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I’m sorry it’s permanent, but it was just a joke enough pie-in-the-sky bookkeeping tricks to create the illusion of a balanced budget. Nonetheless, the Chuck Shepherd legislature has been busy. It created a “Motorcycle Awareness Month” and a avid Winkelman, 48, “Cuss Free Week,” was arrested in considered changing the Davenport, Iowa, in official state rock, and September on a made it illegal to use nonmisdemeanor warrant, still sporting “The Tattoo.” California cows in the In late 2000, Winkelman, state’s marketing materials (a decision that entailed reacting to a radio five committee votes and “contest,” had his exhausted eight legislative forehead inked with the analyses, according to a logo of radio station KORB, “93 Rock,” because September Wall Street Journal report). he had heard on-air z At a U.S. Senate personalities “offer” committee grilling in $100,000 to anyone who September, the head of would do it. Winkelman had the tattoo done before enforcement of the Securities and Exchange checking, however, and Commission admitted that the disk jockeys later not a single agency staff informed him that the member has been fired or “contest” was a joke. (Winkelman filed a lawsuit demoted over the multiple missed signals handed to against the station, but it them in some cases 11 was dismissed. Ten years years before the Ponzi later, the “93 Rock” schemes of Bernard format has expired, but Madoff and R. Allen Winkelman’s forehead Stanford were uncovered. remains busily tattooed.) Sen. Christopher Dodd of Government in action! Connecticut said it appeared that “one side of z For most of 2010, the agency was screaming California’s dysfunctional that there was a fire,” but legislature could find no the other side of the acceptable tax increases or agency demurred because spending cuts to keep the putting it out would have state from going broke, been hard work. and only in October did it z The Prudential manage to cobble together Financial corporation,
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woman “dance” recital of performer-writer Ann Liv Young as a naked “Cinderella” at a theater in Brooklyn, N.Y., ran overtime because Young could not answer a scripted call of nature, which was to have been performed live on stage. According to an incredulous New York Times reviewer, Young sought tips from the audience to get her bowels moving but finally gave up and ended the performance. The reviewer cited the show’s “many layers of failure.”
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Craft breweries stand at the forefront of Murphysboro’s Big Muddy Monster BrewFest BY ADAM TESTA THE SOUTHERN
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Jack McKillip of Carbondale samples a brown ale Saturday, Oct. 16 in Murphysboro. Judges tasted and rated 100 homebrewed beers during a competition. The event was sponsored by the Big Muddy Monster BrewFest and sanctioned by the American Homebrewers Association.
MURPHYSBORO — An explosion of the craft beer industry has launched a profound effect on the alcohol marketplace, earning the locally made products a home on many liquor store shelves and sending connoisseurs and casual drinkers alike into a frenzy. Friends of Murphysboro, a notfor-profit organization aimed at improving historic Riverside Park, has partnered with a number of regional breweries to capitalize on the potential and host the first Big Muddy Monster BrewFest. “People are tired of just drinking the same old beer all the time,” said Chuck Stuhrenberg, owner of Big Muddy Brewing in Murphysboro. Murphysboro has historic ties to the beer industry, as it served as the home of Stecher Brewing Company. Before Prohibition, the brewery represented a cornerstone of the town’s economy. In the early 1910s, the company produced more than 40,000 barrels of beer each year. The launch of the Prohibition Era started the slow decline of the industry’s presence in Southern
Big Muddy Monster BrewFest Beer tasting, vintage baseball, food vendors and more; 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23; Riverside Park, Murphysboro; Tickets are $17 in advance and $20 at the gate; www.friendsofmurphysboro.com. Illinois. But organizers and participants of the beer festival hope to see the spirit of Stecher’s past recaptured through the products and wares of local craft brewers. And the region’s homebrewers
weren’t left out of the fun, either, as they were invited to participate in a special competition last weekend. SEE BIG MUDDY / PAGE 20
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z ART z THEATER z THINGS TO DO z BOOKS z WINERIES z Authors, Books Authors to sign books: 1-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, Marion Bookworm, Illinois Centre mall, courtyard; more than 20 Southern Illinois authors; 618-997-3790 . Herrin book sale: 10 a.m.7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 25, Herrin Library, 120 N. 13th St.; new and used books, sheet music, books-on-tape, video tapes, movies; 618-942-6109. Devil’s Kitchen Literary Festival: Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 28-30, Morris Library, SIUC; highlights top authors and poets. Carbondale book sale: 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 30, Brush Building, Carbondale Public Library parking lot, 405 W. Main St.; Friends Preview Sale, 4-7 p.m., Friday, Oct. 29; half-price, 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 31. Book signing: By Kathie DeNosky, 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 1, Marion Carnegie Library, 206 S. Market St.; Q&A; 618993-5935.
Classes Student Center Craft Shop: Crafts, classes offered,
SIUC; 618-453-3636, www. siucstudentcenter.org. Logan classes: Fiddling, guitar playing are among the continuing education courses offered at John A. Logan College in Carterville; www. jalc.edu/cont_ed/classes.php.
Events Green Fair: 11 a.m.- 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22, Student Center’s Roman Room and Art Gallery, SIUC; part of Sustainability Day; includes SIUC Studio Jazz Orchestra, 11:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m., Roman Room; film, “King Corn,” 4 p.m.; Trash to Treasures workshop, 6 p.m., Friday, Craft Shop; bring forks and spoons and create a wind chime. Day of trail riding: Horse Poker Run, 10 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 23, Black Diamond Ranch, 2715 Illinois 127, Cobden; proceeds go to the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk; $10, under 10 and $20 for 10 and over; dinner, 4 p.m.; 618-833-6916 or jhoffman@ southernfs.com Mardi-Gras Car show: 9 a.m.-noon Saturday, Oct.
30, 301 W. Mulberry St., Pinckneyville; entry fee, $15; 618-357-1508.
Fall Attractions 4-H corn maze: Bandy’s Pumpkin Patch, Johnston City; 4-H themed corn maze; features more than 95 decision points along the nearly 3.5 miles of twists and turns; allow 20 minutes to one hour; 618-687-1727. Apple Festival: 9 a.m.6 p.m., Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 23-24, Hawkins-Schwartz Orchard, Illinois 37, Dix; apples, games, straw maze, food, crafts; free; 618-2667756. Horse-drawn hay rides: 1-7 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 23-24, Oct. 30-31, Walker’s Bluff, north on Reed Station Road, Carterville; 618-985-8463 or www. walkersbluff.com.
Festivals Tour de Shawnee: Bicycle ride offering lengths of 15-100 miles. 8 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, beginning at the Olive Branch Community Center;
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general public, $4; students, $3; prop bags, $3; rated R; 618-536-3393. Frankenstein: 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 31, Liberty Theater, 1333 Walnut St., Murphysboro; donations requested; concessions, $1; costume contest; 618-6845880.
Rythmic Circus presents its show, ‘Feet Don’t Fail Me Now,’ at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, at the Clemens Fine Art Center on the campus of West Kentucky Community and Technical College in Paducah.
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show, “Feet Don’t Fail Me Now.” The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, on the Center, 4810 Alben Barkley Drive, Paducah, on the campus of West Kentucky Community and Technical College. The group has grown from an underground
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St., Murphysboro; also includes cabaret group, The Vaudeville Vagabonds Twilight Twitterpaiters; juggling act; advance tickets, $5; at the door, $8; 618-684-5880 or 618-559-0383. Rhythmic Circus: Blend of dancing, music and beat Theater/Performances boxing, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, M*A*S*H: 7:30 p.m. Friday- Oct. 23, Clemens Fine Arts Saturday, Oct. 22-23 and Center,campus of West 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24, Kentucky Community and Marion Cultural and Civic Technical College, 4810 Alben Center; $12/$10; presented Barkley Drive, Paducah; by the Paradise Alley Players; adults, $25; students, $15; www.marionccc.org or 618www.artsinfocus.org or 997-4030. 270-534-3212. The Vaudeville Vamp: Diary of Anne Frank: 7 p.m. Featuring the J. Brown Band, Monday, Oct. 25, Carson 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, Center, 100 Kentucky Ave., Liberty Theater, 1333 Walnut Paducah; $15/$7.50;
270-450-4444 or www.thecarsoncenter.org. Sundown in Southern Illinois: A staged presentation of oral history, 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 2830, Marion Kleinau Theatre, Communications Building, SIUC; $7/$5; see brief on Page 7. AILEY II: Sub company of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 2, Shyrock Auditorium, SIUC; 618-453-6000; southernticketsonline.com or CATS: 7:30 p.m. TuesdayWednesday, Nov. 9-10, Shryock Auditorium, SIUC; $29-$69; southerntickets online.com and 618-4536000.
Artist-musician Terry Adkins to present lecture, concert at SIUC CARBONDALE — An artist known for combining music, video, literature and ritual into his presentations will appear at Southern Illinois University Carbondale next week for three days, including a guest lecture and a concert. Terry Adkins, a professor of fine arts at the University of Pennsylvania and a USA James Baldwin Fellow in the Visual Arts, will be on campus from Monday, Oct. 25, through Wednesday, Oct. 27. His visit is being coordinated by the SIUC School of Art and Design and School of Music. Adkins’ free lecture will be presented at 7 p.m. Monday at the University Museum Auditorium in Faner Hall. His lecture will also be part art show, as it will include slides and other examples of his past works. In addition to his art lecture, Adkins will also present a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Old Baptist
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Foundation Recital Hall on campus. The Southern Illinois Improvisation Unit will contribute to the performance, which will highlight improvisations, percussion and saxophone. Adkins work can be seen in museums and galleries in New York, Washington, London and Amsterdam, among numerous other cities in the world. His visit to SIUC is funded by student fine arts activity fees. — SIUC University Communications provided information for this story.
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Horseback poker run helps to raise money for breast cancer research COBDEN — A fundraising event this weekend will put a spin on a popular style of event. Southern FS, Black Diamond Ranch and Purina Mills will be partnering with the American Cancer Society to host a horseback poker run to raise money for the organization’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk. While poker runs are normally done on motorcycles, these organizations are asking each participant to bring out their own steed for the event. The cost of the ride is $10 for children younger than age 10 and $20 for all others. Registration begins at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, at Black Diamond Ranch, 2715 Illinois 127, Cobden. The ride begins at 11 a.m. with dinner to follow at 4 p.m. For more information, call 618-998-9898, option 3 or 618-8336916. —Adam Testa
Paradise Alley Players present M*A*S*H MARION — Hawkeye, Radar and B.J. Hunnicutt may have disappeared from first-run television nearly three decades ago, but Southern Illinois’ own Paradise Alley Players will resurrect the spirit of these characters this weekend. The local theater company will present Tim Kelly’s 1973 adaptation of “M*A*S*H” at Marion Cultural and Civic Center. Shows are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 22 and 23, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24. Tickets are $12 for the Friday and Saturday shows and $10 for the Sunday matinee. Kelly’s version of the story uses many of the same characters as the television series, which ran from 1972 to 1983, and the 1970 film but omits much of the dark comedy of those mediums. — Adam Testa
Oral history performance explores ‘sundown towns’ of Southern Illinois CARBONDALE — A presentation of oral history dealing with racial challenges and “sundown towns” in the region will take the stage at the Marion Kleinau Theater next weekend. “Sundown in Southern Illinois” is the end product of Southern Illinois University Carbondale graduate student Elena Esquibel’s research into white communities where unofficial ordinances barred all non-whites from remaining in town after the setting of the sun. While antidiscrimination laws have caused these regulations to
become largely a thing of the past, Esquibel found vestiges of them remain, as do the memories for several Southern Illinoisans. “I interviewed about 30 Southern Illinois residents who have lived the majority of their lives in Southern Illinois,” she said. “I talked with them about their knowledge of sundown towns. My youngest interview is 22 years old, and the oldest is 81.” Esquibel visited towns from Gallatin County in the east to Murphysboro in the west and from Nashville on the north to
Cairo in the south, and interviewed subjects of all races and backgrounds. Their stories represent 98 percent of the script. The performance premieres during this weekend’s Petit Jean Performance Festival in Arkansas and opens at SIUC at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28, and continues with 8 p.m. shows on Friday, Oct. 29, and Saturday, Oct. 30. Tickets for the Kleinau performance are $7 for general admission and $5 for students. — SIUC University Communications provided information for this story.
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Glass pumpkins on sale Saturday CARBONDALE — A popular art sale sponsored by the glass program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale returns this weekend. The fifth annual Great Glass Pumpkin Patch will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 23 at Town Square pavilion. Prices for the hand-crafted glass pumpkins range from $10 to more than $100. The sale runs until the pieces are all sold. The sale is a major fundraiser for students in the program. Proceeds help to buy materials and bring visiting artists to campus. —Adam Testa
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Shoot uses recycled and collected items for art display CARBONDALE — An exhibit featuring the recycled mixed media works of local artist Sarah Shoot is on display through November at the Varsity Gallery. The exhibit, titled “New Harvest,” opened last week, and an opening reception is from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26, at the gallery inside the Varsity Center for the Arts, 418 S. Illinois Ave., Carbondale. “I am a gatherer, creating texturally rich collages that begin with a combination of my favorite materials,” Shoot wrote in her artist statement. “I blend silk and cotton that I have dyed, painted or bleached with recycled fabrics, antique quilts and vintage materials. “I incorporate found elements such as rusty bottle caps, washers, buttons, old maps, vintage postcards and twigs, punctuating the collage and echoing the inspiration I draw from patters and colors in nature.” Shoot has been working in the fiber medium for 10 years and earned a bachelor’s of fine arts degree from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2000. Since then, she has been creating art at her farm, Frontwards Farm and Studio in Makanda. The exhibit, sponsored by Carbondale Community Arts, will remain on display through Nov. 18. — Adam Testa
Traveling display: Highlights of SIUC Art classes for children photojournalism project, and adults: Begin Thursday, Murphysboro Chamber of Oct. 21, Little Egypt Arts Commerce Office, 206 S. Centre, Marion Downtown 13th St.; pictures collected in Square; taught by Missy a workshop documenting a Carstens; 618-997-0421, weekend in Murphysboro; allencarstens@frontier.com. through October; www.south of64.com. Jurhee Veach and Janet Art Events Althoff: Central Showcase at Glass Pumpkin Patch Realty Central, 1825 Murdale sale: 10 a.m., Saturday, Oct. Shopping Center, 23, Town Square Pavilion, Carbondale; mosaics, Carbondale; by the SIU Glass photography; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Department; 618-697-4912. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-noon Art lecture: By Terry Saturday; through Oct. 30; Adkins, sculptor, installation 618-457-4663. artist, musician, 7 p.m. “By Men’s Hands”: Union Monday, Oct. 25, University County Museum, Cobden; Museum Auditorium, SIUC; exhibit of handwork and free; also, concert, 7:30 p.m. needlecraft by Union Wednesday, Oct. 27, Old County men; curated by Baptist Foundation Recital Paulette Aronson; Hall, SIUC. sponsored by Union County Historical and Genealogy Society; through October; Exhibits free; 1-5 p.m. SaturdayVisiting Artist Series: Sunday. Carman Gray, Rend Lake Boys’ Night Out: anthill College, Ina; theater lobby; gallery & vintage curiosities through Nov. 26; 618-437and The Yellow Moon Café, 5321. Cobden; Southern Illinois’ Betty Martyn’s World: photographers Thom Watercolors, Harrisburg Goodin, Bob Hageman, District Library; reception, Richard Lawson and Daniel 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 14; Owens; through Oct. 31; through Dec. 15. www.anthillgallery.com. Gone But Not Forgotten — Putting It All Together: The Power of Cemeteries: Collage art by Arlene General John A. Logan Ehleben Berry, Tribeca Museum, 1613 Edith St., Restaurant & Gallery, 127 S. Murphysboro; overview of Second St., Paducah; to cemeteries in rural Southern Nov. 2; 270-210-1753 Illinois during the 19th and Art for Empowerment: early 20th centuries; to Oct. Longbranch Coffeehouse, 24; 618-684-3455. 100 E. Jackson, Carbondale; Ghosts, A Retrospective: features works by survivors Ed Shay Sculpture and of abuse and trauma to Watercolors, to Oct. 30, SIUC benefit The Women’s University Museum; 10 a.m.- Center; through Nov. 8; 4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 618-529-4488, www.the 1-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday; womensctr.org. www. museum.siu.edu, Transformation: A 618-453-5388. Journey into the Abraham Lincoln: SelfSubconscious: Dr. Linda Made in America, SIUC Hostalek, Holistic Wellness University Museum; traveling Institute, Murdale Shopping exhibit from the Abraham Center, 1827 W. Main St., Lincoln Presidential Library Carbondale; through Nov. 9; and Museum; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 618-319-4751; www.dr Tuesday-Friday and 1-4 p.m. hostalek.com Saturday-Sunday; free; to American Surrealics: Oct. 30; www.museum.siu. Exhibit by Jack Harris,
Art Classes
Dunn-Richmond Economic Development Center, 150 E. Pleasant Hill Road, Carbondale; 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays; through Nov. 10. Paul Lorenz: Yeiser Art Center, 200 Broadway St., Paducah; paintings on a variety of media; through Nov. 20; www.theyeiser.org or 270-442-2453 2010 LEAA Photo Invitational Competition: Features photographers from Southern Illinois; sponsored by The Little Egypt Arts Centre, Tower Square, Marion; through Nov. 30; www.little egyptarts.com. The Vogel Collection/ Carbondale Community Arts’ Biennial: University
Museum; to Dec. 11; www.museum.siu.edu. Carolyn Gassan Plochmann display: Morris Library, SIUC; in the cases outside the Hall of Presidents; more in Special Collections Research Center reading room; 618-453-2516. Ongoing art exhibit: Photographs of Juhree Veach, mosaics from Janet Altoff and sculpture from Tom Horn, StarView Vineyards, 5100 Wing Hill Road, Cobden; 618-893-9463; www.starviewvineyards.com.
weaving, painting, mixed up media; 1-6 p.m. ThursdaySunday, Weaver’s Cottage, 1904 Bass Lane, Carbondale; 618-457-6823.
Receptions
New Harvest: By Sarah Shoot, Varsity Gallery, Varsity Center For The Arts. Carbondale; recycled mixed media; reception, 5-6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26; through Nov. 18; 618-457-5100. Glass at 40: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the SIUC Glass Program by Bill Boysen, SIUC University Opening Museum; reception 4-8 p.m. Weaver’s Cottage: Oct. 30; through Dec. 11; Features Richard Cox, artist/ www.museum.siu.edu or weaver; new studio, new work, 618-453-5388.
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Coffeehouses, Cafés and Eateries Kevin Danzig: 8 p.m. Friday, Yellow Moon Café, 110 N. Front St., Cobden; www.yellowmooncafe.com; 618-893-2233.
Tim “The Magic Man” Needham: Magician, 7-9 p.m. Wednesdays, Fat Patties, 611B S. Illinois Ave., Carbondale; 618-529-3287
z TONIGHT BENTON Duncan Dance Barn:: Spring Pond Band, 6:309:30 p.m. CARBONDALE Copper Dragon: Rebelution
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Wineries Bone Dry River Band: 6-9 p.m. Friday, Rustle Hill Winery Bud Summers: 2 p.m. Saturday, Blue Sky Vineyard Keviin Danzig: 2-5 p.m. Saturday, Rustle Hill Winery Charlie Norman: 3-6 p.m. Saturday, Von Jakob Vineyard Steve Kirn: 4-8 p.m. Saturday, The Bluffs Winery Ivas John: 6-9 p.m. Saturday, Rustle Hill Winery
Jason Garms: 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Lau-Nae Winery Shawn Harmon: 1-5 p.m. Sunday, StarView Vineyards Elliott Ranney: 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Blue Sky Vineyard Dave Simmons: 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Rustle Hill Winery Tawl Paul: 2-6 p.m. Sunday, The Bluffs Winery Wizard Island Duo: 3-6 p.m., Sunday, Von Jakob Orchard Bill Booth: 5-8 p.m. Sunday, Rustle Hill Winery
Alto Vineyards: Illinois 127, Alto Pass, www.alto vineyards.net or 618-8934898 Blue Sky Vineyard: 3150 S. Rocky Comfort Road, Makanda; 618-9959463 or www.bluesky vineyard.com The Bluffs Vineyard and Winery: 140 Buttermilk Hill Road, Ava; 618-763-4447 or www.thebluffswinery.com Lau-Nae Winery: 1522 Illinois 3, Red Bud; 618-282-9463 or www. lau-naewinery.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 or www.starviewvineyards. com Von Jakob Orchard: 230 Illinois 127, Alto Pass; 618-893-4600 or www. vonjakobvineyard.com Von Jakob Vineyard: 1309 Sadler Road, Pomona; 618-893-4500 Walker’s Bluff: North on Reed Station Road, Carterville; 618-985-8463 or www.walkersbluff.com.
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CARBONDALE Key West: Ivas John Blues Band MARION Marion Eagles: Black Lace, 6-10 p.m.
z MONDAY MARION Marion Youth Center: Ragtag Band, 7-10 p.m.
z TUESDAY CARBONDALE PK’s: Whistle Pigs Tres Hombres: Another Dead Cover Band MARION Hideout Restaurant: Bob Pina, piano 5:308:30 p.m. Walt’s Pizza: Matt Basler on the patio, 6-9 p.m. MOUNT VERNON Double K’s Kickin Country: Jacks-R-Better, 7-10 p.m. WEST FRANKFORT Colyer’s: Righteous Rebel Band, 7-11 p.m. WB Ranch Barn: WB Ranch Band, 6:309:30 p.m.
z WEDNESDAY MARION Walt’s Pizza: Phil Powell on the patio, 6-9 p.m.
w/Zion I and Tribal Seeds PK’s: Level D Tres Hombres: Devin Miller, 10 p.m. THOMPSONVILLE Old Country Store Dance
Barn: Sentimental Swing, 7-10 p.m. WEST FRANKFORT WB Ranch Barn: Little Egypt Country Band, 6:309:30 p.m.
z FRIDAY CARBONDALE Pinch Penny/Copper Dragon: Your Villain, My Hero PK’s: Catfish Rodeo/Stace England and the Salt Kings INA Ina Community Building: Friday Night Jam Band, 6:309:30 p.m. MARION John Brown’s on the Square: The Ivas John Band, 8:3011:30 p.m. MOUNT VERNON The Tavern on 10th: Shivver, 9 p.m.
SPILLERTOWN Track Side Dance Barn: 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, 7:3010:30 p.m. WHITE ASH The White Ash Barn: The. Heartland Country Band, 7-10 p.m. WHITTINGTON Corner Dance Hall: Rebel Country Band, 7:30-10:30 p.m.
z SATURDAY CARBONDALE Pinch Penny/Copper Dragon: Lo Cash Cowboys w/Cache River PK’s: 40 Watt Flood/Jackhead Tres Hombres: The Natives, 10 p.m. CARTERVILLE Steelhorse Saloon: Crossroads Band, 9 p.m.; grand opening party MARION Hideout Restaurant: Bob Pina, piano, 5:30-9:30 p.m. Marion Eagles: Black Lace, 8 p.m.-midnight MOUNT VERNON Double K’s Kickin Country: Woody & The Night Hawks,
7-10 p.m. The Tavern on 10th: Capone, 9 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. WHITTINGTON Corner Dance Hall: Nice & Easy Band, 7:30-10:30 p.m. ZEIGLER Zeigler Eagles: Southern Pride, 8 p.m.-midnight; chicken dinner, 6 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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BY ADAM TESTA THE SOUTHERN
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and continued to spread their swing-style sound through venues across the country. They truly became a musical success story as they made the transition from garage band to club performers to nationally touring artists. For the past 13 years, they’ve continued to sell out shows and earn critical acclaim. In 1999, the group achieved a musical milestone when they performed with Stevie Wonder and Gloria Estefan during the halftime show of Super Bowl XXXIII. “When you start as a band, you don’t think you’re going to go out and play the Super Bowl halftime show,” Marhevka said. “It wasn’t something we really set out to do, but it just happened, and it was really awesome.” Big Bad Voodoo Daddy will bring their recognizable style back to Carbondale for a 7:30 p.m. performance on Friday, Oct. 29, at Shryock Auditorium at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The concert is part of the Southern Lights Entertainment performance series. While its role in “Swingers” brought the band into the mainstream and its Super Bowl performance — along with performing on late night television talk shows and a cameo in a 2001 Scooby Doo special called “Night of the Living Doo” — added to their resumes, Marhevka said he and the others have just always set out to do what they love doing — performing, no matter the status of swing music as an American pop culture institution. “I don’t know if there is really a state of the genre,” he said. “We were playing this style before it was popular (in the late 1990s and early 2000s swing revival phase), and we’re still playing it after. It’s just who we are.” And there’s only one thing that tops that experience: doing it with close friends. “The best part of it is that we’re all still friends,” Marhevka said. “We’ve been on this journey together all over the world.”
len Marhevka remembers a time when life’s daily routine told a much different story. Every Wednesday night, he’d pick up his trumpet — an instrument he’s played since age 5 — and head to The Derby, a Los Angeles nightclub where his band performed weekly shows. Being in Hollywood, the band rubbed shoulders and became friends with actors, directors, producers, agents and all the other stereotypical personalities of the music and movie industries. One day, an up-andcoming actor and screenwriter by the name of Jon Favreau offered a Marhevka’s bandmate Scotty Morris a copy of his new script for a potential film called “Swingers.” “We really had no idea,” Marhevka said, trumpet player for popular swing band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. “He gave the script to Scotty, and he didn’t even read it. I think he threw it in his truck. And a week later when Jon asked him what he thought, he told him he loved it.” Thinking the venture wouldn’t turn into more than an independent film, Morris agreed to allow Favreau use of the band’s songs “You & Me and the Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby),” “I Wan’na Be Like You” and “Go Daddy-O” for the soundtrack. The band also signed to appear in some of the movie’s scenes, filmed on location at The Derby. “Swingers” ended up as much more than just another Los Angeles-produced indie flick; it became a cult phenomenon and a launching pad for the acting careers of Favreau and co-star Vince Vaughn and also for Marhevka and his Big Bad Voodoo Daddy cohorts. “We had no idea what it was going to be,” Marhevka said. “Watching it now is like going back in time to an awesome part of our past.” Following “Swingers,” Big Bad Voodoo adam.testa@thesouthern.com / 618-351-5031 Daddy signed with Capitol Records in 1997
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Swing band; 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29; Shryock Auditorium; tickets are $38 to $48 and can be purchased online at www.southernticketsonline.com or by calling 618-453-6000; Star Club members receive a $3 discount on tickets
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Big Bad Voodoo Daddy plays at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29, at Shryock Auditorium. Tickets are $38 to $48 and can be purchased at www.southernticketsonline.com.
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California-based hip hop artist to play at Copper Dragon CARBONDALE — A California-based hip hop group will make a stop in Southern Illinois to promote its new album. Zion I will take the stage at 10 p.m. tonight, Oct. 21, at Copper Dragon, 700 E. Grand Ave., Carbondale. Rebelution and Tribal Seeds will also perform. The group’s new album, the Nov. 9 release “Atomic Clock,” recalls both the classic roots reggae of Max Romeo and the Congos and the forward-thinking dub mixing of United Kingdom artists like Adrian Sherwood. This album takes the group on a different path than its previous one, 2009’s “The Takeover.” “‘The Takeover’ was a very external record and we wanted to focus on fun party music,” said emcee Zumbi, also known as Zion. “This one is much more reflective and internal. We didn’t want to just recreate what we did last album. Art is not about living in the past.” — Adam Testa
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Zion I will play at 1 p.m. tonight, Oct. 21, at Copper Dragon in Carbondale.
New Music Pop Elton John and Leon Russell ‘The Union’ *** Forty years after they first toured together, Elton John throws new light on the talents of one of his heroes: Leon Russell, the hirsute, often top-hatted session player and author of “Tight Rope” and “Delta Lady.” Bruno Mars ‘Doo-Wops & Hooligans’ **** Mars’ amiably light and slinky falsetto saunters through his breezy melodies even when their rhythms are jittery (the rollicking “Runaway Baby”) or their atmospheres densely smoky (the roots reggae of “Liquor Store Blues” with Damian Marley). The Walkmen ‘Lisbon’ *** Atmosphere has always been a card in the Walkmen’s back pocket, but on the well-paced “Lisbon,” the songs unfold more like a drunken street parade than a rowdy basement party. In other words, the party’s moved outside. Or most of it has.
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Sugarland ‘The Incredible Machine’ * ½ With 2008’s “Love on the Inside,” Sugarland showed it could match commercial clout with artistic promise. What’s incredible about “The Incredible Machine” is how wildly off-track Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush have gone. They’ve decided to go pop in a big way — as big as Nettles’ powerhouse voice. The result is a collection of pumped-up anthems that are meant to be rousing but end up just loud and empty. Any charm and emotional force Nettles generates come on the album’s more restrained numbers — the snappy, acoustic-textured “Stuck Like Glue” and the hymnlike piano ballad “Shine the Light.” About the closest these guys come to country is in the bio from the record label, where Bush invokes the names of the Clash and Johnny Cash and then adds: “I like to live right where those guys meet.”
Michael Ormanek ‘The Rub and Spare Change’ ** ½ This old-school, free-jazz recording has an effect similar to that of wasabi, the spicy green stuff on sushi. It really clears out the sinuses. Bassist and composer Michael Formanek assembles a caustic recording that ranges from the neurotic to the hypnotic. On these six Formanek originals, the quartet — with pianist Craig Taborn, drummer Gerald Cleaver, and saxophonist Tim Berne, famously mentored by the World Saxophone Quartet’s Julius Hemphill — sometimes acts as if it’s in a trance. Repeating lines get worked out, chords flutter, and dissonant notes are picked over. But mostly, as on the title track, there’s a quirky energy, a chaotic-sounding exploration of tone and rhythm that updates Monkishness and is either pure genius or beyond the mortal ken.
Stile Antico ‘Puer Natus Est: Tudor Music for Advent & Christmas’ **** Another great disc by the young British polyphony choir Stile Antico? Yes, but this one is a step above the previous recordings made in its few years of existence. The program of English Renaissance music by Tallis, Byrd, and White is first nature to most British choir singers, but this group brings a particularly kind of authority, clearly tracking the individual linear ideas and giving them a sense of individual purpose. Though the music’s outer contours are by no means distorted, inner voices have extra definition, in terms of both sound and articulation. Next to this one, many recordings of similar reputation have a beautiful blankness, which has earned such music an unfair reputation for exquisite monotony. Once you start this disc, you can’t tear yourself away. — McClatchy-Tribune News
z MOVIES z ART z MUSIC z WINERIES z THEATER z BOOKS z Lane; interactive event with a sing-a-long; refreshments; Battle of the Bands: 6 p.m. jelizah1948@yahoo.com or Saturday, Oct. 23, terrinina@gmail.com. Pinckneyville; bands of any Head East: 9 p.m. genre; $40 entry fee for Thursday, Oct. 28, Perry bands; free admission; winner County grandstand, will open for Head East on Pinckneyville; part of Mardi Oct. 28 plus have Oct. 28 Gras festivities; $10; Battle of performance recorded by the Bands winner, 8 p.m.; J.Jam Productions; 618-318- doors open, 6 p.m.; 618-3570730. 3243; www.pinckneyville. com/mardigras10.php. Halloween Pops: 7:30 p.m. Concerts Thursday, Oct. 28, Shrock Southern Illinois Auditorium, SIUC; presented PRISM, American Voices: by the Wind Ensemble, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, Concert Choir, University Shryock Auditorium, SIUC; by Chorus, Studio Jazz SIUC’s Concert Choir and Orchestra, Southern Illinois Wind Ensemble; $12/$6; Civic Orchestra and Chamber SouthernTicketsOnline.com Ensembles; costumed or 618-453-6000. entertainers; audience Eric “Guitar” Davis & The members encouraged to wear Troublemakers: With The Big costumes; $15/$6; Boss Blues Band, 7:30 p.m. SouthernTicketsOnline.com. Friday, Oct. 22, Granada Zach Spencer Band: noon, Center for the Performing Friday, Oct. 29, O’Neil Arts, 108 N. 9th St., Mount Auditorium, John A. Logan Vernon; doors open 7 College, Carterville; free; p.m.;$10; 618-740-0707. www.zachspencermusic.com; Josh Brown: 7 p.m. 618-985-2828 ext. 8287. Saturday, Oct. 23, Liberty Aaron Tippin: 7 p.m. Friday, Theater, 1333 Walnut St., Oct. 29, Marion Cultural and Murphysboro; donations Civic Center; $25/30; songs requested; concessions, $1; include, “Kiss This,”“You’ve 618-684-5880. Got to Stand for Something;” Kevin Lucas Orchestra: www.marionccc.org or 1-5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24, 618-997-4030 Misselhorn Art Gallery, 611 W. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy: Second St., Sparta; part of 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29, Sparta’s Fall Festival. Shyrock Auditorium, SIUC, Benefit concert: For Southern Lights Project Kitty Country, Entertainment; swing band; 2:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 24, SouthernTicketsOnline.com Mighty Rivers Regional or 618-453-6000. Worship Center, downtown Barbershop Harmony Cairo; featuring pianist, Sallie Show: By the Little Egypt Brown Goodin; organist Terry Chorus, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. A. Parker and Lydia Eddy Saturday Oct. 30, Herrin Civic Holton playing the cello plus Center; songs by the chorus Betty Cooper Hearnes; and The Pitch Catchers, proceeds help control the cat Touch Of Old and Classic population; 618-534-3583 or Intervals;$10-$15; 618-833larrypotts@myexcel.com. 3228. or www.harmonize. Mehr OcTubaFest: 5 p.m. com/littleegyptchorus/10 Sunday, Oct. 24, Old Baptist show.html Foundation Recital Hall, SIUC; Weavermania; Coffee features tuba-euphonium concert, 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. quartets performing marches, 31, George T. Dennis swing and other music; free. Performing Arts Center Christine Bauer: 7 p.m. Lobby, Southeastern Illinois College, Harrisburg; Wednesday, Oct. 27, adaptation of the folk singing Carbondale Unitarian group, The Weavers; $10/$5; Fellowship, 105 N. Parrish
Call For Bands
www.artistsofnote.com; 618-252-5200 ext. 2486. Dark Star Orchestra: 9 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 2, Copper Dragon, 700 E. Grand Ave., Carbondale; the group recreates Grateful Dead shows in their entirety; doors open 8 p.m., tickets, $18 in advance; 19 and older; 800-514-3849; www.darkstar orchestra.net. Sing For A Cure for PSC: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, OBF Recital Hall, SIUC; features classical singer, Philip Burke; opera arias, duets and other scenes as performed by Burke and SIU faculty, students and alumni; proceeds go to the fight against primary sclerosing cholangitis, a rare liver disease; http://baritone. burkepsych.com or www.pscpartners.org. The Oak Ridge Boys; 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 12, Shryock Auditorium, SIUC; Oak Ridge Boys hits and holiday favorites; www.southernlights entertainment.com; www.southernticketsonline. com or 618-453-6000.
Indiana The Neverly Brothers: 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, Boot City Opry, 11800 S. Highway 41, Terre Haute; pop music; $15; www.bootcityopry.com or 812-299-8379.
Kentucky David Allan Coe: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct 21, Carson Center, Paducah; $25-$50; www.thecarsoncenter.org or 270-450-4444. Slick Tire and the White Sidewalls 50 & 60’s Revue: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, Kentucky Opry, 88 Chilton Lane, Benton, Ky.; $16-$7.50; 270-527-3869 or www.kentuckyopry.com. 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.thecarsoncenter.org.
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School of Music to host OcTubaFest CARBONDALE — While many celebrate Germaninspired Oktoberfest events, the School of Music at Southern Illinois University Carbondale will be putting a unique spin on the event. The department will host OcTubaFest, a free event, at 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24 at the Old Baptist Foundation Recital Hall on campus. Chris Combest, lecturer in tuba and euphonium in the School of Music and coordinator of this event, said OcTubaFest is a tradition for many schools of music across the nation. “The obvious connection is with Oktoberfest, which is a German creation, and the fact that the tuba is associated with Oktoberfest music,” he said. This event will feature some of the polka of Oktoberfest traditions, but that’s not all. The concert features tubaeuphonium quartets performing marches, swing and other styles, with a finale featuring the entire tuba and euphonium studio performing John Stevens’ “Manhattan Suite.” “If people aren’t familiar with tuba-euphonium groups in general, they will find that the instruments are very capable of many different characterizations beside the jovial nature that comes to mind for many people when they think of tubas,” Combest said.
Halloween Pops returns to SIUC’s Shryock Auditorium next week CARBONDALE — A popular collaboration of various entities from the Southern Illinois University Carbondale School of Music will be the sights and sounds of Halloween Pops back to Shryock Auditorium next week. The SIUC Wind Ensemble, Concert Choir, University Choir, Studio Jazz Orchestra, Civic Orchestra and an array of smaller groups will join together for the annual event. Performers will be dressed in Halloween costumes to play an array of music, including cartoon themes and a kazoo cameo. Audience members are also invited to dress in costume, and prizes will be awarded for adults and children in the following categories: funniest, scariest and best group. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28. Tickets are $15 for adults and $6 for seniors and children. They can be purchased in advance at www.southernticketsonline.com.
—SIUC University Communications provided information for this story.
— Adam Testa
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Kevin Lucas Orchestra scores nomination for a Grammy Award CARBONDALE — After coming up short in final Grammy nominations last year, Southern Illinois’ own Kevin Lucas Orchestra is ready to give it another go. The group’s newly released Christmas single, “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,” has made the first-round ballot for the 2011 ceremony in the “Best Pop Instrumental Performance” category. Last year, the group came up short in its bid for a final nomination. This year, the group faces competition from Jim Brickman, Jeff Beck, Kenny G and George Winston. “This is a very difficult mountain to climb,” Lucas said. “You think you’re a good musician living here in Southern Illinois, and then all of a sudden you’re competing with these people. It is very humbling.” Support for the group has come from all across the country, he said, but it continues to be as strong as ever right here at home in Southern Illinois. “Last year we were just happy to make it,” Lucas said. “Now that excitement has worn off and we are ready to advance, hopefully. Either way, this is really about making music and being able to share it with the community, as well as doing what we can to make a positive difference and help where we can. Southern Illinois has been wonderful to us, and we are very grateful.” The new single is done in a South African tribal style and is designed to symbolize the current tension between Eastern thought and Western organized religion. The song is available for listening at kevinlucasorchestra.com. Kevin Lucas Orchestra will also perform during Sparta’s Fall Festival from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24 at the Misselhorn Art Gallery, 611 W. Second St., Sparta. — Adam Testa
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Tippin a cornerstone to charity, aiding music education programs Civic Center. Tickets are $25 to $30 and are available at the civic center, Black Diamond Harley-Davidson and all Vince Hoffard branches of Southern Illinois Bank. For more information, call the civic Aaron Tippin Country music star; 7 p.m. center at 618-997-4030 or Sharon at 618-923-0797. Friday, Oct. 29; Marion The event is being Cultural and Civic Center, presented by Coal Miner’s 800 Tower Square Plaza, Memorial Park. Marion; Tickets are $25 to “The guys and gals that $30. go down in that hole at the mine are a lot like the or two decades, Aaron soldiers that protect this country,” Tippin said Tippin has been the during a Tuesday unofficial spokesman telephone interview. for blue-collar America. “They are not afraid to do The South Carolina native instantly connected the dirty work. I toured a mine not too long ago and with the working class the workers were proud to with his 1990 debut be producing something single, “You’ve Got To Stand For Something,” and so vital to this country. It’s a unique occupation. has solidified the Mining is the backbone of relationship with tunes America. It provides the like “Working Man’s fuel that keeps everything Ph.D.,” “People Like Us,” running.” “I Got It Honest” and Most folks have an “Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly.” emotional attachment to every issue but are not A former commercial willing to take time to get pilot and award-winning involved. They hide bodybuilder, Tippin has behind the scene and topped the coveted complain when no change Billboard chart three times, with singles “There is being made to improve Ain’t Nothin’ Wrong with the situation. Not Tippin. His latest project is proof the Radio,” “That’s as Close as I’ll Get to Loving he is never afraid to stand up and be counted. You” and “Kiss This.” When the singer’s good Tippin will be in concert friend Mike Huckabee, at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 29, at Marion Cultural and former Arkansas governor
come in to donate their time for this worthy cause,” said Tippin, who co-produced the album with James Stroud. “I’ve produced records before. My forte is picking the songs and helping the artist put down a great performance.” Tippin was an aspiring songwriter when he moved to Nashville in 1987. His songs have been recorded by Diamond Rio, Mark Collie, David Ball and Charlie Pride. He was taught the craft of songwriting by legendary Whitey Shafer.
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and a 2008 Republican presidential candidate, started the Wanna Play Fund, Tippin knew he had to get involved. The Wanna Play Fund strives to strengthen music education by providing free musical instruments for children to learn to play in schools that are expanding or reinstating music programs. “I’ve known Mike for a few years. We met at the National Wild Turkey Convention and just hit it off. When he got his show on Fox, he invited me to perform and I’ve done it several times. He always had these guitars for me to sign and I finally asked
Jones and Lorrie Morgan. him about it. He said the “I had a lot of friends guitars were auctioned off and the money went to the Wanna Play Fund. I knew I had to do something to help them out a little more,” the singer said. Tippin came up with the concept for “I Wanna Play!: An Album to Put Musical Instruments into the Hands of Every Child in American,” a compilation album that was released Tuesday. Tippin and wife, Thea, co-wrote the album’s title track. Other contributions have been made by the biggest names in the industry singing classic tunes, like Tracy Lawrence, Ronnie Milsap, George
VINCE HOFFARD can be reached at 618-658-9095 or vincehoffard@yahoo. com.
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CARBONDALE — Popular country music duo LoCash Cowboys return to Southern Illinois this weekend for a performance at Copper Dragon. Chris Lucas and Preston Brust are hitting the road promoting their new single, “Keep in Mind,” penned by hit-makers Jeffrey Steele and Shane Minor. The song is described as a powerful ballad about a parent’s loving and reluctant goodbye to a child anxious to venture off into the world. The song is the first single from the band’s new album, “This is How We Do It,” the duo’s debut with Stroudavarious Records. LoCash Cowboys’ recent single, “Here Comes Summer,” cracked the radio Top 40 and had the video enter the top five of countdowns on GAC and CMT. Music from the new album will be featured on the upcoming season of CMT’s “Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team.” The duo will perform at 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23 at Copper Dragon, 700 E. Grand Ave., Carbondale. Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door and are available at the bar and at www.jaytv.com. For more about the band, visit www.locashcowboys.com. — Adam Testa
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Blue Man Group to bring new show to Paducah for three nights PADUCAH — Popular music trio Blue Man Group will bring its nationally recognizable act to the Carson Center for three shows in November. Although the group has toured previously with its Megastar arena rock show, this marks the first theatrical production to our North America. The theatrical tour PROVIDED features classic Blue The Blue Man Group comes to Paducah for three nights for a new Man moments, as production. The shows are at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9, Wednesday, well as new content. Nov. 10 and Thursday, Nov. 11. Tickets for the Thursday show go on This tour also sale at 10 a.m. today and range from $29 to $59. Purchase tickets by features a new calling 270-450-4444 or visiting www.thecarsoncenter.org. physical set design centering around an oversized LED curtain and high-resolution screen, creating an entirely new visual experience for the audience. “The main reason for this is we needed to find a way to transform theaters of all shapes and sizes into spaces in which the Blue Man can intimately connect with the audience, where the audience can become engaged with the spirit of the show and of the Blue Man himself,” said co-founder Philip Stanton. The shows are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 9; Wednesday, Nov. 10, and Thursday, Nov. 11. Tickets for the first two shows are available in limited quantities, and ones for the Thursday show go on sale at 10 a.m. today. Ticket prices range from $29 to $59 and can be purchased online at www.thecarsoncenter.org or by calling 270-450-4444. — Adam Testa
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Night of the Demons: The ultimate Halloween party becomes the setting for a terrifying night of satanic slaughter when seven teenagers become trapped in a mansion filled with rampaging demons in this remake Kevin S. Tenney’s influential 1988 horror classic. With Shannon Elizabeth, Monica Keena, Diora Baird, Edward Furlong and Tiffany Shepis. Directed by Adam Gierasch. Rated R. Oceans: Winged Migration co-directors Jacques Cluzaud and Jacques Perrin re-team for this documentary produced for Walt Disney Studios’ Disneynature banner and exploring the many mysteries of our planet’s oceans. With Pierce Brosnan and Lancelot Perrin. Directed by Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud. Rated G.
Predators: A group of hardened killers are hunted on an alien planet. With Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Danny Trejo, Alice Braga, Walter Goggins and Oleg Taktarov. Directed by Nimrod Antal. Rated R. Please Give: A family looking for some extra space gets drawn into a difficult relationship with the folks next door in this comedy drama. With Amanda Peet, Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall and Sarah Steele. Directed by Nicole Holofcener. Rated R. Smash His Camera: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis sued him, Marlon Brando broke his jaw and Steve McQueen gave him a look that would have killed, if looks could kill. To the celebrities he pursued, photographer Ron Galella was the beast who threatened beauty. With Ron Galella, Floyd Abrams, Harry Benson, George Bernard and Graydon Carter. Directed by Leon Gast. Rated PG-13.
Psycho, 50th Anniversary Edition: A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer’s client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother. With Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Janet Leigh. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Rated R. Blu-Ray release. Rocky Horror Picture Show, 35th Anniversary Edition: A newly engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-NFurter. With Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick. Directed by Jim Sharman. Rated R. Blu-Ray release.
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Bionic Woman, Season One: She can run faster than 60 mph, bend massive steel bars, jump from insane heights, and hear sounds you can only imagine. She’s no ordinary schoolteacher… she’s The Bionic Woman. Relive the excitement of this iconic TV series about Jaime Sommers, a woman leading the ultimate double life. With Lindsay Wagner, Richard Anderson, Martin E. Brooks. Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, The Complete Collection: Includes all 45 episodes in Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Volume 1 and Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Volume 2, plus the bonus Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special. With Paul Reubens, George McGrath, John Paragon, Special Editions Lynne Marie Stewart and Phil Hartman. Apocalypse Now: During Real L Word, Season One: the on-going Vietnam War, A nine episode one-hour Captain Willard is sent on a series that follows a group of dangerous mission into real-life Los Angeles lesbians Cambodia to assassinate a as they go about their daily renegade Green Beret who lives, at work and play. With has set himself up as a God Jill Sloane Goldstein, Tracy among a local tribe. With Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando Ryerson, Nikki Weiss, Rose Garcia and Scarlett and Robert Duvall. Directed Hernandez. Not rated. by Francis Ford Coppola. — Adam Testa Rated R. Blu-Ray release.
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Allen’s latest uses familiar method to bore audiences colored light, my darling,” Cristal coos, and Gemma rushes off to pop in on her Rated R for some frustrated daughter and language; starring Naomi her more frustrated Watts, Josh Brolin, husband (Josh Brolin) and Anthony Hopkins, Gemma give them the good news. Of course, Helena’s Jones, Freida Pinto, husband is leaving her. Antonio Banderas and Alfie is having the latest Lucy Punch; directed by mid-life crisis in British Woody Allen; opening history. Friday at University Place ““She already has me 8 in Carbondale. dead and buried.” Daughter Sally is well BY ROGER MOORE into her 30s and impatient MCCLATCHY-NEWS TRIBUNE with her once-promising writer-husband Roy (Josh Woody Allen’s oftBrolin) to have a child and repeated modus operandi get on with their lives, is that he has an idea, jots with or without him it on a slip of paper, shoves publishing a new novel. it into a desk and then Roy is frantic to avoid takes it out later and those phrases, “once makes a movie out of it. promising” and “washed What was on the the slip up at 38.” But the new of paper that led to “You book won’t do it for him. Will Meet a Tall Dark Cristal predicts it. Stranger”? But Roy’s eye strays to “Round up the usual the apartment across the stars in my thrall, move to way, where a flutist (Freida London for a stretch and Pinto) practices and bore them and the occasionally undresses. audience to tears?” Vintage Woody dialogue? A mirthless, joyless “It’s beautiful, the comedy with nary a hint Boccherini.” of romance, mystery or “You know his music? justification for its I’m impressed.” existence, it joins That could lead to “Hollywood Ending,” something. In Woody “Anything Else,” World, even boorish lumps “Whatever Works,” like Roy (Brolin totes Cassandra’s Dream” and around an extra 30 other recent clunky, tone- pounds) know their deaf Allen films that classical music and charm plainly should have svelte Indian artistes with remained weak, their crude come -. Yeah, undeveloped ideas tucked he tells her he’s watched inside that infamous desk. her undress. Pinto doesn’t The dotty Helen is quite play that as a turn where we “begin,” our on, and without that heat, bored narrator tells us. She this affair-to-be makes no (Gemma Jones) has gone sense. to a mentalist as a way of Roy calls her his “muse,” keeping her out of her and proceeds to plot his daughter (Naomi Watts) way out of an unhappy and husband Alfie’s marriage and back into (Anthony Hopkins) hair. writing success. “You’re bathed in a rose Sally, meanwhile, is
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‘Paranormal Activity 2’ After experiencing what they think are a series of ‘break-ins,’ a family sets up security cameras around their home, only to realize that the events unfolding before them are more sinister than they seem. Directed by Tod Williams and produced by Oren Peli, director of the film’s 2009 predecessor, ‘Paranormal Activity 2 is not being screened for review. The movie opens Friday at ShowPlace 8 in Carbondale and Illinois Centre 8 in Marion.
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Eastwood’s new drama ‘a terrible letdown’
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Sally, meanwhile, is smitten with her handsome gallery-owner boss played by Antonio Banderas, like most in this cast, given nothing to do. Bland “poker partners,” bland college pals, Allen has cluttered this smorgasbord with assorted servings of lukewar porridge fpr characters. Thank heaven Alfie hooks up with a tall, thin hooker, played with ‘80s
era Woody Allen zest by Lucy Punch. Common, cheap, and shrill, Charmaine is funny in every scene and Punch makes the most of her every moment on camera. Her presence tips us that maybe Woody intended this to be a comedy. Otherwise, we have no clue. The writing is old — cobwebbed cliches about tea and palm readers and infidelities
and Boccherini. And when the bland narrator (Zak Orth) informs us that this is “our little tale of sound and fury, signifying nothing,” we aren’t inclined to argue. It’s not easy to call this the worst Woody movie in years, because whatever the charms of “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” he’s given us a lot of candidates for that prize, movies that should have stayed in the desk.
path toward one another for a finale that isn’t so Rated PG-13 for mature much a payoff as a “Yeah, thematic elements, and?” including disturbing He attracted talent from disaster and accident Matt Damon, playing a images, and for brief reluctant San Francisco psychic who avoids strong language; starring “connections” with the Matt Damon, Cecile De dead, to Derek Jacobi, in a France, Jay Mohr, Bryce Dallas Howard; directed by cameo as Derek Jacobi, the actor who reads Charles Clint Eastwood; opening Dickens’ novels onto CD. Friday at University Place Eastwood loses track of 8 in Carbondale and Damon, his ostensible Illinois Centre 8 in Marion. hero, and makes Jacobi’s appearance one of the more BY ROGER MOORE glaring “I’d really like to MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS work with him, but I haven’t a role for him” Clint Eastwood’s latemoments in recent film life/late-career fascination history. with mortality, death and But “Hereafter” opens grieving devolves, at long with a whopper — an epic last, into a cheap parlor recreation of the 2005 trick in “Hereafter.” This Indian Ocean tsunami. wholly unsatisfying Cecile De France plays variation on “what lies Marie, a French tourist who beyond” shows him to be drowns in the tidal wave, ill-suited to the subject and only to revive after seeing a to the sort of tale that child she tried to save walk involves setting three off into a hazy light. Marie disparate characters on a is a reporter but is so
shaken that she runs away from the biggest story of her career, back to France where she tries to rationalize what she went through. Frankie and George McLaren play British twins, boys who spend their days bonding and covering for their drugaddicted mom. One is killed in an accident and the survivor is haunted by the loss. Meanwhile, out in San Francisco, George (Damon) is running a forklift, hiding from his former life as a psychic for hire. His brother (Jay Mohr, underplaying for once) insists he has “a gift” and a “duty” to share it. But George knows the lonely life that holds and how little chance he has of meeting someone. “A life that’s all about that is no life at all.” SEE ‘HEREAFTER’ / PAGE 20
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‘HEREAFTER’: Clint Eastwood’s film starring Damon a letdown BIG MUDDY: Celebrate handFROM PAGE 19 crafted brew at the Big Muddy Maybe that lady he’s festival in Murphysboro partnered with in his Italian cooking class (Bryce Dallas Howard, a bit too obvious in what is far from her best performance) will be interested. If only he can stop “seeing” the dead people in her past. Eastwood, working from a Peter Morgan (“The Queen”) script, fritters away, failing to find suspense or heart in these three lives. When you can’t wring tears out of a child’s death or a vast tragedy, maybe this isn’t the script for you. Damon plays George as emotionally exhausted and seemingly unable to summon up the empathy that he keeps saying his character has. De France, working in both French and English, doesn’t for one second suggest the
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urgent need to know what it was she experienced, or tell the world about it.
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system and discovering there’s no “here” that you’ve been after all your life.
The contest drew about 75 entries, at least one of which came from as far as California, said Brad Fager, co-founder of Friends of Murphysboro. The winning brew will be announced during this weekend’s beer festival. “Everyone was just really excited with the turnout,” Fager said. In addition to beer tasting, the festival will feature a number of side attractions. Ryan Tockstein of Aleuminati will demonstrate homebrewing, while “Beer Philosopher” Shawn Connelly will teach patrons about pairing various foods and beers. Country-folk band
Fertile Soil will provide music at the Riverside Park bandshell, while the Murphysboro Clarkes vintage baseball team will take to the field at 11:30 a.m. Advance ticket sales have been going well, with about half those available already sold, Fager said. Participating breweries include Big Muddy Brewing of Murphysboro; O’Fallon Brewery of O’Fallon, Mo.; Schlafly and Cardinal Square Brewery of St. Louis; Charleville Brewery and Crown Valley Brewery of Saint Genevieve, Mo.; and Buckner Brewery of Cape Girardeau. adam.testa@thesouthern.com 618-351-5031