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For the veterans

Concert planned at American Legion.

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Woman takes hair color issue head on.

11 "Pixels"

There are other movies to see.

13 Dealey Plaza A moving site in Dallas.

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Paul Davis Dance Company.

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Queeny Park set for another event.

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Showing off the fun side of art.

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What’s Happening Friday August 7__________ • Jungle Boogie – Push the Limit, Saint Louis Zoo, St. Louis, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

• Creation Rebels w/DJ Reggie, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

• Dom Chronicles, Farout, DJ Mahf, The Demo, St. Louis, 9:00 p.m.

• Eric Ketzer (Bar Stage), Cicero’s, University City, 8:00 p.m.

• Jake’s Leg, Cicero’s, University City, 8:30 p.m.

• The Road to Pointfest w/System Slave, Sozorox, Addicted, Ky and the Yodees, Zustiak, Pop’s, Sauget, 6:30 p.m.

• I Actually Album Release Show w/Fumer, Durango, Mike Pennekamp, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

• Jason Michael Carroll, The Ready Room, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• The Lalas, Lumiere Live, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

• Paraquad 45th Anniversary Celebration w/Josh Blue, Sheldon Concert Hall, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

• Beauty and the Beast, The Muny, St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.

• Stages presents Anything Goes, Robert G. Reim Theatre, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m., Runs through August 16.

• Stray Dog Theatre presents Spellbound! A Musical Fable, Tower Grove Abbey, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

• Children’s China: Celebrating Culture, Character and Confucius, Magic House at Children’s Museum, St. Louis, 9:30 a.m. to 9:00

p.m., Runs through September 7.

• Lantern Festival: Magic Reimagined, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs through August 23.

• Adorning Self and Space: West African Textiles Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through September 7.

• A Walk in 1875 St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through February 14, 2016.

• Senufo: Art and Identity in West Africa Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Music, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through September 27.

• The Dream is a Manifesto Exhibit, International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through October 25..

Saturday Aug. 8____________ • Grapes to Glass Winery Tour and Tasting, Stone Hill Winery, Hermann (MO), 3:00 p.m.

• Rocky Votolato & Dave Hause w/Chris Farren, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• Highly Suspect w/The Hush List, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• Ruben Studdard w/Kimberly Locke, Elliott Yamin, Nikko Smith, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 6:00 p.m.

• Typesetter, The Howl w/New Lives, Sugar Rags, The Demo, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

• Vanilla Fudge, Pop’s, Sauget,

7:00 p.m.

• Dom Chronicles, Farout, DJ Mahf, The Demo, St. Louis, 9:00 p.m.

• Ferguson Rocks feat. Tom Morello and The Freedom Fighter Orchestra w/The Coup, Outernational, Steffanie Christi’ian, Jessica Care Moore, The Ready Room, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

• Stages presents Anything Goes, Robert G. Reim Theatre, St. Louis, 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., Runs through August 16.

• Stray Dog Theatre presents Spellbound! A Musical Fable, Tower Grove Abbey, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

• Children’s China: Celebrating Culture, Character and Confucius, Magic House at Children’s Museum, St. Louis, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Runs through September 7.

• Lantern Festival: Magic Reimagined, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs through August 23.

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

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

• Nanjing Style: Photographs from our Sister City, International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through August 30.

• Thomas Cole’s Voyage of Life Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through September 20.

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The Diz Strohman Big Band will be among the performers at the Aug. 8 concert.

Concert will raise funds for American Legion, Wounded Warriors Project

By CAROL ARNETT Of The Edge The American Legion in Edwardsville will be the place to be on Aug. 8 as several different bands take the stage for the Concert for Wounded Veterans and Warriors, held from 1 – 10 p.m. Proceeds from the all-day event will be split 50/50 between the National American Legion and the Wounded Warriors Project.

Mike Bortko is organizing the event and playing in it. He is a member of the Robert Perry with the Original Mojos band, which will take the stage at 7:45 p.m. to close out the night.

This is the second year for the concert, which was held last year at the Wildey Theatre. “Last year, it was baby steps,” Bortko said. “I had experience with the Wildey because the Robert Perry band has done three New Year’s Eve concerts there, so we had it there.” Last year’s concert had all rock bands. This year, the concert is moving to a bigger venue and adding additional types of music. The American Legion hall can hold over 800.

Tickets are $15. “You can buy a ticket for $15 and listen to one band or all of them,” Bortko said. “You can leave and come back,

or stay all day.” The American Legion will have food available, Bortko said.

Opening the show at 1 will be Dana Anderson and Friends and the Silver Creek Duo, playing an acoustic set. Bortko said Anderson is well known in the area. He plays the Stagger Inn and other local venues on a regular basis. “Dana plays covers and writes his own music,” Bortko said.

At 2:30, the Doc Holiday Band will take the stage. “This is a country band that can play rock,” Bortko said. They have a lot of experience playing, Bortko said, with ties to Nashville and Branson. “They’re a fourpiece band with really excellent vocals.”

The Diz Strohman Big Band will play at 4. “This is an 18-piece band,” Bortko said.

“They play all kinds of standards and they have a singer, his daughter, who’s great.”

The Hartman Family Blue Grass band will play at 6. “They’re outstanding,” Bortko said. “They get down to Nashville every year and put out a CD. They have a great following.” Mike Hartman, Bortko said, has played with Alison Kraus and Union Station.

At 7:45, the nine-piece Robert Perry with the Original Mojos band will start their set. Members of the group play a variety of instruments, including guitar, electric

bass, mandolin, banjo, and drums. “We don’t have any horns, but we have two percussionists,” Bortko said. They’ve been playing together for five years.

Bortko said recruiting the bands was not difficult. “In every case, I told them what it was for and they said, ‘we’re in.’ They are all volunteering their set.”

Bortko is a veteran himself, serving in the Army in Vietnam from 1966 – 1968. He said he got the idea for the concert a few years ago, but it took a few years to get it going.

“I’m lazy. I’m a procrastinator,” he said.

“I didn’t want to do it, but I ran into a wounded soldier at the grocery store. He was in a wheelchair doing what he needed to do, and I thought if he can do it, I can do it.” After that encounter, Bortko began making calls about the concert.

“I just thought it needed to be done,” Bortko said. “I just said, ‘You know what?

They deserve it, so I’ll do it.’”

Bortko cited several statistics about veterans. “We have 2.7 million since 1991.

Over 52,000 wounded in action, over 23,000 brain injuries,” he said. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is also a problem, Bortko said. “There are over 118,000 official cases of PTSD, but many say it’s closer to 300,000.”

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There are so many veterans, Bortko said, that the Veterans Administration is stretched thin. “Other entities, such as the VFW, the Wounded Warrior Project and Semper Fi, have taken up the slack and in many cases provide more sophisticated care for wounded veterans,” he said.

This year, Bortko had more help with the concert. He credits Tim O’Leary and his daughter Maddie with helping him grow the event. “Tim said, ‘Let me help’ and he has experience with events like this. He started a letter and email campaign to companies and groups covering several counties.” Bortko said they have expanded advertising to the entire southern Illinois area.

Bortko is still seeking sponsors for the event. “Independent donations really drive these events,” he said. “Veterans don’t care where the money comes from, whether ticket sales or sponsors.”

Tickets are on sale at the American Legion Post 199 website at www. edwardsvillelegion.com or at the legion.

The legion’s number is 656-9774. Donations can be mailed to American Legion Post 199, Attn: Mike Bortko, 58 S. State Route 157, Edwardsville, IL, 62025. For more information about the event, or information about sponsorships, call Bortko at 660-5686.

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People Taking hair coloring head on Glen Carbon woman creates her own line of products

By JULIA BIGGS Of The Edge Hair color marketers estimate that 75 percent of American women color their hair. Some of those women color their hair every four to five weeks. Others may be able to stretch that out to every eight or 10 weeks. But whether they purchase a box from the drugstore and do it themselves or pay a hair salon for the service, women know that keeping their hair colored is an expensive proposition.

The time required and expense of coloring her hair motivated Erica Harriss, a Glen Carbon resident and mother of three, to invent a product that would extend the time between hair coloring. Friends, neighbors and family served as test subjects while Erica perfected a formula out of her kitchen until she eventually developed Saving Grace Hair Powder. She has been selling it online since last November.

Erica said that for “years and years” she used a “beauty hack” for her hair that her sister had told her about in high school. “I'd put baby powder in my hair,” she said. “I had super oily hair so it would absorb oil and make it a little more fluffy.”

As Erica began to get older, she noticed that her light blond hair was naturally getting darker and the roots on the crown of her head were coming in “pretty dark.” Being someone who doesn't feel comfortable coloring her hair herself, she routinely would visit a salon to have her hair professionally colored which, before kids and when she worked in corporate America, seemed like a justifiable professional expense.

But once she became a stay-at-home mom of Ryan, who is now 10; Julia, 8; and Emerson, 3; finding the time to get her hair colored became more difficult and it became almost like a guilty pleasure because it is so expensive. “Every woman wants to feel good about themselves but a little bit you think – I just had a baby, I just quit my job, and I shouldn't be spending all of this on my hair so that I can go to the grocery store,” Erica said with a grin.

Plus, going to the salon was a major undertaking at times.

“My husband, Jeff, is home more now but a few years ago he was traveling all the time. So it was trying to get sitters and then one of my kids would scream whenever I left her,” Erica recalled. “It was one of those things where I thought, this just isn't worth it. I've got to figure something else out.”

To make matters worse, when Erica would revert to her baby powder beauty hack, it was suddenly turning her roots gray. “But I thought if this powder came in a color, that would be just onderful because it's turning my roots gray when the powder is white, but if it came in blond (color), it would work for me or my girlfriends who also would say, 'I have the same problem,'” she said.

Hoping to find a product online that she could purchase, she turned to the Internet for research but found only one product – in Australia. The Australian product required the prep of mixing in a bowl and basically applying it with a brush like professional hairstylists do, and as Erica pointed out, “it was a little more intimidating.”

Determined to find a solution to her problem, she wondered if she could make a hair powder herself. She “Googled” it and began ordering ingredients.

She found several recipes on Pinterest where people were using cocoa powder for brown hair, and she gave that a try but was not pleased with the result. “I felt like I was putting chocolate in my hair,” she said with a chuckle. “It seemed dirty, and I was wanting to go an extra day and not feel dirty.”

She turned to a chemist friend for help with creating a powder formula. “It sounds crazy but I was just mixing it up in my kitchen and bringing samples out to women at the bus stop, at sports practices and at church and saying, 'Try this.

Be honest, and we'll tweak it,'” Erica recalled. “Then it was interesting because they were giving me great feedback. It seemed like people were wanting more and more.”

At that point Erica received a phone call from a local Edwardsville beauty salon, Treo, whose owner had heard about her hair powder and wanted to try it. “ So I brought them in samples of the colors which was awesome because their test market was even larger in scope than what I had.

They were able to try it on the girls before they colored their hair to show them the difference. It gave me great feedback as well so we just kept on tweaking it based on all the feedback we were getting,” she said. “And again, I was still mixing it up in my kitchen. But I didn't have a real urgency to bring it to market. It was working for me, I was handing it out, and people were asking for more.”

Before developing the hair powder, Erica had thought about having her own business while staying home with her children, but her business ideas were either huge in scope or investment risky. “And I'm not really a huge risk taker,” she said. “So, really the time was kind of just right. People were asking for the powder. It solved a problem.”

Then when Treo called back last fall and asked for product to sell for the 2014 holiday season, Erica knew it was time to look into creating an actual business and begin marketing the powder. She met with an attorney and called the SIUE

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Erica Harriss, surrounded by containers of her Saving Grace Beauty products.

Small Business Development Center for direction on what steps to take to make a formal business. She emphasized how extremely helpful SIUE had been as well as local business owners in helping her throughout the process. “I didn't come from the beauty industry so I feel like we're kind of learning as we go,” she said. “It seems like people have a desire to help, and SIU has been really, really helpful.”

Saving Grace Beauty, LLC was launched in November, 2014, and Treo would be its first retailer. But Erica wasn't sure if beauty salons would like the product because technically the temporary powder, which rinses out after shampooing, allows customers to go an extra week or two before needing to color their hair. “It's definitely not a permanent solution,” Erica stressed. “So hair salons were a market that was a surprise.”

Another surprising market Erica has found is women who are going gray gracefully. “They won't be my longterm customers, but they like it because during that kind of awkward outgrowth, they'll use it to mask their coming in gray roots until it gets to a point where they can cut their hair shorter and let it all kind of naturally be gray,” she said. “That's another segment that kind of surprised me and men. I've had emails from men who say, “Thanks for a great product. It matched my hair perfectly. I had a thinning spot.””

Saving Grace Beauty, LLC is off to a great start. It showed a profit after just the first quarter of sales without spending any money on advertising which has all been word of mouth or through social media.

They've moved the powder production out of their kitchen and into a designated production space within their house which allows Erica to still run the business yet be a stay-athome mom. “I can fill orders at night,” Erica pointed out.

“We've had busy weeks where I've called literally my mom, my sister, my husband, my babysitters and said, 'Who wants to make extra money this week?' And we set up kind of an assembly line – we're still manufacturing it, distributing it, packaging it.”

Since launching the company, they've had a couple of days when large media companies featured Saving Grace Hair Powder on their websites which created a flurry of orders. The biggest day as when the powder was selected by the prestigious Yahoo!Beauty as a new “Artisanal Product To Keep On Your Radar,” and it was shown on the Yahoo!

Homepage. Both Erica and Jeff, an IT professional, had no idea Yahoo! had posted it.

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Erica recalled that bizarre day when she was sitting at her grandmother's funeral service while Jeff was at home with one of their children who was sick. “My phone is buzzing like crazy. Jeff was at home getting all the sales that were coming through the Internet. So he's sending me, 'What's going on? Did we have some big media hit? There are orders coming in from all over the country. There are people nonstop on the website. The activity is insane. How did these people here about us? What's going on?'” she recalled. “Jeff could even see the activity on the site – he's a computer guy in the analytics part of it. So that was an exciting day.”

Although Erica would love to see Saving Grace Beauty, LLC grow, she is hesitant to have the hair powder made in a factory because she wants to maintain a personal touch with customers. She currently tries to put a hand written note on every order form. She recalled an experience with a female customer who placed two orders of powder that were being shipped to two different addresses around Mother's Day. When the customer requested that one of the shipments not include an invoice, Erica emailed the customer and asked that if this was a Mother's Day gift, she'd be happy to add a special message to the order.

The customer replied that indeed it was a gift she was sending her mother who had been going through a lot of challenges lately because she had to put her husband with Alzheimer's into a nursing home. Erica, in turn, wrote a special message on the Mother's Day order, took a photo of it and the packaging, and emailed the picture to the customer.

The customer then wrote a heart-felt message back to Erica.

“I love getting to touch people like that. I feel like I want to keep being this person. That's hopefully how our niche is different,” Erica said.

Saving Grace Hair Powder comes in four shades - blonde, light brown, dark brown and black – and retails for $14.99 for a .37 ounce container. As Erica pointed out, “it kind of pays for itself” because you're able to extend the time between hair coloring appointments. It is easily applied to dry hair with a makeup brush. The powder absorbs oil and covers roots allowing users to shampoo less and go longer between salon color visits – saving both time and money.

“It won't get you through eternity but it will be your saving grace for the day,” Erica added.

The powder can be purchased at www.savinggracehair. com. SGHairPowder is on Facebook or search Saving Grace Beauty on Facebook to find it. She also has an Instagram account @savinggracebeauty.

People People planner Edison’s to host Classic Car Cruise series

Edison’s Entertainment Complex has teamed up with the Piston Pushers Car Club for a series of classic car cruises this summer. The first cruise is Saturday, May 23, and cruises will be held in Edison’s parking lot from 6-9pm on the fourth Saturday of every month from May to October.

All cruises are free and open to the public, and a live DJ will be spinning tunes all night.

Classic car owners are invited to show up, show off their vehicles, and join the cruise each month. Edison’s full-service bar and restaurant will be open, and light refreshments will be available for purchase in the parking lot.

Members of the public are encouraged to check out the cars and then enjoy Edison’s bowling, laser tag, and arcade attractions.

“We’re always looking for new ways to build excitement through special events that appeal to all ages,” said Edison’s CEO and managing partner Matt McSparin.

“There are truly some impressive classic vehicles that will be here and we hope the community enjoys the opportunity to be a part of these events,” continued McSparin.

Here is the full schedule of classic car cruises at Edison’s: • August 22

• September 26 • October 24 Edison’s Entertainment Complex is located at 2477 S. State Route 157 in Edwardsville.

To learn more about the event, visit w w w. e d i s o n s f u n . c o m , e - m a i l i n f o @ edisonsfun.com, or call (618) 307-9020.

Illinois State Fair music lineup announced

Rock/Pop group The Fray will make a stop in Springfield this August to perform their chart-topping hits at the 2015 Illinois State Fair. The Denver-based foursome struck a chord with audiences, selling over four million albums and 20 million singles worldwide. Their hit songs include, "You Found Me," "How to Save a Life," and "Over My Head (Cable Car)."

Opening for The Fray on Thursday, August 20thwill be Andy Grammer. With hits like "Keep Your Head Up," and "Fine

By Me," Grammer is the first male pop star since John Mayer to reach the Top 10 at Adult Pop Radio on his first two singles.

The two songs sold more than 1.5 million downloads combined.

Also performing at the 2015 Illinois State Fair will be the rock groups Meatloaf, Styx, and Tesla. Meatloaf, best known for his songs, "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights," "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad," and

Shopper Stoppers

sale through Ticketmaster: August 14: Sammy Hagar and The Circle / Collective Soul VIP - $48 / Track $36 / Tier 1 - $36 / Tier 2 - $31 / Tier 3 $26 August 16: Justin Moore / Josh Thompson / Jon Pardi VIP - $46 / Track $31 / Tier 1 - $31 / Tier 2 - $26 / Tier 3 $21 August 18: Rascal Flatts / Scotty McCreery / Raelynn VIP - $65 / Track $50 / Tier 1 - $50 / Tier 2 - $45 / Tier 3 - $40 August 19: Meatloaf / Styx / Tesla VIP $50 / Track $38 / Tier 1 - $38 / Tier 2 - $33 / Tier 3 - $28 August 20: The Fray / Andy Grammer VIP - $37 / Track $25 / Tier 1 - $25 / Tier 3 - $20 / Tier 3 - $15 August 21: Hank Williams, Jr / .38 Special VIP - $47 / Track $35 / Tier 1 - $35 / Tier 2 - $30 / Tier 3 - $25 August 22: Austin Mahone/ Kalin & Myles / Laura Marano VIP - $48 / Track $36 / Tier 1 - $36 / Tier 2 - $31 / Tier 3 $26 August 23: Brantley Gilbert / Colt Ford / Michael Ray VIP - $54 / Track $39 / Tier 1 - $39 / Tier 2 - $34 / Tier 3 - $29 The 2015 Illinois State Fair runs August 13th - 23rd in Springfield. More announcements regarding the grandstand performances and the state fair lineup will be made in the coming weeks.

"I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)," will headline the concert on Wednesday, August 19th.

"The 2015 grandstand line-up is starting to take shape, and has a ton of variety t o o ff e r f a i rg o e r s , " s a i d A g D i re c t o r Philip Nelson. "When you look at this line-up you'll notice there's something for everyone both young and old, and w e ' re n o t d o n e y e t ! We ' v e g o t m o re grandstand announcements in the works.

I think the 2015 Illinois State Fair will be one fairgoers will remember for years to come."

The State Fair Office is selling tickets for these shows weekdays between the hours of 9am and 3pm.

Prices for the Wednesday, August 19th show featuring Meatloaf, Styx, and Tesla will range from $50 for VIP tickets to $28 for Tier 3 seats.

Prices for the Thursday, August 20th show featuring The Fray with Andy Grammer will range from $37 for VIP tickets to $15 for Tier 3 seats.

Also new this year is the Country Concert Blowout package featuring Justin Moore, Rascal Flatts and Hank Williams Jr. That package can be purchased by phone at (217) 782-1979 or in person at the State Fair Office. The package includes one track ticket and a gate admission for each show for just $99.

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People People planner Jammin' at the Zoo planned in August

The Saint Louis Zoo’s Young Zoo Friends invite you to rock ‘n’ roar on a tasting prowl at their summer 21-and-up event, Jammin’ at the Zoo presented by Macy’s. On August 26, from 6 to 10 p.m., enjoy great live music while sampling your way through 85 different wines from more than 10 wineries and a selection of brews from St. Louis microbreweries.

Admission includes a wine and beer tasting, available between 6 and 8 p.m., while supplies last. Wine by the glass and bottle, beer, soda and frozen specialty drinks will also be available for purchase. No outside alcoholic beverages will be permitted at the event.

Also from 6 to 8 p.m., dip your hands in the warm saltwater pool at Stingrays at Caribbean Cove presented by Mercy Kids to get up-close-and-personal with cownose rays, southern stingrays, bonnethead sharks, and brownbanded and white-spotted bamboo sharks.

On August 26, Sarah Jane & The Blue Notes, 3 Pedros and Video DJ Todd Thomas will perform. Look for other pop-up performances throughout the evening!

Buy your Jammin’ tickets at the door, online at www.stlzoo.org/ jammin, or by calling 314/646-4771.

Admission is $10 for Zoo members and $20 for non-members. For an additional $25, enjoy a heavy appetizer dinner buffet, two drink tickets and access to a private cash bar and covered event area.

Become a member of the Young Zoo Friends that evening and receive free admission for two and access to the private Young Zoo Friends Lounge. Special private party areas are available in advance for groups of 25 or more.

General public should park on the south parking lot on Wells Drive near Highway 40/64 and enter through the south entrance. Zoo members should park on the Zoo’s north parking lot and enter through The Living World building. Parking is free on both lots.

The Young Zoo Friends are a group of professionals in their 20s and 30s who support the future success of the Zoo through volunteer, fundraising, educational and social opportunities.

Visit www.stlzoo.org/jammin or call 314/646-4771 for more information or to purchase your tickets in advance.

Proceeds from the party benefit the Zoo and its efforts to save endangered species at home and around the world. Jammin’ at the Zoo is sponsored by Macy’s, Mid America Chevy Dealers, Fox2 & KPLR 11 and Y98.

trucks. The event will feature different live music and food trucks every week. For more information about the event and the food and entertainment lineup each week, visit www.greatriversgreenway.org.

The flea market will be held in its long time location at the Historic Boatworks, nestled alongside The Loading Dock, located at 400 Front St. in Grafton. The market will be open Saturday, March 28 and Sunday, March 29 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The flea market will be open monthly on the fourth weekend of the month through October.

The Grafton Riverside Flea Market is the largest flea market in the Alton region. The 2015 flea market schedule includes the following dates: April 25 & 26, May 23 & 24, June 27 & 28, July 25 & 26, August 22 & 23, September 26 & 27 and October 24 & 25.

After shopping for your wares, head over to The Loading Dock restaurant to enjoy a meal, drinks and a great view of the Mississippi River. For more information or to be a vendor, please contact Trudi Allen at (618) 786-8210 or go to www.

GraftonLoadingDock.com/market.

MoBOT brings back Lantern Festival

The Missouri Botanical Garden will play host to an international exhibition of 22 lighted works

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materials including silk, wire and porcelain. Each set will include interpretation detailing the design’s tradition, symbolism and meaning.

Among the planned sets is “Soaring Dragon Horse,” located in the Garden’s Central Axis, depicting a well-known symbol in Chinese culture, the dragon horse. The dragon horse is considered a spirit of Heaven and Earth and thought to bring good fortune. “Porcelain Stupas Pagoda” will be constructed with more than 300,000 porcelain pieces including plates, bowls, spoons, teacups, ladles and wine cups. It serves as a replica of the Stupas Pagoda built in the Qing Dynasty in the Manfeilong Village of the Yunnan Province. In keeping with the Garden’s commitment to sustainability, “Giant Dandelion & Panda” will be constructed using recycled water bottles. Visitors will be able to take pictures with the larger-than-life flowers creating a cherished photo opportunity.

In addition to using recycled materials in several sets, the Garden plans to conduct a sale following the conclusion of the festival for St. Louisans to take home their own unique piece of Garden history.

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Ameren Missouri Pure Power will donate Missouri wind energy credits to offset the electricity required to power the exhibit.

Lantern Festival tickets are on sale now. Visitors are encouraged to purchase tickets in advance to ensure they have the opportunity to see the exhibit on their preferred night.

There is no additional charge to view the Lanterns during daytime hours, but special evening pricing begins at 6 p.m. on the nights the exhibit is open. Lanterns will not be lit during Whitaker Music Festival evenings.

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

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Residents, downtown workers, families and tourists are encouraged to join Great Rivers Greenway and “Walk to the Wharf” every Thursday this summer, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., for a chance to listen to live music, participate in a variety of activities and eat lunch on the mighty Mississippi. Stroll past the Old Cathedral, through the Arch Grounds and to the newly reopened Leonor K. Sullivan Boulevard for fresh air, tunes and food from a variety of local food

of art from Zigong, China when it debuts “Lantern Festival: Magic Reimagined” in 2015.

Following critical acclaim and rave reviews from visitors during the 2012 Festival, the Garden has commissioned new sets crafted from silk and steel to once again offer visitors from around the world the opportunity to see an event rarely staged outside of Asia. Lantern Festival will again be an outdoor, evening display running May 23 to August 23, 2015.

“We were overwhelmed with the reaction our 2012 Lantern Festival received and for the last two years have heard from so many people asking if another festival would ever be held,” said Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson, president of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

“At the same time, we have continued our botanical research in China, and feel it is fitting to highlight the growing number of botanical gardens in that country as we celebrate the continued contributions the Missouri Botanical Garden makes in science on a global scale.”

Lantern festivals are a central part of Chinese culture, dating back thousands of years. Today, lantern festivals traditionally mark the Chinese New Year, when complex and ornate lanterns fill cities.

The 22 sets that will be seen during Lantern Festival 2015 will be constructed using traditional

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People People planner DuQuoin State Fair to host Ford, Adkins

State Fair Manager, Patrick Buchen announced recently the first of many entertainment acts for the upcoming 2015 DuQuoin State Fair.

O n S a t u rd a y, A u g u s t 2 9 t h Colt Ford brings a unique blend of country and hip-hop to the Grandstand stage.

A one-time pro golfer turned singer-songwriter, Colt Ford has found a growing fan base thanks to songs like “Drivin’ Around Song,” “Crank It Up,” and musical collaborations with country music superstars like Keith Urban, and Justin Moore. Ford also helped pen hits for Jason Aldean (“Dirt Road Anthem”) and Brantley Gilbert (“Country Must be Country Wide”).

On Sunday, August 30th Trace Adkins will perform for fairgoers on the Grandstand stage. Best known for his songs “Ladies Love Country Boys,” and “You’re Gonna Miss This,” Trace Adkins has powered countless hits to the top of the charts and sold over 10 million albums.

Adkins is a proud spokesperson for the Wounded Warrior Program and American Red Crossor whom he raised over $1.5 million dollars as winner of NBC’s All-Star Celebrity Apprentice.

Ticket prices for Saturday’s show will range from $15-$20, and tickets for Sunday’s show will range from $20-$25. “The DuQuoin State Fair staff is committed to bringing in quality acts to the Grandstand stage,” said Buchen. “Colt Ford and Trace Adkins are big names in country music, and tickets to their shows at other regional venues would likely be double the price of a show here in DuQuoin. We are very excited to offer this quality of performance and this amazing savings to fairgoers.”

Tickets for these shows will go on sale later this summer. Look for more DuQuoin State Fair announcements in the weeks and months ahead. The DuQuoin State Fair runs August 28-September 7th.

Flea market returns to Grafton

Mark your calendars now for the official start of the shopping season at The Riverside Flea Market in Grafton, IL. On Saturday, March 28, the popular flea market will open for its 2015 season, boasting more than 75 vendors with a wide selection of antiques, crafts and the usual flea market fare.

The flea market will be held in its long time location at the Historic Boatworks, nestled alongside The Loading Dock, located at 400 Front St. in Grafton. The market will be open Saturday, March 28 and Sunday, March 29 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The flea market will be open monthly on the fourth weekend of the month through October.

The Grafton Riverside Flea Market is the largest flea market in the Alton region. The 2015 flea market schedule includes the following dates: April 25 & 26, May 23 & 24, June 27 & 28, July 25 & 26, August 22 & 23, September 26 & 27 and October 24 & 25.

After shopping for your wares, head over to The Loading Dock restaurant to enjoy a meal, drinks and a great view of the Mississippi River. For more information or to be a vendor, please contact Trudi Allen at (618) 786-8210 or go to www.

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Missouri History Museum to exhibit Nazi Propaganda The Nazi Party developed a sophisticated propaganda machine that deftly spread lies about its political opponents, Jews, and the need to justify war. But Nazi p ro p a g a n d a w a s m u c h m o re complex than that. For the Nazis to achieve power and pursue their racial policies and expansionist war efforts, a much more nuanced picture had to be painted—one that would appeal to broad swaths of the population, not just a fanatical extreme.

Featuring rarely seen artifacts, State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda draws visitors into a rich multimedia environment vividly illustrating the insidious allure of much of Nazi propaganda.

The exhibition opens at the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park on April 11, 2015 and will be on display through September 7, 2015.

“Adolf Hitler was an avid student of propaganda and borrowed techniques from the Allies in World War I, his Socialist and Communist rivals, the Italian Fascist Party, as well as modern advertising,” says exhibition curator Steven Luckert.

“Drawing upon these models, he successfully marketed the Nazi Party, its ideology, and himself to the German people.”

The exhibition reveals how shortly after World War I, the Nazi Party began to transform itself from an obscure, extremist group into the largest political party in democratic Germany. Hitler early on recognized how propaganda, combined with

the use of terror, could help his radical party gain mass support and votes. He personally adapted the ancient symbol of the swastika and the emotive colors of red, black, and white to create the movement’s flag. In doing so, Hitler established a potent visual identity that has branded the Nazi Party ever since.

After seizing power, the Nazi Party took over all communications in Germany. It marshaled the state’s resources to consolidate power and relentlessly promote its vision of a “racially pure,” utopian Germany that needed to defend itself from those who would destroy it. Jews were cast as the primary enemies, but others, including Roma, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and mentally and physically disabled persons, were also portrayed as threats to the “national community.”

As Germany pushed the world into war, Nazi propaganda rationalized Germany’s territorial expansion as self-defense. Jews were depicted as agents of disease and corruption. The Nazis’ actions against them, in Germany and occupied countries, were promoted as necessary measures to protect the population at large.

Admission to State of Deception is free.

The Missouri History Museum has been active in the St. Louis community since 1866. Founding members established the organization “for the purpose of saving from oblivion the early history of the city and state.” Today, the Missouri History Museum seeks to deepen the understanding of past choices, present circumstances, and future possibilities; strengthen the bonds of the community; and facilitate solutions to common problems. Due to its innovative approach to public service, the

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Boeing to be presenting sponsor of 2016 Spirit of St. Louis Air Show

The Boeing Company will be the presenting sponsor of the 2016 Spirit of St. Louis Air Show and STEM Expo in honor of the company’s 100th anniversary next year.

The Spirit of St. Louis Air Show & STEM Expo will be held on May 14-15, 2016, and will be headlined by performances by the U.S. Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron, flying the St. Louis-built Boeing F/A-18 Hornet, and many other flight performances and staticaircraft displays.

The event’s popular STEM Expo highlights the science, technology, engineering and math initiatives of academic, business and not-for-profit institutions in the St. Louis area and inspires youth to pursue these

important areas. Also featured is the Veteran Village, which provides a venue where key resource providers can share valuable information and connectivity for military members who have recently or will soon return to civilian life.

“Boeing is tightly woven into the fabric of aviation heritage in the St. Louis region and is a leader in promoting the high-technology resources of our communities,” said John Bales, president of the Spirit of St. Louis Air Show & STEM Expo and Spirit of St. Louis Airport director. “We appreciate the support and confidence of this fine company and are proud to once again have the Boeing name associated with this event.”

The Spirit of St. Louis Air Show & STEM Expo and the Blue Angels return to the area after the previous air show in May 2014.

“The Blue Angels exemplify the dedication and excellence of the men and women who serve our country in our armed forces, as well as the tremendous aerospace workforce here in St. Louis,” said Megan Davies, Boeing director of Global Corporate Citizenship.

“We are pleased to be part of this event, which salutes not only those who serve and who have served our nation, but also the many organizations, including Boeing, that are investing in quality STEM education to ensure our nation and region remain strong.”

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"Trainwreck"

Women can be jerks, too. Everyone knows that.

And yet in the movies, the female schmuck is generally relegated to side characters. She's a friend. She's a villain. She's never the heroine.

In the outdated rulebook of who we get to see on the big screen, leading ladies need to be likable — that tiresome, comedy-killing characteristic.

Thank goodness, then for Amy Schumer, the paradigmbusting, enfant terrible who's there to snap us out of our malaise with one rowdy gal: Amy. Her vehicle, "Trainwreck," written by and starring Schumer, luxuriates in the idea of selfishness while shifting our antiquated ideas of what we want from a female lead, because, most importantly, it's very funny.

Bawdy, brash and beaming with confidence in every mistake, Amy does not suffer fools gladly or suitors at all.

As a young girl, her good time Charlie father (Colin Quinn) instills in her the idea that monogamy is impossible. Or, "monogamy isn't realistic" as he makes Amy and her even younger sister recite over and over after a conversation comparing partners to dolls.

It becomes her mantra. We meet up with her 23 years later, boozing and sleeping her way through Manhattan. Well, not sleeping. She never sleeps over at a man's place or lets them stay at hers.

Amy is pro-pleasure, anti-romance, and just a "modern chick who does what she wants" in gold lamé miniskirts. She's a selfsatisfied mess.

Her sister Kim (Brie Larson) has chosen a different route, marrying a sweet, dorky guy (Mike Birbiglia) with a sweet dorky son (Evan Brinkman). Amy pokes fun at them with caustic abandon.

Were it not for the great performances from Larson and Birbiglia, the ongoing finger-pointing at Kim's boring life might just come across as mean. Instead, they just accept Amy (with an eye roll).

RATED: R by the Motion Picture Association of America for strong sexual content, nudity, language and some drug use."

RUNNING TIME: 125 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three stars out of four.

"Pixels"

The most believable element in "Pixels" is that alien videogame creatures could attack our planet.

The core concept is clever — space aliens misunderstand a recording of old video-games as a declaration of war, and send digital monsters based on those games to Earth as their army. But its execution in the hands of director-producer Chris Columbus and star-producer Adam Sandler is a mess.

This disappointing comedy falls apart before it begins because no one would behave the way its characters do, and their ridiculous choices drive the action.

Part of the problem is that it's unclear who the filmmakers think their audience is. This is a big-budget spectacle about 1980s nostalgia aimed at kids who have no emotional connection to the decade. "Pixels" is also insanely sexist, culminating with the winning male characters each rewarded with a woman. Seriously, they get human women as prizes.

They literally call one a trophy.

Only the film's opening moments ring true. It's 1982, and Sam Brenner and Will Cooper are a couple of pre-teen boys excited about the new arcade in their neighborhood. They're so good at video games that they compete in the world championships, and Brenner almost wins. A cocky, mullet-wearing kid who nicknamed himself "The Fire Blaster" takes first.

Flash forward to present day, and Sam and Will are still best friends. Only now, Sam (Sandler) installs home-theater systems, and Will (Kevin James) is president of the United States. He launches a kids' reading program to boost his sagging approval ratings, but he can't pronounce the multisyllabic words in a children's book.

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The first introduction to these guys as grown-ups is the two of them discussing which Hollywood actresses are hottest.

Will snaps into action when a U.S. territory is mysteriously attacked from the sky. Forget the elite military and special services — Will calls up Sam, the one-time video game championship runner up, hoping he might spot some arcadeinspired pattern in the airborne attack. Whaddaya know; it looks just like Galaga!

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

RUNNING TIME: Running time: 106 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: One star out of four.

"Southpaw"

If you've ever wondered what might have happened to Job if had a strong left hook, "Southpaw" may be the film for you.

The rapid descent of light heavyweight champ Billy Hope (Jake Gyllenhaal) in Antoine Fuqua's boxing drama is of biblical proportions. Not weeks after Hope — rich, happy, successful — has defended his belt and unblemished record, a fatal altercation strips him of his family, his mansion and his career.

This being a boxing film, redemption is as much a certainty as a training montage. But Fuqua, an avid boxer himself, has pushed the pugilist parable even further. "Southpaw" is downright Old Testament.

As a tale of transformation, "Southpaw" functions two ways.

There's the story of Billy Hope striving to build his life back.

And then there's the tale of the actor who plays him. The latter packs the bigger punch.

Our first real view of Gyllenhaal is of him streaming toward the camera, emerging from a hazy blur a snarling, bloody spit of rage, rampaging across the ring.

The shot, in a way, is fitting. Gyllenhaal, as one of the most exciting leading men in Hollywood, is coming into focus, even as he's eluding the frame. His maturation as an intense, all-in shape-shifter has become especially clear of late in films like "Nightcrawler" and "Prisoners." ''Southpaw" is him romping in his new weight class.

Much has already been made of Gyllenhaal's bulking up for "Southpaw," and it's indeed impressive. But beyond the startling sight of the actor we once knew a s D o n n i e D a r k o c o v e re d i n m u s c l e s a n d t a t t o o s , Gyllenhaal's performance is most dynamic in his tender, mumbled moments with his wife, Maureen (Rachel McAdams) or daughter Leila (Oona Laurence). Outside of the ring, his Billy Hope sounds like a guy who's been knocked around.

RATE: R by the Motion Picture Association of America for "language throughout and some violence."

RUNNING TIME: 119 minutes.

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

"Vacation"

The great American family road trip seems, in the 32 years since we first met the Griswolds, as antiquated a concept as ever. Middle class families fly now — device enabled, efficiency obsessed and always aware of the outside world.

Families flew in 1983, too, of course. "National Lampoon's Vacation" actually begins with a bit of a debate about air versus ground, but road trips back then, even cross-country ones, weren't so out of the question for a family of four, especially when they had two weeks to do it.

There's beauty and humor, probably, in the ways families travel now, but "Vacation," a spiritual and literal continuation of what John Hughes and Harold Ramis imagined three decades ago, isn't interested in the now of it all.

Rather, "Vacation" is an over-the-top, often hilarious homage to the original from the earnest and talented writing-directing team of John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. It's also completely divorced from the reality that made the first so

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perfect.

In 2015, Rusty Griswold (Ed Helms) is grown and living in the Chicago suburbs with his wife Debbie (Christina Applegate) and sons, James (Skyler Gisondo) and Kevin (Steele Stebbins). They're middle class in the way that all families are middle class in the movies these days — you wouldn't know it from the house, the clothes, or their choices.

Their life looks as genuine as a stock photo.

They vacation annually at the same cabin, but Rusty realizes the routine has become a rut. To shake things up he decides to recreate his own childhood trek to Wally World, leading to the introduction of the movie's best long-running joke: The Tartan Prancer.

It's a (fictional) boxy, Albanian rental car with cup-holders on the outside, suicide doors, two gas tanks and an identical front and back that deserves its own billing.

At first it seems like a miss. It's too ostentatious with its oddities and elaborate key device featuring cryptic symbols on each button (a rocket ship, a top hat, a muffin, and a swastika, to name a few). But then we see the bizarre vehicle in action, and watching each function come alive is a treat. The moments are crafted with invigorating imagination, care, and perfect goofiness.

RATED: R by the Motion Picture Association, for "crude and sexual content and language throughout, and brief graphic nudity."

RUNNING TIME: 99 minutes.

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

"Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation"

There's some interesting talk in the cleverly satisfying script of "Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation" about the element of luck. As in: How much is luck a factor in the success of Ethan Hunt and his IMF cohorts? After all, in the last movie they merely saved us from a nuclear holocaust. Was it talent, work, or dumb luck?

Whatever you decide about that, let's be clear about this: When it comes to Tom Cruise and his durability as an action hero, luck has little to do with it. The guy's an action star extraordinaire, and it's not luck or chance but work and smarts and yes, some swashbuckling derring-do that get him there. Whatever you may think of Cruise and his complex off-screen persona, let's give him this: At age 53, he and his Ethan Hunt are, if anything, getting more fun to watch. And they make "Rogue Nation" not merely a serviceable summer flick, but an entertainment well worth your inflated ticket price.

Let's give kudos to a few other folks, too, starting with director-writer Christopher McQuarrie, who, like each director in the franchise, puts his own stamp on the proceedings.

McQuarrie ("The Usual Suspects") does this with both a wry script that often makes fun of what's happening, and some seriously entertaining action pieces, including a complicated assassination sequence set in Vienna's glittering opera house during a lavish production of Puccini's "Turandot." (Parents: here's a chance to get some opera into your kids' summer — sort of like hiding the broccoli in the brownie mix.)

Also invaluable is returning "MI" vet Simon Pegg as Benji, the wise-cracking (and safe-cracking) computer whiz who provides a crucial dose not only of humor but also of humanity here. Welcome newcomers include Alec Baldwin, as a pompous CIA boss with deliciously dry delivery, and Rebecca Ferguson, making the most and then some of the obligatory female role. Ferguson is — get this — Swedish-born, named Ilsa here, and, yes, shows up in Casablanca, too.

RATED: PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for "sequences of intense action and violence."

RUNNING TIME: 131 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three stars out of four.

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This photo provided by Sony Pictures shows, Peter Dinklage, from left, as Eddie, Ashley Benson as Lady Lisa, and Josh Gad as Ludlow in "Pixels."

"Pixels" flounders from the beginning

By LINIDSEY BAHR Associated Press The most believable element in "Pixels" is that alien video-game creatures could attack our planet.

The core concept is clever — space aliens misunderstand a recording of old videogames as a declaration of war, and send digital monsters based on those games to Earth as their army. But its execution in the hands of director-producer Chris Columbus and star-producer Adam Sandler is a mess.

This disappointing comedy falls apart before it begins because no one would behave the way its characters do, and their ridiculous choices drive the action.

Part of the problem is that it's unclear who the filmmakers think their audience is. This is a big-budget spectacle about 1980s nostalgia aimed at kids who have no emotional connection to the decade. "Pixels" is also insanely sexist, culminating with the winning male characters each rewarded with a woman.

Seriously, they get human women as prizes.

They literally call one a trophy.

Only the film's opening moments ring true.

It's 1982, and Sam Brenner and Will Cooper are a couple of pre-teen boys excited about the new arcade in their neighborhood. They're so good at video games that they compete in the world championships, and Brenner almost wins. A cocky, mullet-wearing kid who nicknamed himself "The Fire Blaster" takes

first.

Flash forward to present day, and Sam and Will are still best friends. Only now, Sam (Sandler) installs home-theater systems, and Will (Kevin James) is president of the United States. He launches a kids' reading program to boost his sagging approval ratings, but he can't pronounce the multi-syllabic words in a children's book.

The first introduction to these guys as grown-ups is the two of them discussing which Hollywood actresses are hottest.

Will snaps into action when a U.S. territory is mysteriously attacked from the sky. Forget the elite military and special services — Will calls up Sam, the one-time video game championship runner up, hoping he might

spot some arcade-inspired pattern in the airborne attack. Whaddaya know; it looks just like Galaga!

Sam is a loser who feels his best days are 30 years behind him, at the arcade. He's the kind of guy who shows up to the White House wearing shorts and hits on the pretty homeowner whose theater system he's installing. When she rejects him but ends up driving behind him on the street, he declares to no one: "She went from zero to psycho in 3.4 seconds." Because women are crazy, get it?!

That homeowner turns out to be Lt. Colonel Violet Van Patten (Michelle Monaghan), a defense leader forced to work with Sam and his team of childhood friends against the alien threat.

"Paper Towns" worth a look

By ROBERT GRUBAUGH Of The Edge I can’t say that “Paper Towns” had the best trailer that I’d seen this year. That honor definitely goes to “The Martian”, the upcoming Matt Damon vehicle b r i n g i n g t o l i f e A n d y We i r ’ s excellent novel. “Paper Towns”, though, was a close second. It got my attention in a major way.

First and foremost were Cara D e l e v i n g n e ’ s e y e b ro w s . T h e naturally severe look the British supermodel has on her lovely face is so captivating that it was worth learning how to spell her challenging last name. I have no idea how to pronounce it, but I know enough to pronounce her a star…plus my nieces tell me she’s part of Taylor Swift’s posse. Cara aside, the mystery appealed to me

guttural pleasures of elusiveness and forlorn romance.

This adaptation of the John Green book did not short change on this payoff after months of waiting to see if it would be worth the inflated hype I sometimes build up for these things in my mind.

Much like last summer ’s “The Fault in Our Stars”, “Paper Towns” is a little grown-up for a work about teens. Green’s characters are real and feel lived in, but each has a quirk that makes you covet the time you get to spend with them. Delevingne plays Margo Roth Spiegelman, the coolest, most fashionable, unique, and beguiling girl that ever went to high school in a fictional representation of suburban Orlando. The boy across the street who pines for her is Quentin (Nat Wolff, a Green vet from Stars), a normal kid just

trying to get through until the day when his hard work at school pays off with a rewarding future. He and Margo were thick as thieves as children, including in an early scene where the stumble upon a suicide victim in the park one day. Unfortunately, as they often do, boys and girls drift apart before his feelings catch up to his sensibilities.

As they prepare to graduate from their senior year, Q still y e a r n s t o f e e l a ff e c t i o n f ro m Margo, but they’ve become almost s t r a n g e r s . Wi t h o u t w a r n i n g , the plot explodes into Margo’s revenge mission against those who’ve wrong her in adolescence.

With Q along for the ride (and driving the getaway minivan), M a rg o u n l e a s h e s p r a n k a f t e r hilarious prank on her cheating boyfriend (Giffin Freeman), a

complicit friend (Caitlin Carver), and the class bully (RJ Shearer).

It’s a riot until they’re done and Margo turns maudlin, bemoaning her restlessness and the grief she feels being trapped in a family that doesn’t support her free-spirited creativity, hipster habits, and devotion to the vagabond lifestyle.

The movie itself turns into a mysterious hunt for Margo by Q and some of his friends (Austin Abrams, Justice Smith, Halston Sage, Jaz Sinclair) after she runs out on their meaningful night in a cloud of intriguing misdirection.

Using his knowledge of Margo and her fun-loving, rebellious way of making life a celebration, Q pieces together a series of clues she left behind that puts him and his new crew on a road trip to upstate New York to find her, express his long-held love, and whisk her

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home to, at first, prom and then, later, graduation. Their destination is a ‘paper town’, a MacGuffin that the film uses to explain her hiding place is a fictitious settlement used by old tyme mapmakers to protect their proprietary maps without having to pay for copyrighting them. The adventure is delightful and chock full of coming-of-age sentiments that felt like they were coming from a place of love, even if the final act also features some of Green’s tell-tale twists and painful red herrings. It was good enough to drive me toward the book, something I say as high praise.

"Paper Towns" runs 109 minutes and is rated PG-13 for some language, drinking, sexuality, and partial nudity - all involving teens. I give this film two and a half stars out of four.

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Dealey Plaza stirs emotions There aren't a lot of places that stir my emotions.

Dealey Plaza in Dallas did.

Located at the site where Elm Street, Main Street and Commerce Street merge in downtown Dallas, Dealey Plaza is infamously known as the site of President John F. Kennedy's assassination on Nov. 22, 1963.

I was 10 months old on that day, but those old enough to remember it can still feel the punch-to-the-gut impact it had on our nation.

The dashing young president, seated next to his princess-like wife, gunned down in front of a couple of hundred well wishers.

For good or for bad, Dealey Plaza hasn't changed much in 51 years.

It's not hard to picture the president's limousine turning left off Houston Street onto Elm or hear the gunshots above the cheers or imagine the shear terror that followed.

The grassy knoll, where a suspected gunman might have fired at the president, is still there.

The concrete pedestal, high above Elm Street, from which Abraham Zapruder captured the assassination on film is still there.

And the Texas School Book Depository, which is where suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots, is still there, now known as Dallas County Administration Building.

Dealey Plaza isn't as big as I had expected it to be. Perhaps its size is what drew the assassin (or assassins) to the site.

A white X on Elm Street marks the spot where the fatal bullet struck Kennedy. It's tacky, to be sure, but puts the event into perspective.

There's a museum on the sixth floor of the old Texas School Book Depository, but we were heading home from Austin and passed it up.

But for emotional impact, you don't need much more.

Dealey Plaza is still a punch-to-the-gut.

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Religion Religion briefs A 2nd covert video targets Planned Parenthood on fetal parts

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Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, says the new video, and one released last week, make it clear that "Planned Parenthood is involved in the selling of baby body parts."

Federal law prohibits the commercial sale of fetal tissue, but allows not-for-profit donation if the women who undergo abortions give their consent. Planned Parenthood contends that the payments discussed in the videos involve the legal reimbursement

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The Arts Paul Taylor Dance Company to perform at the Touhill Oct. 2 & 3 For The Edge World-renowned choreographer Paul Taylor is the last living member of the pantheon that established American modern dance. Few artists in recent history have had the profound impact on their art form that Paul Taylor has had on dance over six decades. Paul Taylor Dance Company, established in 1954, has long been one of the world's most highly regarded performing arts companies. On October 2-3, as the fall kick-off to its 50th anniversary season, Dance St. Louis presents Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Touhill Performing Arts Center.

Dance St. Louis executive director and current Paul Taylor Dance Company board member will be honored on stage prior to the performance on October 3.

“The American spirit soars whenever Taylor’s dancers dance,” states the San Francisco Chronicle.

Led by legendary choreographer Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor Dance Company is one of the world’s most highly sought-after ensembles, and it delivers dynamic and thoughtprovoking pieces. The 16-member company performs Paul Taylor's

works around the world, and has appeared in more than 520 cities in 62 countries to date.

Paul Taylor is one of the d a n c e w o r l d ' s m o s t a d m i re d c h o re o g r a p h e r s . I n 1 9 5 4 , h e presented his first choreographed piece with five other dancers in Manhattan. Taylor has since claimed 60 years of unrivaled creativity becoming a cultural icon and one of history’s most celebrated artists. Taylor ’s meticulously choreographed dances draw from and comment on influential moments in American cultural history – such as war, spirituality, sexuality, morality and mortality –

putting his comical spin on some of these tougher issues while embracing the beauty of movement.

The St. Louis program includes the following works. (Program is subject to change.)

Mercuric Tidings (1982) Music: Franz Schubert Choreography: Paul Taylor Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: April 20, 1982 The Greek god Mercury was the messenger for all the gods. He would bring information to both gods and men. The word “Tidings” is a word that best translates as

information that is brought to you.

“Mercuric Tidings” therefore refers to the information or messages that are being brought to you by the god Mercury.

Three Dubious Memories (2010) Music: Peter Elyakim Taussig Choreography: Paul Taylor Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: October 30, 2010 “ T h re e D u b i o u s M e m o r i e s ” i s h i g h l i g h t e d i n t h e re c e n t documentary “Creative Domain” (www.paultaylorcreativedomain. com), which gives an unprecedented, in-depth documentation of how Paul Taylor creates a single dance and reveals how his work ethic has created some of the most iconic dances of our time. “Three Dubious Memories” explores the subjective nature of memory. The protagonists in a love triangle recall their relationships w i t h e a c h o t h e r d i f f e r e n t l y, illustrating that various participants may recall events differently, each of whom believes in the accuracy of their own version. “The mind remembers facts the way it wants them to be,” according to Taylor.

Piazzolla Caldera (1997) Music: Astor Piazzolla and Jerzy Peterburshsky Choreography: Paul Taylor Set and Costumes: Santo Loquasto Lighting: Jennifer Tipton Date First Performed: June 12, 1997 “Without a single authentic tango step, Paul Taylor captures the essence of tango culture….

Stunning. Taylor looks at the attitudes implicit of the tango –

as sexual game, as social identity – and reshapes them. Seethes and flares with sexuality and develops a huge erotic charge. One of Taylor’s most astonishing (even for him) creations.” – Clement Crisp, Financial Times of London As part of Dance St. Louis’ 50th Anniversary, Sally Brayley Bliss, past Dance St. Louis executive director and current Paul Taylor Dance Company board member will be honored on stage prior to the performance on Saturday, October 3.

TICKETS Tickets are $30-$50 and available at the Dance St. Louis box office at 3547 Olive St. in the Centene Center for Arts and Education in Grand Center, by calling 314-534-6622, or by visiting http://dancestlouis.org.

FREE PRE-SHOW PROGRAM Dance St. Louis Artistic & Executive Director Michael Uthoff hosts a free program, the Marjorie Orgel Speaking of Dance Series, in the Touhill’s Terrace Lobby at 7:15 p.m. prior to the 8 p.m. performances.

SEASON SPONSORS Wells Fargo Advisors is Dance S t . L o u i s ’ p re s e n t i n g s e a s o n sponsor. Ameren is the supporting season sponsor. Dance St. Louis is also supported by the Arts and Education Council, Missouri Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Regional Arts Commission and the Shubert Foundation.

2015-2016 50th ANNIVERSARY DANCE ST. LOUIS SEASON Dance St. Louis continues to be recognized as the leading dance presenter in St. Louis, the Midwest and by the professional dance community. The next performances of this season are:

Pictured are two views of the Paul Taylor Dance Company.

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Above, a previous Art Fair at Queeny Park.

Art Fair returns to Queeny Park For The Edge The Greater St. Louis Art Association (GSLAA) presents the Labor Day Weekend Art Fair at Queeny Park from September 4 – 6 at the relaxing and climate-controlled Greensfelder Recreation Center, located on 550 Weidman Road, Ballwin, MO. For 37 years, the Spring and Labor Day Weekend Art Fairs held at Queeny Park are known to be two of the most reputable, longestrunning juried art fairs in the bi-state region.

The show features more than 130 juried artists from around the St. Louis region and 20 or more states, representing the following m e d i a : c e r a m i c s , d r a w i n g , p a i n t i n g , p h o t o g r a p h y, j e w e l r y, printmaking, digital art, glass, mixed media, fiber, sculpture, wood and more.

In addition to the original and outstanding works of fine art and crafts, there will also be a ceremony Friday night honoring Lifetime Award winning artists.

Other features include: • Wine tasting by Three Squirrels Winery and live music by the Ann Dueren Trio all weekend.

• Drawings for $50 or $100 “art dollars” that can be spent at any artist’s booth.

• The popular Art Discovery Adventure for children from noon to 4pm Sunday; a hands on Art Wall for Children and adults, Make and Take pottery demonstrations for adults and children; Claymazing; as well as carved egg shell demonstrations.

• A refreshment café serving meals and snacks during show hours.

Proceeds from $5 admission and the artists’ booth fees go to GSLAA’s Student Scholarship Fund and help cover show expenses.

St. Louis-area high school seniors are eligible to apply for the art education scholarship, which is sent directly to the college of his or her choice. Scholarship winners will have their work displayed at the Spring Fair.

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The Arts EAC welcomes new exhibit

By JULIA BIGGS Of The Edge

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rt is made in solidarity by an artist tucked away with his or her thoughts. And that art is not supposed to be humorous. It’s supposed to be serious. But the curators of the next Edwardsville Arts Center Show, “It's Funny Between Us: Collaboration in Contemporary Art,” hope to make you re-think these stereotypical ideals about art. “It 's Funny Between Us: Collaboration in Contemporary Art” opens with a reception from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Aug. 7 and runs through Sept. 4.

Nick Martin, co-curator of the exhibit, explained that he became involved in this exhibit after EAC Board Member Brigham Dimick invited him to curate an EAC show on collaboration. “He was my primary professor at SIUE while I was earning my Master of Fine Arts. While studying with him, we had many conversations about the virtues of working collaboratively,” Martin said.

After being asked to curate the “collaboration” exhibit, Martin said that he immediately called his friend and colleague Ben Mepham. “We went to an MA program together at Purdue University after having met at Alma College in our undergraduate studies,” Martin said. “We had so much fun collaborating in Contemporary Arts Initiative while in school, and we both thought it was more appropriate/fun if we worked together on the show.”

Co-curator Mepham pointed out that in doing a show about “collaborative art” – being art that is created by more than one person- just made sense to have more than one curator.

“Nothing about this exhibition “belongs” to just any single person,” Mepham noted. “It is all about bringing together multiple voices and perspectives. The process of doing collaborative art involves a lot of negotiation, compromise, discussion, give and take, blurring of who did what at what time. It seemed appropriate for the curatorial aspect of this show to happen in the same way.”

“Traditionally there is this idea that an artist is someone who works by themselves, locked away in a studio where they are madly cranking out masterpieces,” Mepham elaborated. “We want to show that this is not the case. Great art is increasingly made by partners, in groups, through social means.”

Mepham noted that for this exhibit, he and Martin were interested in challenging the traditional idea that an artist is someone who works alone. “We want art done by more than one artist. Or, it could be art made through an artist/viewer collaboration,” he said. “That's a bit different than the artist simply asking the viewer to touch things made by the artist or to enter a space made by the artist. It is a creator and viewer on equal footing, all contributing to multi-authored imagery, be it 2D, 3D, performance, or whatever.”

Mepham also emphasized that they both he and Martin were “cheerleaders for art that has a humorous quality” which will also be a part of this exhibit. “Humorous art is often not particularly valued in the art world, and we can't see any good reason for that,” he stressed. “Art that makes you laugh can also make you think or it can have a political or activist function or even if it just exists to make you laugh, why is that not as creative or vital in the visual arts?”

The artists featured in this exhibit will be the group Trance Dancer: Neil Cain, Dietrick Klooster, Jenny Ollikainen, Aaron Nemec and Liz Erlewine; Venus Tourism Bureau which is Whitney Allen: Press Secretary, Alicia Obermeyer: Marketing Manager, and Kelly Lesniak: research analyst The group of Collaborative Prints is Nick Martin, Ashlea Gernand, and Mike Wartgow. We Draw Together will feature Trevor Stone and Natalie Berry while Akshully is the team of Cassie McCarthy and Ben Mepham.

“We invited people to the show that we personally found interesting,” Mepham said. “They happen to be from different parts of the U.S., so it is a national exhibition. We wanted people who can make art that makes us laugh, but who also on some level make artwork that is not only collaborative but about the process of collaborating. The experience of doing collaborative art is a valid and interesting topic to discuss through collaborative art itself.”

Early in the process of curating the show we picked We Draw Together (Natalie Berry and Trevor Stone) as a collaborative team we really wanted to include,” Mepham pointed out. “I was attracted to their working process. They are a married couple and the way they discuss their working method has a lot of parallels to marriage itself.”

“It is sometimes like a dance, they share they space, they move out of each other's way, they help one-another and build off one-another's idea,” Mepham added. “They no doubt have some conflicts and have to find ways to push past that.

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Anything is possible in the new EAC exhibit, "It's Funny Between Us: Collaboration in Contemporary Art." I hadn't ever heard anyone discuss their art that way but it makes a lot of sense.”

It’s an exhibit that will like no other. “I don't like to be bored when I see an exhibition, so that's how I start the curatorial process. How can we put together a show that is not boring, that is dynamic, that makes you think, that challenges what people normally think of when they think of 'art,' that gets artists doing things you don't normally see them doing, that pushes artwork ahead in a way that I think is important and forward-looking,” Mepham said. “If viewers can have fun and laugh, then I'm happy, but on a larger scale I want viewers to walk away from this exhibition with a new and different take on how art can happen, who can create it, what it can be about

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and what art can do for someone on a personal level and/or on a societal level.”

“This is far from a stuffy art show,” Martin added. “We chose the artists because of their use of humor and/or interactivity.”

The EAC is located at 6165 Center Grove Road in Edwardsville. It is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Friday; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and is closed Sundays through Tuesdays.

The artwork of District 7's Summer Zone kids will be on display in the DeToye Student Gallery during the “It's Funny Between Us: Collaboration in Contemporary Art” exhibition dates.

The Arts Artistic adventures Tickets for Sheldon events available

Single tickets for The Sheldon’s 2015-2016 season will go on sale Saturday, August 8 at 10 a.m. through MetroTix at 314-534-1111, through The Sheldon’s website at TheSheldon.org, or in person at The Fox Theatre Box Office, 534 N. Grand Blvd. Concert-only tickets for Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will go on sale August 28, patron tickets are available now through The Sheldon; concert-only tickets for Ramsey Lewis: “The In Crowd” will go on sale October 2, patron tickets available now through The Sheldon.

Featuring the best in jazz, folk, classical, coffee and matinee concerts, the upcoming season includes artists such as Eliane Elias, Jake Shimabukuro, Billy Childs, Rhonda Vincent, Sam Bush, Peter Martin, Banu Gibson, Julia Bullock, Ruthie Foster, Cyrus Chestnut, David Halen, Bjorn Ranheim and members of the St. Louis Symphony and many more.

For a VIP concert experience, The Sheldon continues to offer the “AllAccess Ticket,” a premium package that includes preferred concert seating, complimentary parking, a cocktail and hors d’oeuvres reception before the concert and during intermission, and more.

Seating is limited. Call The Sheldon’s Development Department at 314-5339900 to reserve All-Access tickets.

Prices vary by performance. For more information or a full season listing, call The Sheldon at 314-5339900 or visit TheSheldon.org.

COCA announces upcoming schedule

COCA – the Center for Creative Arts – has announced its upcoming schedule.

COCA is located at 524 Trinity Av e . i n S t . L o u i s . F o r m o re information, visit www.cocastl.org or call 314-725-6555.

June 1-August 14 COCA 2015 Summer Arts Camps COCA Summer Arts Camps for ages 3 to 18 feature a multitude of options for exploring theatre, dance, music, visual arts, culinary arts and more. Multidisciplinary themed camps allow kids and teens the opportunity to combine activities in several areas. Camps are available in one-week sessions, with morning, afternoon and full-day options.

Before and After Care available; additional fees apply. Camps meet Monday, June 1-Friday, August 14, at COCA, 524 Trinity Avenue, St. Louis, MO, and Whitfield School, 175 S Mason Road, Creve Coeur, MO. Call 314-725-6555 or visit www. cocastl.org for more information.

COCA 2015 Summer Arts Camps are presented by Mercy Kids.

June 1-August 15 COCA 2015 Summer Arts Classes COCA offers child, teen and adult classes in Art and Design, Early Childhood, Ballet, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Modern, Tap, Social and Cultural Dance, Fitness, Theatre, and Voice and Music. Multiclass discounts and payment plans available. 2015 Summer Arts Classes Meet Monday, June 1-Friday, August 15, at COCA, 524 Trinity Avenue, St. Louis, MO. Call 314-725-6555 or visit www.cocastl. org for more information.

June 5 – August 28 COCA Gallery Exhibition: Jenny Murphy: GOODS GOODS is Jenny Murphy’s new

exploration in consumption, or more aptly, anti-consumption. This site- specific installation encourages viewers to look at common household items through a radical lens in which they are the designer, c re a t o r, a n d c o n s u m e r. A f t e r founding the non-profit Perennial in 2011, Murphy embarked on a mission to empower people to live resourcefully and sustainably by teaching them the skills to transform discarded items into valued and cherished resources.

Now, in a new investigation of small economies and the everpresent big-box store, Murphy invites viewers to step into GOODS to rethink, reuse, and go shopping.

The opening reception is Friday, June 5, from 6:00-8:00pm in the Millstone Gallery at COCA, 524 Trinity Avenue, St. Louis, MO. The exhibition is free and open to the public through Friday, August 28.

Call 314.725.6555 or visit www. cocastl.org for more information.

Presented by the Arthur and Helen Baer Charitable Foundation, with additional support provided by The Millstone Foundation and Missouri Arts Council.

August 22 Taste of COCA: Family Style At COCA, everyone’s a part of the family!All are welcome to join us at COCA for a morning of sampler classes and behind-the-scenes peeks at COCA performances, all while enjoying a delicious waffle breakfast.

Classes will range from adult & teen hip-hop to early childhood visual arts to fun improv games. This event is hosted by the COCA Associate Board and will take place on Saturday, August 22 from 9:00am-12:00pm at COCA, 524 Trinity Avenue, St. Louis, MO. Tickets are $5-10. Call 314-7256555 or visit www.cocastl.org for more information.

October 2-11 Fall down the rabbit hole with this original dance production, created and choreographed by Anthony “Redd” Williams, that puts a hip-hop spin on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Valiant Alex has lost control of his dream world wUNDERland to the Red King, who has turned the world completely dark and imprisoned everyone under his evil rule. In order for Alex to restore wUNDERland to the beautiful place it once was, he will have to travel back to this mythical land and claim his rightful place as the creator and king of the land, with the help of a largerthan-life Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat and many more whimsical characters.

Experience this classic upside-down fantasy world through a whole new lens with dazzling costumes, visual effects, contemporary music and cutting-edge hip-hop choreography.

Just as hip-hOZ did before it, the original story of wUNDERland is sure to excite and electrify viewers.

Anthony “Redd” Williams is the Artistic Director of the COCA HipHop Crew and Dance Coordinator of COCA’s Hip-Hop program. He has performed on tours, in music videos and in television commercials for some of hip-hop’s biggest recording artists including Beyoncé and Lady Gaga.

Season subscriptions are now on sale. Single tickets will go on sale Tuesday, August 26. Performances are Friday, October 2 & 9 at 7:00pm; Saturday, October 3 & 10 at 5:00pm; Sunday, October 4 & 11 at 1:00pm & 4:00pm in COCA’s Founders’ Theatre, 524 Trinity Ave., St. Louis, MO. Tickets cost $16-20. Call 314.725.6555 or visit www.cocastl.org for more i n f o r m a t i o n . # C O C A P re s e n t s

#wUNDERland October 2 wUNDER Night in wUNDERland Family Event Fall down the rabbit hole for a night of family fun, food and fantastical characters...including a chance to try out your own hip-hop moves during a fun COCA dance lesson! Be the FIRST to see the WORLD PREMIERE of wUNDERland, all while supporting COCA! The fun starts at 5:30PM on October 2 with the world premiere performance starting at 7:00PM in COCA’s Founders’ Theatre, 524 Trinity Ave., St. Louis, MO. Tickets are $35 and VIP tickets are $50.

Contact Virginia Howell at vhowell@ cocastl.org for more information or visit www.cocastl.org.

November 14-15 C O C A P re s e n t s 2 0 1 5 - 2 0 1 6 : Superman 2050 From Chicago theatre company

Theatre Unspeakable E p i c s t o r y, p o c k e t - s i z e d proportions—seven actors share one tiny platform (just 3-by7 feet of space!) and upon it an original Superman tale unfolds.

Set in a fictional 2050 Metropolis with a remarkable resemblance to Chicago, this Theatre Unspeakable production highlights imaginative, resourceful cast members who use only their bodies and voices to create every prop, scene, sound effect and character in a battle between Superman and Lex Luthor. Season subscriptions on sale now. Single tickets go on sale Tuesday, August 26. Performances are Saturday, November 14 at 2:00 & 5:00pm and Sunday, November 15 at 1:00 & 4:00pm in COCA’s Founders’ Theatre, 524 Trinity Ave., St. Louis, MO. Tickets cost $14-18. Presented by Wells Fargo Advisors. #COCAPresents

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December 11-13 COCA Presents 2015-2016: The Little Dancer: Moved by the Masters The COCA holiday tradition returns! COCA's Ballet Eclectica presents the tale of Degas' famous statuette that comes to life and finds herself dancing through various works of art. This year, be inspired by the great works of the consummate masters—from choreographers, to painters, to composers. Season subscriptions are now on sale, single tickets go on sale Tuesday, August 26. Performances are Friday, December 11 at 7:00pm, Saturday, December 12 at 2:00 & 5:00pm, and Sunday, December 13 at 1:00pm in COCA’s Founders’ Theatre, 524 Trinity Ave., St. Louis, MO. Tickets cost $14-18. The Little Dancer is graciously supported

by Mary Strauss. #COCAPresents #COCALittleDancer

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The Arts Artistic adventures Fox announces Broadway Series

The Fabulous Fox Theatre is thrilled to announce its remarkable 2015–2016 U.S. Bank Broadway Series featuring five new hits that are making their St. Louis debuts. The season will open in the fall with MATILDA THE MUSICAL, winner of four 2013 Tony Awards®. Disney’s high-energy new musical NEWSIES kicks off 2016 followed by BEAUTIFUL–The Carole King Musical and the contemporary smash IF/THEN. Rounding out the season are the stunningly romantic THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY and a new production of the beloved classic, THE SOUND OF MUSIC. MATILDA THE MUSICAL | October 21 – November 1, 2015 “Welcome to the deliriously amusing, heartwarming, headspinning world of MATILDA THE MUSICAL. You won’t want to leave” says Bloomberg News. Time Magazine’s #1 Show of the Year and the winner of 50 international awards, including four Tony Awards®, MATILDA is the story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with a vivid imagination and a sharp mind, dares to take a stand and change her own destiny. Based on the beloved novel by Roald Dahl, MATILDA continues to thrill sold-out audiences of all ages on Broadway and in London’s West End. The Wall Street Journal says, “The makers of MATILDA have done the impossible – triumphantly! It is smart, sweet, zany and stupendous fun.”

Disney’s NEWSIES | January 19 – 31, 2016 Direct from Broadway comes NEWSIES, the smash-hit, crowdpleasing new musical from Disney.

Winner of the 2012 Tony Awards® for Best Score and Best Choreography, NEWSIES has audiences and critics alike calling it “a musical worth singing about,” says The New York Times. Filled with one heartpounding number after another, it’s a high-energy explosion of song and dance you just don’t want to miss.

Based on true events, NEWSIES tells the captivating story of a band of underdogs who become unlikely heroes when they stand up to the most powerful men in New York.

It’s a rousing tale about fighting for what’s right…and staying true to who you are. NEWSIES was brought to the stage by an awardwinning creative team. It features a score by Alan Menken (“Beauty and the Beast”) and Jack Feldman (“The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride”); a book by Harvey Fierstein (“La Cage Aux Folles”); choreography by Christopher Gattelli (“South Pacific”); and direction by Jeff Calhoun (“Big River”).

BEAUTIFUL–The Carole King Musical | February 23 – March 6, 2016 BEAUTIFUL–The Carole King Musical tells the inspiring true story of King’s remarkable rise to stardom, from being part of a hit songwriting team with her husband Gerry Goffin, to her relationship with fellow writers and best friends Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, to becoming one of the most successful solo acts in popular music history. Along the way, she made more than beautiful music, she wrote the soundtrack to a generation.

BEAUTIFUL features a stunning array of beloved songs written

by Goffin/King and Mann/Weil, including “I Feel the Earth Move,” “One Fine Day,” “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” “You’ve Got a Friend” and the title song. BEAUTIFUL has St. Louis

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connections as its producer Paul Blake was the executive producer at The Muny for 22 years and director Marc Bruni has directed numerous Muny shows including “The Music Man” and “Legally Blonde the Musical.”

The book is by Tony Award®nominee and Academy Award®nominated writer Douglas McGrath and choreography is by Josh Prince.

BEAUTIFUL took home two 2014 Tony Awards and the 2015 Grammy® for Best Musical Theater Album.

IF/THEN | March 15 – 27, 2016 IF/THEN is a contemporary Broadway musical about living in New York today – and all the possibilities that tomorrow brings.

With unforgettable songs and a deeply moving story by the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award®-winning creators of “Next to Normal,” this “fascinating, ambitious, and original new musical” (New York Post) simultaneously follows one woman’s two possible life paths, painting a deeply moving portrait of the lives we lead, as well as the lives we might have led. The Toronto Star calls it “The bravest new musical in a long time. Led by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s dazzling score, it is one of the few Broadway shows that looks and sounds like the world of today.“ “A smart, deeply touching and big-hearted new musical” says The Washington Post. “Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey's score is invested with melodic urgency, bringing you to tears or breathlessness.”

And the Chicago Tribune calls it “A thoroughly fascinating, intellectually and musically rich new musical. It is a zesty, savvy and ambitious original.”

THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY | April 5 – 17, 2016 THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, one of the most romantic stories ever written, first captured the nation’s attention as a best-selling novel by Robert James Waller and is now an irresistible, two time Tony Award®-winning Broadway musical.

This stunning new production features gorgeous, soulful music

by Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown (“Parade,” “The Last Five Years”) that the Daily News hails as “one of Broadway’s best scores in the last decade.” With a book by Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman (“The Secret Garden,” “The Color Purple”) and direction by Tony winner Bartlett Sher (“South Pacific” “The Light in the Piazza”), THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY is the unforgettable story of two people caught between decision and desire, as a chance encounter becomes a second chance at so much more.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC | April 26 – May 8, 2016 The hills are alive with the brand new production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, directed by Jack O’Brien.

The spirited, romantic and beloved musical story of Maria and the Von Trapp Family will once again thrill audiences with its Tony®, Grammy®

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••• 2015 – 2016 U.S. Bank Broadway Series Shows and Specials: (The Six Season Ticket shows are in bold) MATILDA THE MUSICAL * October 21 – November 1, 2015 MAMMA MIA! * November 6 – 8, 2015 I RV I N G B E R L I N ’ S W H I T E CHRISTMAS * November 17 – 22, 2015 CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE * December 4 – 6, 2015 WICKED * December 9, 2015 – January 3, 2016 Disney’s NEWSIES * January 19 – January 31, 2016 Dance St. Louis presents RIVERDANCE-the 20th Anniversary World Tour * February 12 – 14, 2016 BEAUTIFUL-THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL * February 23 – March 6, 2016 Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST * March 11 – 13, 2016 IF/THEN * March 15 – 27, 2016 THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY * April 5 – 17, 2016 THE SOUND OF MUSIC * April 26 – May 8, 2016 JERSEY BOYS * May 18 – 22, 2016

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Series Specials Eight specials for the 2015–2016 Season will be offered to subscribers for priority seating before their public on-sale dates. The ultimate feel-good show, MAMMA MIA!, returns to the Fox November 6–8.

For the holidays, the Fox welcomes back IRVING BERLIN’S WHITE CHRISTMAS November 17–22 and CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE December 4–6. Back by popular demand, WICKED returns December 9, 2015 – January 3, 2016. Dance St. Louis will present RIVERDANCE– The 20th Anniversary World Tour February 12–14. “Be Our Guest” at the Fox for NETworks presents Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST March 11–13. The boys are back in town when JERSEY BOYS visits the Fabulous Fox May 18–22.

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The Arts Arts calendar Friday, Aug. 7

The Lalas, Lumiere Live, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Paraquad 45th Anniversary Celebration w/Josh Blue, Sheldon Concert Hall, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

Beauty and the Beast, The Muny, St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.

Stages presents Anything Goes, Robert G. Reim Theatre, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m., Runs through Aug. 16.

Stray Dog Theatre presents Spellbound! A Musical Fable, Tower Grove Abbey, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

Children’s China: Celebrating Culture, Character and Confucius, Magic House at Children’s Museum, St. Louis, 9:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs through September 7.

Lantern Festival: Magic Reimagined, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs through Aug. 23.

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

Nanjing Style: Photographs from our Sister City, International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through Aug. 30.

Thomas Cole’s Voyage of Life Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through September 20.

State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through September 7.

Creatures Great and Small: Animals in Japanese Art Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through Aug. 30.

Adorning Self and Space: West African Textiles Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through September 7.

A Walk in 1875 St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through February 14, 2016.

Senufo: Art and Identity in West Africa Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Music, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through September 27.

The Dream is a Manifesto Exhibit, International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through October 25.

Saturday, Aug. 8

Stages presents Anything Goes, Robert G. Reim Theatre, St. Louis, 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., Runs through Aug. 16.

Stray Dog Theatre presents Spellbound! A Musical Fable, Tower Grove Abbey, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

Children’s China: Celebrating Culture, Character and Confucius, Magic House at Children’s Museum, St. Louis, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Runs through September 7.

Lantern Festival: Magic Reimagined, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs through Aug. 23.

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

Nanjing Style: Photographs from our Sister City, International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through Aug. 30.

Thomas Cole’s Voyage of Life Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through September 20.

State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda Exhibit, Missouri

History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through September 7.

Creatures Great and Small: Animals in Japanese Art Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through Aug. 30.

Adorning Self and Space: West African Textiles Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through September 7.

A Walk in 1875 St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through February 14, 2016.

Senufo: Art and Identity in West Africa Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Music, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through September 27.

Sunday, Aug. 9

Stages presents Anything Goes, Robert G. Reim Theatre, St. Louis, 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Runs through Aug. 16.

Children’s China: Celebrating Culture, Character and Confucius, Magic House at Children’s Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Runs through September 7.

Lantern Festival: Magic Reimagined, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs through Aug. 23.

Senufo: Art and Identity in West Africa Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Music, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00

p.m., Runs through September 27.

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

Nanjing Style: Photographs from our Sister City, International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through Aug. 30.

Thomas Cole’s Voyage of Life Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through September 20.

State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through September 7.

Currents 110: Mariam Ghani Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Adorning Self and Space: West African Textiles Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through September 7.

A Walk in 1875 St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through February 14, 2016.

The Dream is a Manifesto Exhibit, International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through October 25.

Monday, Aug. 10

Oklahoma!, The Muny, St. Louis,

8:15 p.m.

State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through September 7.

A Walk in 1875 St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through February 14, 2016.

Tuesday, Aug. 11

Oklahoma!, The Muny, St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.

Nanjing Style: Photographs from our Sister City, International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through Aug. 30.

Thomas Cole’s Voyage of Life Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through September 20.

State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Runs through September 7.

Creatures Great and Small: Animals in Japanese Art Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through Aug. 30.

Adorning Self and Space: West African Textiles Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through September 7.

A Walk in 1875 St. Louis Exhibit,

Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Runs through February 14, 2016.

Senufo: Art and Identity in West Africa Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Music, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through September 27.

Wednesday, Aug. 12

Oklahoma!, The Muny, St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.

Nanjing Style: Photographs from our Sister City, International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through Aug. 30.

Thomas Cole’s Voyage of Life Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through September 20.

State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Runs through September 7.

Creatures Great and Small: Animals in Japanese Art Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through Aug. 30.

Adorning Self and Space: West African Textiles Exhibit, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs through September 7.

A Walk in 1875 St. Louis Exhibit, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Runs through February 14, 2016.

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Music Tuning in The Sheldon to host The Lone Bellow

The Sheldon and KDHX are pleased to welcome The Lone Bellow with special guest Anderson East, Wednesday, October 21 at 8 p.m. in the perfect acoustics of the Sheldon Concert Hall. The concert is part of The Sheldon Sessions series, an on-going collaboration between The Sheldon and KDHX. Southern-born, Brooklyn-based indie-folk trio the Lone Bellow has earned critical and popular acclaim for a sound that mixes folk sincerity, gospel fervor and even heavy metal thunder. But, the heart of the band is harmony: three voices united in a lone bellow. The group has opened for the Civil Wars, Dwight Yokam, Brandi C a rl i l e a n d t h e Av e t t Brothers, and their self-titled debut, produced by Nashville’s Charlie Peacock (the Civil Wars, Holly Williams) and released in January 2013, established them as one of the boldest new acts in the Americana movement. Their latest album, Then Came the Morning, produced by The National guitarist Aaron Dessner, contains some of their most emotional music to date, with most of the vocals recorded in single takes.

Concert only tickets are $22 o r c h e s t r a / $ 2 0 b a l c o n y. C a l l MetroTix at 314-534-1111 or visit TheSheldon.org.

VIP Happy Hour with The Lone Bellow tickets: $109 per ticket includes •One early entry ticket •Invitation to “The Happy Hour” with exclusive acoustic performance by The Lone Bellow and cash bar •One limited edition screenprinted tour poster signed by the band •One commemorative laminate •On-site concert concierge

Halen/Martin Christmas Concert rescheduled

David Halen, Peter Martin and Friends, “Celebrate the Holidays” concert originally scheduled at the Sheldon Concert Hall for December 2, 2015 at 8 p.m., has been rescheduled to December 9, 2015 at 8 p.m.

Celebrate the season with St. Louis Symphony concertmaster David Halen and jazz pianist Peter Martin as they perform holiday favorites such as “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On an Open Fire)” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” as well as classics by Gershwin and more!

Special guests include symphony violinist, and blossoming vocalist, Helen Kim. Tickets will go on sale, as scheduled, on August 8 at 10 a.m. via MetroTix at 314-534-1111 or at www.TheSheldon.org.

Celtic Woman returning to The Fox

Celtic Woman's 10th Anniversary Tour will stop at The Fabulous Fox Sunday, October 18 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $102, $72, $42 and are available online at metrotix.com, by calling 314-534-1111, or in person at the Fabulous Fox Box Office.

Global music sensation Celtic Woman brings its 10th Anniversary World Tour to the Fabulous Fox Theatre on Sunday, October 18 at 7:30 p.m. This enchanting musical experience features C e l t i c Wo m a n p e r f o r m i n g a treasure chest of traditional Irish standards, classical favorites and contemporary pop songs, in the group’s distinctive signature style.

The 10th Anniversary World Tour features four sublimely gifted Irish women - three angelic vocalists and a dazzling Celtic violinist with a full band, plus the Anotas Choir, bagpipers, and Irish dancers all under the direction of Emmy®nominated music producer David Downes. A true celebration of an incredible 10-year journey that has already captivated millions, don’t miss Celtic Woman live in concert! www.CelticWoman.com.

Chamber Music Society announces schedule

The Chamber Music Society of St. Louis’ (CMSSL) 2015-16 season will take patrons on a musical trip around the world throughout their six event program. The season kicks off with “Made In The U.S.A” October 12th and 13th as part of the American Arts Experience – St. Louis celebration.

CMSSL welcomes back renowned British conductor Nicholas McGegan for “Still Going Baroque” November 2nd and 3rd. McGegan previously taught at Washington University and has also appeared with the St. Louis Symphony. He currently serves as Music Director for San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. 2015 ends with a tour of Europe with “Strings

Straight No Chaser to appear at The Fox

Atlantic Records recording group Straight No Chaser has announced the release of their much-anticipated new album as well as details of a major North American tour. "The New Old Fashioned" – the world famous a cappella group’s fifth fulllength release – arrives this October.

Straight No Chaser will celebrate the album’s release with what will be their biggest headline tour to date. “The New Old Fashioned

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G re a s e S i n g - A l o n g , Wi l d e y Theatre, Edwardsville, 7:00 p.m.

P o p N a t i o n S u m m e r To u r 2015 w/Round 2 Crew, Sweet Suspense, Carson Lueders, The Food Conspiracy, Chris Miles, After Romeo, Frankie, Katelyn Jae, The Bomb Digz, The Demo, St. Louis, Doors 6:00 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 7

Jungle Boogie – Push the Limit, Saint Louis Zoo, St. Louis, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Creation Rebels w/DJ Reggie, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

Dom Chronicles, Farout, DJ Mahf, The Demo, St. Louis, 9:00 p.m.

Eric Ketzer (Bar Stage), Cicero’s, University City, 8:00 p.m.

Jake’s Leg, Cicero’s, University City, 8:30 p.m.

The Road to Pointfest w/System Slave, Sozorox, Addicted, Ky and the Yodees, Zustiak, Pop’s, Sauget, 6:30 p.m.

I Actually Album Release Show w/ Fumer, Durango, Mike Pennekamp, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

Jason Michael Carroll, The Ready Room, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

w/The Coup, Outernational, Steffanie Christi’ian, Jessica Care Moore, The Ready Room, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 9

Tim McGraw: Shotgun Rider Tour w/Billy Currington, Chase Bryant, Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m.

Charli XCX & Bleachers w/Børns, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 6:30 p.m.

E v e r y Ti m e I D i e w / R e a l Friends, Counterparts, Gnarwolves, Brigades, Gatherers, The Ready Room, St. Louis, Doors 5:00 p.m.

Safe To Say, Young And Heartless, Watermedown, The Demo, St. Louis, Doors 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Aug. 10

American Idol Live 2015, Peabody Opera House, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m.

Devil You Know w/Outcome of Betrayal, A Promise To Burn, Noesis, Through The Scope, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 6:00 p.m.

Brian Wright, Caleb Caudle, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Chris Brown One Hell of a N i t e To u r, S c o t t r a d e C e n t e r, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m.

Feast in the Park, Faust Park, St. Louis, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

G i l l i a n We l c h , S h e l d o n Concert Hall, St. Louis, 8:00 p.m.

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My Morning Jacket, Peabody Opera House, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m.

Drag The River, The Demo, St. Louis, Doors 7:30 p.m.

KMFDM w/Chant, The Ready Room, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Callaghan, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

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Mike Floss, The Demo, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

The Road to Pointfest: Session 1 Round 2 w/Oatm, My Legacy My Ghost, Torontario, Pop’s, Sauget, 6:30 p.m.

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Sammy Hagar & The Circle, Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m.

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Survay Says, Firestarter w/Duck Brown, Snooty and the Rat Finks, The Demo, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

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

Enjoy.

Unkle Munkey's Coin Club 1027 Century Dr. Edwardsville This is the place to be, great food, great beer selections and an outstanding group of old school video games to help you revisit your youth. Check out the chicken wings, they are some of the best around, and the buffalo chicken pizza is the bomb with slice of celery on top and drizzled with ranch dressing. Don't miss out on playing an original pong arcade game while you're there either.

Gulf Shores Restaurant & Grill 215 Harvard Dr. Edwardsville B e p re p a re d t o w a i t w h e n you visit this new hot spot in E d w a rd s v i l l e , b u t i t ' s w o r t h it. Make sure to check out the gator bites, they are fantastic.

It's alligator meat fried in a corn meal breading. The catfish fillets are fried in the same corn meal breading and equally as good.

There are also gator tacos and don't miss “Crabby Monday's Crab Leg Special.” A little pricey though.

Chubby's Warehouse Bar & Grille 1022 E. Broadway Alton Cheap and delicious. The burgers are fantastic here and extremely affordable. They also h a v e a g o o d b u ff a l o c h i c k e n sandwich and good tacos. Maybe the best thing they offer is their sweet corn nuggets, you can't go wrong with them. It's cash only so make sure you grab some before you go. Only knock is the service could be a little friendlier.

Mission Taco Joint 908 Lafayette Ave. Soulard If you like quirky and eclectic t w i s t s o n M e x i c a n f a re t h e n this is the place for you. There are great tacos and burritos like the Brah'rito with carne asada and chipotle bacon. It is freakin' huge, too. They also have torta selections on the menu and a cool carne asada fries choice in the appetizers. Good beer selections there also.

Huddle Bar & Grill 1101 Caseyville Rd. Suite J Caseyville It may look like your average bar, but get a load of the menu and quickly find out it's not. The food is definitely worth a visit.

Steak night is a definite time to go. Get a New York strip steak and potato for $9.99. Check out the peanut butter bacon burger, the asparagus in balsamic sauce and the sweet potato fries d r i z z l e d w i t h h o n e y, a l l a re delicious choices.

Strange Donuts 2709 Sutton Blvd.

Maplewood An aptly named donut shop, it is one of the weirdest places you may ever eat, but weird doesn't mean it's not good. Check out the strangers, which are daily collaborations with other local

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restaurants. The bacon maple donut and the gooey butter donut a re a l w a y s o n t h e m e n u a n d always fantastic choices.

Cunetto's Corner Cucina 114 N. Main St. Edwardsville This hidden little corner Italian restaurant deserves some love. It offers a quaint dining experience in its small setting, great for a date night or low key dinner.

The fettuccine carbonara is really tasty and the salads are fantastic.

Check out the fried portabella m u s h ro o m s o n t h e a p p e t i z e r menu, too.

Sauce on the Side 903 Pine St. St. Louis If you like calzones and creativity in your food then put this on your food bucket list.

They stuff just about anything you can think of inside a calzone, including eggs, salami, pineapples, figs, chorizo, eggplant and zucchini to name a few. Good sauce selections served on the side. Great craft beers available also.

Pirronne’s Pizzeria 1775 Washington St. Florissant The pizza here is amazing. They use provel cheese and have a slew of ingredients to go on top of their thin crust pies. During the day they have a great buffet lunch special, which also has a salad bar and soups and appetizers.

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

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

entertainment.

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

The menu is ridiculously huge and the portions are even bigger.

Get your own plate of fries for a side, or a bucket of onion rings.

I t o ff e r s a c re a t i v e s a n d w i c h portion of the menu and great southern-style dishes, try the Mac Daddy Burger. You won’t go away hungry here, trust me.

1818 Chophouse 210 S. Buchanan St. Edwardsville This is a great place to grab a s t e a k d i n n e r, t h a t i s t h e i r signature dish. A good place for a fancy dinner date, the ambience in the dining area is fantastic.

I t o ff e r s e x t e n s i v e b re a k f a s t , brunch and dinner menus, but be prepared to pay, it’s pretty expensive.

Sybergs Old Dorsett Rd. Maryland Heights A St. Louis chain restaurant where you can’t go wrong. Check out their awesome selection of pizzas and hot wings and their house-made sauces are fantastic.

Be adventurous and try the shark bites, they are delicious.

Johnson’s Corner Restaurant 2000 State St. Alton It’s a great neighborhood bar and restaurant. Sit at the bar and have a few drinks with a friendly s t a ff a n d p a t ro n s . A s f o r t h e food, get your hands on the best breaded pork tenderloin sandwich ever and check out the monster onion rings, too.

Oriental Spoon 229 Sanatorium Edwardsville A K o re a n re s t a u r a n t w h e re you can’t go wrong. The Kimchi is very good as an appetizer and make sure to check out their bulgogi and bap selections. Make sure to ask your server about spiciness levels if you can’t handle hotness very well.

Schiappa’s Italian Restaurant 402 S. Madison St. Lebanon A quiet pizzeria that offers

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Make sure to check out the great calzones on the menu.

Wasabi Sushi Bar 100 S. Buchanan St. Edwardsville If you’re into sushi then this is a good place to check out. Choose f rom a big selection of rolls, from the California and spicy tuna rolls to great choices like the Batman and the Caterpillar.

From unagi (eel), to sea urchin, salmon, shrimp and tuna, it has it all. Order the edamame on the appetizer menu.

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

J. Gumbo’s 3949 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis Central West End This is a chain restaurant, but it doesn’t feel that way. Check out the St. Louis location at 3949 Lindell Blvd. to get some really g o o d C a j u n a n d C re o l e f o o d quick and cheap. Make sure to check out the crawfish etouffeé.

The menu does a really good job of informing you of spiciness levels.

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

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

Los Tres Amigos 1011 Century Dr. Edwardsville T h e J o s e M o r a l e s Ta c o i s the highlight of this Mexican Restaurant. The deep fried goodness of the taco is topped off with Parmesan cheese to give it that special flavor. Check out the rest of the extensive menu for other great Mexican dishes, too.

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

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

The LuBar & Bistro 911 Fairfax St. Carlyle Pretty cool place to chill out and have a good dinner. The dining area is separated from the bar, as this establishment is split into two levels. The LuBar nachos are arguably the best nachos I’ve ever had and the pulled pork sandwich is a winner. Check out the full breakfast menu also and don’t forget to order some ice cream from the ice cream bar before you leave.

Fazzi’s Bar and Restaurant 1813 Vandalia St. Collinsville O p a ! Yo u ’ l l p r o b a b l y h e a r this a few times here as patrons o rd e r t h e s i g n a t u re a p p e t i z e r dish, Saganaki, consisting of breaded goat ch eese wh ich is doused in oil and set on fire. This Greek and Italian re s t a u r a n t i s v e r y a ff o rd a b l e and has some great choices, including the Mousaka. The gyro plate isn’t bad either.

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

Fantastic pizza, some of the best in the metropolitan area. Always packed so be prepared to wait, but it’s worth it. Make sure to check out the bosco sticks also.

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WE PAY CASH ON $$ MOST ITEMS $$ CHECK ALL OUR PRICES AT CKSMETALCORP.COM CALL FOR TODAY’S PRICES!!

Drexel Heritage coffee & sofa table ($600), Coronation Queen size wrap around brass bed ($300), New Genie 1/2 HP garage door opener ($100), Cerwin-Vega VS-120 Speakers ($125).

618-910-2168

Publisher's Notice

OPPORTUNITIES LISTED DAILY IN THE EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER

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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.

August 6, 2015

Houses For Rent

705

3br/2ba/2 car gar w/ additional parking.

Leclaire Park home, Students welcome!

Pets OK(w/approval). approx. 1acre, appls, fireplace, Cul-de-sac, ch/a. $1,500/mo. Edw. Call 563-676-3735

Apts/Duplexes/Homes www.glsrent.com (618)656-2230 Home for Rent 4BR, 2 full/2 half baths, finished basment.

Spacious deck and backyard. EDW school district. $1900/mo. Call or text 317-378-3258 Small 1br house, $475/mo., 1st/last mo + dep. 618-692-0801.

Leave message. *Small 2br house w/ lg yard. $700/mo. *4br, 2ba, full bsmnt, $1200/mo. *5br, 2ba, 2 car gar, lg yard, $1500/mo.

Call 618-656-2653 SPACIOUS well-maintained 3BD, 3BA CA,all major appl incld. Great location! large deck, 2 car gar.

Approx.1750 sq ft.

2 Olivia Lane, Glen Cbn. $1400 per month Call 618-580-3021 Studio apt dwntn. $450/mo. $450 deposit & $45 credit check.

Call 618-978-5044

Apts/Duplexes For Rent

Apts/Duplexes For Rent

710

2 BR apt, central Edw: Stove, frig, rear pking; $575/mo. + utilities.

Call 619-248-8747 2BR 1BA Duplex near SIU: 97 Devon Ct., Edw.; w/d hkup. no dogs. $825. 444-4658.

2BR apt in E’ville.

Retirement community.

No pets, No smoking. $490. 217-854-8784.

2br duplex, Glen Carbon, w/d hkup, quiet area, $750/mo.

Agnt owned. 977-7657 2BR Loft, newly remod new kit, ba, wndws/drs d/w, w/d hkups. $725 incl. w/s/t. 593-0173 300 Main Apartments

Live in the heart of downtown Edwardsville!

Fully renovated 1&2br apts available!!

Call us today at (618) 307-9506 or www.liveat300main.com 3br TH 1200sq. ft.

Collinsville, $790/mo.

345-9610. Specials!! skyviewtownhouses.com DUPLEX, 19A Fox Meadow, Glen Carbon,3br, 2.5ba, $990/mo + $700 dep.

618-917-1593 618-451-2300 Furnished Eff., dish, i-net, WiFi, utilities, no smoking w/ ref. $585/mo. 972-0948

710

2 BR 1.5 BA Townhomes SMOKE FREE. 15 minutes to St. Louis and SIUE. I-255/ Horseshoe Lake Rd area. $695 mo includes washer/ dryer, water, sewer and trash service. No pets. www.fairway-estates.net 618-931-4700

1BR apt, w/d hkup Non-smoking, no pets. $595/mo + dep 6569204 or cell: 444-1004

All Real Estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, status or national origin or an intention to make any such preference limitation, or discrimination.”

Familial status includes children living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.

The Edwardsville School District has the following opening:

Jobs!

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

Can Deliver!

Carrier Routes 401

CNA

College degree preferred; Program applicants must have a Paraprofessional or Teaching license. The positions are 3 to 7 hours a day with a beginning hourly rate of $9.38.

Dr. Nancy Spina Personnel, ECUSD7 708 St Louis St. PO Box 250 Edwardsville, IL. 62025 www.ecusd7.org

410

Men’s Schwinn ten speed, pristine.

2 helmets; carrier; pump. $135 total.

Call 618-656-8526

Full Time & Part Time Experience the delight and compassion of working in geriatrics.

This person will be responsible for providing exceptional person centered care to our Elders. Must be able to work weekends Apply in person or send resume to: Eden Village Retirement 400 South Station Road Glen Carbon, IL 62034 You can also apply online at edenvillage.org

Program and Extraordinary Care Assistants

Furniture

1br apt., nice & Lg. in Edwardsville. $625. no pets, non-smoking.

618-692-4144.

1BR loft apt & 1BR duplex $585/mo. + No Pets. Credit Check $585dep. 656-8953 1BR on 157, 8 mins from SIU, fp, w/d hkup.

Free w/s/t. $525/mo. + dep. No pets 345-9131

Advertise it here!

GLEN CARBON PEPPERWOOD CONDOS All electric units, FP, stacked WD, Deck/ patio, all appliances.

1BR from $625.

2BR from $750.

Carports available.

618-624-4610 -----------------------------VILLAGE CT. APTS 2BR, All Electric Units, Stove, Fridge, w/d hkups. NO PETS. FROM $700.

618-624-4610 LUXURY 2 BRs located at 270 & 111 Gourmet kitchens, 2 bay windows, washer/dryer included.

WST included. Must See! $695. Call for our move-in specials!

(618)931-3333.

Advertise it here!

OPEN SUN, AUG 9 • 1 - 3 pm

12100 Brock Court, $285,000 Campbell’s Crossing, Carlinville Come see this quality built home featuring walk out bsmt w/ patio & deck to pool. Sit on the screened in porch on this One Acre lot to enjoy mother nature at her best!

Conveniently located just a few minutes SW of town/ rural setting/ underground utilities.

Brenda S. Campbell, Realtor Managing Broker Call or Text: 217-899-7136 www.firmfoundationsrealty.com

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Classified Office Space For Rent

Homes For Sale

725

805

Homes For Sale

FSBO: 3br, 2.5ba on 7+ acres. Finished bsmnt. H/E Furn/AC. Hardwood floors. $294,500. 1,450 sq.ft.

656-0221 after 5pm

805

FSBO:Craftsman Style 3BD/2BA Fin.BSMT Lg fenced yard/patio 5 min walk dwntwn Edwardsville $149,500 Call 618-567-4755

OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY, AUG. 9 1 - 3 pm

Office/whse. space for lease, 2250/4500sq.ft.

3 Schwarz St. Plz. Edw. 618-692-4144.

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.

180 Holiday Drive, Edwardsville 4 bed, 3 bath home located in Holiday Shores lake community. 2 gas fireplaces, finished family room, workshop, fenced back yard and so very much more to offer. $187,500 Host: Michael Paslay 618-530-7355

Yard Sales

1099

Yard Sales

1099

Huge Kids Sale

Lots of Bargains!

Saturday, 08/08 8:00AM—Noon SWIC Intramural Gym Belleville, IL. Clothing, toys & equipment.

Sponsored By Metro East Mothers of Multiples *VIP passes available: mmomsale@gmail.com

506 Roanoke Dr. Edwardsville Fri. 08/07, 4p-8p Sat. 08/08, 7a-12p Fill-a-bag of clothes for $5, lots of misc. home items, Nintendo DS, TV stand, overhead pot holder, large kites and much more!

Yard Sales

1099

MULTI FAMILY SALE 12 Grainey Drive Glen Carbon FRI/SAT 8am-till Whirlpool Refrigerator, Power-Scooter, New Delta bathroom parts, Shower Door, Tools, Golf Clubs, LOTS OF MISC.

Yard Sale 1115 St. Louis St. Edwardsville Friday, 08/07, 8a-1p & 6p-8p Sat. 08/08, 8a-12p Household items, toys, baby bed, bike & more

508 E. Bethalto Drive Bethalto, IL 62010

618-377-3377

Place A Class Ad Online!

www.coldwellbankerpaslay.com

Two L o c a t i o n s S e rv i n g t h e M e t ro E a s t A re a

Locally Owned and Operated

CONGRATULATIONS

CATHLEEN KEASEY (618) 660-2615 A COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE has made this Associate a leader in the real estate market.

NEW LISTING

NEW LISTING

Thoughtfully designed custom 6 bdrm, 6 bathroom home built on over an acre. $1,450,000 EDW PR102468 Butler Marcus Realty Group 618-972-2225 or 618-444-9903

Entertaining is easy in this beautiful lake property. 5BR/BA home with open floor plan, screened porch and walkout LL.

$490,000 EDW PR102467 Diana Massey Team 618-791-5024 or 618-791-9298

Edwardsville

O’Fallon/Shiloh

1012 Plummer Drive

1941 Frank Scott Parkway

618-655-4100

618-628-2400

NEW LISTING

1 1/2 Story home on a wooded corner lot featuring 4 bdrm, 3 baths, finished walkout with 3 car garage, new deck, wood floors, quartz counters, built-ins & more. $354,500 GLEN CARBON

PR102470 Sandie LaMantia 618-978-2384

NEW LISTING

SECLUDED home in park like setting on 3 gorgeous wooded acres. All brick 3+ bed, 3 bath. Call for a complete list of updates. $240,000 GLEN CARBON PR102465 Janine Shields 618-789-7111

NEW LISTING

Old world charm with all the amenities your looking for in Edwardsville. $189,900 EDWARDSVILLE PR102466 Deborah Ahrens 618-604-4924

OPEN HOUSE

OPEN HOUSE

OPEN HOUSE

OPEN HOUSE

3309 Hershiser, EDWARDSVILLE SUN 1-3 $629,500 Diane Massey Team 618-791-5024 or 618-791-9298

112 Knights Bridge EDWARDSVILLE SUN 1-3 $598,500 Sandie LaMantia 618-978-2384

119 Knights Bridge EDWARDSVILLE SUN 1-3 $434,500 Sandie LaMantia 618-978-2384

3841 Ember Court EDWARDSVILLE SUN 1-3 $384,900 Betsy Butler 618-972-2225

OPEN HOUSE

NEW PRICE

NEW PRICE

NEW PRICE

212 Star Lane GLEN CARBON SUN 1-3 $266,600 Betty Treat 618-830-3952

Enjoy the spectacular lake view from this spacious 4 bedroom home. $312,500 GREENVILLE PR102367

Looking for a Career in Real Estate?

90 Hour Pre-License Broker Class August 11th – November 19th 2015 Every Tuesday & Thursday from 6-9pm To enroll contact Lisa Smoot at 618-655-4100 or lsmoot@bhhselite.com

Spacious brick bungalow in the heart of Edwardsville. 9’ ceilings, 2 baths and move in ready!! $124,900 EDW PR102379

3 bedroom, 2 bath brick ranch.

Many updates, first floor laundry, beautiful fireplaces. Great price. $75,000 TROY PR102278

S e a rc h N E W L I S T I N G S , O P E N H O U S E S a n d H O M E S F O R S A L E i n yo u r a re a a t

w w w. b h h s E l i t e P r o p e r t i e s . c o m ©2015 BHH Affiliates, LLC. An independently owned and operated franchisee of BHH Affiliates, LLC. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices and the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices symbol are registered service marks of HomeServices of America, Inc.® Equal Housing Opportunity.

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Classified

SERVICE DIRECTORY

Insured Call Bob Rose 978-8697

BIG DADDY’S TREE SERVICE 30 Years Experience

75 Ft. Bucket Truck Stump Grinding Trimming • Removal

I NEED WORK BAD! Discount for any Reason.

Will go Anywhere Anytime.

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Call Lee: (618) 581-5154

HEATING & COOLING

$59 A/C Clean & Check Stop Over Paying for Refrigerant

Worden, Hamel all areas North, No Problem, I Live There!

Free Estimates & Warranty

Lawn Cutting/Trimming

COMPETITIVE RATES

Landscape Mulching

• Expert Climbers • Expert Operators • Bucket Truck Service • Free Estimates • Tree Removal/Trimming • Stump Removal • Over Growth Maintenance • Full Line of Excavators • Fully Insured References Upon Request

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Free Estimates LOWEST PRICES GUARANTEED!

(Powerwashing and Staining) Wallpapering Woodwork (Staining and Varnishing) Refinishing Cabinets

Keith 654-5096 John 654-9978 Cell 618-971-7934

JIM BRAVE PAINTING Over 20 Years Experience!

• Wallpaper • Specialty Painting • Inside or Outside Work • Power Washing • Deck Refinishing

AUTO DETAILING

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Book your landscaping projects now!

Call: (618)654-0000 or cell phone: (618)444-0293

PAINTING Interior/Exterior

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

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(618) 410-8245

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HOME REMODELING

Detailing • PAINT CLAYING • WAXING

CLIFF’S AFFORDABLE HOME REMODELING

Carpenter 39 Years Experience

Call Joe 618-973-8458

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Interior / Exterior Deck

Licensed & Insured

25 YEARS EXPERIENCE

• Precision Tree & Shrub Trimming & Removal • Licensed & Insured

HUG PAINTING

BOB’S

•Fully Insured •Tree Trimming •Tree Removal •Topping Experts •Stump Removal •Storm Clean-up •Bush Trimming •Spotless Clean-up Every Time •Crane Service

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• Lawn Care • Clean Gutters • Painting: Interior & Exterior • Powerwashing

HAULING

OUTDOOR SERVICES

Call Bob

618-977-5037

AVERAGE JOE’S

PAINTING

618-514-8058

SERVICE

CARDINAL STUMP ELECTRICAL GRINDING LLC

(618) 407-3093

25 Years of Service Experience in Edwardsville

TREE

618-409-4355

No Job Too Small

Foster & Sons Lawn Service

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EPA Certified • Ranken Graduate

Service Upgrades, New & Old Home Wiring Service Calls & Trouble Shooting

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• Landscape Work • Shrub Trimming & Removal • Drainage & Erosion Problems • Mulching • Power Washing • Deck & Fence Refinishing • Quality Work • Insured

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TIM’S

A+

Need an Air Conditioner?

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Framing, Drywall/Tape/Paint Flooring Kitchen Cabinets/Countertops Siding/Soffit/Facia/Gutters

• CARPET CLEANING • WINDSHIELD TREATED • SEALS TREATED • INTERIOR CLEANING

C OMMERCIAL & R ESIDENTIAL • • • • •

Fall Clean-Up Mowing Landscape Installation Irrigation Landscape Lighting

Insured

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Doors/Windows Powerwashing -Decks/Stairs Fire & Flood Restoration

ALL JOBS WELCOME

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HOME REMODELING

ALL YOUR REPAIR NEEDS

JENSEN • GENERAL CARPENTRY • INTERIOR / EXTERIOR PAINTING • DRYWALL • WOOD / TILE FLOORS

GARAGES

Servi c e Cal l $10. OFF 00

Not Valid on Weekends or Emergency Service. One coupon per customer.

CLEANING

PRISTINE CLEANING Caring Beyond Cleaning

• 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

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August 6, 2015

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7184

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