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Union County Colorfest features art, music, literature, children’s activities
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Scarecrows relaxing in the vineyard made up one of StarView’s fall displays at Colorfest in 2009.
UNION COUNTY — Organizations and businesses throughout Union County are gearing up for the annual Colorfest event this weekend. Several people will participate in events throughout the county that all celebrate a gathering of people, the invitation of tourists to the region and the changing of the leaf colors in the scenic Shawnee National Forest. Here are some highlights: On Saturday, the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine’s Children’s Medical Resource Network in Anna will sponsor its annual Kids’ Fest, featuring the seventh annual wiener dog race and fashion show and other activities like arts and crafts, games, catch-and-release fishing, face painting, train rides and health clinics. The activities run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Anna City Park. The wiener dog races and fashion show begin around 2:30 p.m. Admission is a suggested $3 donation but is not required. All proceeds will support the Children’s Medical Resource Network. Friends of Stinson Library, the support organization for Stinson Memorial Library in Anna, will also play host for a day of Colorfest activities, including a flea market, crafts and book sale at the library,
409 S. Main St. The event is from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Proceeds support the Book in Every Home Project. Local author Joanne Bond Dale of Anna will make two Colorfest appearances to sign copies of her book, “Random Jolts,” which collects weekly columns written by her mother, Gwen Bond, for the Dongola THE SOUTHERN FILE PHOTO Tri-County Record Andrea Stader of Tom Connelley, Andrea Stader and from 1949 through Friends performed at Colorfest in 2009. 1956. art and music celebration from noon The first signing will be from 1 to to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. 4 p.m. Saturday at Dongola Public Saturday will feature a fish fry and Library on North East Front Street, music from country-rock group The where Dale will speak about her Subject to Change Band featuring mother’s and her columns at 2 p.m. Dave Clark and alternative acoustic The second signing is that evening from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Union County performers Calex. Sunday’s show Museum in Cobden during a reception features blues artists Big Mike Aguirre and The Blu-City All Stars for the exhibit “By Men’s Hands.” and western swing group Giant City The book retails for $18.95 and Slickers. Both days of the event also proceeds benefit the Union County include tarot card readings, a Historical and Genealogical Society. Blue Sky Winery in Makanda, while magician and a balloon artist. There is a $6 cover charge that includes a in Jackson County, will be joining in souvenir glass and wine tasting. on its southern neighbor’s fun. The — Adam Testa winery will host a two-day Colorfest
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Crafts, barbecue, music and more on tap for weekend festivals Festival season continues to be in full bloom in Southern Illinois, as a number of local communities play host to their town celebrations again this weekend. Mount Vernon begins the Southern Illinois Harvest Festival with a queen pageant at the Times Square Mall on Saturday, followed by a Boat Drunks performance and margarita party at Tavern on Sunday. The festivities continue through the next week and into next weekend. A full list of events is at www.sil
harvestfest.mvn.net. Sesser hosts its annual Oktoberfest celebration Saturday, as craft vendors will be setting up shop at Miners’ Memorial City Park from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Carmi’s Corn Days return Friday with a corn hole tournament at 5:30 p.m. at the fairgrounds and a gospel sing at the middle school from 7 to 9 p.m. Behind Four Corners and Captain Crunch and the Cereal Killers will provide musical entertainment from 6 to 10:30 p.m. Saturday’s events include a 5K walk/run at
8:30 a.m., a washer pitching contest at 9 a.m., a car show from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Main Street, a chili cookoff at 11 a.m., a hot dog eating contest at 10:30 a.m., and king and queen coronation at 2 p.m. The Corn Day parade is from 4 to 6 p.m. A Band Called River and American Idol castoff Bo Bice round out the musical ensemble from 6 to 10 p.m. In deep Southern Illinois, Metropolis will play host to the annual Super City Blues and Ques, featuring two nights of music and barbecue. Bawn
in the Mash and Lew Jetton and 61 South entertain from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday. A backyard barbecue competition open to all entrees, sides, sauces and sweets is also Friday. Saturday’s events include a Kansas City BBQ Society cook-off, a hot dog eating competition at 4:30 p.m. and music all afternoon from Tommy Akers, Big House Radio and Jime & Monte. Golconda will also host its annual Golconda Fall Festival this weekend. The event runs from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the city courtyard. The event will feature various food and craft vendors selling their products and carriage rides. —Adam Testa
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Fete at the Fort Brew Festival: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Homecoming comedy Saturday, Fort de Chartres show: 8 p.m. today, Student near Prairie du Rocher; Center Ballrooms, SIUC; breweries from around the features Nema Williams, country showcase favorite Benji Brown and Cocoa craft beers at the fort; 18th Brown; $5; 618-536-3393; century re-enactors and www.spc4fun.com, www. music; $15, at the gate $20; facebook.com/spc.siuc. www.saveillinoishistory.com Mack & Jamie Live: or 618-334-2741 Comedy Tour, 7 p.m. Octoburlesque: 9 p.m., Saturday, Marion Cultural Saturday, Club Traz, and Civic Center; $25;/30; Carbondale; vaudeville show songs include, “Kiss This,” presented by Cabaret “You’ve Got to Stand for Decadance; social parody Something;” www.marion and satire; singing, dancing; ccc.org or 618-997-4030. 618-303-9944, www.cabaret decadance.com. Events 4-H corn maze: Bandy’s Pumpkin Patch, Johnston Civil War Days: 9 a.m.City; 4-H themed corn maze; 2 p.m. today, John A. Logan College, Carterville; starts in 10 acre maze features more than 95 decision points Conference Center; reanactors behind the gym; along the nearly 3.5 miles of twists and turns; allow 20 speakers on The Life of a minutes to one hour; 618Civil War Soldier, firing of a 687-1727 or 618-922-6014. cannon, Lincoln Game Nite: Friday, impersonator; free; 618-985American Legion Post 147, 2828, ext. 8137.
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tickets start $30; 270-450-4444, www.thecarsoncenter.org. The Laramie Project: A re-enactment of interviews with residents of Laramie, Wyo., relating to the events surrounding the death of Matthew Shepherd, who was attacked and left to die because he was gay; mature themes and graphic language; presented by The Stage Co., 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 15-16; 2 p.m. Sunday, and Oct. 17; Varsity Center for the Arts, 418 S. Illinois Ave., Carbondale; adults, $15, students, $10; 618-549-5466 or www.stagecompany.org. The Spencers: Theatre of Illusion, 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 15, Carson Center, 100 Kentucky Ave., Paducah; illusion/magic; $15/$7.50; 270-4504444 or www.thecarsoncenter.org. Crazy for You: Friday-Sunday, Oct. 15-17, McLeod Theater, SIUC; 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday; high-energy musical; $16/$14/$6; http://southerntickets online.com or 618-453-6000. Into the Woods: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 15 and Saturday, Oct. 16, and
2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17, Southeastern Illinois College, Harrisburg; musical mashup of several children’s classics, with an adult twist; $6/$8; 618-252-5400, ext. 2486 or 2487. M*A*S*H: 7:30 p.m. FridaySaturday, Oct. 22-23 and 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24, Marion Cultural and Civic Center; $12/$10; by the Paradise Alley Players; www.marion ccc.org or 618-997-4030. Diary of Anne Frank: 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 25, Carson Center, 100 Kentucky Ave., Paducah; $15/$7.50; www.thecarsoncenter.org. AILEY II: The junior company of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 2, Shyrock Auditorium, SIUC; 618-453-6000; http://southernticketsonline.com. CATS: 7:30 p.m. TuesdayWednesday, Nov. 9 and 10, Shryock Auditorium, SIUC; tickets on sale noon, Monday for Star Club members; tickets may be purchased by the general public starting noon, Oct. 18; $29-$69; http://southern ticketsonline.com and 618-4536000.
Fete at the Fort will highlight beer, history PRAIRIE DU ROCHER — Save Illinois History’s Fete at the Fort will offer patrons a chance to sample some of the region’s finest brews while also enjoying one of Southern Illinois’ renown historic sites. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, representatives of local breweries will be at Fort de Chartres. Participants include Anheuser Busch, Boulevard Brewery, Schlafly, Magic Hat, Leinenkeugal, Blue Moon and Big Muddy. Re-enactors portraying natives, French and British soldiers will be staying at the camp and offering demonstrations and entertainment during the event. Tickets are $20 at the gate and include a commemorative tasting glass. —Adam Testa
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Vincent Rhomberg, marketing coordinator of the SIUC Department of Theater, said of the 2009 Tony Award winner. “She’s a combination of anxiety and joy, part beatnik, part performance artist, all spirit and
thrilling energy.” Ripley has performed in a number of Broadway performances, including 2009’s “Next to Normal,” which earned her the Tony for Best Actress in a Musical. Ripley will visit the SIUC
theater department Saturday and Sunday. Her performance is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday in McLeod Theater, in the SIUC Communications Building. The concert is free. — Adam Testa
Liberty Theater ‘feelin’ lucky’ with Clint Eastwood weekend MURPHYSBORO — Clint Eastwood is featured in a special weekend showcase at the Liberty Theater this weekend. Eastwood’s “A Fistful of Dollars” begins the weekend at 7 p.m. Friday, with “For a Few Dollars More” at 7 p.m. Saturday and “The Good, The Bad and the Ugly” at 2 p.m. Sunday. A donation of $5 per person is requested. Here’s the fall schedule: z “Yojimbo” (1961), 7 p.m. tonight z Apples and Hand Grenades concert, 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16 z “Halloween” (1978), 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22
z Josh Brown concert, 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23 z “Frankenstein” (1931), costume contest, 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 31 z “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” (2008), Noon, 2 and 4 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 6 z “The Grass is Greener” (1960), 7 p.m. Friday. Nov. 11 z “That Touch of Mink” (1962), 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12 z “The Long Good Friday” (1980), 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 18 z “The Goonies” (1985), 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20 z “Pollyanna” (1960), 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 21 — Adam Testa
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Classic children’s characters collide in ‘Into the Woods’ HARRISBURG — A number of classic children’s tales will collide next weekend when Southeastern Illinois College opens its 2010-11 theater season with Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s musical mash-up “Into the Woods.” The play tells the story of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and several others venturing into the woods and leading the audience on a memorable journey. “The characters may be figures from children’s literature, but their journey is filled with twists and turns,” said theater instructor Allan Kimball. “Their journey is filled with the twists and turns, laughter and tears that each of us face as we navigate through our adult lives.” Performances are set for 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 15, and Saturday, Oct. 16, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17. Tickets are $6 for students, staff and seniors and $8 for the general public. For more information to request tickets, call 618-252-5400 ext. 2486 or 2487. — Adam Testa
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‘Crazy for You’ gives new spin to Broadway classic CARBONDALE — Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Department of Theater launches its 2010-11 season next weekend with “Crazy For You,” a reconfiguration of the 1930 Broadway hit “Girl Crazy.” Written by Ken Ludwig and featuring music by George and Ira Gershwin, the high-energy musical tells the story of a New York City playboy who’s bitten by the showbiz bug and is sent by his mother to foreclose on a music hall in Deadrock, Nev. He falls in love with a local girl and attempts to win her heart by posing as a musical producer and staging a theatrical extravaganza to save the music hall. The show plays at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 14, Friday, Oct. 15, and Saturday Oct. 16. A 2 p.m. matinee is set for Sunday, Oct. 17. Tickets for the show are $16 for adults, $14 for seniors and $6 for students. A four-show subscription package – also including December’s “Alchemy of Desire/Dead-Man’s Blues,” February’s “Tartuffe” and April’s Macbeth — is also available for $52 for adults and seniors and $24 for students. Tickets can be ordered online at SouthernTicketsOnline.com or by calling 618-453-4000 or purchased in PROVIDED person at the McLeod Theater Box Andrea Gedrasik and Carl Herzog are Office in the SIUC Communications Polly and Bobby in SIUC’s production of ‘Crazy for You.’ Building. — Adam Testa
Cabaret Decadance brings burlesque to Club Traz CARBONDALE — Cabaret Decadance will bring its unique vaudeville-style burlesque show to Club Traz this weekend. The group has been performing together for more than 10 years at obscure venues around Southern Illinois and has broken into more mainstream venues such as the Yellow Moon Café in Cobden and PK’s in Carbondale this year. Organizers say Saturday’s “Octoburleque” will be the group’s biggest extravaganza yet. Performers stay true to the original sense of burlesque and perform social parody and satire, interpreted through song and dance. Doors to the event open at 9 PROVIDED p.m. at Club Traz, 213 E. Main St. Cabaret Decadance stays true to original burlesque style, which is nothing like the modern take on it.
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Logan opens season with ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ CARTERVILLE — John A. Logan College begins its 2010-11 Performance Series with Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire.” The classic tale tells the story of Blance du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions and has been led to rejecting life’s realities. She finds herself forced to deal with her sister, with whom she moves into a New Orleans home, and her husband. Showtimes are Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. Tickets are $12 for the general public and $5 for students and children younger than age 12. They can be purchased at the door or in advance at the Logan College Student Activities office or by calling 618-985-2828 ext. 8613. — Adam Testa
Step competition, Miss Eboness pageant highlight SIUC Homecoming events CARBONDALE — Teams from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Eastern Illinois University and the University of Illinois will battle it out in a “stepping” competition this weekend, as part of SIUC’s Homecoming activities. The Beta Eta chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity will host “Stepping in Little Egypt” at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Shryock Auditorium. Tickets for the event are $17 in advance and $22 the day of the show. They can be purchased at the door or at http://southern ticketsonline.com. The next night, the fraternity will host the 39th annual Miss Eboness pageant at
7 p.m. at Shryock. Eight women will vie for the crown and the right to represent the organization at the statewide level. Tickets for the pageant are $7 if purchased before the event and $9 that day. An after-party for the pageant will take place at 10 p.m. at the SIUC Student Rec Center. DJ Drama will be providing the entertainment for the night. Tickets are $27 prior to Saturday and $32 that day. Combo deals are available with pageant tickets. More information is available at http:// southernticketsonline. com. The Homecoming parade is also scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Saturday, and the Salukis will play Northern Iowa at 2 p.m. at Saluki Stadium. A full schedule can be found online at www.siuc studentcenter.org/ homecoming. — Adam Testa
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‘CATS’ to pounce into Shryock for Nov. 9 and 10 shows CARBONDALE — The show often credited with revolutionizing musical theater makes its way to Southern Illinois for two shows in November. Southern Lights Entertainment will present “CATS” at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9 and 10 at Shryock Auditorium. With original direction by Trevor Nunn and choreography by Gillian Lynee, this nationally touring version of “Cats” is the one credited with the British invasion of Broadway. The tour recently celebrated its 27th anniversary season, holding its place as
the longest continuously touring Broadway musical in history. Tickets for the show go on sale to Star Club members at noon Monday and to the general public at noon Oct. 18. Star Club members receive a $3 discount on all tickets and a $10 discount for children age 12 and younger. Tickets range in price from $29 to $69 and can be purchased online at http://southernlightsentertainment.co m or by calling 618-453-6000. — Adam Testa
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z MOVIES z ART z MUSIC z WINERIES z THEATER z THINGS TO DO z BOOKS z boom.com/alice.html, The Oak Ridge Boys; Battle of the Bands: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 12, Saturday, Oct. 23, Shryock Auditorium, SIUC; Pinckneyville; bands of any Oak Ridge Boys hits and genre; $40 entry fee; winner holiday favorites; general will open for Head East on public tickets on sale, noon, Oct. 28 plus have Oct. 28 Monday; http://southern performance recorded by lightsentertainment.com; J.Jam Productions; 618-318- southernticketsonline.com or 0730. 618-453-6000. Christine Bauer: 7 p.m. Concerts Wednesday, Oct. 27, Carbondale Unitarian Southern Illinois Fellowship, 105 N. Parrish Chamber Orchestra Lane; interactive event with a Kremlin: 7:30 p.m., Saturday, sing-a-long; refreshments; Performance Hall, Mitchell jelizah1948@yahoo.com or Museum, Cedarhurst Center terrinina@gmail.com. for the Arts, Mount Vernon; in Head East: Thursday, Oct. honor of Jerome Mileur; $20; 28, Perry County grandstand, students and music teachers Pinckneyville; part of Mardi $5; www.chamberorchestra Gras festivities; $10; 618-357kremlin.ru; 618-242-1236, ext. 3243; www.pinckneyville. 234, or www.cedarhurst.org. com/mardigras10.php. Tony Award Winner: Alice Zach Spencer Band: noon, Ripley performance, 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29, O’Neil Sunday, McLeod Theater, Auditorium, John A. Logan SIUC; free; http://www.sh-k- College, Carterville; free;
Call for Bands
www.zachspencermusic.com; 618-985-2828, ext. 8287. Aaron Tippin: 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29, Marion Cultural and Civic Center; $25/30; songs include, “Kiss This,”“You’ve Got to Stand for Something;” www.marionccc.org, 618-9974030 Big Bad Voodoo Daddy: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29, Shyrock Auditorium, SIUC, Southern Lights Entertainment; swing band; http://southernticketsonline. com or 618-453-6000. Barbershop Harmony Show: By Little Egypt Chorus, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday Oct. 30, Herrin Civic Center; songs by the chorus and The Pitch Catchers, Touch Of Old and Classic Intervals; $10$15; 618-833-3228. or www. harmonize.com/littleegypt chorus/10show.html
Indiana The Diamonds: Features
hit song, “Lil Darlin,’” 3 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Boot City Opry, 11800 S. Highway 41, Terre Haute; $15; www.boot cityopry.com; http://the diamonds.cc/ or 812-2998379.
Kentucky Willie Nelson Tribute Show: By Mike Owens plus guests, The Pickin’ Chicks, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Kentucky Opry, 88 Chilton Lane, Benton, Ky.; $21/$7.50; 270-527-3869 or www. kentuckyopry.com. David Allan Coe: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct 21, Carson Center, Paducah; $25-$50; www.the carsoncenter.org or 270-450-4444. The American Led Zeppelin Experience: Get the Led Out Tour, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20, Carson Center, Paducah; $23-$43; www.gtlorocks.com or www.the carsoncenter.org.
New on CD Pop Raul Malo “Sinners and Saints” ***½ A tenor voice capable of Orbisonesque grandeur may be Raul Malo’s chief calling card, going back to his days as leader of the progressive country band the Mavericks. Especially since he left to go solo, however, the Miami native has also been creating a genre-mashing musical style as intoxicatingly rich as it is all his own. So it’s telling that the lead and title track of “Sinners and Saints,” a kind of Latin/R&B hybrid that builds slowly from solo trumpet to urgent fullband arrangement, goes on for well over two minutes before that big voice even comes in. The song also has a Malo guitar solo that blends flamenco and surf. And that’s how it goes throughout. “Staying Here” mixes retroish wah-wah guitar with a flamenco solo in a number that’s mostly country. “San Antonio Baby” and “Superstar” are crazily
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infectious Tex-Mex romps. “Living for Today” is a rocking message song, while “Matter Much to Me” showcases the singer’s crooner side. And amid all that is a knockout take on the familiar Rodney Crowell ballad “‘Til I Gain Control Again.”
Jazz Chucho Valdes “Chucho’s Steps” ***½ Cuban pianist Chucho Valdes presents his “AfroCuban Messengers,” paying homage with those words to Dizzy Gillespie’s big band and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Valdes, a legendary Cuban bandleader and son of noted pianist Bebo Valdes, doesn’t stop there. He pays tribute to keyboardist Joe Zawinul with “Zawinul’s Mambo,” which has generous amounts of the tune “Birdland.” The session is clinical and somewhat automatic at times, but there’s no disputing Valdes’ spine-tingling artistry. — McClatchy-Tribune News
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students, $5; cousinandy.org Tim “The Magic Man” Needham: Magician, 7-9 p.m. Wednesdays, Fat Patties, 611B S. Illinois Ave., Carbondale; 618-529-3287
Wineries Slappin’ Henry Blue w/Tawl Paul: 6-9 p.m. Friday, Rustle Hill Winery Subject to Change Band/Calex: Part of Colorfest, Saturday, Blue Sky Vineyard Bill Harper: 2-5 p.m. Saturday, Rustle Hill Winery Carter, Connelly & Stader: 2-6 p.m. Saturday, StarView Vineyards Swamp Tigers: 3-6 p.m. Saturday, Von Jakob Vineyard Ivas John: 3-7 p.m. Saturday, The Bluffs Winery Breeden, Bradley & Maze: 6-9 p.m. Saturday, Rustle Hill Winery Nikko Smith: 6 p.m. Saturday, Walker’s Bluff
Giant City Slickers: 12:30-5:30 p.m. Saturday, Alto Vineyards; part of Colorfest Colorfest music: Features Big Mike Aguirre & The BluCity All Stars, Giant City Slickers, Sunday, Blue Sky Vineyard Fertile Soil: 2-6 p.m. Sunday, The Bluffs Winery Blue Plate Specials: 1-5 p.m. Sunday, StarView Vineyards Phil & Chuck: 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Rustle Hill Winery Carmen & Grant: 3-6 p.m., Sunday, Von Jakob Vineyard Blues Bandits: 6-9 p.m. Sunday, Rustle Hill Winery; Librafest, party for Libras
Alto Vineyards: Illinois 127, Alto Pass, www.alto vineyards.net or 618-8934898 Blue Sky Vineyard: 3150 S. Rocky Comfort Road, Makanda; 618-995-9463 or www.blueskyvineyard.com The Bluffs Vineyard and Winery: 140 Buttermilk Hill Road, Ava; 618-763-4447 or www.thebluffswinery.com Rustle Hill Winery: U.S. 51, Cobden; 618-893-2700 or www.rustlehillwinery.com
StarView Vineyards: 5100 Wing Hill Road, Cobden; 618 893-9463, www.starview vineyards.com Von Jakob Orchard: 230 Illinois 127, Alto Pass; 618893-4600 or www.vonjakob vineyard.com Von Jakob Vineyard: 1309 Sadler Road, Pomona; 618893-4500. Walker’s Bluff: North on Reed Station Road, Carterville; 618-985-8463 or www.walkersbluff.com
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Dragon: Brantley Gilbert Swing, 7-10 p.m. w/Brent Cobb & Cache BENTON Duncan Dance Barn:: Spring River, 8:30 p.m. Pond Band, 6:30-9:30 p.m. PK’s: Boondock Billies Tres Hombres: The Rum CARBONDALE Pinch Penny/Copper Drum Ramblers
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Paul Reynolds & Band, 7-10 p.m. THOMPSONVILLE Lion’s Cave: Rebel Country Band, 7-10 p.m. Old Country Store Dance Barn: Country Sidekicks, 7:30-10:30 p.m. WHITE ASH The White Ash Barn: The. Heartland Country Band, 7-10 p.m. WHITTINGTON Corner Dance Hall: Prospectors Band, 7:3010:30 p.m.
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Pina, piano 5:30-9:30 p.m. Marion Eagles: Salty Dog, 8 p.m.-midnight MOUNT VERNON Double K’s Kickin Country: Jacks-R-Better, 7-10 p.m. SPILLERTOWN Track Side Dance Barn: Mike & Band, 7-10 p.m. THOMPSONVILLE Lion’s Cave: Swing ‘N’ Country Band (formerly Weekenders), 7-9:30 p.m. Old Country Store Dance Barn: Lil’ Boot & Classic Country, 7:30-10:30 p.m.
DIRECTIONS & DIGITS Andy’s Country Club: 1602 Old Creal Springs Road, Marion 618-997-6989 Corner Dance Hall: 200 Franklin St., Whittington 618-303-5266 Crazy Horse Bar: 14747 Illinois 14, Benton 618-439-6179. Double K’s Kickin Country: Illinois 37, Mount Vernon 618359-0455 Duncan Dance Barn: 13545 Spring Pond Road, Benton 618435-6161 Gatsbys Bar & Billiards: 610 S Illinois Ave Carbondale, 618549-9234 Ina Community Building: 504 Elm St., Ina 618-315-2373 John Brown’s on the Square: 1000 Tower Square, Marion 618-997-2909 Just One More Bar & Grill: 1301 Enterprise Way, Marion 618993-9687 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 Maddie’s Pub and Grub: 14960 Illinois 37, Johnston City 618983-8107 Marion American Legion: Longstreet Road, Marion 618997-6168 Marion Eagles: Rural Route 3, Marion 618-993-6300 Mollie’s: 107 E. Union St., Marion 618-997-3424 Murphysboro Elks Lodge: 1809 Shomaker Drive Murphysboro 618-684-4541. Old Country Store Dance Barn: Main Street, Thompsonville, 618-927-2770. Park Plaza Pub: 3 Park Plaza, Herrin, 618-988-1556 Perfect Shot Bar & Billiards: 3029 S. Park Ave., Herrin, 618942-4655 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 Tavern on 10th: 224 S. 10th St., Mount Vernon 618-244-7821 Trackside Dance Barn: 104 Rock St., Spillertown 618-993-3035 Trails End Lodge: 1425 Skyline Drive, Cobden 618-893-6135 Tres Hombres: 119 N. Washington St., Carbondale 618-457-3308 WB Ranch Barn: 1586 Pershing Road, West Frankfort West Frankfort Moose Lodge: 327 E. Main St. 618-932-3455 Whisker Willy’s Bar & Grill 13510 N. Illinois 37, Marion; 618-9835300
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Penrod, Crabb to share the stage for the first time PADUCAH — Two country music stars will share the stage for the first time next week, as they unite for an evening of Christ-centered ministry. Guy Penrod and Jason Crabb will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 14, at the Carson Center, 100 Kentucky Ave. in Paducah. The show is presented by Kerusso Promotions in affiliation with PROVIDED Hardin Baptist Church. Tickets for the concert start at $25 and are available by Guy Penrod and Jason Crabb bring country and calling the box office at 270-450-4444 Christian music to the Carson Center. or online at www.thecarsoncenter.org. Penrod performed for Bill Gaither’s Vocal Band for 14 years before recently departing. Born in Texas, he grew up to be a behind-the-scenes Nashville mainstay before taking center stage as a major name in the Southern gospel scene. Crabb was born into a musical family, as he became a longtime powerhouse lead vocalist for The Crabb Family. He’s performed at Carnegie Hall, become a fan favorite at the Grand Ole Opry and sang for the Rev. Billy Graham’s farewell crusade. — Adam Testa
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Brantley Gilbert brings hard-rocking country style to Copper Dragon sophomore follow-up effort, “Halfway to Heaven,” which contains outlaw anthem “Kick It in the Sticks.” Vince Hoffard Brantley will be appearing tonight at the rantley Gilbert is Copper Dragon in acutely aware of Carbondale. Admission is everything around $15. Doors open at 8 p.m. him. With a keen eye and Special guest Brent Cobb ear, he absorbs tiny details will take the stage at from routine life. 8:30 p.m., followed by Then, like an inspired local band Cache River. painter, he pours out his During a telephone heart in the lyrics of four- interview Tuesday, Gilbert minute compositions. He said he is excited about is a songwriter. visiting the club because it Gilbert translates the is named after something tunes he writes with an sacred to him. aggressive, hard-rocking “Man, I’ll always be a country style that has Dragon. We were the struck a chord with Dragons at Jefferson High younger audiences. He hits School, which is near the road constantly to Athens (Ga.). I played promote his material, football and was a pretty especially in major college good free safety and towns throughout the returned punts. I had South. The whirlwind several scholarship offers,” schedule and marathon he said. “My body was a bus rides often leave him lot different back then. I geographically confused. weighed 205 and could “We ride for a long time, bench over 300. I’m but you can always tell smaller now.” when you are getting close Instead of athletics, to the venue when you Gilbert concentrated on start seeing a lot of becoming a rehabilitation jacked-up trucks and girls counselor while attending in sun dresses and cowboy college. Those plans were boots,” Gilbert said. derailed five years ago in a Chances are those near fatal automobile vehicles will be cranking accident. He suffered a Gilbert’s music, including severe head injury when he last year’s breakout album, was tossed from a flipping “A Modern Day Prodigal car and into a tree. Son,” and 2010’s He has used songwriting
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listened to it and cut it immediately.” Aldean is a big fan of Gilbert. He included Gilbert’s “The Best of Me” on a previous album and has two on his upcoming album, including “My Kinda Party” and “Dirt Road Anthem.” “It’s flattering that he wants to cut my songs. He carries a lot of weight in this industry,” Gilbert said. The 25-year-old Gilbert has not migrated to Nashville, Tenn. He still resides on the outskirts of Athens, Ga. As a matter of fact, the video for “Kick It in the Sticks” was shot in his backyard. “We filmed it at 7:30 in the morning and it was freezing cold. All the bikers you see are brothers of mine and guys I ride with all the time,” Gilbert said. “Filming was hard work. I did a back flip off a car and was limping around for a month. I told PROVIDED a girl the other day I may be 25, but sometimes I feel Brantley Gilbert will perform tonight at Copper Dragon in 76. She brought a walker Carbondale. Doors open at 8 p.m. and admission is $15. for me to the show and Special guest Brent Cobb begins the show at 8:30 p.m., gave it to me. It was followed by Cache River. hilarious.” his most significant as therapy to recover Gilbert is proud music memory loss caused by the writing credit to date. from his home state is “Jason was in the middle getting recognized. Alan wreck and is currently of a recording session and Jackson and Travis Tritt enjoying enormous taking a break when ‘My success. He penned the are Georgia natives that Kinda Party’ was pitched current Jason Aldean made a huge impact on the to him,” Gilbert said. “He single “My Kinda Party,” country scene. Corey Sesser Area Chamber of Commerce Oktoberfest 2010 Saturday, October 9, 2010 8:00 A.M. - 4.00 P .M. Sesser Miners' Memorial City Park
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Smith, Colt Ford, Zac Brown, Jason Aldean and Gilbert are now following in their footsteps. Three of Gilbert’s best live songs, “Kick It in the Sticks,” “Dirt Road Anthem” and “G.R.I.T.S.”, are included on a recently released Mud Digger compilation CD, which also includes contributions from Ford, Sunny Ledfurd and Matt Stillwell. Deliberating whether the fame and fortune offered by potential success in the business is worth the sacrifice of nonstop travel and constant pressure to create quality material is a dilemma every artist must face, Gilbert said. “I chose this life for a reason. I want to touch people with my music,” he said. “There are demands that come with the job. Being allowed to do what I do is a blessing and a curse. I cry and whine all the time about things, but here lately the blessings are really starting to stack up, and I’m thankful.” Gilbert just wrapped up work on a video for his soon-to-be-released single “My Kind Of Crazy.” VINCE HOFFARD can be reached at 618-658-9095 or vincehoffard@yahoo. com.
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Russian orchestra to perform at Cedarhurst MOUNT VERNON — A renown Russian orchestra will perform for a Southern Illinois audience this weekend. The Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, formed in 1991 by music director Misha Rachlevsky, has performed more than 1,400 concerts in 24 countries. They will open the Cedarhurst Center for the Arts’ 2010-11 concert series at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the PROVIDED Performance Hall of Chamber Orchestra Kremlin has received acclaim from its appearances and recordings. the Mitchell Museum. The orchestra has recorded more than 30 CDs and received widespread acclaim and awards from around the globe. More information about the orchestra can be found at www.chamberorchestrakremlin.ru. Ticket prices are $20 for adults, $18 for Cedarhurst members and $5 for students and music teachers. They can be purchased at Cedarhurst in advance or at the door. Cedarhurst is at 2600 Richview Road. For more information, call 618-242-1236 ext. 234 or visit www.cedarhurst.org. — Adam Testa
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School of Music presents faculty recitals CARBONDALE — Several Southern Illinois University Carbondale School of Music faculty members will present recitals this month. Eric Lenz and Paul Transue will present a cello and piano concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Old Baptist Fountain Recital Hall on campus. Lenz is active with local ensembles, including the Southern Illinois Chamber Music Society and Neoteric, a new-music ensemble featuring SIUC School of Music faculty. Lenz’s musical performances include early music, as well as brand-new works, regular appearances with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra and the Missouri Symphony Summer Festival orchestra and many guest appearances. Transue, assistant professor of collaborative piano and opera coach at SIUC, was head opera coach and head of music preparation for the Opera on the Avalon Summer Festival. His credits include Seattle Opera, Toledo Opera, Lyric Opera Cleveland and more. David Lyons, a collaborative pianist at SIUC, takes the stage with flutist Douglas Worthen on Friday, Oct. 15 for a concert beginning at 7:30 p.m. The two present a program of Bach, Copeland, Poulenc and more. Worthen’s recent recording project for Musica Omnia, “Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Six Sonatas, Op. 91,” saw him using a baroque flute for authenticity in recording. He performed regularly with the Handel and Haydn Society, and currently holds the first flute position with the Granite State Symphony Orchestra in Concord, N.H. His previous recordings include “Classical Flute Quartets” with the famed Mannheim Quartet. All performances are free. — University Communications
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Josh Duhamel and Katherine Heigl star in ‘Life As We Know It,’ opening Friday.
Heigl makes the most out of mediocrity in ‘Life’ Life as We Know It ** ½ Rated PG-13 for sexual material, language and some drug content; starring Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel and Josh Lucas; directed by Greg Berlanti; opening Friday at University Place 8 in Carbondale and Illinois Centre 8 in Marion. BY ROGER MOORE MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS
Uneven and sloppily sentimental, “Life as We Know It” is still the best Katherine Heigl comedy since “Knocked Up.” Credit her co-star, Josh Duhamel for that. As he has done in many a lessworthy romantic comedy, he amplifies her charm. And she, in turn, brings out his sweet side. And credit the script, which gives her more to play than your average “Ugly Truth.” “Life as We Know It” is about two seriously mismatched people — once hurled together on a disastrous blind date —
suddenly bonded together for life when their mutual friends die and will them into raising their infant daughter. Messer (Duhamel) is a womanizing, motorcycleriding TV director for the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks. Holly (Heigl) likes her high heels high and her life organized. She runs a hip bakery and is utterly devoted to her college pal, Alison, even though Alison was responsible for “the Messer debacle of 2007.” That’s the blind date Alison set Holly up on with Messer, a pal of Alison’s beau, Peter. The date was a disaster. They spend the next couple of years meeting, awkwardly, at Alison and Peter’s wedding and assorted parties, including their daughter’s first birthday. Then Alison and Peter are killed. Director Greg Berlanti deftly turns this film on a dime a couple of times — giving us decent tearjerking moments, beginning with the one where the two not-friends mourn the loss of this
young couple with a baby. Life as they know it has changed. The they-can’tget-along comedy resumes, now with diaper jokes, projectile vomiting, drop-the-baby gags, that magical babysitter who knows how to calm children and such. These two people who haven’t committed, haven’t fully grown up, suddenly are given responsibilities by friends who are not there to see to it that they succeed. It lumbers along and the plot takes far too many predictable turns. But the weight of the material suits Heigl’s skills. She’s not the gorgeous romantic victim. As in “Knocked Up,” a baby makes all the difference in the world. And as uneven as it is, “Life as We Know It” still goes down like comic comfort food, especially for anybody who’s ever dealt with parenthood. A baby makes us grow up and changes our lives and as this film points out, that’s not just a diaper joke.
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‘Secretariat’ falls short of finishing the race Secretariat **
Diane Lane stars as Penny Chenery, the plucky, rich Virginia horsewoman who wouldn’t let her daddy’s family farm be sold and who gambled, wheeled and dealt on the hooves of Big Red to save it. “You run your race, Penny,” Daddy (Scott Glenn) always told her. So she’s not about to let a pushy sibling (Dylan BY ROGER MOORE Walsh) sell the place after MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS Daddy passes. She endures Secretariat, the 1973 super separation from her own horse, was no Seabiscuit. And family, back in Colorado, the sexism of the Old Boy’s that creates problems that network of thoroughbred “Secretariat,” the movie, breeders of the 1960s and never overcomes. A well’70s and resolves to make a acted tale of an underdog’s go of it with Meadow Farm. triumph that sorely lacks an She got the farm back on its underdog, it teeters between feet, found success and then pleasantly generic film found Secretariat and had the biography and rank good sense to hang onto him manipulation.
Rated PG for brief mild language; starring Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Scott Glenn and James Cromwell; directed by Randall Wallace; opening Friday at ShowPlace 8 in Carbondale and Illinois Centre 8 in Marion.
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as the going got tough. She hired a trainer, given a wildeyed and wild-wardrobed French-Canadian eccentricity by John Malkovich. Lane gives some emotional heft to Chenery, but there aren’t enough scenes showing what she’s giving up (watching her kids grow up). And we’re left with bland exhortations to the horse and about the horse. “Secretariat is not afraid! And neither am I!” The film leaves the previous year’s Meadow Farm Triple Crown threat, Riva Ridge, and the riches that horse delivered mostly out of the story. The script invents situations and characters and lapses into melodrama pretty much every time it does. But many are the charms of
watching Lane go toe to toe with that playful old pro, James Cromwell (as a rich rival who can’t help but be nice to her). And Malkovich chews up the scenery, a necessity here when your central character is a horse. Director Randall Wallace (“We Were Soldiers”) rarely finds the poetry in this horse tale, with the racing scenes never quite hitting their stride, never sending the chills that the great horse pictures — from “The Black Stallion” through “Seabiscuit” — delivered. What he’s made is the trailer to a much better movie, one that might have earned the too-early Oscar buzz that swirled, briefly, around Lane a couple of months ago.
STUDIO
‘Secretariat,’ starring Diane Lane and John Malkovich, opens Friday.
z MOVIES z POP CULTURE z ART z MUSIC z WINERIES z THEATER z THINGS TO DO z BOOKS z DANCE z Art Classes Art classes for children and adults: Starting Thursday, Oct. 21, Little Egypt Arts Centre, downtown square, Marion; taught by Missy Carstens; 618-9970421, allencarstens@frontier. com.
Exhibits Traveling display: Highlights of SIUC photojournalism project, Murphysboro Chamber of Commerce Office, 206 S. 13th St; pictures collected during a workshop documenting a weekend in Murphysboro; through October; www.south of64.com. Arthur C. Danto’s Woodblock Prints: Capturing Art and Philosophy, SIUC University Museum; through Monday; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 1-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday; www. museum.siu.edu or 618-4535388. Glass at 40: Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the SIUC glass program, SIUC University Museum; exhibit Tuesday-Dec. 11; reception, 4-8 p.m. Oct. 30; exhibit features work of artist Bill Boysen, now professor emeritus, who launched the program, and student work; www.museum.siu.edu or 618453-5388. Visiting Artist Series: Billie Brannan, Rend Lake College, Ina, theater lobby; through Thursday, Oct. 14; 618-4375321. Gathering of Quilts: Mitchell Museum and Shrode Art Center, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, 2600 E. Richmond Road, Mount Vernon; 25 quilts; 10 a.m.5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday; free; through Oct. 17; 618-242-1236 or www.cedarhurst.org. Southern Illinois Metalsmith Society: Form, Fabricate, Forge, SIUC University Museum; metal artists; through Oct. 17; www. museum.siu.edu.
Under the Influence of Ducks: M.A. Papanek-Miller, Main Gallery of the Mitchell Museum at Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, 2600 Richview Road, Mount Vernon; through Oct. 17; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. TuesdaySaturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday; free; 618-242-1236 or www.cedarhurst.org. Japanese Kite Prints: Barbara J. Beck Family Education Center, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mount Vernon; through Oct. 17; 618242-1236, www.cedarhurst.org. Ghosts, A Retrospective: Ed Shay sculpture and watercolors, through Oct. 30, SIUC University Museum; www.museum.siu. edu or 618-453-5388. Putting It All Together: Collage art by Arlene Ehleben Berry, Tribeca Restaurant & Gallery, 127 S. 2nd St., Paducah; through Nov. 2; 270-210-1753. Art for Empowerment: Longbranch Coffeehouse, 100 E. Jackson, Carbondale; features works by survivors of abuse and trauma to benefit The Women’s Center; through Nov. 8; 618-529-4488 or www.thewomensctr.org. Transformation — A Journey into the Subconscious: Dr. Linda Hostalek, Holistic Wellness Institute, Murdale Shopping Center, 1827 W. Main St., Carbondale; through Nov. 9; 618-319-4751 or www.dr hostalek.com American Surrealics: By Jack Harris, through Nov. 10, Dunn-Richmond Economic Development Center, 150 E. Pleasant Hill Road, Carbondale; 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays. Gone But Not Forgotten — The Power of Cemeteries: General John A. Logan Museum, 1613 Edith St., Murphysboro; an overview of cemeteries in rural Southern Illinois during the 19th and early 20th centuries; through Nov. 15; 618-684-3455 or 618-303-0569. The Vogel Collection/ Carbondale Community Arts’ Biennial: SIUC
University Museum; through Dec. 11; www.museum. siu.edu. Carolyn Gassan Plochmann display: Morris Library, SIUC; in the cases outside Hall of Presidents on the first floor; see artwork in the Special Collections Research Center reading room and other locations; http://archives.lib.siu.edu/ index.php?pcollections/ controlcard&id2459. Ongoing art exhibit: Photographs of Juhree Veach, mosaics from Janet Altoff and sculpture from Tom Horn, StarView Vineyards, 5100 Wing Hill Road, Cobden; 618893-9463, www.starview vineyards.com.
Receptions Jurhee Veach and Janet Althoff: Reception, 4-6 p.m.
Friday. Central Showcase at Realty Central, 1825 Murdale Shopping Center, Carbondale; mosaics, photography; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9 a.m.–noon Saturday; through Oct. 30; 618-4574663. “By Men’s Hands”: Reception, 6-8 p.m. Saturday, Union County Museum, Cobden; exhibit of handwork and needlecraft by Union County men; includes quilts, needlepoint, tailor-made clothes, counted cross-stitch and latch-hook; curated by Paulette Aronson; sponsored by the Union County Historical and Genealogy Society; through October; free; 1-5 p.m. Saturday, Sunday. Boys’ Night Out: Reception, 6-8 p.m. Saturday, anthill gallery & vintage curiosities and The Yellow
Moon Cafe, Cobden; Southern Illinois’ photographers, Thom Goodin, Bob Hageman, Richard Lawson and Daniel Owens; through Oct. 31; www.anthillgallery.com. 2010 LEAA Photo Invitational Competition:
Features photographers from Southern Illinois; cash prizes; sponsored by The Little Egypt Arts Association; reception and awards ceremony, 5-7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 15, Arts Centre, Tower Square, Marion; to Nov. 30; www.littleegyptarts.com.
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