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CHUCK’S BBQ JOE SZYNKOWSKI FOR THE SOUTHERN‌

‌HERRIN — When Chuck Shahadey invited Ryan Jeralds to his home to talk about a business proposition a few years ago, the men were in wildly different career positions. Shahadey, longtime owner of Chuck’s BBQ on Park Avenue in Herrin, was nearing retirement and looking for a trusting suitor to whom he could turn over the keys of his beloved business. Jeralds, a 17-year employee at Herrin’s popular Mary’s Restaurant, was seeking to leverage his experience and industry knowledge to start something all his own. The rest, they say, is history. Jeralds and his wife, Cassie, bought the restaurant from Shahadey in February 2013 and recently celebrated a successful first year. They have worked hard to stay true to the tradition that Shahadey and his wife, Janice, built; but they also aren’t afraid to put their own spin on things. “People are coming in and saying they’re excited about what we’re doing here,” Ryan said. “We’re tweaking the recipes and adding completely new menu items, and people have responded.” Among the most notable changes is the Jeralds’ introduction of pulled pork to complement the sliced pork that had previously been on the menu.

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Chuck’s BBQ in Herrin has been a staple of Southern Illinois’ barbecue scene for several years.

DETAILS What: Barbecue sandwiches, brisket, wings, chicken and dumplings Where: 1420 S. Park. Ave., Herrin Hours: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday – Saturday 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday Phone: 618-988-6566

“We’ve got brisket and soups, which are great for the winter weather we’ve been having. I try to do a lot of different things, so there’s something for everybody.”

restaurant and for home parties. Customers can order barbecue by the pound, as well as sweet and spicy hot wings by calling ahead. “Pulled pork is just But it’s not all about the something I’ve always pork at Chuck’s BBQ. Sundone at my house for day lunches of chicken and parties and things like dumplings are one of the that,” Ryan said. “Everyrestaurant’s busiest days body always loves it, so I thought we’d bring it here. of the week. “We’ve got brisket and We’re going through it soups, which are great for pretty quickly.” Chuck’s BBQ can serve the winter weather we’ve been having,” Ryan said. “I up just about any hometry to do a lot of different style delight, both in the

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things, so there’s something for everybody.” Chuck’s BBQ is now providing food for the popular SI Opry, which brings music lovers to the city’s civic center on Saturday nights for country and gospel music. Ryan is also deeply rooted into the Herrin sports coaching scene and a supporter of the high school. “We try to help when we can,” he said. “The community is very important to us.”

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Off The Wall exhibit opens in Cobden ‌COBDEN — The annual Off The Wall Group Artist Exhibition is on display at two sites in downtown Cobden. The exhibit is displayed into groupings that feature artists’ series and collections at anthill gallery and Luna Gallery at the Yellow Moon Café. Until the April exhibition, anthill gallery will continue changing artist features, including the mixed media painting series produced by Michael G. Bryant, using a personal historic stamp collection; and the wide array of digital images by photographers Tom Bell and Daniel Owens. The exhibit runs throughout March in conjunction with the Luna Gallery at The Yellow Moon Café. Original paintings in oil, acrylic, encaustic wax and watercolor, wearable works of art, ceramics, heat- and hammer-forged functional iron art and jewelry, weaving, mixed media and collage and digital and film photography is included. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sundays at anthill gallery. Larger paintings and photographs are at Yellow Moon Café’s Luna Gallery, open Tuesdays through Saturdays. Specific hours of operation can be found at yellowmooncafe.com. The Yellow Moon Café is at 110 N. Front St., and anthill gallery is at 102 N. Front St. — The Southern

Exhibits‌ Off The Wall Group Artist Exhibition: anthill gallery and Luna Gallery in the Yellow Moon Café, both on Front street in downtown Cobden; through March; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sundays, anthill gallery or yellowmooncafe.com Abstract and Collage: Little Egypt Art Centre, 601 Tower Square, Marion; through March 31; 618-998-8530 or www.littleegyptarts.com Beginnings: Quilts by Pradnya Dharmadhikari, Carbondale Public Library, through April 1, 618-457-0354 Michelle Fredman and Jane Morgan: Artists of the Month, North wall, Little Egypt Arts Centre, 601 Tower Square, Marion; through March; 618-998-8530 or www. littleegyptarts.com Jo Ellen Lambert: Artist of the Month, North window, Little Egypt Arts Centre, 601 Tower Square, Marion; through March; 618-998-8530 or www. littleegyptarts.com Hoyeon Chung: Mixed Media, University Museum, SIU; through March 7;

www.museum.siu.edu; 618-453-5388 Sustain 2: National Collegiate Juried Exhibition of Art and Design for Eco Living, curated by Nate Steinbrink, through March 7; www.museum.siu.edu; 618-453-5388 The Trunk Show: Curated by Eric S. Jones, University Museum, SIU; through March 7; www.museum.siu.edu; 618-453-5388 What’s What, Whose Who? University Museum, SIU; through March 7; www.museum.siu.edu; 618-453-5388 The Jacobs Family Art: Paintings and photographs by Bradley and Charles Jacobs, Longbranch Café & Bakery, 100 E. Jackson St., Carbondale; through March 24; benefits Brehm School Foundation; 618-529-4488 Jo Dodd, Joanna Gray and Rene DeGroof: The Pavilion, 1602 Sioux Drive, Marion; 8 a.m.-5 p.m. MondayFriday; through March 26; 618-993-2657 Mike Chervinko: Historic Photographs of the Tri-State Tornado, University Museum, SIU; through March 30; www.museum.siu.edu;

618-453-5388 Hometown Teams: Smithsonian traveling exhibit, Union County Museum, 117 S. Appleknocker Drive, downtown Cobden; connection between towns and sports; artifacts and stories; history of athletics in Union County and Southern Illinois from Gorham to Goreville; through April 16; 618-893-2865 or 618-893-2567 Reinventing Collage: The Art of Romare Bearden, Mounds African American Museum, 216 N. Front St., Mounds; through April 27; 2-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; 618-745-6183 Caught in the Sweep of History: Egypt in the Civil War — The Second Year exhibit and documentary now on display, The General John A. Logan Museum, 1613 Edith

St., Murphysboro; through April; 618-684-3455; to www. loganmuseum.org 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; 618-453-5388; www. museum.siu.edu Artist Trading Cards Project: Curated by Bob DeHoet, University Museum, SIU; through May 9; www.museum.siu.edu; 618-453-5388 Cast in Carbondale: Sculptures and drawings by visiting artists from the Thomas Walsh Donation, University Museum, SIU; through May 9; www.museum. siu.edu; 618-453-5388

Master Artists from the Art Collection: Curated by Dona Bachman, University Museum, SIU; through May 9; www.museum.siu.edu; 618-453-5388 Modern Dialect: American paintings from the John and Susan Horseman Collection,Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, 2600 E. Richmond Road, Mount Vernon; 10 a.m.5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday; through May 11; 618-242-1236; www. cedarhurst.org New Work: SIU students and faculty in the Department of Cinema and Photography, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, 2600 E. Richmond Road, Mount Vernon; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday; through May 11; 618242-1236; www.cedarhurst. org

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Big Muddy New Plays Festival features ‘Joan’s Laughter’ ‌CARBONDALE — The SIU Department of Theater will present the Big Muddy New Plays Festival from April 3 to 6 in the C.H. Moe Theater in the Communications Building on the SIU campus. This year’s festival will include one full production of a play, “Joan’s Laughter,” written by Jacob Juntunen, head of the playwriting program;

and the readings of two full-length studentwritten plays. “Joan’s Laughter” has been described as “an engaging and thoughtprovoking look at the final hour before Joan of Arc’s execution. Imprisoned and convicted of heresy, tortured and bullied by angry guards, Joan is asked to save her soul by repudiating the voices she says she hears.

“Be Free, Little Teacup Pig” by Jaclyn Grogan tells the story of a young woman working extra hours to save her family’s home, and who is unexpectedly tasked with the delivery of a fragile creature to a foreign land and beset by the media, society and an unreliable family. A reading of the play will be presented at 4 p.m. Saturday, April 5.

The readings for the two plays are free, and seating is on a first-come first-served basis. Tickets for “Joan’s Laughter” are $16 for adults and $6 for students and can be obtained by calling 618-453-6000 or at southernticketsonline. com. For more information contact the Department of Theater at 618-453-5741.

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www.thecarsoncenter.org; 270-443-9932 An Evening with Groucho: 7 p.m. Thursday, March 20, John A. Logan College, Carterville; $15/$10; 618-985-2828 Big Muddy New Plays Festival: April 3-6, C.H. Moe Theater, SIU; includes Joan’s Laughter, 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday April 3-5 and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 6; also, Trixxxie 2.0, reading, 1 p.m. Saturday, April 5 and Be Free, Little Teacup Pig reading, 4 p.m. Saturday, April 5; readings are free; tickets for Joan’s Laughter, adults, $16; students, $6; 618-4536000; southernticketsonline. com

Book signing: By Harry Spiller, author of “Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan,” 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 6, C.E. Brehm Memorial Public Library, 101 S. 7th St., Mount Vernon; 618-242-6322; www. mtvbrehm.lib.il.us Book signing: By Daniel Nallery, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 20, C.E. Brehm Memorial Public Library, 101 S. 7th St. Mount Vernon; he will talk about his children’s

books; 618-242-6322; www. mtvbrehm.lib.il.us

“Joan’s Laughter” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, April 3 to 5, and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 6. The play is directed by guest artist Megan Smith of Chicago’s Sideshow Theatre Company. “Trixxxie 2.0” by Kirsten Easton is in development. A reading of the studentwritten play will take place at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 5.

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Hometown teams exhibit features two programs ‌COBDEN — Southern Illinois independent baseball teams plus a program on the Civilian Conservation Corps will be featured this weekend as part of a Smithsonian traveling exhibit program. A program on CCC sports teams has been rescheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, March 8, in the St. Joseph Church Hall. Kay Rippelmeyer will tell the story of CCC sports teams organized in the 1930s in Jackson, Union, Alexander and Pulaski counties. Rippelmeyer has been researching Southern Illinois CCC camps for 26 years and will speak about the importance of sports to those working in the camps. The second program this weekend is on independent baseball teams and is set for 2 p.m. Sunday, March 9, in St. Joseph Church Hall. Panelists include Louise Ogg, Richard Cerny, Jeffrey Craig of the Clarkes Vintage Baseball Team, Tom Dunn and Will Travelstead. Stories will be recounted about teams that played in Cairo, Carrier Mills, Gorham, Anna and Cobden during their heyday from 1930 through the early 1950s. Dizzy Dean and other high profile players from major league teams often played on local teams after their season was over. The St. Joseph Church Hall is at the corner of Centennial and Ash streets. The programs are free. For additional information call 618-893-2865 or 618893-2567. — The Southern

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THE ’80S WITH A PLOT ADAM TESTA THE SOUTHERN‌

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‌ ADUCAH — Josh P Hobbs started his singing career performing gospel music in high school. Now, he’s traveling the country, living the life of a real rock star every night. Hobbs, an Anderson, Ind., native, admits the lifestyle really isn’t his own. He’s quieter and more reserved, closer to the life he lived last year than the loud, boisterous, in-your-face personality he’s now living. The Ball State graduate has been part of the national tour of Broadway hit “Rock of Ages” for two seasons. Last year,

What: National tour of Broadway musical “Rock of Ages,” featuring 28 classic songs from the 1980s When: 7:15 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, March 25-26 Where: The Carson Center, 100 Kentucky Ave., Paducah Tickets: $35 to $57 and can be purchased at www.thecarsoncenter. org or by calling 270-450-4444.

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dreams of being a star. This time around, he’s stepping into the shoes of the egotistical, sleazy, do-no-good Stacee Jaxx. “It’s probably the most fun I’ve ever had because it’s the exact opposite of who I really am,” Hobbs said. At no moment is that feeling more prominent than when Hobbs makes his first appearance as Jaxx, belting out the Bon Jovi classic “Wanted Dead or Alive.” “It’s that moment,” said the actor whose prior experience includes theme park and cruise ship performances. “It’s euphoria. The focus is on me. I am a rock star; I am the rock star. And I get to

he understudied the role of Drew Boley, the lowly busboy in the famed Bourbon Room with

go out there and sing one of the greatest Bon Jovi songs of all time.” Audiences in the region will have a chance to hear Hobbs perform at The Carson Center for two nights of performances. Whether people have seen the 2012 film adaptation starring Tom Cruise or simply appreciate music of an era past, the musical offers something for everyone in a unique format that’s just as much a rock concert as a theater production, Hobbs said. “It’s the ‘80s with a plot,” he said. “That’s exactly what it is.” adam.testa@thesouthern.com 618-351-5031

What if Einstein met Picasso at a bar? ‌CARTERVILLE — “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” will be presented at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 7 and 8, in John A. Logan College’s O’Neil Auditorium. The comedy was written by comedian and actor, Steve Martin and imagines an encounter between Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian bar in 1904. While both are on the verge of amazing ideas — Einstein’s theory of relativity and Picasso’s painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon — they have a lengthy debate about the value of genius and talent while interacting with a host of

other characters. The play is directed by Mike Seagle and features adult themes. Tickets are $12 general admission and $7 for JALC students A matinee is also set for 10 a.m. Friday, March 7, with general admission set at $2; JALC students, employees and retirees can attend at no charge. For tickets or more information contact the Office of Student Activities & Cultural Events at 618985-2828 ext. 8287. See the rest of the performing arts schedule at http://www.jalc.edu/ activities/performingarts. php.

New comedy club features two Jeffs ‌WHITTINGTON — The recently opened Birdies Sports Grille at the Rend Lake Golf Resort is adding a new comedy club. The new stage at Birdies Banquet Room will feature two national touring comedians each weekend beginning this weekend. Jeff Batts of Benton and Jeff Bodart of Indianapolis will be featured at 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 7 and 8. Batts has performed his act in clubs and colleges across the nation. He has toured with the Charlie Daniels Band, Weird Al Yankovic and Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. Batts has also appeared on Comedy Central and The Howard Stern Show. Bodart is a regular co-host of the “Bob and Tom” syndicated TV and radio show. He was

a finalist in Comedy Central’s “Up Next” comedy competition and has toured with Ron White and Caroline Rhea. Tickets for Comedy Nights at Birdies are $10, or $35 with the prime

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Roots and Boots features Joe Diffie, Aaron Tippin, Sammy Kershaw

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Aaron Tippin and Sammy Kershaw are spending time together like teenage brothers. The triple-threat lineup has 16 combined gold and platinum albums to their credit, plus 42 top 10 records and 14 chart topping singles, including “Pickup Man” for Diffie, “There Ain’t Nothin’ Wrong With The Radio” for Tippin and Kershaw’s classic “She Don’t Know She’s Beautiful.” The Roots & Boots Tour will be making a stop at the Luther F. Carson Four Rivers Center in Paducah at 7:30 p.m. March 14. Success for the tour culminated with the release of “All in the Same

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Boat” album last year, a collaboration among the artists that is a mix of old and new music, plus the “Old Friends” novelty tune and a music video for the title track. Diffie was the first of the trio on the charts. He signed with Epic Records in 1990 and debuted in August of the same year with

“Home,” a tune that raced to the No. 1 position. The 55-year-old Oklahoma native worked in the Texas oil fields before making a serious commitment to music. In 1987, he migrated to Nashville and found a job working for the Gibson Guitar Corp. At the same time, he was gaining a powerful reputation as a songwriter, with tunes recorded by Ricky Van Shelton, Alabama and Billy Dean. Epic Records signed Diffie to a contract in 1989

but put him on hold for a year. During that hiatus, Diffie wrote and sang background on the Holly Dunn smash “There Goes My Heart Again.” Born in Florida and raised in South Carolina, the 55-year-old Tippin has a hit list that includes “Kiss This,” “That’s As Close As I’ll Get To Loving You” and “Working Man’s Ph.D.” He broke onto the scene in 1990, at the start of the Gulf War, with patriotic anthem “You’ve Got To Stand for Something” and rallied Americans after 9/11

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Who: Roots and Boots Tour featuring Joe Diffie, Aaron Tippin and Sammy Kershaw When: 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 14 Where: The Carson Center, 100 Kentucky Ave., Paducah Tickets: $21.50-$89 Info: Call 270-450-4444 with “Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Flies.” The senior member of this tour’s trio, the 56-year old Kershaw knew life in the fast lane at an early age. His father died when he was only 11. He had to work a variety of day jobs to support his family. He added financial support by playing music in the rowdy Southern Louisiana roadhouses at night. Barely in his teens, he had opened shows for country music icons George Jones, Merle Haggard and Ray Price. The pressure of growing up too fast led to more than a decade of substance abuse. In 1988, he kicked the habit and quit music, going to work at Wal-Mart. As fate would have it, while he was out of the business, one of his demo tapes found its way to Mercury Records, which signed him to a contract in 1991. He started paying immediate dividends with debut hit single “Cadillac Style.” His other hits have included “Love of My Life,” “Yard Sale,” “Queen of My Double Wide Trailer” and a re-make of “Third Rate Romance.” VINCE HOFFARD can be reached at 618-658-9095 or vincehoffard@outlook.com.

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Christian group Casting Crowns has won several Grammy and Dove awards through its tenure. The band, led by youth pastor Mark Hill, will perform in Carbondale on Saturday, March 15.

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of reasons, mostly what he needed to teach me,” Scoggin said. “He’s done WHAT: Concert also feaso much in my life and my turing Laura Story and family’s lives.” For King and Country Being part of the band WHEN: 7 p.m. Saturday, has allowed the Scoggin March 15 family the opportunity ADAM TESTA WHERE: SIU Arena to see the world and to THE SOUTHERN‌ TICKETS are $18 to $50 meet people of different and can be purchased at backgrounds, learning ‌CARBONDALE — The www.siusalukis.com or to appreciate all kinds of expression “when it rains, by calling 618-453-2000. people and the ways God it pours” often refers to a has blessed them. string of negative events Scoggin’s journeys will unfolding in one’s life, but bring him to Southern regular drummer, Andy sometimes, good news is Illinois on Saturday, March Williams, while he took also in the forecast. 15, when Casting Crowns sabbatical for the birth of About five years ago, his first child. It turned out performs at 7 p.m. at the Brian Scoggin was workSIU Arena. The band will be Williams had decided to ing full time as a youth part ways with the band to joined by Laura Story and pastor in the Atlanta area. focus on launching his own For King and Country for the His musical hobby — the show. Tickets are $18 to $50 ministry with his wife. drums — had fallen by the and can be purchased online Hall wanted Scoggin to wayside a bit as he focused at www.siusalukis.com or by join the band full time. on his ministry. calling 618-453-2000. “I actually had a But, one day, noted EngThe band is touring to dilemma on my hands that lish Christian artist Matt promote “Thrive,” a conday,” he said, laughing. Redman contacted ScogIn the end, Scoggin signed cept album in the sense gin about joining him for a series of performances. The on with Casting Crowns and that the entire album is inspired by a single Bible has been part of the band’s opportunity was a thrilling one, which Scoggin excitedly past several albums, includ- chapter, Psalms 1. The imagery on the album ing “Thrive,” which was accepted. Then, the next cover features a tree released in January. Being call came. with its limbs and roots This one was from Mark part of the band has been extended, showing the an amazing and profound Hall, founder of Grammy importance of being rooted experience, he said. Award-winning band “God prepared me to be in God’s word and reachCasting Crowns. Scoggin ing out to share Jesus’ love had filled in for the band’s part of Crowns for a lot

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with others. It features 12 songs — six of which focus on each side of the relationship with Christ, Scoggin said. The band wanted to make sure it didn’t fall into the trap of simply releasing another album for the sake of releasing another album. “We really felt we had to say something strong,” Scoggin said. “There was no way we were just going to put out another album. Every single song just nails you somewhere.” While Casting Crowns has found its place among contemporary Christian acts, there are still people hesitant to listen because of the Christian label. That’s often a difficult hurdle to overcome with the mainstream presentation of extreme Christianity. “Jesus gets a bad rep with the Christian label,” Scoggin said. “If people will give it a chance, they won’t find protests and picket lines in our songs; they’ll find love and acceptance and God’s word. And God has never let us down.” adam.testa@thesouthern.com 618-351-5031

‌MOUNT VERNON — “South Pacific,” an operetta, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, March 6 to 8 in Mount Vernon Township High School. This is the 73rd operetta presented by the school. The performance will feature a full orchestra directed by Rolland Mays. It’s the 25th year Mays has directed the operetta. Mount Vernon Township High School is reportedly the only school in Southern Illinois that presents its operetta with a

full orchestra. Since 1942, MVTHS has missed only three years in presenting the operetta, once during the World War II recovery efforts and in 1990, when the production was moved from fall to spring. Mays points out that his mother played in the orchestra in the 1940s. This year’s event will also include a display featuring memorabilia from past years. Tickets are $5. For more information, email djlclark3@gmail.com.

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The Bankesters feature new CD ‘Love Has Wheels’ ‌COBDEN — The Bankesters will be showcasing their newest CD, “Love Has Wheels,” at 5 p.m. Sunday, March 9, in The Old Feed Store. The new CD features the regular line-up of singing sisters Emily Bankester on fiddle, Alysha Bankester on mandolin, Melissa Bankester Triplett on bass, Kyle Triplett on banjo, and mom Dorene and dad Phil on guitars. Guest artists include Sierra Hull, Josh Williams, Rob Ickes, Jim Hurst, Kenny Malone and Larry Atamanuik. The Bankesters’ song “Looking Forward to Looking Back” was the fourth most played song on bluegrass radio for the month

of December and took the No. 1 spot on Bluegrass Today’s chart in February. Emily won the first International Bluegrass Music Association Momentum award for Vocalist of the Year and the band has been nominated IBMA’s Momentum award for Band of the Year. Doors open at 4 p.m. at 111 N. Appleknocker Drive. Concertgoers may bring personal coolers. Soups, sandwiches, popcorn and soft drinks will also be available. Tickets are $15 and may be purchased at www. brownpapertickets.com. For more information, go to www.theoldfeestore. com. — The Southern

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‘Mr. Peabody’ still has history lessons for ‘Sherman’ — and the rest of us ROGER MOORE

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Internationally accliamed jazz artist Renee Rosnes and the Renee Rosnes Quartet perform March 22 at SIU.

Renee Rosnes jazz quartet to perform March 22 at Shryock ‌CARBONDALE — The Renee Rosnes Quartet will present a jazz concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 22, in Shryock Auditorium at SIU. Renee Rosnes, a celebrated jazz pianist and composer, will be joined by fellow world-class jazz performers Steve Nelson on vibraphone, Peter Washington on bass, and Lewis Nash on drums. “To be able to offer an artist of this caliber is just an extraordinary opportunity for our students and our community,” said Philip Brown, professor of jazz studies at the SIU School of Music. “It reflects the ongoing commitment of the university to promote greatness in the region.” According to Rosnes, the repertoire for the Carbondale concert will be varied, with new and older original compositions, classic material from jazz masters such as Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, and original arrangements of songs from the “American Popular Songbook.” Canadian-born Rosnes established a reputation as a major talent after relocating from

Vancouver to New York in 1986. She has recorded and toured with a veritable “Who’s Who” of jazz. Aside from leading her own bands, Rosnes is a member of jazz bassist Ron Carter’s Foursight Quartet and frequently performs with her husband, acclaimed jazz pianist Bill Charlap. She has released a series of 12 albums, four of which have garnered Juno Awards (the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy). Her recordings reveal her to be both a powerful and sensitive musician with a huge range. Also a formidable composer, Rosnes was named Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada’s Composer of the Year in 2003. The concert is free to all SIU students with a valid ID. Tickets for adults are $12 and $6 for other students. Tickets may be obtained by phone at 618-4536000, online at SouthernTicketsOnline.com, or in person noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at the McLeod Theater Box Office in the Communications Buildling. — The Southern

‌With “Mr. Peabody & Sherman,” Dreamworks Animation sets its “Wayback Machine” to the early 1960s and charmingly revives one of the most popular features of the old “Rocky & Bullwinkle Show” — the one about a dog, and his boy. This winning, witty and warm cartoon captures the flavor, the tone and some of snappy pace of the TV shorts that began with the droll voice of Bill Scott intoning, “Peabody here, my boy, Sherman ...” Mr. Peabody is a Nobel Prize-winning pooch who “invented the fist-bump, auto-tune and Zumba,” and then adopted Sherman. He’s given the boy, now 7, a head-start on school by taking the kid time-traveling. The Wayback Machine has, we can see from the photos decorating their apartment walls,allowedSherman to meet everyone from

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Mr. Peabody (voiced by Ty Burell), Penny (voiced by Ariel Winter) and Sherman (voiced by Max Charles) in a scene from ‘Mr Peabody & Sherman.’

Gandhi to Einstein, Leonardo to the Wright Brothers. He’s given Van Gogh painting suggestions, caught a Jackie Robinson home run and shortcircuited Ben Franklin. “Where are we going today, Mr. Peabody?” “Not where, Sherman. When.” As long as Sherman keeps this a secret, nobody will be the wiser as to why he knows, for a fact, that George Washington never chopped down a cherry tree. Of

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course, Sherman can’t keep a secret — not even from the mean girl, Penny, who bullies him. And that’s when the trouble starts. Fans of the old Jay Ward TV show may take longer in adjusting to the new voices — Ty Burrell of “Modern Family” is a droll-enough

Rated PG for some mild action and brief rude humor; animated with the voices of Ty Burrell, Max Charles, Patrick Warburton, Stephen Colbert, Leslie Mann, Stanley Tucci; directed by Rob Minkoff; opening Friday at Carbondale 8, University Place 8 and AMC 8 in Marion. Peabody, Max Charles (“The Neighbors”) is Sherman. But the witty word play and the pullout-all-stops supporting cast start to pay off. Kids will dig the slapstick, and adults will be tickled at one-liners, running gags and puns.

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‘300’ sequel is prettier but less thrilling Greece could only be saved “by a wall of wood” (i.e., MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS‌ ships) to heart and fought the enormous Persian fleet ‌King Leonidas slipped at Artemisium and Salamis. into legend at the Battle of That prophecy, by the way, Thermopylae, martyred isn’t shown — a clever and with 300 Spartans for the quotably theatrical moment sake of Western Civilization discarded as Queen Gorgo and Spartan glory. (Lena Headey) relates this So it was too much to oral history. hope that someone with The movie opens at Gerard Butler’s charismatic, AP | WARNER BROS. PICTURES‌ the end of Thermopylae, bellowing swagger would Eva Green stars in ‘300: Rise of an Empire,’ opening Friday in 2D flashes back to the earlier be around for the sequel, and 3D. Battle of Marathon, then “300: Rise of an Empire.” flashes forward to the His Leonidas and his oiledfictive present as Themispoetry of “300,” mainly down eight-pack are sorely the shade.” toklesrallies the city states thanks to a less impressive There’s nothing that missed, as are the quotable and prepares for battle at cast and murky, forgetmoving in “Rise of an quatrains of that famous sea as Leonidas marches to table script. fight, the Spartan trash talk Empire,” a more visually his fate at Thermopylae. Sullivan Stapleton that sings through the ages. stunning but less thrillThe Persian fleet is led (“Gangster Squad”) is So many Persian arrows will ing epic with bloodier by the fictional she-devil Themistokles, the Greek slo-motion swordfights, rain on them that they will Artemisia, played by onegeneral who took the this time at sea. It lacks “blot out the sun”? time Bond babe Eva Green, the heroic proportions and oracle’s prophecy that “Then we shall fight in ROGER MOORE

‘300: Rise of an Empire’ **½ Rated R for strong, sustained sequences of stylized bloody violence throughout, a sex scene, nudity and language; starring Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey, Jack O’Connell, Andrew Tiernan, David Wenham; directed by Noam Murro; opening Friday at Carbondale 8, University 8 in Carbondale and AMC 8 in Marion. a seductive swordfighter in jet black hair, Egyptian eye makeup and ancient Persian fishnet stockings. Director Noam Murro did the college professor romance “Smart People,” in no way a recommendation for directing a red-blooded digital epic of an ancient sea battle. Zack Snyder, who directed the original film, had a hand in the tin-eared script. It’s not graphic novel creator Frank Miller’s fault that Thermopylae, the basis for his “300” book, made for more elegiac history

than Salamis. But the design is stunning, an improvement over 2006’s “300.” And the action never disappoints. It’s a pity this colorless cast doesn’t hold a candle to the Butler/Headey/ Michael Fassbender/David Wenham crew of the original, that the writers couldn’t conjure up thrilling speeches to match the original. Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that these pretenders spoiled their franchise, and here their movie lies.

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War is melodramatic hell in Russian film ‘Stalingrad’ ROGER MOORE

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‌“Stalingrad” is a huge, old-fashioned combat spectacle, a war story told on a vast scale and shown on vast IMAX movie screens, in 3-D. It’s Russian — oh so very Russian, an epic of “The Great Patriotic War” that mixes vivid, bloodand-guts combat with chest-thumping patriotism and pathos. And unfortunately, it’s more than a little clumsy, from its absurd framing device to the simple head count of the cast of “fathers” who saved a young woman, and the world, during the “bloodiest battle in history.” In late 1942, Soviet reinforcements cross the Volga River and storm, literally, through a wall of fire to seize an apartment building on the front lines. They rescue a young rape victim, Katya (Mariya Smolnikova), and struggle to protect her from the Germans, led by a mournful, war-weary captain (Thomas Kretschmann), who are on the brink of throwing the Soviets out of the city. Kapitan Gromov, played by an emotional Colin Farrell look-alike (Pyotr Fyodorov), worries that his tiny band will be too busy saving Katya to save Mother Russia. But in the symbolism of the cinema, she is both girl-victim and Mother Russia — traumatized by war, clinging to vestiges of civilization in her parents’ art- and piano-filled apartment, hell-bent on hanging on and having her revenge. Director Fedor

Rated R for sequences of war violence; starring Pyotr Fyodorov, Mariya Smolnikova, Thomas Kretschmann, Yanina Studilina, Dmitriy Lysenkov, Aleksey Barabash, Andrey Smolyakov, Sergey Bondarchuk; directed by Fedor Bondarchuk; opening Friday at University Place 8 in Carbondale. AP | SONY PICTURES‌ the story of the battle

Philippe Reinhardt and Mariya Smolnikova in a scene from ‘Stalingrad,’ a film set in World War II Russia.

Bondarchuk (the fine Afghan war thriller “9th Company” was his) stages the room-to-room, handto-hand fighting with a brutal, bloody brio. The thoroughly ruined sets, from the riverfront with its improvised rafts floating troops across, to the everything-is-burnedbombed-and-broken apartment blocks, put us inside the battle. But this film was plainly built for the Putin-esque Soviet — sorry, Russian — market. Every excess has an old fashioned hint of Soviet-era propaganda about it. As interesting as it might be to get a whiff of how the Russians see themselves and their history, Bondarchuk keeps finding ways to turn off overseas audiences. Take the frame in which the story is told. Bondarchuk’s famous actordirector father Sergei (“Waterloo,” “War and Peace”) plays an elderly Russian doctor telling the story of his mother’s survival to a bunch of injured

Germans trapped in a building collapse in the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Heroic Soviet — sorry, Russian — rescue teams went there to save the day. The old doctor tells

through the eyes of his mother, who always told him he had “five fathers,” the men who saved her and perhaps fathered him during or after the battle. The problem with that? There are plainly six, not five, men heavily invested in Katya’s survival. At one point, they even pose on

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the steps of the apartment building — six of them. Who was left out of Mom’s count: the kapitan, the silent opera singer turned killing machine (Aleksey Barabash), the piggish sniper (Dmitriy Lysenkov), the gruff Navy warrant officer (Oleg Volku), the one they call “Angel,” or the other they call “Sissy”? Landing Kretschmann, whose big break was saving “The Pianist” at the end of Roman Polanski’s WWII film, meant building his character up, giving him a Russian “comfort woman” (Yanina Studilina) whom he holds hostage because she’s a dead ringer for his dead wife and treats as his lover-confessor — even though they don’t speak each other’s language. Convincing digital dive bombers attack and missiles fired from

German “Moaning Minnie” launchers streak through the smoke-filled skies. Jews are murdered, and back-talking Soviet sailors are summarily executed. Every so often, for the sake of a plot device, a soldier of this side or that one yells “Freeze” (in Russian or German, with English subtitles) rather than carrying on the killing spree, just so we have the hint of foes taking prisoners and debating, face to face. It’s a movie every bit as bloated as the biggest movies Bondarchuk’s dad made in his heyday.Indetail and combat spectacle, “Stalingrad” is hard to beat. And whatever its failings, one can’t help but be curious about a story as connected to national identity as this one — a film that, like today’s Russia, feels more Soviet than Russian.

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