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What: Pizza, pasta, salads, sandwiches Where: 405 S. Washington St., Carbondale Hours: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday-Thursday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday Phone: 618-457-6559
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Oh, and there’s still free ice cream cones for dine-in customers. Speaking of ice cream, THE SOUTHERN FILE PHOTO IV’s is the perfect place for Italian Village in Carbondale has been in business since 1960 your birthday party or and opened its outdoor dining area last year. BY JOE SZYNKOWSKI special gathering. Large FOR THE SOUTHERN groups who want a private, Whether you’re eating in unique setting can use the what has helped Bridges the original dining area or CARBONDALE — If build his business into a loft upstairs for a $50 the new addition, IV’s will returnable deposit. you’re looking for the dynamic fixture of satisfy any appetite. secret to Italian Village’s downtown Carbondale. Want IV’s from the success, the writing is on Last year, he and his wife, Customers can choose comfort of your own car? A from IV’s loaded pizzas, the wall — literally. Debbie, bolstered the drive-through window Customers first took restaurant’s seating options mouth-watering allows customers to pick up sandwiches or fresh pasta felt-tipped markers to the by adding an indoor bar frozen favorites or call dishes. restaurant’s interior wood and dining room with ahead and for fresh, hot The restaurant offers a paneling in the late 1960s. space for 30 people. meals as well. IV’s offers a Decades later, the IV’s now also features an variety of specials, free two-liter of soda with signatures and scribbles outdoor patio area and bar including the popular the order of any large pizza “Nooner” — a substantial comprise a unique part of that can seat 60 more. at the drive-through. slice of pizza and a trip to IV’s ongoing tradition. “When we got it done “Our frozen pizzas are the plentiful salad bar. “It just kind of started,” last year, we got to enjoy great and they don’t taste Diners can also get their said R.E. Bridges, who the tail end of the warm like cardboard,” said first pitcher of beer for $3 founded IV’s in 1960. “By season,” said Bridges, who Bridges. “We make our own with the purchase of any the time I got around to designed the quaint crust for the pizzas and we large pizza on Monday trying to clean them up, outdoor setting. also have lasagna frozen through Wednesday or people told me I should just “This year, we’re really and ready to go.” Thursday and Friday after leave them alone.” expecting it to boost 8 p.m. Listening to customers is business.” SEE TOP 20 / PAGE 5
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Women’s History Month continues at university CARBONDALE — SIU celebrates women and their achievements with an assortment of special activities throughout the month of March. “Women’s Education, Women’s Empowerment” is the theme of the 2012 Women’s History Month observance. Films, guest speakers, theatrical performances, self-defense training, a scholarship event and much more are on tap in coming weeks. University Museum will feature works from contemporary female artists and the GLBT Resource Center will offer Safe Zone Training sessions each Wednesday in March at 5 p.m. at the center in Woody Hall. The Roxana Rivera Memorial Poetry Contest is ongoing during March as well.
For information, contact Allison Joseph at 618-453-6813 or aljoseph@siu.edu. More events include: Today, March 8 “Gender, Power and Journalism: New Research on Women in Newsrooms around the World,” 6 p.m., Room 1032, Communications Building Monday, March 19 “Any Way You Need Her: Blues Performance as Empowerment and Transformation,” 7 to 9 p.m. Student Center Auditorium Wednesday, March 21 “Women and the Law in American Cinema” film series; English professor Tony Williams introduces “Class Action” with Gene Hackman; 3 p.m.; John C. Guyon Auditorium, Morris Library — University Communications
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Comedian Tim Hawkins: 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 9, Carson Center, Paducah; $18-$64; 270-450-4444; www.thecarsoncenter.org.
“Anything Goes”: Musical, Thursday-Sunday, March 8-11, Rend Lake College Theatre, Ina; show times, 7 p.m., March 8-10; matinee, 2 p.m., Sunday, March 11; $12; 618-437-5321, Ext. 1467. Events “Noises Off”: 7 p.m. Trivia Night; 7 p.m. Friday, Friday-Saturday, March 9-10, March 16, Sesser-Valier High O’Neil Auditorum, John A. School, Sesser; girl’s track Logan College, Carterville; and volleyball fundraiser; comedy written by Michael 618-625-5105, ext 252; Frayn; directed by Derek rschwartzkopf@sv196.org; Hamblin; adult language and www.s-v.frnkln.k12.il.us. content; 618-985-2828, St. Patrick’s Day Festival: ext. 8287. Saturday, March 17, Love Gets the Last Laugh: Murphysboro; 5K run/walk Presented by Cabaret race, 9 a.m.; Irish Stew Cook- Decadance, 8 p.m. Saturday, off, 9 a.m.; parade, 11 a.m.; March 10, Varsity Center for Irish Kids’ Festival, 11:30 a.m.- the Arts, Carbondale; campy, 1:30 p.m., Murphysboro Youth old-fashioned songs, Center; Leprechaun Classic slapstick humor and bocce tournament, 1 p.m., pantomime dance; original Riverside Park; 618-687-3113; two-act play written and www.murphysboro.com. directed by Clare McCall; $15; southernticketsonline.com.
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SIU hosts ‘Bowling in Ballgowns’ CARBONDALE — SIU is inviting people to dig deep into the closet to find that old formal wear for a special evening on the lanes. The university will host “Bowling in Ballgowns” on Saturday, March 24, at the Student Center. Women are encouraged to put on their dresses and bowl for a worthy cause. Guys are welcome, too, wearing any attire from tuxes to everyday outfits. Afterward, anyone who wants may leave their gowns to be donated to charity. Proceeds will go to The Good Samaritan House and relief efforts for the region hit by the Feb. 29 tornado. The event begins at 9 a.m. with flights throughout the day. Four-person teams will play two games. Entry is $10 if registered by March 9 and $15 after that date. To register, call 618-453-2803 or visit the Student Center Bowling and Billiards. — University Communications
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register by Friday, March 9, to be eligible. For more information on registration and availability, call rish eyes have been 618-687-3113. shining on MurphysThe group organizing boro for 25 years. Next weekend’s festivi- the Southern Illinois Irish Festival, which has been ties mark the milestone moved from spring to fall, anniversary of the city’s is getting more involved, St. Patrick’s Day Irish Festival, sponsored by the and Wallace hopes to see the relationship continue Chamber of Commerce. to blossom and make the But even after two and a celebration more regional half decades, organizers than just in Murphysboro. haven’t become complaThat will take time, he cent and are constantly knows, but it gives them trying to improve. something to work toward. “Last year was our “It’s a good goal to have,” biggest in terms of participation in different events,” he said. The St. Patrick’s Day said Bruce Wallace, execuFestival has become an tive director of the institution in the town, Chamber. “We’re excited akin to the newer Shawnee about making this year Hills Wine and Arts even bigger and better.” Festival during Memorial A new addition to this Day weekend and Apple year’s festival is a bocce Festival in the fall. Wallace tournament, which has been quite popular already. also hopes to revive the Southern Illinois Blues THE SOUTHERN FILE PHOTO A limited number of team Festival in the future, slots are available, and Steve Reed offers a fellow teammate a whiff of their entry in adding to the calendar. interested parties must last year’s Murphysboro Irish Stew Cook-Off. But when next weekend rolls around, his one wish 203 N. Williams St. 1400 S. 16th St. 1330 W. McCord is simple. Murphysboro, Il Herrin, IL Centralia, IL “We hope for the luck of (618) 684-6254 (618) 942-8085 (618) 533-5801 the Irish with the weathSun-Thurs 11am-10pm • Fri-Sat 11am-11pm er,” he said. THE SOUTHERN
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Murphysboro festival hits 25-year mark Planned events include: Friday, March 16 The Dorians concert; 7 p.m.; Liberty Theater Saturday, March 17 5K walk/run; 9 a.m.; $15 if registered by March 9 or $20 day of race Irish Stew Cookoff; 9 a.m.; 17th Street Bar and Grill Warehouse; judging begins at 2:15 p.m. Irish buffet; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; 17th Street Bar and Grill Warehouse; corned beef, cabbage and potato soup; tickets at the door St. Patrick’s Day Parade; 11 a.m. Irish Kids’ Festival; 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; Murphysboro Youth Center; open to firstthrough sixth-graders Fire truck display; noon; 17th Street Bar and Grill Warehouse Leprechaun Classic bocce tournament; 1 p.m.; Riverside Park Smoky Hollow String Band concert; 7 p.m.; Liberty Theater adam.testa@thesouthern.com 618-351-5031
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Battle of bands coming to Tres CARBONDALE — “Summer Camp: On the Road Tour” is making a stop at Tres Hombres at tonight, March 8. This event is set up as a Battle of the Bands for a spot on the Summer Camp Music Festival lineup. Four acts will clash in a mêlée of music starting at 8 p.m. The band Spread has won this event the past two years and look to take home another win this evening. Last year, the group went directly up against DJ Nasty Nate in a blood-thirsty battle. This year, DJ Nasty Nate will return to action with new local bluegrass group County Graves. Summer Camp Music Festival will be take place at the Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe from May 25-27 with a pre-party on May 24. For information, visit summercamp festival.com. “We have developed our On the Road Tour based on where our fans, and artists, come from. For a long time, we really focused on the Midwest, but over the last few years, we have started to consider other states where we have a huge following like New York, Colorado and California,” said Holly Brinkman, Summer Camp Festival organizer. The members of Spread and the reporter from Flipside Review sat down for an interview together that is available on Flipside Review’s blog. — Matt McGuire
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Country music legends performing in April musical partnership. Although they were often COUNTRY duet partners and closely SCENE associated through the genre’s outlaw period, they Vince Hoffard will be making appearances in neighboring states as solo acts on different dates. Willie Nelson Nelson will perform April 7:30 p.m. April 8; Show Me 8 in Cape Girardeau. He Center in Cape Girardeau; was selected Entertainer of $38 to $68; 573-651-5000. the Year by the Country Music Association in 1979 and placed in the Country Merle Haggard Music Hall of Fame in 1993. 7:30 p.m. April 26; Carson He had the CMA Song of Center in Paducah; $25 the Year in 1982 and 1983 to $100; 270-450-4444. with “Always On My Mind,” which also was wo of the most honored with multiple successful Grammy Awards. desperadoes in Haggard’s Paducah show country music history, is a make-up date for a Willie Nelson and Merle concert scheduled earlier Haggard, will soon be this year, which the singer blazing a trail through the was forced to cancel Heartland. because of health concerns. The duo will be forever The 76-year old Haggard linked through the chartis known widely as the topping 1983 hit, “Pancho “poet of the common man” and Lefty,” which was the for the hard-hitting lyrics defining moment in their of classic tunes like
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“Mamma Tried,” “Sing Me Back Home” and “Okie From Muskogee.” As winter winds down, organizers of local concerts and festivals are putting the final touches on several important 2012 dates. Here is a brief summary of just a few of those events, most which were listed on the Pollstar website. David Allan Coe will be playing at Rustle Hill Winery, south of Carbondale, on May 12. The Charlie Daniels Band will be appearing at Walker’s Bluff in Carterville on May 18. Jake Owen and Hunter Hayes will be featured at Herrinfesta Italiana on May
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27 and 28, respectively. Country Stomp will be June 8-10 at the World Shooting and Recreational Complex in Sparta. Acts and ticket prices have not been announced. Country Throwdown will take place June 29 at Rent One Park in Marion, featuring Gary Allan, Rodney Atkins, Sunny Sweeney, Josh Thompson and Eric Paslay. And anyone missing Haggard in Paducah will get a second chance when he appears at the Du Quoin State Fair on Aug. 31.
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Jazz quartet to play in Paducah PADUCAH — Popular regional jazz quartet Grumpy Old Men will feature guest vocalist Kala Dunn to the stage for the group’s Saturday performance at West Kentucky Community and Technical College. Dunn, of Murray, Ky., is the vocalist with the Todd Hill Quartet, a WKMS-FM staff member, church pianist and private-studio piano teacher. Grumpy Old Men have been performing together for the past 22 years. The combo has a repertoire of more than 500 compositions, including standard ballads, swing-era hits, Broadway tunes, Latin favorites and bebop songs. They will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 10, at the Clemens Fine Arts Center on the Paducah campus. Tickets are $6 and will be available at the door. For more information, call 270-534-3212 or visit www.artsinfocus.org. — Adam Testa
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when Italian Village was open 24/7. Fresh ingredients have Now 75 years old, Bridges always been paramount to still works six days a week Italian Village’s success. and is proud of the hardEqually important has been earned niche he has carved Bridges’ willingness to put out in Carbondale. in long hours. He worked “It’s still the same great about 18 hours a day, seven food,” Bridges said. “We days a week, at the have served everyone from restaurant for close to the SIU students and faculty, first decade of operation. as well as people from our There was also a many surrounding towns. demanding stretch in the We have all of our 1970s and early 1980s customers to thank.”
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MOVIES Concerts Southern Illinois Motley Crue’s Vince Neil: 8 p.m. Saturday, March 10, Black Diamond HarleyDavidson Warehouse, Marion; tickets are limited; standing room only: $40; 618-453-6000; www. southernticketsonline.com. The Dorians: 7 p.m. Friday, March 16, Liberty Theater, Murphysboro; part of St. Patrick’s Day Festival; 618-684-5880. Gone with the Wind: Southern Illinois Musicians benefit for Harrisburg tornado victims, FridaySunday, March 16-18, various venues; music, Friday, March 16, Longbranch, Yellow Moon and Cobden Feed Store; music, Saturday and Sunday, Varsity Center for the Arts; Whistle Pigs, Tawl Paul, Old Frogskins, Banksters, Rog n Bob, Devin Miller and the Dead or Alives, Bill Harper, Brent Stewart, Swamp Tigers; for times and updates, 618-924-1095. Smoky Hollow String Band: 7-9 p.m. Saturday, March 17, Liberty Theater, Murphysboro; part of St. Patrick’s Day festivities; Celtic and old timey American music; $10; younger than 12, free; 618-684-4397.
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Blend: Forever Doo Wop ... A Tribute to the ’50s and ’60s, 2 p.m. Sunday, March 18, Harrisburg Middle School, 312 Bulldog Boulevard, US 45 South; Southeastern Illinois Alzheimer’s Association Benefit; 618-841-8943; 270-349-3394. Out of This World: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, Shryock Auditorium, SIU; Philadelphia Orchestra’s concertmaster, Carbondale native David Kim, returns to Shryock stage as violin soloist; $20/$8; www. southernticketsonline.com.
Kentucky Kentucky Opry Talent Search: 7:30 p.m. every Saturday night through April 7, Kentucky Opry, 88 Chilton Lane, Benton, Ky.; www.kentuckyopry.com; 888-459-8704.
Missouri Wind Ensemble Alumni Concert: 7 p.m. Saturday, March 10, Donald C. Bedell Performance Hall, River Campus, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau; performance by former members of the Southeast Wind Ensemble; free; reception to benefit scholarship fund.
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WANT TO BE LISTED? Call 618-351-5089 or email brenda.kirkpatrick@thesouthern.com. THURSDAY BENTON Duncan Dance Barn:: Spring Pond Opry Band, 6:30-9:30 p.m., 13545 Spring Pond Road CARBONDALE Hangar 9: Split Lip Rayfield/Whistle Pigs, 511 S. Illinois Ave. PK’s: Automony/Parlor, 308 S. Illinois Ave. Tres Hombres: Summercamp on the Road Tour, 10 p.m., 119 N. Washington St. WHITE ASH Scarlett’s Music Barn: Country Music Band, 7-10 p.m., 207 Potter St.
FRIDAY CARBONDALE Hangar 9: Swamp Tigers/Davy Jay Sparrow/The Ladybirds, 511 S. Illinois Ave. PK’s: Bone Dry River Band, 308 S. Illinois Ave. Tres Hombres: Soul Glo, 10 p.m., 119 N. Washington St. INA Ina Community Building: Friday Night Jam Band, 6:30-9:30 p.m. MARION Marion Youth Center: Craig’s Country Band, 6:30-9:30 p.m., 211 E. Boulevard
THOMPSONVILLE Old Country Store Dance Barn: Jeanita Spillman & the Sentimental Swing Band, 7-10 p.m., Main Street WHITTINGTON Corner Dance Hall: Rebel Country, 7:30-10:30 p.m., 200 Franklin St.
SATURDAY CARBONDALE Hangar 9: Secondary Modern, Freedom Ride and Bo and the Locomotive, 511 S. Illinois Ave. PK’s: Bosco and Whiteford, 308 S. Illinois Ave. Tres Hombres: The Venturis, 10 p.m., 119 N. Washington St. HERRIN Coloni’s Bar & Grill: Joey Odum, 8 p.m.-midnight, 3 Park Plaza MARION Hideout Restaurant: Bob Pina, piano 5:30-9:30 p.m. Marion Eagles: Salty Dog, 7-11 p.m., Rural Route 3 Ramesses: South of 70, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. THOMPSONVILLE Lion’s Cave: Swing “N” Country Band, 7-9:30 p.m., South Street Old Country Store Dance Barn: Lil’ Boot & Classic Country, 7-10 p.m., Main Street WHITTINGTON Corner Dance Hall: Music Magic by Jeff Carver, 7:30-10:30 p.m., 200 Franklin St.
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Coffeehouses, Cafés and Eateries Shawn Harmon: 7-10 p.m. Friday, The Blue Boar Restaurant, 820-920 Kratzinger Hollow Road, Cobden; 618-833-5858; www.facebook.com/pages/The-BlueBoar. Dave Simmons: 7-10 p.m. Saturday, The Blue Boar Restaurant, 820-920 Kratzinger Hollow Road, Cobden; 618-833-5858. Rip Lee Pryor: 1-4 p.m. Sunday, The Blue Boar Restaurant, 820-920 Kratzinger Hollow Road, Cobden; 618-833-5858.
Wineries The Natives: 5-9 p.m. Friday, Rustle Hill Winery, U.S. 51, Cobden Phil Powell: 2-5 p.m. Saturday, Blue Sky Vineyard, 3150 S. Rocky Comfort Road, Makanda Roxie Randle: 2-5 p.m. Saturday, Rustle Hill Winery, U.S. 51, Cobden Dirt Water Fox Band: 3-6 p.m. Saturday, Von Jakob Vineyard, 230 Illinois 127, Alto Pass Dirt Choir: 6-9 p.m. Saturday, Rustle Hill Winery, U.S. 51, Cobden Bruce Zimmerman: 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Rustle Hill Winery, U.S. 51, Cobden Bill Harper: 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Blue Sky Vineyard, 3150 S. Rocky
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Celebrating Southern Illinois Diversity: LEAA Art Iron: 2010: University Exhibit, Little Egypt Art Centre, Museum, SIU; pieces from SIU 601 Tower Square, Marion; metal artists; hours, 10 a.m.cultures and occupations are 4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 1the themes of this multi-media 4 p.m., Saturday; through art exhibit; through March 30; March 9; www.museum. www.littleegyptarts.com; siu.edu or 618-453-5388. 618-998-8530. Carbondale Park District Classic Images: Student Art: University Photographs by Ansel Museum, SIU; through March Adams: Cedarhurst Center for 9; www.museum.siu.edu or The Arts, Mount Vernon; 618-453-5388. normally $5 admission; free Sustain: A Juried Exhibition admission, Thursday; through of Recycled Art, University May 6; 618-242-1236; Museum, SIU; collegiate art www.cedarhurst.org. created from recycled Exhibits: Cedarhurst Center materials; through March 9; for The Arts, Mount Vernon; www.museum.siu.edu or New Work by the Students, 618-453-5388. Faculty and Staff, Department Creative Visions: Features of Cinema and Photography, work of ceramic artist Greg SIU-C and Totally Tubular Art Gibbs, woodworker Joe exhibit from Cedarhurst’s Landon, sculptor Darren Miller, After School Program; through glass artist Michelle Rial, May 6; 618-242-1236; painter Nina Weiss and jewelry www.cedarhurst.org. artist Sandra Wilcoxon; Shrode Fine Art & Craft Southern Illinois Art and Competition and Exhibit: Artisans Center, Whittington; Shrode Art Center at free; through March 15; Cedarhurst Center for the 618-629-2220. Arts, Mount Vernon; through Fern Fair Gallery Allstars: May 6; www.cedarhurst.org; Photos by Seymour Bryson, 618-242-1236. Carol Henry and Trish Kern, Fern Fair Gallery, 8609 Giant Receptions City Road, Carbondale; through March 16; www.fern Cherokee Language fair.com; 618-529-3376 Paintings: By Jannette Parent, Skirting Convention: the Tribeca Gallery, downtown Illinois Women Artists, Paducah; opening reception, 1840-1940: Quincy Art Center, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Quincy; examines a century of March 8; through May 1; female artists who defied www.apparentlypainted.com; conventions; works by 72 270-871-8773; 270-210-1753. women from Illinois including Acrylic paintings: By Anna artist Amy Kirkpatrick Harrietta Harper on display at and Southern Illinois artist Harrisburg District Library; Maude Parmley Craig; reception, 2-4 p.m. Sunday, through March 18. March 11; through April 9.
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Wineries showcasing artists Wineries throughout Southern Illinois are uniting to celebrate the diversity, culture and creativity of the Shawnee Hills’ wine and art during March. “Wine and Art Month is a natural joining of many people expressing themselves through many mediums — the artists with pen, paint, metal, wood and glass and the winemakers with grapes, other fruit, oak, steel and time,” said Jim Ewers, president of the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail Association. Each winery grants a different artist space to showcase their work for the month, creating a number of experiences and stops along the trail. Individual wineries also have special events, dinners and more planned for the month. Artist and wineries pairings include Jan York, Alto Vineyards; Sandra Herrin and Tienne Kollars, Blue Sky Vineyard; Gene Jakobs, Von Jakob Vineyard; Juhree Veach and Janet Altoff, StarView Vineyard; Nicole Roundtree-Mileur, Hickory Ridge Vineyard; Roberta Elliot, Pomona Winery; Jeff Engbring, Hedman Winery; Scott Albert, Kite Hill Vineyard; Barbara Boysen, Owl Creek Vineyard; and Taylor Reed, Rustle Hill Winery. Artists at Honker Hill Winery and Orlandini Vineyard are to be determined. — Adam Testa
Entries sought for photo contest PADUCAH — The Yeiser Art Center is seeking entries for the 37th annual Paducah Photo Juried International Photography Exhibition. The competition is open to all photographers working in digital or film, including color and blackand-white, photographic book arts and alternative processes. All work submitted must be original, completed in the past three years and not previously exhibited in a Paducah Photo exhibition.
Prizes include $1,000 for first place, $500 for second place, $300 for third place and two $100 prizes for honorable mention. A non-refundable entry fee of $8 per early entry and $10 per late entry is required. Photographers may submit up to five entries. Deadline for early submissions is April 27 and May 11 for late submissions. All entries must be in digital format and submitted online at www.paducahphoto.com. — Adam Testa
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PADUCAH — Jannette Parent will showcase her “Cherokee Language Paintings” series at the Tribeca Gallery this spring. Each piece features the title written in the Cherokee language. In 2005, Parent began learning the language. The language uses symbols to represent syllables. Each of the 85 characters symbolize a unique sound. Parent wants to tell a story with her paintings, passing along Cherokee myths and history through art. Less than 11,000 people speak the language, and most are older than 50. She hopes her work will help preserve the endangered tongue. An opening reception for Parent’s exhibit will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. tonight, March 8, at the gallery, 127 Market House Square. The exhibit remains on display through May 1. — Adam Testa
‘John Carter’ Former military captain John Carter is transported to Mars and becomes reluctantly embroiled in a conflict amongst the planet’s inhabitants; starring Taylor Kitsch, Willem Dafoe and Lynn Collins; directed by Andrew Stanton; rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence; opening Friday at ShowPlace 8 in Carbondale and AMC Centre 8 in Marion ‘A Thousand Words’ A fast-talking literary agent’s life comes unglued when a magical tree mysteriously appears in his yard, losing leaves every time he speaks; starring Eddie Murphy, Cliff Curtis and Allison Janney; directed by Brian Robbins; opening Friday at ShowPlace 8 in Carbondale
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‘Silent House’ will scare screams out of you Silent House **
“Silent House” was finished as Elizabeth Olsen was revealing herself as the Olsen sibling with big-screen charisma. The “Martha Marcy May Marlene” star and film festival darling is the “girl in jeopardy” in this “girl in jeopardy” thriller, set in a family’s creaky old lake house that they’re about to sell. BY ROGER MOORE That’s really all that’s MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS necessary — a girl, suddenly alone in a dark A horror movie that house in the middle of works cuts through nowhere. analysis, shrugs off Dad (Adam Trese) was opinions and snobbery there. But he went upstairs and eschews complexity — to check out a noise and either in technique or in disappeared. budget. You know it works Uncle Peter (Eric Sheffer when the hairs on the back Stevens) took off with the of your neck rise. It’s a only car. visceral reaction you can’t There’s no power, no control. phone, no “Can you hear You know it works when me now?” bars. And others in the audience, as someone, or something, is if moved by the spirit, talk plainly in the house with back to the screen. her.
Rated R for disturbing violent content and terror; starring Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese and Eric Sheffer Stevens; directed by Chris Kentis and Laura Lau; opening Friday at ShowPlace 8 in Carbondale and AMC Centre 8 in Marion
Co-directors Chris Kentis and Laura Lau, remaking an Argentinean film based on a Uruguayan story, establish that it’s still light outside in the real-time terror that unfolds around Sarah (Olsen). But inside the boardedup house, it’s dark. Lanterns and flashlights illuminate the spooky rooms. The filmmakers spent too much money on a fancy opening crane shot, and too little on the jittery but often effective hand-held photography that is standard practice in horror since “The Blair Witch Project.” The field of vision is limited to what Sarah can see right in front of her, never more than when she must use a Polaroid flash to illuminate a pitch-black room. Music and sound effects are used sparingly; Sarah’s screams are kept to a minimum.
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They give away where they’re going with this too easily and test the patience of the “Don’t GO in there” crowd by making Sarah mostly passive and her actions seemingly illogical. And the movie’s third act strips away its mysteries, much to its detriment. But those aren’t fatal failings for a movie whose terror can be read in every silent scream on Olsen’s gorgeous face, served up in more extreme close-ups than you can count. Sarah hides under tables and beds. The “intruder” — whose face we never see — seems to lose interest in chasing her, from time to time. Sarah doesn’t scream for help. She doesn’t pick up anything she could use to defend herself. With all the doors to the place padlocked, weak little Sarah can’t force her way out into the light. She must go into this room or that basement, fearfully clutching a light, to escape. Olsen is not playing a plucky Jamie Leigh Curtis (“Halloween”) variation, here. She plays Sarah as paralyzed, with paroxysms of fear that have her stifling screams, gulping because she keeps forgetting to breathe. That makes her the perfect surrogate for the horror movie fan, overwhelmed by what is happening, stunned into inaction by a confrontation with what could be the supernatural, and deaf — stone deaf — to the shouts of “Don’t GO in there” and “Get out from under that bed” — from the audience.