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gallery, 102 N. Front St., Cobden; sand painting, photography and traditional Mexican embroidery/crochet; in celebration of National Latino Heritage Month; through Oct. 27 Forty Years of Painting: By Jan York, Luna Gallery in The Yellow Moon Café, 110 N. Front St., Cobden; through October Maurice Metzger: Union County Museum, South Appleknocker Street, Cobden; Metzger was a well-known artist from the 1950s to his death in 2001 who specialized in wildlife and Southern Illinois landmarks; he also produced cartoons commenting on his unique views of life for the GazetteDemocrat newspaper in Anna; through October Master Artists from the Museum’s Art Collection: University Museum, SIU; artists featured include Pierre Bonnard, Pablo Picasso, Berthe Morisot, Jacob Lawrence, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Max Ernst; through May 9; 618-4535388; www.museum.siu. edu Michelle Fredman: Exhibit, The Pavilion, Marion; work can be viewed during the Pavilion’s regular hours; through December

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Irish Festival coming this weekend

Du Bois festival set for Oct. 6

CARBONDALE — The 17th annual Southern Illinois Irish Festival, planned for three days in October, will feature two days of Celtic Fair activities at Turley Park and an opening night Irish concert in Carbondale. This year’s festival starts Oct. 4 with a concert featuring the traditional music trio Open the Door for Three. The band includes Dublin-born Chicago resident Pat Broaders on vocals and bouzouki and American fiddler Liz Knowles and her husband, Kieran O’Hare, on Irish pipes and whistles. Their recent debut album has been called “one of the top Irish albums of the year” by Bryan Kelso Crow, host of WSIU’s “Celtic Connections.” The concert will take place at The Loft & Terrace at the Garden Grove Event Center, behind University Mall at

DU BOIS — The 37th annual Du Bois Center Fall Festival will be from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, at the Du Bois Community Center, 2651 Quarry Road. A variety of craft booths will be set up on the grounds, including a blacksmith with a working forge, handspun yarn and spinning wheel, wood workers, a variety of textiles, fall and holiday items, hand woven rugs, scrapbook items, handmade baskets, goat milk soap, quilts and hand-painted china. There will also be food available, including pulled pork, hot dogs, chicken tenders, pocket tacos, pork kabobs, brats, spiral potatoes, funnel cakes and bean soup.

1215 E. Walnut St. Tickets will be $10 at the door. The concert starts at 8 p.m. and will be outdoors on the terrace, if weather permits. This year’s Celtic Fair will take place at Carbondale’s Turley Park throughout the day on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 5 and 6, with two stages of music and dance, Scottish Highland Games, an Irish Children’s Village and children’s activities, Liam the Extra-Large Leprechaun, the Medieval Combat Society, Saluki dogs, Professor Play, chair massage, a bouncy castle, a bagpipes demonstration tent hosted by Sean Folsom, Celtic merchandise vendors and food and drink. Saturday hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission at the park entrances will be $5 each day, with children 12 and

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younger admitted free when accompanied by an adult. Saturday’s Celtic Fair performers include Open the Door for Three, Carbondale’s Irish band The Dorians, Johnston City Scottish duo Roisín Dubh, dancers and musicians from St. Louis Irish Arts, St. Louis Irish duo Kevin Buckley & Ian Walsh, Blackberry Blossoms, and

local violinists Heartstrings. Sunday’s Celtic Roots, American Traditions lineup includes Wil Maring & Robert Bowlin, Banjovi, The Dorians, Roisín Dubh, The Voyageurs and After Barbed Wire. More details and updates are available on the Festival website at www.silirish fest.org.

Music will be provided by the Eden Brass Quintet, The Venedy Band, Three Wheel Wagon, Freeburg UCC Praise Band, Joyful Praise Band and Dual Generation. Oak Lodge will be the site of a silent auction with a variety of items to bid on throughout the day, including handmade quilts. Kidz Korner will offer crafts, games and events, candle dipping and face painting for children of all ages. Other activities include arena horse rides, pontoon boat rides on the lake and hay wagon rides throughout the grounds. For more, call 618-7872202, email dcinfo@ duboiscenter.org or go to www.duboiscenter.org. — The Southern

— The Southern

For Kids’ Sake Run takes off Friday in Carbondale CARBONDALE — The third annual For Kids’ Sake 10K/5K Run/Walka-Thon will take off Friday, Sept. 27, at Turley Park in Carbondale. Registration starts at 4:30 p.m. with the 10K race kicking off at 5:30 p.m. and the 5K race beginning at 6 p.m. Race fee is $20 for adults and $13 for children under 14. Event t-shirts are available while supplies last. All of the pledge money raised by the participants will benefit orphans and

school children in Bangladesh. After-race activities include awards, music and food. Music will be provided by Memory Lane Music Service. Longbranch Coffeehouse will be offering vegetarian lasagna; Towne Square Market will be grilling hot dogs and hamburgers. For more information, email info@forkids sake.net, go to www. forkidssake.net or call 618-529-5044.

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— The Southern

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Murphysboro museum features Walt Whitman program MURPHYSBORO —Brian “Fox” Ellis, internationally acclaimed author, storyteller, historian and naturalist, will present “Walt Whitman: A Song of Myself” at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 30, in the Gen. John A. Logan Museum. Ellis has been a featured speaker at regional and international conferences including the International Wetlands Conservation Conference, National Science Teachers Association Conference and the North American Prairie Conservation Conference. He is also the artistic director for Prairie Folklore Theatre, a unique theater company that celebrates ecology and history through original musical theater productions. He is the author of 15 books. Walt Whitman has been called one of America’s pre-eminent poets, and many of his works reflect the personal impact of the Civil War. As the war was beginning, Whitman published “Beat! Beat! Drums!” to rally

the North to Lincoln’s call. Whitman did not join the Union army but volunteered as a nurse in the army hospitals. The horrors he saw there affected him so Ellis deeply that he would write about it years later. Written about the death of Abraham Lincoln, “O Captain! My Captain!” was perhaps Whitman’s most popular poem. Whitman is probably best known and still studied in textbooks today for his book “Leaves of Grass.” Ellis’ presentation at the museum is sponsored by the Illinois Humanities Council’s Road Scholars Speaker’s Bureau program. For more information, call 618-3030569 or email director@logan museum.org. — The Southern

Beatlemania comes to Herrin next month HERRIN — Jim Kirkpatrick has been a fan of the Beatles since the early 1960s. A life-long resident of Southern Illinois, he remembers the local publicity that was generated in 1964 about Beatle George Harrison having a sister who lived in Benton. “But never in my wildest imagination did I expect that one day I would become friends with a Beatle sibling,” Kirkpatrick said. He will retrace Harrison’s visit to the U.S. in 1963 and talk about his book, “Before He Was Fab: George Harrison’s First American Visit” at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, at Herrin City Library. Guests are invited to bring any memorabilia from the Beatles’ era. Just as the Beatles were gaining popularity in England, George Harrison

visited his sister, Louise Harrison Caldwell, in Benton. While in Southern Illinois, Harrison learned the Beatles had achieved record sales in England with their new hit, “She Loves You.” During the stay in Franklin County, Harrison purchased one of the guitars he later played with the Beatles. He also played with a local group, The Four Vests, at the Eldorado VFW. It is believed that the first Beatles’ record ever played in the US was played in Southern Illinois. With the help of Harrison’s sister, Louise, Kirkpatrick has extensively researched George Harrison’s visit to provide a fascinating account of the early Beatle days. A graduate of SIU with a degree in journalism, Kirkpatrick has worked for several Southern Illinois newspapers, including The

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CARBONDALE — A third season of Community Cinema will kick off at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, with a free screening and discussion of “The Graduates” in the Carbondale Public Library at t 405 W. Main St. Dan Elgin, community counselor and SIU alumnus, and Danielle Soto, assistant professor in the SIU Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, will lead a discussion after the film. “The Graduates” follows six teenagers — three girls and three boys — each with their own unique obstacles to overcome. One of the purposes of the screening is to facilitate

Southern Illinoisan, the Marion Daily Republican and the Du Quoin Evening Call. Since 1985, he has been a legislative assistant, working for Illinois legislators Kenneth J. Gray, Glenn Poshard and David Phelps. He has been State Rep. John Bradley’s district manager since 2003. The event is part of the Herrin Area Historical Society’s Guest Lecture Series and is free. — The Southern

‘A Cherokee Wish’ book signing Oct. 4

discussion about methods to increase graduation rates for Latinos. The remaining schedule for the Community Cinema is as follows: “The State of Arizona,” Oct. 26; “Las Marthas,” Feb. 22; “The Trials of Muhammad Ali,” March 29; “Medora,” April 26 and “The New Black,” May 31. Each screening will feature a facilitator and guest speakers who will participate in a discussion with the audience about the topics raised in the films. Learn more about each film and watch a preview online at www.wsiu.org/ communitycinema.

CARBONDALE — C. C. Wills will sign copies of his new book, “A Cherokee Wish,” from noon to 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, in the Book Worm Bookstore at 618 E. Walnut St. Willis has published three books and will have copies of all his books at the book signing in both paperback and hardback versions. “A Cherokee Wish” is the third book in a Treasure Trilogy. The previous books are “Treasure in the Shawnee Hills” and “Shawnee: The Adventure Continues.” For more information, visit www.ccwillsauthor.com.

— The Southern

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bands, pet photo contest, dachshund races, watermelon eating contest, hot dog eating contest, pumpkin carving contest, bean bag tournament, children’s photogenic contest, car show, children’s games and activities, food vendors, merchandise vendors and crafts; dachshund races registration, 11:30 a.m. with entry fee, non-perishable food donation; maribeth.101@hotmail.com; 618-751-1631 Metropolis Wine Festival: 6-10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, Harrah’s Hotel and Casino; wineries include Rustle Hill, Lincoln Heritage, Kite Hill and Honker Hill; $10 includes a souvenir glass and five tasting tickets; music by The Melungeons, 6 p.m. and The Tommy Akers Band, 8 p.m.; doors open 5:45 p.m.; www.metropolis tourism.com; 618-524-5025 Rend Lake Art and Wine Festival: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28 through Sunday, Sept. 29, Southern Illinois Art & Artisans Center, Whittington; wineries, specialty foods, music; 618-629-2220; www. museum.state.il.us/ismsites/ so-il/events.html Southern Illinois Irish Festival: Friday-Sunday, Oct. 4-6, Carbondale; features a concert Friday and Celtic Fair activities at Turley Park Saturday and Sunday; www. silirishfest.org Du Bois Center Fall Festival: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, Du Bois Center, 2651 Quarry Road, Du Bois; craft booths including: a blacksmith, spinning wheel, wood workers, fall and holiday items, hand

woven rugs, scrapbook items, handmade baskets; food; music; auction; Kidz Korner; 618-787-2202; dcinfo@DuBoisCenter.org; www.duboiscenter.org

Films Despicable Me 2: 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26; 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday Sept. 27-28 and 2 p.m. matinee, Saturday, Sept. 28, Student Center Auditorium, SIU; $3/2; PG-13; 618-536-3393; www.spc4fun.com Community Cinema: Features The Graduates, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, Carbondale Public Library; part of a series of free film screenings from the PBS series Independent Lens; www.wsiu.org/ communitycinema

History Harrison Bruce Historical Village Tours: 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1, John A. Logan College, Carterville; four historical structures on site around the Robert Mees Village Centre including the Harrison House, Harrison Store Front, Purdy School and Hunter Cabin; selfwalking or guided Docent tours are available; free

Performances/Theatre New Faces 2013: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, C.H. Moe Theater, SIU; evening of monologues, scenes, songs and exhibits; spotlight on talented new students; free; scenes may include adult content or strong language; 618-453-5741

HubFest features contests, dachshund races MARION—The 5th annual Marion HubFest starts at noon Saturday, Sept. 28, at Tower Square in Marion. Festivities will continue until 8 p.m. The event will feature two entertainment stages, local bands, local talent, a pet photo contest, dachshund races, a watermelon eating contest, hot dog eating contest, pumpkin carving contest, bean bag tournament, a

children’s photogenic contest, a car show, children’s games and activities, food vendors, merchandise vendors and crafts. The Dachshund Race and Fashion Show will kick off the events starting at noon with registration at 11:30 a.m. Admission to the dachshund race and fashion show is a non-perishable food donation that will

benefit The Marion Ministerial Alliance. Trophies will be awarded to the fastest, the best dressed, the best dachshund/human outfits and most original outfit. The outside festival has averaged an attendance of around 2,000 people in past years. For more information email maribeth.101@ hotmail.com or call 618-751-1631. — Brenda Kirkpatrick

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Reality stars to appear at Hunting and Fishing Days

SIU theater presents ‘New Faces 2013’

See unique items at Rend Lake Art and Wine Festival

Little Black Dress BOOBASH hopes to scare up good times

WHITTINGTON— The 14th annual Art and Wine Festival will take place Saturday, Sept. 28, and Sunday, Sept. 29, at the Southern Illinois Art and Artisans Center, Rend Lake. More than 50 artisans will demonstrate their craft and offer their work for sale during this outdoor festival. Also, taste varietals from 13 Illinois wineries, enjoy specialty foods and listen to local music as you

METROPOLIS — Clean out your closet and find that little black dress or black suit to wear to the Little Black Dress BOOBASH from 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5. The event will take place in the Riverfront Event Center at Harrah’s Metropolis Hotel. Enjoy an evening with the Sassafrass Dance Company along with N The Mix DJ Service for non-stop dance music and routines guaranteed to keep you moving all night. Drink specials will also be available. Tickets are $10 at White Lili Boutique in Metropolis and at the door. Proceeds will be given to the American Cancer Society. For more information about the Little Black Dress BOOBASH, call 618-524-6476 or email clewis@harrahs.com.

CARBONDALE — Fresh, dynamically interesting, excited and intense are a few words to describe the faces of the new theater majors who will make their departmental debuts this fall when SIU Department of Theater presents “New Faces 2013.” Taking place at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, “New Faces 2013” is an evening of monologues, scenes, songs and exhibits. Making their debut at this event are Brionne Acton-Smith, Clayton Bathiany, Da’Veon Burtin, Emmanuel Castillo , Emily Collins, Katelyn Coursey, Chris Dixon , Ben Fenton , Audrey Foland, Samantha Forehand, Kelsey Fortier, Briyana Garnett, Crystal Henderson, Taylor Jelley, Zoe Jensen, Salina Johnson, Shantesia Jordan, Noah Kelso, Valencia Koger, Kevin Lewis, Phillips Martin, Gabrielle Mitchell , Hsuan Ou Yang, Jordan Ray, Andrea Rendelman, Adrian Rochelle, Matlyn Rybak, Ty Spencer , Michael Voegtle, Nathaniel Washington , Jessica Wheatley and Jasmine Wiley The show will be presented in the Christian H. Moe Theater in the Communications Building. Admission is free. There will be a reception after the show. And, please note: Scenes may include adult content or strong language. For additional information, call 618-453-5741.

— The Southern

CARTERVILLE —Two stars of a new Discovery Channel reality show, “Porter’s Ridge,” will appear at the annual celebration of National Hunting and Fishing Days Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 28 and 29, at John A. Logan College. Elvis Larry Martin and Danny Bob Saylor will join fellow cast member and long-time Hunting and Fishing Day presenter Jeff the Bear Man, at the college’s 26th annual celebration. “Porter’s Ridge” is a new series from the creators of

the hit series “Duck Dynasty.” Tucked away in the rolling hills of Indiana, far from big city life, the show follows the characters of the small town. This isolated, tight-knit community lives by its own set of rules. The Ridge is a place where a guy can have a yard full of pet grizzly bears, use dynamite recreationally and hold family demolition derbies. According to the Discovery Channel’s website, the code of life on the Ridge is simple: “Respect the lord, love your family and watch each other’s backs.”

peruse functional and decorative art plus many one-of-a-kind craft items. The festival hours are from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. The Southern Illinois Art and Artisans Center is located at 14967 Gun Creek Trail, Whittington. For more information, call 618-629-2220 or go to www.museum.state.il.us/ ismsites/so-il/events.html — Brenda Kirkpatrick

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Richochet, a 6-year-old Golden Retriever, competes in last year’s Dock Dog competition.

Event organizer Dwight Hoffard said Hunting and Fishing Days had a natural connection to the show. “Jeff the Bear Man and his late bear, Brody, have been an integral part of

hunting and fishing days for a long time. So, when Jeff said he was coming back with his new bear, Bob, he said he could bring along a few friends too,” said Hoffard.

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‘Treasure Island’

Annihilate The Hero releases ‘Oracle’ at PK’s CARBONDALE — Annihilate The Hero, a three-piece metal band based in Carbondale, has released the band’s sixth studio album titled “Oracle.” The CD release show is set for 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28 at PK’s in downtown Carbondale. The album was released digitally via Bandcamp and recorded at Thomas Henderson’s Studio. Annihilate The Hero is composed of Thomas Henderson on guitar and vocals, Justin Malinee on drums and Tony Lamantia on bass guitar. The band spent more than a year writing, arranging and recording “Oracle,” a 27-minute concept album. All five of the songs fit together lyrically and conceptually, and the songs are meant to run seamlessly together for the duration of the entire piece. Joining Annihilate The Hero at PKs will be Voyage of Slaves from Paducah and Danny Greene of Murphysboro. Go to www.annihilate thehero.net or www. annihilatethehero.com for more information. — The Southern

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taken him from weekly Monday night concerts at Uptown Lodge 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1, Shryock in Athens, Ga., to sold-out Auditorium, SIU; $40 at performances at some of the www.siusalukis.com or 877-725-8547 nation’s largest musical festivals. Widespread Panic packed BY ADAM TESTA Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheater more times than any other artist, THE SOUTHERN and the band’s headlining appearance at the New Orleans Jazz ot much has changed for and Heritage Festival set a singleWidespread Panic frontman day attendance record. The John Bell. celebration of their first live album, When asked how life now “Light Fuse, Get Away,” drew more compares to 27 years ago, when his than 100,000 fans to Athens and is band came together for the first considered one of the largest CD time, his reply was simple. release parties in history. “About the same,” he said. Through all the successes, though, Bell made his personal philosophy Bell never worried about what the clear: It’s not about the past or the future would hold, again, taking it future; it’s about living life in the one day at a time. now, worrying about the task at “We were just taking the fun as it hand. “It’s a day-to-day, week-to-week, came and being grateful for every year-to-year kind of thing,” he said. opportunity,” he said. On Tuesday, Oct. 1, Bell’s one“Once you’ve done it for 27 years, day-at-a-time mentality and it’s kind of part of your DNA.” method will have his attention And, for Bell, it seems to be focused on that night’s concert at working. His musical career has

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Shryock Auditorium. Widespread Panic takes the stage at 7 p.m. Tickets for the show are $40 and can be purchased online at www.siusalukis.com or by calling 877-725-8547. Bell said the band has been talking about returning to the studio to record another album, but those things require time. With changes in technology and digital streaming and downloads becoming the norm for music, it becomes necessary to evaluate the approach. “We’re pretty old-fashioned,” he said. “We like thinking in the way we grew up, but the world isn’t really like that any more.” As time passes, the band must adapt without sacrificing the sound and qualities that made it work in the first place. But 27 years later, Bell still has the same strategy to make that happen: Take things one day at a time. adam.testa@thesouthern.com 618-351-5031

INA — The classic tale of “Treasure Island,” originally written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1883, will be presented on the Rend Lake College Theatre stage this fall. Tickets go on sale Oct. 7 for $12. Show times are 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7, through Saturday, Nov. 9, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10. Theater professor Tracey Webb said the script she will be using was written by Phil Willmott in 2006, making it unique to this area. Willmott’s script has one difference Webb said she is very excited about — the larger number of female roles. Altogether, there are 21 characters, plus a parrot puppet, who will act, sing and dance across the stage. “It’s going to be very family-friendly,” Webb said. “There’s a lot of comedy in this version, and it’s pretty ridiculous in some scenes. I thought it was a great idea to do a pirate show because of the popularity of the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movies.” Webb said she is working on the logistics of the play, such as the two backdrops and creating the parrot puppet. She asks that anyone interested in helping with building the sets, creating period costumes and working lights or sound to contact her at 618-4375321 ext. 1295. To purchase tickets, contact Cathy Cross at 618-437-5321 ext. 1263. — The Southern

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Chamber Music Society presents ‘Autumn Artistry’ CARBONDALE — The Southern Illinois Chamber Music Society will offer its first concert of the 201314 season. “Autumn Artistry” will be presented at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 29, in Carbondale Unitarian Fellowship, 105 North Parrish Lane. The first concert of four this season will showcase works from two master composers, Beethoven and Mozart. The first half of the program will feature SIU string faculty mbmers Michael Barta, Eric Lenz and Jacob Tews. They will

be joined by graduate violinist Edward Charity on Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 13 in C sharp minor, Op. 131. After intermission, the featured guest artist of the concert, world-renowned clarinetist and SIU Professor and Distinguished Scholar Eric Mandat, will collaborate with the string faculty and graduate violinist Petra Bubanja on Mozart’s sublime Clarinet Quintet. “Mozart wrote this piece after discovering the expressive abilities of the clarinet through a

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TESSI holds recital Sept. 28 in Carbondale CARBONDALE — The Talent Education School of Southern Illinois will have its first recital of the school year at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28. The TESSI recital will take place at the First Christian Church, 306 W. Monroe St. in Carbondale. Students 4 to 18 will perform on piano, voice, violin, bowed psaltery and classical guitar. The recital is free. Light refreshments will be provided after the recital. For more information call 618-457-6300. — The Southern

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Concerts Southern Illinois Turf Fest 2013: Featuring country music star Leona Williams, 5:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Sept. 26-28, Big Red Barn, 17787 Akin Blacktop; other performers include Mary McDonald, Dhana Cooper, Ron Williams and The Edgewood Opry; country and gospel music; concessions available; no alcohol allowed; bring lawn chairs; free; 618-927-3922. Libby Wilson and Friends in concert: 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, C.E. Brehm Memorial Public Library, Mount Vernon; dulcimer music Effingham MusicFest: Doors open noon, Saturday, Sept. 28, Funfest Amphitheater, 17082 N. U.S. 45, Effingham; intersection of I-57 and I-70; music starts 3:30 p.m.; features Brett Eldredge, Dani Flowers, Drew Baldridge, Brushfire, Logan Mize; $25; bring a lawn chair; www.effingham musicfest.com Music Festival: Raddle The Bottoms Bluegrass and Folk Music Festival, 11 a.m.8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 29, St. Ann’s Church Yard, Raddle; features The Pickin’ Chicks, Wil Maring & Robert Bowlin, Rural Kings and Ol’ Fishskins; food, auction; $2; under 10, free; 618-5594287 Autumn Artistry: By the Southern Illinois Chamber Music Society, 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 29, Carbondale Unitarian Fellowship; featuring Eric Mandat, clarinetist and members of the SIU School of Music Graduate String Quartet; $15 adults, $5 students; reception; www.sichambermusic.org Widespread Panic: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1, SIU Arena Carbondale; buy tickets at the SIU Arena Ticket Office; $30/$35/$40; www.siu salukis.com or 618-4532000

Wineries Oldies but Goodies Community Gospel Choir: 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, lobby, Southeastern Illinois College, Harrisburg, performing arts center; free; 618-841-4649

Kentucky Gene Watson: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, Kentucky Opry, 88 Chilton Lane, Benton, Ky.; www.kentucky opry.com; call 270-527-3869 for tickets Food and Fun For Senior Citizens: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1, Kentucky Opry, 88 Chilton Lane, Benton, Ky.; lunch and show, $17; show only, $7.50; www.kentucky opry.com; 888-459-8704

Recital TESSI recital: Talent Education School of Southern Illinois recital, 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, First Christian Church, 306 W. Monroe St., Carbondale; students will perform on piano, voice, violin, bowed psaltery and classical guitar; free; refreshments; 618-4576300

Release Parties Album release show: Mighty (Revamped) by Jermaine Bollinger, 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, The View Church, 1201 S. Giant City Road, Carbondale; also released digitally on iTunes, Amazon, CD Baby; fifth album release show and twelfth studio album; band members playing on album, Shadi Frick, Josh Morrison and Jim Beers; www.jermaine bollinger.com CD release show: By Annihilate The Hero, 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, PK’s, Carbondale; also playing, Voyage of Slaves and Danny Greene of Murphysboro; www. annihilatethehero.net; www.annihilatethehero.com

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Album release party, 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, The Old Feed Store, Cobden ideos posted on the Internet for The Bankesters, a Carbondale-based bluegrass band, usually receive a low number of views on YouTube. This week, though, something incredibly different happened. On one day, more than 3,000 people viewed “Cups (When I’m Gone),” a cover of an Anna Kendrick tune from the recent “Perfect Pitch” movie. The song is included on the band’s new album, “Love Has

Wheels,” which was released nationally Monday on Compass Records. The Bankesters have spent this week at the annual International Bluegrass Music Association Festival in Raleigh, N.C. The group has been performing multiple shows daily, playing for the industry’s hardcore fans and media representatives. “We are getting a lot of new attention. People are starting to take notice, but there is still a long way to go. Down here, we’re still newcomers,” Phil Bankester said late Tuesday night, just minutes before a midnight concert.

The Bankesters were accidently brought into existence in September 2004, when the family band learned a couple songs to play at an annual celebration hosted by the Cornerstone Reform Church in Carbondale. They kept getting requests to play, and it evolved into a full-time hobby. The Bankesters feature the talents of three sisters: Emily, on fiddle and claw hammer banjo; Alysha, on mandolin and fiddle, and Melissa on upright bass. Parents Phil and Dorene play rhythm guitar and provide vocal support. SEE HOFFARD / PAGE 10

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the committee that selected Emily for her “All three of the girls award and was familiar were home-schooled; this with our music,” allowed them to be Bankester said. exposed to the arts and Emily Bankester grow their musical shocked the industry and interests. We didn’t force propelled the group to them into music. It is new heights by winning something they tried and the prestigious IBMA really fell in love with it,” award last year. Bankester said. “One day I “Nobody expected it,” came home from work Bankester said. and two of the girls Fueled by the wanted to show me momentum of a IBMA something they learned award, the band signed on fiddle. When I heard it, with Compass Records in I knew we had something April, and in May, the special.” label re-released the In 2012, the group “Looking Forward” album released the album and plans were made for a “Looking Back,” which new project. helped earn Emily Bankester said “Love Bankester a nomination Has Wheels” was for the first IBMA recorded in three Momentum Award for segments. Four songs Vocalist of the Year. With were recorded during each the popularity boost of session, with a fourth visit the nomination in their required to add polish to pocket, the band had high each tune. He said expectations attending everyone in the group the IBMA festival last participated in the song year. selection process and After careful Brown ensured the mix consideration, Bankester had good balance. decided there was only “The new album is one record company that being played on the radio. looked like a good fit for People are talking about the band and he planned it. Several disc jockeys to make contact with have congratulated us and Compass Records. The given us positive independent label is feedback. We are getting a lauded as a haven for lot more attention,” creativity and is home for Bankester said about the Claire Lynch, Dale Ann buzz created by the new Bradley and Special album. Consensus. “I met (label founder) VINCE HOFFARD can be Alison (Brown) on the reached at 618-658-9095 first day of the conference or vincehoffard@ last year. She had been on yahoo.com.

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Rated R for sexual content, nudity, language, some disturbing images and brief drug use; starring Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Bruhl, Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara, Christian McKay, Natalie Dormer; directed by Ron Howard; opening Friday at University Place 8 in Carbondale and AMC 8 in Marion. MCT

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Chris Hemsworth stars as Englishman James Hunt in ‘Rush,’ Ron Howard’s big-screen recreation of the 1970s Grand Prix rivalry between Hunt and Niki Lauda.

First, there’s the sensation of speed propulsive, thunderous, metal-rending momentum. The perfectly-titled “Rush” is fast cars passing in a blur, extreme close-ups of valves, pistons, nervewracking gear-changes and rubber meeting the road. And it’s about the men with the courage and lightning quick reflexes to master all that. Ron Howard, re-teaming with his “Frost/Nixon” screenwriter, the Oscar darling Peter Morgan (“The Queen”), and thanks to sterling efforts from his regular editor, Daniel P. Hanley, and Danny Boyle’s favorite cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle (“Trance,” “Slumdog Millionaire”) has turned Formula 1 racing into moving, surround sound art. Yes, it’s a thoroughly entertaining and gutsy rendition of the sexiest era in F1 and its greatest rivalry — the dour Austrian Niki Lauda vs. the swaggering Brit, James

Hunt. But it’s just gorgeous, heartpounding, maybe the best-looking and certainly the best-edited Howard film since his masterpiece, “Apollo 13.” The casting is on-thenose. Daniel Bruhl (“Inglorious Basterds”) is the very picture of the intense, rodent-toothed “Sour Kraut” Austrian, Lauda - a man who is arrogant, blunt and all “risk assessing” business, on and off the track. Chris “Thor” Hemsworth has the cocksure smirk of a party animal off the track, a hunter-killer on it, embodying James Hunt’s ever-wandering eye for the main chance. Their competition was fierce and unpleasant. And in every scene, the insults and edginess set off sparks. “You’re relentless,” Hunt complains. “Thank you,”Lauda replies. They get under each other’s skin, never more than in that epic 1976 season during openwheeled racing’s deadliest

era. For Hunt and Lauda, there was no moment to savor the champagne in the winner’s circle. No opportunity to get into the other’s guy head could be passed up. The players Hemsworth and especially Bruhl - get across fear, respect and contempt, often in a single look or gesture, no mean feat. The film briskly takes us through their pre-F1 rivalry, then onto the racecourses from Britain to Japan as they seek that fast ride that will give each a chance of beating the other. Lauda isn’t much to look at, something Hunt never tires of telling him. That means no matter how much the rock star each becomes, Hunt always seems to have gotten to that lovely groupie first. Olivia Wilde slings a mean Brit accent as Hunt’s model-girlfriend, Suzy Miller, and Alexandra Maria Lara is the German beauty who melts Lauda’s cold, cold heart. But Howard & Co. have

fun with the romances, as no moment of sexual congress (bombshell Natalie Dormer makes an appearance) is complete without symbolic cuts of pulsing, pounding engine parts in sync with the sex. It’s a playful movie with a pithy message - “A wise man gets more from his enemies than a fool does from his friends.” If there’s a fault to it, it might be that racing fans get little sense of the violently varied racecourses, the tracks — Monaco, Spa, Nurburgring — made famous by that earlier classic of the genre, “Grand Prix.” And as much as the film makes the races cinematic, the filmmakers are hard-pressed to improve on the in-yourface grit and gravel of Fox TV’s outstanding NASCAR coverage. But “Rush” is a fine and fun film tribute to the milieu, the men, women and machines in a sport that was never deadlier or more glamorous than during its disco-decade incarnation.

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‘Don Jon’ hilariously transports Don Juan to Jersey Don Jon *** ½ Rated R for strong graphic sexual material and dialogue throughout, nudity, language and some drug use; starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Glenne Headly, Tony Danza; written and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt; opening ShowPlace 8 in Carbondale and AMC 8 in Marion. BY ROGER MOORE MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS

There’s barely a wasted moment in Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s hilarious and wise “Don Jon.” Well, as long as you don’t consider a guy obsessively watching porn and doing what follows as “wasted.” The title character (Gordon-Levitt) certainly doesn’t. “ALL guys watch porn, every day,” he insists to one and all. But as frenetically as he does? “It’s not that I can’t stop. But why should I?” That’s fine when you’re

strutting through the bars with your buds (Rob Brown, Jeremy Luke), bagging and bragging about it. Then Jon, whose pals call him “The Don,” meets “a dime.” Yeah, Barbara (Scarlett Johansson) is a “10” all right. But this Jersey girl has her eyes on the prize. Not Jon as he is, but Jon as he could be. She teases and tempts and grinds on him and has him enrolling in night school, rounding up his friends to meet her friends and trying to make his parents behave when they meet her. “You don’t think I could make you happy if I wanted to?” she purrs, and he’s putty in her hands. So Jon faces his dilemma giving up porn, or lying to Barbara, confessing his sins to the priest every week, doing his Hail Marys and “Lord’s Prayer” recital during his reps at the gym and raging at the world from behind the wheel of his 1972 Chevelle, Here’s how tight this tale is: Gordon-Levitt wrote and directed this, and his spare script doesn’t

squander a single second at Jon’s job (he’s a bartender, apparently). His friends’ names have to be parsed from a single reference, and we never hear the name of his always-silent, alwaystexting sister (Brie Larson), a great, deadpan sight gag. Tony Danza is riotously funny as the sportsobsessed, foul-mouthed rage-aholic dad who lets us see the tree that Jon fell from. Glenne Headly lands lots of laughs as his Catholic, grandchildrenobsessed mother. Gordon-Levitt does sort of a Young Matt Dillon thing here all smirk and swagger and muscle shirts and goombah slang. And Johansson, “Jersey Shore” twanging, gumsnapping temptation incarnate, gives the best performance of her career as a girl who just knows what she wants. Watching her turn it off and on is to see a starlet in full command of her talent and her other asserts. Gordon-Levitt wasn’t content to just create a

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Writer/director Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Scarlett Johansson perform a scene in ‘Don Jon.’

world not far from the “Jersey Shore” and people it with funny characters. His brisk little comedy turns dark and deep in the third act. That’s when the great Julianne Moore shows up as Esther, a funny/tragic and non-judgmental classmate of Jon’s in night school. Whatever Barbara promises to Jon if he

cleans his act up, Esther is the one who might show this Don Juan that he’s not in heaven, logging into porn 10 times a day. He’s in hell. With “Don Jon,”

Gordon-Levitt hasn’t made a great movie. But he has made a fun one, short and sweet, with a thirdact punch that is so tothe-point it’ll take your breath away.

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‘Baggage Claim’ arrives already jet-lagged Baggage Claim *½

attendant who gives herself “30 days and 30 thousand miles” to find some man to “put a ring on it” before her sister’s wedding. No gesture is too big, no half-hearted punchline too weak to sell with some wide-eyed bit of mugging from the star of “Jumping the Broom.” An actress who showed blessed restraint in films such as “Precious” practically BY ROGER MOORE gives herself a hernia MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS trying to freshen this exercise in “Haven’t I seen Paula Patton fizzes and this before?” flounces through “Baggage Patton plays Montana, Claim,” a romantic doomed to make poor comedy about a flight choices in men, so upset

Rated PG-13 for sexual content and some language; starring Paula Patton, Derek Luke, Djimon Hounsou, Taye Diggs, Jenifer Lewis; written and directed by David E. Talbert, based on his book; opening Friday at AMC 8 in Marion and University Place 8 in Carbondale.

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when her younger sister (Lauren London) announces her engagement that she resolves to have a wedable date for that sister’s nuptials. Her mother taught her “You’re not a lady until you’re married,” and her mother’s played by Jenifer Lewis, so that’s to be expected. So Montana’s obligatory gay flight attendant pal (Adam Brody) and curvaceous, oversexed flight attendant BFF (Jill Scott) use their professional connections to hurl Montana in the path of her most

promising (and successful) exes by tracking their every airline ticket. Yeah, it’s illegal and they know it, but she’s worth it. With the help of ticket sales clerks, baggage handlers and a hilarious TSA security screener (Affion Crockett), Montana makes flight after flight, reconnecting with music producer Damon (Trey Songz), aspiring politician Langston (Taye Diggs), international businessman Quinton (Djimon Hounsou) and others. All the while, she’s not quite grasping that the fellow she grew up with

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Djimon Hounsou and Paula Patton star in the Fox Searchlight film ‘Baggage Claim.’

and now lives right across the hall from (Derek Luke) is her Forever Man. The mechanics of getting Montana on the flights is the quickest and funniest part of the movie,

with all the conferencecall plotting with her pals and the tricks her airport screener friend Cedric (Crockett) plays to get her through line quickly, or stall others who need to be held up.