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cedarhurst.org; 618-2421236 The University School exhibit: University Museum, SIU; coincides with a reunion of graduates of the model high school that was part of campus from 1874 to 1971; now through July 26; www.museum.siu.edu; 618-453-5388 100th Anniversary of University Housing: University Museum, SIU; celebrates residential life on campus; now through July 26; www.museum.siu.edu; 618-453-5388 The L. Brent Kington Memorial Exhibit: University Museum, SIU; honors the late metalsmith and professor of art, L. Brent Kington; now through July 26; www. museum.siu.edu; 618-4535388 Joan Skiver-Levy: Exhibition of Mixed Medium Pastiche Collages, Crossroads Coffee Company, Carterville; through July: www.joan skiverlevy.com: 618-9851080 North Window Artist: Linda Martin, paintings, The Little Egypt Arts Association Arts Centre, downtown Marion; hours, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday and Tuesday; through July; 618-559-7379 The Old Tool Shed: Variety of vintage tools, Union County Museum, South Appleknocker St.; includes
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Strictly Digital photo contest on tap ANNA — The Anna Arts Center is sponsoring an open competition and exhibit of strictly digital photography during the month of August at the Arts Center, 117 W. Davie St. All entries must be suitably framed, matted and glazed and must be hand delivered. Up to four entries are allowed in five different categories. Entrants are responsible for the insurance of their work during the exhibition. An entry fee of $20 will be charged for up to three entries and a fourth entry will be allowed for an additional $5. A $200 Best Of Show will be awarded and five $50 category awards will be given. At the discretion of the juror, up to five merit awards of $20 will also be presented. All decisions of the juror are final. Only digital photography will be accepted into the exhibit. Entrants of all ages, experience and skill levels are encouraged to participate. Juror for the event is Maureen Geraghty, a graduate of SIU Carbondale with a degree in photography and a minor in photojournalism. She also studied photography at the Burren College of Art in County Clare, Ireland. A prospectus with further details, deadlines and registration card is available from Lee Hackney, arts center director. Contact him at vabchlee@gmail.com or by calling 904-6251109. — The Southern
What’s Hatching in Union County? A contest Performing Arts Center in Anna ANNA — The public is invited to create a piece of art in celebration of all birds that cluck, scratch and crow in preparation for the Union County Fair, which will be Aug. 16-24 at the fairgrounds. “What’s Hatching in Union County” was organized by the Anna Arts Center. Artists are asked to submit a piece of work that captures a chicken or rooster or chick. The contest may be entered as an individual/ group or as a business. Individuals and groups may enter their poultry art for competition and exhibition at the Anna Arts Center. The entries will be divided into two categories: 2-D, any media; or 3-D, any media. Three age groups can enter: Students age 4-11, students 12-18, and adults. Entries should be delivered to Anna Arts
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Center, 125 W. Davie St. between 4 and 6 p.m. July 29-31. Fee is $3 per entry. Prizes and ribbons will be awarded. Businesses are also encouraged to enter the competition for first, second and third place ribbons for each town. The entry fee is $5. Judges will judge the businesses’ “What’s Hatching in Town” exhibits between 4 and 6 p.m. on these days and locations: July 29, Ware and Wolf Lake; July 30, Alto Pass and Cobden;
Aug. 1, Anna and Jonesboro; and Aug. 2, Dongola and Makanda. The opening reception for the exhibition will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4 in the Anna Arts Center. The exhibition will be open from 9 a.m. to noon, Monday through Thursday, Aug. 1 to Aug. 24. For more information or to enter the competition, call 904-625-1109 or email vabchlee@ gmail.com. —The Southern
ANNA — Amy R. “Miss Birdie” Kirkpatrick created this month’s featured painting at the Performing Arts Center in Anna. She painted the art Aug. 7, 1912. The painting is from the collection of Phillip Egelston and will be on display from 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Friday at the Arts Center, 117 W. Davie St. The painting is a gouache landscape of trees and a stream with hills painted in the middle distance. It is executed in her typical style of American Impressionism. Amy Kirkpatrick was born March 14, 1862, to Cornwall and Amy Vance Kirkpatrick. Cornwall Kirkpatrick settled in Anna in 1859. Amy’s father and his brother, Wallace, were founders and owners of Anna pottery.
Miss Kirkpatrick taught at Union Academy in Anna where an art room was built especially for her when Benton Hall was constructed. One of her portraits is a painting of Robert Stinson, for whom the Anna Library is named. Amy studied art at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts from 1882 to 1883. From 1886 to 1888, she taught art at the Toledo Ohio Academy of Fine Arts. Her work was exhibited at the Vincennes Gallery of Fine Arts in Chicago. She also exhibited at the New Orleans World’s Exhibition in 1885, where she was awarded an honorable mention. In 1886, her art was displayed at the Ohio State Fair. Amy Kirkpatrick died in Anna in 1935. — The Southern
Carbondale Rocks Revival T-shirt design deadline July 15 CARBONDALE — An art competition for the Carbondale Rocks Revival T-shirt design is now underway. Submissions are due by July 15 and the winner will be announced on Facebook July 19. The winner receives: two all-access passes to the Carbondale Rocks Revival; two pit tickets to the Sept 7 Woodbox Gang concert; Carbondale Music Coalition membership, CMC T-shirt and hooded sweatshirt and a Carbondale Rocks Revival T-shirt with the winning design. The Carbondale Rocks Revival is a three-day festival from Sept. 5-7 featuring several bands in
various locations throughout the community. An all-access pass to the festival, excluding the Woodbox Gang, will be offered for $20 to the concerts. For more information on the concerts or to
purchase tickets, go to www.brownpapertickets.c om/event/415130. For T-shirt contest details, email the Carbondale Music Coalition at carbondalemusiccoalition @gmail.com. — Brenda Kirkpatrick
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Theater/Performance Anne of Green Gables: Thursday-Sunday, July 11-14, Varsity Center for the Arts, 418 S. Illinois Ave., Carbondale; presented by The Jackson County Stage Company; times, 7 p.m. Thursday-Friday, July 11-12; 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, July 13 and 2 p.m. Sunday, July 14; adults, $10; children, $5; 618-549-5466; www.stage company.org Pinocchio: 4:30 and 7 p.m. Friday, July 12, The Carson Center, Paducah; presented by the Missoula Children’s Theatre; $6; 270-450-4444; www.thecarsoncenter.org Annie: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, July 12 and 19 and Saturdays, July 13 and 20 and 2 p.m.
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Falcon Productions presents ‘Annie Jr.’ HARRISBURG — Junior Falcon Productions will present “Annie Jr.” in the George T. Dennis Visual & Performing Arts Center at Southeastern Illinois College July 19-21. The play will be shown at 7 p.m. FridaySaturday, July 19-20 with 2 p.m. matinees Saturday-Sunday, July 20-21. The production features everyone’s favorite orphan with an
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all-local cast of children ages 5 to high school. Tickets are $5 for children and seniors and $8 general admission at the door. Tickets are on sale one hour before each show and doors open 30 minutes before show time with first-come seating. The college is at 3575 College Road. For more information, call 618-252-5400.
TNA Wrestling Live professional wrestling; 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 20; Show Me Center, Cape Girardeau; tickets are $15 to $65 and can be purchased at www.show mecenter.biz or by calling 573-651-5000
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Joseph Park may have a bit of an identity crisis. Park, a relatively new character on TNA Wrestling’s Impact Wrestling television program, came to the company a lawyer looking for his brother, the demented and crazed wrestler known as Abyss. As Park continued to visit the show, he became more and more involved,
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CENTRALIA — Chaos Pro Wrestling will hit the road Saturday, July 13, for a special fundraising event in Centralia. The Metropolis-based company presents “Road Trip,” a benefit for the Children’s Miracle Network, at 7 p.m. at Central City School, 129 N. Douglas St. Tickets at the door are $12 for general admission and $15 for ringside. Discounts are available for pre-orders at www.chaosprowrestling.c om. Fans throughout Southern Illinois can join in the road trip by caravanning with CPW wrestlers, staff and fans. The caravan begins in Murray, Ky., and features stops in Metropolis and Marion. Fans participating in the caravan will receive $10 admission for the carload of fans, as well as access to a special preshow meet-and-greet. For more information about the caravan, visit CPW’s website. The show will feature internationally renowned independent wrestlers Chuck Taylor, Ophidian and Jake Dirden, as well as local favorites Bull Bronson, Heath Hatton, Chic Canyon and others. In the main event, Mikey McFinnegan defends the Infinit1 Championship against Zakk Sawyers. All proceeds from ticket sales benefit the Children’s Miracle Network. — Adam Testa
Dancing with Our Stars will be July 27 at Mount Vernon hotel MOUNT VERNON — Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois is hosting its fifth annual Dancing with Our Stars fundraiser July 27 at Krieger’s Convention Center at the Holiday Inn in Mount Vernon. Today is the last day to purchase tickets. The agenda for the event consists of a cocktail hour and silent auction beginning at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m. and the celebrity star dance competition at 7:30 p.m. After the stars take to the floor, guests can dance until midnight to the sounds of DJ Fred Klapetzky. Tickets for the DWOS event are $45, which includes dinner and an evening of dancing. Table
sponsorships are available for $500 and include a table for 10 attendees. Teams will compete by earning the top spot in a two-part scoring system. The judges’ scores provide the first element. The second element adds a dash of audience participation. All proceeds will be used to provide financial assistance to at-risk girls, maintain and improve camps and develop Girl Scout leadership programs for nearly 14,000 girls throughout Southern Illinois. For ticket information, email dancing@ gsofsi.org or call Tricia Higgins at 618-242-5079 or 800-345-6858. — The Southern
Family History Conference coming soon CARTERVILLE — In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Genealogy Society of Southern Illinois, the group is planning a Family History Conference on Aug. 10 with national speaker Thomas W. Jones at John A. Logan College. Jones is a certified genealogist and genealogical lecturer. A total of four sessions are planned including: Finding “Unfindable” Ancestors; Going Beyond the Bare Bones: Reconstructing Your Ancestors’ Lives; How to Avoid Being Duped by the Internet and Missing Something? Getting the Most out of Genealogical Evidence. The conference will help beginners start their family research. It will
also help researchers get around brick walls, provide some fresh ideas and give tips to stay organized. The conference offers ideas for beginning, intermediate or advanced researchers. Registration is $40 for GSSI members, $50 for non-members. Those who register by July 25 receive tickets to the GSSI 40th anniversary luncheon. Registrations received after July 25 will not include lunch. Early registration is recommended. To registration or for additional information visit http://www.roots web.ancestry.com/~ilgssi/ or contact Diane Anderson at DLA62@yahoo.com or 618-426-3606. — The Southern
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Historical society to host antique tractor show MOUNT VERNON — An antique tractor show will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 13, on the grounds of Jefferson County Historical Village, 1411 N. 27th St. Jefferson County Historical Society and Jefferson County Antique Iron are presenting the show. Admission is free but donations are appreciated. Refreshments will be available for purchase. For more information, call the historical society at 618-2460033. — The Southern
Barbecue, fish fry to benefit No. 8 Cemetery JOHNSTON CITY — A barbecue and fish fry supper will be Saturday, July 13, at No. 8 Cemetery, about seven miles east of Johnston City on Lighthouse Road off Corinth Blacktop. Serving for the supper will begin at 5 p.m. Food available includes barbecue, fish, ice cream, cakes, pies and soft drinks. Country and gospel music by The Brothers will be featured. All proceeds and donations will be used for the upkeep of the cemetery and grounds. For more information, call 618-983-8694.
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VonJakobville Festival features The Boat Drunks ALTO PASS— The Boat Drunks, a Jimmy Buffett tribute band, will perform from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday, July 13 at Von Jakob Winery & Brewery, 230 Illinois 127 during the VonJakobville Festival. The 7th summer VonJakobville Festival features The Boat Drunks, who play a “tangy tropical rock” style of music. The band will perform some of Jimmy Buffett’s greatest
hits, as well as many of their original songs. Doors open at 10 a.m. Saturday with food available at noon. The festival will feature an island-style party with grass skirts and leis. Entry fee is $13 in advance or $16 at the door. To purchase tickets in advance, go to www.von jakobvineyard.com or call 618-893-4600. — Brenda Kirkpatrick
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Performances, workshops at The Old Feed Store COBDEN — Chris Jones and The Night Drivers will present two days of concerts, live CD recording and workshops Friday and Saturday, July 12 and 13 at The Old Feed Store, 111 N. Appleknocker St. Chris Jones & the Night Drivers will present the Live CD Recording Concert at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The Night Drivers feature Mark Stoffel on mandolin, Sirus Radio host Ned Luberecki on banjo and bassist and award-winning songwriter John Weisberger.
Workshops will start at 2 p.m. Saturday and include guitar with Chris Jones, mandolin with Mark Stoffel, banjo with Ned Luberecki and songwriting with Jon Weisberger. The Bankesters will perform at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. General admission for the Friday concert is $15. Total cost for both concerts and the workshops is $50. For tickets or more information, go to www.theoldfeedstore.co m or call 618-525-2531. — Brenda Kirkpatrick
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Bramblett’s career path brings him to Cobden COUNTRY SCENE Vince Hoffard
Randall Bramblett 7 p.m. tonight, July 11, The Old Feed Store, Cobden; $20; doors open 6:30 p.m.; a BYOB venue, with snacks and refreshments available for purchase. andall Bramblett makes a positive impression everywhere he goes. He has been called “the William Faulkner of Southern music” and “one of Georgia’s musical treasures.” Chuck Leavell, longtime keyboardist for the Allman Brothers and Rolling Stones, said Bramblett is “the most gifted and talented Southern singersongwriter-musician of the past several decades.” A powerhouse session musician on keyboards and saxophones, Bramblett has spent long periods of his career working with Sea Level, Traffic, Gov’t Mule, Widespread Panic, Elvin Bishop, Steve Winwood and, most recently, Bonnie Raitt. The Georgia native started his career in the 1970s as a solo artist, then put his promising individual aspirations on hold for many years as he became an in-demand session player and a highly sought after road musican. Bramblett rekindled his solo career with the May 14 release “The Bright Spots,” an album on the New West label. “The songs are basically about life. I was trying to
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Singer-songwriter-musician Randall Bramblett will perform tonight at The Old Feed Store in Cobden.
capture as many emotions as I could,” he said during a telephone interview Monday, as he was driving home from a recording session in Athens, Ga. “Everything on the album is pretty new material, things I’ve written in the past couple years.” Bramblett and his fourpiece band will be in concert at 7 p.m. tonight at The Old Feed Store in Cobden. Tickets are $20. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. This is a BYOB venue, with snacks and refreshments available for purchase. He entered the studio for the new album with 20 original songs in hand and painstakingly went through a lengthy process to reduce the content to the best 12. “As you start recording, you get a feel for where the record is going, and it starts to have a life of its own,” he said. “The
recording process for ‘The Bright Spots’ felt good and came together pretty quickly, compared to other albums that I have recorded.” Having lived through the era of vinal, cassettes and compact discs, Bramblett says today’s social media gives artists instant accessibility to a broad audience. The response for “The Bright Spots” has been very encouraging as it climbed to No. 4 on Roots Music chart and peaked at No. 9 on Americana. Bramblett says songs from the album have been placed in regular rotation on satellite radio. “I came back to my roots with this album,” he says. “It is funky and danceable. In almost every song there is a little darkness and a little humor.” Five of the songs were recorded in Nashville, while the other seven were
recorded in Athens, his official residence for nearly 40 years. While the options of purchasing music have changed through the years, the method of promoting it is still the same. Bramblett says visiting radio stations for live performances is just a part of the job. “We always enjoy visiting the radio stations, meeting new people and playing their local festivals. We want to get on their radar anyway we can,” he says. Born in 1948, Bramblett attended the University of North Carolina with plans to enter the seminary. However, his career path was forever altered after discovering the creamy vocals and socially poignant lyrics of James Taylor, Carole King and Bob Dylan. His wide range of influences touches all genres of music, including folk, gospel, blues, soul and pop. Bramblett and Raitt have a long history. She recorded his tune “God Was in the Water” in 2005. After touring as the opening act for Raitt last year, Bramblett wrote a song for her Grammy Award winning album “Slipstream.” While he is best known for his world-class work on keyboard and sax, Bramblett is also proficient on guitar, mandolin and harmonica. From 1975-2013, he released 11 albums. His first two were for Polydor. In 1998, he released “See Through Me” on the legendary Capricorn label. VINCE HOFFARD can be
reached at 618-658-9095 or vincehoffard@ yahoo.com.
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Jam band Widespread Panic comes to SIU on Oct. 1
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CARBONDALE —Tickets are now on sale for jam band, Widespread Panic, set to perform at 7 p.m. Oct. 1 in the SIU Arena. The group, from Athens, Ga., has been compared to Southern rock group, The Allman Brothers and road groups, the Grateful Dead and Phish. Widespread Panic has pointed to career influences ranging from Southern rock, blues-rock, progressive rock, funk and hard rock genre. The band has been praised for its live performances and sometimes jams for 20 minutes on one song to the delight of the crowd. The current lineup of Widespread Panic consists of: John Bell, guitars, vocals; John “JoJo” Hermann, keyboards, vocals; Jimmy Herring, guitars; Todd Nance, drums, vocals;
Domingo S. Ortiz, percussion, vocals and Dave Schools, bass, vocals. The band’s 11th studio album, “On Dirty Side Down” is described on their web page as “something of an emotional travelogue, its ebb and flow evident in every aspect of the instrumental interplay — skittering rhythms, fanciful guitar flights and low-slung melodies alike — as well as the pensivebut-not-ponderous lyrical tone.” “Quite a few of these songs had been around for a while, like ‘St. Louis’ and ‘Visiting Day,’” says Bell. “But a lot of them, people might not recognize from the live sets because they’ve changed a lot — some of them with different tempos, some with different chord structures. That’s the beauty of working with these guys, there’s never a sense of ‘that
song is my baby, you can’t mess with it.’” When they are not busy touring, Widespread Panic members devote time to many sociallydriven efforts such the band’s efforts in rebuilding homes in New Orleans’ post-Hurricane Katrina. “We’ve always considered the camaraderie of the band to be as important as anything else, more important, actually,” says Nance. “There are bands where guys only see each other when they’re on tour and then maybe even only when they’re at the shows. This band isn’t like that. It really is like a family and I think that comes through in the music. I hope so.” Tickets for the Widespread Panic concert at SIU range from $30 to $40 and may be purchased by calling 618-453-2000 or visit siusalukis.com. — Brenda Kirkpatrick
Sunset Concert back on at Carbondale’s Turley Park CARBONDALE — The Sunset Concert Series continues its 35th year in Carbondale tonight with a performance by The Kopecky Family Band, an indie-rock band. Free concerts have been on tap every Thursday in June and July, with the exception of Independence Day. Venues alternate between the steps of Shryock Auditorium on the SIU Carbondale campus and Turley Park on Carbondale’s west side. SIU’s Student Center and Student Programming Council along with the city of Carbondale and the Carbondale Park District sponsor the concerts. The events are family friendly. Attendees are encouraged to bring blankets and lawn chairs. There are two concerts
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remaining: Tonight’s performance at Turley Park by Kopecky Family Band and a performance July 25 by Ark Band, bringing reggae to the steps of Shryock on SIU. Each performance begins at 7 p.m. and lasts about two hours. Rules prohibit glass bottles, kegs, pets and solicitation. There will be strict enforcement of
underage drinking laws. Regulations permit responsible use of alcohol within designated areas, but only from 6 p.m. until the end of each show. For more information, contact the Student Programming Council at 618-536-3393 or go online at www.studentcenter. siu.edu. — The Southern
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z MOVIES z ART z WINERIES z BOOKS z MUSIC z Bars & Clubs THURSDAY Benton: J Dee’s Connection, Bobby Orr and the Crossroads Band, 6:309:30 p.m. Carbondale: Hangar 9, The Whistle Pigs, 10 p.m. PK’s, Jenny Johnson and The Fowers of Evil Tres Hombres, The Blarney Stoners, 10 p.m. Marion: Williamson County Fairground Hanna Building, Big Lake Country Band, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Thompsonville: Lion’s Club, The Swing N’ Country Dance Band, 7-9:30 p.m. FRIDAY Carbondale: Hangar 9, Swedish Cowboys on Acid, 10 p.m. Tres Hombres, Jenny Johnson, 5-8 p.m., patio; Nasty Nate, 10 p.m. Ina: Ina Community Building, Friday Night Jam Band, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Marion: Youth Center, Craig’s Country Band, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Orient: Just Elsie’s, The Peaces, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Thompsonville: Old Country Store Dance Barn, Jeanita Spillman & The Sentimental Country Band, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Whittington: The Zone Lounge, Acoustically Challenged SATURDAY Carbondale: PK’s, The Voyageurs Tres Hombres, Swamp Tigers, 10 p.m. Herrin: N-Kahootz Night Club, Metal Toyz, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Marion: Hideout Restaurant, Bob Pina, piano 5:30-9:30 p.m. American Legion, Danny and The Dreamers, 7:30 p.m. Eagles, Salty Dog, 7-10 p.m. Steeleville: American Legion, Rendition Orchestra, 8-11 p.m. Thompsonville: Old Country Store Dance Barn, Lil’ Boot & Classic Country, 7-10 p.m.
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WANT TO BE LISTED? 618-351-5089 brenda.kirkpatrick@thesouthern.com J Dee’s Connection: 215 E. Main St., Benton John Brown’s on the Square: 1000 Tower Square, Marion 618-997MONDAY 2909 Elkville: Civic Center, Jerry’s Just Elsie’s: 302 Jackson St., Jammers, 7-9 p.m. Orient, 618-932-3401 Marion: Youth Center, Craig’s Lion’s Club: South Street, Country Band, 6:30-9:30 Thompsonville 618-218p.m. 4888 Marion American Legion: Longstreet Road, Marion TUESDAY 618-997-6168 Herrin Teen Town, Country Marion Eagles: Russell and Ramrods, 7-10 p.m. Longstreet Roads, Marion Marion: Hideout Restaurant, 618-993-6300 Bob Pina, piano 5:30-8:30 Marion Youth Center: 211 E. p.m. Boulevard, Marion 618-922Thompsonville: Lion’s Club, 7853 Mike’s Band, 6:30-9:30 p.m. N-Kahootz Night Club: 115 West Frankfort: WB Ranch Barn, WB Ranch Band, 6:30- W. Cherry St., Herrin 618942-9345 9:30 p.m. Old Country Store Dance Barn: Main Street, WEDNESDAY Thompsonville 618-218Carbondale: PK’s, The 4676 Mudsills PK’s: 308 S. Illinois Ave., Carbondale 618-529-1124 FIND THEM HERE Steeleville American Legion: 20’s Hideout Restaurant: 303 S. Chester St., 2602 Wanda Drive, Marion Steeleville 618-965-3362 618-997-8325 The Zone Lounge: 14711 Corner Dance Hall: 200 Illinois 37, Whittington 618Franklin St., Whittington 629-2039 618-303-5266 Elkville: Elkville Civic Center, WB Ranch Barn: 1586 Pershing Road, West 405 S. 6th St., Elkville 618Frankfort 618-937-3718 201-1753 Hangar 9: 511 S. Illinois Ave., Williamson County Fairground Hanna Carbondale 618-549-0511 Building: Fair and Main Herrin Teen Town: 105 N. streets, Marion 618-91713th St., Herrin 618-8893651 5230 SUNDAY Marion: Eagles, Salty Dog, 69 p.m.
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Wineries FRIDAY Marty’s Band: 6-9 p.m. Rustle Hill Winery Western Swing Night: 610:30 p.m., Pheasant Hollow Winery; features Tony Booth; opened by Dennis Stroughmatt & Swing ’N’ Country Band Dave Caputo Band: 7-10 p.m. Walker’s Bluff
VonJakobville: Features Boat Drunks, 4-8 p.m. Von Jakob Winery & Brewery; doors open 10 a.m. The Natives: 5-9 p.m. Rustle Hill Winery
SUNDAY Ray Martin: 1-4 p.m. Rustle Hill Winery Concordia: 2-5 p.m. Blue Sky Vineyard Dan Barron: 2-5 p.m. SATURDAY Walker’s Bluff Concordia: 2-5 p.m. Blue Sky Larry Dillard Trio: 2-6 p.m., Vineyard Owl Creek Vineyard Dave Simmons: 2-6 p.m. Owl Tawl Paul: 3-7 p.m. The Bluffs Creek Vineyard Ivas John Blues Band: 3:30Eisenhauer Band: 3-6 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Von Jakob Winery Walker’s Bluff Fiddlerick Johnson: 7-10 p.m. & Brewery Eli Tellor: 5-8 p.m. Rustle Hill Walker’s Bluff Winery Ivas John Band: 4-8 p.m. StarView Vineyards Tracy Schubert Band: WEDNESDAY 4-8 p.m. The Bluffs Blue Afternoon: 6-8 p.m.
Rustle Hill Winery FIND THEM HERE Blue Sky Vineyard, 3150 S. Rocky Comfort Road, Makanda Honker Hill Winery, 4861 Spillway Road, Carbondale Lincoln Heritage Winery, 772 Kaolin Road, Cobden Orlandini Vineyard: 410 Thorn Lane, Makanda Owl Creek Vineyard, 2655 Water Valley Road, Cobden Pheasant Hollow Winery, 14931 Illinois 37, Whittington Rustle Hill Winery, U.S. 51, Cobden StarView Vineyards, 5100 Wing Hill Road, Cobden Von Jakob Winery & Brewery, 230 Illinois 127, Alto Pass Walker’s Bluff, 326 Vermont Road, Carterville
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‘Grown Ups 2’ The all-star comedy cast from ‘Grown Ups’ returns to theaters Friday. Lenny (Adam Sandler, right) has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises. The movie also stars (from left) Kevin James, David Spade and Chris Rock, as well as Salma Hayek, Shaquille O’Neal and Maya Rudolph. It’s rated PG-13 and opens Friday at Illinois 8 in Marion and University Place 8 in Carbondale.
Concerts Southern Illinois Randall Bramblett and The Bright Spots: Thursday, July 11, The Old Feed Store, 111 N. Appleknocker St. Cobden; doors open 6 p.m.; www.theoldfeedstore.com Sunset Concert Series: Features The Right Now, 7 p.m. Thursday, July 11, steps of Shryock Auditorium, SIU; rhythm and blues; free; no glass bottles, kegs, pets; 618-536-3393; www.student center.siu.edu; www.the rightnow.com Chris Jones and The Night Drivers: Two-day live CD recording concerts and workshops, Friday-Saturday, July 12-13, The Old Feed Store, 111 N. Appleknocker St. Cobden; special guests The Bankester; www.theold feedstore.com Jackson Junction: 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, Keyes Park, Du Quoin; free; bring lawn chairs and picnic blankets; concert goers may bring food;
concessions will be available Sunset Concert Series: Features The Kopecky Family Band, 7 p.m. Thursday, July 18, Turley Park; Indie rock, free; no glass bottles, kegs, pets; 618-536-3393; www.studentcenter.siu.edu; www.kopeckyfamilyband.com Will Rock For Food: Benefit concert, 7 p.m. Saturday, July 20, Marion Cultural and Civic Center; proceeds to the Marion Food Pantry; tickets now on sale; silent auction; bands include the Jeff Pritchett Project, The Handcuffs and The Producers; $15; www.marion ccc.com; 618-993-8419 Du Quoin State Fair concerts: Tickets now on sale for the fair grandstand entertainment; musical acts include Billy Currington, Montgomery Gentry, Kansas, Sawyer Brown, Gretchen Wilson, Uncle Kracker, Aaron Tippin, Darryl Worley, Matt Maher, Brittany Loyd, Theory
of a Deadman; fair runs from Aug. 23-Sept. 2; 618-5421535; www.duquoin statefair.net Carbondale Rocks Revival: Three-day music festival, Sept. 5-7, features several bands in various locations throughout the community; all-access pass to the festival, excluding the Woodbox Gang, $20; www.brownpaper tickets.com/event/415130 Woodbox Gang: 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, Shryock Auditorium, SIU; headlining show for the Carbondale Rocks Revival; main floor, $15; balcony, $10; 618-453-6000; www.southernticketsonline. com Widespread Panic: Tickets on sale for Tuesday, Oct. 1 concert, SIU Arena Carbondale; concert will start at 7 p.m.; buy tickets at the SIU Arena Ticket Office; $30/$35/$40; siusalukis.com or 618-4532000
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‘Pacific’ a silly rimshot, as summer movies go Pacific Rim ** ½ Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence throughout, and brief language; starring Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Ron Perlman, Charlie Day; directed by Guillermo del Toro; opening Friday at ShowPlace 8 in Carbondale and Illinois Centre 8 in Marion. BY ROGER MOORE MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS
Sheer madness. That’s what this is, this movie that Guillermo del Toro just HAD to make, and for which he abandoned “The Hobbit.” Dude wanted to make a
“Godzilla” movie. Married to a “Tranformers” picture. With a little “Starship Troopers” and “Independence Day” and “Hellboy” mixed in. It’s the future of cinema or the present: a movie cunningly calculated to lure Hollywood’s biggest growth market with just its title “Pacific Rim.” That’s where this sci-fi war is fought and that’s where the audience lies American fanboys and Asian and Australian ones, too. In the very near future, enormous alien beasts are sneaking into the ocean through a dimensional crack in the ocean floor along the Pacific’s “Ring of Fire.” The Japanese named them “kaiju,” because “Godzilla” already was taken. And after realizing battling
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these monsters is a toxic disaster, the world’s governments teamed up to build gigantic, humancontrolled robots called jaegers, after the German word for “hunter.” The pairs of rangers who drive them wear armor that lets them maneuver them one ranger controls the left side and left brain, the other the right side through a neural mind-meld process called “drifting.” In a prologue, we meet a pair of mind-melded brothers (Charlie Hunnam, Diego Klattenhoff) who drive the jaeger Gipsy Danger into harm’s way. But things go wrong and one sibling is killed. That heralds the end of this jaeger program. The world will wall off
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Charlie Hunnam and Rinko Kikuchi star in ‘Pacific Rim.’
the coast along the Pacific Rim, with the rich and powerful getting the primo interior real estate and the rest of the populace stuck building the walls and living on the coasts. Cut to years later and the jaeger program is winding
down, the wall is being completed but “our best scientists” (shrieking Charlie Day of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” daft-Brit Burn Gorman of “Game of Thrones”) don’t think the wall will work. The monsters keep coming.