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Lightening up Lambert Murals painted in baggage claim areas.

From a tree stump

Chainsaw artists create in Edwardsville.

She pedals petals A local garden enthusiasts story.

Around St. Louis A look at upcoming events.

For the holidays A great coffee cake recipe.

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What’s Happening Friday, December 15 Winter Wonderland, Tilles Park, Runs until January 1, 2018 Holiday in the Park, Six Flags, St. Louis, Runs until January 1, 2018 The Polar Express Train Ride, St. Louis, Union Station, St. Louis, Runs until December 30, 2017 Steinberg Skating Rink, Forest Park, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m., Runs until February 24, 2018 Winterfest at the Arch, Kiener Plaza, St. Louis, 2:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs until December 31, 2017 U.S. Bank presents Wild Lights, Saint Louis Zoo, St. Louis, 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Runs until December 30, 2017 Mercy Holiday Celebration, Powell Symphony Hall, St. Louis, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The Emo Take Cover!, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 6:30 p.m.

The Irreplacebles Tour, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 6:00 p.m.

Nick Vatterott, Ashley Barnhill, w/Angela Smith, Chris Cyr, The Ready Room, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Clownvis, w/Sister Wizard, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

Take 6, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

A Christmas Carol, Fabulous Fox Theatre, St. Louis The Nutcracker, William D. Purser Center, Chesterfield, 4:00 p.m.

Currents 114, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until February 4, 2018 Thomas Struth: Nature and Politics, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until January 21, 2018 The Rep. presents Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Loretto-Hilton Center for the Performing Arts, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs until December 24, 2017 Garden Glow, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs Until January

1, 2018 Renaissance and Baroque Prints: Investigating the Collection, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until January 8, 2018

Saturday, December 16 Winter Wonderland, Tilles Park, Runs until January 1, 2018 Holiday in the Park, Six Flags, St. Louis, Runs until January 1, 2018 The Polar Express Train Ride, St. Louis, Union Station, St. Louis, Runs until December 30, 2017 Steinberg Skating Rink, Forest Park, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m., Runs until February 24, 2018 Winterfest at the Arch, Kiener Plaza, St. Louis, 2:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Runs until December 31, 2017 U.S. Bank presents Wild Lights, Saint Louis Zoo, St. Louis, 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Runs until December 30, 2017 St. Louis Blues Hockey Game, Scottrade Center, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Mercy Holiday Celebration, Powell Symphony Hall, St. Louis, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Xscape: The Great Xscape Tour, Chaifetz Arena, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Why Not, Polterguts, Welcome Home (Special Acoustic Set), The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Illenium, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Road to Pointfest 2018 S:1 R:1, Pop’s, Sauget, Doors 6:30 p.m.

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Murals brighten Lambert’s baggage claim area For The Edge A bright-colored grid of St. Louis City streets and the flowing lines of the Missouri River watershed now greet thousands of travelers at St. Louis Lambert International Airport (STL) as part of two new murals at the Terminal 2 Baggage Claim.

The murals cover both sides of Carousels 1 and 2 and stretch as long as 40 feet and will welcome more than 5 million passengers over the next 18 months. They were commissioned by the Lambert Art & Culture Program with support from the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission St. Louis artist Megan Singleton created “Ebb and Flow IV” at Carousel 2. Her work interprets USDA geospatial data of the Lower Missouri River watershed, which encompasses t h e a re a n e a r t h e A i r p o r t .

Singleton used pulp paper to mimic the lines of the watershed, which creates a dynamic relief along the wall. The opposite wall displays a series of botanical drawings of native Missouri aquatic plants. The drawings were laser cut from handmade paper, made from the very plants that the cut out drawings depict.

Singleton focuses much of her work on the investigation of ecological relationships within society and the landscape. She’s interested in the intersection of dendritic systems, patterns that are found in waterway, plants, and intersecting paths of travel.

“I hope to inspire individuals and communities to care for and foster the growth and revitalization of their landscapes and natural systems,” Singleton said. “This project creates an opportunity for me to create a

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Artists Megan Singleton and Ellie Balk have painted murals on the baggage claim carousels in Terminal 2 at St. Louis Lambert International Airport. highly visible unique work of art using handmade paper created from local plant material, which will have the potential to inform and inspire visitors as well as those who call Saint Louis home.”

St. Louis artist Ellie Balk installed “Alight on St. Louis” at Carousel 1 over a period of 10 nights. That’s because Balk, and couple of assistants, handpainted the carousel walls with some 30 different colors- bright yellow, deep purple to accents of pink and orange, just to name a few. The mural is an abstract

map drawn from the street grid of a section of St. Louis City, but from a slight bird’s-eye perspective. It gives the viewers the feeling of soaring over St. Louis in a plane.

“It looks like what you would see outside of the window seat,” Balk said. “I created the piece as one large map, and then it’s wrapped around the carousel, which evokes that action of walking around and seeing the whole thing, because it’s all connected.”

Balk’s work centers on

mathematics and data visualization. Through color and abstraction, she creates systems to tell information. Ellie is inspired by the data to ignite investigation and interaction. The works look formally abstract, but with examination they reveal information that can be “read” by the viewer.

Megan Singleton and Ellie Balk were selected to create the murals through a “Call to Artists” overseen by the Airport’s sevenmember Airport Art Advisory Committee. Current members are

Lisa Cakmak, Associate Curator of Ancient Art at Saint Louis Art Museum; Ellen Gale, Executive Director Clayton Chamber of Commerce; Shelley Hagan, Wells Fargo Curator Corporate Art; Leslie Markle, Curator of Public Art, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum; Kiku Obata, Founding Principal of Kiku Obata & Co.; Roseann Weiss, Director of Community and Public Arts for the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission; and Carlos Zamora, Creative Director at Express Scripts.

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

Tickets are $125, $85, $65, $55, $45 and are available online at metrotix.com, by calling 314-5341111, or in person at the Fabulous Fox Box Office.

For more than twenty years, Bill Maher has set the boundaries of where funny, political talk can go on American television.

First on “Politically Incorrect” (Comedy Central, ABC, 19932002), and for the last fourteen years on HBO’s “Real Time,” Maher ’s combination of unflinching honesty and big

laughs have garnered him 38 Emmy nominations.

Maher won his first Emmy in 2014 as executive producer for the HBO series, “VICE.” In October of 2008, this same combination was on display in Maher ’s uproarious and unprecedented swipe at organized religion, “Religulous,” d i re c t e d b y L a r r y C h a r l e s (“Borat”).

The documentary has gone on to become the 8th Highest Grossing Documentary ever.

In addition to his television program – which has featured s u c h v i s i t o r s a s P re s i d e n t Barack Obama, Vice President Joseph Biden, Bernie Sanders, E l i z a b e t h Wa r r e n , K e r r y Washington, Michael Steele, Howard Dean, Michael Moore, Eva Longoria, Drew Barrymore, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Gen. Wesley Clark, Susan Sarandon, Kevin

Costner, Gary Hart and Pat Buchanan.– Maher has written five bestsellers: “True Story,” “Does Anybody Have a Problem with That? Politically Incorrect’s Greatest Hits,” “When You Ride Alone, You Ride with Bin Laden,” “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer,” and most recently, “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass.” Maher started his career as a stand-up comedian in 1979, and still performs at least fifty dates a year in Las Vegas and in sold out theaters all across the country.

Four of his ten stand-up specials for HBO – 2014’s “Bill Maher: Live from DC,” 2007’s “The Decider,” 2005’s “I’m Swiss,” as well as the hilarious, “Bill Maher … But I’m Not Wrong,” – have been nominated for Emmy awards.

The Price is Right Live coming to The Fox The Price is Right Live is coming to the Fabulous Fox Theatre on Tuesday, February 13 at 7:30 p.m.

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Brian Willis and Jessica Kuehnel of Chainsaw Sculptures in Granite City work on their project on Franklin Avenue in Edwardsville.

From a tree stump to a sculpture

By STEVE HORRELL Of the Edge In much the same way that grisly car crashes draw drivers’ attention from the road, Brian Willis’s carved owls are drawing drivers’ attention from a stretch of Franklin Avenue.

“Wally says we’re going to have an accident yet,” says Marlene Maedge of her husband’s take of the situation.

“We’ve had people driving by who slow down. Some of them just stop.”

On Monday, Nov. 27, Willis, who runs

Chainsaw artists busy on Franklin Avenue Chainsaw Sculptures, hoisted his chainsaw from his business in Granite City over to the Maedges’ front yard to fulfill Marlene’s desire that an owl memorial be carved from a pine tree that was partially blown down in the summer’s most severe storm, the early morning of July 24.

By Friday morning, Willis had carved a male and a female barred owl, one facing drivers coming from around the corner from Gerber Road and the other facing drivers heading the opposite direction, from

ing up” below their parents. The owlets had lived in the tree, along with their parents, until the storm came through and displaced Madison.

A dime-sized bit allowed him to dig into the family, Marlene says.

“During the night we would hear one of the wood to create the necessary detail for them fly in, and then the other one, and we things such as eyes and feathers. Afterward Willis sanded the creation down and sealed would hear them share a mouse together,” it. By Monday, Dec.. 4, they had painted she said.

Marlene recently got ahold of her grandthem with the requisite brown and white son.

Would he help her find someone to crecoloring of adult barred owls.

Someone else had come out after the ate “artistry with a chainsaw” as a tribute storm and chopped the tree down to 12 feet. to their displaced owls? A quick Internet In recent days, Willis says he carved out search turned up Chainsaw Sculptures.

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The owl sculpture on Franklin Avenue as it appeared on Friday, Dec. 1, and Monday, Dec. 4.

Sculpture Continued from Page 8 Marlene texted Willis, who texted back that very day. “We traded pictures,” says Marlene. “I sent him the tree, and he sent me what he’d done.”

Willis has been carving for nearly three decades. He began with duck and goose decoys for Ducks Unlimited, and started

making chainsaw sculptures around 2004.

His specialty is carving animals: bears, dogs, and even owls.

At one time or another his backyard has been home to wooden bears, raccoons and roosters, each carved with his chainsaw.

He has taken his talent to the Madison County Fair in Highland and to the St. Clair County Fair in Belleville.

Wally says the current project has “just amazed me.”

Willis had to erect a scaffold himself and get used to carving on it. Kuehnel had

never worked from one before.

There were a few other problems.

The pine, for one, was harder than any pine he had ever worked with. And during the carving he encountered a few nails and screws. That blade has had to be sharpened several times as a result. “It happens,” he said with a laugh.

Willis considers the new tree to be a fitting memorial. “And, you know, the owls will come back,” he says. “They’ll locate to another tree nearby, because this is their stomping grounds.”

Marlene says she was told that the owls are likely to start flying around the sculptures soon, checking it out and trying to decide whether to take up residence there again. If they do, she says, “the crows will come and dive them to chase them out.”

Even if that happens, the new pine monument will be as a fitting tribute. The disappointment of losing the top part of the pine tree that overlooked Franklin Avenue, she said, is being offset by the joy of seeing the owl sculpture.

“They’re bringing our owls back.”

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People planner YouTube star to perform at The Fox On the heels of multiple sold out shows and added performances during his debut U.S. tour in June, Right Angle Entertainment has announced new tour dates for YouTube personality Markiplier, whose channel has more than 18 million subscribers and 6 billion video views.

Markiplier ’s You’re Welcome Tour (https://www. youtube.com/user/markiplierGAME) mixes improv games, sketches and a cast of characters to create an on-stage adventure for audiences. YouTubers L o r d M i n i o n 7 7 7 , M u y s k e r m , Ty l e r S c h e i d a n d CrankGameplays all round out the show and join Markiplier on the road for this one-of-a-kind stage show.

Markiplier ’s You’re Welcome Tour Live will stop at the Fabulous Fox Theatre Wednesday, January 3

at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $125, $61.50, $49.50, $36.50 and are available online at metrotix.com, by calling 314-5341111, or in person at the Fabulous Fox Box Office.

“Right Angle Entertainment is excited to be working again with Markiplier on the You’re We l c o m e To u r, ” s a y s A l i s o n S p i r i t i a n d J u s t i n Sudds, Co-Founders of Right Angle Entertainment.

“Markiplier and this team have put together a truly unique stage show that we’re excited for fans to experience.”

Mark Edward Fischbach, known by his online pseudonym Markiplier, is an American YouTube personality who has grown a massive online following.

Va r i e t y r a t e d h i m t h e s i x t h m o s t i n f l u e n t i a l celebrity among teenagers in the United States.

Markiplier specializes in Let’s Play gameplay commentary videos, commonly of survival horror and action video games. Mark’s videos also

include animation, sketch comedy, and vlogs that collectively rake in more than 200 million views every month.

Most recently he created a “choose your own adventure” series called “A Date With Markiplier,” which contains 24 different videos with 10 different possible endings.

The series was viewed over 6 million times in the first two weeks after its release.

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Local woman pedals her petals

By JULIA BIGGS Of The Edge Two years ago Amy James w a s f o rc e d t o f a c e a c a re e r change after having worked at the same job for 15 years.

But Amy turned what could have been a devastating time in her life into an opportunity to make her life even better.

A my opened P et a l e d P a il , a local flower business, that has flourished.

Amy explained that she had worked as an independent contractor as a remote transcriptionist for 1 5 y e ars wh en t h e c o mp a n y she worked for decided to outsource her position.

“So that job ended, and I just decided it was time to do something that I want to do.

So we started a flower farm,” she said.

Amy and her husband Donny, who has a full time job as a millwright at U.S. Steel, live on a seven acre property just outside Glen Carbon a n d h a v e p l e n t y o f ro o m t o grow flowers and build some greenhouses. “We’ve always gardened, and we’ve always had land that we just basically maintained,” Amy noted.

Donny built the first greenhouse and soon they were supplying herbs to Market Basket and a few other local garden shops as well as growing vegetables, but they quickly realized that they didn’t want to do vegetables a ny more. “ I t ’ s j ust a l o t o f work and a lot of time for such a short season,” Amy noted.

It was an easy transition to growing just flowers, which also allowed the business to ru n b a s i c a l l y y e a r- ro u n d b y utilizing greenhouses. Amy

find Amy and Donny at the Goshen Market. Their stand focused on a flower bar where customers could customize a basic arrangement with their favorite stems, and they also always had on hand her popular “Littles.” “They are actually apple juice jars. We o nly do the s e at th e mar ket but people love them. They are $5 each and if people bring their jars back to the market, they get $1 off - no matter what size. That kind of keeps things recycling.”

Although the summer Goshen Market is over for the s e a s o n , t h e G o s h e n Wi n t e r Market has just started. It takes place the third Saturday of every month in downtown Edwardsville. Amy plans to attend the winter market where customers can purchase “Littles” or flowers from the flower bar, but she said she is also currently t a k i n g o rd e r s f o r C h r i s t m a s centerpieces, wreaths and holiday arrangements. “We’ll d o w e e k l y d e l i v e r i e s b e f o re C h r i s t m a s . We c a n d e l i v e r anytime. If someone calls and needs something, we’ll get it to them,” she said.

They also offer flower subscriptions for homes and offices. Amy pointed out that their flowers typically last at least 10 days so most people Julia Biggs/Edge d o a f l o w e r s u b s c r i p t i o n Amy James of Petaled Pail can be found at the next Goshen every 10 days or three times a Winter Market. Amy is pictured with her popular “Littles” that month. Flower subscriptions come in three sizes and range she offers for $5 at the market. from $25, $50 or $75 per p o i n t e d o u t t h a t t h e y h a v e s h e s a i d . “ I t c h a n g e s w i t h delivery. “And then they are about an acre-and-a-half right t h e s e a s o n , b u t y e a r ro u n d a l s o c u s t o m i z a b l e , t o o . We now devoted to the flowers. t h e re a re o v e r 1 0 0 v a r i e t i e s t a k e s p e c i a l r e q u e s t s , ” s h e “Every season we’re doing a that we grow. Not just flowers stressed.

In addition, Petaled Pail new bed and plotting things. but greenery, perennials and also now provides flowers for So by spring we’ll probably annuals.” be two acres of flowers, but E v e r y w e e k e n d o v e r t h i s events like showers, rehearsal we still have space to grow,” p a s t s u m m e r y o u c o u l d dinners and weddings. “We

really just started doing events this year. Somebody just happened to ask me at the farmers market this year. I had always done arrangements h e re a n d t h e re , b u t I n e v e r did the full scale events until this year. That really blew up quickly.”Amy said.

Amy and Donny take great care in growing their flowers.

“We don’t use any synthetic fertilizers. We aren’t certified o rg a n i c , b u t w e d o p r a c t i c e t h a t w a y, ” s h e e m p h a s i z e d .

“We use sustainable practices.

We u s e f i s h e m u l s i o n , k e l p , seaweed, compost tea – s t u ff l i k e t h a t - r a t h e r t h a n chemicals to fertilize.”

While the flowers that they take to the Goshen Market all come from their own fields and greenhouses, Amy noted that she will source f l o w e r s f ro m o t h e r v e n d o r s for weddings and events. “If I have special requests then I do get stuff from St. Louis that we have to buy that I cannot grow. Some of the s t o re s o v e r t h e re h a v e l o c a l g ro w e r s s o I a l w a y s t r y t o do local growers first,” Amy s t re s s e d . “ A n d I a l s o h a v e a n e t w o r k o f l o c a l g ro w e r s around here that we kind of trade things when we need them so that helps, but I always buy American grown.”

“It is the best. People are so happy. And if they are buying for a gift, they come back and are like, ‘Oh they loved the flowers.’ So that’s the best part. I love it,” Amy said.

To o r d e r f l o w e r s f r o m Petaled Pail, reach out to Amy via phone at 618-558-7411, by email at amy@petaledpail. com or visit the Petaled Pail Facebook page. You can also follow them on Instagram at amysbuckets.

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People What’s happening in St. Louis For The Edge The following is a list of events planned in and around the St. Louis area: Dave & Them – December 22, 7-10pm Hwy 61 Roadhouse, 34 S Old Orchard Ave. Webster Groves 63117 No Cover http://hwy61roadhouse.com/ Enjoy “Southern Roadhouse Hospitality” while listening to Dave & Them play a variety of contemporary & classic rock as well as old and new country.

Hwy 61 Roadhouse is a Memphis and New Orleans dining experience right here in Webster Groves. Laissez le bon temps roulez, “Let the good times roll” Christmas Eve Brunch – December 24, 9:30am-1pm Hwy 61 Roadhouse, 34 S Old Orchard Ave. Webster Groves 63117 http://hwy61roadhouse.com/ Trivia with Geeks Who Drink – December 26, 7pm Blueberry Hill’s Elvis Room https://www.facebook.com/ events/1914233598815289/ Weekly Trivia with Geeks Who Drink Pub Quizzes every Tuesday evening in the Elvis Room from 7-9:30pm. Drink specials, Prizes.

Lucky Dan & Naked Mike – December 29, 7-10pm Hwy 61 Roadhouse, 34 S Old Orchard Ave. Webster Groves 63117 No Cover http://hwy61roadhouse.com/ Enjoy “Southern Roadhouse Hospitality” while listening to the -acoustic folk/rock/blues of Lucky Dan and Naked Mike.

Hwy 61 Roadhouse is a Memphis and New Orleans dining experience right here in Webster Groves. Laissez le bon temps roulez, “Let the good times roll”

Kwanzaa Celebration & Performance in The Delmar Loop – December 30 The Delmar Loop https://visittheloop.com/ Join the students from the Bertha Knox Gilkey Pamoja Prep Academy, as we come together as a community to celebrate Kwanzaa with live music, dancing, art exhibits…..and more.

New Year ’s Eve Brunch – December 31, 9:30am-1pm Hwy 61 Roadhouse, 34 S Old Orchard Ave. Webster Groves 63117

http://hwy61roadhouse.com/ New Years Eve at Hwy 61 – December 31 6-12:30am Hwy 61 Roadhouse, 34 S Old Orchard Ave. Webster Groves 63117 $10 cover without package purchase http://hwy61roadhouse.com/ 2 dinner seatings at 6pm & 8pm. Paul Bonn and the Bluesmen 8:30pm-12:30am.

JANUARY New Year ’s Day Brunch – January 1, 9:30am-1pm Hwy 61 Roadhouse, 34 S Old

Orchard Ave. Webster Groves 63117 http://hwy61roadhouse.com/ The How and the Why – January 24-February 11 Wool Studio Theater, A&E Building, JCC Staenberg Family Complex, 2 Millstone Campus Dr, Creve Couer, MO 63146 (314) 442-3283 https://jccstl.com/arts-ideas/ new-jewish-theatre/currentproductions/ A fascinating and thoughtprovoking play about science, family and the survival of the fittest. Emotions collide when, on the eve of a prestigious conference, an up-and-coming 28-year-old evolutionary biologist wrestles for the truth with an established leader in the field, 56-year-old Zelda Kahn. The air crackles between the eminent professor and the maverick graduate student, whose theories might just change the way we regard sex itself. This intimate and keenly perceptive play grapples with the difficult choices faced by women of every generation.

Directed by Nancy Bell. Cast: Amy Loui* and Sophia Brown (*member AEA) Mozart’s Magic – January 29-30 Sheldon Ballroom, 3648 Washington Blvd., Grand Center, 63108 https://chambermusicstl.org For Mozart’s 262nd birthday, a piano quartet, music for English horn & strings and a Divertimento that will have you dancing in the aisles.

FEBRUARY 11th Africa Wo r l d Documentary Film Festival – February 9-11 Missouri History Museum FREE http://africaworldfilmfestival. com/

The Africa World Documentary F i l m F e s t i v a l ( AW D F F ) i s sponsored by the E. Desmond Lee Professorship in African/ African American Studies, Studies International studies and Program, and University of Missouri-St. Louis. The AWDFF has as its objective the promotion of knowledge and culture of the people of Africa, in a Pan-African context.

US Premiere of Infected – February 9-25 Kranzberg Arts Center Upstream Theater Company presents the US Premiere of the English language version of Infected by Albert Ostermaier, a very important contemporary German playwright and poet.

A day trader contracts an unknown virus and is placed i n q u a r a n t i n e . Aw a y f ro m his routine he comes apart before our eyes, in a stream of lyrically powerful, kaleidoscopic language coming straight from his breaking soul.

“Origins” – February 11 Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust St, 63103 $5-15 http://chamberprojectstl.org/ h t t p : / / w w w . brownpapertickets.com/ event/3050571 Chamber Project St. Louis brings back some of the music that got us started to celebrate our 10th Anniversary Season!

And there will be cake. Don’t miss this special evening.

Lovefest, Revived – February 12-13 Sheldon Ballroom, 3648 Washington Blvd., Grand Center, 63108 https://chambermusicstl.org Lovefest is back and it’s BADD, so pencil in date night with your Honey and be beguiled by our annual salute to romance through music.

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People planner Alabama coming to the Family Arena It’s been 40 years since a trio of young cousins left Fort Payne, Alabama, to spend the summer playing in a Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, bar called The Bowery. It took Randy Owen, Teddy Gentry and Jeff Cook six long years of tip jars and word of mouth to earn the major label deal they’d been dreaming of, but then seemingly no time at all to change the face of country music.

Alabama is the band that changed everything.

They reeled off 21 straight #1 singles, a record that will probably never be

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They brought youthful energy, sex appeal and a rocking edge that broadened country’s audience and opened the door to self-contained bands from then on, and they undertook a journey that led, 73 million albums later, to the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The fact that some of the heirs of that legacy-Eli Young Band, Rascal Flatts and Florida Georgia Line--are among the stars paying tribute on “Alabama & Friends” is part of their legacy as surely as the awards and plaudits they’ve earned through the years. And those, of course, have

been legion. They include more than 150 major industry nods, including two Grammys, the Minnie Pearl Humanitarian award, Entertainer of the Year awards three times from the CMA and five times from the ACM, as well as the latter ’s Artist o f t h e D e c a d e a w a rd .

They earned 21 Gold ®, Platinum ® and MultiPlatinum ® albums and were named the RIAA’s Country Group of the Century.

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

For more information call (314) 615-5278.

December 16 Family Workshop: Trim the Trees Bring the whole family to Laumeier for some tree-trimming fun! Learn about winter birds while y o u c re a t e h o m e m a d e ornaments that double as bird feeders. Then, take a guided hike to explore the woods and decorate

the evergreen trees with your handmade o r n a m e n t s . Wa r m u p indoors after the hike with hot cocoa and a winter story. Take home a winter bird feeder or two to decorate your own tree at home!

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Laumeier Sculpture Park’s multi-generational A r t Wo r k s h o p s a r e a wonderful way for family members to spend quality and creative time together!

Children—along with a parent, grandparent or caregiver—explore new artistic media, develop a meaningful bond and create memories to last a lifetime. Registration fee includes one adult with one child; children must

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be accompanied by an i n t o f a b u l o u s w i n t e r adult. Workshop meets accessories like mittens, Saturday, December 16, s l i p p e r s o r b o o t c u ff s !

1:00–3:00 p.m. in the Learn how to use a Kranzberg Education pattern to snip and L a b a t L a u m e i e r stitch wool knits into S c u l p t u re P a r k , 1 2 5 8 0 new creations that make Rott Road, Saint Louis, great gifts for someone Missouri. $20, adult with special. Some sweaters child ages 4 to 12. Call w i l l b e p ro v i d e d , b u t 314.615.5278 or visit you are welcome to w w w. l a u m e i e r. o r g f o r b r i n g y o u r o w n . S i p more information. eggnog and snack on December 16 cookies to complete for Te e n & A d u l t extra holiday cheer!

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People planner SLSO single tickets now on sale The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has announced that single tickets for its 138th season are on-sale.

Tickets for all Classical, Live at Powell Hall, Family, and Education concerts can be purchased online at www. slso.org, by calling 314-5341700, or in person at the Powell Hall Box Office.

During the 2017/2018 season, SLSO audiences will enjoy a season-long celebration of Music Director David Robertson’s remarkable tenure. It will be Robertson’s 13th and final season with the SLSO. The 17/18 season also marks the orchestra’s 50th year at Powell Hall. The subscription season begins Saturday, September 23, as Music Director David Robertson leads the SLSO in a program featuring works by Mozart and pianist Emanuel Ax. Season highlights include: Season opening celebration of Mozart, including six piano concertos with Emanuel Ax; season finale features Swing Symphony collaboration with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

Wo r k s include Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, Orff ’s Carmina burana, R a c h m a n i n o ff ’ s P i a n o Concerto No. 2, Ravel’s Bolero, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, Adès’s Powder Her Face Suite, and U.S. premieres of Peter Ruzicka’s Elegie: Remembrance for Orchestra, and Erkki-Sven Tüür ’s Solastalgia.

Returning artists include S L S O M u s i c D i re c t o r Designate Stéphane Denève,

Nicholas McGegan, Leonard Slatkin, Orli Shaham, Augustin Hadelich, Christine Brewer, Susanna Phillips, and Kelley O’Connor.

Eighth season of live radio broadcasts of all Saturday subscription concerts on St. Louis Public Radio. Third season of “Night at the Symphony” on the Nine Network.

Live at Powell Hall concerts, including some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters like Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets™, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban™, Jurassic Park, and North by Northwest. Additionally, Broadway’s hottest artist, L e s l i e O d o m J r. , w i l l perform at Powell Hall, and tribute concerts, including The Music of John Williams, will feature the works of legendary artists.

The four-concert Family Series featuring Athletes of the Orchestra, Rapped & Remixed, Pinocchio’s Adventures in Funland, and A World of Make-Believe.

Education Concerts for elementary, middle, and high school students designed to bring music to life both inside and outside the classroom.

The 17/18 season will also feature the following newly announced Live at Powell Hall concerts: M e r e d i t h Wi l l s o n ’ s “The Music Man” at the Symphony Saturday, May 12, 7:00pm Sunday, May 13, 3:00pm Celebrate Mother ’s Day weekend with one of America’s most beloved movie musicals on the big screen, while the SLSO performs the original Academy Award-winning score live. ©2017 Meredith Willson Music LLC & Happy Valley Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

Tribute to George Michael Friday, May 18, 7:30pm Celebrate the life of one of the best-selling music artists of all time when the SLSO pays tribute to George Michael.

Music of Pink Floyd Friday, June 8, 7:30pm The SLSO gets in tune with its psychedelic side, along with guest conductor Brent Havens, a full rock band, lights, and lasers for The Music of Pink Floyd.

Music of Elton John & More Friday, June 15, 7:30pm One of Broadway’s best performers, Michael Cavanaugh, joins the SLSO for a tribute to the music of Sir Elton John.

About the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Founded in 1880 and now in its 137th season, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra is the second-oldest orchestra in the country and widely considered one of the world’s finest. Under the leadership of Music Director David Robertson, currently in his 12th season, the SLSO strives for artistic excellence, educational impact and community connection while meeting its mission statement: enriching people’s lives through the power of music. The SLSO presents a full season of classical programs and Live at Powell Hall concerts and hundreds of free education and community p r o g r a m s e a c h y e a r.

Media partners include St. Louis Public Radio, 90.7 – KWMU, which broadcasts the SLSO’s Saturday night subscription concerts live + The Nine Network, which regularly features SLSO performances on its Night at the Symphony program.

In addition, the SLSO is known for its Grammy Award-winning recordings, Carnegie Hall appearances, national and international

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Celtic Woman returning to The Fox Celtic Woman (www. celticwoman.com), the multi-platinum international music sensation, is returning with a brand new live show for an extensive North American tour beginning Spring 2018 with a stop in St. Louis on Wednesday, June 13 at the Fabulous Fox Theatre. The much-anticipated concert,

‘Homecoming,’ will play in more than 90 U.S. and Canadian cities from coastto-coast.

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

Celebrating Ireland’s rich musical and cultural heritage, Celtic Woman combines finest musical talent with epic stage productions to present a unique, inspiring live experience. From the debut, Celtic Woman has touched the hearts of a huge global audience.

Now, with Homecoming, C e l t i c Wo m a n b r i n g s the next chapter of

an extraordinary musical journey. It’s a universal celebration of life. It’s traditional, it’s contemporary. It’s y e s t e r d a y, t o d a y a n d tomorrow.

Continuing its remarkable legacy of introducing some of Ireland’s most talented singers and musicians onto the world stage, the Grammy winning group Celtic Woman --featuring the angelic voices of Susan McFadden, Mairéad Carlin, Éabha McMahon and the breathtaking Celtic violinist Tara McNeill, accompanied by a full ensemble of musicians and dancers -- will embark on a four month tour.

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People planner Events planned in Alton area The Alton Regional Convention & Visitors Bureau has announced the following events.

Bethalto Christmas Village December 1-2, 8-10, 15-16 5:00pm to 8:00pm Bethalto Central Park 213 N. Prairie St. Bethalto, IL 62010 (618) 377-8051 Celebrate Christmas with a stroll through Central Park in Bethalto, enjoying decorated lighted Christmas-themed cottages, live music, food, Santa Claus, holiday vendors and crafters, live nativity scene and more. Bethalto Christmas Village is a free, family-fun event designed to share the Spirit of Christmas throughout the community and region. Created for all ages, by all ages, Bethalto Christmas Village embodies the cooperation of residents, businesses, churches, civic organizations and village officials to create an amazing Christmas experience!

There will be musical entertainment from 6 - 8 p.m. each night.

For more information, call (618)377-8051.

Admission Free Christmas Wonderland (Mondays-Fridays in Dec., 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.)

6:00pm to 9:00pm Rock Spring Park 2100 College Avenue Alton, IL 62002 (618) 463-3580 D r ive t hro u gh R oc k Spring Park to see more than 2.5 million lights adorning trees and lighting displays throughout the park. Visitors are sure to be captivated by the holiday spirit. A special walk-through night (no cars allowed) will be held the first Monday after Thanksgiving (Nov. 27).

General admission for Christmas Wonderland is a suggested donation of $7 for cars and small vans, or $1 per person for vehicles holding more than 10 people.

For more information, call (800) 258-6645 or (618) 4656676.

Admission Donation Wreaths Across America Saturday, December 16, 2017 Starting at 11:00am National Cemetery 600 Pearl Street Alton, IL 62002 (618) 465-6676 This National program began some 15 years ago i n a e ff o r t R e m e m b e r the fallen, Honor those who serve, and Teach our children the value of freedom. All 530 veterans graves in the Alton National Cemetery will be decorated with balsam wreaths for the holiday season. Take part in an emotional ceremony sure to bring both pride and joy to those in attendance. For more information, call (618) 474-2005.

Christmas Feast at the Lodge Monday, December 25, 2017 10:00am to 4:00pm Pere Marquette Lodge & Conference Center 13653 Lodge Blvd.

Grafton, IL 62037 (618) 786-2331 The weather outside is frightful, but the Christmas Feast at Pere Marquette Lodge is so delightful!

Enjoy our fabulous, mouthwatering spread! We accept reservations for parties of six or more. Call (618) 7862331 ext: 502 to make your reservations.

Admission Children 0-3: FREE Children 4-11: $9.95 Adults 12 & Up: $26.95 Bald Eagle Days at Pere Marquette State Park

Thursday, December 28, 2017 – Friday, December 29 8:30am to 2:00pm Pere Marquette State Park 13112 Visitor Center Lane Grafton, IL 62037 (618) 786-3323 Bald Eagle Days at Pere Marquette State Park A site interpreter at Pere Marquette State Park will be presenting informative programs about bald eagles this winter. Visitors will learn to distinguish

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All programs will begin at the park’s visitor center at 8:30 a.m. Reservations are required. There will be a short video presentation followed by an observational drive to view the wintering bald eagles.

For more information or reservations, call (618) 7863323.

New Year’s Eve Party at Pere Marquette December 31, 2017 Starting at 10:00pm Pere Marquette Lodge & Conference Center 13653 Lodge Blvd.

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“Wonder”

QuickGlance Movie Reviews

It’s hard for us cynical souls to walk into a movie advertised with the tagline “Choose kindness” and not shudder in trepidation. What sentimental hooey is this?

What new hellish circle of cheese awaits now?

And yet Stephen Chbosky’s “Wonder,” despite its Hallmark Card appearance, is far from the “Clockwork Orange”-like exercise in emotional manipulation some might fear. Even the most pessimistic of us may actually find it charming and genuinely affecting.

Based on R.J. Palacio’s 2012 YA novel, “Wonder” is about a 10-year-old boy, Auggie Pullman (Jacob Tremblay, with heavy makeup), with mandibulofacial dysostosis or Treacher Collins Syndrome. His parents (Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson) have homeschooled him up until now but believe it’s time for him to enter 5th grade and middle school — a lion’s den if ever there was one, especially for a gentle, socially isolated boy with facial deformities despite 27 healing surgeries.

They, along with his older sister Via (an excellent Izabela Vidovic), live (where else?) in brownstone Brooklyn, the epicenter of inspirational tales about precocious pre-teens.

Auggie is comfortable around the neighborhood in his astronaut helmet (Halloween is his favorite holiday because of its costume-covered anonymity) but the prospect of school petrifies him. His first experiences aren’t reassuring, either. A legitimate science whiz and self-declared “Star Wars” fan, he’s nicknamed “Barf Hideous.” Later, rumors spread that just touching him will spread the plague.

RATED: PG by the Motion Picture Association of America for “thematic elements including bullying, and some mild language.”

RUNNING TIME: 113 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three stars out of four.

“Call Me By Your Name”

The hours move slowly in “Call Me By Your Name .”

It’s summertime in Northern Italy in 1983 on a secluded 17th century villa, where life among the antiquities is beautifully tranquil and nothing is ever pressing. There is time to read the paper in the morning, while delicately picking at a soft-boiled egg. There is time to dally around with the locals at the lake for endless stretches or pop into a card game while in town “running errands.” Shirts are optional, shoes are too, bathing suits are a wardrobe staple and naps are a way of life. No one is ever making grocery runs or stressing about what to have for dinner (that’s the cook’s job). Even the flies are serene.

This is life for a precocious 17-year-old, Elio (Timothee Chalamet), his Greco-Roman professor father (Michael Stuhlbarg) and translator mother (Amira Casar) in Luca Guadagnino’s unabashedly beautiful and subtly powerful adaptation of Andre Aciman’s novel of first love and burgeoning sexuality. His father has enlisted, as he always does, a research assistant for the summer.

This year’s model is Oliver (Armie Hammer), a 24-yearold American graduate student who is comically sculpted and handsome, preternaturally confident and disarmingly intelligent.

Oliver doesn’t look 24, however. He looks like a grown man, which makes Elio, whose skinny, stretched frame can barely fill out his denim shorts and polo shirts, look even younger.

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

RUNNING TIME: 132 minutes.

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

“Darkest Hour”

Words matter. That’s one of the key messages of “Darkest Hour,” in which Gary Oldman embodies — fiercely and memorably — the legendary Winston Churchill, who rallied his country with soaring oratory when Britain’s very survival was at stake.

But the same man who uttered indelible phrases like “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat” — and many others — was also a human being, the film argues, with fears and doubts and insecur ities and f laws. “J ust be your self ,” Churchill’s wife, Clementine (a briskly effective Kristin Scott Thomas) advises him as he heads off, full of jitters, to meet the king and become the wartime prime minister. Later, he raises a glass with Clementine, with a fervent wish: “Here’s to not buggering it up.”

“Buggering it up” was certainly a risk — both for Churchill, and for Oldman or any actor attempting t o e m b o d y t h e g re a t m a n . I t ’ s h a rd e n o u g h t o portray a revered real-life figure — and harder yet with such a larger-than-life persona, physically and otherwise. It won’t be a surprise to fans of the skilled Oldman that he avoids mimicry or caricature, and it’s an even better treat that he’s able to so adeptly balance conviction with doubt, courage with fear, and gravity with humor. (Kudos are due as well to the superb makeup by Kazuhiro Tsuji, jowls and all.)

RATED: PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America “for some thematic material.”

RUNNING TIME: 125 minutes.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RANKING: Three stars out of four.

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Movies Looking for a delicate romance?

By LINDSAY BAHR Associated Press The hours move slowly in “Call Me By Your Name .”

It’s summertime in Northern Italy in 1983 on a secluded 17th century villa, where life among the antiquities is beautifully tranquil and nothing is ever pressing. There is time to read the paper in the morning, while delicately picking at a soft-boiled egg. There is time to dally around with the locals at the lake for endless stretches or pop into a card game while in town “running errands.” Shirts are optional, shoes are too, bathing suits are a wardrobe staple and naps are a way of life. No one is ever making grocery runs or stressing about what to have for dinner (that’s the cook’s job). Even the flies are serene.

This is life for a precocious 17-yearold, Elio (Timothee Chalamet), his Greco-Roman professor father (Michael Stuhlbarg) and translator mother (Amira Casar) in Luca Guadagnino’s unabashedly beautiful and subtly powerful adaptation of Andre Aciman’s novel of first love and burgeoning sexuality. His father has enlisted, as he always does, a research assistant for the summer. This year ’s model is Oliver (Armie Hammer), a 24-year-old American graduate student who is comically sculpted and handsome, preternaturally confident and disarmingly intelligent.

Oliver doesn’t look 24, however. He looks like a grown man, which makes Elio, whose skinny, stretched frame can barely fill out his denim shorts and polo shirts, look even younger.

The exaggerated physical incongruities only highlight the rift in emotional maturity between Elio and Oliver, whose flirtation intensifies from imperceptible to full flung over the course of Oliver’s time with the Perlman family. Oliver teases, Elio resists, and the desire eventually manifests itself into a beautiful and tastefully sensual physical relationship.

Chalamet, with his sleepy eyes and gawky-confident gait, gets the role of a lifetime in Elio. His performance is one that is so lived-in and naturalistic that its impact almost catches you off guard.

Associated Press This image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Timothée Chalamet in a scene from “Call Me By Your Name.”

Hammer is very good too as an effortlessly charming specimen who knows how to use his inherently charismatic presence to make everyone fall in love with him.

“Call Me by Your Name” can be a bit of a sleeper at times. Knowing conversations about the curves of Greek statues or the origins of the word “apricot” can feel indulgent and obvious in James Ivory’s script. And there is that ever-present fog of the enormous wealth of everyone involved — the “good” kind of wealth, a Platonic ideal of Persol sunglasses, rumpled Ralph Lauren t-shirts, and the daily pursuit of

leisure, sport and knowledge. It can be a little much, but, like all of Guadagnino’s films (“A Bigger Splash,” ‘’I Am Love”), it is certainly pretty to look at.

And it’s an aesthetic journey that pays off in a stunning third act when the endless summer quickens to light speed and is gone in a flash.

“We wasted so many days,” Elio says to Oliver, finally recognizing that life will not always be languid afternoons by the lake, and regretful of how long it took for him to realize what he wanted. And, just like that, you start to feel wistful along with

the characters — mourning the moment as it’s happening.

It’s all building up to the two scenes of the movie, the ones that will contextualize and poeticize everything that came before it. First, an all-timer monologue from father to son that serves as a kind of thesis for the film, and, really, life.

Then, the final shot, which will stop you cold and gnaw at your heart for days (and probably longer), until you pick yourself up and take yourself back to the movies to spend the summer again with Elio and Oliver.

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Movies “Three Billboards” holds up well

By ROBERT GRUBAUGH For The Edge As I sat eating a buttered popcorn and watching “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” - in a theatre smack in the middle of downtown St. Louis - I wondered if the filmmaker knew of the place he was writing about in his screenplay. I’m an Illinoisan. I’ve studied, worked, and cherished my time in Edwardsville for the vast majority of life, but I was employed in Missouri for about four years in the previous decade.

And I love my Cardinals. This qualifies me to defend our neighboring state if I feel it disparaged, though “Three Billboards” doesn’t quite go that far in its portrayal of the Show-Me State. Writer/director Martin McDonagh, an Englishman, could have staged his angry, violent movie in any small town in any state, but the Missouri he shows us is certainly dirty and backward, with pronounced flaws that no one would

willingly claim as their own. It’s akin to the Ozark backwater world that “Winter’s Bone” gave us in 2010, but with characters better able to chew their scenery than they did in that picture.

Ebbing may be a fictional spot on a map, but the feelings are as real as they can be.

Centered on the grieving Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand), this movie is largely about her frustrations stemming from a directionless murder investigation into the death of her daughter, Angela (Kathryn Newton, in just one blasting scene), the year before. With no suspects, no leads, no traction, and little hope, the town’s police chief, Bill Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), is seemingly unable to find reason to continue looking and this, as you may imagine, displeases Mildred.

Demanding attention lest the brutal killing be forgotten, she purchases three scarlet red billboards on a little-traveled road near her home outside of town to question Willoughby’s inaction and set the stage for further exploration into her grief. The

billboards are a MacGuffin. Willoughby’s not a bad guy. In fact, the movie goes out of its way to make him a sympathetic chap with family (Abbie Cornish) and an unmanageable illness. He protects his officers, especially Jason Dixon (Sam Rockwell, typically a supporting MVP), a deranged and aggressive punk with a history of beating on his suspects and being a general maniac with a badge.

I wouldn’t suggest this movie if you’re looking for a mystery. Angela’s murder is a crime that exists only to create a foundation to explore some of the personalities in her life. Her deadbeat father (John Hawkes, of “Winter’s Bone” no less) is a joke prone to hitting things he can’t tolerate. Her brother (Lucas Hedges) finds coping with her death almost as difficult as living with her. Peter Dinklage has a wasted role as a would-be suitor for divorced Mildred, but his role, sadly, is just comic relief in a film so dark with humor that it barely resonates. And Dixon. He’s everything that is wrong with policing, but the movie again derails when

he’s made to become a recalcitrant hero and avenger of the downtrodden, forget that he’s previously been the catalyst for a completely unexplored subplot concerning racial intolerance in rural Missouri. That story isn’t told because this one tries harder to focus on mistreatment of women, like poor Mildred. Clearly, both themes are too much for one independent picture to tackle on its own. In her grief, Mrs. Hayes loses any sense of normalcy she might have once feigned. She escalates throughout the film from angry (the billboards, a constant puckered sneer) to vengeful (arson, preperjury) to something at the end of the show so transformative that I can’t come up with a name for it. She’s completely lost, just in a different way than her poor child was.

“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” runs 115 minutes and is rated R for violence, language throughout, and some sexual references. I give this film one and a half stars out of four.

Streisand’s concert film a lump of blah

By MARK KENNEDY Associated Press The point of paying for a baby sitter, fighting traffic and paying huge ticket prices to go see your favorite music act in the flesh is to see them working hard — to see them sweat. But you’ll never catch even a bead of perspiration in the new Barbra Streisand concert film.

An icy Babs efficiently runs through various hits in her vast catalog without a hint of strain or unscripted patter in the tedious “Barbra: The Music... The Mem’ries... The Magic!” on Netflix.

Filmed in Miami, the last stop in her 2016 tour, we see Streisand often sitting on a chair and delivering her songs while staring in the middle distance or simply with her eyes closed. The audience mostly sits reverentially.

She kicks it off with “Memories” and then goes down memory lane with classics such as “Everything” and “Evergreen” from “A Star Is Born,” ‘’No More Tears

(Enough Is Enough),” an overwrought “Being at War With Each Other,” ‘’You Don’t Bring Me Flowers,” ‘’Being Alive” from “Company” and an alarmingly overthe-top “Papa, Can You Hear Me?” from “Yentl.”

After an intermission — and a costume change — it’s on to “Pure Imagination” from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” and a video about how so many Hollywood stars were freaked out to be able to perform on her latest duets album.

T h e re ’ s a l s o “ L o s i n g M y M i n d ” from “Follies,” ‘’Isn’t This Better” from “Funny Lady,” then “Don’t Rain on My Parade” and “People.” The concert gets progressively more drowsy until Jamie Foxx adds a jolt of pure electricity as its only special guest. He revs up the crowd and sings an awesome “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” with Streisand, delivering a 7-minute tour de force.

He’s badly missed as soon as we’re back to just Babs. She sings “Jingle Bells” and “With One More Look at You.” Her encore,

“I Didn’t Know What Time It Was,” comes after awkward patter. Then we see Barbra eat a post-concert dinner of crabs.

Seriously.

It’s all so very slick and calculated, right down to the digital petals that fall on a projection screen behind Streisand, the film montages or the elegant tea set on a side table with perfect flowers in a vase. Yes, her voice is superb, a perfectly calibrated sports car. But there’s no soul. Her small fluffy dog has more charisma.

A self-serving Streisand likes to namedrop Bill Clinton and remind the crowd about her vast success, including a CD of Broadway tunes she insisted on recording despite contrary advice and a history of her No. 1 albums over six decades. The audience roars at that but Babs coolly responds: “It’s OK. Didn’t mean to have applause there. It’s just a fact.” At one point she plugs her upcoming book if we want more details on some stories.

Over 100 minutes, Streisand manages

to say nothing provocative, insightful or even very interesting. She insists old Broadway show tunes will never be out of date, hopes red states and blues states can “come together” and laments that climate change is real but her prescription is to make a wish and go into her mind to create the world the way she wants it to be. (The polar bears will love that one.)

“I’ve been blessed that so many of my dreams have come true,” she says at one point. “So all you little girls out there, even if you want to be president of the United States, don’t stop dreaming.

Nothing’s impossible.”

At no point does Streisand really interact with the crowd. In fact, she barely listens to their shouted requests or adorations. “I’m feeling the love,” she tells them but it feels like a lie. One suspects she’d perform exactly like this in a completely empty arena, a ballgowned, s t r a i g h t - h a i re d s u p e r s t a r o n p u re autopilot. Give it to Barbra: She never lets you see her sweat.

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Artistic adventures Fox set for U.S. Bank Broadway Series The Fabulous Fox Theatre announces a new U.S. Bank Broadway Series season ticket package with a “pick one” option for subscribers will go on sale August 1.

HAMILTO N i s n o longer available as part of a Season Package.

The new six-show package will include: “ T h e B o d y g u a rd ” , O N YOUR FEET!, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s THE KING & I, SCHOOL OF ROCK and THE COLOR PURPLE. The sixth show of the package will be selected from the following series specials: THE BOOK OF MORMON, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA, THE WIZARD OF OZ, CHICAGO, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s THE SOUND OF MUSIC or “A Christmas Carol”.

“The owners and associates of the Fabulous Fox are thrilled at the positive response to HAMILTON making its St. Louis debut on our stage next April,” says President and CEO Jack Feivou. “It has always been the intent of the Fox and the HAMILTON producers that a substantial number of tickets be available for single ticket sales so we have closed its sale on the season ticket package.

The single ticket on sale date for HAMILTON will be announced later. We are fortunate however to have an amazing lineup of specials this season including THE BOOK

OF MORMON, THE PHANTOM OF THE O P E R A a n d m o re . We are pleased to offer this new package beginning August 1.”

More information about each s h o w, s e a s o n t i c k e t benefits and how to purchase season tickets i s a v a i l a b l e a t w w w. fabulousfox.com, by calling Fox season ticket services at 314-535-1700 or by visiting the Fox Box Office at 531 N. Grand.

SCHOOL OF ROCK | January 16 – 28, 2018 SCHOOL OF ROCK i s a N e w Yo r k Ti m e s Critics’ Pick and “an inspiring jolt of e n e r g y, j o y a n d m a d skillz!” (Entertainment Weekly). Based on the hit film, this hilarious

new musical follows Dewey Finn, a wannabe rock star posing as a substitute teacher who turns a class of straight-A students into a guitar-shredding, bassslapping, mind-blowing ro c k b a n d . T h i s h i g h octane smash features 14 new songs from Andrew L l o y d We b b e r, a l l t h e original songs from the movie and musical theater ’s first-ever kids rock band playing their instruments live on stage. Vanity Fair raves, “fists of all ages shall be pumping!”

THE COLOR PURPLE | Marc h 20 – Ap ril 1, 2018 THE COLOR PURPLE is the 2016 Tony Award® winner for Best Musical

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Hailed as “a direct hit to the heart” (The Hollywood Reporter), this joyous American classic has conquered Broadway in an all-new “ravishingly reconceived production that is a glory to behold” (The New York Times) directed by Tony winner John Doyle.

Wi t h a s o u l - r a i s i n g score of jazz, gospel, ragtime and blues, THE COLOR PURPLE gives an exhilarating new spirit to this Pulitzer P r i z e - w i n n i n g s t o r y.

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Arts calendar Friday, Dec. 15 A Christmas Carol, Fabulous Fox Theatre, St. Louis The Nutcracker, William D. Purser Center, Chesterfield, 4:00 p.m.

Currents 114, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until February 4, 2018 Thomas Struth: Nature and Politics, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until January 21, 2018 The Rep. presents Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, LorettoHilton Center for the Performing Arts, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs until Dec. 24, 2017 G a r d e n G l o w, M i s s o u r i Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs Until January 1, 2018 Renaissance and Baroque Prints: Investigating the Collection, Mildred Lane Kemper

Art Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until January 8, 2018 Threads of Society: American Quilts and the Stories They Tell, Field House Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Runs until Dec. 30, 2017 P a n o r a m a s o f t h e C i t y, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until August 1, 2018 The Discovery of King Tut, Saint Louis Science Center, St. Louis, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Runs until January 7, 2018 #1 in Civil Rights: the African American Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 14, 2018

Saturday, Dec. 16 A Christmas Carol, Fabulous Fox Theatre, St. Louis

The Nutcracker, William D. Purser Center, Chesterfield, 4:00 p.m.

Currents 114, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until February 4, 2018 Thomas Struth: Nature and Politics, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until January 21, 2018 The Rep. presents Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, LorettoHilton Center for the Performing Arts, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs until Dec. 24, 2017 G a r d e n G l o w, M i s s o u r i Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs Until January 1, 2018 Renaissance and Baroque Prints: Investigating the Collection, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until January 8, 2018

Threads of Society: American Quilts and the Stories They Tell, Field House Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Runs until Dec. 30, 2017 P a n o r a m a s o f t h e C i t y, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until August 1, 2018 The Discovery of King Tut, Saint Louis Science Center, St. Louis, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Runs until January 7, 2018 #1 in Civil Rights: the African American Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m., Runs until March 14, 2018

Sunday, Dec. 17 A Christmas Carol, Fabulous Fox Theatre, St. Louis The Nutcracker, William D. Purser Center, Chesterfield, 4:00 p.m.

Currents 114, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until February 4, 2018 Thomas Struth: Nature and Politics, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until January 21, 2018 The Rep. presents Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, LorettoHilton Center for the Performing Arts, St. Louis, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs until Dec. 24, 2017 Garden Glow, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Runs Until January 1, 2018 Renaissance and Baroque Prints: Investigating the Collection, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Runs until January 8, 2018 Threads of Society: American Quilts and the Stories They Tell, Field House Museum, St. Louis, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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Opera Theatre of Saint Louis partners with Big Muddy Dance Company for 2018 production For The Edge Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and The Big Muddy Dance Company announce a new collaboration in conjunction with OTSL’s production of Orfeo & Euridice. Christoph Willibald Gluck’s beloved opera, based on the Greek myth of Orpheus and his journey to the underworld to save his wife, Eurydice, is one of the most dance-driven operas in the repertory, with several major dance set pieces woven into the drama.

For OTSL’s all-new production, they will be

choreographed by The Big Muddy Dance Company’s frequent collaborator Katarzyna Skarpetwoska, a celebrated New York-based modern dance choreographer, working with ten dancers from the company. The collaboration is the first of its kind between OTSL and TBMDC, building on a tradition at Opera Theatre of collaborating with St. Louis arts organizations, including its ongoing partnership with the St. Louis Symphony and its commissioning partnerships with Jazz St. Louis.

The production will open at the Loretto-Hilton Center on Saturday, June 9, 2018.

Ms. Sharpetowska’s credits with The Big Muddy Dance Company include their upcoming performance of Novelties, playing at the Edison Theatre on Saturday, November 18, 2017. As a performer, she has appeared at New York’s City Center, Washington DC’s Kennedy Center, and Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater. Owing to her innovative choreography performed by Alvin Ailey, Hubbard Street 2, Houston METdance, Bruce Wood Dance Project, the Julliard School, and more, Dance Magazine named her one of “25 to Watch” in 2016.

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Theatre Continued from Page 28 The Big Muddy Dance Company and Ms. Sharpetowska join an acclaimed production team to create Orfeo & Euridice. Director Ron Daniels returns to OTSL after bringing memorable productions of Sweeney Todd, Pagliacci, and La bohème to St. Louis audiences. Mr. Daniels is an honorary associate director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and has staged plays and operas across the globe – from Tokyo to Mexico City to Los Angeles and Vienna. Conductor Pierre Vallet makes his debut at OTSL with this production, having previously conducted Madama Butterfly and Faust for the Metropolitan Opera, Tannhäuser at L’Opéra National de Paris, and Manon at the Bolshoi Theater.

Gluck’s masterpiece combines beautiful music and dance into an affirmation of the power of love and music to overcome all obstacles. Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano, who has built a celebrated career at the Metropolitan Opera and venues around the world, returns to Opera Theatre to sing the role of Orfeo. As his wife Euridice, soprano Andriana Chuchman returns to OTSL after receiving rave reviews in the roles of Boonyi and India in Shalimar the Clown during the 2016 season and going on to performances at such acclaimed companies as the Metropolitan Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the Los Angeles Opera. In the role of Amore, Maria Valdes makes her OTSL debut.

“We are so excited to collaborate with The Big Muddy Dance Company,” said OTSL General Director Timothy O’Leary. “The company has brought acclaim and vitality to the arts scene in St. Louis since its founding less than a decade ago. Their involvement in our season will make for a gorgeous production, working with both a great dance company and a great St. Louis organization.”

“This is a thrilling opportunity and a new combination of arts disciplines for our company, and we are so honored to take part in the production with an organization as renowned and creative as Opera Theatre of St. Louis,” said Erin Warner Prange, Executive Director. “We hope to bring a new breath of life through dance for their upcoming season.”

Ms. Skarpetowska and Ron Daniels will commence a pre-season workshop with The Big Muddy Dance Company in early December of this year, joining forces to discover an evocative physical language for the opera.

Audiences will have the opportunity to see The Big Muddy Dance Company perform at a special cocktail event featuring mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano on Friday, March 2, 2018 at a location to be announced in the new year. Rehearsals with the full company continue in May of 2018. After its opening on Saturday, June 9, the production will continue for a total of six performances through Saturday, June 23. Tickets start at only $25 and are available for purchase online at opera-stl.org or by calling (314) 961-0644.

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Katarzyna Skarpetwoska About The Big Muddy Dance Company The Big Muddy Dance Company is a St. Louis-based repertory dance company which seeks to build a love of dance by providing fun, experiential, and highly entertaining performances. By engaging both emerging and established choreographers, collaborating across the community through senior outreach, and training future performers through our school and trainee program, we constantly strive to invigorate life through dance.

St. Louis Dance Theatre, Inc. was founded in May of 2010 by Artistic Director Paula David and founding Board President James David. Beginning with 9 volunteer dancers and staff members, the company followed Paula David’s vision of creating St. Louis’ first professional contemporary jazz dance company. Paula was named one of the “movers and shakers” of St. Louis on ALIVE’s 2011 BUZZ list, and the company premiered in June 2011 at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center to a sold out house and standing ovation. Since that time, the company has done over 90 performances and has commissioned over 25 works for its repertoire.

Now under the artistic direction of Brian Enos, The Big Muddy employs 11 full-time dancers and presents 3 full theater productions each season to enthusiastic audiences.

The Big Muddy Dance Company was named “Best Local Dance Company” as Readers’ Choice in 2013 and Critic’s Choice in 2014 by The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The Big Muddy Dance Company currently resides at the Marcelle Theater in Grand Center. The organization has developed into three major entities: The Big Muddy Dance Company, producing both major productions and community performances for fellow nonprofits; our open classes, which offers classes to adults as well as a training program for pre-professional dancers; and Senior Embrace, the company’s senior citizen outreach program.

About Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Opera Theatre of Saint Louis is one of the leading American opera companies, known for a spring festival of inventive new productions, sung in English, featuring

the finest American singers and accompanied by members of the St. Louis Symphony. As of its 2017 Festival Season, Opera Theatre has presented 26 world premieres and 27 American premieres — which may be the highest percentage of new work in the repertory of any U.S. company. Described by the Sunday Times of London as “one of the few American companies worth the transatlantic fare,” Opera Theatre of Saint Louis annually welcomes visitors from nearly every state and close to a dozen foreign countries. Although the size of the theater typically limits box office income to less than a quarter of the budget, the company has consistently produced work of the highest quality while never accumulating a deficit.

Opera Theatre also has a long tradition of discovering and promoting the careers of the finest operatic artists of the current generation.

Among the artists who had important early opportunities at Opera Theatre are Erie Mills, Jerry Hadley, Christine Brewer, Thomas Hampson, Sylvia McNair, Dawn Upshaw, Susan Graham, Dwayne Croft, Patricia Racette, Matthew Polenzani, Nathan Gunn, Lawrence Brownlee, Kelly Kaduce, and Jennifer Johnson Cano. Opera Theatre has always been known for distinguished leadership: founding general director Richard Gaddes was succeeded in 1985 by general director Charles MacKay, with famed British stage director Colin Graham as artistic director and Stephen Lord (1992 – present) as music director. Timothy O’Leary was named general director in October 2008 with acclaimed stage director James Robinson succeeding the late Colin Graham.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis is funded in part by the Regional Arts Commission, Arts and Education Council, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Missouri Arts Council, with audience building programs supported by The Wallace Foundation.

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Hairball, Pop’s, Sauget, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Take 6, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 15 Mercy Holiday Celebration, Powell Symphony Hall, St. Louis, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The Emo Take Cover!, The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 6:30 p.m.

The Irreplacebles Tour, The Pageant, St. Louis, Doors 6:00 p.m.

Nick Vatterott, Ashley Barnhill, w/ Angela Smith, Chris Cyr, The Ready Room, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

Clownvis, w/Sister Wizard, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, Doors 8:00 p.m.

Take 6, Jazz at the Bistro, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 16 Mercy Holiday Celebration, Powell Symphony Hall, St. Louis, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

X s c a p e : T h e G re a t X s c a p e To u r, Chaifetz Arena, St. Louis, 7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Why Not, Polterguts, Welcome Home (Special Acoustic Set), The Firebird, St. Louis, Doors 7:00 p.m.

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A sparkling drink for the holidays

By The Culinary Institute of America Everyone knows the lyrics to “Auld Lang Syne.” At least, everyone knows the last three words to “Auld Lang Syne,” or at least the general sound they should make coming out of your mouth.

If you’re like some of us, you may be a little fuzzy on the exact sentiment of this iconic New Year’s anthem. And while humming along has gotten you this far, this year it might be worth giving those lyrics a quick Google.

“Auld Lang Syne,” which roughly translates to “times long past” or “days gone by,” is a poem by the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Set to that familiar folk song melody, the version we know (sort of) has been translated to modern English, and encourages us to think about the people with whom we’ve shared our lives. After all, what better moment for solemn reflection than while wearing a paper tiara and swinging a champagne flute?

So now that you know a little bit about what you’ve been hearing all these years, we’re going to give you a cheat sheet for the most important part of the song. During the chorus, revelers in-the-know sing, “.and we’ll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne.” A cup of kindness is a special sentiment, and here at The Culinary Institute of America, we love kindness. But we also feel like raising a cup of kindness is sort of a missed opportunity.

Lucky for us, Culinary Institute of America instructor Rory Brown has created a special cocktail that we can use to fill our cups and raise to the New Year. This recipe for the Kindness sparkling wine cocktail mixes botanical gin, lightly spiced Drambuie (in honor of the Scotsman himself, Mr. Burns), and the complex sweetness of honey, all topped off with the requisite New Year’s Eve bubbles.

Honey Simple Syrup is an easy make-ahead recipe that you’ll enjoy for more than this cocktail. Use it to lightly sweeten lemonade for young guests (add a splash of sparkling water for bubbles) or as a sweetener for mulled apple cider.

Choose your favorite honey, but keep in mind that some varieties, like orange blossom, are more flavorful than others.

KINDNESS Servings: 1 Start to finish: 5 minutes 3/4 ounce (1 1/2 tablespoon) Drambuie 1/2 ounce (1 tablespoon) gin 1/2 ounce (1 tablespoon) lemon juice 1/4 ounce (1 1/2 teaspoon) Honey Simple Syrup (recipe below) 4 ounce (1/2 cup) sparkling wine In a mixing glass filled with ice, combine the Drambuie, gin, lemon juice, and simple syrup, and stir to combine.

Strain into a wine glass and top with sparkling wine just before serving.

Honey Simple Syrup Makes about 3/4 cups (enough for 24 cocktails) 1/2 cup honey 1/2 cup water Combine the honey and water in a small saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium heat, stirring constantly until the honey dissolves. Cool completely before use.

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A coffee cake treat for the holidays

By SARA MOULTON Associated Press If you’re expecting overnight guests during the holiday season, you might want to stock up on the ingredients for this recipe.

Doing so will allow you to throw together a knockout coffee cake for breakfast, a special treat that features a cream biscuit dough packed with intensely flavored dried apricots, layered with almond paste and glazed with apricot jam.

The right ingredients a re c ru c i a l . Yo u w a n t California apricots because they’re much more tart and apricot-y than the Turkish variety. As for the jam, the first ingredient listed on the label should be apricots, not sugar, because this cake is all about the balance between the sweet almond paste and the tart apricots and jam.

Likewise, be sure you’re

using almond paste and not marzipan. The latter is too sugary.

The dough is also key, so take care to measure it correctly. The best way is with a scale not a measuring cup.

One cup of flour should weigh 4 1/4 ounces, but if you pack it tightly into a measuring cup, it’ll weigh much more ... and your cake will turn out tough and dry. If you don’t own a scale, fluff up your flour, sprinkle it loosely into a one-cup dry-cup measure and scrape off the excess with a straight edge.

Finally, when adding the heavy cream to the flour mixture, take care not to overmix the dough. The longer you work it, the more the gluten develops and the chewier the dough becomes.

Not good. It takes a careful baker to make a tender coffee cake.

Apricot Almond Coffee Cake

Start to finish: 1 hour 10 minutes (40 active) Servings: 12 8 1/2 ounces (about 2 cups) all-purpose flour 2 tablespoons granulated sugar 1 tablespoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon table salt 3/4 cup (about 3 1/2 ounces) finely chopped apricots, preferably California apricots 1 tablespoon grated lemon zest 1 1/4 cups heavy cream 6 tablespoons apricot jam 3 ounces very thinly sliced almond paste Preheat oven to 425 F. Into a large bowl sift together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.

Add the apricots and lemon zest; stir well. Pour in the heavy cream and stir just until combined. Dump the dough on the kitchen counter and knead it a few

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Transfer the round to an ungreased 9-inch round pan and gently press it to fit evenly. Brush the top of the rolled-out dough in the pan all over with about 1/2 of the jam and arrange all of the almond paste slices in one layer on top.

Roll out the second piece of dough into a 9-inch round

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and transfer the round to the pan, placing it on top of the almond paste. Press gently to fit it in the pan and make sure the cake is even in thickness.

Bake the cake on the middle shelf of the oven for 18 minutes or until a toothpick, when inserted in the middle, comes out clean. Meanwhile, in a small saucepan over medium-low heat, melt the remaining jam.

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Inn breaks out the eggnog

By MARTHA SHANAHAN The Day NORWICH, Conn. (AP) — One quart cream. One quart milk. One dozen tablespoons sugar, one pint brandy, half a pint of rye whiskey, half a pint of Jamaica rum and a quarter pint of sherry.

The parlor at the historic Leffingwell House Museum was decorated Sunday as George Washington’s Mount Vernon would have been outfitted for Christmas: simply, with small garnishes of mistletoe and holly.

But the eggnog served to museum visitors in plastic foam cups barely resembled the drink Washington would have sipped on in his own parlor.

Inspired by that boozy recipe, attributed to Washington who visited the inn on more

than one occasion, museum volunteer Camilla Farlow included the drink in her menu at the annual colonial Christmas celebration. The 342-year-old house was built by Stephen Backus and later kept as an inn by the Leffingwell family.

The recipe fit with what Courtney Reardon described as a typical holiday season for an 18th-century high society household.

“Big parties with lots of booze,” said Reardon, a museum volunteer and Leffingwell House historian from East Haddam who stood by a plate of fruitcake Sunday, serving it to the parlor’s visitors.

If they didn’t want eggnog, they could try another recipe on display in the museum: rum punch, an equal mixture of fruit juice, light rum, dark rum and orange curacao liquor.

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

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

Oriental Spoon 229 Sanatorium Edwardsville A Korean restaurant where you can’t go wrong. The Kimchi is very good as an appetizer and make sure to check out

their bulgogi and bap selections. Make sure to ask your server about spiciness levels if you can’t handle hotness very well.

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

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

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

edamame on the appetizer menu.

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

J. Gumbo’s 3949 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis Central West End This is a chain restaurant, but it d o e s n ’ t f e e l t h a t w a y. C h e c k o u t the St. Louis location at 3949 Lindell Blvd. to get some really good Cajun and Creole food quick and cheap. Make sure to check out the crawfish etoufeé.

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

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

Vi s i t p r i o r t o a C a rd i n a l s g a m e o r other various events in St. Louis, eat dinner, and ride the free shuttle to and from the event.

Los Tres Amigos 1011 Century Dr. Edwardsville The Jose Morales Taco is the highlight of this Mexican Restaurant. The deep fried goodness of the taco is topped off with Parmesan cheese to give it that special flavor. Check out the rest of the extensive menu for other great Mexican dishes, too.

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The secrets to sauteeing great vegetables

By MELISSA D’ARABIAN Associated Press Every weeknight, 6 p.m. rolls around, and across America, we scramble to find something to feed our families. Our end-of-day creativity is sapped, and we turn to our core repertoire of recipes that we make over and over.

And this isn’t a bad thing: having a handful of go-to dishes in our hip pocket that we can execute without having to crack a cookbook is a smart way to get a healthy dinner on the table.

If those recipes are actually plug-and-play techniques, or blueprints, then all the better.

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To d a y ’ s r e c i p e i s r e a l l y a blueprint for sauteeing vegetables. I’ll skip the lecture about how healthy vegetables are. I’m guessing you already know that, so I’ll jump straight into the nuts and bolts of my Weekday Sauteed Broccoli.

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December 14, 2017 Help Wanted General

NEW TODAY

Got a Service to Sell?

Advertise it in the classifieds!

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

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

Help Wanted General Company looking for part time person to assist in accounting department 20 hours per week.

Hours are flexible.

Accounting Experience helpful. Send resume to holly@assurancebrokers.com or mail to Assurance Brokers, 95 N. Research Drive, Edwardsville, IL 62025

NEW TODAY Local Manufacturer looking to hire union shop carpenters.

Apprentice to journeymen positions available. Please send resume to position102016@gmail.com

Temporary Administrative Assistant needed for local CPA firm– Multiple Openings Available in Jerseyville, Carrollton, Alton, Edwardsville, Belleville, Columbia, and Highland, IL. Positions run January through mid April. Data entry, customer service, and general clerical work. Office experience preferred. Email resume to careers@scheffelboyle.com or apply online www.scheffelboyle.com.

Help Wanted Medical Hitz Home in Alhambra is looking for a P/T RN and P/T and/or F/T CNAs. Fill out an application in person, online at HitzMemorial.com, or fax resume to 618-488-2361

Furniture

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

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Misc. Merchandise

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On the Edge of the Weekend

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Taking bids for a 1 yr lease starting January 1, 2018.

Bid Deadline 12/21 Please call 618-781-3814

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SERVICE DIRECTORY ROOFING

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