042414 Edge Magazine

April 24, 2014

Vol. 11 No. 34

You Gotta' Eat page 13

Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival page 12

"The Way Things Go" page 21

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What’s Inside 7

Branson's heritage

Long-time attractions humming along.

11 Chicago Blues Festival Aaron Neville among those performing.

12 Jazzing it up

Festival planned in St. Louis.

13 You Gotta' Eat

The Rock Restaurant in Normal.

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"The Railway Man" A moving film.

20 Live at COCA Puppets to present "Love."

21 "The Way Things Go" Kemper to host summer exhibit.

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What’s Happening Friday April 25___________ • Saint Louis Fashion Week – Summer & Swimwear Runway Show, Union Station, St. Louis, 6:00 p.m. Pre-Party; 8:00 p.m. Fashion Show; 9:00 p.m. After Party • Tr a m p l e d U n d e r F o o t (Rescheduled), Old Rock House, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• The Hudson Branch w/Future Monarchs, Plush St. Louis, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

• Ar turo Sandoval, Touhill Performing Arts Center, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

• St. Louis Symphony Orchestral Program: Roberto Sierra, SaintSaens & Copland, Powell Symphony Hall, St. Louis, 10:30 a.m.

• Tommy Halloran’s Guerilla Swing, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

• This Must Be The Band – Talking Heads Tribute performing Stop Making Sense, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• The Black Rep presents The Trials of brother Jero, Harris-Stowe University, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

• I n s p i re d b y N a t u re : A Collection of Wildlife Ar t by Robert Bateman, Saint Louis Zoo, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Runs through October 31.

• Stages presents Always…

Patsy Cline, The Playhouse at Westport Plaza, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

• Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Fox Theatre, St. Louis, 8:00

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• Blue Man Group, Peabody Opera House, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

• Decisive Moments: 20th Century Street Photography Prints from St. Louis Collections, International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Runs through April 27.

Saturday April 26___________ • Earth Day Eve, Muny, St. Louis, 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

• Petty Cash Junction playing the Music of Tom Petty and Johnny Cash, Old Rock House, St. Louis, Doors 9:00 p.m.

• St. Louis Symphony Orchestral Program: Roberto Sierra, SaintSaens & Copland, Powell Symphony Hall, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

• Tommy Halloran’s Guerilla Swing, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

• The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra, Touhill Performing Arts Centers, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

• Slightly Stoopid w/Mariachi El Bronx, The Expanders, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• The Black Rep presents The Trials of brother Jero, Harris-Stowe University, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

• I n s p i re d b y N a t u re : A Collection of Wildlife Ar t by Robert Bateman, Saint Louis Zoo, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Runs through October 31.

• Stages presents Always…

Patsy Cline, The Playhouse at Westport Plaza, St. Louis, 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.

• Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Fox Theatre, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

• Blue Man Group, Peabody Opera House, St. Louis, 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.

• American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition Exhibit, Missiouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through August 17.

• Art of its Own Making, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through August 23.

Sunday April 27___________ • 25th Annual St. Louis Earth Day Festival, Muny Grounds, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

• Earth Day: Party for the Planet, Saint Louis Zoo, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

• St. Louis Symphony Orchestral Program: Rober to Sierra, Saint-Saens & Copland, Powell Symphony Hall, St. Louis, 3:00 a.m.

• Tommy Halloran’s Guerilla Swing, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

• Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

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People People planner Dennis Miller to appear at the Peabody

Five-time Emmy award winner Dennis Miller kicks off the summer with a stop at the Peabody Opera House, Sunday May 18 at 7 p.m.

Tickets go on sale Friday, March 14, at 10 a.m. and prices are $72, $62, $52 and $42. Tickets available at the Ford Box Office at Scottrade Center, all Ticketmaster Ticket Centers, by phone at 800-745-3000, or online at ticketmaster.com.

Since 2007, Dennis Miller has been heard five days a week on his nationally syndicated Dial Global (formerly Westwood One) Radio talk show, “The Dennis Miller Show.” He is also a regular contributor for “The O’Reilly Factor” on the FOX News Channel. It’s been said that Miller is “One of the premiere comedy talents in America today…” While others are blunt assessing Miller’s comedic stature, Dennis himself makes a virtue of understatement, but there is nothing low key about his career.

Miller has won five Emmy awards for his critically acclaimed half-hour, live talk show “Dennis Miller Live” which had a nine year run on HBO. Miller also garnered three Writer ’s Guild of America Awards for the series as well as an additional WGA Award for his 1997 HBO special, “Dennis Miller: Citizen Arcane.” He also wrote and starred in the Emmy-nominated cable comedy special “Raw Feed.”

That show, along with the six other standup specials he did for HBO from 1988-2006, is featured in the recently released DVD set, “Dennis Miller: The HBO Specials.” His

eighth special for HBO, “Dennis Miller: The Big Speech” debuted last year and is now also available on DVD. He was the host and executive producer of CNBC’s “Dennis Miller”, a topical interview talk show featuring reasoned discourse, opinion and humor.

Additionally, Miller has appeared on many politically oriented television talk shows.

He has also been cast in films, usually in dramatic roles, most notably in 1994's “Disclosure,” 1995's “The Net,” and 1997's “Murder at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.” He also appeared in the 2008 release, “What Happens in Vegas.”

Dennis has also achieved success in the literary arena with four books, “I Rant Therefore I Am,” “The Rants,” “Ranting Again,” and “The Rant Zone”have all been New York Times best sellers.

For two seasons, Miller called the plays alongside Al Michaels and NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Fouts on ABC’s “Monday Night Football.” He was also the “Weekend Update” correspondent on “Saturday Night Live” for six years, before exiting in 1991. He has yet to appear in a show with the words, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday in the title.

Tickets on sale for Circus Flora

Tickets are now on sale for Circus Flora’s 27th big-top production, The Pawn, powered by Ameren.

Call 314-289-4040 or visit www. circusflora.org for tickets. Tickets are also available at the Circus Flora Box Office at 3547 Olive Street in Grand Center.

Drawing from the history of the game of chess, this mythic tale is steeped in the rich sights, sounds and mystique of ancient Persia and India, and enacted by a world renowned cast of circus artists. This year the World Chess Hall of Fame and the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis join in partnership to help bring the game to life.

Tickets start at $12 and go on sale today. Group tickets are also available. The Pawn opens May 29 with a peanut-free preview and runs through June 22. Show times are Tuesday through Thursday at 7 p.m.; Friday and Saturday at 1 and 7 p.m.; Sunday at 1 and 5:30 p.m.; and “Little Top Wednesday” at 10 a.m., a special one-hour show for younger kids or the “kids at heart.”

Events planned in the Alton area

The Alton Regional Convention & Visitors Bureau has announced the following events: 2014 Riverbend MS 5KRun/Walk Saturday, April 26, 2014 Starts at 7:15am CDT Alton Riverfront Amphitheater 1 Henry Street Alton, IL 62002 Come down to Alton Riverfront Amphitheater to have a great time and help stop MS now. Walk begins at 10:30 a.m. There will be basket raffles, food, entertainment and more. Medals will be awarded to the top 3 male and female finishers for each age group (14 - 19, 20 - 29, 30 - 39, 40 - 49, 50 - 59, 60+). For more information, contact Lisa at (618) 593-7066 or 2Lkhemphill@gmail. com. To register, call (855) 372-1331

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Admission Online registration: $25 before April 1; $30 after or same day Packet pick up at registration from 6:30 a.m. to 7:15 a.m.

Grafton Riverside Flea Market Saturday - Sunday, April 26 - 27, 2014 9:00am to 5:00pm CDT The Loading Dock 400 Front St. Grafton, IL 62037 You won't want to miss this fabulous flea market on the river.

There will be over 50+ dealers with all types of goods, antiques glassware, tools, candles, furniture and good old-fashioned junk! Join the fun the fourth weekend of every month from March through October in Grafton. For more information, call (800) 258-6645 or e-mail tba@ gtec.com.

Alton Hauntings Ghost Bust Tour Saturday, April 26, 2014 Starts at 7:00pm CDT First Unitarian Church 110 East Third Street Alton, IL 62002 Our bus tour is approximately three hours long and travels by luxury coach to various reportedly

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Admission $40/person McPike Mansion Haunted Tour Saturday, April 26, 2014 Starts at 8:00pm CDT McPike Mansion 2018 Alby Street Alton, IL 62002 Learn the history of the McPike Mansion and take a look at the documented photos of the mansion and paranormal activity. Then, take a tour of the surrounding grounds and the crypt. Talking with the spirits with Dowsing rods and join us for a dark session in the cellar with our experienced medium.

To u r l a s t s a p p ro x i m a t e l y 9 0 minutes. All proceeds go toward the restoration of the mansion. For more information, contact Sharon at (618) 830-2179.

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People People planner Compton Hill Water Tower welcomes visitors

The historic Compton Hill Water Tower is open for its 15th consecutive season of monthly openings and full moon viewings events.

Located at the intersection of Shaw and Grand Blvd, (exit 288 off I-44), the Tower is open from 12 noon – 4 PM on the first Saturday of each month from April through November. Visitors can climb to the top of the 179-ft. Tower and enjoy a 360-degree vista of metro St. Louis stretching as far as Illinois, Clayton and the Jefferson Barracks Bridge.

By popular demand, the Tower will again open for full moon evenings, beginning at 5:30PM and extending as late as midnight for most months from April through November. “Full Moon Weekends” at the Tower in June, July and August will include food trucks, live bands and festivity.

Built in 1898 on one of the highest points in the City and fully restored by the City of St. Louis Water Division in 1999, the French Romanesque style Tower was engineered to be part of the city's public water supply system. In 1901, more than 423 water towers existed in the United States; only 7 remain standing, three of which are in St. Louis. The Compton Hill Water Tower is a designated St. Louis City and a National Historic Landmark.

Admission to climb the tower is $5 per person; children 6 to 12 are $3; children five and younger are free. Water Tower Society members receive free entry as part of membership. Ample street side parking is available on Russell Blvd.

For more information , including the history of the water tower and a schedule openings visit, www. waterfoundation.org.

Compton Hill Water Tower - 2014 Calendar of Public Openings 2014 Saturday Openings: 12 noon -- 4pm May 3. June 7, July 5, August 2, September 6, October 4, November 1 Full Moon Weekends: F r i d a y, J u n e 1 3 , 5 : 3 0 p m - Midnight Saturday, July12, 5:30pm -Midnight Sunday, August 10, 5:30pm -Midnight Tuesday, September 9, 5:30pm - 11pm Wednesday, October 8, 5:30pm - 10pm Thursday, November 6, 5:30pm -- 9pm

DuQuoin State Fair announces theme

The theme for the 2014 DuQuoin State Fair will be "Love A Fair: Since 1923," the fair's manager announced recently.

"If there has ever been a fair that people have loved, it is the DuQuoin State Fair," Fair Manager Shannon Woodworth said. "Since 1923, millions of people have fallen in love with the sights, sounds and smells of this fair. The relationship this fair has with the people of Southern Illinois is a bond that hasn't been broken for 91 years."

The DuQuoin State Fair became a major area attraction almost from its start, but garnered national attention in 1942 when the Illinois State Fair in Springfield was suspended due to the grounds being converted into a World War II training center,

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explained fair historian Fred Huff.

As a result, the Grand Circuit harness program scheduled for Springfield was moved to DuQuoin and for the first time nationallyprominent horses competed there.

Horsemen were impressed with the facilities, including trainer-driver Ben White and his Hambletonian winner, Volo Song, as were Grand C i rc u i t o ff i c i a l s w h o p l a c e d DuQuoin on its schedule. Now owning its own Grand Circuit racing dates, the DuQuoin Fair continued to grow, constructing a splendid, 130-stall, horse barn the length of two football fields with a Southern mansion appearance.

A new mile-long track was constructed as was an 8,000-seat grandstand, which was completed just in time for use following a mid-summer fire in 1945 that d e s t ro y e d t h e i n i t i a l f a c i l i t y adjacent to the half-mile track that is still in daily use for training purposes. A basketball-court size stage immediately adjacent to the grandstand was a unique feature and triggered more emphasis being placed on elaborate night shows that soon became a highlight of the fair's may attractions.

Replacing the steady succession of acrobats, jugglers, comics and animal acts that had been the basic attractions for its first 25 years, the fair switched to more prominent entertainers like Mandrake the Magician, Beatrice Kay and Morton Downey.

Bob Hope was the first superstar to play at DuQuoin in 1950, but such bookings soon became standard practice with the likes of Eddie Fisher, the Mills Brothers and others gracing the stage. In 1964, the grandstand entertainment included performances by Ray Price, Skeeter Davis, Jimmy Dickens and Bill Anderson, marking the first time fair management offered country music.

By then, too, the fair had become the new "Home of the Hambletonian" and suddenly was a fixture on the national sports scene. Motorized racing, which had returned in the late 1940s, was equally prominent.

In fact, Indianapolis 500 drivers became regulars in DuQuoin's three days of auto racing. A.J. Foyt won 100-mile races at DuQuoin in 1960, '61, '63 and '64, the same years he was crowned national champion by the United States Auto Club.

It was a true winning combination: top entertainers like Hope, Red Skelton, Perry Como and Sammy Davis, Jr., the Hambletonian with the nation's finest 3-year-old trotters, their trainers and drivers, and the likes of Tony Bettenhausen, Don Branson and Norm Nelson challenging Foyt every Labor Day weekend.

It has all resulted in an annual "Love A Fair" and the 2014 edition is scheduled for Aug. 22 through Sept. 1.

Flea market returns to Grafton

The Riverside Flea Market in Grafton has returned to Grafton.

The flea market is held monthly on the fourth weekend, beginning with

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The Grafton Riverside Flea is the largest flea market in the Alton region, boasting of more than 75 vendors with a wide selection of antiques, crafts, the usual flea market fare and food.

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During the 2014 season, the market will be open to shoppers from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the following dates: April 26 – 27, May 24 – 25, June 28 – 29, July 26 – 27, Aug. 23 – 24, Sept. 27 – 28 and Oct. 25 – 26.

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People People planner Science Center to screen D-Day film

The Saint Louis Science Center and 3D Entertainment Distribution invite audiences to step back in time with the new giant screen theater film D-Day: Normandy 1944, which opens at the Science Center’s OMNIMAX Theater on April 25, 2014.

In May 1943, World War II is at its apex. To counter Hitler and the Axis forces, the Allies decide to open a second front on the western side of Europe. The Allied forces, led by U.S. General Eisenhower, have just months to organize the operation code-named “Overlord,” with only a 50/50 chance of success, that will break Hitler’s Atlantic Wall fortress and lead to the Battle of Normandy.

Narrated by renowned journalist and author Tom Brokaw, D-Day: Normandy 1944 provides a new, penetrating look at this defining moment in history in a truly unique manner. D-Day itself is well-known, yet few know in detail exactly why and how, from the end of 1943 through August 1944, this became the most important location in the world.

“We wanted to make a film to pay tribute to the millions of men and women, soldiers and civilians, who gave their lives for our freedom 70 years ago. Regardless of nationality, virtually everyone today has a parent, grandparent or even a greatgrandparent with a connection to World War II,” explained writer and director Pascal Vuong. “I thought for a long time about how to produce a large format documentary on this subject, and finally found my own way of telling this complex story to family audiences using a brand-new ‘cocktail,’ mixing innovative film techniques.”

Blending multiple cinematographic formats, including animation, CGI and stunning liveaction images, D-Day: Normandy 1944 brings this monumental event to the world’s largest screens for the very first time. Exploring science, t e c h n o l o g y, e n g i n e e r i n g a n d mathematics, audiences of all ages, including new generations, will discover from a new perspective in breathtaking OMNIMAX how this landing changed the course of history.

“What I was drawn to in this film is that it tells us the story of D-Day in a new way that gives such clarity to one of the most important events in the history of mankind,” said Brokaw. “I originally thought this was going to be another traditional documentary featuring grainy black and white footage, but as soon as I saw the first minutes of this film on the giant OMNIMAX screen, I found it irresistible.”

“After seeing this film, we think our audiences will feel a deeper gratitude for the courage and sacrifices of these champions of freedom,” said Bert Vescolani, president and CEO of the Saint Louis Science Center. “And, because we are a science center, we hope our audiences will discover a deeper appreciation of the science, engineering and technology involved in this monumental event.”

Over three years in the making and with a budget of $5 million, all live-action sequences for the film were shot exclusively on location in Normandy, France. No fewer than five CGI and visual special effects companies also collaborated under the creative leadership of N3D LAND Films to complete the 43minute film.

Lineup set for Parties in the Park

St. Louis’ original, longest-running outdoor happy hour, Parties in the Park in Downtown Clayton, kicks off its 31st season May 14 and continues on the second Wednesday of each month through September 10.

Parties in the Park will be returning to last year ’s popular location on

Central between Forsyth Boulevard and Maryland Avenue.

“The response to last year’s move to Central was unanimous. Everyone loved it,” said Ellen Gale, executive director of the Clayton Chamber of Commerce. “Businesses and restaurants saw an increase in sales and traffic, and those in attendance had a blast.”

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Tickets on sale for Circus Flora

Tickets are now on sale for Circus Flora’s 27th big-top production, The Pawn, powered by Ameren.

Call 314-289-4040 or visit www. circusflora.org for tickets. Tickets are also available at the Circus Flora Box Office at 3547 Olive Street in Grand Center.

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Feed the Need to feature John Michael Montgomery

Senior Services Plus, a notfor-profit organization offering programs and services for older adults, announced the date and entertainment for their 5th Annual Feed the Need concert.

The concert will be held at the Riverfront Amphitheater, located at 1 Riverfront Drive in Alton, Illinois.

Executive Director Jonathan Becker announced that country superstar John Michael Montgomery will be playing at the Riverfront Amphitheater in Alton this summer on June 7, 2014. John Michael Montgomery has had several country hits like, ‘I Swear ’, ‘Sold’, ‘Be My Baby Tonight’, I Love The Way You Love Me’ and many, many more great songs.

Local favorite The Harmon Family Bluegrass Band is named as opening act. The group is originally from Shipman, Illinois.

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Band today consists of first and second generation musicians having deep roots dating back to 1975. The Harman’s music style ranges from traditional to contemporary bluegrass, country, gospel and other various types of music. “Entertaining you is our goal and is as much fun for us as the music we play.”

The Feed the Need concert brings the community together with the goal of raising awareness for the Meals On Wheels program.

All proceeds from the concert will benefit the agency’s Meals On Wheels program. Senior Services Plus is providing 650 meals daily, covering 22 townships in Madison and St. Clair counties.

Ti c k e t s a re $ 3 0 e a c h , and are available online at seniorservicesplus.org. Tickets are also available at the agency’s A l t o n c e n t e r, l o c a t e d a t 2 6 0 3 North Rodgers Avenue, Alton, Illinois. For more information, please call 618-465-3298 or 1-800233-4904.

Lincoln Museum to exhibit movie props

An exhibit of sets, costumes and props from Steven Spielberg’s award-winning movie “Lincoln” opened recently at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, where it will be on display for years to come. Children can explore the exhibit free of charge when accompanied by an adult.

The exhibit, “Lincoln: History to Hollywood,” includes the set for Lincoln’s office, part of Mary Lincoln’s bedroom set, costumes worn by the actors and a variety of props used in the movie.

It’s being displayed at Union Station, just across the street from the presidential museum. The station will serve as an annex to the presidential museum where visitors

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Adults also have the option of buying the new “full experience” package allowing them to tour the entire presidential library and museum and the new movie exhibit for $15. That’s just $3 more than the basic museum admission price, which is not changing.

Lincoln’s office is the key set in the movie. That’s where the president ponders how to pass a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery and pushes his aides to get the job done. The exhibit also includes a vignette of Mary Lincoln’s bedroom, the setting for emotional confrontations between husband and wife.

Visitors can see Oscar-nominated costumes for Lincoln, his wife and his son Tad. Props include the stethoscope from the scene of Lincoln’s death, Tad’s toys and gloves used by Daniel Day-Lewis as he portrayed Lincoln.

No tax dollars were to move the exhibit from California to Springfield. That expense is being covered by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation.

can tour the exhibit and see video presentations about the movie.

“Steven Spielberg is a master story-teller, and ‘Lincoln’ is a classic.

Movie buffs of all ages are going to come here to see this exhibit,” said Amy Martin, director of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. “And when they visit, they’re going to be caught up in the fascinating life of our greatest president.”

“Lincoln” earned Academy Awards for Daniel Day-Lewis as Best Actor and Rick Carter for Best Production Design.

“It is an honor to have this exhibit at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum,” Spielberg said when plans for the exhibit were announced. “When we visited for research on the film, it was our thought that there might be an opportunity to bring such an exhibit to Springfield, and that is now a reality.”

The sets and costumes are on loan from DreamWorks Studios.

This allows the Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum to present the display at minimal cost to visitors.

Children can tour the special exhibit at Union Station for free

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Choose from a huge variety of native wildflowers, ferns, trees and shrubs for home landscaping at the Shaw Nature Reserve’s annual Shaw Wildflower Market on Saturday, May 10 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The annual sale offers the widest array of native plants available in the metro St. Louis area, selected by the Reserve’s horticulture staff and several local nurseries. Admission to the sale is included with Reserve admission of $5 for adults and free for Missouri Botanical Garden members. Children ages 12 and under are free.

The Shaw Wildflower Market offers hundreds of varieties of Missouri native annuals, perennials, ferns, trees and shrubs that are beneficial in attracting native species of birds and butterflies. Select from the showiest top-performing native plants for sun or shade, including p u r p l e c o n e f l o w e r, b u t t e r f l y milkweed, rose turtlehead, copper iris, cardinal flower, palm sedge, maidenhair fern, red buckeye, fringe tree and white oak.

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Along with the Shaw Nature Reserve, native plant nurseries include Forrest Keeling Nursery, Missouri Wildflower Nursery, Pan’s Garden, Wild Ones Natural Landscapers, Ozark Berry Farm, St. Francis Natives, DJM Ecological Services and Andy’s Native Plants.

You’ll also enjoy the chance to shop for wine, honey, meat, bread, toffee, soap, birdhouses, artwork, photography, jams and jellies, books and much more while enjoying the toe-tapping live acoustic music by Rosewood on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

After shopping the Shaw Wildflower Market, take time to explore the 2,400-acre Shaw Nature Reserve, where the Whitmire Wildfl o w er G a rd en o ffe r s a n example of home landscaping with Missouri native flowers and plants.

Explore the tallgrass prairie, walk the boardwalk in the wetland or visit the historic Bascom House.

The sale will be held Saturday, May 10 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the grounds of the Shaw Nature Reserve in Gray Summit, Mo. Take interstate 44 to exit #253 and follow the signs to the Reserve and sale.

Admission to the Shaw Wildflower Market is included with Reserve admission of $5 for adults and free for Missouri Botanical Garden members. Children ages 12 and under are free.

Cash or checks only are accepted at the sale. For more information, visit http://www.shawnature.org/ nativeland/plantsale.aspx or call (636) 451-3512.

game of chess, this mythic tale is steeped in the rich sights, sounds and mystique of ancient Persia and India, and enacted by a world renowned cast of circus artists. This year the World Chess Hall of Fame and the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis join in partnership to help bring the game to life.

Tickets start at $12 and go on sale today. Group tickets are also available. The Pawn opens May 29 with a peanut-free preview and runs through June 22. Show times are Tuesday through Thursday at 7 p.m.; Friday and Saturday at 1 and 7 p.m.; Sunday at 1 and 5:30 p.m.; and “Little Top Wednesday” at 10 a.m., a special one-hour show for younger kids or the “kids at heart.”

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Above, the cast of Presleys' Country Jubilee. Below, Dick's 5 & 10.

Presleys', Dick's celebrate Branson heritage For The Edge Presleys’ Country Jubilee and Dick’s 5&10 partner together in 2014 to celebrate Bringing Family Entertainment to Branson for 100 Years Presleys’ Country Jubilee and Dick’s 5&10 are proud to announce the partnership of two Branson Families, together bringing family entertainment to Branson.

The Presleys and the Hartleys both offer their customers a very unique Branson experience. In 2014 they will take that experience even further with merchandise and promotions highlighting their combined 100 years of Family Entertainment. Last year, Dick’s 5&10 took over management of Presleys’ Theater’s gift shop which also

features “A Little Bit of Dick’s 5&10”. Steve Hartley said, “The partnership with the Presley Family is a great match. We are two longtime Branson families entertaining visitors in our own way but with very similar visions and philosophies. We have retained our family’s history yet are very relevant to new generations who are coming to Branson. Both our families provide fun, memorable moments for everyone to enjoy.”

Gary Presley was quick to add that… ”Bringing a little of the Dick’s 5 & 10 shopping experience into our family’s theater was one of the easiest decisions we have ever made. Nobody knows better what our visitor is looking for in taking home a souvenir of their Branson experience than the Hartley family. We are proud

and excited to now offer that at Presleys’ Theater.”

Presleys’ is Branson’s Original Show on Hwy 76. The Presleys are widely recognized as Branson’s First Family of Entertainment with their show that is always a favorite with Branson visitors. Presleys’ Country Jubilee stars three generations of Presleys along with a cast of Branson’s finest entertainers presenting a two hour show featuring the best in comedy, country & gospel music.

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Music Tuning in "The Voice" tour scheduled

F a n s o f t h e h i t N B C s h o w, “The Voice,” can finally see their favorite contestants live as the season’s talented top Finalists and favorite past stars hit the road on a huge summer tour. Talpa Media and AEG Live announced today the 31-show concert tour launches June 21st in San Antonio, TX. Tickets are on sale at www. t h e v o i c e . c o m / t o u r a n d w w w. aeglive.com.

The tour will stop July 20 at the Peabody Opera House in St. Louis.

Already confirmed on the tour is Jamaica nat ive and Season 5 champ, Tessanne Chin. Also j o i n i n g t h e t o u r f ro m S e a s o n 5 is soul-pop teen artist, and runner up, Jacquie Lee and vocal powerhouse and family man, Will Champlin. Dia Frampton, a Team Blake favorite, from Season One will be hitting the road too, along with this season’s Winner, Runner Up, and 3rd place. Another fan favorite is guaranteed to tour and will be determined in the month of May by America via social media.

Clean Scalp & Hair will join NBC’s The Voice as the official title sponsor of The Voice Live Tour.

Clean Scalp & Hair will bring the message of resilience across the U.S., and provide fans with exclusive behind-the-scenes access and content from the road. The multiplatform partnership will bring to life America’s inner and outer resilience, while engaging with the show’s thousands of fans in real-time.

O'Jays to perform at The Fox

F o x C o n c e r t s p re s e n t s T h e O'Jays and Chaka Kahn on Friday, June 20 at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $125, $90, $75, $65, $55, $45 and are on sale online at metrotix.com, by calling 314534-1111, or in person at the Fox Theatre Box Office.

The O'Jays are living legends…

American treasures. The term "living legend" is often overused and abused, but with The O'Jays, well, there's little argument that the honorable tag truly applies.

With their place in modern music secure, The O'Jays could have cruise-controlled to that comfy

hammock on a sandy beach, u m b re l l a - d e c o r a t e d d r i n k s i n hand. Why? (1) An ocean-wide body of work that spawned 24 Top Ten smashes and 59 total charted songs. (2) Incredibly energetic and dynamic live shows. (3) Mad respect for their Olympian vocals. And (4) their social and political impact on generations and nations.

But doing things slowly is not Eddie Levert, Sr., Walter Williams, Sr. and Eric Nolan Grant’s modus operandi. After 40+ years making such international hits as "Back Stabbers," "For The Love Of Money," "Darlin' Darlin' Baby," "Love Train," "I Love Music," "Use Ta Be My Girl" and "Have You Had Your Love Today,".

There have been “four faces” of The O’Jays. This vocal group from Canton, Ohio originated with Eddie Levert, SR., Walter Williams, SR., William Powell, Bobby Massey and Bill Isles and they were named after Cleveland DJ Eddie O’Jay. Isles left the group in 1965. Massey left to b e c o m e a re c o rd p ro d u c e r i n 1971 and Levert, Williams and Powell continues as a trio. Powell retired from touring due to illness in late 1975, passing at the age of 35 in 1977 and was replaced

by Sammy Strain, formerly with Little Anthony & The Imperials.

Strain returned to his former group in 1993 and was replaced

by Nathaniel Best. After the departure in 1995 of Nathaniel Best, Eddie Levert, SR. and Walter Williams, SR. reached out to Eric Nolan Grant, a gifted vocalist who was already a part of the group’s extended Cleveland-based musical family. Their chart-topping album “ L o v e Yo u To Te a r s ” m a r k e d Grant’s first appearance with the group.

Chaka Khan is one of the world's most gifted and celebrated musicians, with a rich musical legacy, the 10-time G R A M M Y ® Aw a rd - w i n n e r i s looking forward to a celebration o f a l i f e t i m e . A s o n g w r i t e r, a c t o r, a u t h o r, p h i l a n t h ro p i s t , entrepreneur and activist, Chaka Khan has influenced generations of recording artists. She has the rare ability to sing in seven music genres, including R&B, pop, rock, gospel, country, world music and classical. Affectionately known around the world as Chaka, she is revered by millions of fans as well as her peers for her timeless,

classic and unmatched signature music style and ability. The late, great Miles Davis often said, "She [Chaka] sings like my horn." And the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin says, "[Chaka] is a one- of- a -kind, premier vocalist."

The Fox to welcome The Piano Guys

AEG Live & Nine Network presents The Piano Guys Oct. 18 at 8 p.m. Live at The Fox Theatre.

Tickets are $103, $47.50, $42.50 and $32.50 and are available online at metrotix.com, by calling 314534-1111, or in person at the Fox Theatre Box Office.

Hailing from Utah, The Piano Guys became an Internet sensation by way of their immensely successful series of strikingly original self-made music videos.

They’ve made over 35 since joining forces in early 2011, including their hit video, an innovative 10-handed version of One Direction’s “What Makes You Beautiful.” But it’s the Guys’ highly original blend of classical music with pop that has really been the cause of an Internet phenomenon that has brought them to their major label debut album, The Piano Guys, released on Sony Masterworks on October 2nd, 2012.

In the last few months, The Piano Guys have performed on everywhere from “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” to “The Today Show” and “Katie.” Their most recent video “Mission Impossible” featuring YouTube violin sensation Lindsey Stirling, continues to build momentum with over 1.5M views in a month.

It finds the band and Stirling in a spy thriller as covert operatives while playing their unique take on this famous musical theme.

The album features more of the imaginative mash-up arrangements that The Piano Guys are already famous for, including sources ranging from Michael Jackson to Mozart, The Bourne Identity to David Guetta. It also includes an original song and innovative takes on hits by One Direction, Adele and Christina Perri.

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Guys? Actually, there’s only one piano player, Jon Schmidt, and one other instrumentalist, Steven Sharp Nelson, on cello. Yet the other two - Paul Anderson, and Al van der Beek - are equally significant members of the group. The Piano Guys’ name comes from Anderson’s piano store in St. George, Utah, which was called The Piano Guys.

Looking for an alternative to lowyield conventional advertising, Anderson devised a Facebook promotional page and YouTube channel featuring the most famous pianist he could find – local pianist, Jon Schmidt. A selfdescribed “New Age Classical” player, Schmidt was indeed wellestablished locally, thanks to eight albums and seven piano books of his song transcriptions. He also performed concerts throughout Utah, one of which featured a young guest artist, Steven Sharp Nelson, who adventurously combined traditional cello playing with percussion effects. “I was 15 when I met Jon and started playing with him,” Nelson recalls. “I had to get a ride to shows! But we’ve had a great brotherhood that’s now lasted 20 years.”

O.A.R., Phillips to appear at The Fox

Rock band O.A.R. and Platinum-selling recording artist and "American Idol" Season 11 winner Phillip Phillips announced today a 25-city co-headlining tour which kicks off on June 12th at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis, and culminates on July 26th at Chastain Park Amphitheatre in Atlanta, Georgia.

Tickets for the 8 p.m. show are $52.50, $47.50, $42.50, $37.50 and are available online at metrotix.com, by calling 314-534-1111, or in person at the Fox Theatre Box Office.

O.A.R. is renowned for their incredible live shows and sell-out performances at massive venues such as Red Rocks and Madison Square Garden. The band has just wrapped up production on a brand new album – The Rockville LP – which is set for release June 10th on Vanguard Records. The anthemic song “Peace,” the debut

single from The Rockville LP, is climbing the charts and has already become a mainstay on radio station playlist across the country.

Since their formation in 1996, O.A.R. (singer Marc Roberge, drummer Chris Culos, guitarist Richard On, bassist Benj Gershman and saxophonist Jerry DePizzo) has logged millions of miles on the road and released seven studio albums, spawning such hit singles as “Shattered” “Heaven” and “Love and Memories.”

Phillip Phillips is also in the midst of a hit single with “Raging Fire,” the first track from his highly anticipated Behind The Light album, set for release on M a y 1 9 t h o n 1 9 R e c o rd i n g s / Interscope.

Behind The Light is Phillips’ follow-up to his hugely successful debut album, which spawned the single “Home,” one of the biggest tracks of 2012, selling more than 4 million copies. That debut album, The World from the Side of the Moon, sold well over a million copies and debuted at #4 on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart and #1 on the Billboard Rock Album chart. Successful tours both as a headliner and with such artists as Matchbox 20 and John Mayer followed. Phillips just wrapped his first headlining tour of Canada.

Sheldon to host Dave Rawlings Machine

The Sheldon Sessions, presented

by The Sheldon in partnership with 88.1 KDHX, presents An Evening with Dave Rawlings Machine, Wednesday, June 25 at 8 p.m.

Dave Rawlings Machine's barnstorming 2013 lineup is back for six nights only this summer! Gillian Welch, John Paul Jones, Willie Watson and Paul Kowert join Dave Rawlings for an evening of distinctive picking, high lonesome songs and many other high caliber acoustic entertainments.

Tickets are $38 orchestra/$35 balcony.

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Music Tuning in McLachlan to appear in St. Louis

Multi-platinum and Grammy Aw a r d - w i n n i n g s i n g e r a n d songwriter Sarah McLachlan today announced concert dates for the Sarah McLachlan Shine On Tour 2014. The national tour will kick off on June 20th in Seattle, WA and will visit major amphitheaters and venues across the country. The tour coincides with McLachlan’s forthcoming new album "Shine On" out May 6th on Verve Records.

McLachlan's Shine On Tour will stop in St. Louis at The Fox Theatre at 7:30 p.m. on July 6.

Tickets are $101, $86, $66, $56, $46, $36 and are on sale online at metrotix.com, by calling 314-5341111, or in person at the Fox Theatre Box Office.

McLachlan has also revealed album artwork for "Shine On," her first full-length recording of new material in four years. The new album was recorded in Montreal and Vancouver with Sarah's longtime c o l l a b o r a t o r / p ro d u c e r P i e r re Marchand as well as Bob Rock and Vincent Jones.

Sarah McLachlan is one of the most celebrated singer songwriters in entertainment with over 40 million albums sold worldwide. She is an eight-time Juno Award winner (Canada) and a three-time Grammy Aw a r d w i n n e r. M c L a c h l a n ' s landmark fifth album, the 10xplatinum "Surfacing," contained t w o G r a m m y Aw a rd - w i n n i n g tracks: "Building a Mystery" and "Last Dance." In addition to her personal artistic efforts, she founded the Lilith Fair tour showcasing female musicians which raised over $7 million for local and national charities over its 3 years and in 2002 founded her non-profit organization the Sarah McLachlan School of Music. The school provides

Stewart, Santana to team up at Scottrade Center

AEG Live announced today that Rod Stewart and Santana, two of music’s most influential hit makers and dynamic live performers, will

join forces and embark on an 18concert North American tour this summer. Kicking-off May 23 in Albany, NY, the tour unites two musical trailblazers who have helped redefine the sound of popular music for the last five decades through their combined love of rock, soul, world rhythms, funk, jazz and blues.

Both Stewart and Santana are known for their high-energy, hit-packed live concerts -- making the combination an incomparable experience for all music fans.

The duo will appear on June 6 at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis Tickets are on sale now.

Wi t h h i s s i n g u l a r v o i c e , narrative songwriting and passionate live performances, Rod Stewart has built one of the most successful and enduring music careers of all time. In a career spanning more than five decades, he has amassed sales of more than 150 million albums worldwide and has countless chart-topping hits and industry accolades - including two inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2007, he was bestowed Commander of the British Empire (CBE) by the Queen of England. In May 2013, Stewart released Time, his first rock album in a dozen years, on Capitol Records. The album features 11 original tracks and marks Rod’s return to songwriting after n e a r l y t w o d e c a d e s . Ti m e entered the UK Albums Chart at No. 1, setting a new British record for the longest gap between charttopping albums by an artist -- and in the US, it marked Stewart’s highest-charting album of original material since 1979. In addition to touring, Stewart headlines one of Las Vegas’ most critically a n d c o m m e rc i a l l y s u c c e s s f u l residencies at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.

For forty years and as many albums later, Santana has sold more than 100 million records and reached more than 100 million fans at concerts worldwide.

To date, Santana has won ten G r a m m y Aw a r d s a n d t h r e e Latin Grammy Awards. He won a record-tying nine Grammys for a single project for 1999’s Supernatural (including Album of the Year and Record of the Year for

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“Smooth”). He has also received t h e B i l l b o a rd C e n t u r y Aw a rd (1996), was ushered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1998), and received the Billboard Latin Music Awards’ Lifetime Achievement honor (2009). Among many other honors, Carlos Santana has also been cited by Rolling Stone as #15 on their list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.” Celebrating the chart debut of "Guitar Heaven" (Arista) in 2010, Santana joined the ranks of the Rolling Stones as the only musical act in chart history to score at least one Top 10 album in every decade beginning with the 1960s. He is also currently headlining at a multiyear residency at House of Blues at Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas. In 2013, Carlos Santana was the recipient of the 2013 Kennedy Center Honors Award. Santana’s new album "Corazon" (RCA/Sony Latin Iberia) due out May 6, 2014 is a collaborative effort with the biggest names in Latin music.

Sheldon to present EELS

The Sheldon Sessions, presented

by The Sheldon in partnership with 88.1 KDHX, presents the EELS with special guest Chelsea Wolfe, Friday, May 23 at 8 p.m.

Led and founded by singer/ songwriter Mark Oliver Everett, aka E, the EELS have been a lasting and influential force on the alternative music scene, from E’s breakthrough album, A Man Called E and the EELS top ten alternative hit, “Novocaine for the Soul,” through their most recent, acclaimed album, Wonderful, Glorious, which launched their 73city world tour.

Known for her ethereal voice and dark, haunting lyrics, Chelsea Wolfe is gaining critical acclaim as a new

voice on the alternative music scene.

She recently toured as the support act for Queens of the Stone Age. Tickets are $36 orchestra/$31 balcony. Call MetroTix at 314-5341111 or visit TheSheldon.org.

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The 2014 Illinois State Fair will be held Aug. 7 - 17.

Country music's hottest group is coming to the 2014 Illinois State Fair. Florida Georgia Line (FGL) has been booked to perform at the Grandstand Sunday, Aug. 10.

The vocal duo has rocketed to stardom since the release of its debut studio album, "Here's to the Good Times," slightly more than a year ago. The first four singles from the platinum-selling effort shot to number one on the Billboard Country Airplay chart, including "Cruise," the best-selling digital country song of all-time and the Country Music Association's (CMA) 2013 "Single of the Year."

"The Illinois State Fair has a long tradition of bringing the biggest names in the music industry to the Grandstand stage and I think this booking ranks among the best," State Fair Manager Amy Bliefnick said. "I'm looking forward to a great concert and invite fairgoers to join me in welcoming the band to Springfield."

FGL's chart-topping success has won critical acclaim as well. The band was named the CMA's "Vocal Duo of the Year" last November and the Academy of Country Music's "New Artist of the Year" and "New Vocal Duo or Group of the Year."

Its other number one hits are "Get Your Shine On," "Round Here" and "Stay."

Additional information, including the on-sale date and ticket prices, will be posted on the fair's website,

begin on May 27th in Portland, ME and culminate on August, 13th in Seattle, WA. Ray will hit the road in support of his 5th studio album Supernova which will be released on May 6th via RCA Records. Ray welcomes Jason Isbell and Jenny Lewis to support on select dates as well as The Belle Brigade for the entire run.

LaMontagne will appear the The Fabulous Fox Theatre on Wednesday, June 18 at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $59.50, $49.50, $39.50 and are available online at metrotix. com, by calling 314-534-1111, or in person at the Fox Theatre Box Office.

Ray LaMontagne has one of the remarkable stories in music’s past decade. Since leaving his job in a Maine shoe factory to pursue his calling as a musician, he has released four studio albums and two live EPs, won awards and topped critics’ polls internationally, and established himself as one of the most distinctive talents of his generation. His songs have been featured in numerous films and television shows, including multiple performances of his compositions on American Idol.

Ray’s most recent critically acclaimed, Grammy award winning album God Willin’ & the Creek Don’t Rise debuted at #3 on the Billboard Top 200 and #1 on the Digital Album chart.

LaMontagne to visit Florida Georgia Line St. Louis Grammy Award winner Ray to appear at state LaMontagne has announcee his "Supernova Summer Tour". The fair 42 city North American tour will

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Music Music calendar Lost in the Trees w/All Tiny Creatures, Old Rock House, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Tiny Moving Parts, Frameworks, Gates w/Lobby Boxer, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 6:30 p.m.

RemiXT, Cicero's, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

The Elders w/John Maxfield, The Gramophone, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

CURTIN w/Spectator, Cody James, Plush St. Louis, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

Reggie Thomas, Rodney Whitaker, Willie Akins, Montez Coleman, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Marquise Knox Band w/Bob “Bumblebee” Kamoske, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

Local Natives w/Moses Sumney, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Friday, April 25

Tr a m p l e d U n d e r F o o t (Rescheduled), Old Rock House, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

The Hudson Branch w/Future Monarchs, Plush St. Louis, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

A r t u r o S a n d o v a l , To u h i l l Performing Arts Center, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

St. Louis Symphony Orchestral Program: Roberto Sierra, Saint-Saens & Copland, Powell Symphony Hall, St. Louis, 10:30 a.m.

Tommy Halloran’s Guerilla Swing, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

This Must Be The Band – Talking Heads Tribute performing Stop Making Sense, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra, Touhill Performing Arts Centers, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

Slightly Stoopid w/Mariachi El Bronx, The Expanders, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Sunday, April 27

St. Louis Symphony Orchestral Program: Roberto Sierra, Saint-Saens & Copland, Powell Symphony Hall, St. Louis, 3:00 a.m.

Tommy Halloran’s Guerilla Swing, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Monday, April 28

Open Mic Night, The Gramophone, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 29

Leopold & His Fiction, The Gramophone, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Karmin w/Bonnie McKee, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Fox Theatre, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

Wednesday, April 30

Mobb Deep w/Chancellor Warhol, Old Rock House, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Fox Theatre, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

Joe Lovano Us Five, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 1

Nicholas David: Night of the Rising Stars w/Old Salt Union, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

RemiXT, Cicero's, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Fox Theatre, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

St. Louis Symphony Orchestral Program: Steve Reich & Orff, Powell Symphony Hall, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Fox Theatre, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

St. Louis Symphony Orchestral Program: Steve Reich & Orff, Powell Symphony Hall, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

Alleluia Ringers, Cathedral Basilica, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Fox Theatre, St. Louis, 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.

St. Louis Symphony Orchestral Program: Steve Reich & Orff, Powell Symphony Hall, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

Variety’s Dinner With the Stars feat. Harry Connick, Jr., Peabody Opera House, St. Louis, 8:30 p.m.

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Tech N9ne w/Freddie Gibbs, Krizz Kaliko, Jarren Benton, Psych Ward Druggies, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

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For The Edge The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events is pleased to announce the complete line-up for the 31st Annual Chicago Blues Festival set for June 13 through June 15 in Grant Park. This year the festival theme celebrates “Blues by the Lake,” with three days of the finest blues music featuring headliners Carolina Chocolate Drops, Otis Taylor Band and a special celebration commemorating the centennial of John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson featuring Billy Boy Arnold and The Siegel-Schwall Blues Band with Sam Lay. Also headlining, Theo Huff, Willie Clayton, Bettye LaVette Nikki Hill, Aaron Neville and Dr. John.

The free admission Chicago Blues Festival is open from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. daily. The Petrillo Music Shell will feature headliners at 6 p.m.

– 9.30 p.m. on Friday, June 13 and Saturday, June 14. The stage will run 5:30 p.m. – 9.30 p.m. on Sunday, June 15.

The Petrillo Music Shell will open on Friday, June 13 at 6 p.m. with the Carolina Chocolate Drops.

Originating from Durham, North Carolina, the trio is deeply rooted in the old-time, fiddle and banjobased music which won them the Grammy Award for best traditional folk album in 2010 for Genuine Negro Jig. As the evening continues, blues fans will be treated to a ground-breaking performance from the Otis Taylor Band at 7:05 p.m. followed by a special tribute and centennial celebration honoring John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson

at 8:25 p.m. performed by a group of musicians influenced by his harmonica “crossed-harp” style led by renowned harmonica player Billy Boy Arnold, who played with “Sonny Boy.” Artists joining Arnold include the Siegal-Schwall Blues Band with bassist Rolo Radford and drummer Sam Lay, Marcella Detroit, Billy Branch and Omar Coleman.

Blues singer extraordinaire Bettye LaVette headlines the Petrillo stage on Saturday, June 14, taking the stage at 8:15 p.m. By the age of sixteen, American soul singer Bettye LaVette started her rise to fame with her first single “My Man, He’s a Loving Man,” which quickly created a national buzz. Throughout her more than 50-year career, LaVette has recorded multiple hit songs establishing her as one of the genre’s great vocalists.

Also performing at the Petrillo Music Shell on Saturday, June 14 is vocalist Theo Huff at 6 p.m.

With over 20 years of dedication to the rhythm and blues, Huff has graced the stage with some of the greatest Soul and R&B singers of today including, Koko Taylor, Millie Jackson, Albertina Walker and many more. Following Theo Huff is a star- singer-songwriter and producer, Willie Clayton at 6:55 p.m.

Considered by critics and fans to be one of the last great “Soul” men, fans at the Petrillo Music Shell are in for a treat.

Opening the evening on Sunday, June 15 at 5:45 p.m. is vocalist Nikki Hill. Hill and her band of enthused musicians known as the “Pirate Crew” are quickly claiming a large following. With husband Matt Hill

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Above, the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Below, Aaron Neville. as lead guitarist and Ed Strohsahl and Joe Meyer manning the rhythm section, Hills passion for roots and rock-n-roll shines through. Having been called the “Southern Fireball,” Hill will get festivalgoers up and out of their seats.

Dr. John and Aaron Neville will close the Chicago Blues Festival on Sunday, June 15 with the sound of the “Big Easy.” Music legend Aaron Neville is back in the spotlight with the recent release of his new album, My True Story. Neville revisits the doo-wop music he grew up with and created throughout his incredible career as a solo artist – and his role in the first family of New Orleans, Louisiana, music: the Neville Brothers. Neville will take the stage at 6:45 p.m.

Since the 1970s, Malcolm John Rebennack has been known to boogie and blues enthusiasts as Dr. John. Hailing from New Orleans, Louisiana, Dr. John’s music is influenced by his southern roots resulting in the unconscious creation of his own brand of “voodoo” music, which made him a musical icon. Dr. John will close the evening at 8:15 p.m.

The popular day stages contribute to the festival’s reputation as an internationally acclaimed event.

Each stage features local and national blues musicians celebrating the genres rich tradition and heritage. Stages and performance times are: Bud Light Crossroads Stage, 11:15 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.; The Jackson Rhythm and Blues Stage, 11:30 a.m. –7:30 p.m. and Pepsi Front Porch Stage, noon – 5:30 p.m.

The Bud Light Crossroads Stage will be swinging when rising star, Guy King performs at 12:45 p.m. on Friday, June 13. The vocalist has performed in various venues and festivals throughout Chicago and internationally, such as the Basel Blues Festival in Switzerland and the Montreal Blues Festival.

Following his performance is guitarist James Armstrong at 2:30 p.m. Born to a blues singer and jazz guitarist, the Louisiana native was born to play the blues and today, Armstrong travels the world performing at different venues and festivals serenading blues fans with his unique fusion of vocals and seasoned guitar playing.

On Saturday, June 14 a high energy performance by Selwyn Birchwood at 2:30 p.m. will win over the crowd of eager blues

fans. Highlights during the day on Sunday, June 15 include a stellar performance by the blues siblings and Mississippi natives, Homemade Jamz Blues Band at 11:15 a.m. Later that evening, the Smiley Tillmon Band will close out the Bud Light Crossroads stage at 4:15 p.m. with their funky jams and raw improvisational intensity leaving spectators with no choice, but to dance and sing along.

Fans will travel to the southland at the Jackson Rhythm and Blues Stage as Mississippi natives Ben Payton, Mr. Sipp “the Mississippi Blues Child” and Vick Allen take the stage back-to-back on Friday, June 13 beginning at 1p.m . Through Peyton’s unique styling on the acoustic guitar, the vocals of the “Mississippi Blues Child” and the velvet voice of soul from Allen, blues enthusiasts at the Jackson Rhythm and Blues are in-store for an earful of outright great music.

On Saturday, June 14, stage will be filled with blues, soul, funk and a “whole lotta” rhythm with the Southern Komfort Brass Band performs at 2:30 p.m. and Mississippi native and vocalist Dexter Allen takes the stage at 4 p.m. The day closes with a jam session featuring Grammy® award winning drummer, Kenny “Beedy Eyes” Smith. The music continues with the ladies on Sunday, June 16 for the final day with back-to-back performances from three dynamic vocalists Lady L, Pat Brown and Dorothy Moore from 1– 4 p.m.

The festivities kick off at the Pepsi Front Porch on Friday, June 13 featuring Harmonica Hinds at 1:30 p.m. and Cicero Blake at 3 p.m. and continuing on Saturday, June 14 with the Matthew Skoller Band at 1:30 p.m. At 3 p.m. an international collaboration of artists from Chicago and Italy will perform a special Tribute to blues guitarist Phil Guy, featuring Dario Lombardo, Deloris Scott and Friends of the Phil Guy Band. Guy is the younger brother of Chicago blues guitarist Buddy Guy. Starting at noon on Sunday, June 15, the Pepsi Front Porch stage will kick off with Chicago native and harmonica great, Diamond Jim Greene. Audience members will get a second chance to see Kenny “Beedy Eyes” Smith when he performs as a part of the Chicago Delta Blues Band with Bob Stroger, Barrelhouse Chuck and Billy Flynn at 3 p.m.

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New this year, blues fans can enjoy the "Meet Me in Memphis Blues Pavilion" sponsored by the Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau. The dining pavilion will feature live music from 11:30 a.m.

- 4:30 p.m. daily.

Leading up to the Chicago Blues Festival, May is “Blues Month” in Chicago featuring a number of preview performances at various Chicago Park District and Chicago Public Library locations throughout the city. Blues music will also fill the halls of the Chicago Cultural Center (78 E. Washington St.) during May on select Tuesdays and Thursdays at noon – and a Blues Festival preview on Daley Plaza is set for Monday, June 9. The full schedule of preview events will be announced later this month.

The 31st Annual Chicago Blues Festival is presented by the City of Chicago and produced by the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events with the following sponsors: Aquafina, Bud Light, Chicago Jazz Magazine, Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago Tribune, CLTV-Chicagoland’s Television, Communications Direct, Florastor® Probiotics, LaGrou Distribution System, Louisiana Tourism, Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau, Millennium Garages, Pepsi, Southwest Airlines, St. Louis CVB, VISITJACKSON.COM, 90.9fm WDCB Public Radio, WGNTelevision, Windy City Blues Society and 93XRT. For more information, please visit chicagobluesfestival.us. To plan your trip to Chicago for the Blues Festival this June 13-15, visit choosechicago.com. Join the conversation on Facebook (Chicago Blues Festival) and follow us on Twitter, @ChicagoDCASE (#ChiBluesFest).

The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) is dedicated to enriching Chicago’s artistic vitality and cultural vibrancy. This includes fostering the development of Chicago’s non-profit arts sector, independent working artists and for-profit arts businesses; providing a framework to guide the City’s future cultural and economic growth, via the 2012 Chicago Cultural Plan; marketing the City’s cultural assets to a worldwide audience; and presenting high-quality, free and affordable cultural programs for residents and visitors.

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For The Edge The 11th annual Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival runs April 2426 and features headliners Arturo Sandoval, The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra, and Reggie Thomas and Rodney Whitaker.

The three-day festival encourages the musical education and growth of the participating students by interacting with these internationally acclaimed jazz artists.

“In 11 years, we’ve become one of the most significant jazz festivals in the Midwest,” said the festival’s Artistic Director Jim Widner. “And it’s the only festival of its kind in St. Louis, combining education and professional performance. Festival students will perform on the same stages as the biggest names in professional jazz.”

In the past few years, UMSL, the Touhill and Jazz St. Louis have joined forces to produce an enhanced festival, expanding the headliners and student performances.

The 2014 headliner performances begin with an all-star quartet presented by Jazz St. Louis and featuring pianist Reggie Thomas, bassist Rodney Whitaker and St. Louis area greats Willie Akins on tenor sax and Montez Coleman on drums at Jazz at The Bistro on Thursday.

The festival continues at the Touhill with Arturo Sandoval and the Legendary Count Basie Orchestra on Friday and Saturday, respectively. Presented by UMSL and the Touhill, both concerts feature opening-act performances by the UMSL Jazz Ensemble, directed

by Jim Widner. Please see specific show information below: 2014 FESTIVAL HEADLINERS: Thursday, April 24: The festival opens on Thursday, April 24, for two sets at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. at Jazz at the Bistro with an allstar quartet featuring pianist Reggie Thomas, bassist Rodney Whitaker and St. Louis area greats Willie Akins on tenor sax and Montez Coleman on drums.

Reggie Thomas’ soulful, hardswinging brand of piano has made him one of the most in-demand pianists and educators in the country. A veteran of the bands of Wynton Marsalis, Terence Blanchard and many others, Rodney Whitaker is one of the leading performers and teachers of jazz double bass in the United States.

Tickets for Thursday evening performances are $33 and are

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Above, Reggie Thomas. Below, Arturo Sandoval. available through the Jazz St. Louis Box Office at 314-289-4030, MetroTix at 314-534-1111, or online at www. metrotix.com.

Friday, April 25: The festival continues at the Touhill Performing Arts Center with Arturo Sandoval on Friday, April 25. The concert begins at 8 p.m. and features an opening-act performance by the UMSL Jazz Ensemble, directed by Jim Widner.

Sandoval is considered one of the most dynamic live performers of our time. He has been seen by millions at the Oscars performing with Celine Dion, at the Grammy

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Awards with Justin Timberlake and in his own right as a leader. He also performed at the Billboard Awards with Alicia Keys.

The Cuban-born trumpeter, pianist and composer has earned many accolades, including 10 Grammy Awards, six Billboard Awards and an Emmy. His Emmy Award was earned for composing the HBO movie based on his life, “For Love or Country” starring Andy Garcia. His two latest Grammy award-winning albums are Dear Diz Everyday I think of You and Tango Como Yo Te Siento.

Tickets are $20-$40. They are available through the Touhill Performing Arts Center Ticket Office; online at www.touhill.org; or by phone at 314-516-4949.

Saturday, April 26: The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra is the finale performance on Saturday, April 26, at the Touhill.

The concert begins at 8 p.m. with an opening set by the UMSL Jazz Ensemble, directed by Jim Widner.

William Count Basie started the Count Basie Orchestra in 1935. Within a year, America was enthralled and the orchestra became one of "the swingingest band in all the land.”

Since Basie's passing in 1984, Thad Jones, Frank Foster, Grover Mitchell, Bill Hughes, Dennis Mackrel and now trumpeter Scotty

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Barnhart have led the Count Basie Orchestra and maintained it as one of the elite performing organizations in jazz. The Count Basie Orchestra has won 17 Grammy Awards and 20 Downbeat and Jazz Times polls - more than any other big band in jazz.

Tickets are $40-$20. They are available through the Touhill Performing Arts Center Ticket Office; online at www.touhill.org; or by phone at 314-516-4949.

About the Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival: T h e g o a l o f t h e t h re e - d a y festival is to encourage the musical education and growth of the participating students by interaction with internationally acclaimed jazz artists. Now in its 10th year, the festival has grown to accommodate as many as 800 students from more than 30 schools from across Missouri, Kansas, Illinois and Texas.

For three days, students participate in adjudicated performances and clinics. The clinics include oneon-one sessions and critique from Jazz’s finest. In past years, budding musicians learned from such jazz greats as: Clark Terry, Lou Marini, John Pizzarelli, Ron Carter, Russell Malone, Marilyn Maye, Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band, Buddy DeFranco, Tom Scott, Mulgrew Miller, Jon Faddis, Conrad Herwig, Shelly Berg, Peter Erskine, Chris

Vadala, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and many others. Daytime performances and artist clinics are free and open to the public. For more information, please visit www. touhill.org/jazzfestival.

About Jazz St. Louis: Jazz St. Louis promotes, presents and preserves jazz in greater St. Louis through performance, education and outreach activities that build youth and adult audiences for jazz. Since 2000, Jazz St. Louis has served more than 130,000 students with its nationally recognized education and outreach programs.

Through concert presentations at Jazz at the Bistro, the Touhill and other area venues, Jazz St. Louis has become the largest presenter of jazz in the Midwest and is one of the largest presenters of this unique American art form in the country.

For more information, please visit www.jazzstl.org.

About the Touhill Performing Arts Center: N o w i n i t s 11 t h s e a s o n o f p re s e n t i n g t h e f i n e s t i n t h e performing arts to the St. Louis region, the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center opened its doors on the University of Missouri– St. Louis campus in September 2003.

The venue features the 1,600-seat Anheuser-Busch Performance Hall and the 350-seat E. Desmond and Mary Ann Lee Theater.

Dining Delights

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Above, a garlic chicken pita at The Rock Restaurant in Normal. Below, cheese balls.

The Rock Restaurant a satisfying dining experience in Normal

By BILL ROSEBERRY Of The Edge

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n a recent trip to Normal while following the Edwardsville Tiger wrestling team in the postseason, I was looking for a local hot spot to write a food review on and came up with The Rock Restaurant.

The Rock is a staple in Normal from what I learned from reviews and Yelp, and it was immediately evident when I could barely walk in the door due to the line of customers. There were only a couple of open tables, too.

The Rock is found at 203 W. North St. in Normal and has a delistyle feel to it. The menu is filled with Mediterranean and American fare. There is anything from falafel, to gyros, to hummus, to burgers and hot dogs.

I decided to check out a selection that was raved about in Yelp reviews — the garlic chicken pita.

But first I had to test out an appetizer after a long drive.

There was an extensive selection of choices on the appetizer portion of the menu, including: mozzarella sticks, fried mushrooms, jalapenó poppers, fries, cheese fries, onion rings and popcorn chicken to name a few. I went with the cheese balls.

I’ve brought you many distinct and yummy options in fried appetizers during my time with “You Gotta Eat” with such favorites as fried portabella mushrooms, fried pickles and sweet corn nuggets, but this was my first venture reviewing fried cheese. To be honest I was a little disappointed, not because it was bad, but because it wasn’t very creative. (After all I don’t think

fried cheese can taste bad).

With the variety of items on the menu at The Rock I thought there would be a blend of cheeses wrapped inside a golden brown cocoon. Unfortunately, it was just good ole breaded American cheese, there was no extra spice or uniqueness to it at all. Like I said, it still had a good taste, but I wasn’t just looking for good taste, I was looking for memorable. I got a side of marinara dipping sauce which was good on the cheese balls also.

Due to the bustling atmosphere

on my visit, I had to wait a while to get my main course, the garlic chicken pita. When it arrived it was large with a healthy portion of ingredients and I quickly took a bite which I expected to be heavy on garlic and surprisingly it wasn’t.

It included grilled chicken breast with the homemade garlic sauce, lettuce, tomatoes, pickles and French fries, wrapped inside the Lebanese pita bread. Truthfully, it was the pickles that overtook the taste of the garlic, but it was very satisfying. Everything was very

fresh and once I pulled a fry out to try I realized the mistake I had made in my appetizer choice. The fries at The Rock are fantastic. They are crispy and seasoned to have a savory taste.

Overall my meal was very satisfactory and not too expensive. I paid a total of $13.25, but the cheese balls were a little pricey at $4.39.

There were plenty of options on the menu though, and plenty that were cheaper and many that were unique.

On the burger portion of the

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menu there was the six ounce and half pound gyro cheeseburger. It offered a beef patty topped with gyro meat (lamb and beef) and served with lettuce, onions, tomatoes, pickles, ketchup, mustard, mayo and tzatziki sauce.

The Mediterranean section of the menu has a gyro, a chicken gyro, falafel, grape leaves and a half-pound baba ghannoush. The baba ghannoush is comprised of a creamy eggplant spread made with tahini sauce, olive oil, lemon juice and garlic with a pita.

A super sandwich portion of the menu delved into the hot dog choices. The super hot dog is made Chicago-style with a 12-inch dog on a bun with pickles, onions, tomatoes, sport peppers, relish, mustard and celery salt. There was also a super gyro. a super Philly cheese steak, super cheeseburger and super tenderloin.

There is also a list of regular sandwiches that includes: an Italian beef sandwich, smaller hot dogs, grilled and buffalo chicken sandwiches, a fish sandwich and the challenger to name some. The challenger has grilled chicken breast, mixed with onions, mushrooms, green peppers and jalapenós topped with barbecue sauce and provolone cheese served on a pita.

I wish I would have had the time or the appetite to check out the dessert menu, too. It included baklava, lady fingers, chocolate chip cookies, assorted cheesecakes and maamoul, a shortbread pastry filled with your choice of pistachios, walnuts, or dates.

Overall, The Rock Restaurant was pretty satisfying and it’s intriguing with the options it offers. I would go back, the staff was friendly, the food was good and there is so much to choose from it’s a great place to go when you gotta eat.

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First Presbyterian Church 237 N. Kansas Edwardsville, IL

Located 1 Block North of Post Office Early Worship: 8:30 a.m.

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ST. BONIFACE CATHOLIC CHURCH 110 N. Buchanan Edwardsville 656-6450 Very Reverend Jeffrey Goeckner

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MOUNT JOY MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH OF EDWARDSVILLE 327 Olive Street • Edw, IL 656-0845 Steve Jackson, Pastor Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

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Religion Religion briefs Obama to faith leaders: No immigration fix planned

WA S H I N G T O N ( A P ) — P r e s i d e n t Barack Obama has told religious leaders that he has no plans to make unilateral changes to the nation’s immigration laws.

That’s according to the Rev. Luis Cortes, p re s i d e n t o f t h e H i s p a n i c f a i t h - b a s e d organization Esperanza. He was among six religious leaders who met with Obama in the Oval Office Tuesday. Wesleyan, Baptist and Mormon leaders also were there.

Cortes says Obama told them that “he would not be doing anything to change the law as it currently exists.” The president’s comments come as advocates press the White House to take executive actions to halt some deportations given that immigration reform efforts on Capitol Hill are stalled.

The White House says Obama t o l d t h e re l i g i o u s l e a d e r s t h a t w h i l e his administration can take steps to administer immigration laws, only

Congress can permanently fix the broken system.

its obligations on behalf of that state.”

New York police end Vatican responds to next Muslim surveillance round of UN abuse inquiry program VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican h a s re s p o n d e d t o t h e l a t e s t ro u n d o f U.N. sex abuse inquiries by suggesting it is only responsible for implementing a U.N. treaty against torture within the confines of the tiny Vatican City State.

T h e Va t i c a n i s s u e d a s t a t e m e n t Tu e s d a y a h e a d o f a M a y 5 - 6 h e a r i n g that will likely delve into the Vatican’s failures to stop clergy sex abuse around the globe. Another U.N. committee interrogated the Holy See about abuse in January.

In an indication that it will seek to l i m i t i t s r e s p o n s i b i l i t y, t h e Va t i c a n said it signed the torture treaty in 2002 “exclusively in the name of and on behalf of” the 110-acre Vatican City S t a t e , w h e re f e w e r t h a n 1 , 0 0 0 p e o p l e live. The Vatican said it will “undertake

lawsuits.

English city probes Islamic influence in schools

NEW YORK (AP) — The New Yo r k P o l i c e D e p a r t m e n t s a y s i t h a s disbanded a special unit whose efforts to try to detect terror threats in Muslim communities through secret surveillance sparked outrage.

The NYPD confirmed the decision on Tuesday.

The surveillance program by the NYPD Intelligence Division had come under fire by community activists who accused the department of abusing civil rights.

T h e p ro g r a m re l i e d o n p l a i n c l o t h e s officers to eavesdrop on people in b o o k s t o re s , re s t a u r a n t s a n d m o s q u e s .

The tactic was detailed in a series of stories by The Associated Press and became the subject of two federal

LONDON (AP) — The English city of Birmingham has expanded its probe into an alleged Muslim plot to greatly expand Islamic influence in the city’s schools.

The investigation announced Monday will look into 25 schools after more than 200 complaints were received.

The complaints focus on allegations made in an anonymous letter known as Operation Trojan Horse that was leaked. It claimed that a group of radical Muslims had plans to force out teachers and administrators who resisted plans to increase the observance of Islamic customs in schools. The letter’s authenticity has not been verified.

Birmingham’s City Council and the D e p a r t m e n t f o r E d u c a t i o n a re b o t h investigating complaints that boys and girls have been segregated in class, that sex education has been banned and that nonMuslim staff have been bullied.

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"Under the Skin"

To say that a movie feels like a dream is not automatically a positive statement. It all depends on the dream.

Some dreams, for example, make sense, at least partly, and others are just baffling. Some are compelling, others tedious.

Some move quickly, and others feel like they’re never going to end.

Alas, Jonathan Glazer’s “Under the Skin” begins with a lot of the positive attributes mentioned above, but seems to settle into the negative ones as time goes on. It may feel like a dream, but it eventually feels like one you’re sorta ready to wake up from.

However — and this is a significant “however” — the film stars Scarlett Johansson. And who among us would not seek to welcome Ms. Johansson into our dreams, or share hers?

Johansson’s performance isn’t simply the best thing about the movie, it’s the movie’s raison d’etre. And this charismatic actress, who’s worth watching no matter what she does, delivers a thoughtful, sometimes even mesmerizing turn as, yes, an alien preying on human males in Glasgow, Scotland.

RATED: R by the Motion Picture Association of America “for graphic nudity, sexual content, some violence and language.”

Running time: 107 minutes.

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

"Captain America: The Winter Soldier"

For the latest Marvel release, “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” most fan boys might prefer a Consumer Reports-style product review.

New character introductions: Smooth. Action sequences: Excellent if sometimes lacking finesse. Viewer satisfaction: Likely high. Box-office prospects: Bankable. Teasers for future Marvel installments: Yes, two.

With slick design and plushy interiors, “The Winter Soldier” is an excellent product. But is it a good movie? Are the two indistinguishable at this point?

Like the recent “Thor: The Dark World,” “Winter Soldier” is a sequel to a pre-“Avengers” franchise starter. The earlier “Captain America: First Avenger” was a mostly clever period film, set in the ‘40s and awash with a charming WWII thriller nostalgia.

“Winter Soldier” brings Steve Rogers — the weakling recruit made a brawny Greatest Generation icon, played by Chris Evans — up to present day for a Washington D.C. conspiracy thriller. Fittingly, Marvel has attracted the default hero of such films, Robert Redford. He’s a major get for the franchise, especially since (unlike in last year’s “All is Lost”) he’s actually talking now.

While Rogers runs laps around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and jots notes on the pop culture he missed while frozen for 70 years, there’s trouble brewing at S.H.I.E.L.D. Its head, Nick Fury (Samuel Jackson), believes something is amiss with the agency’s latest project: a trio of “helicarriers” that can kill evildoers from the sky even before the evil is done.

RATED: PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for “intense sequences of violence, gunplay and action throughout.”

Running time: 136 minutes.

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

"The Railway Man"

There are, of course, different ways to make war movies.

Some are sweeping, some more intimate. Some are visceral and

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raw, and some take a more understated approach.

There are moments that “The Railway Man,” starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman and directed by Jonathan Teplitzky, feels like a period TV drama — slow, subtle, a bit distant — but that doesn’t detract from the ultimate power of its story, which is both remarkable and true. It also doesn’t detract from Firth’s nuanced and ultimately quite moving performance, as well as an admirable turn by the talented Jeremy Irvine as a younger version of the same man. (Kidman, on the other hand, feels somewhat wasted in an underwritten part.)

“The Railway Man” is based on the autobiography of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who was brutally tortured at a Japanese POW camp during World War II. Lomax somehow survived — unlike many fellow soldiers — but came home broken and haunted, particularly by his ordeal at the hands of one sadistic Japanese interpreter. In his book, Lomax, who died in 2012 at age 93 (during editing of this film), chronicles what happened when he was able to confront the interpreter in person, many years after the war’s end.

Without giving away too much, the final resolution is both stunning and cathartic, and the movie conveys its full emotional resonance — even if it takes a long while to reach that level of intensity.

RATED: R by the Motion Picture Association of America “for disturbing prisoner of war violence.”

RUNNING TIME: 108 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three stars out of four.

"Rio 2"

A vivid and delightful animated spectacle, “Rio 2” is chockfull of colorful 3-D wonder and jubilant musical numbers set against a tale of family dynamics and environmental dilemmas.

The sequel opens with a vibrant New Year ’s Eve bash, as partying in the music-filled streets of Rio de Janeiro is punctuated by fireworks bursting above the Christ the Redeemer statue.

Supervised by composer John Powell, more emphasis has been placed on the music of this film, which benefits from numbers by artists like Bruno Mars (who also voices the smooth bird Roberto in the film), Janelle Monae and celebrated Brazilian musician Carlinhos Brown.

After mating in Brazil in 2011’s “Rio,” rare macaws Blu (Jesse Eisenberg) and Jewel (Anne Hathaway) now have three lively kids who have become accustomed to the same domestication Blu was brought up on in Minnesota. They’re attached to gadgets like iPods and eat pancakes for breakfast, which irks the raised-in-the-wild Jewel.

But the family heads off to the Amazon rainforest, to Jewel’s delight and Blu’s strife, when they get wind that a tribe of blue macaws may live there and are being pursued by Blu’s past owner and animal lover, Linda (voiced by Leslie Mann), and her husband, Tulio (Rodrigo Santoro).

With a few of the quirky supporting characters from the first film in tow — including birds voiced by George Lopez (as frisky toucan Rafael) and Jamie Foxx and will.i.am (as rapping canary-and-cardinal duo Nico and Pedro) — they soar through a dazzling journey to the rainforest, making the oftenwasted 3-D effect worth it as we take in the broad scope and graphically layered flair.

RATED: G by the Motion Picture Association of America.

RUNNING TIME: 101 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three stars out of four.

"Heaven Is for Real"

Continuing the recent trend of faith-based films, including “Noah” and “Son of God,” “Heaven Is for Real” is a sweet tale based on a 4-year-old boy’s account of his

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trip to heaven that’s likely to please the devout, but won’t entice religious cynics.

There’s little doubt the T.D. Jakes-produced adaptation of Todd Burpo’s Christian non-fiction best-seller will have a built-in audience, especially on Easter weekend.

After undergoing harrowing surgery for a ruptured appendix, young Colton Burpo (Connor Corum) begins recalling his journey for his family: Angels carried him to heaven where he met Jesus (played by Mike Mohrhardt, whose face we never quite see), as well as God, Colton’s great-grandfather and the miscarried sister he never knew he had.

Such talk frightens his older sister (Lane Styles) and worries his pastor father, Todd (Greg Kinnear), and mother, Sonja (Kelly Reilly).

As Colton becomes more verbal about his supposed encounter, the local paper in the small Nebraska town starts reporting the story. This leads some members of Todd’s congregation (Thomas Haden Church and Margo Martindale) to turn against the Burpo family.

Though Todd sticks up for his son, his faith is also tested. “We ask these kids to believe this stuff,” he says to his wife, “but I don’t even know if I believe it myself.”

But Todd is captivated, as we are, by his son’s innocence — especially when Colton tells him things he couldn’t possibly know, such as how he saw his parents cope, each in their own way, during his near-fatal surgery.

RATED: PG by the Motion Picture Association of America for “thematic material including some medical situations.”

RUNNING TIME: 100 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Two stars out of four.

"Transcendence"

First, we had Scarlett Johansson as a human-like operating system. Now, Johnny Depp has been uploaded.

If the singularity — when artificial intelligence surpasses human smarts — is indeed coming, at least it has decent taste in movie star avatars.

First-time director Wally Pfister ’s “Transcendence” isn’t so much the “Him” to Spike Jonze’s “Her” as it’s a more dystopian vision of the meeting of human consciousness an d computer intelligence. It tur n s out that wh en computers get sophisticated, worse things can happen than Joaquin Phoenix getting his feelings hurt.

But whereas “Her” was playful and personal about familiar futuristic concepts, “Transcendence” is clunky and lifeless. It’s like the movie version of a paranoid TED talk.

In the early scenes of “Transcendence,” Dr. Will Caster (a disappointingly sleepy Depp) is a TED-style master of the universe, speaking confidently in front of large video screens to eager listeners about neurology and artificial intelligence. But there are also protesters to his potentially all-powerful invention: the Physically Independent Neural Network (PINN), an early artificial intelligence propelled by a room full of computers that Caster believes could, among other things, cure cancer.

An assassination attempt with a radiation-laced bullet leaves Caster with weeks to live. Desperate to keep his mind alive, his loyal, sycophantic wife and fellow researcher Evelyn (Rebecca Hall) uploads Caster ’s brain to a PC with PINN hardware. Helping her is their good friend and colleague Max (Paul Bettany, serving as narrator).

RATED: PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for “sci-fi action and violence, some bloody images, brief strong language and sensuality.”

RUNNING TIME: 119 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Two stars out of four.

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This image released by The Weinstein Company shows Colin Firth in a scene from "The Railway Man."

"The Railway Man" a moving work

By JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press There are, of course, different ways to make war movies. Some are sweeping, some more intimate. Some are visceral and raw, and some take a more understated approach.

There are moments that “The Railway Man,” starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman and directed by Jonathan Teplitzky, feels like a period TV drama — slow, subtle, a bit distant — but that doesn’t detract from the ultimate power of its story, which is both remarkable and true. It also doesn’t detract from Firth’s nuanced and ultimately quite moving performance, as well as an admirable turn by the talented Jeremy Irvine as a younger version of the same man. (Kidman, on the other hand, feels somewhat wasted in an underwritten

part.)

“The Railway Man” is based on the autobiography of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who was brutally tortured at a Japanese POW camp during World War II. Lomax somehow survived — unlike many fellow soldiers — but came home broken and haunted, particularly by his ordeal at the hands of one sadistic Japanese interpreter. In his book, Lomax, who died in 2012 at age 93 (during editing of this film), chronicles what happened when he was able to confront the interpreter in person, many years after the war’s end.

Without giving away too much, the final resolution is both stunning and cathartic, and the movie conveys its full emotional resonance — even if it takes a long while to reach that level of intensity.

The “railway” in the title refers to more

than one thing. As a child, we learn, Lomax was enthralled by trains. During the war, trains became a source of agony as he and his comrades, in captivity in Thailand, were forced to work under inhuman conditions on the infamous Death Railway, built by the Japanese with forced labor to link Bangkok with Rangoon, Burma.

But Lomax’s fascination with trains endured.

We first meet him in 1980 at a veterans’ club in northern England, seemingly a shell of a man, who spends his time obsessing with train timetables. In a train compartment one day, he meets Patti (Kidman), who promptly starts bringing him out of his shell. It’s a pleasure to see Lomax’s reserve slowly melt and reveal some of his inner charm. And revealing charm, we know, is something Firth does very well indeed.

Soon the two are married, apparently ready for middle-aged happiness. But Lomax is a damaged man, and war flashbacks show us why.

The young Lomax (Irvine, terrific at portraying courage and fear all at once) is a resourceful soldier, and he uses his talents to secretly build a radio receiver so that he and fellow POWs can get news of the war in Europe.

It works, but when the radio is discovered, retribution against Lomax is swift and terrible.

Waterboarding is part of his torture regimen, at the hands of the merciless Nagase (played by Tanroh Ishida as a young man).

Back in the 1980s, Lomax struggles with the memories, which make him both desperate and bitter toward Patti. She seeks answers from her husband’s war buddy, Finlay (Stellan Skarsgard), who has his own demons.

"Draft Day" finishes on a high note

By ROBERT GRUBAUGH Of The Edge Barely a quarter of the way into 2014, Kevin Costner has had three movies out. If any of them had been better than they were, it could be called a career resurgence.

Instead, he had bizarre or too short roles in a pair of thrillers ("3 Days to Kill" and "Jack Ryan") and now headlines "Draft Day" - the best of the three - but a football movie that isn't necessarily for football fans. For an actor well loved for his sports movie roles ("Field of Dreams," "Bull Durham"), Costner this time plays an executive that loves football but has to treat it like the business it is. It's a struggle at times for the audience to empathize. For love of the game,

maybe he should stick to movies that are about baseball.

Don't get me wrong, "Draft Day" has a heavy football theme. But if you're looking for actual backfield drop-backs and deep bombs to the end zone, you're in for some major disappointment. There may be two full minutes of combined game play in this picture, but it's 100 percent game tape from former contests.

Instead, the movie is about the shenanigans that take place in war rooms within thirty-two NFL stadiums where teams of scouts, analysts, accountants, and general managers try to figure out which players they need, that they want, and that they can get before the teams picking ahead of them dash their plans to pieces. It's somewhat fascinating. I even have a distant

interest in this phenomenon every April even though I know less about college football players than any other human being on the planet.

Sonny Weaver, Jr. (Costner) is the general manager for the Cleveland Browns. He's not a beloved figure in town, having had the guts to fire his own (now recently deceased) father, a long-time head coach and local hero. On the day of the draft, Sonny's life gets off to a rocky start when his colleague/secret girlfriend, Ali (Jennifer Garner), tells him that she's pregnant. With the weight of that on his mind, he still has to figure out which direction the team is going to take with their seventh overall pick. It's a pretty position for a team on the brink of both success and collapse. A good

draft could change their fortunes for years to come and the city is waiting with baited breath. And then something magical happens.

The Seattle Seahawks come calling with the Number One overall pick and trade it to Sonny for his next three years' worth of first round picks. It's a steep price, but one that promises to make the splash demanded by Cleveland's clueless, entitled owner (Frank Langella).

Destined to go first is a sharp Wi s c o n s i n q u a r t e r b a c k ( J o s h Pence) that every team would love to have. But Sonny Weaver is nothing if not indecisive. Maybe he'll take the running back legacy (Arian Foster, an actual NFLer with the Houston Texans) of a former Cleveland player. He spends the whole day hemming and hawing

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over what to do. Can he please the team, his hotheaded new coach (James Woods) and himself? He seeks counsel in odd places like from his shrewish mother (Ellen Burstyn) and the defensive player he really wants to take (Chadwick Boseman). Even Browns greats Bernie Kosar and Jim Brown cameo for full effect. The last minute wheeling and dealing that Sonny does while his team is "on the clock" is really what this movie is all about and the ending is a thrilling spectacle of the people that work behind the scenes of our favorite sports.

"Draft Day" runs 109 minutes and is rated PG-13 for brief strong language and sexual references. I give this film one and a half stars out of four.

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The Arts Production of Terrapin Puppet Theatre’s "Love" scheduled For The Edge COCA presents Terrapin Puppet Theatre’s "Love, "May 3-4, 2014, in COCA’s Founders’ Theatre. With a big storm brewing, Oslo’s mum says he can only take a few things, or “love luggage,” to safety. So, Oslo sets out to help his neighbors find their “love luggage,” too! This heartfelt and entertaining story is brought to life by Australia’s Terrapin Puppet Theatre, with traditional and digital puppets, live action and moving music.

Recommended for ages 5 and up.

Performances are Saturday, May 3, 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday, May 4, 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.

Tickets ($16-20) are available for purchase online at www.cocastl. org, by phone at 314.561.4877 or in person at COCA during Box Office hours.

COCA Presents is COCA’s new performance series. It includes the quality family theatre for which COCAis known, but now also includes offerings for older children, teens and adults. Comprised of showscreated and produced by COCA, as well as the best touring productions from around the world, COCAPresents offers bold, cross-disciplinary performances for all ages. COCA Presents 20132014 ispresented by Wells Fargo Advisors, with additional support provided by Edward Jones, Mary Strauss, TheCheshire and St. Louis Public Radio.

Established for over 32 years, Terrapin Puppet Theatre is Australia’s premier contemporary puppet theatre, creating worldclass performances for young people and their families. Telling sophisticatedstories of humor and pathos, the company embraces new technologies while remaining true to thewonder and illusion resident in the age-old craft of puppetry. In its productions, the

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company aims toinspire families by encouraging them to express the power of their collective imagination through inventive play with the objects and devices that surround them. Terrapin injects skills and programs intothe Tasmanian community, supporting and developing artists and touring nationally and internationally.

In2012, Terrapin’s production Boats won the Helpmann Award for Best Presentation for Children.

Finegan Kruckemeyer has had 57 commissioned plays performed on five continents, and was an inaugural recipient of the $160,000 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship.

This year, 13 works (including eight premieres) perform worldwide, with seasons in five Australian states, and in China, England, Germany, Indonesia and the United States. In Germany, he is represented by Rowohlt Agency.

To date, Kruckemeyer’s plays have had seasons in 50 Australian and international festivals, five consecutive IPAYNorth American invited showcases, seven Australian states, five UK national tours and at Australia’sSydney Opera House (five works), Ireland’s Dublin Theatre Festival (two works, one at the AbbeyTheatre), Scotland’s Imaginate Festival (two works), Shanghai’s Malan Flower Theatre, New York’s NewVictory Theater (two works) and New York University, and Washington DC’s Kennedy Center for the Arts(in the prestigious New Visions New Voices program).

Frank Newman was Terrapin Puppet Theatre's Artistic Director from 2007-2012. He has directed, produced and performed for over 18 years. Newman holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts with a major in Theatre Technology from Wollongong University. His shows have played in festivals and venues in New Zealand, Ireland,

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Pictured are two scenes from Terrapin Puppet Theatre's "Love."

Scotland, the USA, China and around Australia, including the Sydney Opera House, the Arts Centre Melbourne and the Adelaide Festival Centre. Newman has worked with artists such as the Dell ‘Arte Players in California, Nigel Jamieson, Nick Enright, Gary Stewart and the Tasmanian SymphonyOrchestra. He directed Explosion Therapy, Helena and the

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Journey of the Hello, The Falling Room andthe Flying Room, When the Pictures Came, The Gatekeeper, The Waltzing Tree, Love, Sleeping HorsesLie, Shadow Dreams and Boats for Terrapin.

Mel King graduated from Theatre Nepean in 1991 and has worked in theatre, film and TV. She has performed with Riverina Theatre Company, Canberra Theatre, Siren Theatre Co, REM and Tas Performs.

Since joining Terrapin Puppet Theatre in 1994, King has toured nationally and internationally in the productions Freedom of the Heart, Little Red, Yolla, Heroes, Unearthed, The BFG, Frankenstein, Explosion Therapy, Helena and the Journey of the Hello and most recently "Love". In 2003, she joined Big Monkey and has been seen in productions of Treasure Island, Robin Hood, Alice in Wonderland and Once a Jolly Swagman. King appeared in the Tasmanian Theatre Company’s inaugural production ofBombshells and the 2011 coproduction of Poxed with Ten Days on the Island. Most recently, sheperformed with her own company Extended Play Projects in an adult puppetry work Hungry For You. King’s short film credits include Our Man in Tasmania, Knit One, The Promising and Sound Blocks Pain. Her feature credits include First Fagin and Arctic Blast.

King’s TV credits include Farscape, The Wiggles, The Wiggles Movie, G.P., Fallen Angels and Home and Away.

Jeff Michel trained in Cleveland with James Thornton and later in New York at The Michael Howard Studios and the School of Russian Art Theatre Summer School at Columbia University. In New York, he appeared in the Sydney Theatre Company production of The White

Devil. Since moving to Tasmania in2005, Michel has performed in various family and adult shows.

With Terrapin Puppet Theatre, he hastoured the mainland and been to Ireland, New Zealand and the USA with Boats. Other Terrapin credits include "Love", The Gatekeeper and The Falling Room and the Flying Room. In 2010, Michel cofounded Blue Cow Theatre and appeared in their first production, Art, which toured the mainland in 2013. In 2012, he appeared in Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus for Blue Cow. Other family and adult credits include: Cabaret, Pinocchio, Wind in the Willows and The Mikado.

Michel is also an educator and has taught English and Drama for grades 11 and 12, and recently directed his first college musical, All Shook Up. He is a member of Actor’s Equity in the USA and in Australia.

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"The Way Things Go" Kemper to host summer exhibit For The Edge A fuse burns, a tire rolls free. It crosses rough-hewn teeter-totters, knocks over a ladder and collides with an oil drum. A lit candle, mounted on wheels, skitters down a wooden ramp and ignites a small explosion.

In The Way Things Go (1987), conceptual artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss play with the idea of chain reaction. The film, which runs approximately 30 minutes, choreographs everyday objects and elemental forces—fire, air, gravity and corrosive liquid—into a long, continuous series of kinetic events.

The result is at once humorous and mesmerizing, ingenious and elegant—a slapstick meditation on themes of order and chaos.

This summer, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present The Way Things Go in the exhibition Moving Parts: Time and Motion in Contemporary Art. Drawn primarily from the permanent collection, Moving Parts features a number of the Kemper Art Museum's recent acquisitions as well as rarely seen works designed to heighten our perceptual experience of the world and destabilize received notions of space and time.

The exhibition opens with “Actual and Optical Movement,” a selection of works that use motion to reflect the ever-shifting nature of physical and metaphorical points of view.

Man Ray’s iconic Lampshade (Spiral) (1919/1964) twists and turns with every breeze while Robert Breer’s Float (1972) motors almost imperceptibly about the gallery. In Equinox (1965), painter Gene Davis syncopates hot and cool colors to

create a sense of optical vibration.

Conversely, in his intricate Field of Vision II (2012), sculptor Jeppe Hein uses mirrored steel to fracture one’s sense of visual expectation.

“Process and Performance,” the second section, challenges the idea of the artwork as a static, unchanging object. Hans Haacke’s Grass Cube (1967) is an acrylic plastic box topped by a small, growing lawn. Dieter Roth and Daniel Spoerri both use food, and its eventual decay, as sculptural material. In his Subway Drawings, William Anastasi cedes control of his pencil to the bumps and sways of mass transit while Rivane Neuenschwander, in After the Storm (12) (2010), recruits wind and rain to reshape the map of New York State.

The third and final section section, “Arrested Time and Sequence,” contests the supposedly static nature of still photography. In Exposure #106: N.Y.C., Broome & Crosby Streets, 04.17.13, 2:29 p.m. (2013), Barbara Probst deploys a dozen cameras to capture 12 simultaneous perspectives on a single instant.

Spencer Finch’s 48 Views of Loch Ness (1997), shot in Scotland at random intervals over the course of three days, contemplates the relativity of perception—what we see versus what we think we see— through an engagement with the optical effects of light and water.

Ed Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966) is a 25-footlong accordion-fold book featuring two continuous views of the Los

Angeles thoroughfare. Shot in a sequential fashion, on black-andwhite motion picture film, the book has been likened to “a movie in still images" and powerfully captures the sense of cruising this iconic, mileand-a-half-long section of Sunset Boulevard.

take place from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, May 9. The exhibition will remain on view through August 31.

The Kemper Art Museum is located on Washington University’s Danforth Campus, near the intersection of Skinker and Forsyth boulevards. Regular hours are 11

Moving Parts: Time and Motion in Contemporary Art is curated by Meredith Malone, associate curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. An opening reception will

a.m. to 5 p.m. daily and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. the first Friday of the month.

The museum is closed Tuesdays.

For more information, call (314) 935-4523; visit kemperartmuseum.

At top, Barbara Probst, Exposure #106: N.Y.C., Broome & Crosby Streets, 04.17.13, 2:29 p.m., 2013. Ultrachrome ink on cotton paper, 12 parts, 29 x 44" each. Courtesy of the artist and Murray Guy, New York.

At left, Jeppe Hein, Field of Vision II, 2012. High polished stainless (super mirror) steel, rope, motor, 1/3, 17 3/4 x 34 5/8 x 30". Courtesy of the artist and 303 Gallery, New York.

Above, Man Ray, Lampshade (Spiral), from Edition MAT, 1919/1964. Aluminum sheet sprayed white, 5/100, 47 1/4 x 15 3/4" (closed). Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis. University purchase, Bixby Fund, and with funds from Paul Burlin and Constance Wittcoff, by exchange, 2013. © 2014 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.

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Arts calendar Thursday, April 24

The Black Rep presents The Trials of brother Jero, Harris-Stowe University, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m.

Inspired by Nature: A Collection of Wildlife Art by Robert Bateman, Saint Louis Zoo, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Runs through October 31.

Stages presents Always…Patsy Cline, The Playhouse at Westport Plaza, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African-American Art, The Saint Louis University Museum of Art, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Runs through May 18.

Decisive Moments: 20th Century Street Photography - Prints from St. Louis Collections, International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Runs through April 27.

Jaqueline Piatigorsky: Patron, Player, Pioneer Exhibit, World Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs through July 13.

Impressionist France: Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through July 16.

Imagining the Founding of St. Louis, History of Jazz Gallery – Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, Noon to 5:00 p.m., Runs through August 23.

St. Louis Camera Club Centennial Exhibition, Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg

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Impressionist France: Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs through July 16.

Imagining the Founding of St. Louis, History of Jazz Gallery – Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, Noon to 5:00 p.m., Runs through August 23.

St. Louis Camera Club Centennial Exhibition, Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg Gallery – Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, Noon to 5:00 p.m., Runs through August 16.

The Black Rep presents The Trials of brother Jero, Harris-Stowe University, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

Inspired by Nature: A Collection of Wildlife Art by Robert Bateman, Saint Louis Zoo, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Runs through October 31.

Stages presents Always…Patsy Cline, The Playhouse at Westport Plaza, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Fox Theatre, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

Blue Man Group, Peabody Opera House, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

Decisive Moments: 20th Century Street Photography - Prints from St. Louis Collections, International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Runs through April 27.

Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African-American Art, The Saint Louis University Museum of Art, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Runs through May 18.

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

Jaqueline Piatigorsky: Patron, Player, Pioneer Exhibit, World Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs through July 13.

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In an exclusive excerpt from a homily delivered in Brazil last year, the leader of the Catholic Church urges listeners to be joyful and positive, the very qualities that have endeared him to the world. Plus, Bill Maher, Regis Philbin, and others give their impressions of the pope, and Parade columnist Connie Schultz shares why her mother would have loved him.

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The hit musical “The Color Purple” starring Angie Stone and Vanessa Bell Armstrong is coming to the Peabody Opera House for two big shows Sunday, May 11 at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.

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“The Color Purple” is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name and was hugely successful as a novel and on Broadway. The novel was adapted into a film of the same name in 1985 and was directed by Steven Spielberg and starred Whoopi Goldberg as Celie, Danny Glover as Albert, and Oprah Winfrey as Sofia. It was nominated for 11 Academy Awards.

Angie Stone is an American R&B and soul singersongwriter, record producer, and actress. She has been nominated for three Grammy Awards. She has been most successful on the R&B charts, with four Top 10 albums, including a number one album, and ten singles, including a Top 10. She has sold over 1.4 million albums in the U.S. and over 5 million albums worldwide.

Vanessa Bell Armstrong has been belting out R&Bflavored contemporary gospel since the '80s. Armstrong appeared on Broadway in 1991 in a production of Don't Get God Started.

COCA announces 2014 schedule

COCA (The Center of Creative Arts) has announced its schedule for the first half of 2014.

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April 27 COCA Allegro Spring Concert Allegro, COCA’s student vocal ensemble under the direction of Voice Coordinator Phil Woodmore, performs its annual Spring Concert. Allegro has a repertoire that combines musical theatre, pop and seasonal arrangements. The performance is Sunday, April 27, at 4:00pm at COCA, 524 Trinity Avenue, St. Louis, MO. Tickets are $9. Call 314.725.6555 or visit www.cocastl.org for more information.

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“I tried to use a CPAP but couldn’t get used to it because it was too binding and made me claustrophobic. I got used to my oral appliance in just one night! It’s very easy to put on, I can move around in bed and sleep in any position I want. I no longer snore! This helps me and my husband sleep better. The staff at Dentistry With TLC are so friendly that I have them do all my dental work too.”

-Sue K., Wood River, IL

www.DentistryWithTLC.com

-Brenda N., Maryville, IL

Dr. Anna Smith has over 95% success with oral appliance therapy.

She provides more Somnomed oral sleep appliances than any dentist in the United States. She began treating people with sleep apnea about six years ago when her husband was diagnosed. He couldn’t tolerate the CPAP and didn’t want to have painful surgery. Dr. Smith made him an oral appliance and they have both been sleeping better ever since. Dr. Smith has been interviewed on Channel 4’s “Great Day St. Louis,” Channel 5’s “Show Me St. Louis” and “The Wellness Hour,” a national health talk-show. Learn more at http://www.dentistrywithtlc.com/.

Dr. Smith

Tuesday, April 29th, 6:30 pm

“My chiropractor recommended I talk with Dr. Smith about using a sleep appliance to treat my sleep apnea. I’m so glad I did because now I am sleeping well, I’m no longer tired and my headaches are gone.

I feel so much better and I can think more clearly. If you are thinking about getting a sleep appliance, do it! Dentistry With TLC is great. I love that they have great technology, like the take-home sleep study.”

• Sleep in any position • Travel with ease again

“Don’t wait. Get this oral appliance as soon as you can. I used to use a CPAP and I disliked everything about it. Since I’ve been using my appliance I sleep better at night and have more energy during the day.

I no longer use my CPAP and don’t have to deal with the noise of my CPAP when I sleep, I don’t wake up during the night and my wife sleeps better too. I’m glad I learned about Dr. Smith on the radio and drove to Godfrey. Everything at Dentistry With TLC has been great.”

-Ron B., Bartelso, IL

1317 D’Adrian Professional Park Godfrey, IL • 618.466.9267

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Classified TREE SERVICE

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25 Years of Service Experience in Edwardsville

LOW OVERHEAD/ BEST RATES • Expert Climbers • Expert Operators • Bucket Truck Service • Free Estimates • Tree Removal/Trimming • Over Growth Maintenance • Full Line of Excavators • Full Insured

“Your grounds will receive the highest level of care leaving you with a completed job in a workmanship-like manner” References Upon Request

Call or Text: 618-979-2006

• Fully Insured • Free Fire Wood & Wood Chips

• Free Estimates • Mastercard, Visa & Discover Accepted • A+ Rated with Better Business Bureau www.allantreeservice.com

(618) 254-1245

DEX’S

Garner’s TREE SERVICE INC. Since 1974 Licensed - Bonded - Insured Tree & Stump Removal Complete Property Maintenance Bucket Truck Track Hoe - Bob Cat

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656-5566

TREE SERVICE

ALTON TREE SERVICE

JIM BRAVE PAINTING

Call:

Free Estimates Skidloader • Escavators • 60ft Bucket • Portable & pull behind stump grinders • 96 ft crane

618-977-5037

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We Clean-Up Our Mess!

25 YEARS EXPERIENCE

Call Bob: (618) 345-9131

PAINTING DECKS/FENCES Stain/Paint Powerwashing •No job too small •Insured •Local •Will beat all competitors Written bids

• FREE Estimates • 18 yrs. in Business • Accepts Visa & Mastercard BEST PRICE IN TOWN DENNIS WALLACE

Call: (618)977-1413

DAN GRAY 656-8806 910-7874

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656-7725 GatewayLawn.com

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• Lawn Maintenance Plans • Mowing • Spring & Fall Cleanups • Bush Trimming • Landscape Install • Leaf Removal • Snow Removal/ Ice Control

Pick up & Delivery

618-978-7863

Foster & Sons Lawn Service Lawn Cutting/Trimming Tree Removal Bush & Shrub Trimming & Removal Landscape Mulching Residential & Commercial

Spring Yard Clean Up and Landscaping!

Fully Insured ~ Free Estimates

Joshua Floyd

PUSH MOWER TUNE-UP

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• Fresh Mulching • Lawn Cutting & Trimming

To place your ad here call: Rance @ 656-4700 x 22

618-623-2592 www.ideallawnil.com

Interior/Exterior

TRIMMING, TREE & STUMP REMOVAL

Guy Brown (618) 520-0077

• Landscape Work • Shrub Trimming & Removal • Spring Clean Up • Window Washing • Mulching • Power Washing • Deck & Fence Refinishing

• Wallpaper • Specialty Painting • Inside or Outside Work • Power Washing • Deck Refinishing (618)654-0000 or cell phone: (618)444-0293

Spring Clean-up Mowing Shrub/Hedge Care Mulch 50% OFF First Mow of 2014!

BOB’S OUTDOOR SERVICES

Over 20 Years Experience!

Clean Cut! Drug Free!

We own our own crane!

•Tree Trimming •Tree Removal •Topping Experts •Stump Removal •Storm Clean-up •Bush Trimming •Spotless Clean-up Every Time

Outdoor Services

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SERVICE DI RECTORY HANDYMAN

HANDYMAN MASTER CRAFTSMAN

The House Helper Local, Reliable, Insured

Carpentry, 30 years Decks & Deck Repairs Remodeling, Home Repair Basement Finishing Ceramic Tile Small Jobs Welcome Reasonable Rates

Highly Experienced in all Trades.

If your DIY project Turns out looking more like OMG Call Andy 618-659-1161 (cell) 618-401-7785

Replace, Repair and Install most anything!

Now booking for spring jobs!

Call B.J. 618-656-4848

Larry’s Handyman Service Over 20 years experience.

• Carpentry • Electrical • Plumbing No Job too Small!

(618) 830-4183 Reasonable Rates!

LET ME FIX IT! HANDYMAN SERVICE • • • • • •

Remodeling Painting Carpentry Drywall Lighting & Ceiling Fans Electric Service Upgrade Most Home Repairs Insured 20 Years Experience

Call Lee: (618) 581-5154

DRIVEWAY & HAULING

CLEANING

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

HAUL ALMOST

Sunny Surface Cleaning

Angle & Company

ANYTHING/ EVERYTHING Remove Unwanted Debris From Basement Garage, Attic; Wherever!

VERY REASONABLE Retired Deputy Sheriff

692-0182

• Residential • Small Business • Move In/ Move Out

INSURED & BONDED A GENTLE TOUCH IN YOUR HOME

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Joyce Tel: 618-980-6858 “Like” us on Facebook!

PRISTINE CLEANING Caring Beyond Cleaning

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• Licensed, Bonded, Insured • RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL • CARPET, UPHOLSTREY, TILE & GROUT • HARDWATER REMOVAL/ SHOWER DOORS • BIOHAZARD CERTIFIED Call us today for a free quote on weekly, biweekly, monthly, one time, move in move out, repossession and foreclosure cleaning

(618) 920-0233 www.pristine-cleaning.biz

BOB’S HANDYMAN SERVICE Remodeling & Repair Drywall Finished Carpentry Painting Ceramic Tile Build & Repair Decks Exterior House And Deck Washing Landscaping Blinds & Draperies Light Fixture & Ceiling Fans No Job Too Small Insured Call Bob Rose 978-8697

To place your ad here call: Rance @ 656-4700 x 22

Christian Women Cleaning

ROOFING CALCOTT ROOFING & SIDING FLAT ROOF SPECIALISTS Highest Quality Materials & Workmanship at Affordable Prices

Home Remodeling & Handyman Service

• Licensed • Bonded • Insured

SPECIALIZING IN KITCHEN & BATH UPDATES PLUS COMPLETE REMODELING PROJECTS

FREE ESTIMATES & UPGRADES TO ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES

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Call Robert Angle

(618) 581-4427 or email anglehometeam@yahoo.com Insured References Competitive Rates

Call Bill Nettles with WRN Services

Siding Chimney Waterproofing Seamless Guttering Power Washing Tree Service (618) 655-9648 or (618) 781-4444 Servicing This Area Since 1974

HOMEREMODELING &WATERPROOFING

CONSTRUCTION REMODELING COMMERCIAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

An insured contractor providing quality crafted work.

A custom wood work specialist with labor rates starting at $30 per hour!

618-974-9446

Darrell’s Carpentry Plus Ceramic Tile Decks & Fences DOORS: Entrances Interior & Trim Patio Drywall Repairs Paint & Texture REMODELING: Basements Bathrooms Kitchens Replacement Windows Room Additions Rental Rehabs Service Upgrades Storm Damage

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(225) 221-3793

The Edwardsville Intellgencer Has Many Service Choices Available In The Classifieds SERVICE GUIDE - 6 Days A Week

Call 656-4700 ext 27 to advertise your service...

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Classified Help Wanted General

TO PLACE

Automotive

YOUR classified ad

CALL 656-4700

206

2005 Ford Escape XLT, very good condition, 4WD, leather seats, dual air bags, a/c, alloy wheels. $7000.

Call 618-692-9706 Important Message: It’s illegal for companies doing business by phone to promise you a loan and ask you to pay for it before they deliver. For more information, call toll-free 1-877-FTC-HELP. A public service message from the Edwardsville Intelligencer and the Federal Trade Commission.

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Got A Service to Sell?

Advertise it in the classifieds!

To list your service call the classified department at 656-4700.

The Edwardsville Intelligencer reserves the right to remove ads with past due accounts.

Trucks, Vans, & SUV's

210

2006 Ford Freestar 148,000 miles, One owner. $4400 Call 618-304-5325

Help Wanted General

305

Busy Edwardsville holistic medical practice hiring for two part-time positions. 15-20 hrs/wk, including afternoon/early evening hrs. Applicant must be able to multitask, communicate well, and should have a similar holistic mindset/ lifestyle. Fax resumes to 618-692-1853 by 5/11/14.

Exp Tree Climber w/ bucket exp needed.

Must pass drug test.

Arborist a plus. 977-5037.

First Student now hiring: P/T Bus Drivers & Monitors for Edwardsville School District.

Will train. Apply at: 17 Commercial Ct., Glen Carbon, IL 62034

305

Help Wanted Medical

308

HELP WANTED

Advantage Nursing Services

Faith based nursing home is seeking caring, reliable RN’s for day shift and LPN’s for midnights.

Seeking LPNs & RNs only Private Duty Pediatric Cases Days, Nights, Weekends 1-800-830-2737 www.ansjobs.com

Please apply in person at: Faith Countryside Homes 100 Faith Drive Highland, IL 62249 (NO phone calls please)

Clothing

Wedding dress, new, never altered Private Label by G. $549 retail $1,000. White, A-line, v neck, natural waist, sleeveless floor length, rouched bodice, Swarovski crystal accents. Size 10.

Call 618-288-9911

Furniture

at Richard’s Brick Co. Apply in person at: 324 Springer Ave. Edw.

Looking for: Receptionist & Doggy Daycare Attendent.

Must love dogs!

Apply in Person: LaBest Inc. 4933 Indian Hills Dr. Edwardsville, IL. 62025

CARRIER NEEDED! Rt 23-Newspaper carrier needed in the area of Sherman Ave, Sheridian Ave, Troy Rd, Holyoake Rd, Hale Ave, Dewey Ave. Edwardsville. There are approximately 37 papers on this route. The papers need to be delivered by 5:00 p.m. Monday thru Friday and by 8:30 a.m. Saturdays.

If you are interested in this route, please call the Intelligencer at 656-4700 ext. 20.

CARRIER NEEDED! Rt 35 — Newspaper carrier needed in the area of Bunn Ave, Chapman St, Columbia St, Hickory St, Mill St, Orchard St, State St. There are approximately 25 papers in this route.

The papers need to be delivered by 5:00 p.m.

Monday thru Friday, 8:30 a.m. Saturdays.

If you are interested in this route, please call the Intelligencer at 656-4700 ext 20

410

Bed - Queen PillowTop Mattress Set New, still in plastic, $175. (618)772-2710.

Can Deliver!

Carrier Routes 401

Laborers Needed

Local community bank is seeking candidates for a Customer Service Representative position.

The ideal candidate must have prior banking experience and in particular experience with customer service, teller operations, safe deposit, ATMs, debit cards, online banking, IRAs and account titling.

Interested candidates should contact Jenna VerDught at 618-659-0991 or send a resume via email to: jverdught@ theedgebank.com.

TheEDGEBANK is an equal opportunity employer.

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Appliances

418

21 cubic foot Roper refrigerator, White, In good shape $175.00 618-977-5421

Misc.

Merchandise

Misc.

Merchandise

426

C.K.S. METAL CORP. (618) 656-5306 M-F 8:00-5:00 SAT 8-12

Items Are Always “On Sale” In The I’s Merchandise Classifieds!

701

EDWARDSVILLE, IL #1 Copper $2.52/lb. #2 Copper $2.40/lb.

Yellow Brass $1.70/lb.

Stainless $.55/lb.

Painted Siding $.62/lb.

Scrap Alum $.54-.70/lb.

Alum Cans $.60/lb.

Clean Alum Wheels $.70/lb.

Electric Motors $.26/lb.

Seal Units $.17 Batteries $.29 Christmas Lights $.30 Insulated Wire #1-$1.20 #2-$.95 Scrap Iron $190.-$220./Ton

CHECK ALL OUR PRICES AT CKSMETALCORP.COM CALL FOR TODAY’S PRICES!!

Pets

450

AKC Miniature Dachshund puppies 1 Male, 2 Females $250 each. Call 618-407-9731

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Basketball game, $50.00; classic bowling arcade game $750; foosball $300; sax $50, western saddle $750, Stuben saddle $800, bridles. Call 977-2069

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This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD toll free at 1-800-669-9777.

The toll free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275.

DON’T CRY! While you may have missed one good deal in The Intelligencer Classifieds Merchandise Ads, there are many more becoming available all the time!

CARRIER NEEDED! Rt. 29—Newspaper carrier needed in the area of Hale Ave, Holyoake Rd, Madison Ave, Roosevelt Dr, Washington Pl, Wilson Dr. There are approximately 31 papers on this route.

The papers need to be delivered by 5:00 p.m. Monday thru Friday and by 8:30 a.m.

Saturdays.

If you are interested in this route, please call the Intelligencer at 656-4700 ext. 20.

Part-Time Cashier, Apply at Ron’s Shell, 121 E. Vandalia, Edwardsville.

WANTED: Structural Engineer, Full Time. Small fabricator seeking individual for take offs, blueprint reading & job bidding. Experience in welding, purchasing & office management.

Forward resume to P.O. Box 794, Godfrey, IL 62035.

103 B Southpointe, Edwardsville, IL 618-667-1959 NEW LISTING!

NEW PRICE!

OPEN SUN 4/27/14 • 1-3 pm

10 Wolfe Creek Ct., Glen Carbon 1311 Lynn St., Highland 826 W. Victory Drive Fantastic 4Bd/3Ba Roomy 3Bd/2Ba Home Great Starter Home Updates In Kitchen Finished Look-out Basement Needs A Little TLC Fenced Yard All Kitchen Appliances Stay!

Oversized Garage On Cul-De-Sac Rachel Sipes (618) 973-2260 Rachel Sipes (618) 973-2260 Jean Tiemann (618) 972-0538 $306,000 MLS 4304894 $154,500 MLS 4301574 $65,000 MLS 4300479 OPEN HOUSE, SUN., JUNE 13 1:00-3:00 P

Your Home... Our Commu nit

y (618) 655-1188

Yard Sales

1099

Edwardsville, 492 Chancellor Dr. Fri. 4/25 & Sat. 4/26, 8a-2p; 2 family sale!

Baby items, Furniture & much more!!

Edwardsville, Vicksburg Commons Subdivision Sale, (Off Goshen Rd. behind Liberty Middle School & Goshen Elementary School) Fri. 4/25, 4p-8p & Sat. 4/26, 8a-12p; Lots of familes, lots of stuff, especially kid stuff!!

Neighborhood Garage Sale: Forest Grove Neighborhood Saturday, April 26 7:00a-11:00a Located off of Meridian Rd in Glen Carbon Furniture, Home Decor, Baby Clothes, and More!

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Yard Sales

1099

Perennial plant and household items yard sale.

Edwardsville, 1583 Grand Ave. Sat, 4/26, 7a-2p & Sun, 4/27, 11a-2p; Rain or Shine!

Annabelle and nikko blue hydrangeas, wild geraniums.

Goosenecks, bee balm, lilacs, gloriosa daisies. Shasta and painted daisies.

Daylillies. Pluming grasses. Hostas.

Jacob’s ladder, tame jack in the pulpit, lirope. Autumn clematis, almond bushes, colubine, lily of the valley. Yellow, purple siberian, miniature and hybrid irises. Peonies, catnip.

Bamboo, wild cane reed. Sweet william, lamb’s ear. Spearmint and misc. other plants! Household: table, chairs, books, clothes, rototiller and much misc.

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NEW PRICE

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

7015 GABLE COURT, GLEN CARBON POPULAR SPLIT BEDROOM RANCH! Hardwood Flooring, Daylight Basement & Covered Deck. Quick Access to Highways, Schools, Bike Trails & Shopping. Lots of Quality! $253,900 CALL JIM REPPELL (618) 791-7663 www.HomesByReppell.com

123 MEYER, COLLINSVILLE TRAID SCHOOL DISTRICT! 4BR/2BA, quiet street/no outlet, new windows, new aeration motor & newer roof. Large lot w/mature trees.

Oversized 2 car garage. $143,000

202 N. BLUFF ROAD, COLLINSVILLE 4BR/3BA! Looking for Privacy with approx Half Acre Wooded Lot? This is a great choice! Home is practically new (2010) with custom woodwork and upgrages throughout. $196,900

CALL JAN ALONS (618) 781-2511

CALL SUSAN JO COKER (618) 444-2671

4524 DRDA LANE, EDWARDSVILLE 2031 TREASURE DRIVE, EDWARDSVILLE 2BR/1BA with deck overlooking large lot with storage shed, walking distance to Lake, spacious bedrooms $123,000 and ONE YEAR HOME WARRANTY.

CALL JASON THORPE (618) 514-5821

112 OLDE FARM ROAD, TROY

4BR/3BA with ENERGY EFFICIENT FEATURES, DECK, ABOVE-GROUND POOL $164,500 and 16x12 GARDEN SHED! CALL SUSAN LANDING, MANAGING BROKER (618) 779-7777

April 24, 2014

PRICE REDUCTION

3BR/2BA recently remodeled ranch, spacious bedrooms, three garages, new bath, new kitchen with stainless steel appliances, double pantries, granite countertops! One-acre lot is nicely LANDSCAPED, huge deck! $159,900

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Classified Houses For Rent

705

1br home, lg. rooms, yard, w/d incl. Avail.

6/1. $550/mo. Agent Owned. 530-4044.

2BR, 1BA, Montclaire area, Edwardsville.

Clean, best location, lg yard, $1000/mo. 1st/ last/ dep, 1yr contract, credit check, no pets, no smoking, no students. Applications accepted. 692-6417

Apts/Duplexes For Rent

710

Apts/Duplexes For Rent

710

2 BR 1.5 BA Townhomes SMOKE FREE. 15 minutes to St. Louis and SIUE. I-255/ Horseshoe Lake Rd area. $675 mo includes washer/ dryer, water, sewer and trash service. No pets. www.fairway-estates.net 618-931-4700

2 BR, 1.5 BA, Edw./ Glen Cbn., near SIU: $710-$750. 692-6366.

HSI Management Group

Glen Carbon, 2 bedroom TH, $675.

No Pets. Call 618-977-7222

2BR Loft, newly remod new kit, ba, wndws/drs d/w, w/d hkups. $675 incl. w/s/t. 593-0173

1 Bedroom, Edwardsville, (single occupancy), $450 monthly, plus utilities and deposit.

No pets. 618-288-5618

2BR Loft, Troy, Newly remod’d in a very nice quiet neighborhood.

No pets. 830-4183

Apts/Duplexes/Homes www.glsrent.com (618)656-2230 House for Rent 389 Barnett Drive Edwardsville. 3br, 3ba luxury home with lake views. $1,795. Meyer Properties 656-1824

1BR apt, w/d hkup Non-smoking, no pets. $595/mo + dep 6569204 or cell: 444-1004 1BR apt. credit check req. No pets. $400/mo + dep. 656-3407 no calls after 6:00pm

Apts/Duplexes For Rent

1BR loft apt & 1BR duplex $585/mo ALSO 2BR house: $900/mo $1000dep. 656-8953

2BR Townhomes, Edw 1.5 BA, w/d hkup, No pets. $750 w/gar; 692-1745; 978-2867.

2BR, 1.5BA Twnhouse in Glen Carbon. No pets. 1yr lease. $645$695/mo. 288-9882.

710

Apts/Duplexes For Rent

3BR, 1.5BA, 1car gar.

Glen Carbon, Avail.

Jun. NO smoking/pets $990/mo. 307-5575

618-624-4610 cecilmanagement.com Glen Carbon 1BR, all electric, stove, fridge, dw, stacked w/d, FP, trash pd from $615. 618-624-4610 carports available 2BR, 1.5BA, all electric, stove, fridge, wd hookups, from $695. 618-624-4610 Available Soon!

2br, 1.5ba townhomes.

(618)692-9310 www.rentchp.com Duplex for rent, Available Now. $850/mo. + $850 dep.

Call 618-560-1312

RENTALS!

CHARMING 4BR/4BA HOME with side entry garage and finished lower level. $289,500 Edwardsville PR101742 DIANA MASSEY TEAM (618) 791-5024 or (618) 791-9298

LAKE FRONT PROPERTY 4BR/3BA, 3 car garage, oversized deck, enjoy 430 acres of water activities. $220,000 Edwardsville PR101747 CAROLYN KOESTER (618) 791-6712

Apts/Duplexes For Rent

710

Office Space For Rent

725

Edwardsville, 50 Devon Ct. 1 & 2 BR apts. w/s/t paid Call 618-791-9062

Excellent 3br TH 1200sq. ft. Collinsville, $790/mo. 345-9610 skyviewtownhouses.com

Glen Carbon office space, 900 sf, parking/ utilities incl. $1000/mo Call (618)972-4450

E’ville - Silver Oaks II No Steps, Open Floor Plan, 2 Br w/Garage, Sec Sys, New Fitness Center, $890/mo.

618.830.2613 www.vgpart.com

LUXURY 2 BRs located at 270 & 111 Gourmet kitchens, 2 bay windows, washer/dryer included.

WST included. Must See! $675. Call for our move-in specials!

(618)931-3333.

HWY 159-Maryville, 1200sq., 5 offices, rec area. $900/ 346-7878

FOR RENT: LUXURY TOWNHOMES AND APARTMENTS. 2BR/1BA or 3BR/2BA next to Highland High School, Korte Rec. Center & 27th Street $695-$735/month. $500 deposit.

Call (618)830-4985.

Wilkendevelopment.com

HOUSE & APT & CONDOS HARTMANN RENTALS CALL FOR DETAILS 618-344-7900 HartRent.info for Photos & Prices

www.osbornproperties.com

MOVE IN SPECIAL 1ST MONTH 1/2 OFF 2Br, 1Br Glen Carbon w/d hook-ups, $655 (618)346-7878 osbornproperties.com

Commercial Space For Rent 720 Commercial Space for rent, 50 Kreige Farm Rd. in Glen Carbon, Approx. 8,000 sq. ft.

Rate & Terms negotiable. Call 618-529-1082

Important Message: Companies that do business by phone can’t ask you to pay for credit before you get it. For more information, call toll-free 1-877-FTC-HELP. A public service message from the Edwardsville Intelligencer and the Federal Trade Commission.

REAL ESTATE IN THE INTELLIGENCER

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For up to date listings and open house information visit: NEW LISTING NEW LISTING

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NEW LISTING OPEN HOUSE SUN, APR 27, 1-3 PM OPEN HOUSE SUN, APR 27, 1-3 PM OPEN HOUSE SUN, APR 27, 1-3 PM

TOTALLY REHABBED 3 bedroom, 2 bath home for a great price! $139,900 Edwardsville PR101744 LYNN CARR (618) 6161806

3317 Hershiser Court, Edwardsville $539,900 OPEN SUN. 1-3 PM DIANA MASSEY TEAM (618) 791-5024 or (618) 791-9298

7032 Koufax Court, Edwardsville $599,900 OPEN SUN. 1-3 PM JUDINE LUX (618) 531-0488

3301 Garvey Drive, Edwardsville $518,980 OPEN SUN. 1-3 PM DIANA MASSEY TEAM (618) 791-5024 or (618) 791-9298

CONGRATULATIONS OPEN HOUSE SUN, APR 27, 1-3 PM OPEN HOUSE SUN, APR 27, 1-3 PM OPEN HOUSE SUN, APR 27, 1-3 PM OPEN HOUSE SUN, APR 27, 1-3 PM CONGRATULATIONS DIANA MASSEY TEAM (618) 791-5024 OR (618) 791-9298 A COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE has made these Associates leaders in the real estate market.

NORMA LINCK (618) 444-8733

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

5324 Fox Crest, Edwardsville $379,000 OPEN SUN. 1-3 PM SHEILA COX (618) 593-7355

126 Behrens Drive, Edwardsville $229,900 OPEN SUN. 1-3 PM JOHN CAMERON (760) 524-6878

1212 Lindenwood Ave., Edwardsville $138,500 OPEN SUN. 1-3 PM KAREN CURRIER (618) 616-6891

A COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE has made this Associate a leader in the real estate market.

Prudential Real Estate Ranks Highest Overall Satisfaction for First-Time and Repeat Home Buyers and First-Time Home Sellers among National Full Service Real Estate Firms.

Edwardsville 1012 Plummer Dr.

618-655-4100 CONGRATULATIONS KAREN CURRIER

OPEN HOUSE SUN, MAR 20, 1-3 NEW PRICE PM

NEW PRICE

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BEAUTIFUL 1.5 STORY in Ebbets Field. 5 bdrms, 5 bths, finished LL. Superior quality throughout. $579,900 Edwardsville PR101530

WATERFRONT WITH INGROUND POOL 4BR/3BA, 3 car garage, beautiful home overlooks new seawall & retaining wall & AWESOME view of the lake! $429,000 Edwardsville PR101693

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1 STORY, 3 bedrom, 2 bath home, built in 2011 with 1550 sq. ft. $119,900 Mt. Olive PR101694

CUTE, CLEAN, COZY! Nice corner lot, close to downtown Edwardsville. $115,000 Edwardsville PR101204

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