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What’s Happening Thursday Sept. 22___________

• Chris Brown, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Maryland Heights, MO, TBA • Green Homes and Great Health Festival, Missouri Botanical • Alison Krauss and Union Garden, St. Louis, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Best of Missouri Painters Station, The Fox Theatre, St. Louis, exhibition, Missouri Botanical 8 p.m.

• Best of Missouri Painters Garden, St. Louis, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Mike Lacey Band (front bar), exhibition, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 6:30 p.m./ Mo’ Pleasure Band • DJ Too Tall, 9:30 p.m., Laurie’s (back bar), 9:30 p.m., Laurie Place, Edwardsville Place (back bar), Edwardsville

St. Louis bands will take the stage.

Sunday Friday Sept. 23___________ Sept. 25___________

15 "Contagion" New film creates a stir.

17 Owls and Orchids Fall fun at the Butterfly House.

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• Toby Keith, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Maryland Heights, MO, 7:30 p.m.

• Best of Missouri Painters exhibition, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Rukus w/ Citron Prom, 9:30 p.m., Laurie’s Place (back bar), Edwardsville • Marc Schapman/Linda Perry Faculty Recital, 7:30 p.m., Abbott Auditorium, SIUE, Edwardsville

Saturday Sept. 24___________

• Rockstar Energy Uproar Festival: Avenged Sevenfold, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Maryland Heights, MO, 2:30 p.m.

• Best of Missouri Painters exhibition, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Monkey Juice, 3 p.m., Laurie’s Place, Edwardsville

Monday Sept. 26___________ • Best of Missouri Painters exhibition, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesday Sept. 27___________ • Best of Missouri Painters exhibition, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Jazz Band Concert, 8 p.m., Dunham Hall Theatre, SIUE, Edwardsville

Wednesday Sept. 28___________ • Best of Missouri Painters exhibition, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Scott and Karl, 6 p.m., Fast • Mo’ Pleasure Band, 6:30 p.m., Laurie’s Place (front bar), Edwardsville

Thursday Sept. 29___________ • Best of Missouri Painters exhibition, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• DJ Too Tall, 9:30 p.m., Laurie’s Place (back bar), Edwardsville

• The Erin Bode Group, Jacoby Arts Center, Alton, 7 p.m.

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People People planner Events planned at Shaw Nature Reserve The fall and winter will be busy at the Shaw Nature Reserve.

Numerous events have been scheduled for cooler weather.

The Shaw Nature Reserve is located off I-44 at exit 253, in Gray Summit, Mo. Admission is $3 adults; $2 seniors; free children ages 12 and under.

For more information, visit www. shawnature.org or call (636) 451-3512.

Sept. 1 through Oct. 30: Wilderness Wagon and Bus Tours. Enjoy the beauty of fall with a guided tour of the Shaw Nature Reserve for your group. Reserve the Wilderness Wagon, an open-sided vehicle accommodating 28 people, or arrange for a tour on your coach. A naturalist will accompany you on a three-mile ride through the Reserve and, if you wish, lead you on a short walk along one of the scenic trails. Our roads can accommodate coaches with or without a guide. Mondays through Saturdays. Meet at the Reserve Visitor Center. Call (636) 451-3512 ext. 6075 for prices and to reserve a date and time for your group.

Sept. 27: Fall Wildflower Rambles.

Join these informal, educational

walks in appreciation of the end of summer wildflower season in the Shaw Nature Reserve’s diverse plant habitats. These hikes are led by wildflower naturalists. Wear comfortable hiking clothes and bring a sack lunch (optional). No reservations taken; pay on arrival.

Additional sessions held on Sept. 13 and Sept. 20. 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (option to leave at noon). Meet at the Reserve Visitor Center. $7. For a complete list of adult classes at the Missouri Botanical Garden’s family of attractions, visit www.mobot.org/ classes.

Sept. 28: Wednesday Walkers. Each Wednesday, sign in at the Visitor Center, grab a map and then gather nearby to meet the other Wednesday Walkers. The walk averages 90 minutes to two hours, allowing time to stop, look, listen and converse. At the end of nine weeks, you will have hiked most of the trails and made new friends. Wednesdays from Sept.

7 through Oct. 26. 10 to 11:30 a.m.

Meet at the Reserve Visitor Center. $1 per person, in addition to Reserve admission.

Oct. 1 & 2: Wilderness Wagon Public Tours. Enjoy the beauty of fall with a guided tour of the Shaw Nature Reserve on the Wilderness Wagon, an open-sided vehicle

accommodating 28 people. A naturalist will accompany you on a three-mile ride through the Reserve and, if you wish, lead you on a short walk along one of the scenic trails.

Offered Saturdays and Sundays in October at 1, 2 and 3 p.m. Meet at the Reserve Visitor Center. $1, in addition to Reserve admission. Call (636) 4513512 ext. 6075 for more information.

Oct. 4: Little Acorns: Autumn Celebration. You are invited to join us as we celebrate autumn. We will explore our forest looking for different types of leaves, seed pods and fall’s hidden treasures, and learn why leaves change colors. Each Little Acorns class includes hands-

on activities, a story, snack and a craft. For children ages 3 to 5 with an adult. 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Carriage House. $17 per child (includes one adult). Advance registration required; www.mobot.org/classes or (314) 577-5140. For a complete list of youth and family classes at the Missouri Botanical Garden’s family of attractions, visit www.mobot.org/ classes.

Oct. 5: Wednesday Walkers. Each Wednesday, sign in at the Visitor Center, grab a map and then gather nearby to meet the other Wednesday Walkers. The walk averages 90 minutes to two hours, allowing time to stop, look, listen and converse. At

the end of nine weeks, you will have hiked most of the trails and made new friends. Wednesdays from Sept.

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Meet at the Reserve Visitor Center. $1 per person, in addition to Reserve admission.

Oct. 8: Wildflower Identification and Ecology. This course will focus on identification, relationships and habitats of wildflowers and native grasses of the season. Beginners as well as serious students of wildflowers will increase their knowledge and appreciation of the rich floral diversity of the Shaw Nature Reserve’s woods, prairie and wetland.

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People People planner Dunham tour to stop in St. Charles The man whose standup concerts ru l e t h e c o m e d y w o r l d , J e ff Dunham, announces a full slate of shows through March 2012 that offers his millions of fans brand new laughs and hilarious additions to his famed troupe of sidekicks Dunham will appear at 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 29 at The Family Arena in St. Charles.

Tickets available at all MetroTix locations. Charge by phone (314) 534-1111 or online at metrotix.com In the coming months, concertgoers will meet two new Dunham characters: Achmed Junior, the not-as-equally skeletal son of Achmed the Dead Terrorist, and Little Jeff, a mini-version of the ringmaster himself.

Dunham’s sidesplitting performances have made him the top grossing live comedian in North America for three consecutive years as well as the last two worldwide.

Now his ever-growing legion of devoted fans that flock to his shows year after year will meet the newest additions to his suitcase posse.

Achmed the Dead Terrorist has to now contend with his rebellious offspring, Achmed Junior, aka A.J. Meanwhile, Peanut has decided that he’s tired of being Jeff’s sidekick and has taken up ventriloquism with his own character: Little Jeff. More

hilarity than ever ensues as the never-before-seen characters unleash their own havoc on stage.

“Controlled Chaos” also hits the home entertainment market on DVD on September 27th, and preorders are now open at Amazon.com, where it hit No. 2 in comedy sales two months out from its release.

Dunham followers anxious for a taste of his all-new live show can catch a teaser and see clips at www. jeffdunham.com/controlled chaos.

Further information on Jeff Dunham is at: www.jeffdunham. com. His upcoming special has its own dedicated page at: www. jeffdunham.com/controlled chaos.

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People People planner Alton rolls into autumn The following events have been planned in the Alton area: GREAT GODFRY MAZE Friday, September 2, 2011 through Sunday, October 30, 2011 Hours: Friday 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Saturday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Sunday 1 p.m. to dusk Glazebrook Park 1401 Stamper Ln., Godfrey, IL 62035 Weave your way through two separate mazes cut into a 7-acre cornfield. Other activities include, train ride, corn crib, corn cannon, zip line, monthly movie nights and the haunted maze. Check back for this year’s theme. Go to www.GodfreyIL. org for more details. Admission is $6 for 12 and up, $4 for ages 6 through 11 and children 5 and under are free.

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ALTON BLOCK PARTY Saturday, September 24, 2011 6 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

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FULL MOON CEMETERY TOUR Saturday, September 24, 2011 7:30 p.m.

Mineral Springs Haunted Tours 301 E. Broadway Alton, IL 62002 After a “wake” at Mineral Springs Mall, cars line up behind the Mineral Springs hearse and the procession goes to the Alton Cemetery. Thirtyeight gravesites will be visited with historian/tour guide. A séance will

be held at the Lovejoy Monument before returning to Mineral Springs for a “repast.” The tour ends with a tarot card reading. The cost is $30 per person. Reservations required.

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The Arts

Three Dog Night Legendary '70s rockers to kick off SIUE's Arts & Issues series

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ell bottoms, brightly patterned dress shirts and polyester suit jackets may have died with the ‘70s but the popular ‘70’s group, Three Dog Night, has continued a strong career over the past 40 years and tours year round. The legendary group kicks off the SIUE Arts & Issues 2011-12 season when it performs at 9:30 p.m. on Oct. 8 in the Vadalabene Center.

Sponsored by the SIUE Foundation, Three Dog Night takes the stage as one of the highlights of SIUE’s 2011 Homecoming weekend activities.

Formed in 1968, Three Dog Night achieved some of the most astonishing statistics in popular music in the ‘70s.

From 1968 to 1975 the band had 21 consecutive Top 40 hits, including three No. 1 singles, 11 Top 10s, 18 straight Top 20s, 7 million-selling singles and 12 straight RIAA Certified Gold LPs. Their hits appeared on best selling charts in all genres – pop, rock and country.

The band toured extensively in the late ’60s and into the ‘70s, but in 1977, the non-stop concerts took a toll. Wanting to get away from the hectic world of pop music, they quietly backed out of the picture, but that was relatively short-lived.

By 1981 they discovered that they wanted to perform again and began touring.

Four decades later, the band continues to perform live with a demanding touring schedule of 60 to 80 dates a year at theaters, performing arts centers, corporate events, casinos, fairs and festivals. Since 1986, they have performed over 2,000 shows including two Super Bowls.

Three Dog Night’s hits are still part of pop culture today.

Whether heard on the radio, TV commercials or in major motion pictures, Three Dog Night’s songs stand the test of time and bring back feelings of nostalgia.

Their show features four of the group’s founding members: Cory Wells and Danny Hutton singing lead vocals, original

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Three Dog Night keyboardist Jimmy Greenspoon and guitarist Michael Allsup.

Newer members are Paul Kingery, bass and vocals; and Pat Bautz on drums.

During their live shows, the band performs a truckload of their hits, many which have become classic rock standards, including “Joy to the World,” “Celebrate,” “Mama Told Me (Not to Come),” “Black & White,” “Shambala,” “One” and “Liar.”

Although they have a plethora of hits that concert-goers love, the band wasn’t content resting on its legacy alone.

In October 2004, Three Dog Night pushed new boundaries by recording with the London

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Symphony Orchestra. “The 35th Anniversary Hits Collection” featuring The London Symphony Orchestra was recorded at the famous Abbey Road studios in London and released to coincide with the band’s 35th anniversary.

The album includes four live versions of the band’s classics re-recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra and two new songs.

Three Dog Night began adding new songs to their arsenal in the fall of 2009 releasing their first double-A sided single in nearly 25 years. The haunting a cappella ballad “Prayer of the Children” features the vocals of all six band members and the second tune, “Heart Of Blues,” is

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a bluesy rock song.

Always working to expand its audience, the band has embraced 21st century music technology and reaches out to new fans through iTunes, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

Their releases from this decade alone have sold over a million copies and have garnered millions of music plays online.

Their music is available to purchase at iTunes, Amazon, and other digital retailers as well as at the band’s official website www.threedognight. com).

Three Dog Night’s iPhone app was also launched to keep fans up to date on new music, tour dates and other news.

Tickets for Three Dog Night and the remaining 2011-12 Arts & Issues performances may be purchased at the Dunham Hall Fine Arts Box Office, the Information Booth at the Morris University Center, by calling 618-650-5774 or online at www.siue.edu/artsandissues. com.

Discounts are available when purchasing the complete series of Arts & Issues performances.

SIUE staff, retirees, alumni, students and seniors over 65 are also offered discounts on tickets.

If you have any questions, or would like an Arts & Issues season brochure, contact the Arts & Issues office at 650-5194.

The Arts Arts calendar Thursday, Sept. 22

Sunday, Oct. 2

Best of Missouri Painters exhibition, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

EAC “SIUE Textile Arts Alumni Exhibition”, Edwardsville Arts Center, Wednesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4p.m., Exhibit runs through Oct. 7.

Friday, Sept. 23 Best of Missouri Painters exhibition, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

EAC “SIUE Textile Arts Alumni Exhibition”, Edwardsville Arts Center, Wednesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4p.m., Exhibit runs through Oct. 7.

Saturday, Sept. 24 Best of Missouri Painters exhibition, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

EAC “SIUE Textile Arts Alumni Exhibition”, Edwardsville Arts Center, Wednesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4p.m., Exhibit runs through Oct. 7.

Sunday, Sept. 25 Best of Missouri Painters exhibition, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 26 Best of Missouri Painters exhibition, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 27 Best of Missouri Painters exhibition, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Sunday, Oct. 16

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Friday, Oct. 14

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Best of Missouri Painters exhibition, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Monday, Oct. 17

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Monday, Oct. 10

Best of Missouri Painters exhibition, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Best of Missouri Painters exhibition, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 5

Tuesday, Oct. 11

Best of Missouri Painters exhibition, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Wednesday, Oct. 12

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The Arts Artistic adventures Jacoby Arts Center hosts open mic nights Jacoby Arts Center is excited to introduce open mic nights to their East Room stage. Open Mic: WORDS takes place on third Thursdays from 6:30 to 8 p.m. from September to November and again from February through May. The doors will open at 6 p.m.; presenters begin at 6:30 p.m.

Admission to the event is free and open to the public. Audiences of all ages welcome; however, attendees are advised that content may not be suitable for everyone. A cash beverage bar with beer, wine, and nonalcoholic beverages, as well as a coffee bar will be available; light refreshments will also be served.

A $5 suggested donation is requested from each presenter to ensure 5-10 minutes of time on the evening schedule; the final amount of time allowed to each presenter will be determined after confirmation of the total number of artists participating. Pre-registration is requested by sending an email message to info@jacobyartscenter.org or by calling Jacoby at 618.462.5222.

Anyone ages 16 and up who wants to share their words of art are invited to present. Songwriters are welcome to try out a new song, fiction writers can share their poetry and short stories, playwrights and actors can try out new lines and skits, comedians can share their new material with the audience.

No politicking or pornographic material is allowed; artists are also asked to exercise discretion in use of profanity.

Located at 627 East Broadway in Alton, Illinois, the Jacoby Arts Center is open on TuesdaysSaturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays from 12 noon to 4 p.m., closed on Mondays. For more information, visit the Center ’s website at www.jacobyartscenter.org or call 618-462-5222.

The Jacoby Arts Center is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to foster the artistic development and economic success of artists, and to expand accessibility to the arts through programs that promote education, participation

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UMSL announces theater, dance season The Department of Theatre, Dance and Media Studies at the University of Missouri–St. Louis has planned a multifaceted program for its 2011-12 season. UMSL students and faculty and will showcase their dynamic talents in three mainstage plays and two dance concerts at the university’s Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center.

Theater productions will include the staging of a classic magical realism novel, a heartwarming and honest exploration of African American women at the turn of the 20th century and a rip-roaring classical farce from one of the greatest dramatists of all time.

“The 2011-2012 Season represents a vibrant mix of classic storytelling and critically lauded work that help us to take a closer look at the human experience and the issues that are central to our lives today. It is a mix of entertaining and challenging programming that our students and theater majors are eager to explore and share with audiences in St. Louis,” said Tlaloc Rivas, assistant professor of theatre at UMSL. The season begins with Caridad Svich’s acclaimed adaptation of

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Isabel Allende’s beloved novel “The House of the Spirits” (Oct. 14-22). It was recently an off-Broadway smash hit that extended several times throughout its run. Set in a fictional Latin American country, ”The House of the Spirits” is a family saga that looks at four generations of political, social and familial upheaval, told through the lens of poetic magicial realism. Tlaloc Rivas, assistant professor of theatre at UMSL, will direct. The production will be performed in English with music and songs by Svich.

Students from the Department of Theatre, Dance and Media Studies at UMSL will share the stage with Modern American Dance Company, the resident dance company at UMSL, for their annual fall dance concert, “Sum of Motion” (Nov. 10-12). Rob Scoggins, assistant professor of dance at UMSL, and Todd Weeks, lecturer in dance at UMSL and associate artistic director of MADCO, will direct.

Coinciding with African American History month, UMSL will present “Intimate Apparel” (Jan. 27-Feb. 4) by Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright Lynn Nottage.

Set in New York at the turn of the last century, “Intimate Apparel” follows Esther, an African American seamstress, who crafts beautiful lingerie for a range of clients, from the ladies of the Upper East Side, to the prostitutes of the infamous Tenderloin district. With the vivid

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All productions will feature design work by UMSL assistant professors of theater Felia Davenport (costume) and Glen Anderson (scenic and lighting), as well as student designers whose work will complete their degrees for 2012. Davenport’s and Anderson’s work has been critically acclaimed locally and nationally, while at the same time creating and expanding (along with Rivas) a revitalization of the theater program at UMSL.

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Niyi Coker, the E. Desmond Lee Endowed Professor of African/ African American Studies at UMSL, will direct.

The season will continue with Ranjit Bolt’s acclaimed adaptation of “Tartuffe” (March 16-24) by Moliere.

The religious hypocrite Tartuffe has wormed his way into the onceorderly household and vulnerable heart of substantial merchant Orgon.

Under the guise of piety, he looks set to succeed in driving away the son, marrying the daughter, seducing the wife, imprisoning Orgon and leaving the family destitute. Railed against as a sacrilegious outrage by the church, the play was banned from public performance by Louis XIV in 1664. Tlaloc Rivas, assistant professor of theatre at UMSL, will direct.

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Religion Are you doing what you can?

I have probably during the past years mentioned my mother and what a kind and gentle person she was. She also had a forgiving spirit and I can’t recall her staying angry with anyone or holding a grudge.

I was a child during depression years and it wasn’t unusual for someone to come to our home and ask for food. And, of course, while the meal might be simple, perhaps even just a sandwich and a cold drink of water or maybe a glass of milk, my mother never refused.

Now if you are by now wondering what this has to do with anything, I’ll try to explain.

When I think of my mother I remember that she was also blessed with a ‘green thumb’ and could grow the most beautiful roses and flowers.

While I don’t have her gift, I am also a lover of flowers and each and every year I have flowers planted in the landscaping, but also potted plants on both my front porch and my back deck. I also have lots of

Doris Gvillo squirrels and some rabbits and it seems it is inevitable that during the summer, some of my plants are ruined by some critter eating them or just plain destroying them.

This year I have by now two empty planters and one that is looking might puny.

I don’t get quite as upset if they actually eat them but when they just bite them off and let the remains for me, I am frustrated.

I’m getting to the point, really I am. This year I was remembering my mother ’s love of flowers, but more importantly her compassion for everyone and everything.

Last year my flowers on the deck and by the deck were destroyed by the first of August….just bitten off and lying there.

This year I began to wonder if those frisky little squirrels might just be ‘thirsty’.

I’ll admit I buy seed in the winter

and throw out stale bread in the summer for those little critters so I can’t totally blame them for their visits.

So, this year, I put out a dish of water that I refresh from time to time and so far the squirrels have let my plants flourish as best they can in this hot dry weather.

As I was wondering what I could possibly write about this time, I glanced out my door and noticed a squirrel hopping across the deck and pausing to have a drink. Yes!!!

I suppose my joy in seeing that little guy enjoy a drink reminded me of all the times my mother fed not squirrels, but God’s children in need. And, I also think it reminded me that there is so much suffering in our world and we can’t ignore it.

It seems as though between the violence and wars plus all the natural disasters we hear about and see, the needs in our world are both catastrophic and overwhelming.

I also look at my life and say, “Yes, my health could be better. I wish the

economy would pick up. I wonder about the future. I am frustrated with my government. I am aware my body doesn’t always do what it used to be able to do and I dislike asking for help.” But…I am so blessed and so are most of us.

And so I guess the whole point of this is to remind us that God does ask us to be giving, loving, forgiving, and that we offer ‘help’. We tell our children they have to learn to ‘share’ and sometimes I think that we as adults have forgotten how.

The food banks are being called upon more than they have for quite sometime. People are unemployed. Violence seems more prevalent. Wars are a fact of life.

It seems there are more and more natural disasters. There are places in the world where starvation, lack of water, and violence are claiming lives each and every day.

And I think God looks down at us and says, “You are so blessed.

Give from your heart and do what you can to alleviate pain, hunger,

and violence.”

I’d suppose I’m writing this because as I watch the daily news, I can’t help but think what my life is compared to so many in our country and, of course, throughout the world.

I sincerely believe that God does expect us to do our part to alleviate the pain and suffering in our world. Each of us will make our individual decisions as to how we will respond. But…remember that the time will come when we are asked, “Did you feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and visit the sick?” And I hope our answer is, “Yes, Lord we did because we know when we gave to help others, we gave to you.”

And I also believe that love for God ignites a fire within that causes us to reach out to others.

We will ‘love because God first loved us.”

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amendment that would ban gay marriage, a sign that the proposed ballot question still divides racial, partisan and religious groups days before the Legislature meets to consider it.

Key members of the House Democratic Caucus held a news conference to oppose the amendment, which if approved likely would be on the statewide ballot in 2012.

Lawmakers brought along executives of North Carolina businesses who said such an amendment would discourage new, growing companies

from calling the state home because of a perception its leaders don’t like gays and lesbians.

Supporters of the amendment counter that states that already have prohibitions of same-sex marriage in their constitutions aren’t seeing businesses leave for other states because of that issue.

Several African-American clergy who spoke at a later news conference said same-sex relationships violate Bible teaching and called on the Legislature to let the public vote on the issue.

Doris Gvillo is a member of Eden United Church of Christ.

Religion briefs Study finds increase in interfaith activity, but low level of participation overall HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — America’s houses of worship have increased their interfaith outreach since 9/11, a new survey h a s f o u n d . S t i l l , a b o u t t h re e quarters of U.S. congregations have no interreligious activities.

The study of more than 11,000 congregations was part of the Faith Communities Today surveys, which have tracked trends since 2000. The latest findings were released Wednesday by Hartford Seminary.

Researchers found that nearly 14 percent of congregations share worship with other faith traditions, up from just under 7 percent since 2000. About 20 perc e n t o f h o u s e s o f w o r s h i p

participated in interfaith community service projects, compared to 7.7 percent a decade earlier.

H o w e v e r, 7 3 p e rc e n t o f t h e congregations were not involved in any of the four interfaith activities measured by the survey’s authors: joint worship, celebrations, educational activities and community service.

While evangelical involvement in interfaith outreach remains l o w, re s e a rc h e r s d i d f i n d a n increase in interfaith worship among Christian conservative congregations — from 4 percent in 2000 to 12 percent in 2010 — and a jump in evangelical c o n g re g a t i o n s t h a t c o n d u c t e d community service work with other faith traditions.

Still, old line Protestant congregations with more liberal theology were more likely by a nearly 2-to-1 margin than conservative Christian churches

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Rock U will Rock You

By KRISTA WILKINSON-MIDGLEY Of The Edge Get ready to soak up the sounds of some of St. Louis’ best local bands on three stages of rock at the Rock U Fest 2011 from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 24 at the Atomic Cowboy in St. Louis.

This all-ages event will feature more than 40 local bands and artists performing 12 hours of music dedicated to promoting unity in the St. Louis rock-n-roll community.

The event will feature three stages of rock music simultaneously with artists performing a variety of musical styles from rock and hard rock to alternative, punk, metal, rap/ rock, acoustic and electronic. The event is the brainchild of organizers John Harrington and Mike Zubiena of “headbanger hip-hop” group Midwest Avengers, Shawn Telkamp of Vendetta Sonata, St. Louis music writer Christopher Davis and local music enthusiast Denise Coad.

“We’re just trying to get everybody’s attention and let people know what’s out there,” said Coad. “We’re just trying to get the word out that there’s a lot of things going on that people can see.”

Coad said that several St. Louis-area high school bands will be among the more than 40 area bands and musicians slated to play at Rock U Festival. These include Feedback, Dear Genre, The Last Round and Lost Continent.

Metro east band Butterfly Distortion will also be in attendance. This all original rock

band performs straightforward rock and roll style music and includes members from Alton, Bethalto and Edwardsville. Check out next week’s Edge for news about the upcoming release of the band’s debut CD. The event will also include live art by Plostic, Doom DOA and Nick Fozzy and performances by Exotic Rhythms Bellydance, Missy Fit, STL Hoop Club and Ricky Phoenix.

Atomic Cowboy in The Grove, St. Louis, features an outdoor main stage, located in the rear of the building. To enter the festival, attendees should use the front entrance and make their way through the hallway, towards the exit. The venue has an expansive patio that extends to the rear entrance of the indoor Fox Hole stage and beyond. The outdoor stage will be located in this vicinity. During the day, the festival will feature quality high school acts, followed by up and coming bands and veteran rock acts.

The venue also provides a quality restaurant serving freshMex cuisine. Prices range from $3 to $8 for appetizers, $7 to $11 for salads, soups and light snacks, and $7 to $12 for entrees.

The organizers’ goal of the festival is to “bring together all the different different genres of rock” while also mixing in the area’s next generation of rock with veterans of the St. Louis rock scene.

“I think there’s a lot out there. You just have to find something that you like and support it,” said Coad. “There is a lot more that we can do for our local artists so, hopefully, this will

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To find out more about Rock U Fest 2011, visit the event’s Facebook site under RockUFest.

Atomic Cowboy is located at 4140 Manchester Road in The Grove, St. Louis, MO, 63110. For directions or more information, call (314) 775-0775 or visit www.atomiccowboystl. com. The Cowboy is a smoke free environment except on the Q-Hut and patio.

The schedule for the day will be as follows:

Acoustic and Electronic Stage: The Arrangement Banks and Cathedrals J. Boozer Teesh Brown Buxom Space Fish Doubleshot FreedomAndForgiven Gemini Hustler Jennifer Norman Spiral Shaped Mind Syna So Pro

Main Stage (outdoor): Dear Genre Feedback Fer De Lance Isaac James The Last Round Lost Continent Midwest Avengers Mr. I Reigning Heir Sicfaist Sicklove Something Heroic Fox Hole Stage (indoor): Clockwork Connibal Road Corvus Damned Holy Rollers Joseph John Band Man Eating Tiger Ockum’s Razor

Other performers include: Jen Galinski Fer De Lance The Sudden Impact Butterfly Distortion Beastmode Erin Coad DJ K.A.I.

Pictured above are the Midwest Avengers, one of many bands that will perform at the Rock U Fest.

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On the street The Wildey Theatre is showing classic James Bond film “Goldfinger” starring Sean Connery this month.

So, the Edge asks, “Who’s your favorite Bond?”

"I like them all, but probably the new one in Casino Royale.”

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"I like Sean Connery. He’s the original and his voice is pretty cool."

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My Friend Mike, 8 p.m., Fast Eddie’s Bon Air, Alton. No cover charge.

Rukus w/ Citron Prom, 9:30 p.m., Laurie’s Place (back bar), Edwardsville Marc Schapman/Linda Perry Faculty Recital, 7:30 p.m., Abbott Auditorium, SIUE, Edwardsville

Saturday, Sept. 24 They Might Be Giants with Jonathan Coulton, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7 p.m. / Show 8 p.m.

Sable, Fast Eddie’s Bon Air, Alton, 3 p.m./ My Friend Mike, 8 p.m. No cover charge.

Mike Lacey Band (front bar), 6:30 p.m./ Mo’ Pleasure Band (back bar), 9:30 p.m., Laurie Place, Edwardsville

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Music Tuning in Chamber Chorus plans Tribute series In a season that blends the grand with the intimate, the Chamber Chorus performs true chamber music where the audience is invited to witness music at close quarters, as well as large scale works presented in some of the city’s more majestic spaces.

In a musical odyssey, the singers celebrate the Latvian capital in the Missa Rigensis, a major work by pop-performer-turned-classiccomposer Ugis Praulins. They conjure up Alpine vistas in the music of Judith Bingham, and they invoke Haiti i n a w o r l d p re m i e re f ro m Sydney Guillaume. His is but one of several notable commissions this season, including Songs of Ale

by Robert Walker, who will travel from his home in England for our performance at the Schlafly Tap Room. Another British composer, Sasha Johnson Manning, provides the ‘new piece’ for our recreation of the Nine Lessons & Carols associated with King’s College, Cambridge.

Yakov Gubanov, a successor to Sasha as our ‘Composer-inResidence’, is writing an homage to his Russian homeland for our season finale, a series of tributes to fallen leaders and their heirs, from Tsar Nicholas II to President Kennedy.

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Daltrey to perform at the Peabody Roger Daltrey, the iconic lead singer of The Who, will perform The Who’s legendary rock opera “Tommy” in its entirety from start to finish. (The Who never actually played the complete Tommy.)

Daltrey premiered the spectacular show in London at The Royal Albert Hall in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust on March 25 and is now taking it on the road. Tickets are on sale now at www.aeglive.com The show will make a stop at the Peabody Opera House in St. Louis on Oct. 8.

Employing the use of striking visuals to accompany the music,

every show will be an unforgettable concert experience for lifelong fans and newcomers alike, who will be treated not only to the full majesty of “Tommy,” but also to a variety of Who classics and more.

The much-anticipated six-week tour launches September 13 in Hollywood, Fla. and concludes November 2 at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba. “Tommy” is not only one of the most acclaimed and defining works of the rock era, it is an enduring album that resonates on radio to this day where it has found multi-generational appeal. Inducted into The Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998, the 20 millionselling double album also spawned a successful 1975 film of the same name – with Daltrey playing the title role – which re-underlined its place in the cultural firmament.

Rock And Roll Hall of Fame inductee Daltrey is pulling out all

the stops with a full band that will bring the rock opera’s wide-ranging sounds and textures to life vibrantly on stage every evening. Joining Daltrey will be Frank Simes (guitar), Scott Deavours (drums), Jon Button (bass), Loren Gold (keyboards) and also on guitar will be Simon Townshend, younger brother of The Who’s guitarist Pete Townshend.

Commenting on the tour, Pete Townshend says, “Great to see Roger performing “Tommy” with his band in 2011. I will be there in spirit.

Roger has my complete and most loving support. Roger is touring his unique concert version of “Tommy” using his faithful presentation of the original work as the backbone for a set of wider material. It is wonderful to hear the way Roger and his new band re-interpret the old Who songs.”

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Music Tuning in Scream Tour rolls into the Fox Over 1 million screaming fans have been a part of it; it has an undeniable track record of selling out shows from coast to coast. It has put on display some of the most elaborate, breath taking sets and stage productions ever and it has been able to assemble on stages across the country, some of the world’s biggest musical superstars of the day; including, Bow Wow, Ne-Yo, T.I., Chris Brown, Omarion, B2K, Trey Songz, Ciara, T-Pain, Lloyd and Nick Cannon. It has also featured special surprise guest appearances by mega stars like Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Kanye West, Diddy, Lil’ Wayne, Wyclef Jean, R. Kelly, Nelly, Common and Swizz Beatz throughout its run. It is the Scream Tour.

Since debuting in 2001, the Scream Tour quickly proved to be the most successful teen concert series America has ever witnessed. THE Scream Tour also became a platform for all young artists who wanted to make the transition from obscurity to superstar status and be seen by thousands of screaming fans within a concert setting.

In the spirit of continuing the rich tradition and legacy created 10 years ago, the Scream Tour is returning and getting back to the premise that made it such a powerful force in 2001—introducing the next generation of artists to the masses.

With that being said, this year ’s Scream Tour aptly titled—Scream Tour: The Next Generation (NXG) brings the Scream Tour brand back to its roots and introduces fans to an entirely new crop of young stars. This year ’s Scream Tour: NXG stars musical phenoms and Conjunction/Streamline/Interscope recording artist Mindless Behavior & Atlantic Records’ recording artist Diggy, son of hip-hop icon Rev Run of RUN DMC fame, with special

guest Shotty/Warner Bros. Records artist The New Boyz. It will also feature JIVE recording artist, Jacob Latimore & Atlantic Records’ new R&B quartet Hamilton Park and introduce to the world the winners of the 2010-2011 “R U The Next Scream Star?” Nationwide Contest-The OMG Girlz.

Scream Tour:NXG presented by Scream Star Entertainment and AEG Live is part of a special “Back To School” Concert Series. The Scream Tour hits St. Louis on Sunday, October 16 at 6 p.m. at the Fabulous Fox Theatre. Tickets are $39.50 with a limit of 8 tickets per customer.

They are available at the Fox Theatre Box Office or by calling 314/5341111. Order tickets online at www. metrotix.com. For more info, log onto www.screamtour.com.

“For this year ’s Scream Tour: NXG, the fans can expect action packed performances and interactive p re s e n t a t i o n s , ” s a i d M i c h a e l Mauldin, Scream Tour producer and creator. “We plan to activate your mind, your voice and the rhythm in your body with 3 hours of non-stop excitement.”

Frankie Valli to appear at The Fox Fox Concerts presents Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons at 8 p.m. on Oct. 29.

Tickets are $79.50, $69.50, $59.50 and $49.50 and are available at the Fox Box Office or by calling 314/5341111. Order tickets online at www. metrotix.com.

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Michael Feinstein, the multiplatinum-selling, five-time Grammynominated entertainer has been dubbed “The Ambassador of the Great American Songbook” and is considered one of the premier interpreters of American standards.

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The St. Louis Symphony’s diversity of programming may be reflected in two new Live at Powell Hall concerts that have just been announced. Ben Folds, formerly leader of the ’90s alternative rock band the Ben Folds Five, joins the St. Louis Symphony for one night this fall on Sunday, November 6, 2011.

On May 13, 2012, one of the classic interpreters of American song, Michael Feinstein, spends an evening with the St. Louis Symphony dedicated to timeless standards.

Tickeets are on sale now at the Powell Hall Box Office, online at www.stlsymphony.org, or by phone at 314.534.1700.

The Powell Hall Box Office is located at 718 North Grand Boulevard in Grand Center.

Ben Folds, the multitalented s i n g e r / s o n g w r i t e r, m u s i c i a n and rock pianist, has developed a highly successful solo career since disbanding the Ben Folds Five in 2000. Throughout his long career, the versatile artist has performed concerts playing a variety of instruments, his stage delivery characterized by an oddball, ironic sense of humor. He described his music with the Ben Folds Five as

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“Rise of the Planet of the Apes”

Silly humans. We’re so arrogant. We see a cute, cuddly baby chimp, assign all kinds of familiar charact eristics to it and raise it with the loving playfulness we’d give our own children, only to find that the creature’s unpredictable and ferocious animal nature wins out in the end. If the documentary “Project Nim” didn’t serve as enough of a warning for us earlier this summer, now we have this blockbuster, which is sort of a prequel and sort of a sequel and sort of a reboot. Mainly, it’s a spectacle.

Sure, it might be trying to teach us a lesson about hubris. But mostly it’s about angry, ‘roided-up chimps taking over and wreaking havoc. This is not a complaint, mind you. This seventh film in the “Planet of the Apes” series rises to such ridiculous heights, it’s impossible not to laugh out loud — in a good way, in appreciation. There’s big, event-movie fun to be had here, amped up by some impressive special effects and typically immersive performance-capture work by Andy Serkis (Gollum from the “Lord of the Rings” films). But the idea that director Rupert Wyatt and writers Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver truly had anything serious in mind seems rather disingenuous. James Franco stars as the scientist whose drug tests to find a cure for Alzheimer’s lead to the birth of the super-smart Caesar. Freida Pinto and John Lithgow co-star.

RATED; PG-13 for intense and frightening sequences of action and violence.

RUNNING TIME:105 minutes.

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

“The Help”

A class act like this is rare enough in Hollywood. Coming at the tail end of summer blockbuster season, it’s almost unheard of. It’s the sort of film that studios typically save for the holiday prestige season in November or December, when Academy Awards voters start thinking ahead to the films they want to anoint. Come awards time, many of them likely will be thinking of “The Help,” whose remarkable ensemble of women offers enough great performances to practically fill the actress categories at the Oscars. From its roots as a collaboration between lifelong friends Kathryn Stockett, who wrote the bestselling novel, and Tate Taylor, the film’s writer-director, through the pitch-perfect casting of Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer and their co-stars, “The Help” simply seems to be blessed. It’s hard to imagine a better movie coming out of the screen adaptation of Stockett’s tale of friendship and common cause among black maids and an aspiring white writer in Jackson, Miss., in 1963.

RATED: PG-13 for thematic material.

RUNNING TIME: 146 minutes.

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

“Brighton Rock”

Graham Greene’s crime novel previously was made into a 1947 film famously starring Richard Attenborough with a script Greene co-wrote; this version shifts the setting from the late 1930s to 1964 as the Mods and Rockers were battling it out on Britain’s south shore. You half expect to hear songs from “Quadrophenia” pop up here and there but alas, no such luck. But the feature directing debut from screenwriter Rowan Joffe (”28 Weeks Later,” “The American”) does maintain the dark tone and stylish visuals of its noir origins, with dramatic shadows and camera angles that almost fetishize the genre. It’s rapturous to look at, but the film as a whole often feels like an exercise in style over substance, especially as it becomes clear just how many times we’ve seen these kinds of characters in this kind of story. Still, Sam Riley and Andrea Riseborough are watchable in a pulpy way as mismatched teenagers awkwardly

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caught in a mob war. “I’m bad. You’re good. We’re made for each other,” Riley’s ambitious gangster Pinkie says to Riseborough’s innocent waitress Rose. And even though she buys the line, nothing is that simple. Helen Mirren and John Hurt are among the strong supporting cast.

RATED: Unrated but contains pervasive language, violence and smoking.

RUNNING TIME: 111 minutes.

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

“Our Idiot Brother”

Paul Rudd hops from one sofa to another to another as the title character, and that’s sort of what the film itself does, too.

Rudd stars as an amiable, ambling dude named Ned who has no real goals in life; what he does have is a guilelessness that consistently gets him into trouble, both with his family and with the law. He has a knack for always saying or doing the wrong thing, even though he always means well. Director Jesse Peretz, working from a script written by his sister, Evgenia Peretz, and her husband, David Schisgall, follows him as he bumbles his way from one situation to the next with no great momentum or sense of character evolution. Ned grows increasingly irritating to his hippie farmer ex-girlfriend (Kathryn Hahn), the three sisters he mooches off of (Emily Mortimer, Elizabeth Banks and Zooey Deschanel) and to us. But then supposedly once they’ve all shunned him for causing so much inadvertent damage, they take him back because they realize what a positive influence he is in their lives. It makes no sense — there’s a gap of logic and emotion that’s hard to overcome.

RATED: R for sexual content including nudity, and for language throughout.

RUNNING TIME: 90 minutes.

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

“The Debt”

Classy, solid and well-acted, this is a rare bit of meaty, intelligent filmmaking during the ordinarily dreary final days of summer. With a cast that includes Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson and a tremendous Jessica Chastain, led by “Shakespeare in Love” director John Madden, it seems it would be hard to go wrong. Matthew Vaughn, the director of “Layer Cake” and “Kick-Ass,” co-wrote the script. It’s smart and tense but also frustrating; it almost feels too safe, too conservative and reserved in the way it hits its notes. Still, everything about it is so respectable, you may feel engrossed in the moment, yet forget about it soon afterward. Three former Mossad agents (Mirren, Wilkinson and Ciaran Hinds) are being celebrated at the launch of a book detailing their most important mission. Flashbacks to 1965, when the characters are played by Chastain, Martin Csokas and Sam Worthington, reveal what really happened. As it jumps back and forth in time, “The Debt” explores the conflict between expectations and reality, intellect and emotions, truth and regret. The film’s gray areas are so intriguing that you’ll wish it didn’t rely on a facile love triangle to create further tension.

RATED: R for some violence and language.

RUNNING TIME: 113 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three stars out of four.

“A Good Old Fashioned Orgy”

There’s something old-fashioned about “A Good Old Fashioned Orgy,” but it’s not the orgy. Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck’s R-rated comedy feels more like a “Meatballs”-era summer romp, the kind we’re generally either too cynical for now or we’ve simply outgrown. It’s a party of a movie, for

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better or worse, with ambitions of generational resonance. Eric (Jason Sudeikis) would like to eradicate inhibition in a generation weaned on psychobabble, Blackberries and Radiohead. When his father decides to sell his East Hampton summer house, Eric and his early-30s friends (Tyler Labine, Martin Starr, Lake Bell, among them), decide to have a last-hurrah orgy. It sometimes looks like they had more fun making “Orgy” than we could possibly have watching it, but the good vibes are a big part of the movie’s appeal. (It should be noted, though, that “Orgy,” with its Hamptons setting and cargo shorts, is easily one of the whitest movies to come along in recent years.) The premise asks a lot of Sudeikis’ charm, but group sex, to say the least, is a tough cookie.

When the time comes, the awkwardness of the participants pales in comparison to the awkwardness of the audience.

RATED: R for pervasive strong sexual content, graphic nudity and language.

RUNNING TIME: 95 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Two stars out of four.

“Contagion”

The calm is what’s so startling here, the cool precision with which Steven Soderbergh depicts a deadly virus that spreads throughout the world, quickly claiming millions of victims.

There’s no great panic in his tone, no hysteria. Characters become increasingly confused and frustrated, they struggle to survive and then die in a matter-of-fact way. Even the eventual instances of looting and rioting that crop up feel like blips of intensity, understandable reactions to an incomprehensible situation. Working from a script by Scott Z. Burns, who also wrote his 2009 comedy “The Informant!,” Soderbergh takes us from suburban living rooms to labs at the Centers for Disease Control to remote Asian villages with equally cleareyed realism. The attention to detail — and to the infinite ways germs can spread that we probably don’t want to think about — provide the sensation that this sort of outbreak really could happen right now. Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Laurence Fishburne and Marion Cotillard are among the stellar ensemble cast, but Jennifer Ehle nearly steals the whole movie from them as a CDC doctor racing to find a cure.

RATED: PG-13 for disturbing content and some language.

RUNNING TIME: 103 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three stars out of four.

“Warrior”

In director Gavin O’Connor’s hands, the octagon of mixed martial arts is a cage of boiling family emotion. Though this might seem an inconsequential fight movie complete with tough guys and tattoos, it turns genre fare into a surprisingly moving father-and-sons melodrama. Brothers Tommy (Tom Hardy) and Brendan Conlon (Joel Edgerton) have long been estranged from each other and their father, Paddy (Nick Nolte), an aging reformed drunk whose abuse drove his family apart. Through circumstance, both Tommy (an aimless, angst-filled former Marine) and Brendan (a suburban father whose house is being foreclosed on) find their only recourse is mixed martial arts. They both end up underdogs in a lucrative, ESPN-televised tournament, where their long-simmering family drama will finally come out. Similar to O’Connor’s last film, “Pride and Glory,” the director gives epic, self-serious treatment to a plot built on clichis. Both films, though, take familiar tropes and imbue them with family tragedy. Hardy and Edgerton supply ample physicality and darkness, while Nolte adds at least one weight class to the film’s heft. By the time “Warrior” builds to its championship finale, the sadness of the Conlon brothers is riveting.

RATED: PG-13 for sequences of intense mixed martial arts fighting, some language and thematic material.

RUNNING TIME: 139 minutes.

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

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In this image released by Warner Bros. Pictures, Chin Han, left, and Marion Cotillard are shown in a scene from the film “Contagion.”

Calm, realism are weapons in "Contagion"

By CHRISTY LEMIRE Associated Press The calm is what’s so startling in “Contagion” — the cool precision with which Steven Soderbergh depicts a deadly virus that spreads throughout the world, quickly claiming millions of victims.

There’s no great panic in his tone, no hysteria. Soderbergh has amassed a dazzling cast of Oscar winners but this is not like those ‘70s disaster movies that had melodrama to match their star power.

Characters become increasingly confused and frustrated, they struggle to survive and then die in a matter-of-fact way. Even the eventual instances of looting and rioting that crop up — as they are wont to do in these kinds of movies when societal rules have

long since been abandoned — feel like blips of intensity, understandable reactions to an incomprehensible situation.

Working from a script by Scott Z. Burns, who also wrote his 2009 comedy “The Informant!,” Soderbergh takes us from suburban living rooms to labs at the Centers for Disease Control to remote Asian villages with equally clear-eyed realism. The attention to detail — and to the infinite ways germs can spread that we probably don’t want to think about — provide the sensation that this sort of outbreak really could happen right now.

“Contagion” begins with Gwyneth Paltrow’s character, Beth, coughing as she reaches into a bowl of peanuts at an airport bar on her way home to Minneapolis from a business trip in Hong Kong. This is Day 2, we are told, and she will end up being Patient Zero. With the help

of a low-key but propulsive electronic score, Soderbergh steadily focuses on the hands as he jumps from Chicago to Tokyo to London in these early scenes, fluidly revealing how we pass our credit card to a waitress or grasp a bus railing or press an elevator button.

Kate Winslet’s character, the steely Dr. Erin Mears, who thrusts herself into the vortex as the virus starts developing, offers a chilling statistic to some skeptical medical administrators: We touch our hands to our face 2,000 to 3,000 times ... a day. I don’t even want to finish writing this review for fear of what’s lurking on my own laptop. But I must.

As Soderbergh did in the superior “Traffic,” he intertwines various story lines to give us a complete picture of the devastation. Matt Damon, as Paltrow’s stoic husband, Mitch, tries to stay strong and protect his teenage

daughter as it becomes clear that they’re both immune. Jude Law, believably skeevy as an online journalist with questionable ethics, digs for the truth of the story — but government scientists are just as keen on stopping the spread of information as they are the disease itself.

Marion Cotillard gets a bit lost in the shuffle, though, as Dr. Leonora Orantes of the World Health Organization, who’s working backward to find the disease’s origin. She’s gone for large chunks of time and her plot line feels unfinished; it’s an example of how, given the enormity of the cast and the subject matter, not all of the characters are fleshed out as well as you’d like them to be.

But then excellent character actors show up and lend weight to some of the smallest parts: Hey, there’s John Hawkes as a janitor.

Looking hard for a decent movie

By ROBERT GRUBAUGH For The Edge The box office slowdown reached a noteworthy milestone this weekend. A movie called "Creature," about a terrorizing halfhuman/half-alligator, became the lowest grossing title to ever open on more than 1,500 screens. That’s bad news. The good news is out there.

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This week I found it in French with English subtitles. "Sarah’s Key" (which was originally titled Elle s’appelait Sarah) is a moving story about the Holocaust that brings to light certain elements you might not have heard before.

In July of 1942, more than ten thousand French Jews were rounded up in Paris and forcibly

detained in a ghetto called Vel d ’ H i v. T h e y re m a i n e d t h e re in terrible heat for days without food, water, or plumbing. After this, most were trucked off to the German concentration camps w h e re m any were eventually killed. Many viewers of this film, myself included, will be stunned to learn that not all of the atrocities done to Jews during the Holocaust where carried out by the Nazis.

The French government has since accepted responsibility and apologized for this disgrace. Sarah’s Key focuses on one of these unlucky families, the Starzynskis. Ten yearold Sarah (Melusine Mayance) has the wherewithal to hide her little brother, Michel, in a hidden closet within the tiny flat where they live.

Once their true predicament at Vel

d’Hiv is discovered, Sarah’s parents (Natasha Mashkevich and Arben Bajraktaraj) begin to panic for the boy’s safety. It becomes Sarah’s quest to rescue him.

The plucky young girl makes a daring escape from a detention camp after being separated from her parents. She dashes through the French countryside before being found and harbored by a kindly farming family named Dufaure.

They rescue her from the searching police forces and eventually adopt her, giving her a new home and name. We follow Sarah (played as an adult by Charlotte Poutrel) through the rest of her life in a series of long, lushly-filmed flashbacks.

A second element of this film is set in 2009 as a French magazine

reporter named Julia (Kristin Scott Thomas) begins researching the Vel d’Hiv incident for a retrospective on the Holocaust. She finds evidence that the Starzynski children never reached the concentration camps and becomes obsessed with Sarah’s story.

By tracking through both public record and private correspondence, she is able to ascertain exactly what happened to each member of the family. The trail is very emotional, as Julia finds herself becoming unexpectedly pregnant during her sleuthing. Even more troubling is the fact that her husband’s family were the first ones to take over the apartment, sixty years earlier, that Sarah’s family was evicted from. It’s the very same one Julia has been renovating for months. A special tie binds these women over the years

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for sure.

The emotional heft of the movie is felt most strongly when Julia tracks down Sarah’s son, William (Aidan Quinn, lately guest starring on Showtime’s “Weeds”), a chef and author living in Italy. He cruelly rejects her interpretation of his mother ’s story, at first, never having known what it was that she’d suffered through. William eventually comes to terms with the shocking tale and so do we, the audience.

••• "Sarah’s Key" (Elle s’appelait Sarah) runs 120 minutes, is presented mostly in French with English subtitles, and is rated PG-13 for thematic material including disturbing situations involving the Holocaust. I give this film two and a half stars out of four.

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Travel Travel briefs N.Y. offers tips on catching fall foliage at peak ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Fall foliage is progressing slowly in New York state, but not for long.

The state economic development office says the Adirondacks can expect a 35-percent color change by the weekend in the Tupper LakeMount Arab areas.

There will be 100-percent color change when the leaves hit their peak.

In the Catskills, Otsego County expects a 15-percent change in color.

I n t h e H u d s o n Va l l e y a n d Saratoga County region, about a 10percent change in colors is expected this weekend.

Central New York can expect 15percent changes.

Fall foliage gazing is a major tourism draw in New York and the state is reporting on color changes weekly.

N.H. fall foliage report resumes as summer nears end CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire is once again issuing its harbinger of fall — the weekly foliage report.

There isn’t much to report yet.

There are spots of yellow in the Great North Woods — where foliage traditionally peaks first.

Red maples are starting to turn in the White Mountains region.

Wetlands in the Merrimack Valley are showing hints of red and yellow.

Trees in the seacoast region remain green and will for some time. The coast is the last area in the state to peak.

New Hampshire tourism officials say the cool nights ahead will spark more dramatic colors in the weeks to come.

of fry bread and, of course, more than 30 pounds of green chile.

Volunteers and state officials say the taco created Saturday was more than 10 feet in diameter and also needed 65 pounds of ground beef, 65 pounds of beans, 50 pounds of lettuce and 90 pounds of cheese.

Bill Lee, executive director of the Gallup McKinley County Chamber of Commerce, said there was no record for the world’s largest Navajo taco in the Guinness Book of World Record, so residents created one. “We just decided we would establish the record,� said Lee. “There wasn’t anything on the books officially.�

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Caesars Entertainment Corp. officials said Wednesday that visitors can book the 662 new rooms starting Thursday for stays beginning Jan. 2.

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nce again, October is Owls and Orchids month at the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House, where visitors will have the rare opportunity to see nearly 2,000 owl butterflies more than 10 times the normal number - in action among the dazzling color display of more than 100 blooming orchids.

Throughout October, visitors will have the chance to watch these uniquely-marked creatures roost and feast on strategically-placed tree trunks slathered in squashed banana during daytime hours or swoop through the air at top speeds in groups of a dozen or more during the Butterfly House’s expanded hours on Tuesday evenings when the creatures are at their most active.

Owl butterflies (Caligo eurilochus, Caligo atreus and Caligo memnon) are easily recognized by their chocolate hued-wings with bright yellow markings that resemble an owl eye. Their name comes from these markings, which the creatures use as a defense mechanism to scare away predators. Owl butterflies feast on a diet of carrion, tree sap or juice from decaying fruit in the wilds of their native Costa Rica and Surinam. Visitors will have the chance to witness hundreds of butterflies at once as they gather to feed on tree trunks slathered in squashed banana. These trees, which will be placed throughout the Butterfly House, wills serve as a central gathering place for the butterflies and will provide visitors with an extra

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“We kind of modeled it off of March Morpho. That’s one of the visitors’ favorites, so we thought we would bring out another distinctive and recognizable type of butterfly and expanded the collection. We’ve tried to make bigger feeding stations so you can get a good look at large gropus of them,” said the Butterfly House’s Karen Hill. “The nice color pop of the orchids contrasts well with the chocolate brown of the owl butterflies. It makes for a fun, visual delight.”

Explore the indoor conservatory on your own until it gets dark, or take a guided tour with Butterfly House staff at 6 p.m. Drop in the Lopata Learning Lab for hands-on family activities designed for ages 3 to 12. See all four stages of an owl butterfly’s life, make a colorful orchid mask, learn about the unique relationship between insects and orchids, play matching games and paint with watercolors. Pick up an all-ages quiz sheet and search the facility for answers to the clues. Correctly completed quiz sheets receive a same-day 10-percent discount in the Madame Butterfly Gift Shop.

“We’ll have some hands-on activities for kids that they can do with their families to enhance their experience. It really is an all-ages facility,” said Hill.

To watch these twilight-loving butterflies at their nocturnal best, visit on Tuesdays, Oct. 4, 11, 18 and 25 from 4 to 7 p.m. Or, come during regular daytime hours to watch them at roost. October Owls and Orchids runs all month long, Tuesdays through Sundays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily (closed Mondays). The event is included with Butterfly House admission.

For a real treat, enjoy a special program by the World Bird Sanctuary from 5 to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 25

when you’ll have the chance to meet several live owls and feel their power as they fly just above your head in the Emerson Lakeside Terrace. Learn about their importance with “All About Owls” in the Lopata Learning Lab. Seating is limited and guests are encouraged to arrive early, as late arrivals are disruptive to the animals.

Whether you make your visit during the day or at night, the more than 100 blooming orchids on display inside the tropical conservatory boast dazzling colors and fragrant scents that are a delight at anytime. Look for Phalaenopsis, Cattleyas and Dendrobiums in all their glory, nestled alongside peacock flowers, powder puff trees, jungle geraniums and other tropical plants. Handheld photography is welcome for personal use only (tripods, monopods and external flash equipment is not permitted).

October is an especially good time to visit when the warm and colorful interior of the conservatory provides a tropical escape from the wet and dreary autumn weather outside, according to Hill.

October Owls and Orchids is included with Butterfly House admission of $6 for adults, $4.50 for seniors (ages 65 and over) and $4 for children (ages 3 to 12). Children ages 2 and under and Missouri Botanical Garden members are free.

The Butterfly House is located at 15193 Olive Blvd. at Faust Park in Chesterfield, Mo., accessible from Interstate 64 at exit 19B. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays (closed Mondays). The last ticket is sold 30 minutes prior to closing each day.

For more information about the Butterfly House, visit www.butterflyhouse.org or call (636) 530-0076.

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Family Focus "Unschoolers" choose to travel different path

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press School’s never out for 14-year-old Zoe Bentley. Nor is it ever in.

The perky teen from Tucson, Ariz., explores what she likes, when she likes as deeply as she chooses every day of the year. As an “unschooler,” Zoe is untethered from the demands of traditional, compulsory education.

That means, at the moment, she’s checking out the redwoods of California with her family, tinkering with her website and looking forward to making her next video on her favorite subject, exogeology, the study of geology on other planets.

“I love seeing the history of an area,” Zoe said. “Maybe a volcano erupted and grew taller over time, or wind eroded rock into sand dunes, or a meteor hit the ground and made a crater. Finding out how these and other formations formed is something I just really like.”

Zoe’s cheer: “Exogeology rocks!”

Unschooling has been around for several decades, but advocates say there has been an uptick as more families turn to home-schooling overall.

Reliable data is hard to come by, but estimates of children and teens home-schooled in the U.S. range from 1.5 million to 2 million.

Of those, as many as one-third could be considered unschoolers like Zoe, meaning their parents are “facilitators,” available with materials and other resources, rather than topdown “teachers.”

There’s no fixed curriculum, course schedule or attempt to mimic traditional classrooms. Unless, of course, their children ask for those things.

Zoe, for instance, wanted to know more about geology once she turned 12, so she signed up for a class at Pima Community College. “I had to take a placement test, which was the first test I’d ever taken,” she said. “It was surprisingly easy.”

She has since taken several other college classes, including astrobiology, algebra and chemistry.

Maybe, Zoe said, “I’ll earn a degree, but the important thing to me is to learn what I need to and want to know. Everything else is a bonus.”

John Holt, considered the father of “unschooling,” would have been proud. The fifth-grade teacher died in 1985, leaving behind books and other reflections that include his 1964 work “How Children Fail.”

The book and others Holt later wrote propelled him into the spotlight as he argued that mainstream schools stymie the learning process by fostering fear and forcing children to study things they have no interest in.

Colorado unschool mom Carol Brown couldn’t agree more.

“Being bored makes school miserable for a lot of kids, plus there is the element of compulsion, which completely changes any activity,” the filmmaker said.

Brown and her husband unschooled their oldest daughter until she left for college and their youngest until her junior year in high school, when she chose to attend Telluride Mountain School, a small, progressive school near home.

“Unschooling parents are doing what good parents do anyway when they’re on summer vacation,” Brown said. “We just had more time to do it.”

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girls had books and films, art supplies and building materials growing up. They visited beaches, museums and forests. “There’s no one right way for every child to learn or grow up,” Brown said.

“Freedom is essential for that reason.”

For Clark Aldrich’s 16-year-old son in Connecticut, that meant raising hens for his own business selling eggs. “It’s a good way to learn about animals, commerce and economics as well as inventory,” Aldrich said.

Pat Farenga of Medford, Mass., unschooled his three daughters with his wife but said: “I don’t see unschooling or homeschooling as the answer for everybody. It’s the answer for those who choose it.”

F a re n g a , w h o w o r k e d w i t h Holt, said Holt coined the term “unschooling” in 1977 but was never terribly fond of it. It stuck for lack of a better description. He considers unschooling a subset of home-schooling, while some unschoolers see themselves more akin to democratic free schools, a century-old movement based on a philosophy of self-directed learning and equality in decision-making.

As an educator, Holt’s journey began with his career in posh private schools, then more progressive ones.

“He called progressive schools soft jails and public schools hard

jails,” Farenga said. “He described learning that takes place outside of school, but doesn’t have to take place at home and doesn’t have to look like school learning.”

Rare, unschoolers said, are children who never find reasons to pick up the basics — and beyond.

That could mean reading later than many parents might be comfortable with, or ignoring math until they see a reason on their own to use it.

Unschoolers operate under state laws governing home-schooling, which is legal in all 50 states. Such regulations vary tremendously by state, with some requiring standardized tests or adherence to a set curriculum and others nothing more than a letter from parents describing what their kids are up to. Unschoolers said they have no trouble meeting their states’ requirements.

In Alaska, for example, homeschooling parents don’t have to notify officials, file any forms or have their children tested.

In Sugar Land, Texas, Elon Bomani’s 11-year-old son has never been to school and doesn’t know how to write cursive. She doesn’t care. When he was younger and had no interest in learning how to read, she found a video on the subject and put it on for him to discover — or ignore as he wished.

He’s a reader today. Her younger son, who’s 6, learned to read when

he discovered Garfield comic books.

“If children find something that they love, they’ll read,” Bomani said.

Ken Danford, a former middle school history teacher, has two kids who love their schools, but he doesn’t think classroom learning works for all. That’s why he cofounded and runs North Star, a program that offers an array of selfdirected activities and welcomes teen unschoolers in Hadley, Mass.

Danford considers himself a Holt groupie, based largely on his experience as a dad and an eighthgrade teacher for five years.

“Coming to my class juiced to learn U.S. history was not that common,” he said. “Kids wanted to know, was it going to be on the test, can we go outside, can we go to the bathroom?”

For parents interested in unschooling who don’t want to quit their outside-the-home jobs, “we try to make it available, re a l i s t i c , m a n a g e a b l e f o r a n y regular kid,” Danford said.

Unschoolers have their

own publications, message boards and websites, like Theunschoolersemporium. c o m . T h e s i t e ’ s o w n e r, m o m Sara McGrath near Seattle, blogs regularly about unschooling.

McGrath, who has three daughters, notes the approach is more than hands-on, childdirected, experience-based learning.

“It doesn’t describe a specific alternative to schooling. It just gets schooling out of the way so various unique dynamic personal creative ways of growing up, living, participating and contributing to communities can develop,” she writes.

To McGrath, unschooling means looking at life “as a creative adventure,” a cooperative lifestyle involving the entire family.

Kellie Rolstad is an associate professor of education and applied linguistics at Arizona State University in Tempe. She teaches a graduate seminar on unschooling and free schools each spring. She also unschools her three children, ages 11, 13 and 14.

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And you don’t need to limit y o u r s e l f t o s w e e t s . We s t a r t you off with a roasted savory medley of apples, potatoes, Brussels sprouts and kielbasa.

If you like, top it with shredded cheese a few minutes before it’s done.

For something that straddles the sweet-savory line, try the apple-cheddar puffs, a rich and cheesy pastry puff filled with apple compote.

Then bring it back to all sweet by dipping whole apples in a melted chocolate-peanut butter blend.

Need yet another savory seasonal idea? Combine chopped apples with cubed butternut squash. Add plenty of chicken broth, then simmer u n t i l t h e s q u a s h i s t e n d e r.

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APPLE KIELBASA BAKE Start to finish: 1 hour (15 minutes active) Servings: 6 4 cups Brussels sprouts, halved 1 large red onion, cut into chunks 16-ounce kielbasa, sliced in 1/2-inch-thick rounds 2 large Yukon Gold potatoes, cut into chunks 2 baking apples, such as Cortland, peeled, cored and cut into chunks 6 carrots, peeled and cut into chunks 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 teaspoons dried sage 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon ground black pepper Heat the oven to 400 F. In a large bowl, toss together the Brussels sprouts, onion, kielbasa, potatoes, apples and carrots.

Drizzle the oil over the mixture, then toss again.

Sprinkle in the sage, salt and pepper.

Tr a n s f e r t h e m i x t u r e t o a large, rimmed baking sheet, a r r a n g i n g i t i n a n e v e n l a y e r.

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CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER COVERED APPLES Start to finish: 30 minutes (10 minutes active) Servings: 4 3 ounces heavy cream 2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter 6 ounces bittersweet chocolate bits 4 apples (any variety) 4 wooden pop sticks Chopped salted peanuts (optional) Chopped milk chocolate (optional) In a small saucepan over m e d i u m - l o w, h e a t t h e c r e a m and peanut butter until bubbling.

Remove the pan from the heat and add the chocolate bits. Stir until completely smooth. Set aside to cool for 10 minutes.

For the puffs: 1 cup water 6 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 teaspoon salt 1 1/3 cup all-purpose flour 5 eggs 1 cup grated extra-sharp cheddar cheese For the filling: 4 Golden Delicious apples, peeled, cored and diced 1/4 cup sugar 1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger 1 tablespoon lemon juice Pinch salt 1/2 cup water, divided 1 tablespoon cornstarch Heat the oven to 425 F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.

In a medium saucepan over m e d i u m - h i g h , h e a t t h e w a t e r, butter and salt until boiling.

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Meanwhile, from the bottom push a pop stick up into the core of each apple.

The stick should go deep enough to be sturdy, but leave enough exposed to serve as a handle.

Line a baking sheet with waxed paper. Place the peanuts and/or milk chocolate in bowls, if using.

One at a time, using the sticks handles, dip the apples in the chocolate mixture.

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In a glass, stir together the remaining 2 tablespoons water and the cornstarch, then add to the apples.

Bring up to a simmer and cook just until the mixture thickens, about 1 to 2 minutes.

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By KRISTA WILKINSON-MIDGLEY Of The Edge

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he sun was just beginning to shine on a crisp morning in early September when a hardy group of around 20 people showed up at the fields behind Villa Marie Winery in Maryville ready to get to work.

Autumn is harvesting season at Villa Marie and the grapes were ripe for the picking. Clippers in hand, the group got to work snipping off the tender bunches of grapes as the morning sun spread across the vineyard.

Illinois is fortunate indeed to have so many excellent wineries. More and more have been appearing up and down the state with many, like Villa Marie, producing awardwinning wines both at home and abroad.

Wine lovers will no doubt already be familiar with Villa Marie’s selection of excellent local wines, but many may not be quite as familiar with the hard work and skill involved in creating those wines. So, in the name of dedicated investigative journalism – not to mention a deep appreciation of good wine – The Edge decided to take a deeper look into the hallowed annual ritual that is winemaking.

Judy Wiemann, owner of Villa Marie and Piasa Wineries, explained that the key to achieving a great wine is a combination of selecting the right grapes and harvesting them at the right time.

“We only pick our grapes when the pH level and the brix are at the level we want them because we think it makes a better wine,” said Wiemann.

Wiemann said she has a lot of good friends and family who come out and help with the harvesting each year. It’s hard work bending over the vines for hours at a time,

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Villa Marie Winery in Maryville produces six varieties of grape. Below, the annual winemaking process begins with harvesting the grapes from the winery's vinyard. but Wiemann makes sure everybody gets a hot lunch when the work is done.

Two family members who play a big role in the process are Mike and Bob Drost, Wiemann’s nephews.

Bob Drost said the winery grows six different varieties of grapes that have been specifically developed to grow in this part of the country.

Norton is a good example of this.

This red grape is native to North America and is the Midwest’s

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premier red wine grape. Norton produces a deep red wine with flavors of black cherry and current.

Villa Marie recently won double gold at the state competition for its Norton and gold at the Indy International for its Norton 2011.

Back in the fields, the picking goes on over two weeks in late summer/ early autumn. The harvested grapes go into buckets, which in turn are dumped into large microbins and taken to the winery. The microbins

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are then lined up to wait their turn at the de-stemmer, which does exactly what it sounds like it does.

The grapes are dumped out of the microbins into the de-stemmer so that their stems can be removed.

Once that job is done, the grapes are then pumped through a large tube connected to the crusher. This is where the real action begins. The crusher is a huge rotating beast of a machine that continually presses the precious juice out of the grapes

and into the large storage tanks for settling. It is an amazing experience to watch this process take place.

Between four and six people are needed to ensure that every step along the way is done correctly. One person to operate the forklift that empties the microbins into the destemmer. In this case, Winemaker Linda Unnerstall does the job.

Another two people ensure the grapes are de-stemmed evenly and make it into the pump without any problems.

Clogs can happen easily, which slows everything else down.

Yet another person is needed to operate the crusher and continually monitor the flow of grapes into the machine and the level or juice coming out of it. The entire process takes hours but the results are worth it. This Edge reporter was kindly granted a glass of freshly-pressed juice from the winery’s Traminette grapes.

This white hybrid was developed

by H.C. Barrett at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana in 1965. This hardy, disease-resistant grape is ideal for the Midwest as it can withstand the harsh winters in this part of the country. The sweetness of the juice gives a tantalizing hint of the wine it will eventually become.

At this point, the juice goes into the storage tanks to spend a few days settling. Unnerstall explained that this process is to allow any remaining skins, seeds and other debris to settle at the bottom and for the juice to develop a good clarity of color. The tanks are kept at a cool 55 to 65 degrees.

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This is where Unnerstall begins to work her magic. She uses her background in chemistry to continually taste and test the juice to get the pH and brix combinations just right. She even has a science lab set up in the winery’s basement so she can easily check and make adjustments as needed.

“The slower it goes the better the wine is. Once I get the pH and the brix where I want it, it goes to fermentation. It takes as long as it takes. I try to keep it cool and go slowly,” said Unnerstall.

Finally, approximately three to six months from being picked, the wine is ready. Reds, of course, take much longer. Usually up to a year or 18 months, according to Unnerstall. Once the wine is ready for bottling, another big process begins. Volunteer Sharon Petty has helped out the past couple of years with this part of the winemaking process. She praised Unnerstall’s winemaking skills.

“She’s always trying to experiment and improve on what they already have or add to the line,” said Petty.

Petty explained that everyone taking part in the bottling process is assigned a specific role. Whether it’s gassing the bottle with nitrogen to get the oxygen out, filling the bottles with wine, inserting the corks or adding the labels and foil, every step is important and must be done accurately.

“Everybody is at a station and it just goes like clockwork,” said Petty.

And that’s that. From here, the wine goes into the boxes and gets shipped out to wherever it needs to go. Winemaking truly is a fascinating process. It is so old, and yet it is continually being modernized. There is something about the combination of the ancient tradition of picking the grapes, which goes back practically to the beginnings of mankind, to our modern upgrades of machinery and methods that makes this process so interesting.

To try some of these wines for yourself, check out Villa Marie Winery, located at 6633 E. Main St., Maryville, IL 620625463. For more information, call (618) 345-3100 or visit www. thevillamariewinery.com. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday and noon to 7 p.m.

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The grapes are collected in microbins before being transferred to the de-stemmer.

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At left, the grapes are painstakingly put through the de-stemmer before going into the crusher. At right, volunteer Sharon Petty demonstrates the final part of the process – bottling.

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• Mowing • Fall Clean-Up • Fertilizing • Landscape Installation • Landscape Maintenance Insured

656-7725 GatewayLawn.com

Handyman

969

967

OUTSIDE SERVICES

Techs highly skilled-all trades Professional - Safe - Reliable “Bonded and Insured”

• Landscape Work 25 Years Experience

Call Bob: (618) 345-9131

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

405

10th Annual Stephenson House Benefit Auction 9/25/11 9:00AM 409 S. Buchanan, Edw. Outstanding Antiques & Collectibles Incl. Excellent Furniture (incl. dining sets), Glass, Childrens Items, Pottery, Records, S & P, And Much More To Be Added Before Sale www.a-nauctions.com

418 RN/LPN • Evening Shift Appliances Please call for details 377-2144 or Apply In Person Bethalto 3.5 cubic foot UPRIGHT Care Center Inc., 815 S. Prairie FREEZER: runs great! $75.00.

St. Bethalto 656-6476 GREAT USED APPLIANCES: 4200 Hwy. 111, Pontoon Beach 618-931-9850.

Large Selection — Warranty

Carrier Routes 401

Music

422

Acoustic guitar, like new $50.

659-1951.

Violin with case, full-size, needs tuning $75. 659-1951.

Misc.

Merchandise

Rt. 105 - Newspaper carrier needed in the area of Elsie St, Thomas Ln, Guy St, Olivia Ln, Williamsburg Ln in Glen Carbon. There are approximately 15 papers on this route. The papers need to be delivered by 5:00 p.m. Monday thru Friday and by 8:30 a.m. Saturdays. If you are interested in this route, please call the Intelligencer at 656-4700 ext. 40.

Handyman

969

• Remodeling • Painting • Pressure Washing • Lighting & Ceiling Fans • Windows & Doors Most Home Repairs

Call Lee: (618) 581-5154 MASTER CRAFTSMAN Carpentry, 30 Years Decks, Garages, Remodeling, Home Repair Basement Finishing Ceramic Tile Small Jobs Welcome Reasonable Rates Andy 618-659-1161 (cell) 618-401-7785

Home Remodeling & Waterproofing 971 New Construction And Remodeling • Room Editions • Finished Basements • Windows & Doors • Siding, Soffit, Fascia • Decks • Kitchens & Baths • Flooring (Ceramic) (Hardwood) (Laminate)

References, Insured

618-401-0100

426

26” JVC TV $25; 35” RCA console $35.

Work. 656-0804.

YARD SALE ITEMS: Clothes/Coats, Electronics, TVs, Miscellaneous, SHOES: Men, Women, Children 618-447-5786

Estate Sales

442

244 ESTATE SALE Sat 9/24, 10-5 Sun 9/25 12-4 603 St. Louis Street Edwardsville, IL 62025 Follow The Yellow Signs!

Tour this historic Edw. home w/antique furniture incl. walnut armoire, Arts & Crafts pieces, dressers, chests, desks, ant.

Korean bandaji chests, Haviland, Crystal, Books, Sterling flatware, costume jlry, graniteware, crockery, and much much more 618-978-2594 618-830-3127 618-656-8751

CARRIER NEEDED!

618-659-5055

www.handyman.com

Auction

Hitz Home is seeking a Director Furniture 410 of Nursing for our longterm care facility. Salary negotiable. You may apply at 201 Belle St., Bed - Queen PillowTop Mattress Alhambra, IL or contact Susan Set, NEW, in the plastic, $200 Tudor 618-488-2355.

(618) 772-2710 Can Deliver Open position for F/T, P/T or VINTAGE 7-drawer student W/E evening RN & LPN for DESK, wooden, excellent conhomey, privately owned LTC dition. $60.00/OBO. facility. Please apply within at 618/692-1718—after 5:30p.m.

Alhambra Care Center 417 E. Main St. Alhambra, IL 62001

20 Years Experience

•Drywall repair •Remodeling •Roof repair •Tile work •Replace fixtures •Caulking

• Fall Lawn & Landscape Clean Up • Gutter Cleaning • Window Cleaning • Power Wash: Deck, Siding, Patio • Driveway & Deck Sealing • MULCH WORK

DIETARY DEPARTMENT have openings for Cooks & Dietary Aides, FT & PT, Day & Evening Shifts. Apply In Person Bethalto Care Center, 815 S. Prairie St. Bethalto 377-2144.

HANDYMAN SERVICE

656-5566

BOB’S

CNAs- Hiring Bonus In Effect!!

PT & FT positions, all shifts.

Also: Day CNA Feeder Position; Evening Feeder Position. Apply In Person Mon-Fri 9-4, Bethalto Care Center, 815 S. Prairie St. Bethalto 377-2144

LET ME FIX IT!

RON GARNER CERTIFIED ARBORIST

Lawn & Home Care

308

Experiencing A Tiny Clutter Problem?

Pets

450

FREE Kittens. Little Cuties.

Pretty Colors. Healthy and Playful. 618-488-7271.

We Can Help You Sell Those Items!

Want To Know More?

CALL US! 656-4700 ext. 27

Air Conditioning/ Heating 976 Problems disappear when HANDY-MAN arrives with Super Powers and a Strong Moral Code HVAC Electrical Plumbing Custom Cabinetry Renovations Licensed and Professional, of course

Home Comfort 618.541.8799

Home Improvements

979

Call Bill Nettles with WRN Services CONSTRUCTION REMODELING COMMERCIAL PROPERTY MAINTENANCE An insured contractor providing quality crafted work.

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

618 974-9446 Electrical

Proudly servicing the area for over 25 years.

Free estimates Financing available Repairs and installations

Call us for all of your heating and cooling needs.

656-9386

981

Randy Moore Repair Service, Inc. “24 Hour Emergency Service” 35 Years Experience - Code Analysis - Troubleshooting - Service Repairs And Upgrades - All Electrical Items - Install Lights & Fixtures - Complete Rewire

www.randymoore repairservice.com

www.garwoodsheating.com

618-656-7405 Cell 618-980-0791

CHECK THE INTELLIGENCER’S SERVICE DIRECTORY FOR LAWN CARE SERVICES THAT SUIT YOU. The Edge – Page

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Classified Pets

Houses For Rent

450

2 Bdrm 1 Bth 429 Aldrup, Edw. 2 car gar, applncs included. $775 month plus 1 month rent.

Pets okay. 618-558-6174.

K

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We can help sell those special puppies, kittens or any other pet!!!

Want to know more?

CALL US FOR DETAILS 656-4700 EXT 27

Child/Elder Care

Houses For Rent

705

Staunton: Clean modern 2BR, 2BA mobile home: fridge, stove, new carpet. Very Nice. $450/ mo. 618/637-4444, 779-1500

3 BR 2 BA, newer ranch, Maryville: 2250 s.f. finshd + 700 Apts/Duplexes ft. for storage; immaculate; 3-car For Rent 710 garage, deck, walkout bsmt, SS appliances, hardwd floors & tile 1 excellent 3BR, 1200 sq.ft. TH: thruout. Mins to I-70/270. Avail. Collinsville, near 157/70; 12 9/1. $1525/mo. (318)578-2241 min. to SIUE, FP, DW, W/D, ceil3BR, 1BA, Glen Cbn: brick; lg ing fans, cable, sound walls, offrms, fncd yd, FR w/wood-burn st. prkng. Sm pets OK, yr. lse. stov; fin LL; near SIU/270. $1075 $780/mo. 618/345-9610 give mo, 1mo sec dep. 618/791-0243 AM/PM phone.

3BR, 2BA, 1600sf, 1218 Lindenwood, Edw: fncd yd, fp, gar, frig, stve disp’l, w/d hk-up. $1200/ mo. Look, then call 288-0048.

504

Special Needs - Qualified Sitter/Caretaker/Friend Min Fee: $20/Hr. 618.420.0794

Houses For Rent

705

Edwardsville - Silver Oaks II 2 Bedroom Luxury Apt w/Garage, Security System, Fitness Cntr, $830/mo.

W/S/T Incld.

Immed Availability (618)830-2613 www.vgpart.com

Apts, Duplexes, & Homes Visit our website www.glsrent.com 656-2230

710

Available Now! 3 Bdrm Townhome-$1260 2 Bdrm Duplex$1030. 2 Bdrm townhome$825. Ask about our Crazy Specials & Look N’ Lease. Certain Restrictions Apply. 618-6929310 www.rentchp.com Quiet residential neighborhood. 2 BR; all appliances incl. wshr/dryer; w/s/t.

Garages available. $750/mo.

Call 618-343-4405 or go to: www.maryvilleilapartments.com

Mobile Homes For Rent

Homes For Sale

805

FOR SALE, at auction Sept.

26th. 2BR 1BA home, updated, near high school in northern Litchfield. Call for particulars 217.246.6350

715

For Sale: 3 Bedroom 2 Bath, Maryville Autumn Oaks Subd.

2 Small Bdrm 1Bth mobile Split bedrooms, open floor plan. home $450/mo. includes W/T/S. Call for appt. 618-447-5888.

1st & last mo., will work w/dep.

Great 4 bedroom brick, 2000sf No pets. 618-780-3937. on wooded 1 acre lot. $159,000 618-258-0294.

820

Lots For Sale

820

SUN RIDGE ESTATES 2+ Acre Lots, Edwardsville Call for special prices 618/792-9050 or 618/781-5934 Wooded 2.8 ac homesite Edw schools .5 mi to Gov Pky 4 mi SIUE, underground utilities 972-0948

AGENTS: Unlock The Secret To Getting Your Listing SOLD SOLD!!

Office Space

4-PLEX IN BETHALTO, near SIU: over $25K gross revenue. 3/4 brick, many upgrades. $194,900 618-558-5013

2 Bedroom APARTMENT, Edwardsville, minutes from SIUE: 1.5 bath, W/D hookup. $625/month. 618-407-5333

For Sale by owner: 2 bedroom duplex, full walk-out basement, large detached garage. 209-211 Clay St. Phone 656-4005

RENTALS!

Lots For Sale

Enjoy wiser home buying with 1.1 acre flat lot for sale: Mary an agency exclusively for buy- Drivein Edw. $52K OBO. Call ers! New and enlarged web 580-6052 sites and “Walk Score” a new MERIDIAN WOODS community analysis tool are at Custom home sites in private, www.EdwardsvilleHomes.com gated setting. Glen Carbon.

Home Buyers Relocation Ser618/402-2990. vices! In our 21st year, always, only on the buyers side. 6620 Center Grove Road, Edwardsville; 618-656-5588

1 & 2 Bdrm apts, Edwardsville.

725 $475-$575mth.

References For Rent required. No pets. Available Office space for lease at IL 157 Bethalto home for rent-3 bed, September 1st. 692-4144 gar, h/ac, family rom, dw, gd. 1 efficiency apartment fully fur- and Center Grove Road, up to $800/mo. Oct 1, 618-433-1280. nished, dish TV internet, single 3200sf, $2300/mth. 656-1824 meyerproperties.com non-smoking male w/references $590/mo incl utilities 972-0948.

705

1012 Grand Ave. 3bdr 2bth bonus rm in finshd wlkout bsmt, remodeled. $1200/mth 1st and dep. rqrd. Call 314-568-5700.

Apts/Duplexes For Rent

Homes

Apts/Duplexes For Sale

810

2 BR 1Bth apt, Troy: Close to hi805 way access, off street parking, For Sale on-site laundry. No smoking, no Beautiful French Country 1 1/2 pets $600/mo. 618/975-0670 story home on 1.25 acres pri2BR apt: grt location, Maryville: vate wooded cul-de-sac lot in Patty Dr. Updated, roomy; w/s/t. Meridian Woods, Glen Carbon. no smoke; agent ownd. Avlb 9/1. $929,000 618/402-2990 $550/mo, to view 618-977-7657

Advertise in the Madison County Homes Magazine, now full color and direct mailed to nearly 17,000 Edwardsville and Glen Carbon homes. For all your Real Estate Advertising Needs, Call:

(618) 656-4700 Ext 23

APTS/CONDOS/HOUSES COLLINSVILLE/MARYVILLE & EDWARDSVILLE 1 bed $425-$450 2 bed $475-$1650 3 & 4 bed $800-$1500 HARTMANN RENTALS 344-7900 for Photos & details www.HartRent.info 24/7 recording 345-7771

OPEN HOUSE, SUN., JUNE 13 1:00-3:00 P

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OPEN HOUSE

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Free Parking and Admission JOBS Over 50 large and small employers interviewing, taking applications, accepting resumes and hiring during the fair…..and the list is growing!

For an updated list of participating companies, go to www.mcetd.org PLUS - Professional job hunting workshops (Workshops begin at 12:30pm) - Representatives from local schools and public training agencies.

- On site copying services - Free interpretation services for the hearing impaired and Spanish speaking population

OPEN HOUSE, SUNDAY, SEPT. 18 1 - 3 PM 8438 STONE LEDGE, EDWARDSVILLE BEAUTIFUL 5BR/3BA located in Stone Cliff Manor.

Directions: I-55 to 143 East, 1 mile to Staunton Rd., turn left, go north 1 block. $489,900

CALL JIM REPPELL (618) 791-7663 OR HOSTESS: MARY MASTERSON (618) 623-9149

Susan Landing (618) 779-7777

ATTENTION EMPLOYERS! There is still time to register for Jobs Plus! Call 618-296-4445 for assistance or go to our website at www.mcetd.org and print out our registration form.

Yard Sales

1099

921 WHIPPOORWILL (ESIC) FRIDAY 8AM-4PM SATURDAY 8AM-2PM Christmas Items, Children & Adult Clothing, Toys, Bedding, Furniture, Books, Golf Bags, Twin Mattress & Box Springs W/Frame, Rattan Portable Bar And Pulaksi Curio Cabinet

Yard Sales

1099

2-FAMILY SATURDAY—7A.M.-1P.M. (RAIN DAT—10/1) 1005 LINCOLN—MARYVILLE (@BAUER/LINCOLN) A man’s dream!

Retired Machinist’s Electric/Hand Tools Galore!

Fishing Equipment, Compressor, Many Women’s & Other Items As Well

September 22, 2011

CALL DEBBIE BURDGE (618) 531-2787

816 TROY ROAD, EDWARDSVILLE HISTORIC LeCLAIRE HOME that is close to everything!

Covered porch, spacious kitchen, master bedroom w/ alcove. Tons of charm and character.

CALL MARY JANE COLLINS (618) 210-8061

AT RE/MAX...

Put OUR Experience To Work For You!

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CALL: Madison County Employment and Training Department at 618-296-4445 TTY Users, call 800-526-0844 Or visit our website at www.mcetd.org

Proud Members of the Illinois workNet System.

Funding provided through the Workforce Investment Act. In compliance with EEO, ADA, and Jobs for Veterans Act. Auxiliary aids are available to persons with disabilities.

ALHAMBRA - 7.5 ACRES OF COUNTRY LIVING located in Edwardsville School Dist. Stocked lake and pasture with pond for horses. Interstate access just 3 miles away!

Linda Rayho (618) 779-2980

EDWARDSVILLE - 32 ACRES & HOMESTEAD! Ragland barn with 6 stalls. Fenced paddocks, rolling pasture & riding trails. Homestead boasts updated kitchen, & walk-out basement.

CALL THE LANDING TEAM (618) 779-7777

Find us on Facebook: facebook.com/REMAXPreferredPartners See More Of Our Listings At Our Website: www.YourILHome.com

Yard Sales

1099

Autumn Glen Subdivision Near Glen Carbon Village Hall Multi Family Sale SATURDAY, 9/24 8 A.M. to NOON Lots Of Clothing, Household, Miscellaneous Items

Yard Sales

1099

GINGER CREEK SUBDIVISION 10 GINGER CREST DRIVE Follow Signs FRIDAY/SATURDAY 8AM TO 3PM Furniture, Kitchen, Tools, Holiday Decor Name Brand Clothes

Yard Sales

1099

NEIGHBORHOOD YARD SALE GLENWOOD ESTATES SUBDIVISION (OFF Rt. 157 JUST SOUTH OF 1-270)

Yard Sales

1099

STREET-WIDE Yard Sale!

E. Abner Street Edwardsville FRIDAY 9/23 & SATURDAY 9/24 7:00AM-2:00PM

Saturday Sept. 24th 8:00AM—12NOON

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MORTGAGE LOAN SPECIAL! Now’s the time to save money with a short-term Home Loan from Scott Credit Union!

Rates as low as 2.99% Rate/3.046% APR ▪ Low Closing Cost - $900!

No Points!

Lock in a low rate and pay off your home with a short-term loan!

▪ Limited Time Offer!

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For Example: ▪ 5-year at 2.99% Rate/3.046% APR Monthly Principal & Interest Payment = $1437.14 ▪ 7-year at 3.25% Rate/3.29% APR Monthly Principal & Interest Payment = $1066.10 ▪ 10-year at 3.50% Rate/3.529% APR Monthly Principal & Interest Payment = $791.09

Make the most of your dreams with a Home Loan from Scott Credit Union.

Limited-Time Offer! Call us today at 618-632-1111 or apply online at www.scu.org.

APR= Annual Percentage Rate. Loans subject to credit approval. APR and monthly principal & interest payment are based on $80,000 loan amount. Member must have a FICO score of 740 or higher. The maximum debt to income is 45%. Loans will require a maximum 80% loan to value. Borrower will be required to pay odd days interest at closing. Homeowner insurance required.

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On the Edge of the Weekend

September 22, 2011