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THE MARIJUANA CONTROVERSY

OCTOBER SURPRISE BUST?

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IS THERE AN OCTOBER SURPRISE BUST? Dear Readers,

Democrat, but the audio tapes revealed that she is more leftist than she lets on.

Here we are, October in an election year.

How exciting can it be with the exception of Our pick for US Senate? the St. Louis Cardinals missing out on Major League Baseball’s post-season?

Senator McCaskill is too much a flip-flopper to know exactly what she stands for. ObviIn politics it not unusual ously the Project Veritas tapes exposed her for major players to pull for what she really stands for. Missouri can’t up dirt, real or imagafford six more years of this slimy creature. ined, on their opponents. In a presidential Republican Josh Hawley is too young to election the mudslinging take on a federal position and I question his can get very real. dedication since he spent most of the past year campaigning for the U.S. Senate rather In the 2016 Presidenthan doing his job as Missouri’s Attorney tial Election, two very General. flawed candidates went Ken Petty after each other. The Libertarian Japheth Cambell is an interesting Donald called Hillary candidate but his lack of fundraising to get crooked and Hillary referred to the Donald his message out will not attract knowledgeas a sexist, racist, xenophobic homophobe. able voters who are not already predisposiThe then FBI director James Comey, a long toned as libertarians. time friend of the Clintons, concluded that Hillary had broken federal law regarding Green Jo Crain has a nice website and her the use of a personal email server in the positions will garner attention, but her failtransmission of classified documents and ure to raise any money (as of July 2018) will the elimination of 35 thousand plus emails. cause her message to fall on deaf ears.

Comey dismissed the crime as something prosecutors would not want to pursue.

Independent candidate Craig O’Dear, a Kansas City attorney, has our endorsement for WHAT? Are you kidding me?

U.S. Senator for the state of Missouri. His website takes on the six major issues of the Comey got the firing end of this scandal time and describes how he would best benafter he reopened the investigation just efit the state of Missouri if elected. In one prior to the 2016 election. Clinton partially of his interview videos he has made the case blamed Comey on her loss due to the timing that being independent of any political party of the reopening of the case. Forget the fact is the way to go. We couldn’t agree more. that her assistant Huma Abedin’s sexually deviant husband’s laptop contained some For our Illinois readers we have just one recunknown and under explained emails from ommendation for governor: Kash Jackson, a Hillary’s private email server.

U.S. Navy veteran that will put Illinois back on track.

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3 REASONS WOMEN SHOULD CONSIDER A CAREER IN SMALL BUSINESS Here are three key findings from Aflac’s survey that indicate women are finding happy, fulfilling careers at small businesses.

1. A supportive, close-knit working environment.

One of the clear benefits small businesses have over their counterparts is the ability to more easily create company cultures that make all employees feel like they belong. In fact, in this year’s survey, women employees ranked feeling like a family as the best part of working for a small business.

(StatePoint) Talented, dedicated and ambitious women’s entrepreneurial spirits increasingly are driving the nation forward.

Women have steadily increased their presence in the world of small-business ownership over the past 10 years. In fact, the number of women-owned firms has grown 68 percent since 2007, compared with 47 percent for all businesses, and women-owned businesses support more than 7.9 million jobs,

according to a survey commissioned by American Express.

Women have many reasons to love working for a small business, according to Aflac’s 2018 Small Business Happiness Survey, which surveyed 1,000 U.S. employees at organizations with three to 49 employees. Eighty-seven percent of all employees said it is more fun working at a small business, and that number was even higher among women.

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While working for a small business often comes with many perks, women listed flexible scheduling as the biggest perceived benefit (29 percent). This was closely followed by feeling more appreciated and feeling like their input matters. These benefits help explain how a whopping 91 percent of all employees feel satisfied working at a small

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DIY HALLOWEEN TIPS TO SAVE MONEY sider the following tips: • Haunt your house for less. If you’re planning a Halloween party, the cost of tables, chairs, decorations and music can really put your monthly budget in the grave. Instead of scraping together décor from a party store, use a local marketplace app to seek out better deals and more interesting finds. For example, OfferUp, the nation’s largest mobile marketplace, connects buyers and sellers securely. Use the app to score eclectic dinnerware and serving dishes to make your home feel like a haunted mansion.

Plus, there’s plenty of gently used spooky decorations to

(StatePoint) Halloween may be the spookiest night of the year, but it’s the prices for costumes and decorations that are scarier than any vampire (and they’ll drain your wallet even faster).

lion on decorations, with the average person be found. spending nearly $87 on their costume alone, according the National Retail Federation.

• Potluck your party. From candied apples to mummified cake pops, there’s no shortThere are easy ways to save money and still age of great Halloween recipe ideas out enjoy this season’s favorite holiday. And you there. If you’re hosting, save yourself the This year, Americans plan to spend $3.2 can even use Halloween as an opportunity cost of feeding everybody by having your billion on Halloween costumes and $2.7 bil- to put some extra cash in your pocket. Con- guests bring their favorite spooky dish.

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• DIY costumes. You can skip the fullpriced Halloween stores and get creative with the items you or your neighbors already have around the house. Search your closets and listings of nearby sellers to put together some fun, spooky costumes and give yourself the opportunity to let your imagination run wild.

With a little bit of planning and some crafty buying and selling in your neighborhood, you can go all out this Halloween without over-spending. Or, take all that extra cash you saved to buy the king-size candy bars for your trick-or-treaters and be the envy of the block.

PODCASTS

THE 5 PODCASTS YOU SHOULD BE LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW

However, 31 percent of female employees said the top challenge of working for a small business over a large one is salary and benefits. Adding voluntary benefits like dental, vision, accident and critical illness insurance is a proven way to not only help employees manage out-of-pocket medical costs, but also improve employee benefits satisfaction and job retention.

3. Progress and commitment toward pay equality.

Seventy-eight percent of female smallbusiness employees believe they are compensated equally with their coworkers, and 73 percent think the small-business industry achieves success when it comes to equal pay. Still, 48 percent of male and female respondents acknowledge that there remains room for improvement. All together, these strides indicate the small-business community is on the right path forward.

• Clean out the ghosts of closets past. If your closet or garage is packed with boxes full of items from years gone by, Halloween may be the perfect time to sell stuff locally to creative costume hunters near you -either by having a garage sale or by using a local marketplace app. Your pastel windbreaker from 1985 could just be the missing piece for someone’s jazzercise costume, and those old white ski pants could help outfit a Marshmallow Man.

(BPT) - If you love a good podcast, you’re not alone. According to Podcast Insights, 73 million Americans listen to podcasts regularly, seven per week on average. You can find a podcast about virtually any subject that strikes your fancy, so if you’re looking for a new show to engage and delight you, there is no shortage of fun, information, news, controversy and commentary out

there for you to choose from. But where do you start?

Here are five wildly entertaining, addictive podcasts that are definitely worth a listen.

They all highlight and celebrate relatable, real-life moments that will capture your heart and tickle your funny bone. All you need is a pair of earbuds, and you’re good to go.

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As the story goes, comedians Paul Scheer, Jason Mantzoukas and June Diane Raphael were in a bar talking about how bad the movie Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps was, and the idea for “How Did This Get Made?” was born. Highbrow Siskel-andEbert-style commentary about cinema, it’s not. This laugh-out-loud podcast features the hosts and other guests talking about current movies. If you’ve seen the movie, you will love hearing their thoughts about it, but even if you haven’t caught the film yet, this hilarious show will have you laughing anyway. If you’ve ever thought about sneaking off to a matinee in the middle of a workday (and we know you have) these are the people you want to take along.

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BPT) - Protection against cyber attacks is crucial for any small business. A surprising report says that the average small business website is attacked by bots 44 times a day; however, many small businesses can’t picture themselves as a target. It’s easy to think that only large companies are subject to cyber threats, and therefore, overlook developing cybersecurity systems and tools due to cost and lack of resources. Thus, this is the exact reason why hackers will target small businesses - they are expecting to find weaknesses. It is essential for small businesses to protect their data, develop backup measures, and build recovery plans to counteract cyber threats in order to reduce the risk of losing everything they’ve worked so hard to build.

As technology continues to advance, small businesses need to consider what new technologies are best to help them, and protect critical business and customer information.

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Customer and business data needs to be protected at all times and everywhere it lives within the business. Cyber attackers use automated-malware to constantly search for weaknesses in data security and then employ ransomware to seize data and systems to extort billions of dollars a year from businesses around the world. According to the FBI, more than 4,000 attacks occur every day. Technology features such as strong PUBLIC NEWS

Small businesses often do not back up their data.

According to the FCC, nearly half of small businesses report that they never back up data.

This puts small businesses at a major risk of passwords, multi-factor authentication and losing key information if a data breach or ditime locks can help secure points of access, saster event ever occurs.

Threats to data can and there is a wide variety of hardware and come from cyber attacks, natural disasters software available to help small businesses do or even user error.

Making backup copies so. Some examples include: of data is like having an insurance policy to help ensure your business is able to continue * Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 operating under all types of circumstances. provides a hardware-based approach to automatically manage user authentication, Proactive data protection and backup can network access and data protection and help small businesses reduce the risk of can provide a higher level of security than downtime, lost production and even loss software-based security. of customers. Cloud backup services like MozyPro can automatically detect and back * Fingerprint readers or facial recognition up new and changed files from laptops and software for fast identification and/or dual servers even after the initial file is uploaded. authentication.

This can provide a second line of defense against malware attacks. Management, com* A server that defends IT networks with pliance and other reporting requirements can multi-layer protection to block unwanted be met, and the need for additional storage content. hardware can be reduced.

Without previous technology experience, Staying protected it can be hard for a small business to know where to start when it comes to purchasing Keeping up with the fast pace of technologiand implementing cybersecurity solutions.

Working with an IT advisor can significantly cal change can be difficult, but embracing and adapting new technologies can improve help with these decisions. efficiency and provide a competitive advantage. Data backup and cybersecurity can proSecure network tect business information from threats and Along with protecting access points, network keep systems running smoothly, something every small business needs. data also needs to be protected at all times.

Keeping a network secure protects valuable For more on how you can improve cybersecustomer data. curity where you work, contact Dell Small Business and find out how smart, secure tech Businesses can most effectively do so by can empower your company. leveraging encryption, which scrambles the

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aimed squarely at you. Hosted by two comedians and now available for streaming,

by Chris Alvarez “Pet Parents, Oversharing” explores all of life’s moments we share with our best furry Aries (March 21 - April 19) There is no easy way to say this, so I priority list today, Sagittarius. A female friends, from the endearing to the embarDon’t believe everything you read and will make it short and to the point. You visitor, perhaps your mother, could rassing and hilariously awkward, reminding only half of what you see and hear. The need to make an aboutface in your life. come by and making your place look us of the bond that pet parents share. No internet is not a trustworthy tool for Turn around. You are headed in the great will preoccupy you. Don’t do any topic is off limits and you’ll be sure to roll research and you’ve been using it way wrong way and it will lead to disaster. more work than you absolutely have to. over with your pup in laughter or feel intoo often. There is this thing called a Get counseling from a good friend to You won’t want to be too tired when spired to strike up a friendly chat next time library and we understand that you can make the change. she arrives. you head to the dog park. Developed by the get a card for free so you can use that folks at Freshpet, “Pet Parents, Oversharresource.

Virgo (August 23 - September 22) Capricorn (December 22 - January 19) ing” helps pet parents get through the day You are about to have one of the best Today you may have some important knowing they’re not going it alone. Tune in Taurus (April 20 - May 20) days of your life. Everything will turn phone calls to make, Capricorn, and to Pet Parents, Oversharing for stories about Do you remember your childhood roses for you. However, be very careful want to get them out of the way before all things paw, fur and tail. when everything was carefree? Do that you do not drop your guard. False doing anything else. You will definitely you remember when the only thing friends are going to see your success get your message across, because Keep It you had to concern yourself with was and want a piece of it, or will wish to your communicative abilities are very Daily Beast culture critic Ira Madison III homework and your parents normally see you fail. strong. Words combine with feelings and co-hosts Kara Brown and Louis Virtel did it for you? Now you are grown up to create understanding between you are joined each Wednesday by comedians, and in a jam at work. Your parents are Libra (September 23 - October 22) and just about anyone, whether you’re journalists and others for a discussion of retired and hoped that they raised you Blue is your lucky color and twelve talking on the phone or writing. pop culture, politics, terrible celebrity to do the right thing. is your lucky number. These are only tweets, events like the Oscars and more. lucky on alternating days and we can’t Aquarius (January 20 - February 18) Nothing is out of bounds, from Melania’s Gemini (May 21 - June 20) tell which days are those. So keep your Good news about money could create grammatically challenged Be Best camNothing is working for you at this time. cards close to your chest and see how some excitement in your household paign to Louis C.K.’s unwanted comeback Your relationships are changing and things would have panned out had you today, Aquarius. One of your goals to Meghan Markle’s annoying father, to so is your employment status. Time used this information for your life. might be to invest some of the funds how much John McCain loved ABBA. to take a backseat in life and see what Chances are that you will see a pattern in fixing up your living situation.

These three hosts are talking about what evthe universe is trying to tell you. Open and move forward from there.

You might even consider moving or eryone is thinking. It’s the ultimate virtual your eyes and mind to new ideas and purchasing a new home. You may water cooler discussion. opportunities. Don’t be afraid to take Scorpio (October 23 - November 21) kick around a lot of ideas about how a leap of faith, Those are the leaps that An exciting rush of physical passion to spend the windfall, but don’t go too This Is Love offer the greatest rewards. could hit you today when you’re crazy. Hold on to some of that money This intriguing podcast investigates life’s introduced to an interesting new as a nest egg. most persistent mystery: love. You’ll hear Cancer (June 21 - July 22) person, Scorpio. Take care not to wear individual, real-life stories of true love, Someone new has come into your life it on your face. You generally don’t Pisces (February 19 - March 20) sacrifice and even obsession. You’ll meet and you are as excited about this new like to reveal that much of yourself!

An intriguing new neighbor, perhaps Nino and Drew, who kept their relationship someone as anyone can be. Remember Besides, you won’t want this person to someone you’re attracted to, could a secret for more than 40 years, and then that appearances can be deceiving. think you’re too obvious. Try to stay move in near you, Pisces. This might they decided to do something that forced Don’t project your hopes and dreams focused and remain objective. Then prove very exciting. You will probably them into the national spotlight. There’s on this person. See them for who they consider whether it’s a good idea to strike up a conversation and enjoy also the story of David, who went for a really are. When you are certain of pursue this attraction. talking with him or her. Whether you run in Central Park and started talking to a what you have in your hand, then and choose to pursue this attraction depends stranger, who turned out to be the love of only then can you relax.

Sagittarius (November 22 -Dec. 21) on both of your current situations, but his life. And Brenda Jackson, who became Chores that need to be done around at the very least, you will make a new a bestselling novelist by writing 120 books Leo (July 23 - August 22) the house could be at the top of your friend. about her first romance. Listening to the love stories of real people will make you feel that anything is possible when we bet everything on the one we love.

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My Brother, My Brother and Me Justin, Travis and Griffin McElroy are brothers who are not experts in anything, but they have a popular podcast in which they dispense advice about various subjects, answer questions submitted by listeners or on Yahoo Answers, and provide addicting and hilarious commentary about nothing in particular. Known as MBMBaM by faithful listeners, the podcast features regular segments including The Munch Squad, in which they recite and ridicule news about new food products, and Haunted Doll Watch, which highlights online classifieds of haunted or possessed dolls. This is like the table conversation at the best Thanksgiving dinner of your life.

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“FIND THE CURE” MEDICAL MARIJUANA AMENDMENT SHROUDED IN CONTROVERSY

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as well. It’s a win-win for the patients and for the business.” Unfortunately, the increased tax burden isn’t the only shocking piece of the Bradshaw-backed amendment.

The Doctor has demonstrated an intense desire to ensure his amendment’s passing currently spending over $1 million to promote it according to the Riverfront Times and had filed lawsuits to eliminate the other proposals from the ballot. The St. Louis Post Dispatch reports that Bradshaw claims that Amendment 2, also known as New Approach Missouri, collected signatures without a petition circulator present and that unregistered voters gave signatures, and that Proposition C, Missourians For Patient Care, didn’t collect enough signatures in the first place, specifically in Missouri’s 5th district. Each suit was withdrawn in early September

Enthusiasm for legalization and decriminalization of marijuana has been steadily growing in Missouri, a fact which has never been more evident than by the inclusion of three different initiatives to legalize the plant for medical use within the state. A poll conducted in July of 2016 by Public Policy Polling found that 62% of Missourians supported a potential amendment for medicinal marijuana, suggesting that one of these motions will certainly achieve victory. Though the three proposals (Amendment 2, Amendment 3, & Proposition C) different in some keys areas including tax rates for sales of the products, one takes a major turn from the others.

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tion and the proposed benefactor of these new funds. While the latter ballot items propose sales taxes of 4% and 2% respectively both whom would send this revenue to funding veteran’s health care initiatives (Proposition C would also go towards early childhood education and drug treatment), Amendment 3 would tax growers $9.25 an ounce for marijuana flowers and $2.75 an ounce for leaves in addition to a 15% sales tax with the massive amount of money going towards a new state research agency, titled the Biomedical Research and Drug Development Institute, dedicated to incurable disease. Should this amendment become the winner in November, it would surely make marijuana very expensive for those patients for whom it is intended to alleviate suffering.

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If the lawsuits weren’t controversial enough, Bradshaw’s amendment also places him as the temporary head of the newly proposed medical research facility despite having no experience being a research scientist or running a laboratory and having yet to receive any support from universities or patient groups according to the Riverfront Times. Amendment 3 would also give the new development institute 50% of the “billions of dollars” of new revenue, giving Bradshaw an extremely large Dr. Brad Bradshaw, a licensed physibudget to do with as he pleases. Despite cian and highly successful personal what may seem as a conflict of interest, injury lawyer who created and is the the doctor stated that “People who don’t sole source of funding for Find The know me, they just assume, ‘Oh he’s goCures, however, does not see this as a potential boon but a benefit to Missouri ing to make a lot money off this, this is citizens and business owners. In a May all a power grab, a money grab,” but I’m Ozarks First article, Bradshaw claimed losing money. Millions of dollars.” that “any profits from [medicinal mariShould all of these initiatives pass in juana treatments] will actually go in an November, the amendment with the income tax rebate,” referring to the bills most votes will become law (Proposiallocating 25% of the new tax revenue tion C would not be enacted should to refunds continuing to state “So, Miseither of the amendments passed since souri will actually eventually do away they are changes to the constitution and with state income tax,” and that the the proposal would be a change in the “billions of dollars” in revenue would law). With Missouri voters being able to make almost a certainty that the new agency will find a cure for cancer. Busi- vote yes on all three of them, it is essennesses would also see a boost according tial that voters think carefully on which they approve. One thing is certain, the doctor who said that his amendment would “let Missourians and their Amendment 3 is a ballot initiative with the least potential to help Missourians. businesses make the profits out of this

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GOING OUR WAY?

AIR CHOICE ONE: AN EXPERIENTIAL EXPERIMENT

by David Paster

maintained commercial service. The program is codified at 49 U.S.C. §§ 41731–41748 and is subsidized by the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT).

A myriad of entities were forged during the mid to late seventies decade that continue to vex the average contemporary mind: the fashion faux-pas manifested as poly-blend crochet half-shirts with beaded velour fringe probably harboring at the bottom of someone’s closet, patiently awaiting a wearing to a retro-party; The Village People on a seemingly indivisible musical billing with K.C. and the Sunshine Band; Bruce (Wheaties Box Olympic Champion, circa 1976) / contemporary Caitlyn) Jenner and the Airline Deregulation Act, passed in 1978, which provided United States airlines almost total freedom to determine what markets to serve domestically and respective fares to charge for said service.

Another manifestation of the Disco is not dead era, the regional airline, Multi-Aero Corporation, now operating as Air Choice One and headquartered in St. Louis, commenced operations in 1979.

The nigh universal deregulation of air travel in 1978 begat the oft-threatened for termination but consistently renewed federal subsidization program for potentially non and underserved regional airports, a policy known collectively as Essential Air Services (EAS). Essential Air Service is a U.S. government program enacted to guarantee that small, populated communities in the United States, which, before deregulation (~<1978), were served by certificated airlines the

The subsidization obligation is not exactly of a penny-ante game amount, approaching a little over a quarter billion (with a “B”) dollars per year in tax payer financed monies, but at least that price tag includes remote locales within the nonmainland’s Alaska and Puerto Rico. For example, and as will explored in this writing, EAS subsidizes flights to and from Jackson, TN and St. Louis and Atlanta respectively with approximately $1,884,399 in funding per year to permit Air Choice One’s service be provided.

Since the Essential Air Service (EAS) program guarantees regular commercial air service to smaller communities across the United States through the use of federal subsidies, there are terms for qualification or “eligibility”. A flight service (i.e., a regional airline route) it is deemed eligible if: • it is located more than 70 miles (112 kilometers) from the nearest large or medium hub airport; • it requires a rate of subsidy per passenger of US $200 or less unless the community is more than 210 miles (338 kilometers) from the nearest hub airport; the average rate of subsidy per passenger was less than USD1,000 during the most recent fiscal year at the end of each EAS contract, regardless of the distance from a hub airport; • it had an average of 10 or more enplanements per service day during the most recent fiscal year, unless it is more than 175 driving miles (281 kilometers) from the nearest medium or large hub airport or unless the Department of Transportation (DOT) is satisfied that any decline below 10 enplanements is temporary

(Source: “Trump seeks to cut EAS funding in FY19, revise definition” CH-Aviation.com) Regional airlines such as Air Choice One, best serving introverts, with only two rows and eight leather thrones; thus, each passenger is granted a default aisle AND window seat. Regional airlines also serve guests that fear or at last have a legitimate aversion to cattle corral style aircraft boarding.

Air Choice One is a viable alternative flight service bed-rocked on privacy and personalization available to St. Louis passengers, especially those who do not derive masochistic pleasure in being crammed like sardines into a slightly more civilized transport mechanism than being shackled to one’s seat Con-Air style or, more terrestrially, choose to spend the day on the highways and byways of the Midwest (aka, fly-over country), as astutely observed by Homer J. Simpson, “I pity those poor suckers on the freeway. gas, brake, honk. Gas, brake, honk. Honk, honk, Punch!

Gas! Gas! Gas!” Air Choice One offers premier quality service to airports the “big boys” (both legacy and discount carriers) simply do not due to economies of scale and scope. What is interesting and will hopefully be clarified in this piece is that the small towns to which regional airlines, like Air Choice One, fly possess their own respective narratives and are inherently interesting places worthy of conducting business in or simply a destination for a simple and lowcost get away. I tried (going to) Jackson, primarily because I cherish the mythology of the mid-South.

Fort Dodge, IA (Fort Dodge Regional Airport); Mason City, IA (Mason City Municipal Airport); Ironwood, MI (Gogebic-Iron County Airport).

Albeit Burlington, IA has a real chance at serving as some incarnation of a pizza “Check Point Charlie” where St. Louis Style thin and Chicago deep dish could be traded, like old soviet secrets, in a pizza, if not politically, neutral arena.

On the other hand, the HUB airports not only are tune-worthy, but are also major transportation thoroughfares including St. Louis’ Lambert International Airport, Atlanta’s Hartsfield – Jackson International Airport, Chicago’s O’Hare, and Minneapolis / St. Paul International Airport.

Thus, should business or pleasure create a demand to travel to one of the above delineated facilities, reasonable and affordable scheduled regional air service via a regional airline might be the transportation solution sought.

(Air Choice One’s Route Map; Please see www. airchoiceone.com for offered flight schedules.)

Maybe Air Choice One or other regional airlines do not offer the flight frequency, schedule flexibility, or speed of travel that the major

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Save the Western Tennessee Sound (think Rockabilly beat) soaked Jackson, TN (McKellar – Sipes Regional Airport), the locales to which Air Choice One flies are not all song-worthy cosmopolitans.

Rather, the nonHub locations are functional, tertiary or feeder markets: Jonesboro, AR (Jonesboro Municipal Airport); Burlington, IA (Southeast Iowa Regional Airport);

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from AIR CHOICE page 9 legacy or discount airlines can, or even a formalized Customer Relationship Marketing (CRM) loyalty “miles” program or credit card co-branding, but they do authentically provide a substantial increase with travel civility. A near forgotten practice of simply being polite and personable with the customer base moves patrons from a transactional to a relationship basis.

Being transported in a workhorse, fixed wing, Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft simply aids in the old adage of making “getting there half the fun”. There is nearly a visceral, retro-journey feel to flying a mere mile or two above the earth, looking down at the earth through giant picture windows, at speeds approximating a formula race car.

Taking a propeller plane is akin to riding the rails on Amtrak, not because train travel is potentially more direct or faster than driving or journeying via bus, “leaving the driving to them” and “taking the Hound,” but simply to appreciate the differentiating experience of enjoying another mode of transportation.

(Air Choice One flies primarily Cessna® 208 Caravans ® single prop planes and dual prop…and pressurized Beechcraft® 1900s) For comparison’s sake, from St. Louis, MO to Jackson, TN, under optimal conditions, driving will take four hours and five minutes to cover 270 miles; no breaks for salty snacks or fueling up included. For the average efficient vehicle, assuming no burning gasoline whilst stuck in traffic or forced onto Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass detours, petroleum expenditure for that route is estimated to be $21.10 or, if one is looking for a more depressing but realistic figure including wear and tear plus car upkeep, the federal driving reimbursement cost for said distance is ~ $150.

In contrast, flying is a one and a half hour comfortable and courteous undertaking and the ticket fare is just about double the average gasoline expense. With a pit stop for a caffeinated beverage, a bag of pork rinds – ‘cause what’s a road trip without a too-biga-bag of a concoction of sodium soaked, twice fried pig skin and lard? and possibly the purchase of a shiny “scratch off ” lottery

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after checking out the offering in the veding machines, I thought I would get spiffed up a bit by indulging in a shoe-shine adjacent to Air Choice One check in desk.

A ground crew member came to the terminal waiting area at 9:45 a.m. and announced that the flight was boarding. One other passenger and I followed the gentlemen to an elevator that put us directly on the tarmac and ready to start the experiential exploration in earnest.

Within less than 10 minutes of boarding, the pilots introduced themselves, gave the safety presentation, and began taxiing to take off a minute or two before 10:00 a.m.

No muss, no fuss…just convenient, civil and courteous boarding and take-off. This experience was in direct contrast to the fear and loathing too often experienced with other larger airlines.

In this spirit, a quick Multiple-Choice Quiz: The “C” on a Southwest Airlines Boarding Pass that reads “C55” stands for: a) “C”enter Aisle doomed b) “C”rushing of one’s person and rightticket, the price of automobile carriage might sized carry on is inevitable likely even be more than flying. c) “C”onvenient to rear olfactory offerings of Air Choice One, as noted, flies from St. nerarby Lavatory Louis Lambert Airport, (Terminal C1) to d) “C”rap! This is going to be a long flight McKellar-Sipes FBO. The Western Tennessee e) “C”heck-in steerage process is a mockery facility was purchased by the City of Jackson to the construct of equitability when one is and Madison County in 2010 and is curable to purchase preferential boarding order rently operated as an Enterprise Fund by the antithetical to the original egalitarian ideal of Jackson-Madison County Airport Authority. first come-first serve To have a primary experience, On WednesAt 25% occupancy on the route to Jackson day, September 12, 2018, I, like the Wheeler/ plane, there was plenty of room to stretch Leiber song made famous by Johnny and out and make oneself comfortable. A few June Carter Cash (and to a lesser extent amenities to which air travelers have become Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, had the accustomed such as tray tables on which to opportunity of “(Going to) Jackson”. For the write, food and / or beverage service, and 10:00 a.m. scheduled flight, I arrived at the yes, a lack of an onboard toilet are small inParking Spot garage at 8:00 a.m., took the conveniences compared to the serenity of not polka-dot shuttle van to Terminal 1 at Lamhaving to play the twisted and fixed game of bert International Airfield (STL) and checked boarding roulette. Further, the comfort of the in at the counter located amongst the legacy seats is surprisingly high, and the utilitarian airlines. No fibbing about one’s weight like on aesthetic is easily overlooked when apprecia driver’s license at check-in. Each passenger ating the form juxtaposed with its function. has to step on a scale with his or her carry-on To see the multitude of sites in Jackson, TN to help assign a seat that will provide for a during a very limited visit window of time, balanced passenger and luggage load.

I could have rented a car from the at airport Even though Air Choice One has not arHertz car rental, but using Uber proved to ranged yet for TSA Pre-Check clearance, secost about half as much as borrowing a car curity, once properly shoeless and with pants for the afternoon stay. As with all regional drooping from lack of belt, was quick. When airports, car rental price “Hurts” a lot. re-assembled, my carry-on and I proceeded While Jackson, TN is the home of the to the C1 gate around 8:45. At 9:00 a.m.,

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Rockabilly Hall of Fame, birth and resting place for ¼ of the Million Dollar Quartet, Carl Perkins, whose cause, according to the historical marker, was the prevention of child abuse and harmonica blues icon Sonny Boy Williamson, The Legends of Tennessee Music Museum, an historic downtown and even a couple of malls, the still standing Old Hickory Mall serving as the trivial pursuit worthy location of America’s first Hard Rock Café…

In January of 1983, Isaac Tigrett returned to his family hometown of Jackson,TN from his London escapades with Peter Morton, to open the second and the U.S.A.’s first Hard Rock Café as a favor to his mother who wanted one in the shopping center (i.e.., the Hickory Mall) she was developing, the big man in town is clearly Casey Jones and the iconic tourist venue is the Casey Jones Plaza, replete with a community garden, chapel, museum, and tasty victuals served buffet or café style at Brooks Shaw’s Old Country Store Local lore is that the Cracker Barrel chain of a hybrid retail / “eatery” is based on this 1950s purveyor of no non-sense Southern style comfort food, inclusive of offerings of Jell-O-mold with embedded fruit slabs and Johnny cakes amply stacked on the buffet.

The museum is actually surprisingly engaging and offers a solid examination of all facets of Casey Jones and train travel in general history, mixing in a little Civil War narrative for good measure. The oddity about the whole Casey Jones village is not Casey’s preserved pocket watch (on loan from the oldest living male heir) or horse drawn hearse from Conductor Jones’ funeral procession, nor, as suggested in 1971, the fact that Casey should have been watching his speed and the role that going too fast for conditions partially causing the fatal accident is simply ignored, but the bizarre presence of eight (8) count’em Tesla charging stations in the parking lot of this tourist center.

After starting off my deep-tourism state with having my fill of fried chicken and catfish, a little browsing in the village, and no purchases made from the country store except a chocolate phosphate from the oldfashioned soda fountain, because…why not?

It was time to return to catch the returning flight to St. Louis. About three hours later, another friendly Uber driver returned me to the airport about 10 minutes away from near the center of town.

At the check-in desk is the extra hospitable Executive Director of the McKellar – Sipes Regional Airport, Mr. Steve Smith, C.M. Mr. Smith is chatting with Tay McDaniel, the Air Choice One Jackson Station Manager. Both individuals ensured that my experience in Jackson, TN was top-notch.

The return flight from Jackson was even less onerous in terms of security, similar to when one travels private, and the gate agents walked the two other passengers and I onto the tarmac for an efficient boarding and departure process. The same pilots with whom I started the day had returned from Atlanta and post pre-flight formalities, safely ferried the three of us back to St. Louis, arriving exactly on time with a genuine thank you from the crew and passengers both. In summary, I cannot recommend highly enough utilizing the transportation service of a regional airline such as Air Choice One as a travel alternative.

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PUBLIC NOISE unadorned performances, to enveloping 5.1 surround sound mixes, and a Quadrasonic Album Mix, presenting the original four speaker mix remastered in Quadrasonic sound for the first time in nearly fifty years. This ultimate deep listening experience, which features scores of previously unheard demos, rare outtakes and isolated track elements, also includes The Evolution Documentary, a unique track-by-track audio montage that details the journey of each song from demo to master recording via instructions, rehearsals, recordings, multitrack exploration and studio chatter. The comprehensive nature of the full Imagine – The Ultimate Collection is the absolute best representation of a career artist working at the top of his creative game.

JOHN LENNON’S IMAGINE: THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION LOS ANGELES, PRNewswire/ -- On October 5, Geffen/UMe celebrated the apex of John Lennon’s solo career with a six-disc box set, Imagine – The Ultimate Collection. This historical, remixed and remastered 140-track collection is fully authorized by Yoko Ono Lennon, who oversaw the production and creative direction.

Spread across four CDs and two Blu-ray discs,

this truly unique expanded edition offers a variety of listening experiences that are at once immersive and intimate, ranging from the brand new Ultimate Mixes of the iconic album, which reveal whole new levels of sonic depth, definition and clarity to these timeless songs, to the Raw Studio Mixes that allow listeners to hear Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band’s original,

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John Lennon’s iconic ‘Imagine’ album celebrated with six-disc ‘Ultimate Collection” box set on October 5. Comprehensive set features new remastered ‘Ultimate’ stereo mix, ‘Raw Studio Mixes,’ unreleased outtakes, extended versions and 5.1 surround sound for the ultimate deep listening experience.

This comprehensive set features new remastered ‘Ultimate’ stereo mix, ‘Raw Studio Mixes,’ unreleased outtakes, extended versions and 5.1 surround sound for the ultimate deep listening experience.

Imagine was also released in concurrent multiple physical and digital configurations, including as a 2CD Deluxe Edition, 1CD remaster, and 2LP 180-gram heavyweight black vinyl edition, as well as 2LP limited edition 180-gram clear vinyl. The digital Ultimate Collection will include all audio from the four CDs and the Deluxe and Standard will also have digital equivalents.

ticed all these years. “Early 2016, during the gestation period of this project, I’m in the Lenono archives with my people going through tape boxes that have labeling that’s unclear, misleading, or missing entirely,” says Stevens. “There’s a 1” 8-track that says nothing more on the Ascot Sound label than John Lennon, the date, and the engineer (Phil McDonald), with DEMO on the spine. No indication of what material was on the tape. One delicate transfer to digital later, the “Imagine” demo, subsequently enhanced superbly by Paul Hicks, appears within this comprehensive set. It was true serendipity.”

This completely never-before-heard original demo, a sparse home recording of Lennon on piano and vocal playing one of his most famous songs, globally launched Imagine – The Ultimate Collection.

Also on October 5, Eagle Vision released two films by John & Yoko, Imagine and Gimme Some Truth, on DVD, Blu-ray, and digital platforms. Both films have been hand-restored from the original film reels and remastered in HD, and their soundtracks have been remixed in surround sound by triple GRAMMY® Awardwinning engineer Paul Hicks. Both physical releases feature exclusive, never-before-seen extras including previously unheard “raw” studio mixes, and a fascinating insight into a photo shoot with David Bailey.

Imagine will also have a limited theatrical run highlighted by an exclusive, immersive Dolby Atmos mix of the music in selected theaters, with further exclusive extra material.

In 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono conWhile sifting through boxes upon boxes of the ceived and recorded the critically acclaimed original tapes, engineer Rob Stevens discovered see LENNON page 12 something truly remarkable that had gone unno-

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Delmar Hall 6133 Delmar Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63112 Phone: (314) 726-6161 Genre: Rock, Country, Folk & R&B Neighborhood: The Delmar Loop www.delmarhall.com Tues. Oct. 16 Chris Robinson Brotherhood Weds. Oct. 17 Steven Page Trio w/Wesley Stace (aka John Wesley Harding) Thurs. Oct. 18 Russian Circles w/Fotocrime Fri. Oct. 19 Seven Lions Presents: The Journey 2 Tour w/MitiS, Jason Ross

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from LENNON page 11 Imagine at their Georgian country home, Tittenhurst Park, in Berkshire, England, and in the state-of-the-art studio they built in the grounds, as well as at the Record Plant in New York. The title track’s universally appealing lyrics were inspired by Ono Lennon’s “event scores” in her 1964 book Grapefruit, and she was officially co-credited as a writer on the track in June 2017. Upon release, the album went to #1 in six countries – Australia, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, U.K. and U.S. The best-selling single of Lennon’s solo career, the titular song was famously written as a plea for world peace. It remains one of the most legendary songs of all time and has earned numerous accolades. BMI designated it one of the top 100 most-performed songs of the 20th century, the Recording Academy inducted it into the GRAMMY® Hall of Fame and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducted it into their 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. Additionally, the Guinness World Records British Hit Singles book named it the second best single of all time and Rolling Stone ranked it number three in their list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.” The song has been covered by everyone from Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Ray Charles, Madonna, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Diana Ross, Herbie Hancock and Joan Baez.

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The stereo version of the Imagine album proper and its related remixed singles and extras, such as the politically charged “Power To The People,” “God Save Us,” “Do The Oz” and the holiday classic “Happy Xmas (War Is Over),” comprise Disc 1. Both album and singles outtakes encompass Disc 2 alongside a quartet of what have been dubbed Elements Mixes, The original Imagine album has been faithfully including strings-only versions of “Imagine” and “How?” as well as the vocals-only version of remixed from the ground up by the aforementioned Paul Hicks at Abbey Road Studios under “Oh My Love” and the piano, bass, and drums instrumentation for “Jealous Guy.” The Elethe supervision of Yoko Ono Lennon. Hicks ments Mixes have been created from a few basic utilized high-definition 24-bit/96kHz audio transfers of the album’s original first-generation elements from the original multitrack recordmultitrack recordings for the task and the result ings to reveal deeper levels of detail and clarity in the sources used for the master mixes that is that the instruments and vocal now have a completely new level of clarity, especially when it were either buried or summed to mono in order to open them up and present them on a wider, comes to the surround sound mixes on Blu-ray Disc 1. As Hicks reveals in the book included in clearer, and brighter soundstage. the Ultimate Collection, “Yoko was very keen Engineer Rob Stevens helmed what are known that these Ultimate Mixes should achieve three as the Raw Studio Mixes on Disc 3. These mixes things – to be totally faithful and respectful capture the exact moment John and The Plastic to the originals, be generally sonically clearer Ono Band recorded each song raw and live on overall and should increase the clarity of John’s the soundstage located at the center of Ascot vocals. ‘It’s about John’ she said. And she was Sound Studios at John & Yoko’s home in Titright. His voice brings the biggest emotional tenhurst. The tracks are devoid of effects (reverb, impact to the album.” tape delays, etc.) and a far cry from the finished product. Highlights include the extended Additionally, Hicks remastered the original four-speaker Spector/Lennon/Ono mix of Imag- renditions of iconic Imagine tracks like “I Don’t Wanna Be A Soldier Mama I Don’t Wanna Die,” ine in Quadrasonic sound, the first time that particular quad mix has been touched since the “How Do You Sleep?” and “Oh Yoko!” On Blu Ray Disc 2, the Raw Studio mixes are presented original release. credibly personal journey through the entire songwriting and recording process – from the very first writing and demo sessions at Lennon’s home studio at Tittenhurst Park through to the final co-production with Phil Spector – providing a remarkable testament of the lives of John Lennon and Yoko Ono in their own words.

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in 5.1 surround sound for a unique enveloping listening experience that puts the listener in the center of Ascot Sound Studios with Lennon in front and the band playing all around and behind.

Meanwhile, Disc 4 presents the audio version of The Evolution Documentary, as engineered

by Sam Gannon in mono. This documentary tells the full story of each Imagine song as it goes on its own specific, individual journey from demo to master take via instructions, rehearsals, recordings, multitrack exploration, and studio chatter.

On the first Blu-ray disc, Hicks’ masterful high-resolution surround sound mix of both the Imagine album proper and its related singles takes center stage alongside the updated Quadrasonic mix, in addition to hi-res stereo mixes of the singles and outtakes.

The second Blu-ray disc is subtitled “In The Studio and Deeper Listening,” and it features both surround sound and stereo mixes of the extended album versions, outtakes, and Elements Mixes found on the CDs. It also plays home to DJ and longtime family friend Elliot Mintz’s loving 29-minute tribute to the artists, consisting of his revealing, philosophical, honest and humorous interviews with John & Yoko.

Genre: Rock, Alternative, Jam Bands, Rock Neighborhood: The Hill www.popsbluemoon.com Powell Hall 718 N Grand Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63103 Genre: Classical and Beyond Neighborhood: Grand Center www.stlsymphony.org The Ready Room 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, MO 63110 Phone: (314) 833-3929 Genre: Rock, Alt Rock, Bluegrass, Tributes Neighborhood: The Grove www.thereadyroom.com Fri. Oct. 19 Eden - Vertigo World Tour Kacy Hill Sat. Oct. 20 S.M.A.S.H. Fest w/ Tef Poe Ace&Wan, Og Rach, Rip The General, AceSo, CHE, Ju, Bodean, Indiana Rome, The Knuckles, TDubbO, UFC Welterweight Champion Tyron Woodley, Representative Bruce Frank Jr Red Fish, Blue Fish 7 Hawks Nest Plaza, St Charles, MO 63303 Phone (636) 947-4747 Genre: Rock, Hard Rock, Indie Neighborhood: St. Charles www.facebook.com/redfishbar Fri. Oct. 19 Bongo Ninja Farmer Schlafly Tap Room 2100 Locust St, St. Louis, MO 63103 Phone: (314) 241-2337 Genre: Rock, Alt Rock, Folk, Hip Hop Neighborhood: Downtown www.schlafly.com/tap-room Schlafly Bottleworks 7260 Southwest Ave, St. Louis, MO 63143

Meanwhile, both the Imagine and Gimme Some Truth video releases coming from Eagle Vision have been frame-matched to the original negatives, with every frame hand-cleaned and restored, and the respective soundtracks remixed and remastered in 5.1 surround sound.

The Imagine film is a cinematic collage of color, sound, dream, and reality. Produced and directed in 1971 by John & Yoko, who — along with numerous guest stars, including George Harrison, Fred Astaire, Andy Warhol, Dick Cavett, Jack Palance, and Jonas Mekas — all create a world of imagination as rich and moving as the music that accompanies it.

Shooting began during the summer of 1971 at John & Yoko’s Tittenhurst home in Ascot, England, as they began recording sessions for the Imagine album. Shooting continued across the pond in New York where the album was completed at the Record Plant, with Phil Spector co-producing.

The Imagine film is widely regarded as one of the first “video albums,” since it features a different visual treatment for every song on the record. The limited theatrical release of Imagine benefits from a spectacular new and wholly immersive Dolby

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SWITCH UP YOUR GAME DAY MENU (Family Features) Burgers and dogs may be typical game day grub, but a lineup that never changes can get tiresome a few weeks into the season. Infuse new energy and homemade favorites into your game day menu so you can enjoy great games and good eats for a winning combination.

Explore new flavors. Add variety by building your meal around a different main dish, like ribs or pulled pork instead of burgers.

Or invite guests to get in on the action and offer a DIY pizza or taco bar with a wide range of toppings for the ultimate custom plate. Then adapt your side dishes to fit the theme, like adding a barbecue spice seasoning to your party mix, for example, or offering a chipotle-style dip for veggies and chips.

Add an unexpected twist. If you prefer a more traditional menu, there’s no reason to abandon all your favorite game day fare.

Instead, reimagine a popular dish with a special or unexpected ingredient. For example, this recipe features a homemade pizza topped with creamy ranch dressing. An option like Litehouse Homestyle Ranch has no artificial colors, flavors or preservatives, no high fructose corn syrup and is gluten free. The dressing is a versatile addition to your game day spread since you can use it to top off everything from pizza and fries to tacos, burgers and more. For easy serving, look for the 20-ounce squeeze bottle, or opt for a glass jar or dip tub, whichever your recipe requires.

Don’t forget dessert. A good game requires lots of savory, hearty foods, but by the fourth quarter, you’re likely to start craving sweet victory and a sweet treat to go along with the win. Easy individual desserts are a great bet, that way you can grab a quick bite

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Heat oven to 425 F. Prepare dough by pressing it onto a pizza pan or pizza stone. Spread pizza sauce over crust and top with pepperoni, sausage, ham or Canadian bacon, black olives, mushrooms and peppers, if desired. Sprinkle cheese evenly over top of pizza. Bake 20-30 minutes.

Top with ranch dressing before serving.

Note: Toppings can be substituted as desired.

from LENNON page 13 Atmos mix, along with cinema-exclusive, never-before-seen extras from the recording of the album.

Gimme Some Truth is the groundbreaking, GRAMMY® Award-winning film that chronicles the creative process of how the Imagine album came into being, in turn providing a glimpse into Lennon’s creative genius and including many striking, special moments between John & Yoko. The progress of the making of the songs featured on the album is followed through from their inception to the final recording process in Gimme Some Truth, with the film serving as a stunning, fly-on-the-wall document of how one of the most iconic and important albums of the rock era came into being.

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and get back to the screen before you miss any action. Think along the lines of finger foods like marshmallow cereal bars, brownies and cookies to offer a little something for everyone.

Finally, Thames & Hudson (UK) and Grand Central Publishing (US) are set to publish Imagine John Yoko by John Lennon & Yoko Ono on what would have been Lennon’s 78th birthday, on October 9. Personally compiled and curated by Yoko Ono Lennon and packed with exclusive, previ-

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ously unpublished material, Imagine John Yoko is the definitive inside story — told in revelatory detail — of the making of the legendary album and all that surrounded it: the locations, the creative team, the artworks, and the films, in the words of John & Yoko and the people who were there.

John Lennon is one of the world’s most celebrated songwriters and performers of all time. Lennon has been posthumously honored with a Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY® Award and two special BRIT Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Music, and he has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2008, Rolling Stone ranked Lennon in the Top 5 of the magazine’s “100 Greatest Singers Of All Time” list. With a message as universal and pertinent today as it was when the album was created, Imagine secures John & Yoko’s collective place in cultural history.

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Stuck PG-13 90 min Drama | Musical An original pop musical film about six strangers who get stuck on a New York City subway together and change each others lives in unexpected ways.

Director: Michael Berry Stars: Giancarlo Esposito, Amy Madigan, Ashanti, Arden Cho

THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS

OCTOBER 19 Halloween PUBLIC NEWS PICK R 106 min Horror | Thriller Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

Director: David Gordon Green Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney

Can You Ever Forgive Me? R 106 min Biography | Comedy | Drama When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception. An adaptation of the memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer Lee Israel.

Director: Marielle Heller Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone

Mid90s 84 min Comedy | Drama In 1990s Los Angeles, 13-year-old Stevie spends his summer navigating between a troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.

Director: Jonah Hill Stars: Sunny Suljic, Lucas Hedges, Na-kel Smith, Olan Prenatt

What They Had R 101 min Drama Bridget (Hilary Swank) returns home at her brother’s (Michael Shannon) urging to deal with her ailing mother (Blythe Danner) and her

father’s (Robert Forster) reluctance to let go of their life together.

Director: Elizabeth Chomko Stars: Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, Robert Forster, Blythe Danner

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Suspiria R 152 min Fantasy | Horror | Mystery A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.

Director: Luca Guadagnino Stars: Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Doris Hick, Malgorzata Bela

Johnny English Strikes Again PG 88 min Action | Adventure | Comedy After a cyber-attack reveals the identity of all of the active undercover agents in Britain, Johnny English is forced to come out of retirement to find the mastermind hacker.

Director: David Kerr Stars: Olga Kurylenko, Rowan Atkinson, Emma Thompson, Charles Dance

Hunter Killer R 121 min Action | Thriller An untested American submarine captain teams with U.S. Navy Seals to rescue the Russian president, who has been kidnapped by a rogue general.

Director: Donovan Marsh Stars: Ethan Baird, Jacob Scipio, Dempsey Bovell, Corey Johnson

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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms PG 99 min Adventure | Family | Fantasy Young Clara needs a magical, one-of-a-kind key to unlock a box that contains a priceless gift. A golden thread leads her to the coveted key, but it soon disappears into a strange and mysterious parallel world. In that world, she meets a soldier named Phillip, a group of mice and the regents who preside over three realms. Clara and Phillip must now enter a fourth realm to retrieve the key and restore harmony to the unstable land.

Directors: Lasse Hallström | Joe Johnston Stars: Mackenzie Foy, Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman

Bohemian Rhapsody PUBLIC NEWS PICK PG-13 134 min Biography | Drama | Music A chronicle of the years leading up to Queen’s legendary appearance at the Live Aid (1985) concert.

Director: Bryan Singer Stars: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Joseph Mazzello, Mike Myers

Nobody’s Fool R Comedy | Drama A woman is released from prison and reunites with her sister. She soon discovers that her sister is in an online relationship with a man who may not be what he seems.

Director: Tyler Perry Stars: Tiffany Haddish, Missi Pyle, Courtney Henggeler, Whoopi Goldberg

Boy Erased R 114 min Biography | Drama The son of a Baptist preacher is forced to participate in a church-supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents.

Director: Joel Edgerton Stars: Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Joel Edgerton, Russell Crowe

SOMEWHAT SHY GUY WITHOUT A CLUE You: Hanging out with three other girls on a Friday night at Sauce By The Side in The Grove. You had blonde hair, a cute red top and nice jeans.

Me: I was the obnoxious one with another guy trying to hit on all you gals at your table, but you really caught my eye. I have dark brown hair, but no facial hair. I was wearing rough blue jeans and a v-neck tee-shirt. I’m probably am out of your league, but I figured what the heck?

Situation: I went to hit the john and when I came back to my table, you and your friends were gone.

In our flirting you mentioned being a huge Sting fan and that you were in your Junior year at Washington University studying medicine. I never got your name.

It sucks to be me right now. I really hope to catch you there again on another Friday night. My name is Randy.

DEAR RANDY I’m not the girl you are looking for. I was one of the friends. You are correct, you are out of all of our leagues. Leave us alone.

MAN LOOKING FOR LADY COMPANION It seems like most people have paired up for the year except for me. I’m older (45) male, still strong, married once, good job, nice car. I like hiking, fishing and auto facing. I am a moderate St. Louis Cardinals fan and a huge Blues fan. Not very religious but I am getting tired of on-line dating, too many scammers.

I am looking for a female (35-45), no kids (I don’t have any either), a non-smoker, no drama, low maintenance and confidant. I’m not too shallow but please be height/weight proportionate. I thought I would give this a try and see what happens. Respond to M-PN001.

MAN SEEKING FUN WOMAN I’m going to try this old school personals thing.

I am a recently divorced man (37 y.o.) with two teenage boys that I have 50% of the time. I live in West County but travel downtown frequently for business.

Looking for a woman near my age for dating and general hanging out. I like wineries and live music.

On weekends that I do not have my kids, you can find me hanging out on the Delmar Loop. Respond to M-PN002.

MAN LOOKING FOR SPIDERWOMAN Hi. I’m looking for a female that is very active and has time for a guy like me. I’m kinda nerdy in a Big Bang Theory sort of way looking for my female nerdy equivalent. You must know who Dr. Stephen Hawking was and who Dr. Sheldon Cooper is. Anything other than that would be icing on the proverbial comic book store cake. I’m in my twenties and never married! Surprised? Respond to M-PN003.

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