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Top 20 Restaurant of the Week: Delaney’s on Broadway BY DAVID ZOELLER SPECIAL ADVERTISING COPY
GOREVILLE — Pete Delaney told friends at a high school reunion that he had his name up in lights on Broadway. Even though he grew up in Elizabeth, N.J., not far from New York City, his friends asked for more information. “They said, ‘Broadway?’ and I said, ‘Yeah, Broadway, Goreville, but it’s Broadway nonetheless,’” Delaney said. Pete, his wife, Dorothy Gail, and his daughter, Sarah, are marking five years of operating Delaney’s on Broadway, the main street that runs through this Southern Illinois community. The restaurant was called Late Bloomers when the Delaneys bought the business. They initially called their enterprise Delaney’s Late Bloomers. Then, one Saturday when Delaney was working his job as a rural mail carrier for the Murphysboro Post Office, he had an epiphany. “Our address is 213 S. Broadway,” he said. “It just came to me as an inspiration to call it Delaney’s on Broadway. I grew up right across from New York City, and I’ve always liked the theater and all. I thought it just sounded somewhat classy.” The menu at Delaney’s is down-home, comfort food. They offer two specials each day, from chicken and dumplings to meat loaf to steak, and a full line of soups, chili, salads and sandwiches. Sarah Delaney runs the day-to-day operation. Dorothy is nearing retirement and will be spending more time at the restaurant. Pete is retired
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Pete Delaney (center), owner of Delaney’s on Broadway in Goreville, chats with Don and Cindy Jarvis of Bush (left) and Wayne and Sandy Ellis of Orient.
from a maintenance position at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and still has his rural mail route. He helps greet customers and bus tables, but his main job at the restaurant is telling — and listening to — stories. “This is a great gig. I love talking to people, meeting people,” Delaney said. The Bike Trail of America comes through Goreville and attracts cyclists from all over the world. “We have people come through here from all over the U.S., Europe, Australia,” he said. Delaney’s offers riders a free dessert, takes their photo to display and keeps a journal so they can share their stories. “I tell people, especially the school children, you can come here, have a soda and you might meet someone from halfway around the world,” he said. “And, in the course of that, you might be
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DETAILS Who: Delaney’s on Broadway What: Daily specials, sandwiches, homemade soups, chili, and desserts Where: 213 Broadway St., Goreville Hours: 6 a.m. -7 p.m. Monday-Saturday during winter; 6 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Saturday during Daylight Savings Time; 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. Phone: 618-995-2602 inspired to shoot for the moon.” On a trip to Hawaii visiting relatives, Delaney met a man who used computer graphics to create military-themed art, which led him to start a veteran’s wall to display photos of local veterans that family members have brought to the restaurant.
The display receives a lot of positive feedback among the community and visitors. Delaney stresses he has nothing against chain restaurants, he just prefers a different dining experience. “If you go to a unique restaurant, you’ll always have that memory,” he said.
Learning to keep your mouth shut — the hard way hand, he felt his demands were reasonable. z In January, the Justice Department’s Inspector General released a long-anticipated report Chuck Shepherd detailing the FBI’s post-9/11 corner-cutting in obtaining individual Americans’ phone n all likelihood, convicted records. Federal law permits such murderer Paul Powell would have acquisition only with a “terrorism” been sentenced to life in prison for subpoena (“National Security his 1999 crime, but he could not Letter”) unless the FBI documents resist gratuitously ridiculing the emergency (“exigent”) prosecutor. Powell’s original circumstances to a telecom sentence of death was overturned company. The Inspector General because of a technicality in Virginia found that, from 2002-2006, the law: The “aggravated” circumstance FBI had representatives of three in a murder that warrants the death telecom companies set up in the FBI penalty must be committed against unit so that agents could request the actual murder victim (whereas phone records orally, without the prosecutor had proved only that documentation, and in some cases Powell had also raped the victim’s merely by writing the requested sister). Powell assumed that the phone numbers on Post-it Notes prohibition against “double and sticking them on the telecom jeopardy” thus ruled out the death employees’ workstations. penalty and so decided to gloat, calling the prosecutor “stupid” and Inexplicable taunting him with details of his crimes. For the first time, Powell z Police are still baffled by how admitted that he had also raped the Gregory Denny, 37, was able to murder victim. That was evidence “deport” Cherrie Belle Hibbard of a new aggravated circumstance from her home in Hemet, Calif., in (no “double jeopardy”), and the January back to her native prosecutor obtained a death Philippines. According to Hemet sentence. In January, the Supreme police, Denny, with a gun and fake Court rejected Powell’s appeal. U.S. Marshal’s badge and shirt, knocked on Hibbard’s door and convinced her that he was there to Can’t possibly be true escort her to the airport and out of z A Toronto restaurant, Mildred’s the country and that Hibbard’s Temple Kitchen, announced that its husband had to buy her the ticket. Valentine’s Day promotion this year Denny then accompanied Hibbard would not just be a romantic dinner through airport security and put her but would also include an invitation onto a flight. Upon questioning by for couples to have sex in the police later, Denny apparently restrooms. Toronto Public Health remained in character, continuing to officials appeared unconcerned, as insist that he is a marshal. Denny long as there was no sex in foodwas arrested on suspicion of preparation areas and the restrooms kidnapping, impersonating a peace were clean. officer and several other charges. z Women’s rights activists in z Buffalo, N.Y., television Uganda finally got the attention of meteorologist Mike Cejka was the Western press in December, arrested in December after a brief when London’s The Independent police chase and charged with verified the plight of Jennipher trespassing after he was spotted at Alupot, who periodically for seven 4 a.m. tinkering with the covering years had been forced to breastfeed of a motorcycle in a stranger’s yard. her husband’s hunting dogs as she Cejka told police he was on his way was nursing the couple’s own to work and had merely stopped to children. Farmer Nathan Awoloi of admire the motorcycle. Pallisa explained that his dogs needed to eat, and since he was Unclear on the concept forced to send Jennipher’s family two milk cows in order to win her z A 27-year-old man was arrested
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The continuing crisis z In February, the Board of Trustees of Saugatuck Township, Mich., scheduled a May referendum asking voters for an increase in the property tax in order to cover unanticipated new expenses. The budget overrun was from the mounting costs of defending lawsuits by people and companies complaining the township’s property taxes are too high.
Least competent criminals z Travis Copeland, 19, bolting from a courtroom in Waukegan in January, ran down a hallway and then lowered his shoulder and thrust himself at a window, intending to crash through it to freedom. Courthouse windows are bulletproof, and Copeland merely bounced off, and Copeland merely bounced off, staggered away and fell to the floor in pain z Chamil Guadarrama, 30, was arrested in Springfield, Mass., in February after a store security guard spotted him with 75 bottles of lotion stuffed down his pant legs (which were tied off at the ankles), making him look like a nearly immobile Michelin Man. Said a cop: “(We) could not fit Mr. Guadarrama into the cruiser because ... he could not bend over.” SEND ITEMS to weirdnews@
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z MOVIES z POP CULTURE z ART z MUSIC zWINERIES z THEATER z THINGS TO DO z BOOKS z Call for Art Juried exhibition: Entries sought for exhibition March 30-April 3, Surplus Gallery, Glove Factory, 432 S. Washington Ave., Carbondale; drop-off entries from noon-8 p.m. March 27 and 9 a.m.noon March 28; entry forms in School of Art and Design offices, Allyn Building.
Classes, Workshops Little Egypt Arts Centre classes: Beginning photography, drawing, art history classes, 601 Tower Square, Marion; register at 618-998-8530. Student Center Craft Shop: Variety of crafts and classes offered, SIUC; 618453-3636, www.siucstudent center.org.
Displays, Exhibits Rachel Christine Nowicki:
Variety of drawings, paintings and illustrations, Rend Lake College, Ina; 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Fridays; through March 3; 618-4375321 or 618-437-5321, ext. 1718. Quilts of the Coastal South: The National Quilt Museum, 215 Jefferson St., Paducah; 10 a.m. 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday; through April 6; 270-442-8856 or nationalquiltmuseum.org Art for Empowerment: Collection of prints by survivors of domestic violence and sexual abuse, Carbondale Civic Center Corridor Gallery; exhibit contains works by local and national women who have participated in groups that use art for healing; proceeds to The Women’s Center, Carbondale; to Saturday; www.thewomensctr.org or 618 549-4807, ext. 256.
Biki Andres Chaplain: Central Showcase at Realty Central, 1825 W. Main St., Murdale Shopping Center, Carbondale; gallery hours, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9 a.m.-noon Saturday; art inspired by nature and people in their environment; through Saturday; 618-457-4663. Teen Spirit 2010: Showcases outstanding high school art work in the region, Yeiser Art Center, 200 Broadway St., Paducah; hours, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; through Saturday; 270-442-2453 or www.theyeiser.org. Joan Skiver-Levy: 26 pieces of acrylics, watercolors and mixed-media, John A. Logan College, Carterville, B and C Wings; viewing hours, 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays; through Feb. 27; www.joanskiverlevy.com. Easter Seals Artists:
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Tribeca Restaurant & Gallery, 127 S. Second St., Paducah; through March 4; 618-4431220 or ddavenport@eswky or plumbart@bellsouth.net. Abstract Stitches: Quilts by Gary Estergard, 10 a.m.4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 1-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, University Museum, SIUC; through March 5; www. museum.siu.edu or 618-4535388. Cairo Then and Now: African Americans of Southernmost Illinois, 18621890 and Saving Shotguns: Moving Towards a Better Future, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 1-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, University Museum, SIUC; through March 5. Gifts to the Collection: The Illinois State Museum’s Southern Illinois Art Gallery, the Southern Illinois Art and Artisans Center, Whittington; includes 42 paintings and drawings from 1883 through 2006, including several from Southern Illinois artists; through March 7; open daily, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; 618-6292220. Ansel Adams: The Man Who Captured The Earth’s Beauty: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 1-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, University Museum, SIUC, Faner Hall; $5; all students free; through March 21. George Ions: Orlandini Vineyard, 410 Thorn Lane, Makanda; Italian landscapes compliment vineyard décor; through March 31; 618-995230; www.orlandinivineyard. com; george.ions@yahoo.com. Mrs. B’s Illustrations: By Andi Butler, Beck Family Center Gallery, Cedarhurst, Mount Vernon; Butler, features whimsical/retro illustrations; through April 4; www.cedarhurst.org; 618242-1236. Masters of Photography: University Museum, SIUC; highlights from the museum’s permanent collection; includes photograph of silent film siren Gloria Swanson; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday
and 1-4 p.m. SaturdaySunday; through May; free. A Warrior’s Story: Oglala Sioux Buffalo Robe, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 1-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, University Museum, SIUC. Carolyn Gassan Plochmann display: Work and life of Carbondale artist, Morris Library, SIUC; view the display in the cases outside the Hall of Presidents on the first floor of the library; see artwork in the Special Collections Research Center reading room and other locations within the library; 618-453-2516 or archives.lib. siu.edu/index.php?pcollectio ns/controlcard&id2459. Ongoing art exhibit: Featuring photographs of Juhree Veach, mosaics from Janet Altoff and sculpture from Tom Horn, StarView Vineyards, 5100 Wing Hill Road, Cobden; 618-893-9463 or www.starviewvineyards. com.
Receptions Stewart Wessel: A Carpenter’s Son, The Gallery Space, law office of Joni Beth Bailey, 1008 Walnut St., Murphysboro; large wooden 3D sculpture; reception, 6:308:30 p.m. March 6; through March 26; 618-684-8668. Five-year anniversary: Art show and reception: 5-7 p.m. today, Leaping Trout Studio, 723 Madison St., Paducah; exhibit features work by owner Keyth Kahrs; through March 31; 270-441-7050 or kahrsk@bellsouth.net. Feminist Art of Indiana: Opening reception, 4-6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, corner of Church and Main Streets, New Harmony, Ind.; 812-6823156; www.nhgallery.com; through April 3. Keyth Kahrs: Yeiser Art Center, 200 Broadway St., Paducah; Feb. 27-March 27; reception, 5 p.m. Feb. 27; landscape and pet portraits; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. TuesdaySaturday; www.theyeiser.org.
Black History Month Events Brown Bag Lecture: A History of Black Economic Empowerment: From Booker T to Jay-Z by Pamela Smoot, Black American Studies program, noon-1:30 p.m. today, Illinois Room, Student Center, SIUC. Panel: Student Athletes and the Realities of Going Pro: Different Perspectives by Lynne Gray and Sharon Creer, 7-9 p.m. today, John C. Guyon Auditorium, Morris Library, SIUC. Music and Poetry: Mwatabu Okantah and the Cavani Quartet, noon today, Morris Library Rotunda, SIUC and 8 p.m. today, Altgeld Hall, Room 112, SIUC. James E. Walker Black History High School Knowledge Bowl: 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Student Center Auditorium, SIUC; Carbondale, Cairo and Murphysboro high schools. Red Extravaganza: 6-9 p.m. Saturday, Student Center Ballroom D, SIUC; sponsored by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.; $20; 618-203-6335. One-Man Show: “Brothers Gonna Work It Out” by Jeff McGoy, 7-9 p.m. Wednesday, Student Center Auditorium, SIUC. Brown Bag Lecture: “Popular Culture and the Nightmare on Black Feminist Street” by Rachel Griffin, Department of Speech Communication and Novotny Lawrence, Department of RadioTelevision, noon-1:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, Mackinaw Room, Student Center, SIUC. Finer Womanhood Banquet: 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, Student Center Ballroom D, SIUC; $20 single, $50 per couple, sponsored by Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.; 618559-3669.
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Black History Month performances feature string quartet, poet BY ANDREA HAHN SIUC COMMUNICATION SERVICES
CARBONDALE — Join the School of Music at Southern Illinois University Carbondale today for a meeting of poetry and music. The Cavani String Quartet returns to SIUC for a pair of performances with poet Mwatabu Okantah. The performance, “Collage: Poetry and Music,” comes to Altgeld Hall, Room 110, beginning at 8 p.m. today and again at noon Friday in the Morris Library Rotunda. The SIUC Percussion Group lends its stamp
to the Friday performance as well. The performances are part of the SIUC Black History Month events. The program includes musical selections from Antonin Dvorak and Bela Bartok, as well as other composers announced during the performance. Poetry selections include a montage of “A Dream Deferred” by poet Langston Hughes, as well as other poetry, including works by Okantah. Both performances are free. Here are some other upcoming Black History Month events: Saturday: Red Extravaganza, 6-9 p.m. Student Center Ballroom D, $20; sponsored by
6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, Copper Dragon, Carbondale; dinner; silent auction; movie trivia games; tickets must be purchased in advance; $35 per person; tables of eight, $280; proceeds benefit the Boys and Girls Club of Carbondale; 618-303-5974. Annual Monopoly Tourney: Sponsored by Harrisburg Elks, Saturday, Feb. 27, Southeastern Illinois College Comedy Foundation building, North Comedian Ron ‘Tater Commercial Street, Salad’ White: 7:30 p.m. Harrisburg; all proceeds to Wednesday, March 3; and Saline County United Way; 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 18 at silent auction, food, music; Shryock Auditorium, SIUC. $150 to enter tournament; Tickets: $45-$75. 618-453admission, $10; 618-2526000 or www.southern 5000. lightsentertainment.com. Trivia Night: 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, Carbondale Civic Center; sponsored by Events Vogler Ford with all proceeds Artstarts Reach for the to the Frank Black Cancer Stars Gala: Fundraiser, 7 p.m. Fund; eight-person team, Saturday, Feb. 27, Marion $120, which includes chili; American Legion Hall; music door prizes; games; 618-457byThe Wayback Machine; 8135. silent auction, raffle, and food; $10; 618-922-1592 or Theater/Performance 618-922-1853. Mardi Gras: 6 p.m. On Golden Pond: 7 p.m. Saturday, American Legion Friday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Post 147, Longstreet Road, Sunday, Granada Theatre, Marion; benefit for Mount Vernon; adults, $10; scholarship program; Cajun seniors, $8, students, $5; food; music; $15; 618-833618-625-5322. 6496. The Lion in Winter: 7:30 A Tribute to the Oscars: p.m. Friday and Saturday and Keynote Address: By Michael Eric Dyson, 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, Shryock Auditorium, SIUC. Brown Bag Lecture: “Instruments for Change: Which Are You?” by Cynthia Sims, Department of Workforce Education and Development, noon-1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Kaskaskia Room, Student Center, SIUC.
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. Contact Debra Johnson-Jones, 618-203-6335 for more information. Tuesday: Keynote Address: Michael Eric Dyson, 7-9 p.m., Shryock Auditorium. Wednesday: One-Man Show: “Brothers Gonna Work It Out,” Jeff McGoy, 7-9 p.m., Student Center Auditorium. Feb. 25: Finer Womanhood Banquet, 6 p.m., Student Center Ballroom D, $20 single, $50 per couple, sponsored by Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc., contact Lolita Mack, 618-559-3669 for more information.
Feb. 26-27, and 2 p.m. Sunday and Feb. 28, Varsity Center for the Arts, Carbondale; by James Goldman; directed by Roy Weshinskey; $15; 618-549-5466; www.stage company.org. Cabaret: Thursday-Sunday, March 4-7, Rend Lake College, Ina; musical written by Joe Masteroff and featuring
music by John Kander and Fred Ebb; 7 p.m., March 4-6 and 2 p.m., March 7; $12; 618-437-5321, ext. 1467. Disney’s Beauty & The Beast: 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 6 and 3 p.m. Sunday, March 7, Carson Center, Paducah; $29-$59; 270-450-4444 or www.the carsoncenter.org.
Oscars tribute benefits Boys and Girls THE SOUTHERN
CARBONDALE — Southern Illinois residents can walk the red carpet and receive star treatment a little sooner this year. On Feb. 25, the Boys and Girls Club of Carbondale is hosting “A Tribute to the Oscars” at Copper Dragon in Carbondale. The event begins at 6 p.m. Tickets are $35 per person; sponsor tables of eight are available for $280 and must be purchased in advance by calling Diane Hood at 618-303-5974. Tickets will not be sold on the night of the event. “The Oscars event has become quite popular in short order with
Southern Illinoisans and provides an outstanding opportunity to support children in our community,” said Kathleen Fralish, president of the Boys and Girls Club Board of Directors. Attendees will enjoy dinner catered by 17th Street Barbecue. A cash bar will be available. Featured attractions include an opportunity to win an Oscar, a silent auction, movie trivia games and a 50/50 raffle. Attendees will also have a chance to select the “best picture” and win a recliner from Furniture King. Proceeds benefit the Boys and Girls Club. For more information, contact Fralish at 618521-8673.
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SIUC International Festival continues CARBONDALE — The International Festival 2010 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale continues today and Friday. Throughout the festival, the International Student Council will be accepting donations on behalf of the American Red Cross to assist earthquake relief efforts in Haiti. The acclaimed Irish band The Dorians will perform in the Roman Room from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. today. As the free Noon Tunes concert runs, The Market Place will feature a special selection of Irish cuisine from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Capping off the festival on Friday is the International Buffet and Cultural Show. Student Center Dining offers the International Buffet from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Renaissance Room on the first floor of the Student Center. If purchased in advance, tickets are $13 for the general public, $12 for SIUC students and senior citizens, and $6.75 for children ages 5 to 10 years. At the door, tickets are $1 more. You can buy tickets now at the Central Ticket Office on the second floor of the Student Center from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday or by calling 618-453-3478. The International Cultural Show at 7 p.m. in the ballrooms features song, dance, fashion, performing arts and much more as international students showcase their cultures. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.siucstudent center.org or call 618453-1142. — SIUC University Communications
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The Punch Brothers perform at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 27 at The Carson Center in Paducah. Tickets start at $19.
Bluegrass music with a punch Thile’s passion lies somewhere between the raw COUNTRY spontaneity of mountain bluegrass and the rigid SCENE precision of classical music, Vince Hoffard which led him to assemble an elite pool of talent for the Punch Brothers. Punch Brothers Named for a Mark Twain 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, The composition, the band released Carson Center, Paducah; tickets its debut album, “Punch,” in are $19, $29, $30, $49; call 2008. The centerpiece of the 270-450-4444. work is the epic “The Blind Leaving the Blind,” a very so often a bluegrass 40-minute musical marathon musician will come along broken into four “movements.” and take the popularity of Thile had no idea he would an instrument to a new level. become the American Mark O’Connor did it with the mandolin ambassador in 1989, fiddle. Jerry Douglass is the when he became a founding dobro king. Bela Fleck is the member of Nickel Creek while banjo master. still in grade school. The Chris Thile is the newest Grammy Award-winning band member of the bluegrass released three popular albums Mount Rushmore, reigning as before going on hiatus in 2007. the premier mandolin picker on A year before the break-up, the planet. He expanded the Thile displayed a desire to horizon for the instrument stretch his wings with the during an 18-year run with release of solo album “How To Nickel Creek, then morphed to Grow A Woman From The the other end of the musical Ground,” which included spectrum by creating a covers of Jimmie Rogers and concerto for the mandolin and Gillian Welch to the Strokes orchestra, which he premiered and the White Stripes. with the Colorado Symphony. The 28-year-old Thile then
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quickly submersed himself in his next project. Using songwriting as therapy as he dealt with the disappointment of a failed marriage, he penned a majority of the material for “Punch.” The key was finding the right combination of musicians who could help him translate his feelings. The cast of the Punch Brothers took shape after a marathon jam session in Nashville, Tenn., when a trio of Chris Eldridge, Paul Kowert and Noam Pikelny earned their way into the band. Guitarist Eldridge is a founding member of the Infamous Stringdusters. Bassist Kowert attended the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music. Banjo picker Pikelny’s list of credits includes collaborations with John Cowan and Tony Trischka. After the informal audition, Thile contacted good friend Gabe Witcher and told him he had found the perfect blend of talent to record “Punch.” VINCE HOFFARD can be reached at 618-658-9095 or vincehoffard@yahoo.com.
Cabin Fever Concert: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Liberty Theater, 1333 Walnut St., Murphysboro; performances by Etherton Switch and The Giant City Slickers; suggested donation of $5; proceeds benefit the theater; milakel.sims@gmail. com Bluegrass Jamboree: 6 p.m. Saturday, Herrin Civic Center; featuring The Whistle Pigs, The Mississippi Sawyers and Carefree Highway; $10 in advance and $15 at the door; children ages 6-12, $5; 5 and younger, free; money raised will assist the Special Olympics; 618-4572969. Four on the Floor: 1950s-’60s and classic rock, 7 p.m. Saturday, Southeastern Illinois College, Harrisburg; adults, $10 and students, $5; 618-2525400 ext. 2486 Joe Bonamassa: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 5, Shryock Auditorium, SIUC; tickets on sale to public, 11 a.m. Monday; 618-453-6000 or at www. southernlightsentertainment.com. Pianist Greg Anderson: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, Performance Hall, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, 2600 E. Richmond Road, Mount Vernon; Anderson has performed in Carnegie Hall, soloed with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, released several CDs and toured in North America, Asia and Europe; 618-242-1236 or www. cedarhurst.org. Branson Comes to Metropolis: Jim Stafford, 8 p.m. March 12-13, Harrah’s Metropolis; $29.99; 888-512-7469 or metropolis.frontgatetickets.com.
Kentucky Paducah Symphony: Exhibitions IV, Nature’s Glory, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Carson Center, Paducah; tickets start at $20; 270-444-0065; www.paducah symphony.org. Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, Carson Center, Paducah; $19-$49; 270-4504444 or www.thecarsoncenter.org.
St. Louis area BB King and Buddy Guy: 7:30 p.m. today, The Family Arena, St. Charles, Mo.; $50.50-$92.50; 314-534-1111; 636-8964242 or www.familyarena.com. Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons: 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, Fox Theatre, 539 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis; $44.50-$59.50; 314-534-1111; www.metrotix.com; www.fabulousfox.com.
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CRAVING KARAOKE? Wineries King Juba: 6-9 p.m. Friday, Rustle Hill Winery Whisker & Bisquit: 6:30-9:30 p.m. Friday, Lau-Nae Winery Big Larry & Doug: 2-5 p.m., Saturday, Von Jakob Orchard Carlos Alberto: 2-5 p.m. Saturday, Blue Sky Vineyard Acoustic Twist: 2-5 p.m., Sunday, Von Jakob Orchard JW Brown: 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Blue Sky Vineyard Sam West: 2-5 p.m. Saturday, Rustle Hill Winery Carter & Connelley: 6-9 p.m. Saturday, Rustle Hill Winery Blue Sky Vineyard: 3150 S. Rocky Comfort Road, Makanda; 618-995-9463 or www.blueskyvineyard.com Lau-Nae Winery: 1522 Illinois 3, Red Bud; 618-282-9463, www.lau-naewinery.com Rustle Hill Winery: US 51, Cobden; 618-893-2700, www.rustlehillwinery.com Von Jakob Orchard: 230 Illinois 127, Alto Pass; 618-8934600, www.vonjakobvineyard. com
Coffeehouses, Cafés and Eateries February Sky: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Cousin Andy’s Coffeehouse, Church of the Good Shepherd, United Church of Christ, 515 Orchard Drive, Carbondale; www.cousinandy.org, Open Mic: 8 p.m. Saturday, Yellow Moon Café, 110 N. Front St., Cobden; www.yellow mooncafe.com; 618-893-2233.
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BENTON Duncan Dance Barn:: Spring Pond Band, 6:30-9:30 p.m. CARBONDALE PK’s: The Swamptigers MOUNT VERNON The Tavern on 10th: Live Blues Trio, 7-11 p.m. SPILLERTOWN Track Side Dance Barn: Mike’s Band, 7-10 p.m. WEST FRANKFORT WB Ranch Barn: Little Egypt Country Band, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
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MARION Marion Eagles: Dirtwater Fox, 8 p.m.-midnight MOUNT VERNON Double K’s Kickin Country: Santa Fe Ride Band, 7-10:30 p.m.
SPILLERTOWN Track Side Dance Barn: Mike’s Band, 7-10 p.m.
LAKE OF EGYPT Ramesse: Mixed Company, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.
THOMPSONVILLE Lion’s Cave: Rebel Country, 7-10 p.m. Old Country Store Dance Barn: Country Sidekicks, 7-10 p.m.
MARION John Brown’s on the Square: Sam West Trio, 8:30-11:30 p.m.
WHITE ASH The White Ash Barn: The Heartland Country Band, 7-10 p.m.
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WHITTINGTON Corner Dance Hall: Battle Creek Band, 7:30-10:30 p.m.
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z TUESDAY LAKE OF EGYPT Ramesse: Mixed Company, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. SPILLERTOWN Track Side Dance Barn: Mike’s Band, 7-10 p.m. THOMPSONVILLE Lion’s Cave: Weekenders, 7-10 p.m. Old Country Store Dance Barn: Lil’ Boot & Classic Country, 7-10 p.m. WHITTINGTON The Zone Lounge: Jordan Carter, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
CARBONDALE PK’s: Whistle Pigs MOUNT VERNON Double K’s Kickin Country: Jacks-RBetter, 7-10:30 p.m. SPILLERTOWN Track Side Dance Barn: Rebel Country, 7-10 p.m. WEST FRANKFORT WB Ranch Barn: WB Ranch Band, 6:30-9:30 p.m. WHITE ASH The White Ash Barn: The Heartland Country Band, 7-10 p.m.
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DIRECTIONS & DIGITS Anna VFW: 70 VFW Lane, Anna 618-833-5182 Corner Dance Hall: 200 Franklin St., Whittington 618-303-5266 Duncan Dance Barn: 13545 Spring Pond Road, Benton 618-435-6161 The Get-Away: 804 N. Douglas St., West Frankfort 618-937-3545 Ina Community Building: 504 Elm St., Ina 618-315-2373 John Brown’s on the Square: 1000 Tower Square, Marion 618-997-2909 Key West: 1108 W. Main, Carbondale 618-351-5998 Linemen’s Lounge: 100 E. Broadway, Johnston City Lion’s Cave: South Street, Thompsonville 618-218-4888 Marion American Legion: Longstreet Road, Marion 618-997-6168 Marion Eagles: Rural Route 3, Marion / 618-993-6300 Mollie’s: 107 E. Union St., Marion 618-997-3424 Old Country Store Dance Barn: Main Street, Thompsonville, 618-927-2770. Orient American Legion: 404 Jackson St., Orient 618-932-2060 Perfect Shot: 3029 S. Park Ave., Herrin / 618-942-4655 Pinch Penny Pub/Copper Dragon: 700 E. Grand, Carbondale / 618-549-3348 PK’s: 308 S. Illinois Ave., Carbondale / 618-529-1124 Ramesse: 1754 Illinois 37, Lake of Eygpt, 618-995-9104 Steelhorse Saloon: 202 Dewmain Lane, Carterville 618-985-3549 Tavern on 10th: 224 S. 10th St., Mount Vernon 618-244-7821 Tomigirl’s Rollin-in: 14960 Illinois 37, Johnston City 618-983-7655 Trackside Dance Barn: 104 Rock St., Spillertown 618-993-3035 WB Ranch Barn: 1586 Pershing Road, West Frankfort 618-937-3718 Walt’s Pizza — Pasta Grill: 213 S. Court St., Marion 618-993-8668 Whisker Willy’s Bar & Grill 13510 N. Illinois 37, Marion 618-983-5300 White Ash Barn: 207 Potter St., White Ash / 618-997-4979 Wit and Wisdom Nutritional Site: 225 E. Poplar St., West Frankfort / 618-937-3070 Xrossroads: 101 Rushing Drive, Herrin / 618-993-8393 The Zone Lounge: 14711 Illinois 37, Whittington 618-629-2039
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The 32nd annual
Big Muddy Film Festival PROVIDED
‘Burma VJ’ is a 2010 Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary. The film follows a group of Burmese reporters in 2007 who use pocket-sized video cameras and risk their lives to expose a military regime.
Big Muddy Film Festival
Friday to Feb. 28. The annual festival began in 1979 and is one of the oldest university film festivals in the country. Film showings are mostly in locations such as the Parkinson/Browne Auditorium and Morris Library at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and Longbranch Coffeehouse, but there will also be outreach locations such as Yellow Moon Café in Cobden, and Shawnee Community College in Ullin. There will also be viewings at Rustle Hill Winery in Cobden, and Ace of Cups in Cairo. All of the off-campus BY CODELL RODRIGUEZ screenings will be free. THE SOUTHERN Filmgoers can see the “Best of the Fest” at 7 p.m. The Big Muddy Film Feb. 28 at the Liberty Festival is getting back to Theatre, 1333 S. Walnut its roots while also St., in Murphysboro. expanding its horizons and Admission is $5. The not limiting itself to outreach workshops at Carbondale. Shawnee Community The theme of the festival College will be at 6 p.m. is “Getting Back to our Wednesday and 8 a.m. Roots” and will be from Feb. 27.
Friday through Feb. 28; films on campus are $3, special viewings and performances are $5; a festival pass is $40 and $52 for a pass including non-competition films. Offcampus screenings are free except for ‘The Best of the Fest’ at the Liberty Theater on Feb. 28; For more information, call 618453-8301 or e-mail info@bigmuddyfilm. com. For more on the festival, go to bigmuddy film.com/32nd-2010/ allfiles/home.html.
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Michele Torre, visiting professor in Cinema and Photography at SIUC, said organizers were trying to expand the number of locations and make the festival more regional. The festival will also become more affordable this year, as the fee for seeing competition films has been lowered from $5 to $3 with special showcases being $5. Torre said the lineup this year will be something to see, with a large variety of films including selections from the African World Documentary Film Festival. She said the quality of the 50 competition films is outstanding. To help choose the best of the competition films, organizers landed three judges with a first-hand understanding of cinema who will also show films of their own. Sasha WatersFreyer, an associate professor of Cinema and Comparative Literature from University of Iowa, will present her film “Chekhov for Children” at
returns to its roots while expanding its horizons
6 p.m. Feb. 27 in the Parkinson/Browne Auditorium. The documentary visits with the people who starred in a 1979 staging of “Uncle Vanya” as fifth graders. Costume designer Kristen Burke will present the film “Running Scared,” on which she worked, at 6 p.m. Feb. 26, in Morris Library. The film follows a low-level mob man who ignores an order from his superiors and must set things right to protect his family. Kevin Wilmott, a film professor at University of Kansas, will show his film “Bunker Hill” at 4 p.m. Feb. 25 in Morris Library. The film follows a former Wall Street executive and ex-convict who heads to Bunker Hill, Kan., to find his ex-wife and children. After an apparent terrorist attack, the citizens reawaken a militant past and become determined to protect its citizens at any cost. There are 11 non-
competition films that include a showing of Metropolis-born filmmaker Oscar Micheaux’s 1920 film, “Within Our Gates.” The showing will be at 8 p.m. Saturday in Thomas School in Carbondale and include a performance by Stace England and the Salt Kings. There will also be a showing of the animated film “Sita Sings the Blues” at 8 p.m. Friday in Pulliam Hall’s Furr Auditorium and includes a performance by the Southern Illinois Dance Company. Admission is $5. At 2 p.m. Sunday, there will be a performance by the SIUC Improvisation Unit directed by Ron Coulter, a lecturer of percussion studies in the School of Music, at the Old Baptist Foundation. The John Michaels Award will be given to one of eight documentaries that focus on social, political and environmental issues.
Michaels was an SIUC graduate student in fine arts and was heavily involved in community organizing and activism. There will also be a special six competition films covering “Queer and Gender Issues.” The showcase will be at noon Sunday in the Parkinson/ Browne Auditorium and at 4 p.m. Feb. 28 in Morris Library. Organizer Danielle Williams, a junior in cinema and photography from Rockton, encourages everyone to stop by because it is a unique time where the region can come together to enjoy independent cinema. “It’s this week and a half that everyone becomes unified to support the same thing; to support the independent filmmaking community,” Williams said. “This only happens once a year and you’ll never find anything like it.” codell.rodriguez@thesouthern.com 618-351-5804
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Stace England and the Salt Kings perform for Oscar Micheaux showing Stace England and the Salt Kings recorded a CD about Micheaux and will perform at the showing of his film.
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‘Within Our Gates’
Metropolis-born Oscar Micheaux will play at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Thomas School auditorium. The viewing includes a performance by Stace England and the Salt Kings, who released a 12-song album about the filmmaker titled, “The Those attending the Amazing Oscar Big Muddy Film Festival Micheaux.” will have the chance to Organizer Danielle see a silent film by a Williamson, a junior in pioneer African cinema and photography American filmmaker and from Rockton, said the hear a little music as viewing is “going to be well. really cool.” The 1920 film “Within The film was Our Gates” by Micheaux’s answer to
The film with musical accompaniment from Stace England and the Salt Kings will be at 8 p.m. Saturday at Thomas Elementary School, 1025 N. Wall St., in Carbondale.
D.W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation,” which was controversial for several reasons, including its favorable depiction of the Ku Klux Klan. “Within Our Gates” follows a woman from the South who goes north to help a minister keep a school for poor black children open. The film tackles the horrors of racism and includes depictions of lynching. The “Amazing Oscar Micheaux” is the Salt Kings’ third album after “Greetings from Cairo, Illinois” and “Salt Sex Slaves.” It follows
Micheaux’s life, which included being a homesteader in South Dakota, novelist and filmmaker. Micheaux was the first African American to produce films shown in predominantly white theaters. He wrote, directed and produced 44 films from 1919 to 1948. The Salt Kings’ multimedia performances include clips from Micheaux’s films and an original score to “Within Our Gates.” — Codell Rodriguez
SCHEDULE FOR THE 2010 BIG MUDDY FILM FESTIVAL Locations off-campus
Saturday, Thomas School Auditorium Burma VJ: Joshua, age 27, is one of the young video journalists who works undercover to counter the propaganda of the military regime. Joshua is suddenly thrown into the role as tactical leader of his group of reporters, when the monks lead an uprising against the military regime. After decades of oblivion, Burma returns to the world stage, but foreign TV crews are banned from entering the country, so Joshua and his crew are left to document the events. When/Where: Non-competition 2 p.m. Feb. 27, Parkinson/ Browne Auditorium, SIUC films Senator Obama Goes to Within Our Gates: Stace Africa: Part personal England & The Salt Kings odyssey and part chronicle bring us a new score to of diplomacy in action, legendary filmmaker this timely film follows Oscar Micheaux’s 1920 then-Sen. Barack Obama film, a powerful rebuttal to as he travels to Africa, the D.W. Griffith’s “The Birth land of his ancestry. of a Nation.” Micheaux has When/Where: 7-9 p.m. been referenced as a role Sunday, Longbranch model of many African Coffeehouse American filmmakers. Forest of Crocodiles: When/Where: 8 p.m. What choices do white
Thomas School Auditorium, 1025 N. Wall St., Carbondale; Longbranch Coffeehouse, 100 E. Jackson, St., Carbondale; Gaia HouseInterfaith Center, 913 S. Illinois Ave., Carbondale; Yellow Moon Café, 110 N. Front St., Cobden; Rustle Hill Winery, 8595 U.S. Highway 51, Cobden; Ace of Cups, 1007 Washington Ave., Cairo. All of these offcampus screenings are free.
South Africans make when addressing their fears of crime, violence and black people? The consequences are regression and isolation or freedom from fear. When/Where: 79 p.m. Sunday, Longbranch Coffeehouse Yokes and Chains: International, multi-racial teams journey together to discover how the TransAltantic Slave trade has impacted society. They confront racism and the horrific legacy of slavery, inspiring dialogue, reconciliation and hope for future generations. When/Where: 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, Morris Library Auditorium, SIUC The Clean Woman: A short film on the subject of female genital mutilation in Africa. When/Where: 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, Morris Library Auditorium, SIUC Sweet Crude: The story of Nigeria’s Niger Delta, the human and environmental consequences of 50 years of oil extraction, the
history of nonviolent protest, and the members of a new insurgency who, in three years since the filmmakers met them as college students, became the young men of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta. When/Where: 4-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Morris Library Auditorium, SIUC Cowtown Ballroom: Sweet Jesus!: A documentary about the legendary concert venue, Cowtown Ballroom, in Kansas City, Mo. Though the venue was only open for three years, it established an incredible musical heritage, playing host to the likes of Frank Zappa, Blue Oyster Cult, Van Morrison, and B.B. King. When/Where: 3:30 p.m. Feb. 27, Parkinson/ Browne Auditorium, SIUC; with filmmaker Q&A The Guatemalan Handshake: In the confusion after a massive power outage, an awkward demolition derby driver vanishes, setting in motion a series of events
affecting his pregnant girlfriend, his helplessly car-less father, a pack of wild boy scouts, a lactose intolerant roller rink employee, an elderly woman in search of her lost dog, and his best friend, a 10-year-old girl named Turkeylegs. When/Where: 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Morris Library Auditorium, SIUC Sita Sings the Blues: A humorous, controversial and boldly epic adaptation of selections from the Ramayana. Taking Sita as its main character, the beautifully animated film finds as its subject a woman’s cry for equal treatment. Animator Nina Paley’s work encompasses and appropriates various cultural sources, often those bound by copyright law. When/Where: 8 p.m. Friday, Furr Auditorium, SIUC; with a performance from Southern Illinois Dance Company
Juror Showcases Bunker Hill: The story of
a former Wall Street executive who leaves prison and heads for the small town of Bunker Hill, Kan., where his ex-wife and their children have started a new life. Soon after he arrives, an apparent massive terrorist attack against America darkens the town. The town’s militant past is reawakened and forces coalesce to protect citizens. When/Where: 4 p.m. Feb. 25, Morris Library Auditorium, SIUC Chekhov for Children: Explores writer Phillip Lopate’s 1979 Broadway staging of Uncle Vanya, a heartbreaking play about middle-aged longing, starring public school fifth graders, including the filmmaker. The film revisits the once young performers and weaves together contemporary vignettes of the adults they have become. When/Where: 6 p.m. Feb. 27, Parkinson/Browne Auditorium, SIUC SEE SCHEDULE / PAGE 10
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(profanity, alcohol abuse) Dear John A young soldier home on leave falls in love with an idealistic college student during her spring vacation, and over the next few years they meet only sporadically and correspond through love letter. With Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Henry Thomas, Scott Porter and Richard Jenkins; directed by Lasse Hallstrom. PG-13 Edge of Darkness A veteran Boston homicide detective embarks on a mission to find out about his 24-year-old daughter’s secret life after she is murdered on the steps of his home. With Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone,
Danny Huston, Bojana Novakovic and Shawn Roberts. Written by William Monahan and Andrew Bovell. Based on the television series written by Troy Kennedy Martin. Directed by Martin Campbell. R. From Paris With Love A low-level CIA operative finds himself the target of a crime ring he’s trying to bust on his first real assignment. With John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak and Richard Durden. Screenplay by Adi Hasak, based on a story by Luc Besson. Directed by Pierre Morel. R. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief A young boy discovers he’s the descendant of a Greek god and sets out on an adventure to settle an ongoing battle between the gods. With Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario, Sean
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Bean, Pierce Brosnan, Steve Coogan, Rosario Dawson, Catherine Keener, Kevin McKidd, Joe Pantoliano and Uma Thurman. Screenplay by Craig Titley, based on the book by Rick Riordan. Directed by Chris Columbus. PG (action violence and peril, some scary images) The Wolfman Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman, is lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father, he searches for his brother and discovers his horrifying destiny. With Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving and Art Malik. Directed by Joe Johnston. R (bloody horror, violence and gore) Tooth Fairy When a hardcharging hockey player, nicknamed ``the tooth fairy’’ for separating opposing players from their bicuspids, discourages a youngster’s dreams, he’s sentenced to one week’s hard labor as a real tooth fairy; with Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Judd, Julie Andrews, Stephen Merchant and Ryan Sheckler. PG (mild language, some rude humor) Valentine’s Day The stories of a group of Angelenos as they find their way through romance over the course of one Valentine’s Day are told in intersecting storylines. With Julia Roberts, Emma Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Alba, Kathy Bates, Jessica Biel, Bradley Cooper, Eric Dane and Patrick Dempsey. Written by Katherine Fugate. Directed by Garry Marshall. PG-13 When in Rome A young New Yorker, disillusioned with romance, takes a whirlwind trip to Rome, where she plucks magic coins from a fountain of love, inexplicably igniting the passion of an odd group of suitors. With Kristen Bell, Danny DeVito, Jon Heder, Will Arnett, Dax Shepard and Josh Duhamel. Directed by Mark Steven Johnson. PG-13. — The Associated Press, McClatchyTribune News, Fandango.com
SCHEDULE: Big Muddy films 4 p.m. Monday, Morris Library Auditorium: Mud Slinging, Workers’ Republic, Hillmon’s Bones Running Scared: Low4 p.m. Tuesday, Morris level mob hand and Library Auditorium: Back loving family man Joey to the Garden, A Circle Gazelle finds his life and Three Lines, Raging turned upside down Grannies when he ignores the 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, mob’s instructions to Morris Library dispose of a gun used in Auditorium: Radical the fatal shooting of a Disciples, The Legend of corrupt cop during a bungled drug buy, setting Pancho Barnes, Happy off a wild chase from the Bottom Riding Club 4 p.m. Feb. 26, Morris mob and the cop. When/ Library Auditorium: Too Where: 6 p.m. Feb. 26, Soon Too Late, Shooting Morris Library, SIUC Beauty, Heartland Transport Competition 12:30 p.m. Feb. 27, Parkinson/Browne screenings Auditorium: The Narrative Ethnography of 7:30 p.m. Friday, Ellensburg, Destination: Rossport, Ireland Morris Library Auditorium: Amateur, Flat Love, Maybe Experimental Pittsburgh, 2095 4 p.m. Friday and 7:30 4 p.m. Sunday, Morris p.m. Feb. 25, Morris Library Auditorium: Library Auditorium: La Tales From The Catholic Luz Del Perdon, Git Church of Elvis!, Along Little Dogies, Educating Cooper Sleeping Bear, 6:30 p.m. Monday, Transparent Movement, Morris Library Night After Night, Inside Auditorium: This Is Who Out/Side One, Balance, We Are, My Movie Girl Penumbra, Spaceboy, 7 p.m. Monday, Plastic Ballad, Tin Longbranch Coffeehouse: Woodman’s Home Amateur, Flat Love, Movies No. 2 Maybe Pittsburgh, 2095 11 a.m. Feb. 27, Animation Parkinson/Browne 6 p.m. Saturday, Morris Auditorium: Never Too Library Auditorium and Late, Sky People, Open 11 a.m. Feb. 27, Your Eyes, Poi Dogs, Longbranch 5 Dollars Coffeehouse: There Was A Little Girl, Daylight, Documentary Let’s Pollute, Jellyfishers, 5:30 p.m. Friday, Salamander, Father and Morris Library Sister, Lintscape, Auditorium: Which Way Travesty City, Breathing to The War? Room, Twist of Fate 4 p.m. Saturday, Morris Library Auditorium: Poto Best of the Best Mitan, Rock of Gold Liberty Theater, 1333 S. 6 and 7:30 p.m. Walnut St., Sunday, Morris Library Murphysboro, closes out Auditorium: The Desert the festival at 7 p.m. Feb. of Forbidden Art FROM PAGE 9
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Genius, oddity of ‘Imaginarium’ runs wild with imagination The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
caravan. Parnassus (Christopher Plummer) is a mystic who ushers Rated PG-13 for violent onlookers through a cheap images, some sensuality; Mylar looking glass and starring Heath Ledger, into a world reflecting Christopher Plummer, Lily their own imaginations. For a hostile, drunken club Cole, Tom Waits; directed boy, it’s an inferno of by Terry Gilliam; opening honky-tonk bars. For a Friday at University Place 8 fashionable matron, it’s a in Carbondale. vapid wonderland of giant high heels and beach ballBY COLIN COVERT sized pearls. MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS Director Terry Gilliam, who began as Monty I don’t know whether to Python’s animator, has the call this a comedy or an most uncanny visual oddity. I’d love to report imagination in feature that “The Imaginarium of films today — and the Doctor Parnassus” is a most slapdash story sense. work of renegade genius. Like all of Gilliam’s movies Alas, it’s a minor film, (including “Brazil” and memorable largely as the “The Fisher King”), his farewell of Heath Ledger, latest cocoons us in surreal who died when his scenes imagery, pictorial wit and were only half completed. anything-goes dream Ledger plays Tony Liar, a logic. It says something shady businessman saved about the ramshackle from suicide by Dr. nature of this yarn that Parnassus’ wandering Ledger’s disappearance theater troupe. Tony, who midstream doesn’t capsize may be grateful or may it. His sequences segue need to lie low, joins “The into fantasy scenes in Imaginarium,” a cheesy which his role is played by horse-drawn sideshow Johnny Depp, Jude Law
and Colin Farrell. By that point, you can only shrug and say, “OK, whatever.” Parnassus’ sidekick, Percy (Verne Troyer), pesters the old man for losing his moral bearings. The doctor’s nubile daughter, Valentina (Lily Cole), is impatient for a normal life away from her frequently drunken dad. Parnassus wants to keep her close; a millennium ago he made a pact with the devil (Tom Waits), eternal life in trade for his firstborn daughter, and it’s time to pay up. Tony’s rescue gives him a second chance at life, and Valentina an opportunity to rewrite her fate, but her interest in the newcomer triggers Anton’s jealousy and ... you see how it is: The film staggers under a ton of exposition. Gilliam has contradictory goals — visual phantasmagoria and social-theological satire — and the tale goes wherever the wind blows. “Parnassus” offers a critique of just about
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Health Ledger appears with Lily Cole in his last film.
everyone with a vested interest in the status quo. Tony Liar, is a harsh mockery of slippery former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Gilliam loves undercutting our expectations: The guy we want to be the hero disappoints us, the wise
old sage is revealed to be clueless, and Lucifer turns out to have a solid moral code. Ledger supplies a rococo performance, slipping between accents and gesturing theatrically, while each of his understudies veers off in
his own direction. Farrell is onscreen longest and fares best, but none has more depth than the paper cutouts Gilliam shuffled around in his old Python animations. Like Gilliam’s recent films, this is a gift box without much inside.
‘Shutter Island’ is a dark and disturbing thriller, but not as gimmicky Shutter Island Rated R for disturbing, violent content, language and some nudity; starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams; directed by Martin Scorsese; opening Friday at ShowPlace 8 in Carbondale and Illinois Centre 8 in Marion. BY ROGER MOORE MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS
Dennis Lehane’s character-packed but gimmicky novel “Shutter
Island” earns a slightly less gimmicky film from Martin Scorsese, who makes this 1950s period piece his tribute to the psychological thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock. In 1954, a couple of Federal marshals make their way to an island off Boston Harbor, home to Ashecliffe, a prison hospital for the criminally insane. Leonardo DiCaprio is Teddy Daniels, a World War II vet who is suspicious of everything. Mark Ruffalo is his brand new partner. A prisoner has escaped
and is probably loose somewhere on the island. Daniels instantly mistrusts the psychotherapist in charge. Dr. Cawley (Ben Kingsley) has the prop of the 1950s movie psychologist — his pipe. And he seems a little too understanding of the criminals in his care. He has some “new” ideas about dealing with the criminally insane, “a moral fusion between law and order and clinical care.” The marshals meet resistance when they try
to question the staff. There are too many places on the island that are “off limits” and too many questions about that staff (Max von Sydow is a senior psychotherapist). And Daniels has issues. He saw things at Dachau, did things that give him nightmares. He lost his wife some time after that. He had reasons for wanting to take a look around the island before this disappearance. No wonder he smells a conspiracy. And his partner? He just asks, “You OK, Boss?” at
all the right moments. Scorsese, working from a Laeta Kalogridis script, boils the tale down to a series of interrogations — set piece scenes between DiCaprio and the formidable Kingsley and von Sydow, the doctors, and inmates played with harrowing glee by Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Elias Koteas and especially Jackie Earle Haley, who provides the most hair-raising moments in the movie. It’s a real actor’s picture, with Michelle Williams movingly playing Daniels’
dead wife and Ted Levine of “The Silence of the Lambs” as the sinister warden. To his credit, DiCaprio, looking rougher than ever, holds his own with them. But as with “The Book of Eli,” it’s a picture that relies on big, third-act switcheroos of the type Hitchcock would slip into his TV show. It’s not bad, but as Scorsese, America’s greatest living filmmaker and film history buff should know, even Hitchcock came up short on occasion.
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