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Even before painting Michelle Obama’s portrait, Amy Sherald was an artist on the rise. Page 15

The coming season at Jazz St. Louis will include even more jazz. Page 11

See & Do Ahead of its 100th season, the Muny is throwing itself two big parties. Page 12 Recently reviewed theater. Page 13

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Our critics pick the best events in the week ahead, including Bark in the Park, James Taylor at Scottrade Center and “Life Sucks” at New Jewish Theatre. Plus, what to look forward to in the coming weeks. Page 4

Music & Clubs For Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, “St. Louis is a home away from home.” Page 6

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Terence Blanchard isn’t in the mood to write “feelgood music.” Page 7 St. Louis band the Former Me says farewell with a show at the Firebird. Page 8

The live version of “RISK!” invites local storytellers to spill the beans onstage. Page 14

Screen legends deserve better than the disgraceful “Book Club.” Page 21 Recently reviewed movies. Page 22 Invite lost in the mail? Here’s how you can watch the royal wedding. Page 24 “Last Man Standing” is back because of “Roseanne” — not politics. Page 25 TV Q&A. Page 25

Fuel Screens “Deadpool 2” isn’t as fresh as the original, but it delivers the laughs. Page 18 “RBG” deconstructs the life of the legendary Supreme Court justice. Page 19 You needn’t be a Catholic to appreciate “Pope Francis: A Man of His Word.” Page 20

L’Acadiane delivers the usual Dave Bailey style, but not as much substance. Page 26 Recently reviewed restaurants. Page 28 Our Hip Hops column returns with a look at Busch Stadium’s new craft beer bar. Page 30

ON THE COVER • Artist Amy Sherald. Photo by Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun; paintings courtesy of Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago

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WHEN Noon-5 p.m. Saturday • WHERE Henry’s in Soulard, 825 Allen Avenue • HOW MUCH Free; buffet is $10 • MORE INFO mullenstl.org

Michael. On hand will be conductor Brent Havens and singer Josh Olsen on Michael’s hits such as “Faith,” “Father Figure” and “Careless Whisper,” which Michael recorded while with the duo Wham.

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WHEN 7:30 p.m. Friday • WHERE Powell Symphony Hall, 718 North Grand Avenue • HOW MUCH $35-$75 • MORE INFO slso.org

SATURDAY Opera Theatre of St. Louis: Verdi’s ‘La Traviata’

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June 23 • WHERE LorettoHilton Center, 130 Edgar Road, Webster Groves • HOW MUCH $25-$139 • MORE INFO 314-961-0644; opera-stl.org

Opera Theatre of St. Louis opens another festival season of accessible opera in English Saturday night, with Giuseppe Verdi’s classic “La Traviata,” the heartbreaking story of a courtesan who finds true love and surrenders her happiness for another.

The cast is headed by a pair of attractive young singers who’ve worked their way up from the Gerdine Young Artist program to build promising careers, soprano Sydney Mancasola and tenor Geoffrey Agpalo, as Violetta and Alfredo; the role of Germont is taken by baritone

Joo Won Kan. Another remarkable soprano, Patricia Racette, makes her debut as a stage director with this production; Christopher Allen conducts. BY SARAH BRYAN MILLER

American Chamber Chorale & Salem Chamber Orchestra: ‘Hearts All Whole’ WHEN AND WHERE 7:30 p.m.

Saturday at Salem United Methodist Church, 1200 South Lindbergh Avenue; 3 p.m.

Sunday at Holy Family Catholic Church, 2606 Washington Avenue, Granite City • HOW MUCH Free • MORE INFO americanchamberchorale.com

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celebrated soprano Christine Brewer, the American Chamber Chorale and Salem Chamber Orchestra in “Hearts All Whole,” a program of music by composers including Morten Lauridsen, Aaron Copland, Frank Ticheli, Samuel Barber, Howard Helvey, Stephen Chatman and Z. Randall Stroope, to texts by poets including Sarah Teasdale, Christina Rossetti, Robert Frost and James Agee, among others. There are two chances to hear it, one on each side of the Mississippi River. BY SARAH BRYAN MILLER

Bark in the Park WHEN 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday; 5k run at 9 a.m., 1-mile walk at 10 a.m. • WHERE Cricket Field, 5564 Grand Drive, Forest Park • HOW MUCH $35 registration; free for ages 12 and under • MORE INFO hsmo.org/bark

The largest dog festival in the Midwest is back to celebrate 25 years of raising dollars for dogs to prevent animal abuse. This year’s fest includes several pet-friendly events to enjoy with your pooch, such as performances by the Purina Pro Plan Performance Team, a dog agility course, and royal wedding-themed contests and photos.

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bring along its mobile adoption trailer for those looking to add a new furry family member. BY DYLAN KIEFER

Elsah Spring Festival WHEN 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

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Elsah, a quaint, historic community along the Mississippi River Road, is known as the “village where time stood still.”

Step back in time for its second annual spring festival, where you can watch cast-iron cooking demonstrations, take a walking tour, enjoy live music, buy one of

FAST FORWARD “Southern Light: Photographs From Buenos Aires,” May 25-July 7 at Duane Reed Gallery: A new series by St. Louis photographer Michael Eastman features images of iconic Argentinian interiors • Dierks Bentley, June 2 at Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre: The country star brings his “Mountain High Tour” to town, along with special guests Brothers Osborne and Lanco • Justin Flom, June 2 at the Playhouse @ Westport Plaza: The rising-star magician has toured with Florida Georgia Line and appeared on a number of TV shows • “Muny Memories: 100 Seasons Onstage,” June 9-June 2, 2019, at the Missouri History Museum: A 6,000-square-foot exhibit will feature costumes, props and more theater artifacts

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Enjoy live music by Hot Soup and Mt. Thelonious; take home auction items that include gift baskets, artwork, and Muny and Cardinals tickets; and fill up at a buffet featuring food from local restaurants including West End Grill & Pub, BBQ Saloon, Hiro Asian Kitchen and Miss Leon’s. Proceeds benefit four St. Louis nonprofits: the Biome School, the Covering House, Refab and St. Louis Pet Rescue. Trish Gazall of 102.5 KEZK will serve as emcee.

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Lake Street Dive, Liz Vice WHEN 8 p.m. Saturday • WHERE The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard • HOW MUCH $34.25-$39.25 • MORE INFO 1-800-7453000; ticketmaster.com

Hard-to-label band Lake Street Dive comes to the Pageant this weekend on the heels of its new album, “Free Yourself Up.” The

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Who doesn’t love a good summer art festival complete with food and local entertainment?

Art on the Square in Belleville features original works by more than 100 artists and musical entertainment by nine local groups.

The festival showcases various types of art including clay, glass, jewelry, sculpture and watercolor, and it’s all available for purchase. There’s even a children’s art garden where kids can create their own takeaway projects. BY DYLAN KIEFER

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Mary Kay Andrews WHEN 7 p.m. Wednesday • WHERE Spencer Road library branch, 427 Spencer Road, St. Peters • HOW MUCH Free • MORE INFO youranswerplace.org

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record is the follow-up to “Side Pony” (2016).

The sound on the new album is influenced by the late 1960s and early ’70s R&B, pop and rock.

WHEN 7:30 p.m. Monday • WHERE Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Avenue • HOW MUCH $66-$100 • MORE INFO 1-800745-3000; ticketmaster.com

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BY KEVIN C. JOHNSON best homebrew. The event also includes ‘Stranger Fruit’ food trucks and live music by Silver Creek WHEN 7 p.m. Monday • Bluegrass Band and WHERE Bank of America Skylark Brothers Theatre, Emerson Performing Band. BY IAN FROEB Arts Center, Harris-Stowe State University, 3026 Laclede Avenue • HOW MUCH Free with ticket • MORE INFO eventbrite.com

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WEDNESDAY ‘Life Sucks’ WHEN Wednesday through June 10; 7:30 p.m. WednesdayThursday, 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday • WHERE Wool Studio Theatre, JCC’s Staenberg Family Complex, 2 Millstone Campus Drive • HOW MUCH $36-$44 • MORE INFO jccstl.com

Adapted from Anton Chekov’s “Uncle Vanya,” playwright Aaron Posner offers an impish look at classic characters attempting to grapple with life’s big questions. Though Posner puts his own spin on Chekov’s story, “Life Sucks” remains faithful to its source and presents a relatable tale of the woes of existence.

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Jessica Knoll WHEN 7 p.m. Wednesday • WHERE St. Louis County Library, 1640 South Lindbergh Boulevard • HOW MUCH Free • MORE INFO 314-994-3300

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Bone Thugs-N-Harmony bring history to the table The rap act, which says its biopic is in the works, considers St. Louis ‘a home away from home’

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ould a Bone ThugsN-Harmony biopic — like the big-screen biographies of 2Pac, N.W.A. and Notorious B.I.G. — be the next hip-hop tellall to hit a theater near you?

If “Tha Crossroads” rap group has its say, yes.

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an amazing story, not to take away from the other acts who have stories to tell.

They’re all amazing stories. But there are not enough out there, and not all the groups have the ingredients to put together an amazing biopic.”

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony went from Cleveland to the top of the rap game after being signed to Eazy-E’s Ruthless Records and scoring hits such as “1st of tha Month,” “Thuggish Riggs Bone,” “Days of Our Lives” and “For tha Love of $.”

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B.I.G., Mariah Carey, Phil Collins, Big Pun, Akon, Bow Wow, Tank, Eazy-E and more. Their story is filled with label disputes, internal strife and more.

Flesh-n-Bone (Stanley Howse) says he and the group’s Bizzy Bone, Wish Bone, Layzie Bone and Krayzie Bone have stories that are different from other groups’, with plot twists that add to the rags-to-riches story.

The group will be intimately involved in the project.

He says the project could become a miniseries. And he isn’t opposed to augmenting that with a reality series.

“We want to feature the best structure and figure out how to present the story in the most entertaining way,” he says. “We don’t know what it’s gonna be.”

The group returns to St. Louis, one of its frequent concert stops, with a show Sunday night at the Pageant.

“Our relationship with St. Louis is amazing,” he says. “It’s one of our biggest markets. We’re fortunate enough

to be extra-popular wherever we go across America, but St. Louis is a home away from home. Every time we come there, there’s so much love, so much of an embrace. We have a lot of homies there.”

The show will roll out hits he says “helped shape the lives of so many people in some way. We’re going to bring all that history to the table.”

Group members may also perform verses from other artists’ projects on which they were featured.

“The show will be electrifying and entertaining in every sense of the word,” Flesh-n-Bone says. “And we bring all the harmony. One of the things people catch onto quick is that we’re actual, real singers, and we complement each other so well and have an amazing lyrical display.”

While the hits will be in full supply, what many fans are waiting on is an actual Bone Thugs-N-Harmony album featuring all the rappers. A partial album called “New Waves,” which only featured two of the rappers, was released in 2017.

Flesh-n-Bone says the group had been discussing a proper album but instead decided to release a bunch of singles featuring all the members. He envisions one new single monthly, along with accompanying visuals.

“We could do an album, but we want to get it cracking instead of waiting to complete 15 songs,” he says. “We just want to focus on creating amazing songs and releasing them just to keep the ball rolling.”

One of the first songs could be a collaboration with Wiz Khalifa, to appear on Khalifa’s upcoming album. “It’s going to be everything you’d expect. It’s going to be crazy.”

Going the single route works better in the age of social media. “We didn’t have that in the ’90s,” Flesh-n-Bone says. “We’re lucky to have that at our disposal.”

WHAT Bone Thugs-N-Harmony • WHEN 8 p.m. Sunday • WHERE The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard • HOW MUCH $35-$55 • MORE INFO 1-800-745-3000; ticketmaster.com

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On Sunday at the Grandel, Blanchard will perform with his

E-Collective combo, which focuses on electric jazz.

It’s a good bet that the set list will include selections from the trumpeter’s latest album, “Live.”

Recently, Blanchard talked with Go! Magazine about his music and career.

Q • How did you decide to go with a live recording?

A • We just felt like some things happen with the band live that we didn’t capture in the studio.

Q • What’s the idea behind this combo, which is a departure from your usual acoustic groups?

A • I’d done a film years ago called “Talk to Me” (2007).

We had some very funky music for the score, and the drummer who’s in the E-Collective (Oscar Seaton) was the drummer on that session. We had a lot of fun doing it, and he kept saying, “Man, we should put together a band — it would be killer.” It just took us a long time to do it.

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A • Man, there’s a ton of them — Herbie Hancock’s band, and Wayne Shorter’s, and Weather Report, obviously. There are a lot of things I listen to, that I’ve always drawn inspiration from, but most people wouldn’t think that I would listen to.

Q • What can people expect to hear in concert?

A • We’ve been playing the music from the album, because we’re trying to create dialogue. You turn on the news, man, and it’s like a bad soap opera.

You can not watch it for a month and come back and know exactly what they’re talking about. And in the midst of all of that happening, Puerto Rico’s still suffering, Flint still has bad water, and gun violence is still an issue that hasn’t been resolved or even dealt with.

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It’s just hard for me to write feel-good music when there’s so much other stuff going on in our country.

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op-punk band the Former Me, the St. Louis act that won a video audition contest to open for Bon Jovi last year at Scottrade Center, is calling it quits with a show Friday night at the Firebird.

In conjunction with the breakup, the band just released a video for “Ignore the Irony,” the first song it ever wrote, using a compilation of clips of the band over the years.

Guitarist Ryan Coyle spoke on behalf of the Former Me.

Q • Why did the Former Me decide to break up?

A • The band has been around for six years, and after the Bon Jovi thing and the last CD, we started being a bar band

and playing covers and decided it was just time to let the name rest — die out for what it is. We have no plans to push it further.

Q • Why did the Former Me become a bar band?

A • It started with a buddy of ours who got us a Cinco de Mayo gig playing cover songs for, like, four hours, and we got paid to do it. We started following that trend with different bars like Big Daddy’s and Tin Roof.

Q • Why not just go back to being an original band?

A • Me and Adam (Kopchak) have another band we started working on (Hard Loss, which also includes Tyler Kasch), and the other guys might have other bands. Creatively, we’re done with this particular style of music, and it was just time to move on. We also have personal endeavors we need to focus on.

Q • Though the answer appears obvious, what were the biggest highlights for the band?

A • Of course the Bon Jovi thing — that will never be topped, having that dream come true. But there were a lot of personal favorites. One of them was

opening for Four Years Strong at the Firebird.

That was the first time we opened for a band I truly admire. And they were super-awesome guys. The first time we shot a video, for “Silhouettes,” was another. It was really cool to see yourself for the first time in a video. We shot another video at a friend’s tattoo shop on the Landing for “King Originality.”

We spent the whole day shooting while they were open for business.

Q • What was the band’s final rehearsal like?

A • Bittersweet. Since doing the bar-band thing, we hadn’t been doing our originals. This was our first time doing them in a half a year to a year.

We’re going to be playing our entire last EP, “I Know This Gets Better” (2017), and the majority of our other EP, “Some Truth to This” (2014).

Q • How do you think the last show will unfold this weekend?

A • I don’t know if it will be sold out, but we’re hoping all our close friends, family and fans over the course of the six years come out. We hope to make it a special night for us and a lot of people who stuck with us, who bought into our GoFundMe, bought tickets to our shows, bought merchandise. So we decided to do a farewell to give the band a proper send-off, not only for us but the people who care about us. We decided to go out on a good note.

WHAT The Former Me Farewell Show with Pure October, Postal Modern, Free Parking • WHEN 7 p.m. Friday • WHERE The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street • HOW MUCH $8-$10 • MORE INFO ticketfly.com

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Jazz St. Louis heads into its next season with acts including Robert Glasper, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Jeff Lorber Fusion, Cyrus Chestnut Trio, Chick Corea Trio, Branford Marsalis Quartet — along with a couple of key changes.

Those wanting more jazz will get it in a couple of ways. Subscription series concerts, formerly four-night stands, are now five nights, which means there also will be two early shows on Sundays. The kjohnson@post-dispatch.com

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A new cabaret series, Contemporary Cabaret, will debut Sept. 26-27 with Ann Hampton Callaway & Liz Callaway. The series also includes Lea DeLaria, Marilyn Maye, Christine Ebersole & Billy Stritch and others. Jazz St. Louis is collaborating with Cabaret Project of St. Louis on this.

“We want to get new audiences in, and this fits into our mission,” says Gene Dobbs Bradford, president and CEO of Jazz St. Louis. “We had to ask, ‘What really works well in the room that we’re not doing?’”

Adds Bob Bennett, artistic director for Jazz St. Louis: “The room itself is very cabaret. It lends itself well to this.”

Straight-ahead, contemporary, modern, fusion, avant garde, soul and Cuban jazz are among the sounds that will be on tap in the coming season.

“We want to represent different styles of jazz, and that’s reflective on the subscription series,” Bradford says. “This series does that very nicely.”

All concerts take place at Jazz St. Louis, inside the Harold and Dorothy Steward Center for Jazz at 3536 Washington Boulevard.

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Muny throws a big party for its big anniversary Help the theater welcome its centennial season with ‘An Evening With the Stars’ and Birthday Bash

BY JUDITH NEWMARK | POST-DISPATCH THEATER CRITIC

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ike Isaacson makes it clear: He doesn’t want to sound grandiose.

Nevertheless ...

“We set out to create a celebration that people will remember for the rest of their lives,” he says.

He’s confident that, come Monday morning, thousands of St. Louisans will have that kind of memory to cherish.

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have reached — two celebrations are planned this weekend.

On Friday, there’s the Centennial Gala show, an original musical revue called “An Evening With the Stars.”

Then, on Sunday, the Centennial Birthday Bash will be packed with fun activities for children and adults.

Both events will be at the Muny in Forest Park, where the 100th season opens July 11 with “Jerome Robbins’ Broadway.”

Isaacson, the theater’s artistic director and executive producer, says the Muny has spent a year putting the celebration together, striving to create

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who started at the Muny and now are launching Broadway careers, among them former Muny Teens Emma Gassett, Berklea Going, Drew Reddington and Jack Sippel.

The show, which runs about 90 minutes, starts at 9:15 p.m. (That’s like seeing the second act of a regular Muny show, Isaacson says.) Seats are available for purchase, of course, and the free seats will be available — free as always.

Admission also is free at Sunday’s Centennial Birthday Bash, which Muny president and CEO Dennis Reagan describes as “a Muny open house.”

Activities themed around musicals include “Aladdin” camel rides, the “All Shook Up” Bandstand and “No Business Like Show Business” karaoke.

Wonder how they put those musicals on? Take a backstage tour. Want to figure out how the Muny orchestra gets its rich, distinctive sound? Visit the musical instrument “petting zoo.”

Want to see the theater you’ve known since childhood? Take a ride on the Ferris wheel. To totally celebrate the occasion, join in on the birthday cake art project.

There will be plenty to eat, from food truck treats to fondue to cupcakes.

Most aspects of the event are free, but food, souvenirs and some activities are not.

Remember that both events were planned by people familiar with the conventions of musical theater. They know the value of a big finale.

The Centennial Gala show will finish with a big fireworks display.

For the Birthday Bash conclusion, everyone will step into the theater for entertainment and a huge rendition of “Happy Birthday.”

You might remember things like that.

WHAT Centennial Gala: “An Evening With the Stars” • WHEN 9:15 p.m. Friday • WHERE The Muny, 1 Theatre Drive, Forest Park • HOW MUCH $15-$77, plus the free seats • MORE INFO 314-534-1111; metrotix.com WHAT Centennial Birthday Bash • WHEN 1-5 p.m. Sunday • WHERE The Muny, 1 Theatre Drive, Forest Park • HOW MUCH Free admission, but food, souvenirs and some activities cost extra • MORE INFO muny.org/100

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something “big, epic — magical.” The hosts are two big Broadway stars, Heather Headley and Matthew Morrison. There will be some surprise announcements, Isaacson promises, and lots of memorable numbers from shows that the Muny has staged.

But that’s just the start. One hundred performers — one for each year — will be part of the show Friday night.

Accompanied by Muny Teens and Muny Kids, Morrison will perform a medley from “Hairspray.”

Headley will perform “a gorgeous number, arranged just for her” from a noted American musical.

(Which one is a secret till showtime.)

Two Broadway icons, Chita Rivera and Tommy Tune, each starred in Muny productions of “Bye Bye Birdie,” 10 years apart. Friday night, they’ll team up to perform the sweet final song in the show, “Rosie.”

A LOOK Ken Page, who got BACK his start at the Muny ▼ before he made his Learn about the Muny’s evolution mark on Broadway in our “Muny as Old Deuteronomy at 100” series. in “Cats,” will sing stltoday.com/ muny100 the most famous song from that show, “Memory.” Another Broadway veteran and Muny favorite, Lara Teeter, will lead a big tap number. Broadway’s Patrick Cassidy, Jenny Powers and Graham Rowat are also coming back for the big show.

Familiar Muny faces including Zoe Vonder Haar, Rich Pisarkiewicz and Ben Nordstrom will appear. Ensemble members coming in from New York include a number of young artists

Heather Headley will co-host the Muny Centennial Gala show with Matthew Morrison.

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This “Streetcar,” the mainstage event at Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis, races across the stage at the speed of life.

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Comedian, writer and actor Kevin Allison is the creator and host of “RISK!”

At a ‘RISK!’ live show, it’s OK to overshare Brave storytellers dare to tell all when the popular podcast comes to the Delmar Hall stage

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rowing up in Cincinnati, Kevin Allison listened to stories. His dad was a fan of shaggy dog stories, the kind that go on and on until reaching a groaner of a punchline. And as he sat in the pew at the family’s Catholic church, he could easily distinguish which priests were good at homilies and which ones were not.

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today. The comedian, writer and actor is the creator and host of “RISK!,” a live show and podcast with the tagline “true stories people never thought they’d dare to share.”

Stories about middle-school bullying. Stories about very particular sexual fetishes. There was even a story from a woman who found out her dad was a cannibal.

On Friday, Allison brings the show to Delmar Hall. Locals Amy Brooks, David Wraith, Mimi Le Uke and Rafe Williams will tell stories about being in a cult, having a transgender child,

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first gay sexual experiences and being overweight.

“We like to go all over the emotional roller coaster,” Allison says. A “RISK!” show usually includes a couple of stories that are mostly hilarious, one or two that are scary or traumatic, and maybe one that’s “tearjerkingly beautiful,” he explains. Some guests are famous, and some are ordinary folks.

Allison, of the MTV sketch comedy series “The State,” started “RISK!” in 2009 after listening to shows such as “This American Life” on National Public Radio.

“I realized right away that there is a space where people can say stuff that they can’t say on NPR,” he says. “What about that American life, the things people talk about with their therapist and their closest friends?”

It’s a format that translates well to a live stage setting, where the storyteller creates a sense of intimacy in the room, and also in a podcast, where

the listener imagines what’s going on and enters the theater of the mind.

Discussion groups on Facebook and emails from listeners allow for more feedback and sharing of stories.

Producers and TV networks have approached Allison about a series, but he wants to keep doing what he’s doing — and doing it well.

“Right now, we get a million downloads per month,” he says. “I really feel like we should be getting 9 million downloads “I REALIZED a month.

RIGHT AWAY There’s still THAT THERE IS plenty of A SPACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN people out SAY STUFF THAT there who THEY CAN’T SAY would be ON NPR. WHAT absolutely ABOUT THAT fascinated AMERICAN and surprised LIFE, THE and amazed if THINGS PEOPLE they just gave TALK ABOUT the podcast a WITH THEIR chance.”

THERAPIST AND A “RISK!” THEIR CLOSEST book comes FRIENDS?” out in July. It KEVIN ALLISON will include old favorites and new stories, finessed for print. In the book’s introduction, Allison talks about his last appearance in St. Louis, a 2016 podcast recorded at Blueberry Hill. It’s available as an episode titled “Live From St. Louis!”

After that show, a young man came up to Allison sobbing. While he had a hard time expressing himself, Allison says, “he clearly just wanted to say, ‘I’ve been going through something really terrible in my life recently, and just hearing people tell real stories just helped me hang in there.’”

Stories have the power to change people, and the show often gets emails from people who say a story changed their lives or inspired them to quit their job and change careers.

“Those kind of emails are so powerful to us,” he says. “Whatever else we do, we will keep doing this.”

WHAT “RISK!” • WHEN 8 p.m. Friday • WHERE Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Boulevard • HOW MUCH $20 • MORE INFO 1-800-745-3000; ticketmaster.com

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Obama portrait artist Amy Sherald is worthy of acclaim beyond her celebrity moment

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arack and Michelle Obama and their daughters, Sasha and Malia, broke ground when they moved into the White House in 2009, becoming the first African-American “first family.” And the artists selected by the former president and first lady to paint their official portraits are the first African-Americans to be so honored.

Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley have experienced heightened national and socialmedia profiles. And their work has found its way onto the schedules at two top St. Louis museums.

Wiley, who lent his touch to former President Obama’s portrait, will have an exhibition at the St. Louis Art Museum beginning in October. ➦

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Sherald, whose bold rendering of Michelle Obama sparked vigorous debate, has seven paintings on view at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis through Aug. 19 as part of its Front Room series. It’s her first solo museum exhibition.

Sherald’s painting of the former first lady isn’t included here; the Obama portraits were commissioned by and have joined the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. But museumgoers are unlikely to be disappointed.

“THE THING Sherald’s artIS, I WAS istry is not only ALREADY distinctive but WELL KNOWN IN also worthy of THE ART acclaim beyond WORLD, AND her celebrity I ALREADY moment.

HAD A In a recent inWAITING terview, Sherald, LIST FOR 44, said that she MY WORK.” was excited to AMY SHERALD make the shortlist of artists under consideration for the Obama commission, and she was elated when Michelle Obama chose her for the job.

After that, it was a matter of deciding just how the former first lady should be portrayed.

“I worked with her stylist,” Sherald says. “I told her what I was looking for — bold colors, patterns, things like that. Her stylist sent me 11 dresses, and I narrowed it down to four, and then I chose two from those four.” The final choice

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Former first lady Michelle Obama (left) and artist Amy Sherald unveil Obama’s official portrait at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.

Wiley (left) and — the dress that Michelle Amy Sherald Obama wears in the porembrace at an trait — bore the chic Milly unveiling ceremony for their portraits label. of the Obamas.

“I like that dress because of the geometric patterns and because I felt like the dress was a painting in itself,” Sherald says. “I wanted it to be its own thing, as well. It had its own story, to tie into her history as an Amerirecognize and relate to.” can woman.”

Based in Baltimore, Sherald was She met with Michelle Obama born in Columbus, Ga. She earned twice to photograph her as part of a bachelor’s degree in painting the process of creating the paintfrom Clark Atlanta University in ing.

1997 and a master of fine arts in As much as she appreciates the painting from Maryland Institute attention, Sherald says that media College of Art in 2004. In 2016, accounts that described her as an she was the first woman to win the “obscure” artist before she was Outwin Boochever Portrait Comchosen as an Obama portraitist petition grand prize. were inaccurate.

Sherald cites realist painter and “The thing is, I was already fellow Columbus native Bo Bartlett well known in the art world, and as an early influence.

I already had a waiting list for my “He’s the first artist whose work work,” she said. “And my career trajectory was definitely — I wasn’t I saw at a young age,” she says. “It worried about my life at that point, was figurative, and I related to that as what it meant to be an artist — or having money. What it has done is put me into the minds of non-art being able to render the figure. A lovers, the people who aren’t famil- lot of the artists that people equate iar with the arts that much at all. So my work to, I didn’t find out about until after graduate school.”

I appreciate the fact that, because Another important influence on of this, a lot of children have beher work is photography, Sherald come interested in the arts because says. they see something that they can

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“That was the first place that I saw portraiture that I could relate to, that wasn’t European portraiture,” she says.

“I looked at European paintings for composition and color and things like that. But when I looked at photography, it likened to those paintings done of aristocracy (after) the invention of the camera, where black people were able to represent themselves the way they wanted to be represented.”

Sherald’s career as an artist has taken her to far-flung destinations including China, Norway, Panama and Senegal. And her travels, she says, are reflected in her work.

“All of your lived experiences as an artist somehow come into play,” Sherald says. “When people ask me about color in my work, I tend to say that it came from spending a lot of time in Panama.”

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Zazie Beetz is enjoying her career’s upward trajectory

In Deadpool, Reynolds has found his dream role ‘Deadpool 2’ doesn’t measure up to the original, but it fortunately keeps the laughs and mayhem coming ★★★

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eadpool (Ryan Reynolds) has found something that works for him: fighting bad guys whenever possible, joking as he does so and returning home to his sexy and sexually adventurous partner Vanessa (Morena Baccarin).

In fact, he’s become so comfortable in this scarred skin that he’s even considering the idea of being a father.

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trainee program under the watchful eyes of Colossus (Stefan Kapicic) and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand). It’s not long before they encounter a troubled, fireball-hurling young mutant named Russell (Julian Dennison) who could easily be an ally — or an enemy.

Cable (Josh Brolin), a formidable soldier from the future, has killing Russell at the top of his to-do list. That puts Deadpool in the unusual position of taking on the role of Russell’s protector.

But stopping Cable will be a challenge.

Enlisting the help of additional would-be heroes including the selfassured Domino (Zazie Beetz), whose superpower is as surprising as it is ef-

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fective, Deadpool prepares for battle — and more opportunities to strike poses and crack wise.

“Deadpool 2” was bound to be a letdown — there’s no way it could equal the freshness and irreverence of the 2016 original. Fortunately, the sequel comes off as much more than a cash grab.

Working from a screenplay by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick and Reynolds, director David Leitch (“Atomic Blonde”) seems well aware of the film’s absurdity and willing to give his all to its superhero-flick-meets-“Looney Tunes” scenario. With so much going on, there’s little time to consider than none of it makes much sense.

But the film’s greatest asset is Reynolds, who in Deadpool finally found the role of his dreams. Reynolds totally sells the character’s blend of reckless selfabsorption and reluctant heroics.

Another sequel really isn’t necessary, but it’s in the works anyway.

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Wasgiving part of thea pair We’re away ofappeal ticketsof toplaying an advance Domino that screening of “A Wrinkle she’s a departure in Time.” from Vanessa on stltoday.com/movies “Atlanta”? I think parts of them are actually similar, Zazie Beetz is in terms of their perhaps best strength and their known for her role perseverance. as Vanessa in the “Deadpool 2” was Emmy-winning FX just this huge series “Atlanta.” opportunity. Doing She also appeared “Atlanta” had been in several episodes this wonderful, of the Netflix beautiful dive into series “Easy.” a passion project, In “Deadpool 2,” working with a she’s Domino, whose group of people offbeat superpower coming into this is one of the more industry together. interesting things in “Deadpool 2” was the film. Beetz will a very different also be seen in the experience, but upcoming film “High there was a lot Flying Bird,” which of collaboration stars André Holland that went on (“Moonlight”) and with that, too. was directed by “High Flying Bird” Steven Soderbergh. sounds like an Oprah Winfrey exciting project.

Your performance “Ayou Wrinkle What in can say is one of the in Time” about working on highlights of the film? André is “Deadpool 2.” one of the kindest Was there a lot people I’ve ever of competition met in my life. for the role of He’s so empathic Domino? I know two and caring. And or three names of Soderbergh is other women who just so easy, and were auditioning. he’s super-funny.

I much prefer But I really don’t auditioning over think I’m allowed just getting a role to say anything offered, because about the film.

I like to know that I earned it.

How did you Can we expect to see Domino in “Deadpool 3”?

I think I’m going to be in the next one. But there’s no script available — I don’t think they’ve even written the script yet. And I don’t know what the storyline is going to be.

Domino’s superpower is that she’s lucky, and your career seems

become interested in acting? I’ve been doing theater since I was a little girl; I did my first play in school when I was 7. And when I graduated from (Skidmore College), it felt like acting was a natural progression.

How could I not give it a try?

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in “RBG”

‘RBG’ amuses, entertains, and yes, inspires Documentary deftly deconstructs the life of a legendary figure, a liberal heroine and a new pop-culture icon HHH

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s RBG getting enough kale?

That was the question — only partly in jest — that circulated back in early 2017 when President Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.

The idea — for liberals, anyway — was that Ruth Bader Ginsburg had better stay healthy, or the court’s precarious balance would be lost.

Well, after watching “RBG,” an engrossing, entertaining and unabashedly adoring new documentary about the now-legendary justice — seemingly a full-fledged pop-culture hero at this point — it starts to feel like maybe we’re the ones who need the kale.

Those who closely follow Ginsburg, now 85, may already know that she works out with a personal trainer, but here we see her actually doing a plank, for what seems like a full minute. Yes, she does pushups too. (Her friends quip that they can’t even do half a

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pushup — either half.)

It’s no wonder that the term “superhero” is applied to Ginsburg early in the film, by no less than Gloria Steinem.

But in a way, that term doesn’t do the justice’s story justice. Because superheroes come by their status magically.

Ginsburg, we learn here, had to fight every inch of the way, with grit and tenacity and creativity and optimism and lots of all-nighters, over often stunningly difficult obstacles. The best parts of this film show us not how “cool” she is but how hard she worked and how much she wanted what she got.

Directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West gained impressive access to their subject, with everything from intimate family photos and video to interviews with her children and granddaughter.

But we begin with her 1993 confirmation hearing, where she first presented herself to the nation, announcing: “I am a Brooklynite, born and bred, a first-generation American on my fa-

ther’s side, barely second-generation on my mother’s.”

We then go back to examine her roots. Education was a huge priority in Ginsburg’s family; it was where she had her early successes and a value she obviously passed on to her own children. (“Do your homework,” her daughter says when asked what her mother used to tell her. “Don’t disappoint us.”) We learn that the young Ruth Bader was quiet, polite, determined. “She didn’t do small talk,” says a friend.

Ruth Bader excelled at Cornell University, where she would meet the love of her life, Marty Ginsburg. The film provides ample proof that this was a truly unusual partnership, based on love and mutual respect as well as Marty’s willingness to give his wife’s career precedence over his. “He was the first boy I ever knew who cared that I had a brain,” Ginsburg says in the film.

Ginsburg went on to Harvard Law School, where she was one of nine women in a class of more than 500.

Even then, the dean asked the women “why they took a seat that could have gone to a man.” She made Law Review her second year, an accomplishment all the more incredible because she was simultaneously doing her own work, taking care of her baby in the afternoons and doing her husband’s law school work for him at night because

he was suffering from cancer. She finished her studies at Columbia and found that, despite her accomplishments, no law firm would hire her.

Cohen and West do a deft job of reminding us just what the situation was like for women in the early ’60s, when Ginsburg was starting out. And then they show us how slowly, job by job and case by case, Ginsburg went about her life’s work fighting gender discrimination — “like knitting a sweater,” a friend explains.

It is genuinely thrilling when we hear Ginsburg arguing in the Supreme Court, a young lawyer with a small voice but astonishing confidence. “Are they paying attention?” she admits to wondering at one point, of the silent all-male panel.

Interspersed with the legal stuff is the fun personal stuff: her husband’s sense of humor, her intense love for opera, her unlikely friendship with her ideological adversary on the court, the late Antonin Scalia. “What’s not to like?” he says at one point. “Except her views on the law!”

But it’s her love affair with Marty, who died in 2010, that provides the most inspiring theme of the film.

When Ginsburg was appointed to her first judgeship, on the D.C. Circuit, she was often asked if she found it hard to commute from New York — people couldn’t imagine that her husband would have moved for his wife’s job.

And later, when Bill Clinton was deciding whom to nominate for the Supreme Court, we learn that it was Marty who was his wife’s own personal PR agent, contacting everyone he could to get her name out in front. Watching the family hug in the Senate after her hearing, and watching him smile as she’s sworn in, it’s hard not to feel a lump in your throat.

With the #MeToo movement occupying our culture, it’s easy to say that this is the perfect time for a detailed, thorough film on Ginsburg. But frankly, anytime would have been a good time.

And she’s doing just fine without the extra kale, thank you very much.

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a way that transcends politics.

Indeed, he’s an inspiring and charismatic figure who radiates a sense of goodwill that contrasts starkly with the packaged phoniness that we’ve come of expect from those in the public sphere. Even the most cynical among us would be surprised to learn that the pope is in any way being disingenuous. His concerns —

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about inequality, world hunger and the environment — are as universal as they are urgent.

Listening to Pope Francis, it’s obvious that he chooses his words carefully and puts a premium on hewing to the truth. In his affect and attitude, he’s refreshingly free of bluster. And it’s almost unbelievable that a man of his power and prestige insists on maintaining such a modest lifestyle.

Such selflessness is to be admired, and by his example Pope Francis inspires us to be perhaps just a bit more concerned about matters beyond our immediate experience than we might be otherwise.

“Pope Francis: A Man of His Word” follows the pontiff as he travels the world, bringing with him a message

of peace and hope. Director Wim Wenders, who is best known for narrative films (“Wings of Desire”) but also has earned acclaim for documentaries (“Buena Vista Social Club”), places the emphasis not on Pope Francis’ background but on his philosophy.

Much of the film consists of the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church speaking directly to the camera, passionately outlining his views on the state of humanity. But it’s not necessary to be a Roman Catholic, or even particularly religious or spiritual, to take those views to heart.

This is an unconventional but uncompromising film.

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Jane Fonda on working with Diane Keaton: ‘About time’ Jane Fonda’s bigscreen career goes back to the 1960s and encompasses such memorable films as “Klute” (1971) and “Coming Home” (1978), for which she won Oscars for best actress. Fonda dropped out of the film scene for 15 years but returned in 2005 with the comedy “Monster-In-Law.” Fonda has been a sex symbol and a feminist, an exercise-video entrepreneur and an antiwar activist. Her latest film, “Book Club,” focuses on women of a certain age who regularly gather to discuss a popular erotic novel.

The comedy costars Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen.

Recently, Fonda, 80, spoke with Go! Magazine about the film and her long and distinctive career.

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What was it about “Book Club” that persuaded you to sign on to the film?

I thought it would be successful, and I wanted to work with those women, who I had never worked with before.

It was interesting that you got the chance to work with Keaton, who is also an icon of American film.

Yeah, it was about time. Not that much time left.

There’s a significant gap in your filmography before you made “Monster-In-Law,” a comedy in which you co-starred with Jennifer Lopez.

I kind of left the business. I wasn’t enjoying it anymore, and I have a hard time working when I’m feeling bad. I started writing my memoir, and that took five years. By the time I finished, I decided that I wanted to act again.

You co-starred with Lily Tomlin in the successful 1980 workplace comedy “9 to 5,” and you’re reunited on the Netflix series “Grace and Frankie.” What do you like about working with her?

She’s a genius, and anytime one has a chance to work with a genius, you grab it.

Plus, we’ve remained friends ever since “9 to 5.” I saw Lily in a one-woman show, and I said to myself, “I don’t want to make a movie about secretaries unless she’s in it.”

You made a film called “Rollover” that was released in 1981 and depicted a global financial crisis.

What did you think when that actually happened in 2008?

“Rollover” was not a successful film, but I knew that it would be prescient. But that crisis took so many people down.

It was so horrible, and it proved “Rollover” right.

Your 2009 performance in the play “33 Variations” earned a Tony nomination.

Do you have plans to return to Broadway? No. People have to be rich now to see plays on Broadway. It just doesn’t reach a wide enough audience. I prefer to do movies and television.

Candice Bergen (left) and Diane Keaton in “Book Club”

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iane (Diane Keaton) is a woman of a certain age with two doting daughters. Much to her annoyance, they keep insisting that she’s too old to live alone.

What if something happened that

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threatened her health — or her life? But Diane insists on being independent — especially after she meets a handsome, wealthy airline pilot (Andy Garcia).

Vivian (Jane Fonda) runs her own company and has zero interest in a serious relationship. She sees men as virtually interchangeable playthings, and that attitude extends to her old friend Arthur (Don Johnson). He’d like something more from her than sex, but she insists on playing it cool.

Carol (Mary Steenburgen) is worried that all the fizz has gone out of her marriage. Her husband, Bruce (Craig T. Nelson), is a nice enough guy, but it has yet to dawn on him that they’re taking dance lessons because she’d like to bring romance back into their lives.

Sharon (Candice Bergen) is a successful judge with no regrets about her divorce.

But she has to admit that she’d like a little male companionship, even if she has to take a chance with dating websites. The responses she gets are decidedly mixed.

Diane, Vivian, Carol and Sharon belong to a book club. And right now they’re reading a dirty book.

Let’s not mince words: “Book Club” is a disgrace and a waste of the talents of Oscar winners Keaton, Fonda and Steenburgen and Emmy recipient Bergen. Obviously, the film is intended for an older audience. But is this anemic, feature-length sitcom really the best that Hollywood can do?

Working from a screenplay that he co-wrote with Erin Simms, director Bill Holderman isn’t above resorting to ill-executed slapstick and jokes about erectile dysfunction. Keaton and Fonda, icons of American cinema, deserve much better material.

A really good film could be made about the challenges of keeping one’s dignity in an ageist country while reaching out for love. And it could be funny as well as insightful.

This isn’t that film.

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debauched Mexican billionaire falls off his yacht, wakes with amnesia and is convinced by the woman who cleans his boat that he’s her working-class husband in this reboot of the 1987 Goldie Hawn-Kurt Russell comedy. With Eugenio Derbez, Anna Faris, Eva Longoria, John Hannah. Directed

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gnomes Gnomeo and Juliet and their family and friends return, aided by the famous detective in this animated sequel.

Voiced by James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Johnny Depp. Directed

by John Stevenson.

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‘A Quiet Place’ ★★★½ PG-13 • 1:30 • Emily Blunt and John Krasinski star in this tale of a family stalked by terrifying creatures. Horror of the first order. Directed

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and his brother escape Nazi persecution in occupied France.

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Henson stars as a woman wronged by her husband. With Lyriq Bent, Crystle Stewart, Ajiona Alexus, Antonio Madison. Written and directed by Tyler Perry.

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‘Avengers: Infinity War’ ★★★ PG-13 • 2:29 • The

superheroes must cope with a global existential threat in what’s said to be the penultimate film in the

has his best film role yet in this thriller about an ex-diplomat’s efforts to secure an old friend’s release from the hands of terrorists.

With Rosamund Pike. Directed by Brad Anderson. CW

‘Black Panther’ ★★★★ PG-13 • 2:15 • Chadwick

Boseman, Michael B. Jordan and Lupita Nyong’o star in this thrilling tale of an African king, his adventures and his adversaries. A huge step forward for black cinema and a terrific time at the movies.

Directed by Ryan Coogler (“Creed”). CW

‘Blockers’ ★★½ R • 1:42 • Leslie Mann

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‘Breaking In’ ★★ PG-13 • 1:28 • A young mother played by Gabrielle Union battles a quartet of burglars to save her children in this taut thriller.

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Clarke and Kate Mara star in this fact-based drama about a political scandal. Directed

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and Rachel McAdams star in this tale of a forbidden love affair.

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makes a dazzling P.T. Barnum in this movie musical loosely based on the showman’s life.

But the rest of the film is utterly forgettable.

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‘I Can Only Imagine’ PG • 1:50 • Uplifting

faith-based film aims to tell the story behind MercyMe’s hit song, also titled “I Can Only Imagine.”

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Cranston, Greta Gerwig and Bill Murray are among the actors lending their voices to this brilliant

animated comedy about exiled canines.

Directed by Wes Anderson (“The Grand Budapest Hotel”). CW

‘Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle’ ★★★ PG-13 • 1:59 • With its

smart casting (Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Dwayne Johnson and Karen Gillan) and lively action sequences, this new version of the game is an overall upgrade. JM

‘Life of the Party’ ★★ PG-13 • 1:45 • Melissa

McCarthy is the only reason to see this lackluster comedy about a mom who returns to college. Directed by Ben Falcone (“Tammy”). CW

‘Little Pink House’ NR • 1:39 • Based on a true story about a Connecticut homeowner played by Catherine Keener who fought an eminent domain case to the Supreme Court.

Directed by Courtney Balaker. Not reviewed.

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by Michael R. Roskam.

Starring Matthias Schoenaerts and Adèle Exarchopoulos.

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PG-13 • 1:47 • Dwayne

Robinson stars in this gay teenage romance.

With Jennifer Garner and Josh Duhamel.

Directed by Greg Berlanti. TNS

‘Lu Over the Wall’ NR • 1:52 • A young

mermaid, whose singing causes humans to dance uncontrollably, rocks the world of a small fishing village in this Japanese animated adventure comedy directed by Masaaki Yuasa. Not reviewed.

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‘The Miracle Season’ ★★ PG • 1:39 • Oscar winners

Helen Hunt and William Hurt are wasted in this true story of a high school volleyball team facing a crisis. Directed

by Sean McNamara. CW

Johnson brings star power to this reasonably entertaining tale of a gorilla who wreaks havoc, along with a giant wolf and a humongous reptile. With Naomie Harris. Directed by Brad Peyton. CW

‘The Rider’ ★★★½ R • 1:44 • Chloé Zhao

(“Songs My Brothers Taught Me”) directed this drama about a severely injured cowboy who had dreams of being a rodeo star.

With Brady Jandreau as a character based on himself. CW

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and his four-legged partner go undercover to crack a case at a high-stakes pageant for pooches. With Will Arnett, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Natasha Lyonne, Jordin Sparks, Gabriel Iglesias, Shaquille O’Neal, Alan Cumming and Stanley Tucci. Written by Max Botkin, Marc Hyman.

Directed by Raja Gosnell. Not reviewed.

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horror flick about college kids trapped in a deadly game. With Lucy Hale. Directed

by Jeff Wadlow.

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Theron is terrific in this comedy-drama about a frazzled mom who gets much-needed help from a night nanny (Mackenzie Davis). Directed by Jason Reitman (“Up In the Air”). CW

‘A Wrinkle in Time’ ★★ PG • 1:49 • Oprah Winfrey, Mindy Kaling and Reese Witherspoon appear as otherworldly beings in this mediocre adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s beloved novel. Directed

by Ava DuVernay (“Selma”). CW

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The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters May 11 through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by comScore:

1. ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Disney, $62,078,047, 4,474 locations, $13,875 average, $548,090,150, 3 weeks.

2. ‘Life of the Party’ Warner Bros., $17,886,075, 3,656 locations, $4,892 average, $17,886,075, 1 week.

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3. ‘Breaking In’ Universal, $17,630,285, 2,537 locations, $6,949 average, $17,630,285, 1 week.

4. ‘Overboard’ Lionsgate, $9,864,415, 2,006 locations, $4,917 average, $29,358,392, 2 weeks.

5. ‘A Quiet Place’ Paramount, $6,455,396, 3,144 locations, $2,053 average, $169,608,030, 6 weeks.

11. ‘A Wrinkle in Time’

17. ‘Ready Player One’

Disney, $1,156,780, 1,984 locations, $583 average, $96,812,656, 10 weeks.

Warner Bros., $892,682, 804 locations, $1,110 average, $134,563,601, 7 weeks.

6. ‘I Feel Pretty’

12. ‘Blockers’

STX Entertainment, $3,805,437, 2,858 locations, $1,332 average, $43,952,013, 4 weeks.

Universal, $1,115,025, 1,111 locations, $1,004 average, $58,126,660, 6 weeks.

7. ‘Rampage’

Fox Searchlight, $1,072,567, 1,046 locations, $1,025 average, $29,951,941, 8 weeks.

Warner Bros., $3,462,442, 2,548 locations, $1,359 average, $89,827,105, 5 weeks.

8. ‘Tully’ Focus Features, $2,248,945, 1,356 locations, $1,659 average, $6,992,005, 2 weeks.

13. ‘Isle of Dogs’

14. ‘Super Troopers 2’ 20th Century Fox, $982,594, 1,379 locations, $713 average, $27,383,171, 4 weeks.

9. ‘Black Panther’

15. ‘Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare’

Disney, $2,077,207, 1,370 locations, $1,516 average, $696,331,818, 13 weeks.

Universal, $916,100, 1,269 locations, $722 average, $39,727,000, 5 weeks.

10. ‘RBG’

16. ‘Raazi’

Magnolia Pictures, $1,188,186, 179 locations, $6,638 average, $2,025,953, 2 weeks.

Zee Studios International, $894,284, 132 locations, $6,775 average, $894,284, 1 week.

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and Katy Tur will report live from Windsor.

American royal fan Donna Werner traveled to Britain for Saturday’s royal wedding.

HBO Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon will cover the wedding as their fictional TV anchor personas, Cord and Tish, for a TV-14, twohour live special on HBO starting at 6:30 a.m. Tim Meadows and other special guests are expected, and there will be prime-time replays later Saturday.

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he bad news: You don’t have a ticket to Windsor Castle to watch the wedding on Saturday of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The good news: There are plenty of options for watching it live from the comfort of your couch. Plus, it’s really, really early for a lot of people. (Times are CDT.) NBC All four hours of “Today” are devoted to the wedding, beginning at 3:30 a.m. with Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb reporting live from “an

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exclusive vantage point overlooking Windsor Castle.” Megyn Kelly, Al Roker and Kathie Lee Gifford, as well as various correspondents, will also be on hand.

CNN Anderson Cooper, Alisyn Camerota and Don Lemon will anchor coverage starting at 3 a.m., along with royal correspondent Max Foster, CNNI anchor Richard Quest, senior international correspondent Clarissa Ward and fashion expert Joe Zee. CNN will replay the nuptials at 7 p.m. Saturday, and HLN will re-air at 2 p.m.

ABC A five-hour live edition of “Good Morning America”

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from Windsor Castle starts at 4 a.m., hosted by “GMA” co-anchor Robin Roberts and “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir, along with a team of reporters and royal experts. It will also stream on abcnews.com and goodmorningamerica.com.

BBC AMERICA Beginning at 3 a.m., the network is airing a live and direct simulcast of BBC One’s coverage with limited commercial breaks.

BBC America will also air wedding highlights throughout the day and an encore presentation of the wedding at 9 p.m.

PBS PBS will show the wedding live, with coverage beginning at 3 a.m. The coverage will include BBC presenters Kirsty Young, Huw Edwards, Dermot O’Leary, Tina

Daheley, Alex Jones, Ore Oduba and Anita Rani.

E! Five hours of live coverage from Windsor Castle starts at 4 a.m. with commentary from Giuliana Rancic, fashion stylist Brad Goreski and royal expert Melanie Bromley. The network will air “E! Royal Wedding Rundown,” an hourlong recap special, at 6 p.m.

CBS “CBS This Morning” coanchor Gayle King and “Entertainment Tonight” co-host Kevin Frazier will anchor coverage from Windsor Castle, starting at 3 a.m. The coverage will be televised and streamed live on CBSN. MSNBC Joy Reid will anchor coverage from New York starting at 3 a.m., while Stephanie Ruhle

TELEMUNDO Starting at 4 a.m., journalist Maria Celeste Arraras will lead the Spanish-language coverage of Telemundo, produced in collaboration with NBC and featuring conversations with experts and correspondents in Windsor, London and Rosarito, the Mexican town where the father of the future princess lives.

MOVIE THEATERS Fathom Events and BritBox will present “Harry & Meghan: The Royal Wedding” in nearly 200 U.S. cinemas at 10 a.m.

Saturday. Tickets are $10$14 and can be purchased at fathomevents.com.

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FOX NEWS Live coverage starts at 5 a.m. co-anchored by Shepard Smith and Sandra Smith from outside St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. Ainsley Earhardt will also take part, co-hosting “Fox & Friends Weekend” live beginning at 4 a.m. and then joining coverage of the main event at 5 a.m.

BRITBOX The subscription streaming video service from BBC Studios and ITV will offer a livestream of ITV’s broadcast, which will be anchored by Phillip Schofield and Julie Etchingham. The livestream will begin at 10:30 a.m. BST and will also have time-shifted streams for EDT and PDT viewers. There will be an hourlong highlights show after the wedding.

‘Last Man Standing’ revived thanks to ‘Roseanne’

Tim Allen on “Last Man Standing”

Fox executives say pickup of Tim Allen’s show wasn’t because of politics

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he “Last Man Standing” revival, much like its cancellation, can’t hide from the stench of politics.

Fox announced late last week it was picking up the Tim Allen-helmed comedy after ABC canceled it last year, and the move had as much to do with “Roseanne” as it did to do with its star.

“Everyone took a good hard look at the success of ‘Roseanne,’” Fox TV

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Q • I’ve been watching reruns of “Hunter,” and Fred Dryer’s face and name are very familiar. Was he a pro football player?

A • Yes. Dryer was a defensive end from 1973 to 1981, first with the New York Giants and then, for most his career, the Los Angeles Rams. And he was good, making it to the Pro Bowl and the Super Bowl during his career. He is also the only player to score two safeties in a single NFL game. But, as he told Rich Eisen in 2017, he always had interests besides football. For one thing, he was taking acting lessons while still

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CEO Dana Walden told reporters Monday. “It reminded us we have a huge iconic star in our Fox family in Tim Allen. And we have been talking to Tim through the year.”

“Last Man Standing” was canceled in 2017 after six seasons on ABC, a decision

that Allen, one of the few outspoken Republicans in Hollywood, claimed was a personal attack.

Last year, the 64-yearold actor compared being conservative in Hollywood to living in Nazi Germany.

“You’ve gotta be real careful around here,”

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a player with the Rams.

He had a recurring role as a sportscaster on “Cheers” (and at one time had been a contender to play Sam Malone) but found his biggest TV success as the Dirty Harry-like police detective Rick Hunter. “Hunter” ran from 1984 to 1991,

with three reunion movies and shortlived 2003 revival.

Q • What has happened to the “Nashville” series?

A • The CMT drama, currently in its final season, has taken a break before beginning

its last run of new episodes June 7.

Q • Who was the first Asian-American or Asian actor to be included in the opening credits of a TV show? Was it Sammee Tong of “Bachelor Father”?

he said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”

“You get beat up if you don’t believe what everybody believes. This is like ’30s Germany. I don’t know what happened.

If you’re not part of the group, you know, ‘What we believe is right!’ I go, ‘Well

A • No. “Bachelor Father” began in 1957.

And 1951 included the first Asian-American lead in a TV series when Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong starred in “The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong,” for the old DuMont network. Wong — whose birth name was LiuTsong — played the crime-solving owner of a chain of art galleries.

Unfortunately, the series had a short run, and no one has found either its episodes or its scripts.

And that is a terrible loss to TV history.

Q • What’s up with “The Alienist”? My family and I loved the first season. We understand it was

I might have a problem with that.’ I’m a comedian, I like going on both sides.”

“Roseanne,” which similarly follows a workingclass conservative white family, was revived this year to wildly successful early ratings and praise from President

meant to be a limited series, but it seemed like such a success with audiences, and it felt that it closed in an open-ended manner.

Any possibility of a second season?

A • At this writing, there are no announced plans beyond the first season, which as you mentioned was billed as a limited series. Still, the show was indeed a big success for TNT. Newsweek’s Emily Gaudette, while noting the show was expensive and had behind-the-scenes challenges, said it was “one of the most visually engaging and transportive television series in recent memory.” And Caleb Carr has a book sequel to “The Alienist” called “The Angel

Trump himself.

The May 8 episode of the show was the No. 1 program in primetime among adults 18-49 and ticked up in Nielsen overnight ratings.

“We were emboldened, I would say, by the performance of ‘Roseanne,’” Walden said.

“And that certainly made us think that this is a really good opportunity, that for broadcast viewers a beloved star in a really funny multi-cam that has, again, a little bit easier entry point than a serialized comedy was a good idea. And, you know, ‘Roseanne’ certainly confirmed that.”

Co-chair Gary Newman also argued that Allen’s personal politics were never “a big feature of the show,” which he said “never delved deeply” into current events.

“It’s a funny show, and audiences responded to it,” he said.

of Darkness,” which provides possible material. So maybe there will be more TV, too.

Q • On all the old Westerns, they may have used tea or apple juice for the whiskey, but the beer looked real. Was it?

A • Since an actor downing a beer for repeated takes might have trouble delivering lines, there have been several screen tricks.

Some productions used “near beer” — foamy but low in alcohol. Tea with carbonation added has also filled in for beer; a foamy head can reportedly be made with powdered egg whites and lemon juice.

Draft magazine some

time back showcased Independent Studio Services, a prop company that designs fictional beer labels for TV and movies, then puts them on bottles of nonalcoholic beer or simply fills “beer” cans with water. The use of fictional brands avoids problems with real beer companies over what the beer-drinking TV characters might do.

But ISS has likely sent some viewers searching for Heisler, the company’s fake brand that has been used in many productions.

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The usual style but not so much substance A more creative restaurant seems waiting to emerge at Dave Bailey’s latest, L’Acadiane ★½

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n the space of three months last year, Dave Bailey opened two restaurants — a gobsmacking fact if we were discussing any other restaurateur. In the case of Bailey, the owner of Baileys’ Chocolate ifroeb@post-dispatch.com

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Bar, two locations of Rooster, Baileys’ Range, Bridge Tap House & Wine Bar and Small Batch as well as a catering arm, event spaces and a (temporarily closed) test kitchen for demoing future restaurant concepts, we’ll merely upgrade him from wildly ambitious to exceptionally wildly ambitious.

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The first of Bailey’s two 2017 restaurants was Hugo’s Pizzeria, which opened in September in midtown. I liked Hugo’s — in my January review, I gave it 2½ stars — though I couldn’t help but notice its lack of Bailey’s signature design flair. Had he entered a new phase of his career, pared-back, if not minimalist?

Nope. L’Acadiane, which debuted in December in Lafayette Square, might not be Bailey’s most dramatic space, but it boasts the usual striking details in a design by Bailey’s wife, Kara. In the front room, with the bar and banquette seating, a stark white-on-black map of the Mississippi from St. Louis to New Orleans covers an entire wall, and light fixtures hang in open metal frames

like sketches of gas lamps. In the larger back room, framed mirrors and a (relatively) restrained use of Edison bulbs evokes a cozy, timeless speakeasy.

(L’Acadiane occupies what was the first floor of Baileys’ Chocolate Bar. That restaurant remains open, in condensed form, on the second floor.)

The total effect is a glossy, Disney World version of New Orleans, and your enjoyment of the restaurant might depend on how generously broad a view of that wall map you take.

The menu from Bailey and his usual chefs, Stephen Trouvere and AJ Benga, isn’t Creole or Cajun (or even CreoleCajun, to use the common, if simplistic hyphenate) so much as influenced

by Creole, Cajun and more generally

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The fried chicken and waffle at L’Acadiane

Southern cuisines.

Which is a polite way of saying I liked L’Acadiane’s fried chicken far more than its jambalaya.

Actually, the fried chicken is the least interesting part of the dish ($15). The chicken — crisp, gnarled crust and juicy, though not distinctively seasoned meat — sits on a waffle made with cornbread batter. The result is denser and more savory than a traditional waffle, though between the curlicues of honey butter garnishing the chicken and the maple syrup served on the side, you can make the cornbread plenty sweet. The key to the dish is the fizzing hot sauce drizzled over the plate: not simply hot but tangy, fruity and with a low but crucial funk baseline. Extra hot sauce is provided so diners can add to taste. Apply liberally.

The jambalaya ($16) shows none of the hot sauce’s nuance. The blunt, overly salted seasoning could have come from a grocery-store package.

It overwhelms what little character the shrimp, chicken and andouille can provide, though these seem more like accidental guests in a paltry serving of rice soup.

Fried catfish ($17) is stuffed with crab meat to no great effect. This is served over “poblano grits,” which when I tried the dish were lumpy, lukewarm grits topped with poblano slivers. This still made more sense than the “garlic dressing,” a thick, electricyellow sauce artlessly squirted around

Jambalaya at L’Acadiane

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the rim of the plate. It adds sharpness but no flavor to the fish.

The menu is relatively brief and difficult to parse. Some dishes don’t nod at Louisiana cuisine so much as shrug: a crawfish bisque ($6) more cream than crustacean; snack-and-forget-’em blackened shrimp ($10). Accompanying both the shrimp and the by-the-numbers hush puppies ($7), and stealing the show from both, is a tangy, almost refreshing cucumber-ranch sauce.

Other dishes suggest a more creative restaurant — or at least one less beholden to Creole and Cajun tradition — waiting to emerge from L’Acadiane’s first draft. Pickled watermelon is a brilThe interior of L’Acadiane

liant, cooling pairing for hickory- and oak-smoked pork ribs (quarter-rack $8, half $14, full $20) slathered in a spicy barbecue sauce. The hot-link po’boy ($10) imitates a French dip, with a cup of gumbo “jus” for dipping. The idea is clever, though the sandwich’s riot of flavors (fontina, onion and peppers in addition to the sausage) mutes it.

In its own way, L’Acadiane is as surprising as Hugo’s Pizzeria. Here, for the first time, the reliable Bailey seems to lack a clear idea of what his restaurant could or should be. Though he can take comfort knowing that, when L’Acadiane is finally ready for its closeup, it will look terrific.

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WHERE 1923 Park Avenue • MORE INFO 314-325-2553; politesocietystl.com • MENU Contemporary and classic bistro fare • HOURS Dinner daily, brunch Saturday-Sunday

WHERE 7734 Forsyth Boulevard, Clayton • MORE INFO 314-773-7755; sardellastl. com • MENU Contemporary fare with Italian and Californian influences • HOURS Dinner daily, breakfast and lunch Monday-Friday

Parigi ★★★ WHERE 8025 Bonhomme Avenue, Clayton • MORE INFO 314-899-9767; parigistl. com • MENU Elegant versions of classic Italian dishes • HOURS Breakfast, lunch and dinner MondaySaturday, brunch Sunday

Privado ★★★★ WHERE 6665 Delmar Boulevard, University City • MORE INFO 314-899-9221; privadostl.com • MENU A ticketed tasting menu of progressive American cuisine • HOURS Dinner Friday and Saturday

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★★½ WHERE 3550 South Broadway • MORE INFO 314-405-0447; sistercitiescajun.com • MENU Gumbo, po’boys and more • HOURS Lunch and dinner

Vicia ★★★★ WHERE 4260 Forest Park Avenue • MORE INFO 314553-9239; viciarestaurant. com • MENU Modern, progressive cuisine with an emphasis on vegetables • HOURS Lunch Monday-Friday, dinner Tuesday-Saturday

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★★½ WHERE 1862 South 10th Street • MORE INFO 314-8334770; thewoodshacksoulard. com • MENU Sandwiches featuring smoked meats • HOURS 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

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HIP HOPS ▼

Ballpark goes beyond basic Bud 1764 Public House Craft Pub inside Busch Stadium is a fine place to find a better beer

BY BRIAN FELDT | ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

Beer and Cardinals baseball. It doesn’t get more St. Louis than that, right?

So I figured that would be a good intersection for our newly revived Hip Hops column, which will appear every other week bfeldt@post-dispatch.com

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and profile the people and stories that make St. Louis’ illustrious beer industry go round.

By way of introduction, my name is Brian Feldt. I’ve consumed a lot — but not nearly enough — of the craft beers concocted in this town. I have plenty to learn. It’s my hope that you’ll read along with me on that journey.

But back to beer and baseball.

The Cardinals, in their never-ending effort to entertain us after we’ve already paid to be entertained at a professional sporting event, this season unveiled a nice little craft beer bar just outside Section 144 called 1764 Public House Craft Pub. You may recognize the branding.

It’s a satellite location of 1764 Public House, a production of brothers Derek and Lucas Gamlin that opened in November in the Central West End. The stadium bar is a glorified concession stand that offers baseball fans a beer beyond the basic Bud. I was skeptical to try it out. I love

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just above and sets the 1764 Public House Craft Pub apart from anywhere else to get a beer in town.

The waitstaff was helpful enough and walked me through a few of the beers when I asked. They even provided a sample when I mentioned I hadn’t had a particular beer.

The price, while not as easy to swallow as the beer itself, wasn’t too bad for a ballpark brew — $12.75 for a 20-ounce draft or $10 for a 16-ounce can. You can also fill up a souvenir 32-ounce growler for $22. (Fun fact: You can bring that growler back to the 1764 in the Central West End for a free 22-ounce Busch beer.)

All in all, it’s a fine place to find a better beer in Busch Stadium.

For the Gamlin brothers, it’s an iteration of stands you’ve seen elsewhere in town — the Sub Zero Bar in Scottrade Center or the Gamlin Whiskey Bar stand in Busch Stadium’s outfield.

It’s all part of the Gamlin Restaurant Group’s Pro Sports Division, which has roots dating back nearly a decade.

“This idea to try and break the barrier to partner with a pro sports team was something we developed quite a while ago when the Rams were here,” Derek Gamlin said. “One of the executives with the Rams was a great regular at Sub Zero in the Central West End, and we talked a lot about how we could make it happen.”

Shortly thereafter, Sub Zero opened a stand in the Edward Jones Dome during Rams games. Soon enough, the Blues came calling. Then the Cardinals, who actually reached out about the 1764 brand before it was even open in the Central West End. Gamlin said he’s in talks with St. Louis FC, the United Soccer League team that plays in Fenton, about setting up something similar. And the Kansas City Chiefs have also kicked the tires on getting a Gamlin stand in Arrowhead Stadium. Future plans could put Gamlin-themed stands at some Mizzou events, too.

“We don’t get anything in terms of sales,” Gamlin said. “It’s all about leveraging the brand as much as possible.

Professional sport teams have some of the strongest brands around.”

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New at Busch Stadium, just outside Section 144, is 1764 Public House Craft Pub.

craft beer, but the last beverage I want in my hand during a mid-July Cardinals game, when temperatures can get downright scorching, is a heavy, hoppy brew. But the Cardinals, along with their concessionaire Delaware North and in conjunction with the Gamlin brothers, did a fine job of making the menu — 18 beers on draft and another handful available in cans — palatable for a hot summer day.

The beer list is mostly IPAs and lighter ales, including the aptly themed STL Red from O’Fallon Brewery. When taken collectively, the beers have a BeerAdvocate rating of 3.67 out of five, suggesting an average selection. But that rating is dragged down by having Anheuser-Busch’s Shock Top Belgian White on tap. Shock Top belongs on a craft beer menu as much as Matt Carpenter deserves to be leading off these days.

Most consumers will gravitate toward the local stuff — three tap handles apiece for Schlafly (Hefeweizen, Kolsch and Pale Ale) and Urban Chestnut (Zwickel, Schnickelfritz and STLIPA), with 4 Hands (Single Speed) and Charleville (Strawberry Blonde Ale) also getting space. Two local taps are particularly trendy: Lil’ Helper from Springfield, Mo.-based Mother’s Brewing Co. and Bobber Lager from Logboat Brewing Co. in Columbia, Mo. And, as one might expect, there are plenty of beers from the AnheuserBusch craft portfolio.

I’d prefer more variety from the local breweries. And certainly there are more St. Louis-made suds that can be easily consumed while taking in a ballgame — off the top of my head, Modern Brewery’s Citropolis sounds like a good fit.

But it being the first season of this thing, I’ll take it. I’ll be interested to see if the selection changes similar to how craft bars like ITAP rotate beers in and out.

It’s a fun space, too, as far as concession areas go. There are a few high-top tables near a pair of TVs to take in a few drinks with friends. And the old Busch Stadium II scoreboard, which will forever display the inning-by-inning recap of the Cardinals’ 7-5 victory over the Cincinnati Reds to close out the stadium’s final regular season, hangs

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