast."

"Beauty and the Beast" goes live-action

By JAKE COYLE Associated Press The Disney "live-action" remakes, of which the new "Beauty and the Beast" is but one in an assembly line, are starting to resemble an iPhone software update. Click a button and that old cartoon interface changes Belle into Emma Watson, the Beast into Dan Stevens and maybe fixes a few bugs in the system.

"Beauty and the Beast," that "tale as old as time" (or, to pinpoint it, 1740, when the French fairy tale was published), could certainly use a few tweaks. It is, after all, a fable about finding beauty within that ends, curiously, with the once superficial prince falling for a beautiful woman he's kidnapped, whose name literally means beauty. If you'd like to

untangle those ironies, please, be our guest.

Director Bill Condon's film — let's call it "Beauty and the Beast 2.0" — often feels in search of a purpose beyond the all-but-certain dollar signs. Much of the live-action/digital effects makeover is less lifelike than the Oscarwinning 1991 animated film: It's gained a dimension but lost a pulse. The merely fine acting and the lavish production design (the sumptuous sets nearly swallow the performers whole) dutifully strive to make this a worthy enterprise.

Opposites attract, of course. And this "Beauty and the Beast" is equal parts dispiriting and enchanting: overflowing in handsome craft, but missing a spirit inside. Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's songs still have their infectious kick, but most of the big musical moments feel

more like very good covers of the originals.

(There are also three less-memorable new songs

by Menken and Tim Rice.)

And yet "Beauty and the Beast" finds its own verve — or, to quote Lumiere, "reason d'etre" — late. Condon (the "Dreamgirls" director who, having helmed much of the "Twilight" saga, knows a thing or two about young love and monsters), working from a script by Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos, has taken many of the old tale's more cringe-worthy gender roles and mixed them up in the movie's bright swirling medley.

Belle's bookishness is more pronounced, thanks partly to the "Harry Potter" credentials of Watson. Her performance is a little minor key, still, but Watson lends Belle an intelligence and agency that she has

lacked. She's less of a Stockholm syndrome Victim and more deserving of young girls' admiration. And the Beast, a pile of horns, makeup and effects on top of the former "Downton Abbey" star Stevens, is more haunted and melancholy.

But as the film nears its celebratory coda, a buoyant pluralism bursts forth. Characters — large parts and small — are freed from their prescribed roles in a glorious dance, shortly after Mrs. Potts (Emma Thompson), Cogsworth (Ian McKellen), Lumiere (Ewan McGregor) and the rest come to life. (Be sure to shake your living room and see which British star tumbles out of the furniture.) Here is where that already much discussed "gay moment," as Condon has called it, arrives. It comes and goes in a flash.

"Kong: Skull Island" a worthy effort

By ROBERT GRUBAUGH For The Edge Seems that there's a new major player on the action monster movie franchise front. Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures have released their reboot of an iconic character and it's a fun time, especially when one realizes that it's a door opening itself onto a decade's worth of sequels (if you like that sort of thing...and you do). "Kong: Skull Island" is an adventure that reminds me of the flavor so boldly captured by the "Jurassic Park/Jurassic World" movies, high summer fun in these cold waning winter days of midMarch. It's got a bevy of marquee stars, some who actually go a long time without being eaten by a beastie or pummeled by the Island King. Here's what you can expect.

"Kong: Skull Island" is set in 1973 during the American pull out of Vietnam. The director of a shadowy (or shady?) government organization (John Goodman) calls in some favors and convinces a Senator friend to give him an Army escort to a newly-discovered South Pacific island. The muscle he brings in is a battle-grizzled helicopter squadron commanded

by Colonel Packard (Samuel L. Jackson), fresh from the horrors of Da Nang and ready to rotate back stateside after that elusive "one last job" that seems to bring down so many noble, broken, or nobly broken movie heroes.

Joining the science teams and leathernecks are a photojournalist (Brie Larson) and a mercenary survival guide (Tom Hiddleston) who specializes in being a movie's third lead. Their roles are pretty

clearly defined and incredibly stock in their nature, but they are all filled by capable actors who can chew some scenery. Goodman is gruff, Jackson is brusque. Larson manages to fit into the macho landscape and bring a pointed, ill-advised commentary about feminism with her. Make no mistake that this movie is about one thing: watching a big ole monkey do some damage in a tropical paradise.

This version of Kong is one hundred feet tall and we're told that he's a juvenile, lording over his lush home like a benevolent king who's ready to go to the mattresses for the indigenous people that hide behind a giant fortified wall in a river gorge. They fear not the ape, but the other monsters that teem about from around and under the island. Skullwalkers, they're called,

and they resemble a skeletonized pterodactyl that skitter about causing waking nightmares. And how do we know all this great back-story? The real treasure inside this movie is the comedic B-plot featuring a WWII aviator (John C. Reilly), a Cubs fan of all things, who crash landed there almost thirty years earlier. He's a hoot and the one through-line that all audience members can root for regardless of their interest in the cardboard acting and/or the glitzy motion capture action scenes (in which Kong is portrayed by green screen veteran actor Toby Kebbel who also has a live-action role as a pilot).

Smashing flying helicopters, stunning stormy weather, and just enough pseudoscience, blaming Kong's home on nuclear testing gone awry a generation earlier, is

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a fun doorway into telling us, via a end credits sequence, what the M.O.N.A.R.C.H. conspiracy means for the future of giant movie monsters from the Japanese kaiju history: Rodan, Mothra, Ghidorah, and the most alarming of all, Godzilla. The lizard emperor and the royal primate are due to make battle by Memorial Day Weekend in 2020. Mark that on your calendar, because it's all a cycle of making old things new again.

Shame on modern Hollywood for even being so confident and longranging with someone else's ideas, but at least this first one is an okay step in the right direction.

"Kong: Skull Island" runs 134 minutes and is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence, and for brief strong language. I give this film three stars out of four.

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Religion Governor mum on religious adoption protections

By HANNAH WEIKEL Associated Press South Dakota's Republican governor isn't saying whether he'll sign a measure aimed at protecting faith-based organizations that refuse to place children with gay couples or other arrangements contrary to their religious beliefs.

Gov. Dennis Daugaard frustrated the more conservative elements of his party last year by vetoing a bill that would have required students to use bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding with their birth gender. Daugaard, who isn't seeking re-election, has also pledged to veto a pair of measures this year expanding gun rights.

"I know it was relatively controversial," Daugaard said last week about the adoptions bill. He said he'd "listen to both sides" and weigh in, but as of Wednesday — the day after the GOP-controlled Legislature passed it — Daugaard's office hadn't signaled whether he had made up his mind.

If Daugaard signs the bill, South Dakota would join Michigan, North Dakota and Virginia to pass so-called religious exemption bills concerning adoption and foster care, and the first since the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage.

Supporters say the measure is necessary to close off the possibility that faith-based agencies might suffer for their religious beliefs if South Dakota eventually bans discrimination based on sexual orientation as several other states have done.

Critics say such exemptions could invite costly federal litigation by cementing in state law the right to discriminate

against same-sex couples, single parents and even households that observe a different religion.

"I want to be able to give these organizations and their boards confidence that they have protection so they don't just pre-emptively say we are going to get out of the adoption business," said Sen. Alan Solano, a Republican from Rapid City.

LGBT rights supporters see it differently.

"The freedom of religion is a core American value shared by most and protected in the First Amendment," said Ineke Mushovic, executive director of the LGBT advocacy group Movement Advancement Project. "But that freedom doesn't give you the right to discriminate. These bills, like the one in South Dakota, are doing exactly that."

Since the U.S. Supreme Court decision on gay marriage, Mushovic said her group has seen a proliferation of state and local religious exemptions designed to let public officials refuse to marry same-sex couples, businesses to deny service to LGBT people and adoption agencies to turn away people based on religious beliefs.

Legislatures in Texas, Alabama and Oklahoma are considering similar bills this year but only South Dakota's has approved it.

Solano had help writing the South Dakota bill from a staff member of Catholic Social Services, an agency that places infants only with adoptive families that meet certain criteria including opposite-sex couples married at least two years who cannot conceive a child on their own.

Jim Kinyon, executive director of the group, said it attempts to ensure the state doesn't discriminate against faith-based

organizations for their "sincerely held" beliefs. He said the group has already lost donor support this month due to concern over its vetting practices and its support of the legislation.

"I know that this is somewhat of a contentious bill, but essentially Catholic Social Services has always had priorities in terms of what we do with families we put on our infant adoption list," he said.

Faith-based groups say the religious exemption they want isn't about taxpayer money. South Dakota has five religious agencies that provide adoptions in the state but only one — Lutheran Social Services — gets state and federal funding for child placement.

The groups say they need the legal protections to continue placing children without violating their beliefs. Faith-based adoption agencies in Illinois, Massachusetts, California and Washington, D.C., ended such services after passing nondiscrimination laws that include sexual orientation, but such a proposal has gotten little traction in Republican-dominated South Dakota.

Among those testifying against South Dakota's bill was Billy Mawhiney, 38, a Sioux Falls chef and cooking instructor who with his husband is in the process of adopting a child through the state.

Mawhiney said the number of families willing to adopt and foster is decreasing in the state and the measure would make it even harder kids to find loving homes, like the one he and his husband have shared with two foster children.

"I worry about what the future's going to be. If we decide to

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Travel

Take your taste buds on a trip to McHenry County For The Edge Spring is on the way, and it's time to shake off the winter blues and hit the road for a day or two in search of new and interesting experiences.

Be a "locavore" and shop for "food finds" in the charming villages of McHenry County, less than an hour's drive from Chicago and Milwaukee. You'll find bakeries, butcher shops, breweries, chocolatiers and specialty shops featuring honey, olive oil and gelato.

So...toss a cooler in the car, grab your GPS and bring your appetite!

BAKERIES Kiera Confections & Cupcake Bakery in McHenry, Ill. As the name suggests, Kiera specializes in cupcakes, with more than 14 different flavors. Want a different take on the traditional wedding cake? Check out the towering tiers of cupcakes, with enough additional cupcakes on the side for everyone at the reception. Kiera also makes cookies, chocolate-dipped fruit and other sweet treats. 815-385-4372. www.

KieraConfections.com Konrad's Bakery in Lake in the Hills, Ill. Another family-owned bakery, Konrad's also specializes in wedding and special-occasion cakes, but also is a favorite place for Eastern European Kremoka, Kolaczki, strudel and tortes. Don't want a whole cake? Have a cupcake (chocolate, vanilla or red velvet) or order a slice of cake, such as "chocolate suicide". 815-526-3947. www.KonradsBakery.com La Petit Marche in Crystal Lake, Ill. Fans of this bakery, bistro and wine shop call it "a touch of Europe in downtown Crystal Lake". Enjoy breakfast or lunch, then buy breads, pastries and desserts to take home.

815-477-3296. www.PetitMarche.biz Riverside Bake Shop in McHenry, Ill. For more than 40 years, this bakery has been making breads, pies, rolls, cookies, cakes and d o n u t s . 8 1 5 - 3 8 5 - 0 0 4 4 . w w w.

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Sweet Pea Cake Studio, Crystal Lake, ll.

As the name indicates, this bakery's cakes and cupcakes are works of art. They specialize in cupcakes, custom cakes and party cakes, all made to order. However, walk-ins will find a tempting array of cupcakes, cookies, brownies and bars. Also available are vegan and dairy/egg/soy-free items.

Check the website for the flavors of the month. 815-477-2253. www.

SweetPeaCakeStudio.com Swiss Maid Bakeries in Woodstock and Harvard, Ill. The tradition began in the 1920's in Chicago five generations ago, and moved to McHenry County in 1934.

They specialize in European-style pastries, breads, cookies, pies and cakes. 815-338-0414 or 815-943-7282. www.SwissMaidBakery.com BUTCHER SHOPS Butcher on the Block in Lake in the Hills, Ill. This butcher got tired of working for the giant meat industry, and decided to open his own shop, where he knows everything about the meat he sells and cares about his customers. You can buy meat from the case or order special cuts.

Deli items, too, and free cookies for the little kids. 847-639-3991. www.

ButcherOnTheBlock.com Kalck's Butcher Shop in Crystal Lake, Ill. For more than 40 years, the Kalck Family has been working directly with farmers and other producers to bring the best to their customers.

You can order custom cuts or choose from the case. Also deli items, homemade soups, gourmet foods and wines. First-time customers receive one free pound of freshlyground beef. 815-459-0016. www.

KalcksButcher.com Orchard Prime Meats & Tapas Calpe in Cary, Ill. Experience thisunique blend of a neighborhood wine bar and tapas restaurant within a full-service butcher shop. Inspired by the owner's travels in Spain, this old world combination of butcher shop by day and tapas restaurant by night creates a truly different dining

event. Tapas are small entrees that, when shared, allow everyone at the table to taste a variety of dishes. 847639-3991. www.TapasCalpeOfCary. com CHOCOLATIERS Anderson's Candy Shop in Richmond, Ill. Founded in 1919 in Chicago, Anderson's moved to Richmond in 1926, to be on the route to Lake Geneva. Today, great-grandsons Leif and Lars carry on the family tradition of hand-dipped chocolates, truffles, toffees and caramels. 888-214-7614. www.

AndersonsCandyShop.com Ethereal Confections in Woodstock, Ill. Sisters-in-law Mary and Sara share a passion for chocolate, attended Barry Callebaut Chocolate Academy in Chicago and launched their own store in 2011. They craft chocolates that transcend and blend flavors from around the world. 815575-9315. www.EtherealConfections. com Mellie's Chocolate & Company in Crystal Lake, Ill. Mellie makes hand-dipped chocolates, including sea salt caramels, fudge, bear claws, peanut butter cups, nonpareils and freshlydipped strawberries, blueberries and raspberries. 815-444-7552. www. facebook.com/MelliesChocolate Morkes Chocolates in Huntley, Ill. T h i s c o m p a n y ( p ro n o u n c e d Mor-Kiss) began in 1920 at 26th and Trumbull in Chicago, moved to Palatine in 1967 and opened a Huntley shop in 2015. Today, they produce old favorites and exciting new items, such as chocolate shoes, footballs and anatomical hearts.

They also offer chocolate parties and classes. (It's next door to Manny's Gelato Shop & Cafe and just across the street from the McHenry County Visitor Center.) 847-458-8585. www.

MorkesChocolates.com Riverside Chocolate Factory in McHenry, Ill. Located at a busy intersection in a whimsical building with a pointed roof, Riverside was founded in 1983. They craft a variety of chocolates, toffees, fudge, dipped

fruits and chocolate-dipped bacon.

Yes, bacon! 815-344-6040. www.

RiversideChocolateFactory.com BREWERIES Chain O' Lakes Brewing Company in McHenry, Ill. This is the county's oldest brewery, with a full line of seasonal and small-batch beers. They crank out a well-rounded selection of large- and small-batch beers and seasonal brews that are dispensed fresh directly from serving tanks, i n c l u d i n g S c o t c h a l e s , I PA s , bocks, Belgian witbiers, German blacks, American lagers, English brown and Irish ales, stouts and Oktoberfest. 815-331-8345. www.

ChainOLakesBrewing.com Crystal Lake Brewing in Crystal Lake, Ill. These folks are passionate about brewing honest, thirst-provoking beers that are easy to drink and hard to put down. They focus on using fresh ingredients, like grain and hops, from premium local sources whenever possible, but they also stay true to a beerʼs heritage.

When the style dictates, specialized ingredients (such as imported German malt and hops for their German Lager) are incorporated to ensure the highest quality and truest taste possible. Choose from Beach Blonde Golden Lager, Wake Maker IPA, Overboard Oatmeal Stout and a seasonal Spring Fever, a Raspberry Hibiscus Ale. 779-220-9288. www.

CrystalLakeBrew.com Scorched Earth Brewing Company in Algonquin, Ill. locally-sourced ingredients, oldworld brewing techniques and a whimsical sense for exploration, to challenge your notion of what beer is and inspire you to share their passion with others. Choose from Hickster American Cream Ale, Base Jumper IPA, and Rugged Coalminer. They are partnering with Ethereal Chocolates to make a Bitter Chocolatier, a seasonal chocolate oatmeal Imperial stout. 224-2098472. www.ScorchedEarthBrewing. com Village Vintner Winery & Brewery in Algonquin, Ill. This is a microbrewery, winery

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and restaurant that handcrafts a variety of wines and brews. The menu includes wood-fired pizza, balsamic glazed strip steak, cedar plank salmon and fire-roasted baby back ribs. 847-658-4900. www.

TheVillageVintner.com MISCELLANY Manny's Gelato & Café in Huntley, Ill. When Manny opened his gelato shop and café, he was determined to remain true to his Italian roots, with 22 luscious flavors of gelato made fresh daily, plus coffees, teaa, panini, wraps and even breakfast! (It's next door to Morkes Chocolate and just across the street from the McHenry County Visitor Center.) 224.858.7737. www.MannysGelatoAndCafe.com My Honey Company in Richmond, Ill. This family business has been selling 100% pure honey since 1991, plus beeswax candles and diverse honey products. Choose from Clover, Cranberry Blossom or rich, dark Wildflower Honey.

Bring your own container or buy it pre-packaged. 815-678-4129. www.

MyHoneyCo.com The Olive Tap in Crystal Lake, Ill. As the name indicates, this shop specializes in high-quality, freshlypressed 100 per cent extra-virgin olive oils, flavored oils and balsamic vinegars from artisans and small-batch producers in Italy and around the world, with tastings and recipe ideas.

815-459-OILS. www.TheOliveTap. com/Crystal-Lake-Illinois P L A N A G E T A WAY T O McHENRY COUNTY McHenry County is just a 60-minute drive northwest of Chicago, bordered on the north

by Wisconsin, and on the south

by I-90. The Fox River winds down from the Chain of Lakes through the towns on the eastern side of the county, while country roads meander the western side.

For visitor information, lodging and dining options throughout McHenry County, log on to www.

VisitMcHenryCounty.com, e-mail info@visitmchenrycounty.com, or phone 815-893- 6280. Follow on Twitter and Facebook.

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The Arts

Courtesy of The Fox Theatre

Pictured are two scenes from Disney's "The Lion KIng," which opens at The Fox Theatre on April 19.

For The Edge Casting has been announced for the St. Louis engagement of Disney’s "The Lion King". St. Louis’ most eagerly awaited stage production ever will leap onto the Fabulous Fox Theatre stage from April 19 to May 7. The press opening night is Thursday, April 20 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets for Disney’s "The Lion King" at the Fabulous Fox are on sale now online at MetroTix.com, by calling 314-534-1111 or in person at the Fabulous Fox Box Office. Ticket prices start at $55. Prices are subject to change; please refer to FabulousFox. com for current pricing. Disney’s "The Lion King" is part of the U.S. Bank Broadway Series.

Performances of Disney’s "The Lion King" at the Fabulous Fox run April 19 – May 7. Show times are Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 7:30 p.m., Saturday afternoons at 2 p.m. and Sundays at 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. There will also be a matinee performance on Thursday, April 20 at 1 p.m.

The production features Mark Campbell as “Scar,” Gerald Ramsey as “Mufasa,” Buyi Zama as “Rafiki,” Nick Cordileone as “Timon,” Drew Hirshfield as “Zazu,” Ben Lipitz as “Pumbaa,” Dashaun Young as “Simba,” Nia Holloway as “Nala,” Keith Bennett as “Banzai,” Tiffany Denise Hobbs as “Shenzi” and Robbie Swift as “Ed.” The role of “Young Simba” is alternated between Devin Graves and Jordan Williams and the role of “Young Nala” is alternated between Grier Burke and Meilani Cisneros.

The North American touring productions of "The Lion King" have been seen by more than 17 million theatergoers.

Having already played more than 70 cities across North America, "The Lion King" now proudly makes its St. Louis return at the Fabulous Fox. In its 20th year, "The Lion King" continues ascendant as one of the most popular stage musicals in the world. Since its Broadway premiere on November 13, 1997, 24 global productions have been seen by more than 90 million people. Produced by Disney Theatrical Productions (under the direction of Thomas Schumacher), "The Lion King" is only the second show in history to generate five productions worldwide running 10 or more years. Translated into eight different languages (Japanese, German, Korean, French, Dutch, Spanish, Mandarin and Portuguese), productions of "The Lion King" can currently be seen on Broadway; London’s West End; Hamburg; Tokyo; Madrid; Mexico City; Shanghai, Scheveningen and on tour across North America, for a total of nine productions running concurrently across the globe.

Having played over 100 cities in 19 countries on every

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continent except Antarctica, "The Lion King"’s worldwide gross exceeds that of any film, Broadway show or other entertainment title in box office history.

"The Lion King" won six 1998 Tony Awards: Best Musical, Best Scenic Design (Richard Hudson), Best Costume Design (Julie Taymor), Best Lighting Design (Donald Holder), Best Choreography (Garth Fagan) and Best Direction of a Musical.

"The Lion King" has also earned more than 70 major arts awards including the 1998 NY Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, the 1999 Grammy® for Best Musical Show Album, the 1999 Evening Standard Award for Theatrical Event of the Year and the 1999 Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Choreography and Best Costume Design.

The show’s director, costume designer and mask co-designer Julie Taymor continues to play an integral part in the show’s ongoing success. The first woman to win a Tony Award for Direction of a Musical, Taymor has in recent years supervised new productions of the show around the world.

The Broadway score features Elton John and Tim Rice’s music from "The Lion King" animated film along with three new songs by John and Rice; additional musical material

by South African Lebo M, Mark Mancina, Jay Rifkin, Julie

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Taymor and Hans Zimmer; and music from "Rhythm of the Pride Lands," an album inspired by the original music in the film, written by Lebo M, Mark Mancina and Hans Zimmer.

The resulting sound of "The Lion King" is a fusion of Western popular music and the distinctive sounds and rhythms of Africa, ranging from the Academy Award®-winning song “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” to the haunting ballad “Shadowland.”

The book has been adapted by Roger Allers, who co-directed "The Lion King" animated feature, and Irene Mecchi, who co-wrote the film’s screenplay. Other members of the creative team include: Michael Curry, who designed the masks and puppets with Taymor, Steve Canyon Kennedy (sound design), Michael Ward (hair and makeup design), John Stefaniuk (associate director), Marey Griffith (associate choreographer), Clement Ishmael (music supervisor) and Doc Zorthian (production supervisor). Anne Quart serves as associate producer.

For more information worldwide, visit LionKing.com.

The St. Louis engagement of Disney’s "The Lion King" is presented by arrangement with Fabulous Fox Theatre and is a subscription offering of the U.S. Bank Broadway Series.

The Arts Artistic adventures Thursday, March 23

Motown the Musical, The Fabulous Fox, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Runs until March 26, 2017 Million Dollar Quartet, The Rep, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Runs until April 9, 2017 M o r p h o M a rd i G r a s , S o p h i a M. Sachs Butterfly House, Chesterfield, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. , Runs until March 26, 2017 Orchid Show 2017, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 31, 2017 Degas, impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until May 7, 2017 Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until July 16, 2017 The Royale, The Rep, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Runs until March 26, 2017

Friday, March 24

Motown the Musical, The Fabulous Fox, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Runs until March 26, 2017 Million Dollar Quartet, The Rep, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Runs until April 9, 2017 Morpho Mardi Gras, Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House, Chesterfield, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. , Runs until March 26, 2017 Orchid Show 2017, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 31, 2017 Degas, impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until May 7, 2017 Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until July 16, 2017 The Royale, The Rep, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Runs until March 26, 2017

Saturday, March 25

Motown the Musical, The Fabulous Fox, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Runs until March 26, 2017 Million Dollar Quartet, The Rep, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Runs until April 9, 2017 Mo rph o M a rd i G r a s , S o p h i a M. Sachs Butterfly House, Chesterfield, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. , Runs until March 26, 2017 Orchid Show 2017, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 31, 2017 Degas, impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until May 7, 2017 Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until July 16, 2017 The Royale, The Rep, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Runs until March 26, 2017

Sunday, March 26

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Million Dollar Quartet, The Rep, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Runs until April 9, 2017 Orchid Show 2017, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 31, 2017 Degas, impressionism, and t h e P a r i s M i l l i n e r y Tr a d e , Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until May 7, 2017 Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until July 16, 2017 The Royale, The Rep, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

Tuesday, March 28

Million Dollar Quartet, The Rep, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Runs until April 9, 2017 Orchid Show 2017, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 31, 2017 Degas, impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until May 7, 2017

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Million Dollar Quartet, The Rep, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Runs until April 9, 2017 Orchid Show 2017, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 31, 2017 Degas, impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until May 7, 2017 Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until July 16, 2017 The Royale, The Rep, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

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Million Dollar Quartet, The Rep, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Runs until April 9, 2017 Orchid Show 2017, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 31, 2017 Degas, impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until May 7, 2017 Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until July 16, 2017 The Royale, The Rep, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

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The Arts Arts calendar St.ART Street Art Festival planned

St. Louis resident and wellness visionary Michael G. Tompkins is pleased to introduce on Valentine’s Day the inaugural St.ART Street Art Festival in St. Louis, Missouri Sept. 30 and Oct 1. The goal of the 2-day festival is to encourage hope, healing and positive dialogue through art—including large canvas painting, poetry, performance art, and “yarn bombing” trees. During the weekend, a group of inspired local and renowned street artists will convey the emotions of the underprivileged and silenced in the community on large canvases and through spoken word, in the city of St. Louis.

“The divide in St. Louis between those that have and those that have not is undeniable. Not unlike the iconic St. Louis Arch, art has an ability to bridge the divide. Art brings various opinions together in a way where all opinions are valid.

There is no black and white; right or wrong,” says Tompkins. The artists begin the dialogue by conveying the voice and frustration of the people on the first day, then express their vision of our new community on day two. The festival will be interactive with the audience, using yarn bombing on trees for the observers to leave their own personal messages of frustration and hope.

While the first day will be held in Fairgrounds Park, day two will be held at Langenberg Field in Forest Park. Both days are complementary and open to the public from 10am-8pm. Street artists signed on include Basil Kincaid, Cbabi Bayoc, Fnnch, Peat Eyez Wollaeger, Kidlew a n d S t e p h e n “ YA R N b o m b e r ” Duneier. Poets include Pacia Anderson, and Richard Blanco.

Blanco, who was selected by President Barack Obama in 2012 to serve as the fifth inaugural poet in U.S. history (joining the ranks of Robert Frost and Maya Angelou), will open and close the festival.

Artists and donors were quick to embrace Tompkins’ vision to use street art to start a dialogue between diverse groups in St. Louis. A recent transplant to St. Louis, Tompkins came up with the idea for St.ART after witnessing amazing street art following the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson.

Day one of St.ART, the canvases will be painted in black and white.

The TRUTH of the hopelessness, the desperation of not feeling heard, and the hardships found in our inner city neighborhoods. Day two the theme is: “Hope has color.” In one of the brightest areas that our city celebrates, those same artists will paint in color, their vision of our new community.

“The incident in Ferguson changed me from having rose colored glasses about St. Louis, to becoming aware of the distinct socioeconomic and racial divide, which has been palpable to both the black and white populations in our community for decades,” said Tompkins. “When I saw messages of frustration and despair, as well as messages of hope displayed, it spurred me take action. Large scale art has always had an ability to convey emotion on a much grander scale—the impact is so much bigger. Street art speaks a universal language and by allowing the artwork to stand on its own it takes away the ego of judgement.”

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will fund resiliency programs for the inner city and public service sector. To date, St.ART has already raised individual donations totaling more than 55 percent of our event budget—nearly all of the donors outside the city of St. Louis.

About St.Art St.Louis St.ART is an innovative festival with a shared vision to open a dialogue. The goal of the 2-day street art festival is to encourage hope, healing and positive dialogue through art—including large canvas painting, poetry, performance art, and “yarn bombing” trees. During the weekend, of Sept. 30-Oct 1, a group of inspired and renowned street artists will convey the emotions of the underprivileged and silenced in the city of St. Louis.

Tax deductible contributions can be made online at www.Generosity. com search term St.ART or visit http://st-artstlouis.org/.

Spring edition of Muny Magic at The Sheldon planned

The upcoming spring 2017 production of Muny Magic at The Sheldon will welcome popular Muny artist, Nicholas Rodriguez back to St. Louis for March 29th and 30th.

Nicholas most recently starred at The Muny as The Tin Man in the 2016 production of The Wizard of Oz. In 2015 Nicholas appeared in the two blockbuster hits of that summer season, starring as The Beast in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and as Ritchie Valens in the electrifying production Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story. In 2014 he starred in the title role of Disney’s Tarzan.

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you love and remember about the 1970s with the music of Broadway, Bossa Nova, folk, and of course Disco in a unique and intimate evening filled with Nicholas’ charming personality and soulful voice. This two-night concert presentation will be held March 29th and 30th at 7:30 p.m. at The Sheldon Concert Hall, and is proudly sponsored by Kenneth and Nancy Kranzberg.

Nicholas is perhaps best known for the role of Nick Chavez on ABC’s One Life to Live for which he received the GLAAD Media Award and the 2009 Visibility Award. He recently debuted his solo show at the Orlando Cabaret Festival, and the Signature Theatre in Washington, D.C. to rave reviews. “ O u t s t a n d i n g ! To p t e n performances of the year” – The New Yorker “Nicholas Rodriguez hits the high notes spectacularly” – The New York Times “Awesome” – NPR "He has a glorious voice — he understands melody, rhythm — it’s all in his body. He’s the classic leading man.” – Washington Post "Nick is a consummate, passionate performer who inspires continual love from the Muny audience," said Muny Artistic Director and Executive Producer Mike Isaacson. "It will be so exciting to have him share more of his talents with us.”

Following its thrilling premiere 2015 - 2016 season starring Tony Award-winner Beth Leavel, and then The Buddy Holly Boys, the Muny Magic at The Sheldon series welcomed four of the most beloved leading ladies from recent Muny seasons back this past November for a moving and entertaining Salute to the Legends. The Muny Magic at The Sheldon series celebrates the performances and artistry of The

Muny each fall and spring.

“The ‘Muny Magic’ series is a great way for our audiences to reconnect with the stars they’ve fallen in love with in recent seasons,” said Muny President and CEO Denny Reagan.

“Nicholas has given some really incredible performances over the years and I’m personally very excited to welcome him back this spring. He’s an outstanding talent. I think we’re in for a real treat.”

T h e M a rc h 2 9 t h a n d 3 0 t h performances of Muny Magic at The Sheldon will be held at The Sheldon Concert Hall - 3648 Washington Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63108 - at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets range from $25 - $50. Tickets will be available January 14th. For more information, visit www.muny. org/munymagic or call The Muny at (314) 361-1900.

The Hett announces 2016-17 schedule

The 2016-2017 season at McKendree University’s Hettenhausen Center for the Arts celebrates the arts with a multicultural line up of performers hailing from Ireland to Inner Mongolia, as well as a bestselling author and family favorites. “’McKendree Presents’ is the premiere arts and culture series in Southern Illinois. Each year we aim to entertain, move and inspire our audience. Our eleventh season is no exception,” said Peter Palermo, director of the Hett.

Reserved seats will be available to the public starting on Sept. 6 at noon, however Friends of the Hett can purchase tickets June 27 at noon.

For information on becoming a Friend of the Hett, visit theHett.com or call 618-537-6863. All events are open to the public and held at the 488-seat performing arts center on

McKendree’s Lebanon, Ill., campus.

Ticket prices range from $5 to $26, with discounts for seniors and students. Many programs are free, including the film series and student concerts.

Preview the new season online at theHett.com. “McKendree Presents” will feature the following: April 25, 7:30 p.m.: Parsons Dance is a New York modern dance company hailed for its athleticism, joyfulness and technical skill.

The Distinguished Speaker Series will present: March 7, 7:30 p.m.: the idea lab brings together informative and performative speakers for a night of fascinating, informal discussion modeled after the popular TED Talks. (To apply as a speaker, visit theHett.com before Sept. 1.)

April 12, 7:30 p.m.: Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of “Eat, Pray, Love,” which spent 57 weeks atop The New York Times Bestseller List.

The free Film Art Series will screen “Saving Private Ryan,” Sept.

27; “Macbeth,” Nov. 21; “Do the Right Thing,” Feb. 7; “Dear White People,” Feb. 23; “The Birth of a Nation,” Feb. 28; and Best Picture nominees to be announced in the spring. All begin at 7 p.m.

The McKendree University Series showcases a variety of student talent (some dates may be subject to change): • April 18, 7:30 p.m.: Chamber Ensemble Concert • April 21 & 22, 7:30 p.m.: Show Choir Performance • April 27, 7:30 p.m.: Dance Recital • May 1, 7:30 p.m.: Jazz Ensemble Concert • May 4, 7:30 p.m.: Concert Band Concert ·• May 5, 7:30 p.m.: Choral Concert

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ountry music fans, rejoice!

Producers of the acclaimed Las Vegas production “Raiding the Rock Vault” will premiere their new show, “Raiding the Country Vault,” at the Starlite Theatre on March 9. The production brings together musicians from country music’s most iconic acts playing a set list featuring the biggest hits of America’s most beloved genre. Tickets for “Raiding the Country Vault” are on sale now.

“In ‘Raiding the Rock Vault,’ musicians from famous bands in classic rock recreate the timeless music of an entire generation,” said producer Sir Harry Cowell. “ ‘In ‘Raiding the Country Vault,’ we’ve carefully selected talented performers and songs that bring the history of country music to life for audiences.”

The impressive lineup of musicians in “Raiding the Country Vault” includes Michelle Poe [Lead Vocals and Bass] (Dierks Bentley, Hank Williams, Jr.), Billy Yates [Lead Vocals and Guitar] (George Jones, Kenny Chesney), and Billboard chart toppers Michael Peterson (From Here To Eternity, Drink, Swear, Steal & Lie) [Lead Vocals and Guitar], Keith Horne Lead Guitar (Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood), Melody Hart (Joe Diffee, Grand Country), David Smith, piano (Roy Clark, Mel Tillis, Johnny Lee), Steve Ramsey, keyboard (Tanya Tucker, Travis Tritt), Peter Generous Drums, (Connie Smith, Jean Shepherd), Scott Kwapiszski, Pedal Steel and Banjo (The George Brothers Band) “Raiding the Country Vault” will feature a set list of country music’s most renowned favorites by legendary artists including: Conway Twitty, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, Charlie Daniels Band, Willie

Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton, Dwight Yoakam, George Strait, and many, many more.

Raiding The Country Vault was rated #3 show in Branson within its first three months.

“Raiding the Rock Vault,” which premiered in Las Vegas in 2013 to popular and critical acclaim, has the distinguished honor of being the #1 Las Vegas Show on TripAdvisor four years in a row and each year has been awarded “Best of Las Vegas” by the Las Vegas ReviewJournal. The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino is the new home to ‘Raiding The Rock Vault.’ “’The great Simon Napier-Bell and I had a vision for ‘Raiding the Country Vault’ for a long time and it’s finally come to fruition,” said Cowell. “The success we’ve seen in Las Vegas with ‘Raiding the Rock Vault’ has been a dream come true and we’re excited to bring ‘Raiding the Country Vault’ to Branson. We’re also thrilled to be working alongside Paul

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Dexter, our writer, director and production designer from ‘Raiding The Rock Vault’ to help continue our exciting brand.”

The Starlite Theatre has undergone extensive renovations to the stage, including new sound system and state-of-the-art lighting, LED screens and lasers. Located in the heart of Highway 76 across from The Hollywood Wax Museum, with its signature atrium lobby including new restaurant featuring award-winning BBQ. The Starlite will also be bring “Raiding The Rock Vault” from Las Vegas this summer as well as being home to The Texas Tenors; Larry’s Country Diner; Boot Daddy Concert Series; AYO, Voices of Glory; and Buckets and Boards.

“Raiding the Country Vault” will perform 100 shows in 2016. For a full schedule and to purchase tickets, visit www. raidingthecountryvault.com or www. themansiontheatre.com or call (866) 707-4100.

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Music Tuning in The Sheldon to present "Creole Soul"

The Sheldon presents Etienne Charles, “Creole Soul,” Saturday, March 11, 2017 at 8 p.m. in the perfect acoustics of the Sheldon Concert Hall. One of today’s most compelling and exciting young jazz artists, trumpeter Etienne Charles, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, has recorded three impressive albums for his own Culture Shock Music imprint. His new album, Creole Soul, is a captivating journey that taps into a myriad of styles rooted in his Afro-Caribbean background, examining the musical depths of the islands, from calypso to Haitian voodoo music.

Charles has received critical acclaim for his exciting performances, inspiring compositions and knack for connecting with audiences worldwide. He has been hailed by The New York Times as “an auteur” and Jazz Times as “A daring improviser who delivers with heart wrenching lyricism.” As a soloist, he fully understands the New Orleans trumpet tradition and what famed Crescent City pianist, Jelly Roll Morton so succinctly captured in the now immortal phrase, “The Spanish Tinge.”

As a sideman he has performed and recorded with Monty Alexander, Roberta Flack, Frank Foster, Ralph MacDonald, Johnny Mandel, Wynton Marsalis, Marcus Roberts, Maria Schneider, Count Basie Orchestra, Eric Reed, Lord Blakie, David Rudder and many others.

The Sheldon Art Galleries’ Caribbean Experience: This concert is held in conjunction with the Sheldon Art Galleries’ benefit event: “Caribbean Experience.”

Tickets include a pre-concert dinner buffet with food by Mi Caribe, cocktails, live music by Samba Bom, a ticket to the Etienne Charles concert, complimentary parking, a tax deduction and a post-concert dance party. Tickets are $150, $300 and $500, call The Sheldon’s Development Department at 314533-9900 to order.

Single tickets are $40 o rc h e s t r a / $ 3 5 b a l c o n y 1 / $ 2 5 balcony 2/$15 student. Tickets are on sale now through MetroTix at

314-534-1111, through The Sheldon’s website at TheSheldon.org, or in person at The Fox Theatre Box Office, 534 N. Grand Blvd. For a VIP concert experience, All-Access tickets are available by calling 314-533-9900, ext. 17. For more information, call The Sheldon at 314533-9900 or visit TheSheldon.org.

Rock of the '70s Tour planned

Four-famed acts will appear at The Family Arena in St. Charles on Oct. 14.

Foghat’s live performances show why the band is still around today and why they will be able to keep on rockin’ as long as they want. This band truly is timeless. Constant touring is part of their DNA and the band just loves to play. Their live show is as intense as ever with the incredible energy and musicianship that one would expect and hope for from a seasoned band with such a long m u s i c a l h i s t o r y a n d t h e y a re bringing their fans along for the ride. Foghat fans are everywhere and these days their audience

consists of all ages. From the young kids who play Guitar Hero III and know all of the lyrics to ‘Slow Ride’, to the Dazed & Confused ge neration of 30-40 somethings and the ‘boomers’ who bought Foghat’s first vinyl or 8 track!

Firefall was one of the first bands to bring the creative and musical richness of the Rocky Mountain area to the forefront of the industry. They helped spearhead the birth and continuation of the country rock / folk rock sound of the 70's. The band continues to dazzle audiences with their exuberant and rocking performances - this was no 'light rock' band. FIREFALL is a group of exceptional musicians and singers, with a repertoire of recognizable songs few bands can match. Their many h i t s - " Yo u A re T h e Wo m a n , " " J u s t R e m e m b e r I L o v e Yo u , " " S t r a n g e Wa y, " " C i n d e re l l a , " "Mexico," " Livin' Ain't Livin'," " So Long," " Goodbye I Love Yo u , " " S w e e t a n d S o u r " a n d others - are faithfully recreated w i t h a f re s h n e s s r a re i n l i v e performances of such classics.

F o r m e d f ro m t h e c re a m o f Atlanta’s studio musicians, the Atlanta Rhythm Section (actually hailing from nearby Doraville, Georgia) came together in 1970 after working on a Roy Orbison recording session. In 1977, “So In To You” became the band’s breakthrough single, reaching the U.S. Top 10, and the album from which it came, A Rock And Roll Alternative, went gold.

Their platinum follow-up album, Champagne Jam, broke into the Top 10 in 1978, together with the blockbuster single “Imaginary Lover” (“I’m Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight” was another major hit from the same album).

From their beginnings in mid-Sixties Ohio as a group of friends playing cover tunes to the present-day unit featuring founding member/pedalsteel innovator John David Call, veteran bassist Mike R e i l l y, p r o p u l s i v e d r u m m e r

Scott Thompson and guitar ace Donnie Clark, Pure Prairie League continues to embellish the rich 43-year history of one of Country-Rock’s pioneering forces.

Ti c k e t s c a n b e p u rc h a s e d a t the Family Arena Ticket Office o r o n l i n e a t w w w. m e t r o t i x . com.

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Volumes, Torn at the Seams, We Are Descendants, Marked By Honor, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m S o t h e r n S o u l A s s e m b l y, w/JJ Grey & Mofro, Luther Dickenson, Anders Osborne, Marc Broussard, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Loop Legends, Cicero's, University City, Doors 9:00 p.m.

Tw o Ti m e s Tr u e w / L a r r y Johnson, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Friday, March 24

Mipso, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Gary Owen, w/(TBA), The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

L a l o , w / Tr a v i s Te e l P a g e , Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

OG Maco, w/Young Greatness, Pop's, Sauget, Doors 7:00 p.m.

ScribeCash, Miles Gaines, TDUBz, and more, Cicero's, University City, Doors 7:00 p.m.

A Night Market, Guerilla Food Truck, The Ready Room, St. Louis, 6:00 p.m.

Funky Butt Brass Band and Friends, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 25

David Russell: St. Louis Classic Guitar Society, Ethical Society of

St. Louis, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

N i k e e Tu r b o & C o n , T h e Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 9:00 p.m.

Conor Oberst, w/The Felice Brothers, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Hoodat B- Creedence Clearwater Revival Experience, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Road To Pointfest 2017 S:3 Rd:4, Pop's, Sauget, Doors 6:30 p.m.

FRESH Birthday Bash, Cicero's, University City, Doors 9:00 p.m.

Funky Butt Brass Band and Friends, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 26

Kodak Black, w/(TBA), The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Williams Brothers, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Diz Strohman Big Band, American Legian, Edwardsville, 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Monday, March 27

B r i n g M e the Ho rizo n, w / Underoath, Beartooth, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 6:00 p.m.

Tuesday, March 28

It Lives It Breathes, Glory Fell, Zach Alamny, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 6:00 p.m.

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Kneebody, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

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A n n S a y s Aw e f u l R a c k e t , Rescue The Mouse, 9 Rabbits Laughing, Close2Zero, C i c e r o ' s , U n i v e r s i t y C i t y, Doors 6:30 p.m.

Kneebody, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

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Kneebody, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

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Dining Delights 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.

Strange Donuts 2709 Sutton Blvd.

Maplewood An aptly named donut shop, it is one of the weirdest places you may ever eat, but weird doesn't mean it's not good. Check out the strangers, which are daily collaborations with other local restaurants. The bacon maple donut and the gooey butter donut are always on the menu and always fantastic choices.

Pirronne’s Pizzeria 1775 Washington St. Florissant T h e p i z z a h e re i s a m a z i n g .

They use provel cheese and have a slew of ingredients to go on top of their thin crust pies.

During the day they have a great buffet lunch special, which also has a salad bar and soups and appetizers.

Frank’s Restaurant 132 West Macarthur Dr. Cottage Hills It is an extensive menu with all kinds of choices, including breakfast selections, sandwiches, steaks, fish, pasta dishes and it’s cheap. Did I mention that it’s cheap?

1860’s Hardshell Café and Saloon 1860 S. 9th St., St. Louis Soulard A great place to get some Cajun and Creole food and have a good time to boot. It’s split into two sides, with the dining area on one end with great items like crab legs, gumbo, po’ boy sandwiches, red beans and rice and wonderful crab cakes. The other half of the building offers a full bar and live entertainment.

Lotawata Creek Southern Grill 311 Salem Pl. Fairview Heights Fatten yourself up at this joint.

The menu is ridiculously huge and the portions are even bigger. Get your own plate of fries for a side, or a bucket of onion rings. It offers a creative sandwich portion of the menu and great southern-style dishes, try the Mac Daddy Burger.

You won’t go away hungry here, trust me.

1818 Chophouse 210 S. Buchanan St. Edwardsville This is a great place to grab a steak diinner, that is their signature dish. A good place for a fancy dinner date, the ambience in the dining area is fantastic. It offers extensive breakfast, brunch and dinner menus, but be prepared to pay, it’s pretty expensive.

Sybergs Old Dorsett Rd. Maryland Heights A St. Louis chain restaurant where you can’t go wrong. Check out their awesome selection of pizzas and hot wings and their house-made sauces are fantastic. Be adventurous and try the shark bites, they are delicious.

Johnson’s Corner Restaurant 2000 State St. Alton It’s a great neighborhood bar and restaurant. Sit at the bar and have a few drinks with a friendly

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staff and patrons. As for the food, get your hands on the best breaded pork tenderloin sandwich ever and check out the monster onion rings, too.

Oriental Spoon 229 Sanatorium Edwardsville A Korean restaurant where you can’t go wrong. The Kimchi is very good as an appetizer and make sure to check out their bulgogi and bap selections. Make sure to ask your server about spiciness levels if you can’t handle hotness very well.

Schiappa’s Italian Restaurant 402 S. Madison St. Lebanon A quiet pizzeria that offers plenty more than just pizza. Make sure to check out the great calzones on the menu.

Brickhouse Tavern & Tap 2 McBride and Son Center Dr. Chesterfield This is a great place to take a date or have a good time with a group of friends. Fun and creative menu and huge line of beers on tap and in bottles. Enjoy your meal sitting on a couch in front of a fire. The real allstar here are the bacon and jalapenó deviled eggs on the appetizer menu.

The LuBar & Bistro 911 Fairfax St. Carlyle Pretty cool place to chill out and have a good dinner. The dining area is separated from the bar, as this establishment is split into two levels.

The LuBar nachos are arguably the best nachos I’ve ever had and the pulled pork sandwich is a winner.

Check out the full breakfast menu

also and don’t forget to order some ice cream from the ice cream bar before you leave.

Fazzi’s Bar and Restaurant 1813 Vandalia St. Collinsville Opa! You’ll probably hear this a few times here as patrons order the signature appetizer dish, Saganaki, consisting of breaded goat cheese which is doused in oil and set on fire.

This Greek and Italian restaurant is very affordable and has some great choices, including the Mousaka. The gyro plate isn’t bad either.

Roma’s Pizza 121 E. Bethalto Dr. Bethalto This is a treasure in Bethalto.

Fantastic pizza, some of the best in the metropolitan area. Always packed so be prepared to wait, but

it’s worth it. Make sure to check out the bosco sticks also.

Mini Corral Hamburgers 1500 Main St. Alton Small shack that serves great mini burgers, French fries and onion things. Nothing special on aesthetics, get your food in a greasy white box but its been a staple in Alton for a long time.

King Louie’s Drive-In S. 6th St. Wood River This is an old-style drive-in restaurant where you can still order your meal from you car. Great burgers and fries and make sure to check out the fried cauliflower. Their root beer soda is also fantastic. There is also a dining area where you can go inside.

Wasabi Sushi Bar 100 S. Buchanan St. Edwardsville If you’re into sushi then this is a good place to check out. Choose from a big selection of rolls, from the California and spicy tuna rolls to great choices like the Batman and the Caterpillar. From unagi (eel), to sea urchin, salmon, shrimp and tuna, it has it all. Order the edamame on the appetizer menu.

Joe’s Pizza & Pasta 4 Club Centre Ct. Edwardsville The sweet tomato sauce makes this place a treasure. There are plenty of pizza choices for toppings and even without their classic sauce. Check out the Sicilian to get an olive oil-based sauce, it’s good too. You can dine-in or get delivery here.

J. Gumbo’s 3949 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis Central West End This is a chain restaurant, but it doesn’t feel that way. Check out the St. Louis location at 3949 Lindell Blvd. to get some really good Cajun and Creole food quick and cheap. Make sure to check out the crawfish etoufeé.

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Joanie’s Pizzeria 2101 Menard St., St. Louis Soulard A stable in the Soulard neighborhood in St. Louis, this is a spot that offers great pizza and Italian dishes along with great drink specials and entertainment.

Visit prior to a Cardinals game or other various events in St. Louis, eat dinner, and ride the free shuttle to and from the event.

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Los Tres Amigos 1011 Century Dr. Edwardsville The Jose Morales Taco is the highlight of this Mexican Restaurant.

The deep fried goodness of the taco is topped off with Parmesan cheese to give it that special flavor. Check out the rest of the extensive menu for other great Mexican dishes, too.

It could save your life. The Digestive Health Center at Alton Memorial Hospital performs colonoscopies on a regular basis, with three gastroenterologists on staff — Dr. Ahmed Karadaghy, Dr. David Riedel and Dr. Edmundo Rodriguez-Frias.

Wang Gang Asian Eats 1035 Century Dr. Edwardsville This is a hip, fun spot if you’re into Asian cuisine. It’s an Asian fusion restaurant that puts unique spins on classic Asian dishes. Check out the lettuce wraps, the fried calamari and the stir fry selections and don’t miss out on the restaurant’s own line of sodas which are also great. It offers some healthy choices, too.

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