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21 Ted talks Writer-director Seth MacFarlane’s follow-up to “Ted” tickles the funny bone and even has a little bit of sweetness. BY JOE WILLIAMS 22 Poignant and funny “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” is a must-see and one of the best films of the year. BY CALVIN WILSON TUESDAY, AUG. 4

22 War-dog story A grieving boy bonds with a battle-scarred dog in the canine caper “Max.” BY JOE WILLIAMS 23 Sheltered lives “The Wolfpack” shines a light on a cloistered family that has had to rely on each other for survival.

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6 ‘Idol’ chatter “American Idol” finalist David Hernandez performs this weekend at PrideFest.

7 Working together The annual St. Louis Underground Music Festival — or S.L.U.M. Fest — aims to unify the community of rappers and DJs. BY MARK MATOUSEK 8 He’s all right Fresh off its new album, “The High Country,” Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin plays a show Friday at Off Broadway. BY MARK MATOUSEK 11 Refined sound St. Louis Americana singer Beth Bombara says her new self-titled album is her most confident work yet. BY KEVIN C. JOHNSON

STAYING IN 31 Ghostface killer MTV’s “Scream” is a television take on the four-film movie franchise.

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FRIDAY

WHEN 7 p.m. Friday • WHERE Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, 14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights • HOW MUCH $30.25-$50 • MORE INFO Livenation.com

can’t officially ✔ We call Darius Rucker “Hootie” anymore.

Rucker is already up to his fourth solo album with “Southern Style.”

The album includes the single “Homegrown Honey.” In a statement, he said: “Making a country album has been a dream of mine for as long as I can remember.

Being able to write and record four country albums over the last seven years and have them all debut at No. 1 is beyond any of my wildest dreams.” With his latest project, Rucker also bumps up to the big leagues as a touring attraction, moving from support act to headliner, including his show at events are ✔ These Editor’s Picks

Rucker ‘Music of U2’ WHEN 7:30 p.m. Friday • WHERE Powell Symphony Hall, 718 North Grand Boulevard • HOW MUCH $35-$65 • MORE INFO 314534-1700; stlsymphony.org

Stone calls ✔ Rolling them the “biggest band in the world,” and — between frontman Bono and 150 million recordings sold worldwide — U2 is certainly one of the most recognizable rock brands out there.

Conductor Brett Havens, a rock band and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will channel the group and perform some of U2’s greatest hits, including “Beautiful Day,” “One,” “With or Without You,” and much more. But that’s not all: Just to make the event perfect, you can bring your ticket (virtual or hard copy) with you to Union Station’s Hard Rock Café between June 24 and 28, and get 10 percent off your (nonalcoholic) bill for food,

“Weird Al” Yankovic

SUNDAY

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WHEN 7:30 p.m. Sunday • WHERE Peabody Opera House, 1400 Market Street • HOW MUCH $26-$56 • MORE INFO Ticketmaster.com

SATURDAY

better late than never in the case of ✔ It’s parody comedian “Weird Al” Yankovic.

His latest album “Mandatory” shot to the No. 1 spot of the Billboard 200 its first week of release, the first time in more than 50 years a comedy album topped the chart and the first time ever for a comedy album to debut in that slot. The shocker there is it seems like the “Eat It” artist would have already have had a No. 1 album. He’s currently out on his “Mandatory” world tour that’s coming Sunday to Peabody Opera House. BY KEVIN C. JOHNSON

Chesterfield Wine & Jazz Festival WHEN 3-10:30 p.m. Saturday • WHERE Chesterfield Amphitheater, 631 Veterans Place Drive, Chesterfield.

• HOW MUCH Free admission • MORE INFO chesterfieldjazzfestival.com

Nothing says summer quite like a jazz festival, and if the rain stays away, this one could make for a nice

day in Chesterfield.

The musical lineup includes Eric Person & Meta-Four, Bach to the Future, Feyza Eren, Bob DeBoo and Tony Viviano. Add to that wine, food and fireworks, and it beats staying at home watching “Law & Order” reruns — not that there’s anything wrong with that.

SUNDAY ‘Senufo: Art and Identity in West Africa’ WHEN Opens Sunday and runs through Sept. 27; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday • WHERE Gallery 336 at the St. Louis Art Museum, 1 Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park • HOW MUCH $12 adults, $10 students and seniors,

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FAST FORWARD Let Them Eat Art, July 10, downtown Maplewood: Celebrates Maplewood’s creative community with this annual street party featuring food and drink tastings, live music, artist demonstrations and more ➙ Tour de Donut, July 11, Staunton, Ill.: The annual 30-mile ride covers lightly traveled roads with two doughnut stops ➙ Boys of Zummer Tour with Fall Out Boy and Wiz Khalifa, July 14 at Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre: Rockers Fall Out Boy won us over with the “Munsters” sample on the hit song “Uma Thurman” ➙ “Trainwreck,” opens in theaters July 17: Comedian Amy Schumer teams up with Judd Apatow for a raunchy romantic comedy co-starring Bill Hader

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Amy Schumer in “Trainwreck”

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Ford Box Office at Scottrade Center of West African art in a decade and a half with “Senufo: Art and Identity in West Africa.” Three countries in subSaharan West Africa have produced an amazingly diverse variety of figures, masks and other objects, all belonging to the art collectively known as Senufo.

Almost 170 loans from museums and private collections in North America and Europe will combine with scholarly commentary to show how our understanding of what Senufo is has changed since the 19th century, and the influence of this work on Western artists including Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger. This weekend also marks the grand opening of the museum’s Grace Taylor Broughton Sculpture Garden, which starts with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 5 p.m.

Friday. BY SARAH BRYAN MILLER

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Bethalto Fireworks WHEN 5 p.m. Sunday, fireworks at 9:15 p.m. • WHERE St. Louis Regional Airport, 1 Terminal Drive, East Alton • HOW MUCH Free • MORE INFO bethaltofireworks.com

Bethalto is set to host its ninth annual fireworks display Sunday at St. Louis Regional Airport.

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Before fireworks, visitors can enjoy the Hampel Family Circus, the Scott Air Force Band, games, food and crafts. BY CAITLIN GROVE

WHEN 5-11 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. July 3-4 • WHERE Memorial Park, at Elm and Glendale avenues, Webster Groves • HOW MUCH Free • MORE INFO 314-963-5300; webstergroves.org

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a pet parade (6-7 p.m. ✔ Watch Wednesday), see the Miss Webster

‘The Fantasticks’ WHEN Thursday through July 18; 8 p.m.

Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays; no show July 4 • WHERE Heagney Theatre at Nerinx Hall, 530 East Lockwood Avenue • HOW MUCH $25-$35 • MORE INFO 314.556.1293; insighttheatrecompany.com

neighbors ✔ Two who want their son and daughter to marry use reverse psychology, feigning a feud in order to draw the young couple together, in the deliberately simple musical that ran for 42 years. (Its 2006 revival is still playing.)

Insight’s production, directed by Maggie Ryan, stars Christina Ramirez and Adam Hunn as the lovers, Martin Fox as dashing El Gallo and Joneal Joplin as the Old Actor.

The score, by composer Harvey Schmidt and lyricist Tom Jones, includes many lovely songs, none better than “Try to Remember.” BY JUDITH NEWMARK

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Groves Pageant (7:30-9 p.m. Thursday), enjoy fireworks (9:30 p.m. July 3 and 4) or see the annual parade (10 a.m. July 4) at the four-day festival in Webster Groves.

Carnival rides, midway booths and live music will be featured every day of the celebration. BY JODY MITORI

FOR MATURE AUDIENCES

FAMILY NIGHT AT GRANT’S FARM O’Fallon Heritage and Freedom Fest

St. Charles Riverfest

WHEN 5-10 p.m. Thursday; 5-11 p.m. July 3, 9:30 a.m.-10 p.m. July 4 • WHERE Ozzie Smith Sports Complex, 900 T.R. Hughes Boulevard, O’Fallon, Mo. • HOW MUCH Free • MORE INFO 636-379-5614; heritageandfreedomfest.com

WHEN 5-10:30 p.m. Thursday, noon-10:30 p.m. July 3-4 • WHERE Frontier Park, 222 South Riverside Drive, St. Charles • HOW MUCH Free • MORE INFO 636-946-7776; historicstcharles.com

This year’s annual Heritage and Freedom Fest in O’Fallon, Mo., kicks off Thursday with a family night of carnival rides and games. The mainstage July 3 features country acts Gloriana and LoCash. July 4 includes a parade at 9:30 a.m. that starts at the corner of Main and Third streets and rock music acts Smash Mouth, Tonic, and Toad the Wet Sprocket in the evening. Fireworks are scheduled for 10:15 p.m. on July 3 and 9:30 p.m. on July 4. BY JODY MITORI

The celebration in St. Charles includes live music from Bottle Rockets, Miss Jubilee and the Humdingers, the Congress and Mingo Fishtrap; carnival rides; and plenty of food and drink. Fireworks are featured at 9:20 p.m.

July 3 and 4 along the banks of the Missouri River. The Fourth of July parade starts at 10 a.m. at Blanchette Park. BY JODY MITORI

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David Hernandez

A broader audience

David Hernandez, who performs at PrideFest, has found new listeners since learning the ropes on ‘American Idol’

BY MARK MATOUSEK / MMATOUSEK@POST-DISPATCH.COM

E

ight years ago, it seemed David Hernandez would become another casualty of the major label machine.

Open-mic nights led to a stint singing hooks for hip-hop songs and, eventually, a deal with Universal Music Group Distribution and Bungalo Records. But personal and creative differences would stall his first attempt at pop stardom.

“Things kind of foiled with the label because of a lot of personal differences with the lady who was in charge of it — of my album anyway — and she was kind of a psycho,” says 32-year-old Hernandez, who will perform Sunday at PrideFest downtown.

“They wanted to take me down this

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neo-soul vibe, and I really wasn’t on board with it because I’m not a neosoul artist. I had a vision at that point in my life of what I wanted to say. I was only 21, and she thought I was just some dumb kid that didn’t know what he wanted.”

Removing himself from the contract became a matter of urgency once “American Idol” came calling. With just a week before he was supposed to fly to Hollywood to join the show, he separated himself from Universal/Bungalo with new wisdom intact.

What did he learn?

“Read the fine print. Always, all the time,” he says. “It takes away from the creative process if you don’t iron out the business beforehand. I used to think,

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‘Oh, I’m an artist. I don’t deal with that stuff, that’s what managers are for.’ But to be honest, you are still a businessman. ... No one’s going to look out for you like you’re going to look out for you.”

He continued to learn about personal responsibility from “American Idol” (he finished 12th on the show’s seventh season), which gave him a crash course Stop by the Go! Magazine on the discipline tent at PrideFest necessary for a for free photos in the Fish Eye Fun career in the music photobooth! industry.

Hernandez has taken these lessons to heart in the years since. For his upcoming album, he took matters into his own hands, pouring his financial and emotional resources into its production.

“I’ve been through a lot in the last seven years,” he says. “There’s been relationships that have ended, both personally and business-wise. And so I really just wrote about all of that.

“I talk about things that people my age would be going through, that people can relate to. I know I might not appeal toward the little kids anymore, and that’s totally OK.” Though he may be leaving the kids behind, Hernandez hopes his efforts will reach a new audience and allow him to continue pursuing his showbiz dreams.

“I just hope my fanbase gets bigger and people can hear more of me,” he says. “I hope that the single (“WTF”) does well so I can put out the album with some distribution. That would be a dream.”

This time, he’ll read the fine print.

WHAT David Hernandez at PrideFest • WHEN 5:15 p.m. Sunday • WHERE Bud Light Stage, Soldiers Memorial • HOW MUCH Free • MORE INFO pridestl.org

PrideFest schedule Friday Open 4:30-11:30 p.m.

PRIDE STL BREWFEST

4:30-9:30 p.m.

Beer tasting ($29.99) 4:30-10:30 p.m.

Food truck alley 5-7 p.m. That ’80s Band, emcee Trish Busch 8:30-9 p.m. Zach Noe Towers 9-11:30 p.m.

DJ dance party featuring the Hot House Sessions Saturday Open 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.

BUD LIGHT STAGE

1-5 p.m. Emcee Lola Van Ella 1:15 p.m. Pride Idol winner Kevin Halinar 1:30 p.m. Pride Idol winner Matt Schulze 1:45 p.m. CHARIS Women’s Chorus 2:15 p.m. Gateway Men’s Chorus 3 p.m. 2015 Pride royalty review 3:45 p.m. Lola Van Ella live band performance 4:30 p.m.

Anti-Gravity 5-9 p.m. Emcee Adore Delano 5 p.m. Bella and Lilly 6 p.m. Kim Massie 7 p.m. Mary Griffin 7:45 p.m.

Adore Delano 8 p.m. Dev MONSANTO STAGE

2-6 p.m. Emcee Tajma Stetson 2 p.m. Dawn Weber and the

Electro Funk 3 p.m. Melissa Neels Band 4 p.m. Vigil and Thieves 5 p.m. Middle Class Fashion Sunday Open 11 a.m.-7:30 p.m.

Noon Pride Parade (Market Street, from Eighth to 18th) BUD LIGHT STAGE

2-5 p.m. Emcee Royale 2 p.m. Pride dignitaries and proclamations 2:45 p.m. Hank and Cupcakes 3:45 p.m.

Pride Royalty drag review 4:15 p.m. Wells Fargo Advisers Pride Parade awards 4:45 p.m.

Anti-Gravity 5-7 p.m.

Emcee Michelle McCausland 5:15 p.m. David Hernandez 6 p.m. Pride board swag toss 6:15 p.m.

LeAnn Rimes MONSANTO STAGE

2-4 p.m. Emcee Trixie LaRue 2 p.m. Electric South Side 2:45 p.m. Jen Norman 3:30 p.m. All Mixed Up 4-6 p.m. Emcee Summer Osborne 4:30 p.m. Super Majik Robots 5:30 p.m.

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St. Louis Underground Music Festival weathers a venue change

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ix years in, the St. Louis Underground Music Festival, or S.L.U.M. Fest, has begun to establish a sense of consistency. But unexpected obstacles can arise at any time, as evidenced by this year’s venue change. Last year, the daylong festival was held at Plush, which closed in January.

“Plush worked out great for us,” says festival director Robert Ford.

“We did our awards show there, and we did the festival there. Plush was ready to go; they were ready for next year.”

But a call from Plush COO Maebelle Reed, on Christmas Eve no less, alerted Ford that S.L.U.M. Fest would need a new home. Enter 2720 Cherokee, which stepped in to host the festival this year.

“We needed someone who had some size. We need three stages for that many artists,” Ford says.

2720 Cherokee fit the bill, providing enough room for the festival’s three stages and 90-plus performers.

Though the lineup’s size

may give the impression that S.L.U.M. Fest is a comprehensive survey of St. Louis’ hip-hop scene, those 90 artists represent a mere fraction of the submissions the festival’s organizers receive. The festival has seen anywhere from 500 to more than 1,000 aspiring rappers and DJs vie for a coveted spot, and that heavy competition can bring out the worst in rejected artists.

“I get a lot negative remarks from a lot of artists who don’t make S.L.U.M. Fest,” Ford says. “I’ll try to explain to them that it is what it is, and that we’re trying to put the best show together, and naturally, they’ll say, ‘Well, I’m better than this artist, and I’m better than this artist’; well, that’s not even what this is about. It’s about unification and bringing everybody together.”

That unification is sometimes perceived as insularity by outsiders who paint the artists who frequent S.L.U.M. Fest as a monochromatic clique. Yet Ford insists that stylistic Tef Poe will perform at S.L.U.M. Fest.

diversity is one of the festival’s primary goals.

Some people “tend to think we just look for a certain type of artist, which we don’t,” he says.

“We try to get a mixture of all sorts. As a whole, we just try to make an overall good event for everybody.

You could do a show and you could cater to a certain demographic, but we’re trying to touch base on all of the demographics.”

This approach has paid dividends since the festival’s inception, garnering attention from MTV and Complex, which named St. Louis the country’s 15th-best city for hip-hop fans in 2013, and S.L.U.M. Fest the city’s best hip-hop festival.

But for St. Louis’ hiphop scene to continue its ascendance, Ford believes cooperation is essential.

“Sometimes, there’s a lot of division,” he says. “Everybody’s got the whole ‘me’ complex, ‘Me, me, me, what about me?’ instead of trying to pool resources together and everybody working as a team.

“Don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot of people out here working as a team, but I think if people worked together a little bit more, it would probably be a little better in terms of St. Louis being in the spotlight as far as its hip-hop community.”

As always, S.L.U.M. Fest will continue to do its part.

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WHAT St. Louis Underground Music Festival • WHEN 1 p.m.-1 a.m. Saturday • WHERE

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Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin keeps new album short and sweet

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resh off a new album, “The High Country,” Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin plays Off Broadway on Friday.

Multi-instrumentalist Philip Dickey talks about the album and the band’s touring habits.

Your new album is only 26 minutes long. Was that intentional? Yeah, some of the songs (on our last album) had two bridges or two outros, so we were trying to tighten things up and always think of it like a 90-minute action movie as opposed to a two- or three-hour movie.

Did going back into a studio, after recording your last album in an attic, help keep the album concise? Yeah, we only booked a weekend studio, so we wanted to

track everything live, and I think that helped keep things short, fast, tight, all that stuff. And some of the bands that had recorded at that studio — it was at Chris Walla’s studio in Seattle; that’s where Nirvana recorded “Bleach,” their first album — some of those albums that were recorded there were influences for us.

You guys have, perhaps unfairly, been associated with the

We’ve played at a dog show; we’ve played at elementary schools; we played a wedding last week. Yeah, we’re pretty much down for anything, but I think the variety is actually pretty nice.”

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WHAT Someone Still Loves

You Boris Yeltsin, Search Parties • WHEN 9 p.m. Friday • WHERE Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue • HOW MUCH $10 • MORE INFO ticketfly. com, offbroadwaystl.com

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“blog rock” movement from the middle of the last decade. Does the fact that music critics have become somewhat hostile toward “blog rock” affect you guys at all? If anything, I just think it’s a little funny.

Also, we were at the right place at the right time to ever get any publicity at all, so who’s to complain or wish that we weren’t part of some of the bands getting publicity back then? It would be a little weird, because, being a small band, small budget, small everything, you need everything you can get. And the blog stuff really helped us, even though I think when we released (our first) album, we didn’t even know about music blogs.

Is your willingness to play at almost any venue or event a financial necessity, or does it speak more to your love of touring and desire for variety? I would say all of the above. We’ve played at a dog show; we’ve played at elementary schools; we played a wedding last week. Yeah, we’re pretty much down for anything, but I think the variety is actually pretty nice. A lot of the clubs are dark and dirty, so the change of scenery is very nice.

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• The HillBenders present the Who’s Tommy: A Bluegrass Opera, 8 p.m. Aug. 1, $10-$12.

Zoofari • June 19 • St. Louis Zoo 1 Jeff Threlfall and Rae Clementz, both of Springfield, Ill. • 2 From left: Barb Harwell and Marty and Belinda Miller, all of St. Louis • 3 Desiree Coleman (left) of St. Louis and Syretta Peatross of O’Fallon, Ill. • 4 Duane and Shannon Tramel of St. Louis • 5 Tanya English of Toledo, Ohio, and Gene Todd of St. Louis • 6 John Donaghy and Ellen Diorn, both of St. Louis • 7 Sue and Dan Callahan of St. Louis • 8 Celeste and Jim Imperiale of St. Louis • 9 Elizabeth and Neal Cobren of Dacatur, Ill. • 10 Dwight Foster and Barbara Montgomery, both of St. Louis • 11 Bruce and Nan Mills of St. Louis • 12 Leroy and Yolanda Shumpert of St. Louis

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Duck Room at Blueberry Hill Ticketmaster.com • Aaron Carter, 8 p.m. Oct. 31, $17-$20.

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• An evening with Helmet “The Betty 20th Anniversary Tour,” 8 p.m. Oct. 10, $18-$20.

• Modest Mouse, Sept. 2, sold out.

• Motorhead, Saxton and Crobot, 8 p.m.

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• Nickelback’s “No Fixed Address” tour, July 29, canceled, refunds available at point of purchase.

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Americana singer Beth Bombara is five releases deep into the repertoire with her new project, which she celebrates this weekend at Off Broadway.

But this is the one that earns the distinctive title “Beth Bombara.”

“I feel like this is the most confident release of anything I’ve done so far,” Bombara says. “This album signifies that for me. I feel like it’s finally something that’s representative of who I am as a musician and as an artist.”

She says “Beth Bombara” is also more refined than anything she has done before. Before now, she was mostly experimenting with different styles, including on her 2007 debut EP “Abandoned Ship,” which she recorded on her laptop in her bedroom.

“This release takes all of those styles I was experimenting with and mixes them all together. The songs, the styles and the genre bending and mixing and stltoday.com/blender

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the production all seem more refined,” says Bombara, whose Americana blend includes elements of twang, country, folk, jazz and blues.

Bombara recorded the album in a studio that was new to her, Jettison Studio in New Athens. She and her band tracked most of the album live; usually she records in layers and with overdubs.

But by recording with the full band in the studio, “you get a lot of things you might get in a live show. Players are improvising a bit and playing off of each other more. It’s more predictable, and you capture little moments that weren’t necessarily planned out beforehand. It’s really energizing to be in the same room with the rest of the band.”

The album, which she started writing a year ago, is about traveling, separating and reuniting, as it relates to Bombara and her husband, Kit Hamon.

They’re both artists who tour often, together and separately, and the album explores what that means. @blenderpd

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“It’s hard when you can’t be there physically with somebody,” she says of her husband, a bassist, fiddle player and drummer who sometimes tours in her band. He’s also a songwriter and sound technician.

“Squeezing in quality communication is the hardest part,” Bombara says.

“A touring schedule is a hard schedule to be on. When I’m available, he might be in the middle of soundcheck or onstage helping run the show of the person he’s touring with. Keeping up regular communication is hard and taxing.”

The first track is “Found Your Way” with the opening line, “Honey give me the road/it’s gonna set us free.”

“Doing all this traveling, whether together or separate, you’re going to learn a lot about yourself,” she says. “It’s a good way to gain perspective about yourself. There’s a freedom you can experience there. The rest of the lyrics expand on that idea.”

Another song on “Beth Bombara” is “Thunder and Rain,” which also explores the album’s theme. “That song more specifically speaks to the whole idea of how being apart is hard and it’s trying, and the whole idea of absence makes the heart grow fonder. You’re apart, but there’s a longing to want to be together.”

The song “Promised Land” applies though in a less literal sense. It’s about being afraid to step into the unknown, though doing so with someone else makes it easier as the two encourage each other.

Bombara’s concert this weekend introducing the album will feature her with a five-piece band.

“The vibe will be laid back. We want it to be fun, more like a party,” she says.

The album follows her 2013 EP “Raise Your Flag.”

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Trolley ride to the past The Missouri History Museum’s new History Clubhouse teaches kids about St. Louis

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ith ancient artifacts, colorby-number murals and 1870s steamboats, the Missouri History Museum has created a place for families to explore St. Louis’ rich history.

At the museum’s new History Clubhouse, kids and their families will have a place to play and learn about four St. Louis-area locations — each set in a different period.

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“We want kids to get excited and to have a sense of pride in their city,” says Lindsay Newton, the Missouri History Museum’s youth and family programs manager. “St. Louis has a rich, vibrant past, so they will get a sense of what it’s like to live in St. Louis in these different time periods and think about how people in the past lived differently than we live today, but how there are also many similarities.”

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children to explore giant re-creations of structures including the Gateway Arch, Union Station and the Old Courthouse.

Next, a trolley leads to St. Louis of the past.

“As they are walking through this trolley, they see historic photos from our collection,” Newton says. “When they get into the past, they see the Mississippi River as it’s set in the 1870s.

Children can explore a steamboat and see, smell and touch the different types of cargo that it would have carried.”

Next is Forest Park, set during the 1904 World’s Fair.

“Kids can kind of make a comparison to how the park is the same in some ways and very different in many ways than it was in 1904,” Newton says. “They can step inside an international cafe and pre-

tend to serve meals that would have been served at the fair — so everything from ice cream cones, to spaghetti, to scones from Britain and tea from Japan.”

The last stop is Cahokia, which is set more than 1,000 years ago. Here, children can gather crops, go fishing and play games from that era.

Newton says families played a big part in developing this exhibit over the past five years. The museum began with a list of more than 25 places in the area and had the families help narrow the list.

“From the very beginning we knew if we wanted to build a place for families, it needed to be built by families,” she says.

“We sent families out with cameras to the city, had them take pictures down by the river and downtown and came back and told us their stories. It really revealed to us the things that got them the most excited, the things the kids really liked and what the parents thought was important to teach the kids.”

The entrance to the exhibit features local artist Cbabi Bayoc’s four 12-foothigh murals depicting St. Louis.

“He did them as paint-by-number — so he outlined them, and kids came in last summer and got to work alongside him and paint these murals,” Newton says.

What sets this apart from other places in the area is that, in addition to being a place for kids to play, it’s very educational.

“We also have artifacts in our space,” Newton says. “They will be playing in the steamboat, and they’ll see a model of a steamboat that’s a real artifact from our collect that’s over 100 years old.”

At a ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday morning, children can enjoy music and face-painting.

WHAT History Clubhouse Grand Opening • WHEN 10

a.m. Saturday and Sunday; museum hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday-Monday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

Tuesday • WHERE Missouri History Museum, 225 South Skinker Boulevard, Forest Park • HOW MUCH Free • MORE INFO 314-746-4599; mohistory.org

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rganizing Fair St. Louis is a daunting task, given the array of overlapping events that must be coordinated. Add in the fair’s first venue change in more than 30 years, and the potential for the delicate balance to topple only heightens.

But, according to festival chairman Steve Pozaric, last year’s move to Forest Park went off without a hitch.

“Everything worked out pretty much as well as we could have hoped,” he says. “We had great crowds, infrastructure worked very well in the park and the traffic plan we had got people in and out fairly easily and successfully. So I think, all in all, it was a great location to have the fair last year.”

In particular, Pozaric was impressed by the behavior of fairgoers, who made life easier for volunteers by treating the park with a respect he found heartening.

“Something that always makes me happy is how well people treat the park,” he says. “They recognize the park is one of the jewels of St. Louis, and it was really amazing at the end of the night to watch people pick up trash. ... You would be amazed at how clean (Art) Hill was.”

Due to the harmony between those working at

and attending the fair, this year required only minor logistical tweaks. These include lower parking rates (decreased from $30 to $20), an additional bike valet and a mobile app designed to make information about the fair more accessible.

Otherwise, this fair will closely resemble last year’s edition. Even the music lineup is subject to a consistent philosophy that

They recognize the park is one of the jewels of St. Louis, and it was really amazing at the end of the night to watch people pick up trash.”

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hinges on accessibility and diversity. But given the challenges of aligning the fair’s schedule and budget with those of its preferred artists, these goals are evaluated in the long term.

“We look at the entertainment choices over a five- to 10-year continuum,” Fair St. Louis Foundation chairman Robert Ciapciak says.

“Because we’d love to say that each year we’ll be able to isolate each specific genre and have them represented on the stage. It just can’t happen because of the way the contracts work.”

Still, this year features three distinct styles from

the headliners alone, moving from country star Chris Young on Thursday to rock singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge on Friday and R&B group Kool & the Gang on Saturday.

Organizers determine nonmusical entertainment through more flexible means, namely, free-form brainstorming sessions that resulted in a roster that includes stunt cycling, a zip line and interactive science experiments.

Though Forest Park has proven to be an excellent location for the fair, the question remains: Is a return to the Gateway Arch grounds imminent after construction there is completed? Pozaric is too focused on this year’s festivities to consider a future venue change, but the question remains as the fair moves forward.

“I think after the fair, it’s an issue that we have to consider one year at a time,” he says. “Because obviously, they have to tell us when they’re ready. (The Arch) is a unique venue, but it is a national park subject to the same guidelines and regulations as any other national park, and they’re not going to be willing to have us ready to revisit the Arch grounds until they are completely ready.”

For now, Forest Park will do just fine. By Mark Matousek What Fair St. Louis • When 5-10:30 p.m. Thursday; noon-10:30 p.m. July 3; noon-10:30 p.m. July 4 (Veiled Prophet Parade steps off at 9:45 a.m. July 4); fireworks nightly at 10 p.m. • Where Art Hill in Forest Park • How much Free; parking fees vary • More info 314-434-3434; fairsaintlouis.org

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THE STARS ARE ALIGNED FOR AN UNFORGETTABLE WEEKEND! JULY 2

We have a full line up of concerts, thrilling shows, interactive exhibits and more.

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Morris Day and The Time Kool & The Gang Enterprise Rent-A-Car/ Edward Jones Fireworks

Ameren/Purina Family Festival Zone open until 7 pm STEAM Exhibit . . . Pro Plan Performance Dog Team & much more Interactive Zone open until 8 pm Longest, tallest mobile zipline open on Lagoon until 10 pm – $10 a ride!

Bicycle Stunt Performances by Chris Clark

MC LYTE

MORRIS DAY AND THE TIME

TONY! TONI! TONE!

KOOL & THE GANG

Admission is free so show up, have a funnel cake and enjoy the atmosphere.

Go to fairsaintlouis.org for maps, directions, parking options and full schedule, and download the FairSTL app to enhance your Fair experience.

All performance times are SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. Please plan to arrive early.

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of the park’s attractions will remain open throughout the weekend, so be sure to take in all the park has to offer.

Don’t bring these items to the fair.

Alcoholic beverages; glass, metal or unsealed containers over 1 liter; coolers; outside food; selfie sticks; large containers; weapons; fireworks or explosives; illegal substances; pets; bicycles, skateboards or scooters; professional recording or photography equipment; signs and/or banners.

Do bring lawn chairs and blankets. Because you’ll probably want to sit at some point. Also allowed: handheld umbrellas; strollers/wagons; diaper bags; binoculars; personal camera equipment; service animals.

Do check out the world’s longest and tallest mobile zip line. Measuring 350 feet long and 410 feet tall, the zip line will sit on the Lagoon.

Rides are $10 each. The attraction is new this year.

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Do be prepared for the heat. Bring sunscreen and water (in a single, full, factorysealed bottle, or an empty, plastic bottle).

Don’t litter. Part of the fair’s success last year resulted from fairgoers treating Forest Park with respect. Do your part to keep the park clean.

Do bike or take MetroLink to park.

Fair organizers encourage attendees to reduce congestion by biking or taking public transportation to Forest Park.

As an added perk, the fair will offer a valet for bikers, so don’t worry about your bike being lost or stolen. Bikes aren’t allowed into the fairgrounds, though.

Don’t park in nondesignated areas. Parking is available onsite and will be free until noon July 2 and until 10 a.m. July 3-4. Parking isn’t allowed on the streets of Forest Park or in the surrounding neighborhoods.

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he first single from rising country band Parmalee’s album “Feels Like Carolina” was released in summer 2012. Three years later, the album is still producing singles. The newest one is “Always Callin’ You Mine.”

Lead singer Matt Thomas talks about the group’s growth.

To what do you attribute the album’s long shelf life? It took “Carolina” (the single) a year to get to the top of the charts. ... It’s a battle out there with radio.

What was it like watching the single climb the charts? It’s bittersweet. It’s nerveracking and stressful. But it feels good hitting the marks, hitting the top 40, hitting the top 30, seeing it connect to people. People don’t really start hearing it until it’s in the top 30.

How would you describe the “Feels

Like Carolina” album?

We had a lot of time to write it. We worked with some great songwriters.

It’s a snapshot of where we were at that time.

We went through a lot of stuff. I wanted all the songs to have a positive meaning and for people to smile when they hear the songs. And if it’s a negative story, we turn it around at the end.

Talk about “Always Calling You Mine”? It’s about love at first sight — that moment when you meet somebody and you know it’s the person for you, and you go after it.

Is a new album on the horizon? We’re at least halfway through. We have more songs to cut and a lot of songs on the table and a lot of songs to finish. We have eight or nine songs in the can.

That’s our main focus right now — the new album.

What direction are you

taking with the album?

It’s definitely changing.

The sound is definitely still melody-based. The stuff we’re seeing has a lot of harmonies and melodies, but we’re still figuring it out. It’s more progressive, but we don’t have a vision necessarily yet.

How did supporting Brad Paisley on tour this year work out for you?

I’d never been to one of his shows until I played for him. The first thing is you get to see how big of a star he is. I saw how big a star he is and how great a guitar player he is.

Parmalee is a familybased band. What ups and downs does that come with? It’s like being married, I guess.

It’s my brother and first cousin and our best friend — everybody knows everybody else really well.

You gotta pick and choose your battles. It’s family. It works. It’s all good. We all have the same goals and the same loved ones to look after. BY KEVIN C. JOHNSON WHAT Parmalee at Fair St. Louis • WHEN 7 p.m. Thursday • WHERE Art Hill in Forest Park • HOW MUCH Free • MORE INFO fairsaintlouis.org

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Melissa Etheridge performs in 2010 on “Good Morning America.”

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‘This album is about me’ p h o t o : a s s o c i at e d p r e s s f i l e

Melissa Etheridge’s latest project, ‘This is M.E.,’ represents a big change in her career By Kevin C. Johnson

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dozen-plus albums into her career, rocker Melissa Etheridge releases a project that is so Melissa Etheridge, she had to title it “This is M.E.” “This album is about me,” she says of the follow-up to “4th Street Feeling” (2012). I’m bursting out, breaking down the walls.”

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The album represents a big change in her career. It’s her first away from her longtime recording home at Island Records, under which she made her biggest hits including “Come to My Window,” “Bring Me Some Water” and “I Want to Come Over,” going back to her 1988 self-titled debut album.

She released “This is M.E.” under her

own newly created ME Records.

“I think this is happening everywhere with people in my generation who are kind of in their second careers now,” she says. “They still have so much energy and so much to give, but they’re not feeling the rewards anymore inside the big corporate machines in the music business.

“So I decided to shake it all up. Everything had gotten routine — album, tour, album, tour, album, tour — the same thing. But the numbers weren’t getting better. I like to go on to other things — other challenges.”

She says “This is M.E.” reflects all of her influences including country, rock, soul and hip-hop.

Hip-hop?

On the album, she worked with producer Jerry “Wonda” Duplessis of the Fugees, as well as producer RoccStar, who has worked with Chris Brown, Rihanna, Usher, Kendrick Lamar and Iggy Azalea.

“I was able to get artists who see the best part of me and want collaborate with it,” she says.

While growing up in Kansas (her father grew up in St. Louis), she listened to radio station WHB in Kansas City with Johnny Dolan. She credits the Top 40 station with playing all types of music, from Tammy Wynette to Marvin Gaye.

“You didn’t see boundaries when I was a kid,” Etheridge, 54, says. “I listened to Diana Ross and lost my mind.

I had a love for all of this music. ... So I was trying to do more this time — add more rhythm, since I’m finally my own boss.”

She suspects she wouldn’t have been able to make “This is M.E.” if she had stayed “This is M.E.” with Island. Labels tend to map out the producers they want artists to work with, where they should record and more, and she wouldn’t have had the freedom she has now.

Etheridge, who recently released live concert DVD “A Little Bit of Me: Live in L.A.,” is touring with Blondie for a show Friday at Fair St. Louis. Joan Jett is playing some of the dates, though not St. Louis.

Etheridge says both artists were influential growing up. Surprisingly, she hadn’t worked with either of them before.

“When Joan Jett came out in the ’80s, it made me crazy. She was rock ’n’ roll. I said, ‘Look, there’s a woman playing rock ’n’ roll.’ And then there’s Blondie and the songs ‘Call Me’ and ‘Hanging on the Telephone’ — all those songs. They’re just a piece of our ’80s, our memories, and they’re both artists who are just so solid.”

What Melissa Etheridge at Fair St. Louis • When 8:30 p.m. July 3 • Where Art Hill in Forest Park • How much Free • More info fairsaintlouis.org

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Kool & the Gang celebrates a career that spans decades

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op-R&B band Kool & the Gang is still cool after 50-plus years, including a Fair St. Louis show this weekend in Forest Park.

“We feel very good about the fact we were able to survive in the industry for so many years,” says founding member and bassist Robert “Kool” Bell. “It’s a long time. We started young. I was only 14 years old. ... To survive in this business is definitely an accomplishment and a blessing.”

He attributes much of the group’s success to its versatility, being able to jump among pop, rock, R&B, funk and jazz over the years.

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“We even did a little bit of country at one time,” he says.

Bell talks about how some of Kool & the Gang’s top hits came about.

“Jungle Boogie” from “Wild and Peaceful,” 1973 “At the time we were with De-Lite Records, and we had territorial hits. Things slowed down a little bit. The record company came to us and said they got this producer we want you guys to work with. He was successful with the song ‘Soul Makossa.’ They tried to put this producer with us. We met with him once and weren’t feeling it.

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ning, we had created ‘Jungle Boogie’ and ‘Hollywood Swinging.’ ” “Summer Madness” from “Light of Worlds,” 1974 “‘Summertime’ (which DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince sampled for ‘Summertime’) was Will Smith’s biggest record before he went into the movies. … A lot of people sampled it. It’s also in the first ‘Rocky’ movie.”

“Open Sesame” from “Open Sesame,” 1976 “That song’s on ‘Saturday Night Fever,’ in the movie and on the soundtrack. My little brother (bassist Ronald Bell) came up with the concept.

At that time disco was very timely, and we were struggling with what we did, and did disco. We came up with a song we wanted to do on the dance level, but it wasn’t the regular disco sound. My brother came up with the Middle Eastern sounds.”

“Ladies’ Night” from “Ladies Night,” 1979 “That’s me hanging out in New York right before we met J.T. I noticed every Friday night it was a ladies night. ... It was our first record with J.T. (James J.T. Taylor).”

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Kool and the Gang performs in April in Boston.

“Celebration” from “Celebrate!,” 1980 “We were at the American Music Awards and we’d received two awards that night including one for ‘Ladies Night,’ and we were celebrating the fact it was our first record with the new singer and its being No. 1 in the country. We started fooling around with that idea and said, ‘Hey, that sounds great. Let’s call it ‘Celebration.’”

“Get Down on It” from “Something Special,” 1981 “My brother wrote that. The way we were working in the past someone would come up with the idea and we would all chime in. He told me he was listening to Bob Marley at the time, and that’s the groove he came up with. It has somewhat of a reggae beat, and we took it and put Kool & the Gang flavor on it.”

“Joanna” from “In the Heart,” 1983 “Our late guitarist Charles Smith came into the studio, and he had this idea of a song. He wanted to call it ‘Dear Moms.’

We were listening to it, and we thought the song was good in terms of the music. But we couldn’t find a hook or title. One of the guys in the band said, ‘Why not change the hook to a name?’

We kicked it around and said, ‘Let’s try Joanna,’ and it worked.”

“Tonight” from “In the Heart,” 1983 “That was around the same period of time when we came up with ‘Misled’ and ‘Emergency.’ We were experimenting with funk-rock songs. It has a nice little groove to it.

“Misled” from “Emergency,” 1984 “That was my brother. He came to the studio one day and said, ‘Listen to this, I got this track that’s got a funky thing to it, a rock-funk groove.’ It’s about how ladies can be something, how they can mislead you where you think it’s one thing and it’s another.”

“Fresh” from “Emergency,” 1984 “That was a song J.T. came up with with another writer. What was happening was that was the saying on the street, ‘That’s fresh.’ It was one of those type of sayings. We’re good for doing that sometimes. We took the saying and wrote lyrics about a girl being fresh.”

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Ted (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) and Mark Wahlberg in “Ted 2”

Furry and funny Writer-director Seth MacFarlane’s second ‘Ted’ film tickles the funny bone ★★★

BY JOE WILLIAMS / FILM CRITIC / JOEWILLIAMS@POST-DISPATCH.COM

PHOTO: UNIVERSAL PICTURES

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hen it comes to writing reviews, movies about dying are easy, and comedies are hard. Because one man’s mirth is another man’s poison, this critic can only consult his belly as the barometer.

On a gut level, “Ted 2” is a funny film.

As in the previous installment, writer and director Seth MacFarlane voices the title character, a 2-foottall teddy bear who came alive after a young Bostonian named John Bennett stltoday.com/joesmovielounge

made a wish. Three decades later, John (Mark Wahlberg, lovably dumb) is a divorced grown-up, and Ted is his ageless alter-ego, a foul-mouthed, intoxicated tour guide through Neverland.

Soon after Ted weds brassy bimbo Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth), their interspecies marriage is in the doldrums. Ted suggests that they try to have a child together, which would be difficult because he has no reproductive organs. When they attempt to adopt a baby, the state of Massachusetts decrees that Ted is not a person and the marriage is annulled.

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To plead his case, the only lawyer that Ted can afford is Samantha, aka Sam L. Jackson (Amanda Seyfried), a recent graduate of Arizona State University. (One suspects that the many jabs against ASU are private jokes.

This is a movie that will reward those with enhanced senses or freeze-fame capabilities, as when the fine print in a newspaper article about the court case says supporters around the world are declaring “Je suis Ted!”) Like Ted and John, Sam is an unrepentant pot smoker, and a montage where they blaze a trail through a law library is a stoner spoof of “Footloose.”

Other funny scenes include a disruptive visit to an improv club, a slapstick chase through a comic-book convention and a cameo by a particularly paranoid Liam Neeson.

There’s even room for some sweetness here. A moonlight serenade for

an audience of woodland creatures is reminiscent of a scene from “Joe vs. the Volcano,” and thankfully it’s not punctuated with a fart joke. After a small handful of films, MacFarlane still isn’t much of a director, but he is clearly fond of old-school musical interludes.

Yet he also has a weakness for bodily-fluid gags and last-resort obscenity. For some audiences, low-brow humor is the whole point of the “Ted” movies. And if a critic tries to make a big stink about it, that objection is hereby overruled.

WHAT “Ted 2” • RUN TIME 1:51 • RATING R • CONTENT Crude and sexual content, pervasive language and some drug use

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Olivia Cooke and Thomas Mann in “Me and Earl and The Dying Girl”

‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’ is poignant and hilarious ★★★★

BY CALVIN WILSON / CALVINWILSON@POST-DISPATCH.COM

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reg (Thomas Mann) is a high school senior who’d rather not face the prospect of going to the prom. Some people might call him a nerd, but that description doesn’t quite fit. A nerd must struggle to fit in socially, but Greg has figured out a way to circumvent the system by transforming himself into something of a ghost, making his way from class to class without significantly connecting with any particular clique.

And for the most part, he likes it that way.

His only friend — whom he insists on referring to as a “co-worker” — is Earl (RJ Cyler), who shares his love of cinema. The two collaborate on short parodies of classic films (with titles such as “My Dinner with Andre the Giant” and “The Janitor of Oz”) that they keep secret from their classmates.

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Greg is forced out of his bubble when his mom (Connie Britton) insists that he hang out with Rachel (Olivia Cooke), who has been diagnosed with leukemia. At first, Rachel is no more enthusiastic about the idea than Greg is. But she quickly responds to his offbeat sense of humor and finds that he’s just the kind of friend she needs.

As things progress, that friendship begins to look more and more like a romance. Rachel even gets Greg to apply to college, which he had been reluctant to do because he envisioned it as an even more horrible extension of high school.

But her illness lingers.

In his role as the film’s narrator, Greg assures us that it’s not a romance and that we shouldn’t expect the usual clichés.

Whether he’s being candid about his connection

with Rachel is debatable.

But he’s definitely right about the breathtaking originality of “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.”

Based on the novel

by Jesse Andrews, it’s a wonderful film about being young, talented and uncertain about what lies ahead. Working from a screenplay by Andrews, director Alfonso GomezRejon deftly balances comedy and drama to create a coming-of-age story that ventures into dark places without succumbing to sentimentality. And he has elicited delightfully nuanced performances, particularly from Mann, Cooke and Cyler.

Mann is excellent as a guy who’s afraid to live up to his potential. Cooke brings to Rachel an empathetic charisma. And Cyler is by turns engagingly droll and explosively hilarious.

“Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” is a mustsee — and one of the best films of the year.

WHAT “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” • RUN TIME 1:45 • RATING PG-13 • CONTENT

Sexual content, drug material, language, thematic elements

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Grieving boy bonds with battle-scarred dog in canine caper ‘Max’ ★★½

BY JOE WILLIAMS / FILM CRITIC

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e’s got four paws for patriotism and a nose for trouble. In the killing fields of Kandahar, they call him ... American Sniffer.

If Clint Eastwood had directed a war-dog story like “Max,” it might have been a bloody chew toy for a victory-starved public. But writer and director Boaz Yakin (“Rember the Titans”) is more interested in pulling heartstrings than waving flags. “Max” is an oldstyle adventure movie for kids, with a bike-riding boy as Roy Rogers and a Belgian Shepherd as his canine companion.

The boy is Justin Wincott (Josh Wiggins), a mid-teen who lives in East Texas with his doting mother, Pam (Lauren Graham), and gruff, battle-scarred father, Ray (Thomas Haden Church).

Older son Kyle (Robbie

Amell) followed his dad into the Marines, but a mishap in Afghanistan abruptly ends Kyle’s career and traumatizes his beloved dog Max, who’s been trained to sniff out explosives.

When Max is shipped to Kyle’s family in Texas, Ray orders Justin to pacify the barking beast or it will be euthanized. Justin would rather spend his summer playing the latest video games, which he bootlegs for his best friend, Chuy (Dejon Lequake). But at the local bike ramp, Justin discovers that Chuy has a cute cousin named Carmen (Mia Xitlali), who knows how to train dogs.

Via Carmen and Marine dog trainer Sgt. Reyes (Jay Hernandez), “Max” provides a thumbnail guide to obedience training, and there are plenty of coo-inducing shots of the expressive pooch placing his snout

within petting distance of Justin. But when the movie morphs from a story of mutual healing into a crime-fighting caper, it goes off track.

Max sniffs out that Chuy’s buyer for the bootlegged video games is also brokering an arms deal between a Mexican cartel and a disgruntled ex-Marine.

With the help of his fourlegged friend (and his one-legged dad), Justin finds his inner hero.

In its last act, “Max” is reminiscent of Rin Tin Tin and Lassie serials, with a frosting of freshly minted multiculturalism.

There’s nothing too scary or realistic in this PG-rated film — the teenage kids even wear helmets as they bike through the woods — but there’s nothing too memorable either. Yet as a bite-size lesson in loyalty and courage, it’s a nice alternative to the too-many movies about a dog-eat-dog world.

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Josh Wiggins and Max in “Max”

Mukunda Angulo in “The Wolfpack”

Brothers’ keepers

‘The Wolfpack’ shines a light on a cloistered family that has had to rely on each other for survival ★★★★

BY MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN / THE WASHINGTON POST

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o say that the six brothers profiled in the documentary “The Wolfpack” have had an unusual upbringing is to put it mildly. Raised in near-total isolation in a public housing complex on New York’s Lower East Side — in a run-down apartment that one of the boys compares to a prison, because of their Hare Krishna father’s paranoia about the outside world — the Angulo brothers were rarely allowed outside for most of their young lives.

Ranging in age from 11 to 18 at the time that this remarkable film was shot, the siblings seem to have learned

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about life from two main sources. First is their mother, who home-schooled them well, judging by how thoughtful, articulate and self-aware they come across on camera. Second is the cache of some 5,000 Hollywood movies that they own, on DVD and VHS. Several of the movies have been lovingly recreated, in home-movie versions of such thrillers as “Reservoir Dogs” and “The Dark Knight,” with the boys casting themselves in all the roles.

If this situation sounds like a recipe for disaster — let alone an invitation to child-abuse charges — “The Wolfpack” will surprise you. Although filmmaker Crystal Moselle tiptoes

around the subject of psychological damage — five of the brothers are reported to be no longer on speaking terms with their father — the Angulo boys come across, in this tender, compassionate and inspirational portrait, as astonishingly well adjusted, warm and even forgiving.

Of course, some seismic shift in the family dynamic had to occur to even make this film possible. In 2010, one brother, Mukunda, then 15, slipped out without his father’s permission, precipitating regular breakouts by the rest of his brothers. It was during one of these unauthorized excursions that Moselle, a first-time feature filmmaker, met and befriended the boys. Oscar, the Angulos’ father, barely appears in the film, coming across as still weirdly reclusive, if chastened.

Much of the film takes place within the four-bedroom apartment where the boys live, though one is shown

moving out toward the end. Moselle intercuts footage of the brothers’ filmmaking exploits with one-on-one interviews with the teens and their mother, Susanne, who, since filming was completed, began using her maiden name, Reisenbichler. A daughter, who is developmentally disabled, is largely absent.

More than a testament to the power of cinematic storytelling as food for the human spirit, “The Wolfpack” is a portrait of a family that has had to rely on each other to survive. The circumstances may be extreme, but as becomes obvious during scenes near the end of the film, when the Angulos are shown visiting the beach at Coney Island and an apple orchard, the bond forged between these brothers is extreme as well.

WHAT “The Wolfpack” • RUN TIME 1:29 • RATING R • CONTENT Some coarse language

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ASTONISHING .

Sometimes all you need is

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a great subject to make a great documentary. At the same time, it’s hard to imagine a more sensitive director for this story than Crystal Moselle.”

– Manohla Dargis, THE NEW YORK TIMES

MESMERIZING.

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EVERYTHING ABOUT ‘THE WOLFPACK’ IS EXTRAORDINARY.” – Lisa Schwarzbaum, TIME

“It’s doubtful you’ll see a better documentary this year than this

SENSATIONAL FILM.” – Dennis Dermody, PAPER

“GRIPPING. YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO PULL YOUR EYES OFF THE SCREEN. Once you’ve met these kids, you won’t forget them — or the film that puts a hypnotic and haunting spin on movie love.”

– Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE

“THRILLING, HEARTBREAKING, CONFOUNDING. A transcendent work of art.”

– David Edelstein, NEW YORK MAGAZINE

INTOXICATING. The whole movie feels dreamed.”

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– Wesley Morris, GRANTLAND

Also in theaters ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ ★★★ PG-13 • 2:21 • When an artificial intelligence evolves into a killing machine, Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) tries to convince the other Avengers (Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth) that a robotic enforcer isn’t necessarily a bad thing. With all the expectations, egos and storylines that it has to balance, this self-aware, spectacular and reasonably humane movie is better than a jaded consumer might have guessed. JOE WILLIAMS ‘Dope’ ★★★ R • 1:55 • Malcolm (Shameik Moore) is the head geek in a group that also includes Jib (Tony Revolori) and Diggy (Kiersey Clemons) in a coming-of-age

film that manages to share as much with John Hughes’ teen flicks of the ’80s as it does with the “Boyz n the Hood” street dramas of the ’90s.

When Malcolm suddenly finds himself with a backpack stuffed with drugs, the trio is the center of an adventure.

KEVIN C. JOHNSON

‘Entourage’ ★★½ R • 1:44 • The movie star (Adrian Grenier), his fiery agent (Jeremy Piven) and his idiotic posse make the transition from HBO to the big screen. For fans, this movie version offers the famous faces and bare boobs that they expect, but for those with a sense of irony or the dark side of show business, it’s awfully soft around the edges. JW

‘Far From the Madding Crowd’ ★★★ PG-13 • 1:59 • In the British countryside circa 1870, independent farmer Carey Mulligan is torn among hunky handyman Matthias Schoenaerts, meek gentleman Michael Sheen and dashing horseman Tom Sturridge. Instead of real drama, this romantic adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel gives us mewling ewes, frolicking collies and enough russet sunsets to fill a calendar. JW ‘I’ll See You in My Dreams’ ★★★ PG-13 • 1:35 • Blythe Danner, who has never quite achieved the recognition she deserves, is wonderful in this funny, poignant film about a woman who discovers that it’s never too late to find romance, or to learn new things about yourself. CALVIN WILSON

‘Inside Out’ ★★★ PG • 1:42 • Adults as well as children will find much to love in this story of an 11-year-old girl named Riley (voiced

by Kaitlin Dias), who is as happy as kids get living with her loving parents in Minnesota.

Meanwhile, inside her head, her emotions keep her world in balance. There’s Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Bill Hader), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Anger (Lewis Black).

But when the family moves to San Francisco, Joy and Sadness go on a joint mission to put Riley’s emotional world back together.

Gail Pennington

‘Insidious: Chapter 3’ PG-13 • 1:40 • In a prequel to the hauntedhouse series, a teenager enlists a psychic to contact her dead mother. (Not made available for review.)

Exper ience the Summer’s f irst great f ilm for grown-ups!

“A work of art. It’s

just about perfect.”

“Blythe Danner and Sam Elliott have a natural, sexy rapport.”

“★★★★.

Blythe Danner is a revelation.”

“A master class in acting. Sam Elliott has never been more tender or sexy.”

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‘Jurassic World’ ★★★ PG-13 • 2:04 • In a predictable but enjoyable flashback to Steven Spielberg’s 1993 blockbuster about revived dinosaurs run amok, Bryce Dallas Howard is an uptight theme-park executive trying to keep a lid on a rumbling reptile ruckus. As the dinowrangling hero, Chris Pratt continues his audition to be the next Indiana Jones. JW ‘Love & Mercy’ ★★★½ PG-13 • 2:00 • In a bittersweet biopic, Paul Dano and John Cusack shine as twenty-something and middle-aged versions of Beach Boys genius Brian Wilson. Paul Giamatti is the love-in psychiatrist who kept the drug-damaged Wilson a virtual prisoner, and Elizabeth Banks is the loving woman who came to the rescue. JW ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ ★★★½ R • 2:00 • George Miller resurrects his cars-and-cutthroats action franchise, with Tom Hardy as the Outback loner and Charlize Theron as a kindly smuggler with a gasoline tanker full of vulnerable girls. Catapulting over the previous three installments, it offers a violent vision of the future as distinctive in its way as “Blade Runner.” JW ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ ★★ PG-13 • 1:55 • Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson and Brittany Snow welcome freshman Hailee Steinfeld into their a cappella singing group, just in time for a world-championship showdown against the Germans. The glee-club renditions of pop tunes may be reason enough for teen girls to go see it, but older audiences will recognize that it’s guilty of cribbing from the previous, better movie. JW

‘San Andreas’ PG-13 • 1:47 • In an over-the top action movie, Dwayne Johnson is a rescuechopper pilot who is trying to save his family after a huge earthquake hits California.

The special effects of collapsing buildings, tsunamis and falling bridges are top-notch, especially in 3-D. KCJ ‘Spy’ ★½ R • 2:00 • Melissa McCarthy is wasted in a cookie-cutter caper comedy about a mousy CIA clerk who becomes a bumbling secret agent. This overlong, limp and lazy flick is proof that director Paul Feig (“Bridesmaids”) has lost his mojo. With Jude Law and Jason Statham as suave and macho operatives, respectively. JW ‘When Marnie Was There’ ★★★★ PG • 1:43 • Reclusive 12-year-old orphan Anna (voice of Hailee Steinfeld) meets a girl close to her age named Marnie (Kiernan Shipka) in a story of friendship, memory and self-discovery.

It’s also something of a mystery — and not entirely without a goosebump-inducing moment or two.

Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli has once again created a world where magic and imagination don’t just rule but are transformative.

Washington Post

‘Woman in Gold’ ★★½ PG-13 • 1:49 • Helen Mirren is feisty as a Holocaust escapee who sues the Austrian government for a famous painting seized by the Nazis, and Ryan Reynolds is her bumbling, bespectacled lawyer.

Despite a debatable focus and dubious moralizing, this heavyhanded movie mostly works because of the odd-couple chemistry between Mirren and Reynolds. JW

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Friday, June 26, 2015

Central

St. Charles / O’Fallon

Chase Park Plaza (St. Louis Cinemas) Kingshighway & Lindell J Ted 2 (R) DP

314-367-0101

www.wehrenberg.com

J Inside Out in Disney Digital 3D (PG) DP (1:30 3:40) 5:45 8:00

Jurassic World (PG-13) DP J Jurassic World 3D (PG-13) DP (10:55 AM) Spy (R) DP (11:10 AM 1:45 4:20) 7:00 9:40

314-725-0808

(11:30 AM 1:50 4:15) 6:40 9:00

J Dope (R) DVS,CC,No VIP after 6PM 11:00 AM 1:45 4:30 7:15 10:00

J Inside Out (PG) DVS,CC,No VIP after 6PM 11:55 AM 2:30 5:00 7:30 10:00

J Ted 2 (R) DP

(11:10 AM 1:45 4:20) 7:15 9:55 J Dope (R) DP (11:50 AM 2:15 4:45) 7:20 9:50 Inside Out (PG) DP (10:30 AM 12:00 1:00 2:25 3:25 4:50) 6:55 9:15 J Jurassic World (PG-13) DP (10:55 AM 4:10) 7:00 9:45 J Jurassic World 3D (PG-13) DP (1:30) 5:45 8:30 Puss in Boots (PG) DP (10:00 AM)

Inside Out (PG) DP

J Ted 2 (R) DVS,CC,No VIP after 6PM 11:55 AM 2:50 5:40 8:30

Galleria 6 (St. Louis Cinemas)

Clayton & Skinker

J Max (PG) DVS,CC,No VIP after 6PM 11:10 AM 1:50 4:30 7:10 9:50

(1:15 4:00) 6:45 9:20

Hi-Pointe Theatre

(Wehrenberg) 1830 First Capitol Dr.

(12:00 2:20 4:45) 7:15 9:30 10:10 Inside Out (PG) DP (12:30 2:40 5:00) 7:30 9:45

St. Louis Galleria J Max (PG) DP

St. Charles Stadium 18 Cine

J Inside Out in Disney Digital

3D (PG) DVS,CC,No VIP after 6PM 10:35 AM 1:05 3:35 6:05

Jurassic World (PG-13) DVS,CC 11:40 AM 2:30 5:20 8:15 11:10

San Andreas (PG-13) DVS,CC 8:35 11:15

Moolah Theatre & Lounge (St. Louis Cinemas)

314-446-6868

J Jurassic World 3D (PG-13) DP 9:30 PM

8:10 9:15 10:00 11:00

10:00 AM 11:05 AM 11:30 AM 12:50 1:35 2:00

Jurassic World (PG-13) DVS,CC

11:55 PM

Omnimax St. Louis Science Center

314-289-4400

11:00 AM 2:00 5:00

Humpback Whales (NR) 10:00 AM 1:00 4:00

Journey to Space (NR) 12:00 3:00

10:00 AM 11:10 AM 12:25 2:00 3:25 4:50 6:15 7:40 9:10 10:30

Jurassic World 3D (PG-13) DVS,CC 10:40 AM 1:30 4:20 7:15 10:10

Spy (R) DVS,CC 10:55 AM 1:45 4:40 7:30 10:20

Tivoli Theatre (Landmark)

W E H RE NBERG

6350 Delmar in the Loop 314-727-7271 J Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (PG-13) DVS J Ted 2 (R) DVS,CC,No VIP after 6PM (12:00) 2:15 4:30 7:10 9:30

J The Wolfpack (R)

(12:10) 2:25 4:40 7:20 9:40

J Love & Mercy (PG-13) DVS (12:20) 4:20 7:00 9:20

J Cowboy Bebop (R) 11:55 PM

26

40 & Winghaven Blvd.

7805 Hwy N. www.wehrenberg.com

1220 Mid Rivers Mall Dr.

Max (PG) DVS,CC

www.wehrenberg.com

J Max (PG) No VIP after 6PM 10:25 AM 12:30 1:15 3:30 4:00 6:45 9:30

J Ted 2 (R) No VIP after 6PM

11:15 AM 12:15 2:00 3:10 4:45 6:00 7:30 8:45 10:15

Jurassic World (PG-13) DVS,CC 1:00 3:50 6:45 9:40

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636-300-9900

(11:05 AM 1:50) 4:35 7:20 10:05

J Ted 2 (R) DVS,CC (11:15 AM 2:00) 4:45 7:30 8:00 10:15 10:45

8:30 9:15 10:15

J Dope (R) No VIP after 6PM 1:35 4:20 7:15 10:00

J Inside Out (PG) No VIP after 6PM 10:00 AM 11:30 AM 12:30 2:00 3:00 4:30 5:30

10:30 AM 1:00 3:30 6:05 8:30

Jurassic World (PG-13) 10:00 AM 11:30 AM 1:00 2:30 4:05 5:30 7:00 8:30 10:00

Jurassic World 3D (PG-13) 10:45 AM 1:45 4:45 7:40 10:30

Insidious: Chapter 3 (PG-13)

J Inside Out in Disney Digital

3D (PG) DVS,CC (11:20 AM 2:05) 4:50 7:35 10:00

J Jurassic World (PG-13) DVS,CC (11:00 AM 1:45) 4:30 7:15 10:00

J Jurassic World 3D (PG-13) DVS,CC (11:30 AM 12:00 2:15 2:45) 5:00 5:30 7:45 8:15

(2:45) 7:55

10:20 AM 1:10 4:05 6:50 9:35

Avengers: Age of Ultron (PG-13) 12:45 4:05 7:20

J Dope (R) No VIP after 6PM J Inside Out (PG) No VIP after 6PM 10:15 AM 11:00 AM 11:30 AM 12:55 1:30 2:00 3:30 4:35 6:05 7:05 8:35 9:35 11:05

J Inside Out in Disney Digital 3D (PG) No VIP after 6PM 10:00 AM 12:30 3:05 5:35 8:05 10:35

Jurassic World (PG-13) 10:05 AM 12:05 1:05 3:05 4:10 6:10 7:05 9:05 10:05

Jurassic World 3D (PG-13) 10:30 AM 1:30 4:30 7:30 10:30

Spy (R) 10:25 AM 1:25 4:20 7:15 10:15

San Andreas (PG-13) 4:30 PM

South Keller Plaza Cine 8 4572 Lemay Ferry Rd.

J Spy (R) DVS,CC (10:55 AM 1:35) 4:20 7:10 9:50

Aloha (PG-13) DVS,CC (11:10 AM 1:55) 4:35 7:05 9:35

San Andreas (PG-13) DVS,CC (11:25 AM 2:05) 4:40 7:25 10:10

(11:55 AM) 5:05 10:15

San Andreas (PG-13)

10:00 AM 10:30 AM 12:55 1:25 3:45 4:15 6:30 7:10 7:45 9:15 10:00 10:40

Insidious: Chapter 3 (PG-13) DVS,CC

J Tomorrowland (PG) DVS,CC

10:30 AM 1:20 4:10 7:10 10:00

10:15 AM 1:10 4:05 6:50 9:30

J Ted 2 (R) No VIP after 6PM

10:30 11:00

10:30 PM

Spy (R)

J Max (PG) No VIP after 6PM

10:30 AM 1:30 4:25 7:20 10:20

J Inside Out (PG) DVS,CC (10:45 AM 1:30) 4:15 7:00 9:30

10:50 AM 11:30 AM 1:40 2:30 4:35 5:30 6:25 7:25

11:00 AM 11:40 AM 1:45 2:25 4:30 5:15 6:30 7:15

3:15 4:05 4:30 5:40 7:00 8:00 9:30 10:30

Pink Flamingos (NC-17) DP

Robots (NR)

J Ted 2 (R) DVS,CC,No VIP after 6PM

J Inside Out (PG) DVS,CC,No VIP after 6PM

(4:30) 7:00

5050 Oakland Ave.

(Wehrenberg)

3D (PG) No VIP after 6PM

(1:30 4:15) 7:00 9:20

Lindell & Vandeventer

Town Square 12 Cine (Wehrenberg)

J Inside Out in Disney Digital

(12:30 2:45 5:00) 7:30

St. Charles / O’Fallon

O’Fallon Stadium 14 (Regal)

314-995-6273

Jurassic World (PG-13) DP

St. Charles / O’Fallon

Mid Rivers 14 Cine

7:00 8:00 9:30 10:30

THE BACKLOT

Jurassic World (PG-13) DP

St. Charles / O’Fallon

All Showtimes are p.m. unless otherwise noted

Bargain Shows No Passes Allowed Closed Captioning Descriptive Video Service Open Captioning Digital Projection

314-845-2900

Aloha (PG-13) (11:15 AM 2:00 4:30) 7:00 9:30

Poltergeist (PG-13) (4:15) 7:00 9:45

Tomorrowland (PG) (11:00 AM 1:30 4:15) 6:45 9:15

Hot Pursuit (PG-13) (11:30 AM 2:00)

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (PG) (12:30 2:45 5:00) 7:15 9:30

Ex Machina (R) (11:15 AM 4:30) 9:45

Furious 7 (PG-13) J Mad Max: Fury Road (R) DVS,CC (11:25 AM 2:10) 4:55 7:40 10:20

Pitch Perfect 2 (PG-13) DVS,CC

(12:30 3:30) 6:30 9:30

Get Hard (R) 7:15 9:45

Home (PG) (11:00 AM 1:45 4:15) 7:15

(11:45 AM 2:25) 5:10

J Avengers: Age of Ultron (PG-13) DVS,CC (10:50 AM 1:55) 4:50 7:50 10:50

The Divergent Series: Insurgent (PG-13) (1:45) 7:00 9:30

Cinderella (PG) (11:30 AM 2:00 4:30)

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South

South

West

Ronnies 20 Cine (Wehrenberg) Arnold 14 Cine (Wehrenberg) 5320 S Lindbergh Blvd. www.wehrenberg.com

Jurassic World: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG-13)

12:05 3:25 6:45 10:05 J Max (PG) No VIP after 6PM 11:10 AM 12:20 1:55 3:15 4:45 7:30 10:15 J Ted 2 (R) No VIP after 6PM 11:00 AM 11:50 AM 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:05 5:00 6:05 7:05 7:30 8:00 9:00 10:05 10:30 11:05 11:30 J Dope (R) No VIP after 6PM 1:35 4:20 7:15 10:10 J Inside Out (PG) No VIP after 6PM 11:15 AM 11:55 AM 12:30 1:50 2:30 3:10 4:40 5:10 6:20 7:45 8:55 10:25

J Inside Out in Disney Digital 3D (PG) No VIP after 6PM 1:30 4:10 6:50 9:30

Jurassic World (PG-13)

11:45 AM 12:45 1:20 2:50 4:10 4:40 6:15 7:20 7:55 9:15 10:25 11:00

Jurassic World 3D (PG-13)

11:05 AM 2:10 5:20 8:30 11:30

J Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (PG-13) No VIP after 6PM 11:40 AM 2:20 4:55 7:35 10:20

Insidious: Chapter 3 (PG-13) 6:10 8:45 11:20

Spy (R)

11:35 AM 2:30 5:25 8:20 11:25

12701 Manchester Rd.

450 THF Blvd. www.wehrenberg.com

Escobar: Paradise Lost (R)

www.wehrenberg.com

J Max (PG) No VIP after 6PM

Poltergeist 3D (PG-13)

10:45 AM 11:45 AM 1:30 2:35 4:15 7:00 9:45 J Ted 2 (R) No VIP after 6PM 10:30 AM 1:00 1:30 4:05 4:35 5:20 7:00 7:30 8:15 10:00 10:30 J Dope (R) No VIP after 6PM 11:20 AM 2:10 4:55 7:40 10:30 J Inside Out (PG) No VIP after 6PM 10:20 AM 10:50 AM 11:20 AM 12:50 1:20 1:55 3:20 3:55 4:30 6:45 7:15 9:20 9:50

J Inside Out in Disney Digital 3D (PG) No VIP after 6PM

Jurassic World (PG-13) 10:30 AM 11:00 AM 1:30 2:00 4:30 5:00 6:05 7:30 8:05 9:05 10:30

(10:15 AM 1:30) 4:10 7:10 10:00

(11:30 AM 2:10) 5:00 7:45 8:10 10:30 11:00 Dope (R) DVS,CC (2:20) 5:10 7:50 10:20 J Inside Out (PG) DVS,CC (11:10 AM 1:20 1:50) 4:30 7:15 9:50

J Inside Out in Disney Digital 3D (PG) DVS,CC

10:20 PM

Spy (R)

J Inside Out (PG) No VIP after 6PM

12:50 3:50 6:50 9:45

San Andreas (PG-13)

10:45 AM 11:45 AM 12:30 1:15 2:15 3:05 3:50

1:15 7:20

Avengers: Age of Ultron (PG-13) 10:00 AM 4:05

5555 St. Louis Mills Blvd.

(314)227-5503

(10:30 AM 1:10 4:00) 7:00 10:00

J Ted 2 (R) DVS,CC (11:00 AM 1:20 2:00 4:30 5:00) 7:30 8:00 10:20 10:50 Dope (R) DVS,CC (11:05 AM 12:40 1:35 3:40 4:25) 6:45 7:15 9:35 10:05 J Inside Out (PG) DVS,CC (11:15 AM 1:00 2:10 3:50 4:50) 6:50 7:50 9:40

J Inside Out in Disney Digital 3D (PG) DVS,CC (10:40 AM 1:40 4:20) 7:20 10:25 10:45

J Jurassic World (PG-13) DVS,CC

(11:50 AM 12:40 3:15 3:45) 6:30 7:00 9:40 10:10

Insidious: Chapter 3 (PG-13) DVS,CC

Insidious: Chapter 3 (PG-13) DVS,CC

(11:20 AM 1:40) 4:40 7:40 10:35

J Spy (R) DVS,CC

San Andreas (PG-13) DVS,CC (11:40 AM 2:30) 8:00

(10:55 AM 1:45 4:35) 7:05 9:55 (10:35 AM 1:25 4:15) 7:25 10:15

J Mad Max: Fury Road (R) DVS,CC

San Andreas (PG-13) DVS,CC

Pitch Perfect 2 (PG-13) DVS,CC

J Avengers: Age of Ultron (PG-13) DVS,CC

(11:00 AM 2:00) 4:50

(10:50 AM 1:35) 4:35 7:20 10:05

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3D (PG) No VIP after 6PM 11:15 AM 1:45 4:20 7:00

1:45 4:30 7:20 10:05

10:45 AM 11:45 AM 1:30 2:30 4:15 5:15 7:00 8:00 9:00 9:45 10:45

Jurassic World 3D (PG-13) 11:00 AM 1:50 4:40 7:30 10:20

J Inside Out (PG) No VIP after 6PM 10:30 AM 11:00 AM 12:00 1:15 1:45 2:40 4:00 4:30 5:20 7:05 8:00 9:45 10:40

Entourage (R)

2:05 4:35 7:15 9:45

Jurassic World (PG-13)

Home (PG)

10:45 AM 11:30 AM 1:45 2:30 4:45 5:30 7:45 8:30 10:45

Jurassic World 3D: Mega Screen (PG-13) 10:00 AM 1:00 4:05 7:00 10:00

WE HRENBERG

(11:10 AM 2:05 4:55) 7:45 10:35 (12:05 3:15) 6:30 9:40

J Ted 2 (R) No VIP after 6PM

11:10 AM 12:50 1:50 3:30 4:30 7:10 9:50

10:15 AM 1:15 4:15 7:15 10:20

J Ted 2 (R) No VIP after 6PM

San Andreas (PG-13)

11:00 AM 11:55 AM 1:50 2:50 3:40 4:40 5:40 6:30 7:30 8:30 9:20 10:20 11:20 J Dope (R) No VIP after 6PM 11:10 AM 1:55 4:40 7:25 10:10 11:00 J Inside Out (PG) No VIP after 6PM 10:30 AM 11:30 AM 12:15 1:00 2:00 2:45 3:30 4:30 5:15 6:00 7:00 7:45 8:30 9:30

6:45 9:45

J Ted 2 (R) No VIP after 6PM

J Inside Out in Disney Digital 3D (PG) No VIP after 6PM

12:45 3:30 6:15 9:05

Plaza Frontenac (Landmark) 314-994-3733

1:00 4:00 7:00 9:00 10:00

Jurassic World (PG-13) 3:00 6:00

J Love & Mercy (PG-13) DVS (1:05) 3:50 6:40 9:20

J I’ll See You in My Dreams (PG-13) J When Marnie Was There (Omoide no Marnie) (PG) (11:00 AM)

J When Marnie Was There (Omoide no Marnie) (PG) Subtitled 1:30

(4:00) 6:45 9:25

J Woman in Gold (PG-13) DVS (11:05 AM) 1:35 4:10 6:50 9:30

1:05 4:10 7:05 10:10

1320 Central Park Dr. O’Fallon www.wehrenberg.com J Max (PG) No VIP after 6PM

Spy (R)

J Far From the Madding Crowd (PG-13) DVS

1:35 4:00 6:25 8:50

The Divergent Series: Insurgent (PG-13)

O’Fallon 15 Cine (Wehrenberg)

Love & Mercy (PG-13)

(11:15 AM) 1:45 4:20 7:00 9:35

9:35 PM

1:50 4:15 6:40 9:05 1:00 3:55 7:00 9:55

(11:10 AM) 1:00 1:50 3:40 4:30 6:30 7:10 9:10 10:45 AM 1:35 4:25 7:15 10:05

1:20 3:30 5:40 7:50 10:00

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (PG)

Get Hard (R)

J Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (PG-13) DVS

Spy (R)

Monkey Kingdom (G)

Furious 7 (PG-13)

J Inside Out in Disney Digital 3D (PG) No VIP after 6PM

Lindbergh & Clayton

7:25 9:50 2:00 4:40

10:30 AM 1:30 4:30 7:30 10:30

WEHRE N B ERG

11:30 AM 1:20 2:20 4:10 5:10 7:00 8:00 9:50

Hot Pursuit (PG-13) The Age of Adaline (PG-13)

J Dope (R) No VIP after 6PM

Jurassic World (PG-13)

12:50 4:10 7:10 10:10

5:15 10:45

J Spy (R) DVS,CC

4:50 6:20 7:30 9:00 10:05

J Inside Out in Disney Digital

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J Jurassic World: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG-13) DVS,CC

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three hot-pot burners each. At the back of the room is a very small bar without seating. I didn’t see anyone standing there to drink, either.

The restaurant’s name and layout lead you inexorably to the Koreanbarbecue menu, from which you choose a cut or cuts of beef or pork that your server then grills at the table. Here, for a few minutes, as the meat sizzles, and side dishes of egg soufflé and (in a nod to Seoul Taco) Mexican-style street corn cook in channels on the outside of the grill, and you pick at the array of traditional banchan — funky, spicy traditional Napa cabbage kimchee, somewhat less pungent radish kimchee and biting but also refreshing cucumber kimchee as well as beef croquettes, sweet black beans and ribbons of fish cake — all is well.

Your server will likely suggest the LA-style short ribs ($30), and you should heed the advice. The meat, sliced thin across the bone so that each piece looks more like a miniature steak than a traditionally cut short rib, offers a pleasant chew, and its marinade rounds out the beef’s natural flavor and the grill’s char with hints of sweetness.

You can eat this as is or accent it to taste with a variety of condiments including a sauce that combines Pappy’s Smokehouse barbecue sauce with the Korean red-chile paste gochujang, and Napa cabbage kimchee that has been heated on the grill. You can wrap the whole shebang in lettuce leaves to make a traditional ssam. If you don’t want to worry about seasoning the meat, try the marinated pork shoulder and belly ($20), which are spicy to

A kimchee pancake, fried and topped with thin-sliced pork belly and served with a soy dipping sauce at Seoul Q

All Seoul, no soul

Delicious Korean barbecue clashes with poor hospitality at Seoul Q, from the owner of Seoul Taco ★½

BY IAN FROEB / RESTAURANT CRITIC / IFROEB@POST-DISPATCH.COM

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ere’s a revolutionary idea: A restaurant that serves delicious food should want you to enjoy it.

Which brings us to Seoul Q, which opened in the Delmar Loop in late January and five months later still hasn’t struck a balance between the delights of its traditional Korean barbecue and the tricky logistics behind that fare — between innocuous hipster-restaurant pretensions (checks delivered in 1980s pop cassette tapes, a men’s room decorated with characters from “Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!”) and those that nag at you throughout your meal.

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to wait, and the front-door staff are, at best, indifferent to your desire to dine there. I’d make a Brooklyn crack here, but I was in Brooklyn a few months ago, and while I did spot some problematic mustaches, I felt welcomed everywhere I went.

Seoul Q is a new venture from David Choi, owner of the wildly popular Korean-Mexican-fusion food truck Seoul Taco, and the barbecue restaurant shares its University City address with Seoul Taco’s bricks-and-mortar location. (The taco joint moved there late last year from much smaller digs down the street.) Seoul Q’s half of the space features several tables with built-in gas grills and, along the dividing wall with Seoul Taco, two tables equipped with foursquare.com/gostl

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begin with and then grilled with onion slivers and jalapeño slices.

All of that presupposes that you can get a seat at one of the barbecue tables.

As I mentioned, there are no reservations and nowhere to wait except right inside the front door. You might not get to sit at a barbecue table at all.

Not that eating Korean barbecue alone is ideal, but facing a schedule crunch and by myself, I stopped by not long after the restaurant’s 5 p.m. opening, when the place was moderately busy. The host said the wait for barbecue would be 45 minutes and nudged me toward a hotpot table. I consented. A barbecue table was open in 10 minutes and remained so while I tried to enjoy luscious, fiery dwaejei bulgogi (pork belly marinated in ssamjang, $16) in spite of the rising bile.

Now determined to eat at Seoul Q by myself, I returned at 5 p.m. The restaurant was empty. The host refused to seat me. I suppose this was better than being lied to about table availability. I did finally eat barbecue, of course. I conceded to custom and brought a dining companion: my toddler. My wife was there, too, though the temptation at this point to bring only my little girl was great.

Besides being a galling failure of hospitality, this gives the selection of hot pots and entrees prepared in the kitchen an air of second-best. This is a shame. The Seafood Jungle hot pot ($40, but it easily serves three) features a ferociously spicy, wonderfully briny broth brimming with udon noodles, greens and an aquarium’s worth of blue crab, shrimp, shad roe, squid, baby octopus, mussels and clams. You do need to eat the seafood first, though, because it continues to cook while the hot-pot bubbles. ➙ OUR CRITIC DISHES Learn more about Ian’s visits to Seoul Q in his Off the Menu video commentary. stltoday.com/offthemenu

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From stltoday.com/offthemenu Cassy Vires is departing as head chef at Juniper, owner John Perkins announced.

Vires joined the Southern restaurant in the Central West End immediately after her own restaurant, Home Wine Kitchen in Maplewood, closed in December. Perkins himself will step back into the kitchen full-time. Both Vires and Perkins characterized the departure as being on good terms. Perkins plans a “total overhaul” of Juniper’s menu, bringing on new dishes and rethinking those dishes that remain. ➙ Robust Wine Bar will close its location at 126 North Main Street in Edwardsville after service on Sunday, owners Arlene and Stanley Browne announced. The Edwardsville location, Robust’s third, opened in August 2013. The original Robust in Webster Groves and the second location downtown are unaffected. BY IAN FROEB

The hospitality issues extend to the pace of the meal, which on each of my four visits was rushed. Once, my entree appeared mere minutes after my appetizer, a bowl of dwen jang soup ($10). On another visit, my bowl of kimchee soup ($10) arrived well into the barbecue portion of the meal. Both occasions were deeply frustrating.

The soups were excellent — pork belly deepened the flavor of the pungent kimchee soup, while soy-bean paste enriched the dwen jang soup’s savory beef broth — but I couldn’t savor more than a spoonful of either of them.

I say hospitality rather than service because the servers on my visits were friendly, explained the various menu options concisely and, when I (finally) dined at a barbecue table, didn’t try to make themselves into a show as they prepared the meal. Yet the dual serving-cooking role burdens them, and ordering a second drink from the brief beer list or the cocktail menu (heavy on concoctions featuring soju, which

Abigail Pickett serves marinated beef short ribs to customers at Seoul Q.

in these drinks at least comes off as too weak a spirit) is nearly as challenging as scoring a barbecue table.

For its expense and its quality, Seoul Q demands to be enjoyed, not scarfed, yet the experience feels calculated to turn tables as large as possible as quickly as possible.

Here’s another calculation: Threestar food averaged with zero-star hospitality equals 1½ stars.

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A high school teacher, lecturing on the history of horror (what, didn’t you study that junior year?), informs his bored students that “cavemen made fires, those fires cast shadows and their shadows created fear. Men have been obsessed with scaring each other ever since.”

He might be describing television, circa 2015, which is also obsessed with scares. And in fact, that does soon cross his mind.

“The Gothic genre is all over TV right now,” he says, getting a little more attention by mentioning “American stltoday.com/tubetalk

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Horror Story,” “Bates Motel” and “Hannibal.”

And now “Scream,” arriving Wednesday on MTV, a television take on the four-film movie franchise.

Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven created the first “Scream” movie in 1996, with Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox in the leads.

Williamson went on to bring horror to TV in “The Vampire Diaries” and “The Following,” as well as last season’s unfortunate “Stalker,” but he isn’t involved here. Horror master Craven, though, does have his name in the credits as a producer.

“Scream” is a classic slasher movie, and as student Noah (John Karna) @tubetalkpd

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“Who carries liquor and glassware in their purse? Am I insane?”

BETHENNY FRANKEL, about Ramona Singer, on “The Real Housewives of New York City”

insists, “You can’t do a slasher movie as a TV series.”

Oh, really?

“Think about it. Girl and her friends arrive at the dance, the camp, the deserted town, whatever.

Killer takes them out, one by one. Ninety minutes later the sun comes up as survivor girl is sitting in the back of the ambulance, watching her friends’ bodies being hauled out.

Slasher movies burn bright and fast.”

To the contrary, the slasher genre seems unusually well-suited to TV today. After “American Horror Story,” “Bates Motel” and “Hannibal,” plus “The Walking Dead,” “Game of Thrones,” “Grimm,” “Penny Dreadful,” “The Strain” and so many more, viewers are girded to be grossed out.

And “Scream” (not to be confused with Fox’s upcoming anthology series “Scream Queens”) gets gross quickly.

First, just so we know it’s 2015, a video that labels a young woman a lesbian goes viral. A beautiful high school mean girl returns to her lavish home, where she is alone with her little dog. (If you, like me, will now worry about nothing but the dog, don’t. It’s fine.)

The mean girl, however, is not. She gets a video — of her! That minute!

Inside her house! In her underwear!

Things get scary fast, and soon a murder is being investigated. It brings back memories of a case from years earlier, when a disfigured young man stalked a girl named Daisy before he was killed by police. Or was he?

Daisy has a connection to presentday characters that is soon revealed.

“I saw a woman stab her sister in the back for a can of beans. The apocalypse is here!”

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Woodard) on “The Last Ship”

The teens themselves are mostly pretty stereotypes.

• Emma Duval, played by Willa Fitzgerald (“Royal Pains,” “Alpha House”), is the closest thing “Scream” has to a heroine. She’s the good girl (that’s her character’s official description), but she has boyfriend problems. Another problem: She’s not very interesting.

• Emma is dating Will Belmont (Connor Weil), who is “grade-A boyfriend material” (again, official character description), but he may be cheating on her. That leads to a love triangle with ...

• Kieran Wilcox (Amadeus Serafini), the mysterious new guy in town. He has secrets and also great hair.

• Emma’s bestie used to be Audrey Jensen (Bex Taylor-Klaus, who was so good as street kid Bullet in Season 2 of “The Killing”), but they drifted apart. Daughter of a minister, Audrey is exploring her sexual attraction to other girls. Now Audrey hangs out with baby-faced techie Noah.

• And then there’s Brooke Maddox (Carlson Young), one of the popular girls, whose father is the mayor. He isn’t in the first episode but will be played by Bryan Batt, who was Sal on “Mad Men” and is the current Edna Turnblad in the Muny’s “Hairspray.”

Even for MTV’s young target audience, the characters in “Scream” are remarkably empty and bland. But this is a slasher show, after all. Maybe the intention is that we won’t care about them and so we won’t mind when, well, you know.

WHAT “Scream” • WHEN 9 p.m. Wednesday • WHERE MTV • MORE INFO mtv.com/shows/scream

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