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The last time we heard of comedian Katt Williams in relation to St. Louis was back in 2013 when two of his concerts at the Peabody Opera House were canceled without explanation. We haven’t heard any crazy stories about Williams lately, so that’s a good sign that everything will be fine Friday night when he performs at Chaifetz Arena. BY KEVIN C. JOHNSON

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra: Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto WHEN 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday • WHERE Powell Symphony Hall, 718 North Grand Boulevard • HOW MUCH $30-$109 • MORE INFO 314534-1700; stlsymphony.org

For two weeks in a row in this chilly season, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has programmed music from a very Russian composer. Last weekend, it was Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, the “Pathétique.” This week, it’s the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, performed by the brilliant young violinist Augustin Hadelich, conducted

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WEDNESDAY–MARCH 15 ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ WHEN Through March 15; 8 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sundays, 1 p.m. March 5 • WHERE Fox Theatre, 527 North Grand Boulevard • HOW MUCH $35-$150 • MORE INFO 314-534-1111; MetroTix.com

Cameron Mackintosh sends ✔ Producer his perennial hit out again, this time with new costumes, sets, lighting and choreography. But Andrew Lloyd Webber’s music (“Masquerade,” “All I Ask of You,” “Music of the Night,” etc.) remains. So does the chandelier. BY JUDITH NEWMARK

by the estimable Hans Graf. The other half is something completely different: Stravinsky’s powerful score to “The Rite of Spring.” That should warm things up. BY SARAH BRYAN MILLER

Peter Martin Music WHEN 8 p.m. Friday • WHERE Sheldon Concert Hall, 3648 Washington Boulevard • HOW MUCH $30-$50 • MORE INFO 314-534-1111; MetroTix.com

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performers such as singer Dianne Reeves and saxophonist Joshua Redman, created this popular series in which he interacts with musical acquaintances. This time, Martin is joined by pianist/ keyboardist Federico Gonzalez Pena, whose background includes gigs with such artists as trumpeter Chris Botti and singer Chaka Khan. BY CALVIN WILSON Delmar Records’ ‘The Kickstart’ WHEN 9 p.m. Friday • WHERE The Bootleg at Atomic Cowboy • HOW MUCH $10 • MORE INFO atomiccowboystl.com

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Delmar Records is showcasing its lineup with “The Kickstart” Friday night at the new Bootleg at Atomic Cowboy. Performing are Tef Poe, James K, Indiana Rome, Legend Camp and T-Dubb-O, with music from Tech Supreme. BY KEVIN C. JOHNSON

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SATURDAY The Kingsbury Ensemble: ‘The Pleasures of Versailles’ WHEN 7:30 p.m. Saturday • WHERE The Chapel Venue, 6238 Alexander Drive • HOW MUCH $20 (seniors $15; students $5) • MORE INFO 314-862 -2675; kingsburyensemble.org

FAST FORWARD “The Impractical Jokers,” March 6 at the Peabody Opera House: The comedians from the TruTV show share videos of some of their public pranks ➙ “Cinderella,” opens in theaters March 13: “Downton Abbey’s” Lily James is the girl with the glass slipper, but we’re more excited to see Cate Blanchett as the wicked stepmother ➙ “RuPaul Drag Race,” March 17 at the Pageant: Adore Delano, Bianca Del Rio, Detox and Ivy Winters are just a few of the contestants from reality series who will appear ➙ Joshua Ferris, March 17 at the Improv Shop: The Man Booker Prize finalist will sign and discuss his novel, “To Rise Again at a Decent Hour”

This weekend the Kingsbury Ensemble presents French music by Rameau, Couperin and Marais, including, fittingly, Rameau’s cantata “For the feast day of Saint Louis.” The performers are harpsichordist Maryse Carlin, violinist Brandon

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beloved “Messiah” is usually ✔ Handel’s performed at Christmas, but it’s really an Easter oratorio. The Bach Society Chorus & Orchestra will perform parts II and III with a quartet of fine Baroque soloists: soprano Nathalie Colas, mezzo-soprano Patricia Thompson, tenor Steven Soph and bass Curtis Streetman. It’s a remarkable work, in both musical and spiritual terms. Music director A. Dennis Sparger conducts. BY SARAH BRYAN MILLER

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‘Dr. Seuss Birthday Bash’ WHEN 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday • WHERE The Magic House, 516 South Kirkwood Road • HOW MUCH Free with $10 museum admission • MORE INFO 314-8228900; magichouse.org

This weekend, families at the Magic House can celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday, in addition to the museum’s usual hands-on exhibits. Listen to special readings from favorite books and meet the Cat in the Hat. Children under 12 who bring in a new Dr. Seuss book to donate will get in free. BY SARA BOWER

St. Louis Classical Guitar Society: Martha Masters WHEN 8 p.m. Saturday • WHERE Ethical Society of St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Road • HOW MUCH $28 • MORE INFO 314-5675566; guitarstlouis.net

Guitarist Martha Masters is a noted solo recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with orchestras; her playing has been described as “intelligent” and “elegant.” A prize winner of distinction, her solo disc on the Naxos label has sold more than 10,000 copies. She’ll bring her refined style to the Ethical Society, presented by the St. Louis Classical Guitar Society, on Saturday night. BY SARAH BRYAN MILLER

‘Seven Brides for Seven Brothers’ WHEN 2 p.m. Sunday • WHERE Florissant Civic Center Theatre, 1 James J. Eagan Drive • HOW MUCH $26-$28 • MORE INFO 314-921-5678; florissantfinearts.com

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Back to the beginning Ricky Skaggs, on the road with Kentucky Thunder, is determined to keep bluegrass music alive BY DANIEL DURCHHOLZ / SPECIAL TO GO! MAGAZINE

hen Ricky Skaggs was 6 years old, bluegrass music’s founding father, Bill Monroe, invited the mandolin prodigy up onstage and asked him to play. “I didn’t take my instrument along that night,” Skaggs remembers. “I ended up playing his, which, to a 6-year-old’s bony frame was the size of a guitar. But that night was really the beginning of what became my career.” That was more than 50 years ago, and after a period of bluegrass woodshedding, followed by years of mainstream country success and then a return to his bluegrass beginnings, Skaggs now finds himself as one of the genre’s prime practitioners. And he’s determined to keep the music alive by passing his knowledge along. “I’m always trying to teach as much as be a performer,” he says. “I love telling stories, and I love telling people the history of bluegrass. Our

show is a lot about the history of the music and, of course, with the hits I had in the ’80s and ’90s, we try to bring those things in, too.” Skaggs’ stellar career found him, at age 7, jamming with Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs on TV, joining Ralph Stanley’s Clinch Mountain Boys while still a teenager, and later becoming a key member of Emmylou Harris’ Hot Band. In the 1980s, he made waves in mainstream country, scoring 12 No. 1 hits and earning numerous awards. But by the late ’90s his brand of neo-traditionalism was on its way out in favor of the pop country sounds of Garth Brooks and Shania Twain. Skaggs stepped away from the mainstream and moved back to bluegrass, founding his own Skaggs Family Records label, where he could record when and what he wanted. Success on his own terms and a shelf full of Grammys were the results. Working within the major-label system, “I had a lot of success,” Skaggs admits. “But I wouldn’t go back, and I wouldn’t trade the

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WHAT Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder • WHEN 8 p.m. Saturday • WHERE Sheldon Concert Hall, 3648 Washington Boulevard • HOW MUCH $40-$45 • MORE INFO 314-534-1111

DJ Steve Aoki brings robots to futuristic new tour EDM DJ Steve Aoki, last seen in St. Louis with Kendrick Lamar at Chaifetz Arena in 2013, returns for a totally futuristic trip at the Pageant. (Cake will definitely be involved.) Aoki released his “Neon Future I” last year and the sequel with “I Love It When You Cry” featuring Moxie is on the way. What’s the “Neon Future Experience” tour all about? It’s ridiculous. I have robots onstage, which is pretty epic. The production is more evolved than the previous production, and I have great visuals. I wanted to get to a futuristic approach with the visuals. Robots are coming out, and cakes are flying. Is it safe to say this is your biggest tour yet? It’s my biggest by all accounts, in every way as far as money, how many people are on the tour working specifically for my show, and the time I’ve spent on it. I want people to see something they won’t forget and that represents me. How did caking become such a thing for you? I’ve been caking people since 2011, bringing out cake for people who want to get caked and don’t care about getting messy. BY KEVIN C. JOHNSON WHAT Steve Aoki, Headhunterz, Caked Up, Dirtyphonics, Reid Stefon • WHEN 8 p.m. Monday • WHERE The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard • HOW MUCH $31-$33.50 • MORE INFO Ticketmaster. com, thepageant.com

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freedom I have now for any of that.” Nothing exemplifies Skaggs’ artistic freedom better than his most recent album, “Hearts Like Ours,” recorded with his wife of nearly 35 years, Sharon White (of country vocal group the Whites). In 1987, Skaggs and White had a major hit with “Love Can’t Ever Get Better Than This.” But because they recorded for two different labels, both of whom nixed a follow-up album, the couple were never able to capitalize on the hit. Last year, the project was revived when Skaggs and White were booked to participate in a couples seminar in Branson. They chose some songs and recorded backing tracks so they wouldn’t have to bring along a full band. The seminar fell through, but Skaggs suggested they keep recording until they had a full album. As you might suspect, in the studio the pair were like peas and carrots. “Sharon has always had this great sense of a song, especially when it comes to the lyrics and what the song is saying,” Skaggs says. “I’m a little more focused on the arrangement and the melody and the instrumentation. So it was a perfect blend.” What made the album particularly special is that it was made only with an eye toward quality, and not under the pressure of producing a hit, as would have been the case back in the ’80s. “If we would have had the opportunity to do this back then, the very first thing we’d have done was find songs that radio would play,” Skaggs says. “And we would have missed so many great nuggets of truth and beautiful songs because that window is very, very narrow.” Skaggs and White have done some shows to support the album, and later this year they plan on touring with guitar great Ry Cooder (who appears on the album), culminating in a series of Carnegie Hall shows curated by Rosanne Cash. Until then, Skaggs will be on the road with Kentucky Thunder, playing up a storm and talking and teaching about the music. “It’s what my heart wants to do,” he says.

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ever Shout Never is easing back into the pop music scene, or as singer Christofer Drew says, “getting our fans excited about the band again.” The band of young rockers, whose last record was “Sunflower” in 2013, hits Off Broadway Friday night as part of a smaller tour. “Usually we do a full rock set and rock it out, but we just wanted to do small venues — intimate venues,” he says. “We thought this was a good way to reconnect with diehard fans who’ve

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been keeping up with us throughout the years. “The acoustic side is nice, and it’s a good way to get back into the groove — get us back into the swing of things.” Drew says the title of the new tour, “Mid Winter’s Night’s Dream Acoustik Tour” says it all. The band will strip down a lot of its old songs and a few newer ones. The group’s music dates back to its first full-length album, “What Is Love?” (2010), with an EP just before that. After rocking out for so long, Drew says taking it

down to the basics didn’t come naturally for Never Say Never. But he likes that the songs are more prominent in this format — that they’re no longer “hiding behind screaming guitars. We have to be more precise now with the vocals, more precise with everything. But it’s doable. We can pull it off.” Next week, Never Shout Never releases “Recycled Youth (Volume One),” the first in a new series of albums. The album reimagines nine previously released songs recorded in new styles, including a new version of “On the Brightside,” which the band made available for streaming. “The way I see it, a song is never completely finished,” he says. “These songs are from back in the day. We’ve been doing some of them since we were teenagers. We just wanted to do our favorite songs and do it better than the original recordings. And this is sliding us into the new material.” Easing back into the scene helps pave the way for Never Shout Never’s next album, “Black Cat.” “We want to make it the best pop record we’ve ever done but still have acoustic sounds on it too,” Drew says. “I’m excited about it. We’ve never gone full pop. But it’s the right thing to do at this point in our career.” What Never Shout Never,

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• Good for the Soul, 6 p.m. Sunday.

• The Road to Austin, 8 p.m. Thursday.

• Bob “Bumble Bee” Kamoske with Mighty Mike Graham, 8 p.m. Sunday.

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• Tom Byrne & Erika Johnson, 8 p.m. Monday. • Billy Barnett Band, 7 p.m. Thursday. • Broken Arrow Blues Band, 10 p.m. Thursday. Blueberry Hill Duck Room 6504 Delmar Blvd. • Ed Kowalcyzk, 9 p.m. Friday. • ’90s Night with Quitting Amy, 8 p.m. Saturday. • Milo Greene, 8 p.m. Sunday. Bombers Hideaway 3960 Chouteau Ave. • Bad Dog Country, 8 p.m. Friday. • Michelle McCausland and Her Pinup Girls, 11 p.m. Friday, 10 p.m. Saturday. Cicero’s 6691 Delmar Blvd. • You, Me and Dougie, 8 p.m. Friday. • J.D. Hughes, 8 p.m. Saturday. • Vitamen A, 8 p.m. Saturday.

• Peepholes of Paris: A Moulin Revue, 9 p.m. Saturday.

Band, 8 p.m. Friday. Focal Point 2720 Sutton Blvd. • Diesel Island, 8 p.m. Friday. • Brad Leftwich, 8 p.m. Saturday.

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• Marc Goone, 8 p.m. Friday.

• The Second Annual Coldest Crew in the Lou Competition, special guest judges: Duke Dagod, Andrew Hunt, Coleone Da BigDog, Hosted By MZ TIGGA, 9 p.m. Friday.

• Ewan Dobson, 7 p.m. Sunday. • Night Riots, 7 p.m. Tuesday. • Sidewalk Chalk, 8 p.m. Thursday. Edwardsville American Legion 58 S. State Route 157 • Tim Campbell and Dave Horton, 8 p.m. Saturday. Ferring Jazz Bistro 3536 Washington Blvd. • Byron Stripling, 9 p.m. Saturday. • Brunch at the Bistro with Tommy Halloran’s Guerrilla Swing, 10 a.m. Sunday. • René Marie, 7 p.m. Wednesday. Fox Sports Midwest Live! at Ballpark Village 601 Clark St. • Casey Donahew

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• Contenders, Equal Squeeze, the Former Me, the Last Stanza, the Cinema Story, 7 p.m. Friday. • Kevin Gates, Repatallion, 8 p.m. Friday. • Koffin Kats, Opposites Attack, Better Off Damned, 8 p.m. Saturday. • Lorna Shore, 7 p.m. Sunday. • I, the Breather, Exotype, Forevermore, Come the Dawn, This Is Me Breathing, 6 p.m. Wednesday. • Cult Leader, 8 p.m. Thursday. The Gaslight Theater 358 N. Boyle Ave.

Paradigm New Media Group 5017 Washington Pl., Suite 100 • School of Rock: Boogie Night, 7 p.m. Saturday. Patricks Bar & Grill 342 West Port Plz. • Plastic, 9 p.m. Saturday. The Ready Room 4195 Manchester Ave. • Moon Taxi, 8 p.m. Friday.

• Piano happy hour with Ron Bryant, 6 p.m. Friday.

• Motionless in White, 7 p.m. Saturday.

• DJ Charlie Buttons, 10 p.m. Saturday.

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• Brian Owens, 8 p.m. Thursday.

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• Honky Tonk Happy Hour, 4 p.m. Friday. • Roland Johnson and the Soul Endeavors, 9 p.m. Friday. • Hush Lite, 3 p.m. Saturday. • Jeremiah Johnson with the Sliders, 9 p.m. Saturday. • Erik Brooks, 8 p.m. Sunday. • Jam Session with Voo Doo Blues, 4 p.m. Sunday. • Tim Albert & Stovehandle DanThe with Randy, 7 p.m. Monday. • Naked Mike, 7 p.m. Tuesday. List • Pik’n Lik’n, 7 p.m. 2015 Wednesday.

• Paul Bonn & The Bluesmen, 8 p.m. Thursday. The Honey 4170 Manchester Ave. • DJ Karma, 9 p.m. Friday.

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• Rockin Doo Wop, 5 p.m. Friday.

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Syberg’s 2430 Old Dorsett Rd.

Upstairs Lounge 3131 S. Grand Blvd.

• Joe Mancuso Quartet, midnight Friday.

Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries 3648 Washington Blvd.

• Joe Mancuso with Dave Black and Friends, 7 p.m. Thursday.

• Peter Martin, 8 p.m. Friday.

The Wine Press 4436 Olive St.

• Colored Sky, 7 p.m. Thursday.

• Salt of the Earth Live!, 8 p.m. Friday.

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• Pat Joyce Live Piano, 7 p.m. Tuesday.

• Pure Nectar, 6 p.m. Friday.

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Nightshift Bar and Grill 3979 Mexico Rd. • Stray Bullet 9 p.m. Saturday. Off Broadway 3511 Lemp Avenue

• Bombat Billy, 9 p.m. Friday.

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Duck Room at Blueberry Hill Ticketmaster.com • An Evening with Sloan, 8 p.m. June 25, $15, on sale at 11 a.m. Friday. The Firebird Ticketfly.com • The Delta Saints, Lionize, Meghann Wright, the Green Gallows, 7:30 p.m. April 14, $12-$15. • Joe Jack Talcum, Samuel Locke Ward, 8 p.m. May 22, $8-$10. Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre Livenation.com • Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band, June 4, lawn tickets sold out, reserved seating still available for $136, no service fees until 5 p.m. Friday. • J. Cole, Big Sean, YG, Jeremih, Bas, Cozz 7 Omen, July 24, four lawn tickets for $79 the first week of sales, on sale at 10 a.m. Friday. Off Broadway Ticketfly.com

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iPARTY Wall Ball • Feb. 21 • Third Degree Glass Factory 1 Ryan and Susan McCrea of St. Louis • 2 Gerry Heumann and Lynn Bouvatte, both of St. Louis • 3 Bob and Kim Herdler of St. Louis • 4 Kegan Phillips of Collinsville and Kristina Otero of Cahokia • 5 Maria Fonseca of St. Louis and Zach Witges of Edwardsville • 6 Hewet Iskandar and Cody Roewe, both of St. Louis • 7 Dan Krentz (left) and Alec Klein, both of St. Louis • 8 Matt Voorhees (left) and Raj Tailor, both of St. Louis • 9 Kendall and Amanda Itoku of St. Louis • 10 Jeff and Grace Moser of St. Louis • 11 Chris Watkins of St. Louis and Cathy Santanello of Glen Carbon • 12 Traci Carter (left) and Jeanelle Jones, both of St. Louis

• Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, 8 p.m. June 11, $45-$60, on sale at 5 p.m. Friday. The Ready Room Ticketfly.com • Earl Sweatshirt, Vince Staples, Remy Banks, 8 p.m. March 24, $25-$30. • The Story So Far, Four Year Strong, Terror, Souvenirs, 8 p.m. May 8, $20-$23, on sale at noon Friday. • Best Coast, 8:30 p.m. June 10, $20, on sale at 9 a.m. Friday. Scottrade Center Ticketmaster.com • Ed Sheeran’s May 10 concert moves from Chaifetz Arena to Scottrade Center, $50.50$60.50, on sale at 10 a.m. March 6.

• Cree Rider Family Band, Hilary Scott, Emily Wallace, 7:30 p.m. March 28, $8-$10.

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ne sailor kept his sexual orientation quiet, but he was punished anyway. Hazed by being forced to eat dog food, hosed down and left in a kennel, Joseph Rocha served in the Navy during the years of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” A chief petty officer suspected his secret. “These people think, ‘Just don’t be gay, just don’t let me know that (you’re) gay,’” he told photographer Vincent Cianni. “But that removes a possibility of me having that photo of my loved one on my desk or talking about my

anniversary, or having a human aspect to my life. That kind of self-denial and that kind of duality is terrible.” In 2010 Cianni interviewed Rocha, who had received an honorable discharge after coming out to his commanding officer. His portrait and story were part of a three-year project for Cianni, who interviewed about 120 men and women for what would become “Gays in the Military” (Daylight Books, 256 pages, $45). Now, 37 black-and-white photographs for that project are on display at the May Gallery at Webster University. Cianni will speak at 3 p.m. Friday, and

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a reception Friday evening opens the exhibit. “Gay people had been banned from the military for many years,” the photographer said in a telephone interview last week from his home in Newburgh, N.Y. They experienced “total secrecy in the 1950s, sexual and physical abuse in ’60s and ’70s, witch hunts in ’80s, ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ in the ’90s.” Even when that policy (1993-2011) was revoked, soldiers who may not have lost careers still felt uncomfortable coming out to friends or family, he says. In 2009, after hearing a mother talk on the radio about her gay son’s discharge from the Army, Cianni decided to embark on a documentary photography project. He traveled for weeks across the country to take photos of soldiers. Some, like Rocha,

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were already speaking out against “don’t ask, don’t tell,” and Cianni, who is gay, was interested in fighting the policy, too. “Sexual orientation is a personal issue that has no effect on their jobs,” he said. Cianni says documentary photography chronicles significant historical events in everyday These people life. think, ‘Just During his don’t be gay, just don’t documentary let me know work, he learned that (you’re) of hundreds of gay.’ But that removes a untold stories, possibility including some of me having involving human that photo of rights abuses. His my loved one on my desk or website goes far talking about beyond the images my anniversary, he took: Viewers or having a human aspect can both listen to to my life. That soldiers and read kind of selftranscripts of what denial and that they told Cianni. kind of duality is terrible.” In addition, vincentcianni. Joseph Rocha in “Gays in the Military” com also has other in-depth projects, including one involving a poor Latino neighborhood in Brooklyn where inline skaters built amateur skate parks; a ghostly former coal-mining town called Old Forge, Pa.; and the culture of a gay community in the early days of AIDS. WHAT “Gays in the Military” • WHEN Vincent Cianni talk at 3 p.m. Friday in Sverdrup, Room 123; reception 5-7 p.m. Friday on the second floor; on display through March 27 • WHERE Webster University’s May Gallery, Sverdrup Building, second floor, 8300 Big Bend Boulevard, Webster Groves • HOW MUCH Free • MORE INFO 314-246-7673

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Age 12 • Species Gentoo

Age 4 • Species King Tarzan was raised at the zoo. His parents laid their egg, and he was hatched on exhibit. You may have seen him strutting in the zoo’s “penguin parades.”

She was brought to St. Louis in 2003 from SeaWorld. She’s affectionate but often gets into trouble by jumping over the exhibit glass and into the public space.

Woody Age 5 • Species Rockhopper She was raised at the zoo. Her parents cared for her for a few weeks after she was hatched before the keepers hand-fed her.

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The St. Louis Zoo’s popular Penguin & Puffin Coast exhibit has been closed since September 2013 to make way for a new habitat for polar bears. But next week, the birds will be entertaining guests once again. Gail Pennington goes behind the scenes at the zoo to check in with our penguin pals.

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Age 16 • Species King Iris was brought to the zoo from Moody Gardens in Texas and has mothered several chicks. One keeper describes her as “a great mom.”

he excitement was palpable one recent morning among the St. Louis Zoo’s penguins. The stately kings paced anxiously, always keeping close to their partners (and nests). The slightly smaller gentoos waddled back and forth, occasionally letting out a trumpeting squawk. The little rockhoppers, with their punk hairdos, bounced around like wind-up toys. • Were they excited because the zoo’s Penguin & Puffin Coast was about to reopen after 18 months? • Not really. The excitement had to do with ➙

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Darcie Age 31 • Species Gentoo She was brought from SeaWorld in 2003. A keeper says Darcie is on the upper age of longevity for gentoos, but “she’s a perfectly healthy bird.”

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Grand reopening Penguin & Puffin Coast at the St. Louis Zoo reopens with a parade of king and gentoo penguins at 10:30 a.m. Thursday. After the parade, visitors can enter the exhibit, which has been closed since September 2013.

Gail Pennington feeds penguins Feb. 18 at Penguin & Puffin Coast at the St. Louis Zoo.

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➙ the fact that breakfast was coming. To mark the return of Penguin & Puffin Coast, which reopens Thursday with a penguin parade, the zoo let me play penguin keeper for a morning. I was game even after learning that my first job would be pushing pills into dead fish, and that I would do it while wearing wading boots and rubber overalls called “yellows.” Samantha Griffin, an actual penguin keeper, led the way. Thoughtfully, she had saved some fish for me to stuff with vitamin pills, including vitamin E to supplement what’s lost when fish is frozen. Griffin, by the way, doesn’t eat fish, but she insists that has nothing to do with her job. I turned out to be a natural at pilling fish, if I do say so myself. The vitamins, about the size of half an adult multi, go into a gill, not down the gullet, and the only trick is not breaking through the body of the fish. The pill-stuffed fish are piled in a bowl to be hand-fed to the penguins, to make sure everybody gets one. The rest of the birds’ breakfast (they are also fed supper) is served on trays, with two daily meals of capelin, a sustainable Atlantic fish that’s the mainstay of their diet, and smelt. “It’s close to what they get in the wild,” Griffin said. The puffins, being smaller, get a mixture of herring, squid and krill, weighed and chopped. This is as gross as penguin-feeding gets, but it goes quickly. So does loading the trays for the penguins, with a layer of crushed ice, then both kinds of fish, and then more ice. The habitat is kept at a chilly 45 degrees, but the penguins like to snack all day, so

Gentoo penguins at Penguin & Puffin Coast

the ice keeps the fish extra fresh. The trays fill a heavy cart, and then it’s up an elevator to the back door of Penguin Cove, on the opposite side from where visitors will again get to watch the penguins beginning next week. The most dangerous part of a penguin keeper’s job, it seemed to me, is navigating the wet rocks on which the birds hang out. Tumbling into the penguin pool would have been awkward and most likely painful, so I tended to stand back and let the penguins come to me for their vitamin-stuffed fish. Some were eager; others, suspicious. Penguins have personalities, and they know their keepers; despite my yellows, I was a stranger. One older gentoo with bad eyesight wanted her smelt held a particular way, and I failed. A voracious younger one kept trying to trick me into feeding him twice. The beautiful, stately kings, grouped

Gail Pennington rides an elevator with trays of icy fish bound for penguins at the St. Louis Zoo.

together at the far end of the habitat, by their nests, hung back, and only one eventually approached close enough to take a fish from me. Griffin, more familiar to them, took over the job. Then we returned for the trays, each of which slips into a holder for a shared meal. The only trick here was keeping Woody, a little rockhopper that was hand-raised, from waddling out to explore every time the gate was opened.

Pretty soon, I was considering taking Woody home with me. Successfully completing my feeding duty, I got to walk around to the other side of Penguin Cove to see what visitors see, including an underwater view of penguins as they swim. Penguin Cove is modeled after the coastal cliffs of the island of South Georgia, a British territory in the southern Atlantic that many species of penguins call home. Those weird sounds? They are meant to mimic the ocean and other sounds that would be heard in the natural habitat. Around the corner from Penguin Cove is Puffin Bay, where horned puffins and tufted puffins were just beginning to develop their bright breeding colors. Nooks in the cliff wall lead to nests where the puffins will lay their eggs. And that thing that’s not a puffin? It’s the survivor of a pair of king elders, a dramatic looking duck. Penguin & Puffin Coast, which opened in 2003, is also home to endangered Humboldt penguins, which returned to their outdoor habitat in October. The indoor exhibits were closed for safety reasons during construction of Polar Bear Point next door, due to open this summer. Maybe you won’t get to stuff pills into dead fish, but if you want to get up close and personal with penguins, one of the zoo’s popular behind-the-scenes tours lets you mingle with a couple of them. If you go, tell them I said hello. WHAT Penguin & Puffin Coast reopening • WHEN Parade of king and gentoo penguins is at

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good con-game movie is as comfortable as a handmade Italian loafer. Sort of like watching a Will Smith movie during that stretch when everything he touched turned to box-office gold. Perhaps it’s not a coincidence that his hot streak ended in 2008, after he did a coast-to-coast publicity tour for “Seven Pounds” that included a stop in my newsroom. I was charmed by the guy, but even stltoday.com/joesmovielounge

Smith couldn’t sell a movie about a taxman who commits suicide so needy people can harvest his organs. Incredibly, “Seven Pounds” was the first movie in which he did a real love scene. But instead of following that path, he went back to space, first for the middling hit “Men in Black 3” and then for the utter disaster “After Earth.” In “Focus,” Smith is back as a charming rascal. He plays Nicky, the leader of a sophisticated team of pickpockets.

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After an aspiring con artist named Jess (Margot Robbie) mistakes him for an easy mark, he teaches her some of the tricks of the trade. Nicky’s tutorial about shifting a victim’s focus away from the sticky fingers is a treat. (Kudos to the technical The The adviser.) When Jess proves to be a fast learner, he introduces her to his absurdly large team of thieves, decoys and tech wizards, led by comic relief Farhad List List (Adrian Martinez, a famous face from commercials). As they go on a spree against innocent football fans in New Theoutbreaks The The Orleans, there are no messy of violence or morality to spoil the sleight-of-hand. Co-directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (“Crazy Stupid List List List Love”) skillfully pace the thievery like a commercial for a high-end sports car. There’s a lot of eye candy here, ostensibly including Robbie, the Aus2015

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tralian blonde who co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Wolf of Wall Street.” But truth be told, this beauty has a nondescript presence as she’s trying to rein her native accent. So most of the laughs are inadvertent ones from bad dialogue, especially in the less-successful second half of the movie, when the story movies to Buenos Aires three years later. Because Nicky was getting too attached to Jess, he cut her from the team and traveled solo for a scam involving South American race-team honcho Garriga (Rodrigo Santoro, a lukewarm villain). Although Nicky worms his way into Garriga’s inner circle and offers to use his skills to take down a rival team, security chief Owens (Gerald McRaney) smells a double-cross. Make that a triple-cross when Jess shows up as Garriga’s girlfriend, telling the befuddled Nicky that she’s out of the con racket and genuinely in love with the rich Argentine. After some overly talky revelations, the cornered writer/directors are forced to shatter their absurd shell game with a final act of violence that spoils the breezy, capering mood that prevailed for much of the movie. It’s yet another reminder that if it’s not called “The Sting,” you shouldn’t get too comfortable with a con-game movie. WHAT “Focus” • RATING R • RUN TIME 1:44 • CONTENT Strong language, some

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Mia Wasikowska (left) and Julianne Moore in “Maps to the Stars”

Julianne Moore as an aging actress leads David Cronenberg’s horror head-trip, ‘Maps to the Stars’ ★★★ BY JOE WILLIAMS / FILM CRITIC / JOEWILLIAMS@POST-DISPATCH.COM

ollywood is a frequent subject of satire but a relatively rare setting for horror stories. The few thrillers set in the film industry are back-lot slasher flicks or variations on “Sunset Boulevard.” In the latter category, “Maps to the Stars” is a kissing cousin to “Whatever Happened Baby Jane,” as Julianne Moore plays a fading star who is losing her grip on reality. Havana Segrand (Moore) is a leading lady in danger of becoming a character actress. As they say in the casting offices, 40 is the new 60. Havana’s last

hope for relevance is to land a role in the remake of a movie in which her mother, Clarice (Sarah Gadon in flashbacks), played a pyromaniac. Ironically, Clarice herself died in a fire, on a Christmas Day when Havana was a child. Did it have something to do with the mother-daughter incest that Havana reveals to massage therapist Dr. Stafford Weiss (John Cusack)? And why do Havana’s visions of her resurrected mother coincide with the hiring of a new assistant, young burn victim Agatha (Mia Wasikowska)? The fact that Agatha is recommended to Havana by an actress with mommy

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issues of her own (Carrie Fisher, playing herself) underscores the satirical tone here. Canadian horror auteur David Cronenberg (“The Fly”) is a bemused outsider in La La Land, and before the threads are woven together in a dark shroud, the name-dropping “Maps to the Stars” is a satire akin to “The Player.” (The script is by the astute Hollywood novelist Bruce Wagner.) The least successful part of the satire involves Dr. Weiss’ son, Benjie (Evan Bird). At 13, Benjie is the trash-talking, pill-popping star of the “Bad Babysitter” movies. But he too is haunted by ghosts, including a dying girl he met in a hospital publicity visit and his own longlost sister, whose fleshand-blood arrival fuses two families’ burning secrets like

links in a chain. With the exception of the overmatched Bird, the film has a stellar cast, including Robert Pattinson in a relatively small role as a limo driver and aspiring actor who befriends Agatha when she is fresh off the bus. It’s fascinating to watch the freshly minted Oscar winner Moore get so emotionally (and physically) naked for a role that veers toward a showbiz cliché, and in Cusack’s overdue return to Alist filmmaking, he imbues the celebrity shrink with surprising depth. With wry Capt. Cronenberg at the helm, “Maps to the Stars” is an entertaining tour of Tinseltown served with poisoned popcorn. WHAT “Maps to the Stars” • RATING R • RUN TIME 1:51 • CONTENT

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nspired by the Celtic folklore tradition of the selkie — a sort of mermaid who can shapeshift between the form of a seal and a human woman — the Academy Award-nominated “Song of the Sea” is a sumptuous marriage of visuals and narrative. Animated in the technically flat yet surprisingly full-bodied style of “The Secret of Kells” — imagine a fantastical pop-up book sprung to life — Irish director Tomm Moore’s follow-up to his 2009 film (another Oscar nominee, directed with Nora Twomey) enchants on every level: story, voice work, drawing and music. The tale begins with a bit of a bummer, which may upset some small children: the apparent death during childbirth of a young Irish woman named Bronach (voice of singer-songwriter Lisa Hannigan), leaving her

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husband, Conor (Brendan Gleeson), and their two young children alone in a remote lighthouse. Although the island is picturesque as all getout, years later a gloomy mood still hangs over everything, with Conor pining for Bronach and son Ben (David Rawle) seeming to resent his little sister, Saoirse (Lucy O’Connell) — who at age 6 has yet to speak — for their mother’s death. The action gets underway when the children’s grandmother (Fionnula Flanagan) takes them to live with her in the city after Saoirse is found frolicking alone in the surf one night. Ben and Saoirse don’t like this relocation, for as much as they miss their dad and their sheepdog, Saoirse seems to be suddenly, disturbingly wasting away. The children’s journey back to the lighthouse — a

journey that introduces them to fairies, spells, a witch (Flanagan again) and all manner of exotic, otherworldly locales, including a subterranean grotto inhabited by a man (Jon Kenny) with a twisted, miles-long beard and equally raveled stories — is nothing short of a dream. It’s the kind of dream that stirs the emotions of fear and wonder, and yet you don’t want it to end. The film’s theme — that feelings are to be felt, not bottled up — will resonate deeply with both children and adults. The precise nature of what ails Saoirse is revealed over the course of the tale, and it won’t spoil anything to say that it has something to do with supernatural forces. Her “cure,” which involves singing a tune that I guarantee you’ll be humming on the way out of theater, is, like the film itself, pure magic. WHAT “Song of the Sea” • RATING PG • RUN TIME 1:33 • CONTENT Thematic material

relating to the death of a parent, children in peril and a bit of rude language

Must-see documentary ‘Ballet 422’ explores the act of creation ★★★ BY CALVIN WILSON / CALVINWILSON@POST-DISPATCH.COM

ustin Peck had a plum assignment when he was commissioned to create New York City Ballet’s 422nd original dance. At the time, he was a member of NYCB’s corps de ballet — the company’s lowest rank for dancers (he has since become a soloist). But his role as a choreographer meant working with the best — and being in a position to insist that they adhere to his vision. Or, at least, be willing to collaborate with him on that vision. The dance is called “Paz de La Jolla.” As Peck goes about the process of bringing his choreography to life, he must deal not only with rehearsing the dancers but also with costume and lighting design, music and other elements that go into the production. There are deadlines to

meet and egos to stroke — which just puts more pressure on the rising choreographer. It doesn’t help that at one point he’s told, rather bluntly, that the musicians aren’t particularly enthusiastic about his work. But Peck perseveres. “Ballet 422” is a mustsee documentary for those curious about the workings of the dance world. Director

Jody Lee Lipes takes an immersive approach that’s reminiscent of the films of Frederick Wiseman, providing viewers with a fly-on-the-wall perspective of the challenges facing Peck as the clock ticks down on the ballet’s premiere in 2013. The film may also remind some moviegoers of director Robert Altman’s “The Company,” a slightly fictionalized account of goings-on at the Joffrey Ballet. Unlike the Altman film, which included a romance between characters played by Neve Campbell and James Franco, “Ballet 422” makes few concessions to mainstream storytelling. But Peck, who resembles actor Adrien Brody (or, when he’s wearing glasses, Edward Snowden), emerges as an empathetic figure. At its core, “Ballet 422” addresses a universal theme: The importance of having a dream, and the courage and dedication to make it come true. WHAT “Ballet 422” • RATING PG • RUN TIME 1:15 • CONTENT Brief language

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‘American Sniper’ ★★★ R • 2:12 • In a best picture nominee, Clint Eastwood directs (with varying degrees of subtlety) the true story of Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper), the top American sharpshooter in Iraq. Eastwood remains a masterful action director, and Oscar nominee Cooper pours a lifetime of craft into stilling his character’s heartbeat. JOE WILLIAMS ‘Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)‘ ★★★★ R • 2:00 • Michael Keaton makes a soaring comeback as a former movie star who’s trying for a Broadway hit in this bold, ambitious and exhilarating comedydrama from director Alejandro G. Inarritu (“Babel”). Like nothing you’ve ever seen before. With Emma Stone and Edward Norton. CALVIN WILSON ‘Black or White’ ★★★ PG-13 • 2:01 • Kevin Costner gives one of his strongest performances as a wealthy but flawed man fighting for custody of his mixedrace granddaughter (charming Jillian Estell) against her middle-class black

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grandmother (Octavia Spencer, a revelation in a dramatic role). From writer/director Mike Binder (“The Upside of Anger”), it’s more textured and honest than most dramas about race. JW ‘The Duff’ ★★ PG-13 • 1:44 • Mae Whitman stars as Bianca, an overallswearing overachiever who’s just trying to navigate her senior year alongside her two best friends. But when Bianca finds out she is the Designated Ugly Fat Friend (aka “The DUFF”) of the group, she takes off on her own, unfriending her longtime pals and persuading dim-witted football player Wesley to help her break out of DUFF prison. Associated Press

‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ ★★ R • 2:07 • Jamie Dornan is the despicable billionaire who treats virginal college student Dakota Johnson like a piece of meat in this adaptation of E.L. James’ bestseller. Director Sam Taylor-Wood puts an artful gloss on this excrement, but there’s no masking the stench of the sexism and the putrid dialogue. JW

‘Hot Tub Time Machine 2’ R • 1:33 • Adam Scott replaces John Cusack in the sequel to the 2010 film about a time-traveling hot tub. Also stars Rob Corddry and Craig Robinson. (Not made available for review.) ‘The Imitation Game’ ★★★½ PG-13 • 1:54 • Benedict Cumberbatch is extraordinary as Alan Turing, the socially awkward math genius who virtually won World War II by cracking the Nazis’ code — and invented computers in the process. Keira Knightley co-stars as the colleague who offers to marry him in an era when his homosexuality was a crime. JW ‘Jupiter Ascending’ ★½ PG-13 • 1:27 • The rapidly descending Wachowski siblings (“The Matrix,” “Cloud Atlas”) cough up a sci-fi furball about a Chicago house-cleaner (Mila Kunis) who is mildly surprised to learn that she’s the queen of the universe. Channing Tatum sports pointy ears as the half-man, half-dog protector who whisks her to his home planet, and Eddie Redmayne speaks in a pained whisper as the jealous prince who won’t play nice with her. Woof! JW

‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’ ★½ R • 2:07 • Director Matthew Vaughn (“KickAss”) adapts a comic book about an elite and secretive intelligence service of deadly English gentlemen, with Colin Firth as the top gun. The mix of British reserve and Americanstyle ultraviolence is audacious but ultimately quite tasteless. JW ‘Leviathan’ ★★★★ R • 2:20 • This exquisite drama takes viewers on an icy plunge into the grim realities of life in post-Soviet Russia, where citizens are caught in a system of corruption so thoroughly ingrained that it touches even the most intimate, transcendent moments of life. The Washington Post

‘McFarland, USA’ ★★ PG • 2:08 • A hotheaded coach (Kevin Costner) forms a cross country team in one of the poorest towns in the country. Based on a true story, it is pretty much a paint-bynumbers sports movie with a few surprising dashes of color. The Washington Post

‘Paddington’ ★★★ PG • 1:34 • In this utterly charming and inventive film, the children’s book hero goes from “Darkest Peru” to present-day

‘Selma’ ★★★★ PG-13 • 2:04 • David Oyelowo is outstanding in this drama about Martin Luther King Jr. and his struggle to secure voting rights for black Americans. A film that’s at once timely and timeless. With Carmen Ejogo as Coretta Scott King and Tom Wilkinson as Lyndon Johnson. Directed by Ava DuVernay. CW ‘The Lazarus Effect’ PG-13 • 1:23 • A group of researchers discover a way to bring the dead back to life. (Not made available for review.) ‘The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water’ ★★ PG • 1:37 • The friendly fry-cook who lives in a pineapple under the sea gets a full 90 minutes to assault our senses. Although half the movie is spent in a live-action beach town, where SpongeBob and Plankton became CGI superheroes to track down the stolen recipe for Krabby Patties, the movie retains the pace and logic of an annoying cartoon, with no hopeful message for kids and no hidden message for grown-ups. JW ‘Still Alice’ ★★★½ PG-13 • 1:41 • Julianne Moore’s performance as a renowned Columbia

University linguistics professor with early onset Alzheimer’s lifts this film above its morose potential. Co-stars Alec Baldwin as Alice’s husband and Kristen Stewart as her rebellious daughter. Minneapolis Star Tribune

‘Two Days, One Night’ ★★★★ PG-13 • 1:35 • Marion Cotillard scored an Oscar nomination for her brilliant performance as a woman who must persuade her coworkers to turn down a bonus in order to save her job. The film is at once brutal and breathtaking, and the latest triumph from writer-directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. In French with English subtitles. CW ‘The Wedding Ringer’ ★★½ R • 1:41 • Kevin Hart hires himself out as a rent-a-best man, and Josh Gad is the sad sack who needs his help in this predictable bromantic comedy. TNS ‘Whiplash’ ★★★★ R • 1:46 • Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons are brilliant in this drama about an aspiring jazz drummer and the bandleader who threatens to push him over the edge. Directed by Damien Chazelle. With Melissa Benoist and Paul Reiser. CW ‘Wild’ ★★★ R • 1:55 • Reese Witherspoon gives a compellingly understated performance in the true story of a waitress who recovers from drug addiction and a broken marriage by hiking from the Mojave desert to the forests of Oregon. It’s mostly a solo excursion, but director Jean-Marc Vallee (“Dallas Buyers Club”) uses flashbacks and scenery to make it cinematic. JW

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Lindell & Vandeventer J Focus (R) DP

10:30 AM 11:10 AM 1:00 1:45 3:30 4:20 6:10 7:00 8:45 9:40 11:20

J The Lazarus Effect (PG-13) DVS,CC,No VIP after 6PM

4:20 7:00 9:55

40 & Winghaven Blvd.

1220 Mid Rivers Mall Dr.

7805 Hwy N. www.wehrenberg.com

Focus (R) DVS,CC

J Focus (R) No VIP after 6PM 10:45 AM 11:30 AM 1:30 2:15 4:15 5:00 7:00 7:45 9:45 10:30

J The Lazarus Effect (PG-13) No VIP after 6PM 11:55 AM 2:15 4:45 7:15 8:30 9:30

J The DUFF (PG-13) No VIP after 6PM 11:25 AM 2:00 4:45 7:30 10:10

J Hot Tub Time Machine

2 (R) No VIP after 6PM 10:10 AM 12:30 3:00 5:25 7:45 10:15

J McFarland, USA (PG) No VIP after 6PM

10:05 AM 1:00 4:05 7:05 10:10

(10:25 AM 12:30 2:40 4:50) 7:05

MX Movies

(Wehrenberg)

Town Square 12 Cine (Wehrenberg)

Fifty Shades of Grey (R)

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (PG) DP

Kingsman: The Secret Service (R) 10:05 AM 1:05 4:05 7:05 10:05

Jupiter Ascending (PG-13) 1:15 7:15

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (PG) 11:00 AM 1:30 4:05 6:30 9:00

Black or White (PG-13) 10:15 AM 4:15 10:15

Project Almanac (PG-13) 10:00 PM

American Sniper (R) 10:10 AM 1:15 4:20 7:25 10:30

J Focus (R) DVS,CC,No VIP after 6PM 11:30 AM 2:00 3:20 7:30 9:00

J The Lazarus Effect (PG-13) DVS,CC,No VIP after 6PM 10:10 PM

Fifty Shades of Grey (R) DVS,CC 12:55 4:35 6:45 9:40

Kingsman: The Secret Service (R) DVS,CC 12:15 3:50 6:00

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O’Fallon Stadium 14 (Regal)

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

9:15 PM

St. Charles / O’Fallon

Mid Rivers 14 Cine

www.wehrenberg.com

8:00 10:30

Fifty Shades of Grey (R) 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

Paddington (PG) 10:45 AM 1:10 3:30 6:05

Still Alice (PG-13) 11:50 AM 2:25 4:55 7:30

Birdman (R) 10:20 AM 1:20 4:20 7:20 10:20

636-300-9900

(11:25 AM 2:05) 4:40 7:15 9:50

The Lazarus Effect (PG-13) DVS,CC (12:00 2:40) 5:25 8:00 10:25

The DUFF (PG-13) DVS,CC (11:50 AM 2:20) 4:25 7:50 10:20

Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (R) DVS,CC (11:10 AM 2:30) 5:15 8:15 11:00

McFarland, USA (PG) DVS,CC (11:40 AM 2:10) 5:10 7:25 9:35

Fifty Shades of Grey (R) DVS,CC (11:45 AM 2:35) 4:55 7:55 10:45

Kingsman: The Secret Service (R) DVS,CC (11:00 AM 11:30 AM 1:25 1:55) 4:20 4:50 7:10 7:40 10:10 10:40

J Focus (R) No VIP after 6PM 2:15 5:00 7:30 8:30 10:00

J The Lazarus Effect (PG-13) No VIP after 6PM 1:45 2:30 4:05 4:50 6:15 7:10 8:30 9:20

J The DUFF (PG-13) No VIP after 6PM 1:55 4:30 7:05 9:35

J Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (R) No VIP after 6PM 2:20 4:45 7:05 9:25

J McFarland, USA (PG) No VIP after 6PM 1:00 3:55 6:50 9:45

Fifty Shades of Grey (R) 1:00 4:00 7:00 9:55

Kingsman: The Secret Service (R) 1:05 4:05 7:00 9:55

Jupiter Ascending (PG-13) 4:25 10:05

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (PG) 1:20 3:40 6:05 9:45

Black or White (PG-13) 1:40 7:20

American Sniper (R) 12:55 3:55 7:00 10:00

Jupiter Ascending (PG-13) DVS,CC 7:20 10:30

Still Alice (PG-13) 2:00 4:35 7:10

South

J The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of

Water 3D (PG) DVS,CC (2:45) 5:05 7:30 9:55

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (PG) DVS,CC (11:55 AM 12:25 2:15) 4:35 7:00 9:20

American Sniper (R) DVS,CC (11:35 AM 1:35) 4:30 7:45 10:35

Paddington (PG) DVS,CC (11:15 AM 2:25) 4:45

Still Alice (PG-13) DVS,CC (11:45 AM 2:15) 4:45 7:35 10:05

The Imitation Game (PG-13) DVS,CC (2:00) 7:05

Birdman (R) DVS,CC (11:20 AM) 5:00 10:15

Keller Plaza Cine 8 4572 Lemay Ferry Rd.

314-845-2900

Project Almanac (PG-13) (11:00 AM 1:45 4:15) 6:45 9:45

Taken 3 (PG-13) (11:15 AM 2:00 4:30) 7:15 9:45

Into the Woods (PG) (10:45 AM 1:30 4:15) 7:00 9:45

Unbroken (PG-13) (10:45 AM 4:00) 9:00

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (PG) (11:15 AM 1:45 4:45) 7:00 9:15

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (PG-13) (1:30) 7:15

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (PG-13) (11:00 AM 1:30 4:15) 7:00 9:15

The Theory of Everything (PG-13) (10:45 AM 1:15 3:45) 6:30 9:15

Big Hero 6 (PG) (11:00 AM 1:30 4:00) 6:30

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West

Ronnies 20 Cine (Wehrenberg) Arnold 14 Cine (Wehrenberg) 5320 S Lindbergh Blvd. www.wehrenberg.com J Focus: The IMAX

1912 Richardson Rd. www.wehrenberg.com J Focus (R) No VIP after 6PM

11:00 AM 1:40 4:20 7:00 9:40 J Focus (R) No VIP after 6PM 12:05 1:00 2:40 3:40 5:20 6:20 8:00 8:55 10:40 11:30 J The Lazarus Effect (PG-13) No VIP after 6PM 11:55 AM 12:50 2:25 3:15 4:45 5:40 7:05 8:10 9:20 10:30 11:30 J The DUFF (PG-13) No VIP after 6PM 11:35 AM 2:15 4:50 7:25 9:55

J The Lazarus Effect (PG-13) No VIP after 6PM

Experience (R) No VIP after 6PM

J Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (R) No VIP after 6PM

11:30 AM 1:55 4:25 6:45 9:25 J McFarland, USA (PG) No VIP after 6PM 12:55 4:10 7:15 10:15

1:45 2:30 4:20 5:10 7:00 7:45 9:40 10:20

1:30 2:45 4:05 5:00 6:45 7:30 9:10 10:00 J The DUFF (PG-13) No VIP after 6PM 1:55 4:40 7:15 9:50

J Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (R) No VIP after 6PM 2:00 4:55 7:40 10:15

J McFarland, USA (PG) No VIP after 6PM 1:05 4:05 7:05 10:05

Fifty Shades of Grey (R) 1:00 4:05 7:00 10:00

Kingsman: The Secret Service (R) 1:05 4:10 7:15 10:20

Jupiter Ascending (PG-13)

Kingsman: The Secret Service (R)

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (PG)

11:15 AM 1:05 2:05 4:05 5:00 7:20 8:10 10:25 11:05 11:15 AM 1:20 2:10 4:15 5:10 7:20 8:15 10:20 11:20

Old Fashioned (PG-13)

3:50 9:45

2:00 4:30 7:10 9:40

Black or White (PG-13) American Sniper (R)

11:20 AM 2:20 8:20

Jupiter Ascending 3D (PG-13)

Paddington (PG)

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water 3D (PG)

Still Alice (PG-13)

5:20 11:25

12:30 5:30 10:15

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (PG) 12:25 3:25

4:35 PM

Whiplash (R) 9:55 PM

North

11:10 AM 1:45 4:15 6:50

J Focus: The IMAX Experience (R) DVS,CC

6:15 8:45 11:15

Birdman (R)

1:55 7:30 10:20

Whiplash (R) 9:30 PM

Gravois Bluffs Stadium 12(Regal)

Hwy 30 @ Gravois Bluff by JC Penny 636-326-2862

Focus (R) DVS,CC

(11:30 AM 2:15) 4:50 7:50 10:30 The Lazarus Effect (PG-13) DVS,CC (11:45 AM 2:45) 5:00 7:25 9:45 The DUFF (PG-13) DVS,CC (11:50 AM 2:30) 5:05 7:40 10:15 Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (R) DVS,CC (12:00 2:30) 5:15 8:00 10:35 McFarland, USA (PG) DVS,CC (12:20) 4:10 7:20 10:25 Fifty Shades of Grey (R) DVS,CC (12:30 1:00 3:45) 4:15 7:00 7:35 10:00 10:40 J Kingsman: The Secret Service (R) DVS,CC (11:10 AM 12:50 2:10) 4:30 5:10 7:45 8:10 10:45 Jupiter Ascending (PG-13) DVS,CC 7:10 10:10

J The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water 3D (PG) DVS,CC (1:50) 6:50

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (PG) DVS,CC (11:20 AM) 4:20 9:20

American Sniper (R) DVS,CC (12:10) 4:00 7:15 10:20

Paddington (PG) DVS,CC (11:40 AM 2:00) 4:40

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2 (R) No VIP after 6PM

5555 St. Louis Mills Blvd.

1:00 4:00 7:00 9:50

The Lazarus Effect (PG-13) DVS,CC

(12:05 12:50 2:40 3:20 5:10 5:45) 7:40 8:15 10:10 10:45 The DUFF (PG-13) DVS,CC (12:00 2:30 5:15) 7:55 10:35 Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (R) DVS,CC (2:55 5:25) 8:05 10:40 McFarland, USA (PG) DVS,CC (12:45 3:55) 7:15 10:15 Fifty Shades of Grey (R) DVS,CC (12:30 1:10 3:40 4:15) 6:40 7:20 10:00 10:30 Kingsman: The Secret Service (R) DVS,CC (12:40 1:20 3:50 4:40) 7:10 7:50 10:25 10:55 Jupiter Ascending (PG-13) DVS,CC (4:05) 10:05 J Jupiter Ascending 3D (PG-13) DVS,CC (12:55) 7:05

J The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water 3D (PG) DVS,CC (1:50) 6:50 9:20

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (PG) DVS,CC (12:00 2:25 4:20 4:55) 7:25 9:55 Black or White (PG-13) DVS,CC (1:45) 7:35 The Boy Next Door (R) DVS,CC (4:50) 10:40 American Sniper (R) DVS,CC (1:05 4:10) 7:45 10:55 Paddington (PG) DVS,CC (1:40 4:25) The Wedding Ringer (R) DVS,CC (2:20 5:00) 8:00 10:50 Selma (PG-13) DVS,CC 6:45 9:55

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

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of

(314)227-5503 Water (PG)

(12:15 1:30 4:30) 7:30 10:20

Illinois

450 THF Blvd. www.wehrenberg.com J Focus: Mega Screen (R) No VIP after 6PM 1:45 4:30 7:15 10:00 J Focus (R) No VIP after 6PM 5:40 8:25

Black or White (PG-13) 2:15 PM

J The Lazarus Effect (PG-13) No VIP after 6PM 3:00 5:15 7:30 9:05 9:55 J The DUFF (PG-13) No VIP after 6PM 2:10 4:50 7:20 9:55

J Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (R) No VIP after 6PM 7:25 9:55

Paddington (PG) 12:30 2:50 5:10

Still Alice (PG-13) 1:15 3:45 6:15

The Imitation Game (PG-13) 12:45 3:30 6:15

Birdman (R)

1:00 4:05 7:05 10:05 1:00 4:00 7:00 10:00

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water 3D (PG) 1:10 8:30

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (PG) 3:40 6:05 1:40 4:35

Fifty Shades of Grey (R) 3:00 6:00 9:00

Unbroken (PG-13)

1:35 4:10 6:45 9:20

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (PG-13) 1:00 4:00 7:10 10:10

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (PG-13) 1:05 4:15 7:15 10:25

Big Hero 6 (PG)

O’Fallon 15 Cine (Wehrenberg)

American Sniper (R)

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

1:00 4:05 7:10 10:10

Paddington (PG) 1:00 3:20

11:20 AM 12:20 2:00 3:00 4:40 5:40 7:20 8:20 10:00 11:00 J The Lazarus Effect (PG-13) No VIP after 6PM 11:00 AM 2:30 5:10 6:10 7:40 8:30 9:15 10:00 10:50 11:30 J The DUFF (PG-13) No VIP after 6PM 11:55 AM 2:25 5:05 7:35 10:05

1:20 4:00 6:45

The Imitation Game (PG-13) 1:05 3:45 6:25

Birdman (R)

J Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (R) No VIP after 6PM

Whiplash (R) 9:20 PM

11:00 AM 2:30 5:15 7:45 10:10

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J McFarland, USA (PG) No VIP after 6PM 11:30 AM 1:15 4:15 7:15 10:15

Fifty Shades of Grey (R)

J Focus (R) No VIP after 6PM

11:25 AM 1:20 2:20 4:15 5:15 7:10 8:10 10:05 11:05

3:45 6:25 9:10

Plaza Frontenac (Landmark) Lindbergh & Clayton J Ballet 422 (PG)

314-994-3733

(11:25 AM) 2:00 4:40 7:20 9:25

J Red Army (PG) DVS (11:30 AM) 1:45 4:30 7:10 9:45

J Two Days, One Night (Deux jours, une nuit) (PG-13) (1:20 PM) (4:00 PM)

2:00 4:40 7:20 10:00

1:55 4:35 7:30 10:15

1:50 4:30 7:20 10:00

Black or White (PG-13)

J Wild (R) DVS J Focus (R) No VIP after 6PM

2:00 4:40 7:35 10:20

Big Eyes (PG-13)

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (PG)

(11:20 AM) 1:50 4:20 7:15 9:40 WE HRENBERG

1:25 3:50 6:15 8:40

Taken 3 (PG-13)

3:55 PM

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

Fifty Shades of Grey (R)

J Still Alice (PG-13) DVS

5:10 8:00

1:30 4:05 6:40 9:15

Project Almanac (PG-13)

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

J McFarland, USA (PG) No VIP after 6PM

1:00 4:10 7:15 9:00 10:20

The Seventh Son (PG-13)

Into the Woods (PG)

1:10 4:15 7:10 10:00

American Sniper (R)

50 Ludwig Dr. Fairview Heights www.wehrenberg.com

1:15 7:05 9:45

Still Alice (PG-13)

1:10 3:35 6:05 8:30

St. Clair 10 Cine (Wehrenberg)

The Boy Next Door (R)

Kingsman: The Secret Service (R)

Focus (R) DVS,CC

The Wedding Ringer (R)

J The DUFF (PG-13) No VIP after 6PM

1:10 4:10 7:15 10:10

11:00 AM 1:25 4:05

Still Alice (PG-13)

1:00 3:15 5:30 7:45 10:00

Fifty Shades of Grey (R)

1:50 4:40 7:20

1:30 4:35 6:30 7:45 9:45 10:55

Paddington (PG)

J The Lazarus Effect (PG-13) No VIP after 6PM

1:00 4:05 7:00 10:00

St. Louis Mills Stadium 18 (Regal)

American Sniper (R)

1:40 4:20 7:00 8:45 9:40

J McFarland, USA (PG) No VIP after 6PM

1:30 2:05 5:10 6:55 8:15 10:00

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

Black or White (PG-13)

J Focus (R) No VIP after 6PM

7:50 10:15

1:00 6:45

11:05 AM 4:40

Jupiter Ascending (PG-13)

www.wehrenberg.com

2:20 5:00 7:30 10:00

Fifty Shades of Grey (R)

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Chesterfield Galaxy 14 Cine Des Peres 14 Cine (Wehrenberg) (Wehrenberg) 12701 Manchester Rd.

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

J The Imitation Game (PG-13) DVS (11:05 AM) 1:40 4:15 7:00 9:35

J Birdman (R) DVS (1:00) 3:50 6:50 9:30

J Whiplash (R) DVS (11:00 AM) 6:40 9:20

Kingsman: The Secret Service (R) 11:00 AM 1:50 4:40 7:30 9:10

Jupiter Ascending (PG-13) 11:00 AM 1:50 4:40 7:30 10:20

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water 3D (PG) 11:00 AM 1:25 3:45

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (PG) 11:50 AM 2:15 4:35 7:00 9:40

Black or White (PG-13) 12:30 3:20 6:15

American Sniper (R) 11:00 AM 1:15 4:15 7:15 10:15

Paddington (PG) 11:05 AM

Still Alice (PG-13) 11:35 AM 2:05 4:35 7:10

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A ham and brie sandwich at Whitebox Eatery in Clayton

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Small touches lend an upscale feel to Clayton’s fast-casual Whitebox Eatery ★★ BY IAN FROEB / RESTAURANT CRITIC / IFROEB@POST-DISPATCH.COM

hitebox Eatery is one of the more aptly named restaurants to open in St. Louis in recent years. The attractive space on the ground floor of the Plaza in Clayton (formerly Stratton’s Cafe) is a white box, essentially: white walls and tables and chairs, all of which seem even brighter set against the hardwood floor. The daily cleaning checklist must be epic. Brendan Marsden, co-owner of Modesto Tapas Bar & Restaurant on the Hill, opened Whitebox in August. It’s a fast-casual spot, serving breakfast, lunch and weekend brunch. Order stltoday.com/offthemenu

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at the counter — the menu is posted on flat-screens above the pastry trays — and then take your number to your table. (Unless you’re getting your meal to go, in which case you stand awkwardly by the kitchen pass, trying to stay out of the way of servers and other diners while you wait.) Whitebox, however, is a more deliberate fast-casual operation. Your meal arrives at the table quickly enough to be convenient, but not so quickly that you suspect it was taken from a vacuum-sealed bag and waved under the heat lamp. There are even a few small touches — heavyweight flatware rolled into cloth napkins; coffee from local foursquare.com/gostl

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roaster Blueprint Coffee — that give it an upscale feel. Likewise, the menu applies a contemporary ingredient-driven gloss to standard breakfast and lunch dishes. (Pastry chef Jamie Hardesty now runs the entire kitchen; opening chef Jon Hoffman recently left the restaurant.) So in lieu of another boring ham-andSwiss sandwich, a panini ($9.95) offers slices of very good baked ham dressed with brie, peppery arugula and a sweet-sharp fig mustard. A bracingly tangy lemonolive mayonnaise cuts through the thick stack of coppa, salami, mortadella and provolone on the Italian sandwich ($10.50), elevating what could have been a ho-hum cold-cut assemblage. A caper mayonnaise works a similar trick on the roast-beef sandwich ($9.95), though my sandwich did suffer from beef that had been roasted until pale pink trending toward well-done. Here you see the potential drawback of Whitebox’s model: little things that might not bug you so much at a less expensive fast-casual spot stand out here. I wanted to love the turkeysausage breakfast sandwich ($7.50) — excellent housemade sausage with a fried egg, cheddar cheese and a smear of apple butter on a buttermilk biscuit — but settled for like when the biscuit proved too crumbly. The brioche French toast ($9.95) delivers four thick slices of bread with such perfectly calibrated eggy sweetness that you hardly need syrup. Yet the menu also promises toasted pecans and roasted pears. Were these cooked into my French toast? Were they a garnish that the kitchen forgot? I searched in vain for evidence of either.

Weekend brunch might be the best way to experience Whitebox. It includes dishes from both the breakfast and lunch menus as well as special selections. This includes a fine rendition of shrimp and grits ($12.95), with smoked shrimp over grits thickened with (but not overwhelmed by) cheddar cheese. Roasted onions and a light shellfish broth give the dish a nudge of extra flavor. A standout dish, especially given the price. A recent addition to the brunch menu is a version of chilaquiles ($10.95), the traditional Mexican dish. Whitebox serves its tostadas in an earthy, mildly spicy guajillo-chile sauce and tops them with chicken, avocado, cheddar cheese and a fried egg. The chicken needs more seasoning — it tasted only of itself, as if grafted onto the dish from another preparation — but as a whole the chilaquiles are messy, satisfying fun. The pastry case features both sweet and savory treats. In a town lousy with dry, achingly sugary muffins, the mixed-berry variety that I sampled here was a relief, perfectly moist and more reliant on the fruits’ natural sweetness. Whitebox doesn’t eschew the latest trends. Besides the fast-casual model itself, there are expensive juice blends (pineapple with kale and other greens; sweet potato and pear; all $6.95), and the coffee menu includes the suddenly ubiquitous flat white. But the restaurant’s focus on quality shows that this plain white box is built on solid foundations. WHERE Whitebox Eatery, 176 Carondelet Plaza, Clayton • MORE INFO 314-862-2802; whiteboxeatery.com • MENU Fast-casual breakfast, lunch and brunch fare • HOURS Breakfast and lunch daily, brunch Saturday-Sunday

OUR CRITIC DISHES Get more of Ian’s commentary on Whitebox Eatery with this week’s Off the Menu video report. stltoday.com/offthemenu

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Recently reviewed 612 Kitchen & Cocktails ★½ 612 West Woodbine Avenue, Kirkwood • 314965-2003; 612kitchenandcocktails.com • Dinner WednesdaySunday, lunch Saturday, brunch Sunday • Comfort food and classic bar-and-grill fare. 801 Chophouse ★★★

137 Carondelet Plaza, Clayton • 314-875-9900; 801restaurantgroup. com • Dinner nightly • Steaks and other chops, with all the traditional sides. BaiKu Sushi Lounge ★★½ 3407 Olive Street • 314896-2500; baikustl. com • Lunch TuesdayFriday; dinner TuesdaySunday • Sushi, with a chef’s creative touch. Bella Vino Wine Bar & Tapas ★★ 325 South Main Street, St. Charles • 636-724-3434; bellavinowinebarstl. com • Dinner TuesdaySunday; lunch Friday and Saturday; brunch Sunday • Small plates, pasta and flatbreads. Bishop’s Post ★★ 16125 Chesterfield Parkway West, Chesterfield • 636-5369405; bishopspost. com • Dinner daily; lunch Monday-Friday • Upscale American bistro fare. Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant ★ 1146 Town & Country Crossing Drive, Town and Country • 636-489-0059; coopershawkwinery. com • Lunch and dinner daily • Contemporary upscale cuisine and the restaurant’s own wines.

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The Crossing ★★★½ 7823 Forsyth Boulevard, Clayton • 314-721-7375; fialafood. com • Lunch MondayFriday, dinner MondaySaturday • Marketdriven contemporary American cuisine. Cucina Pazzo ★★½ 392 North Euclid Avenue • 314696-8400; oghospitalitygroup. com • Dinner daily; lunch MondaySaturday; brunch Sunday • An expansive selection of rustic Italian dishes. Death in the Afternoon ★★½ 808 Chestnut Street • 314-621-3236; deathintheafternoonstl.com • Lunch Monday-Friday, brunch Saturday-Sunday • Classic lunch fare with a sophisticated modern touch. Giovanni’s Kitchen ★★½ 8831 Ladue Road, Ladue • 314-7214100 • Dinner daily, lunch MondaySaturday • Classic Italian and ItalianAmerican cuisine in a casual setting. The Good Pie ★★½ 6665 Delmar Boulevard, University City • 314-899-9221 • Lunch and dinner Tuesday-Sunday; closed Monday • Neapolitan-style pizza. Grapeseed ★★★ 5400 Nottingham Avenue • 314-925-8525; grapeseedstl.com • Dinner Tuesday-Sunday • Contemporary American bistro fare. Layla ★½ 4317 Manchester Avenue • 314-553-9252; laylastl.com • Lunch and dinner daily; brunch Sunday • A fusion of American and Middle Eastern dishes.

Linh Mi Gia ★★ 3723 Gravois Avenue • 314-772-7742 • Lunch and dinner Tuesday-Sunday • Vietnamese cuisine. Lona’s Lil Eats ★★½ 2199 California Avenue • 314-925-8938; lonaslileats.com • Lunch Tuesday-Friday; dinner Tuesday-Saturday; closed Sunday and Monday • Unique dishes from Yunnan province in southern China. Old Standard Fried Chicken ★★½ 1621 Tower Grove Avenue • 314-8999000; oldstandard. com • Lunch and dinner daily; brunch Sunday • Fried chicken, with classic Southern snacks and sides. Papagayos ★★ 4658 Gravois Avenue • 314-351-0027 • Lunch and dinner daily • Traditional Honduran cuisine. The Peacemaker Lobster & Crab Co. ★★★ 1831 Sidney Street • 314-772-8858; peacemakerstl.com • Dinner daily; lunch Sunday • Lobster boils, steamed crabs, po’boys and more seafood dishes. The Peacock Loop Diner ★ 6261 Delmar Boulevard, University City • 314-721-5555; peacockloopdiner. com • Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week • Classic diner fare in a sleek setting. Peshwa ★★ 10633 Page Avenue, north St. Louis County • 314-428-8888; peshwafood.com • Lunch and dinner daily, closed Tuesday • Indian cuisine, including both a lunch and dinner buffet. A Pizza Story ★★½ 7278 Manchester Avenue, Maplewood • 314-899-0011; apizzaastory.com • Lunch and dinner TuesdaySunday; closed Monday • Neapolitan-style wood-fired pizzas.

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Pizzeria Mia ★★ 4501 Maryland Avenue • 314-400-7706 • Lunch and dinner Tuesday-Sunday • Wood-fired pizza. The Purple Martin ★★ 2800 Shenandoah Avenue • 314-898-0011; thepurplemartinstl. com • Dinner Tuesday-Saturday • Casual bistro fare with Mediterranean and North African influences. Riverbend Restaurant & Bar ★★ 1059 South Big Bend Boulevard, Richmond Heights • 314-664-8443; riverbendbar.com • Lunch and dinner Tuesday-Sunday; closed Monday • Creole and Cajun cuisine.

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Should I get on board “Empire”? Is it going to survive? Survive?! That show is growing every week, which never happens. It is huge. Network TV hasn’t had a hit like this in forever. It’s a soap, though, so you’ll need to read a lot of recaps to catch up. Did you think the right person won “Project Runway All Stars”? I didn’t! Me either! I’m not sure it was fair to have past champions compete, either.

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I love “The Mentalist” and am sad it is ending. Why was it canceled? I wouldn’t say it was canceled so much as “ended its run.” When a show runs many seasons, everyone agrees it’s time to exit, and the network gives it time to wrap up its storylines, that’s really all you can hope for. I’m worried about “The Daily Show” post-Jon Stewart. What do you think Comedy Central will do? What do you think they should do? I really think it’s possible to reinvent “The Daily

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Show” without changing it, and a new host who’s different from Jon Stewart but still terrific is out there somewhere. I don’t think it will be easy, but possible. Do you think there’s a chance John Oliver will come back to take over? No, HBO just signed him to a twoyear contract extension. “The Last Man on Earth” looks interesting, but based on what I’ve seen, I don’t really know what it’s about. How is it going to be a series with just one cast member? Will Forte @tubetalkpd

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is the only survivor of a devastating event in the new Fox comedy. For a long time, he’s the only character, with some overtones of “Castaway.” But there may be a surprise later. I applaud Fox for trying something this weird. (“The Last Man on Earth” premieres at 8 p.m. Sunday on Fox.) Will “Survivor” 30 be the final season? I have heard nothing about the show being renewed for new seasons next year. We usually know by now. CBS owns “Survivor” and would be happy for it to run forever. I wonder, though, how long Jeff Probst will stay. It can’t be an easy life. (Yeah,

I know: money.) There was a time not too awfully long ago when my three don’tmiss TV shows were “24,” “Gilmore Girls” and “CSI” (original). Alas, today I have no don’t-miss programs. However, one of those originals is still on the air. Have you heard anything about the future of “CSI”? Your taste is certainly eclectic. CBS hasn’t said “CSI” won’t return, in fact refused to say that. I suspect they’re waiting to try out “CSI: Cyber,” which is horrible.

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I read an article saying that “The Middle” may not be renewed. Have you heard anything? I enjoy that show, so I would be very unhappy if it’s true. Leading off the night for ABC, “The Middle” does really well. I’m sure ABC wants it back. I’m excited about the return of “Vikings” on History. Great show!

You know, there’s something on TV for everyone, and “Vikings” just isn’t for me, but I’m glad it’s for you. I vote Tina Fey for taking over “The Daily Show.” Why would she do it, though? It needs to be someone up-andcoming, but brilliant, which is why the choice will be so hard. I can’t believe that “Empire” just keeps getting better. I am not a fan of hip-hop music, but I really love this show. Taraji P. Henson owns it. My main concern about “Empire” was that I’m not a fan of hip-hop either, but so much of the music in the show is other genres that it’s really very enjoyable. And Taraji P. Henson is amazing. Since the only thing I know about Battle Creek, Mich., is that it is or was the home of Kellogg’s, is this new show called “Battle Creek” about cereal? Yes, it’s about a battle of the flakes against the puffs, sort of a modern “West Side Story,” but with cereal. Is the new “Odd Couple” worth my time? The best I can say of the pilot is that it wasn’t as bad as I feared, and it even had a few laughs. It’s hard to judge a comedy from one episode, so it would probably be best to reserve judgment.

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