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‌A century-old building on Herrin’s main downtown street is bustling once again thanks to some entrepreneurship and strategic vision. Oh, and don’t forget the food.

The Annex Coffee & Deli, which sits in the place of the highly popular former Annex movie theater, has grown substantially since opening its doors in 2011. Now with an expanded bakery area and menu, the Annex is offering a new selection of artisan breads, rolls and bagels.

Deli owners Dr. Barry Vesciglio and Dr. Ted Van Acker don’t plan on stopping their improvement efforts any time soon.

“Business is great and we feel over the past two years we’ve perfected our breakfast and lunch offerings,” Vesciglio said.

“Now we are working on providing more dinner options, special events and developing our catering department.”

The Annex dishes out a hot pasta special and three varieties of soup every day.

Its “pick two” offering allows diners to try a wider

What: Sandwiches, salads, paninis, wraps, pizzas, soups, pastas, coffee Where: 220 N. Park Ave., Herrin Hours: 7 a.m.-8 p.m.

Monday-Friday; 7 a.m.5 p.m. Saturday, 8 a.m.3 p.m. Sunday Phone: 618-942-3354 and services align perfectly with the City of Herrin’s objectives. “Herrin is working hard to THE SOUTHERN FILE PHOTO‌ bring more people in to the The Annex in Herrin makes good use of the city’s historic down- downtown area and that’s town theater by offering a wide menu of food, drinks and more. very exciting for us all,” Vesciglio said.

As Herrin and the Annex earn the Annex regional variety of menu items, continue to grow together, recognition. The deli such as a half sandwich one thing is certain: This fielded rave reviews from with soup, salad or pasta. popular diner will always brides-to-be for its cake Favorites also include stay grounded in quality samples at the Ever After the wide range of coffees products and elite cusBridal Expo earlier this and specialty drinks, as tomer service. month. Vesciglio says the well as Italian pastries, “We have a very loyal cheese cakesm cookies and Annex can cater any size group of regulars that party, from an intimate cinnamon rolls. come into the Annex,” engagement dinner to an “We also do a cake of Vesciglio said. “We love extravagant event. “We the month that can be visiting with them and purchased by the slice or a can also customize menu hearing about their day, whole cake in our bakery,” items to meet dietary their family, news or the concerns and individual Vesciglio said. Patrons tastes. If you can dream it, weather. We really enjoy can head into the Annex knowing our guest by this month for a delicious we can do it.”

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Series kicks off with film on farming for the future ‌MURPHYSBORO — A film titled “Farm for the Future” will be featured at 7 p.m. Friday, April 25, in Liberty Theater at 1333 Walnut St. The film kicks off a series which will focus on sustainable food systems.

A donation of $7.50 can be made at the door.

Food Works will screen a total of three films as part of the Reeling for Change documentary film series.

Designed to offer education through entertainment, each documentary in the series highlights food system issues and solutions.

“Farm for the Future” features one woman’s investigation into transforming her family’s farm from a high-input livestock operation to a low-energy operation adapted to a decline in oil production.

Rebecca Hosking returns home to learn that fuel prices and fossil fuel dependency are reducing the farm’s ability to stay in business. She illustrates the ways in which food production is tied closely with the availability of abundant, cheap fossil fuel and analyses future energy availability.

Other films in the Reeling for Change series are slated to be screened at outdoor locations in June and July.

For more information, visit eatsouthernillinois. org or contact Dayna Conner at dayna@eatsouthernillinois.org or 618-3190542.

—The Southern

‌CARBONDALE — One of the ways Earth Day will be celebrated in the area is by an All Species Puppet Parade starting at 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 22, at the Life Community Center.

The parade will begin at the Life Center and move to Turley Park, where there will be music, dance and poetry.

Local environmental groups will be at the park to share information with the crowd.

The Puppet Parade is meant to be a celebration of all species including plants, amphibians, mammals, birds and fish.

Anyone who would like to make a puppet for the parade may attend a free workshop from 9 a.m. to

noon Saturday, April 19, at Town Square Pavilion in Carbondale.

Discarded materials such as cardboard, paper bags, old socks, plastic bottles and foam will be transformed into puppets.

Contact Cade Bursell for more information at cadebursell@gmail.com or call 618-521-3804.

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Friday Night Fair features music, crafts ‌ ARBONDALE — C Music, locally-grown produce, a food court and a family fun zone are some of the activities planned for the Friday Night Fair kicking off May 2 at the

Town Square Pavilion.

The weekly event will be from 6 to 9 p.m. every Friday night in May and June.

Local bands will provide live music, and they include Mr. Swamp Fox, the Gnarly Parkers and Seven Day Weekend.

The family fun zone includes a Rainbow Ranch petting zoo, face-painting, obstacle courses and crafts and games.

Carbondale Main Street is sponsoring Friday Night Fair for the fourth year in a row. For more information, call 618-529-8040 or visit www.carbondalemainstreet.com.

— The Southern

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Authors, Books‌ Book sale: Saturday, April 26 and Monday, April 28, Herrin City Library, 120 N. 13th St.; fiction and nonfiction, large print books, cook books, VHS tapes, DVDs; children’s books; hours, noon-6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday; 618-942-6109

tourism.org; boat regatta registration, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., SIU’s Campus Lake boat dock; make a cardboard boat; $15 per boat; boat race starts, 1 p.m.; 618-453-6428; cardboard boatregatta@siu.edu Game Day: For adults, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, April 26, CE Brehm Memorial Public Library, 101 S. 7th St. Mount Comedy‌ Vernon; board games, card The Carbondale games, miniatures games and Comedians: 9 p.m. Mondays, role-playing games; children Hangar 9, Carbondale; are welcomed if accompanied 10 p.m. Wednesdays, Station by an adult; 618-242-6322; 13, Carbondale; see The www.mtvbrehm.lib.il.us Carbondale Comedians on Southern Illinois Quilt Facebook Show: Noon-5 p.m. Saturday, April 26, Herrin Civic Center; Events‌ displays from regional Trivia night fundraiser: historical societies and For Goreville School’s media organizations; seminars and center, 6 p.m. Thursday, April 17, school cafeteria; register at classes; sponsored by the Herrin Area Historical Society; 618-995-2142, ext. 234; $10 618-218-4955 per person Mother and Daughter Little Grassy Literary Tea: 1-4 p.m. Sunday, April 27, Festival: Readings, panel Carterville Community Center, discussions and book sign120 N. Greenbriar St.; speaker, ings, Thursday-Friday, April Miss Illinois 2013, Brittany 17-18, Morris Library, SIU; panel of authors include Tarfia Smith; lunch; crafts; entertainment by Hannah Herron and Faizullah and Chad Davidson; the SI Dance Company; fund618-453-2818 raiser for The Women’s Center; Boat race and triathlon: Great Cardboard Boat Regatta advance tickets, adults, $20; girls under 12, $15; at the door, and the Doc Spackman $25/$20; 618-549-4807, ext.

Memorial Triathlon, Saturday, April 26, Campus Lake, SIU; tri- 228 or wcds@thewomensctr. athlon sign-in, 6:30-7:30 a.m.; org Southern Illinois Idol starts 8 a.m.; 5.8-mile bike race, 2-mile run and 385-yard Contest: 6 p.m. Friday, May 2, Anna Arts Center, Anna; swim; www.carbondale

Mother’s Day four course wine dinner Sunday, May 11 at 7.00 Pm Shrimp cocktail Wine: Chardonel Strawberry salad w poppy seed dressing Wine: Traminette Puff pastry chicken w basil cream Wine: Villard Blanc Chocolate mousse Wine: Chambourcin Reservation required Now also sausage platters wild boar, bison and pheasant available on weekends

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entry fee, $10; top prize, $100; mail entry fee to Anna Arts Center, 125 W. Davie St., Anna, IL 62906 with name, address, email and phone number; 618-534-7026; 904-625-1109; joeyaj08@gmail.com

Films‌ From the Vault: An eclectic screening of short educational films, 4:30 p.m. Friday, April 18, Soundstage, room 1116, Communications Building, SIU; cbursell@siu.edu Gasland: Director Josh Fox will speak about the film, 7 p.m. Monday, April 21, Student Center ballroom, SIU; siusense@gmail.com Belleville: Full-length feature film shot in Belleville and surrounding communities, worldwide debut, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 22, Lincoln Theatre in Belleville; www.

LincolnTheatre-belleville.com; BellevilleTheMovie.com Farm for the Future: 7 p.m. Friday, April 25, Liberty Theater, 1333 Walnut St., Murphysboro; film kicks off series which focuses on sustainable food systems; $7.50; dayna@eatsouthernillinois.org; 618-319-0542 Community Cinema: Features Medora, 2:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 26, Carbondale Public Library; part of a series of free film screenings from the PBS series, Independent Lens; 618-453-4308; dtudor@ siu.edu History‌ Station Carbondale: Railroad museum, 111 N. Illinois Ave., Carbondale, will now be open 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays starting April 19; 618-8672203; 618-534-8028 Spring tours: 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Tuesday, April 29, The Harrison Bruce Village, on the campus of John A. Logan College, Carterville; free; Docent guided tours or self-walking tours; 618-985-3741, Ext 326 Theater Auditions‌ Auditions: For Seussical, the Musical, 10 a.m. Saturday, April 26, Benton Middle School; presented by the Pyramid Players; students in second grade

through high school; show dates, June 27-29, Benton Civic Center; 618-439-9196; www.pyramidplayers.org; ppmusic77@gmail.com

Theater/Performance‌ Radio Golf: ThursdaySunday, April 24-27, SIU’s McLeod Theater; show times, 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m.

Sunday; presented by the SIU Department of Theater; $16/$6; 618-453-6000; SouthernTicketsOnline. com; also, pre-show lecture

by Mary Bogumil of the SIU Department of English on the playwright, August Wilson, 1:30 p.m. Sunday, April 27, MCMA Dean’s Conference Room, Communications Building, SIU Brigadoon: 7 p.m.

Friday-Saturday, April 25-26 and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 27, Southeastern Illinois College, 3575 College Road, Harrisburg; $10/$8; boxoffice@sic.edu; 618-252-5400, ext. 2486 The Bankesters: Family bluegrass band, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, April 26, The Gathering Place Dinner Theatre, 290 S. Burns St., Sparta; $35; meal included; www.thegatheringplaceoffbroadway.com; 618-965-3726 Directing Scenes: Presented by SIU Department of Theater students, 7 p.m.

Thursday, May 1, C.H. Moe Theater, SIU; free; 618-453-5741 Bullets in the Bathtub: Mystery dinner, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, May 2, Kokopelli Restaurant, Marion; hosted by Hospice of Southern Illinois; doors open, 5:30 p.m.; $40 per person or $300 for a table of eight which includes show and all you can eat buffet; silent auction; 618-997-3030 or jvinyard@hospice.org Musical Theater Workshop: 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 2, McLeod Theater, SIU; pop/rock musical theater selections staged and performed by SIU students; 618-453-5741

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Urge To Embellish exhibit features 1893 Crazy Quilt ‌WHITTINGTON — A 1893 Chicago Fair Crazy Quilt is one of the items on display in The Urge to Embellish Exhibit at the Southern Illinois Art & Artisans Center.

It could be that no other object in the Illinois State Museum collections better exemplifies the true spirit of embellishment than the crazy quilt attributed to Leonard F. Mitchell, a copper miner by trade.

When the Illinois State Museum received the quilt as a gift to the collection, the family explained it had been handed down through the women in the family.

The quilt is composed of irregular patches of multi-color silk, velvet, satin and brocade, lavished with extensive embroidery, which is characteristic of the ubiquitous crazy quilts or crazy patchwork popular in the late Victorian era.

Mitchell’s quilt commemorates the 1893 World’s Colombian Exposition in Chicago. The central image of Christopher Columbus is embroidered in the quilt with a solid plane of densely packed, multi-colored stitches. His necktie is a ruffled cravat, and he’s wearing a black velvet hat trimmed with metallic thread.

An embroidered panel of George Washington is just below Columbus with embroidered lettering that Washington was “The Man That Made This Land.”

Another embroidered panel is of President Grover Cleveland, who opened the fair.

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mayor of Chicago, is limited to a black outline stitch on a white background. Harrison was assassinated during the final weeks of the Exposition, and his image is ironically placed next to an embroidered horse shoe bearing the words “Good Luck.”

Although the theme of the quilt is the 1893 Fair, there is no evidence that the quilt was exhibited at the fair.

The Urge to Embellish exhibit will be on display through May 25 at The Southern Illinois Art & Artisans Center, 14967 Gun Creek Trail.

For more information, call 618-629-2220.

— The Southern

Call for Art‌ Herrinfesta Italiana Art Exhibition: May 22-26, Murray-Marlow Herrin Chamber building, 3 S. Park Ave.; sponsored by Little Egypt Arts Association; cash awards, people’s choice award, poster contest; entry forms postmarked no later than May 1; delivery of artwork, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Saturday, May 10; www.herrinfesta.com; 618-998-8530 Art Events‌ Artist demonstration: Dwain Naragon, 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 24, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, 2600 Richview Road, Mount Vernon; Dwain, a professor of Ceramics at Eastern Illinois University, will demonstrate how to throw and assemble compound vessels; also, share his unique method of using hand-made stamps to create intricate patterns on

the surface of his work; 618242-1236, ext. 249; www. cedarhurst.org

Civil War—The Second Year exhibit and documentary, The General John A. Logan Museum, 1613 Edith St., Exhibits‌ Murphysboro; through April; G. Michael Bryant: 618-684-3455; to www.

Exhibit, The Yellow Moon loganmuseum.org Cafe’s Luna Gallery, 110 N. Student Art Show: Rend Front St., Cobden; detailed Lake College, 468 N. Ken pen and ink landscape, Gray Parkway, Ina; through drawings and multi-layered May 2; 618-437-5321; www. mixed-media works that explore a 19th century post- rlc.edu Susan Blakeley age stamp collection Lambert: Harrisburg Sherry Lampley: Artist of District Library; paintings, the Month, North window, rural scenes and wildlife; Little Egypt Arts Centre, through May 4 601 Tower Square, Marion; Master Artists from the through April; 618-9988530 or www.littleegyptarts. Museum’s Art Collection: University Museum, SIU; com artists featured include Reinventing Collage: The Art of Romare Bearden, Pierre Bonnard, Pablo Picasso, Berthe Morisot, Mounds African American Jacob Lawrence, PierreMuseum, 216 N. Front St., Auguste Renoir and Max Mounds; through April Ernst; through May 9; 61827; 2-5 p.m. Saturday and 453-5388; www.museum.

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Receptions‌ Reception: For The Marshlands of Southern Illinois by Karen Linduska, 5-7 p.m. Saturday, April 26, anthill gallery & vintage curiosities, 102 N. Front St., Cobden; exhibit hours, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Young artists show support for children ‌CARBONDALE — The For Kids’ Sake Art Auction closing reception is set from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Friday, April 25 in the Longbranch Cafe and Bakery, 100 E. Jackson St. For Kids’ Sake has collected art from local schools and organizations in support of the annual art auction.

More than 15 local schools and organizations donate art to the auction.

“The kids in Carbondale are always so touched by the fact that the orphans in Bangladesh have so little, yet they look so happy,” said Shema Ruperto, For Kids’ Sake director.

One of the groups involved in the project is The Boys and Girls Club of Carbondale.

Tina Carpenter, program director of the Boys and Girls Club, said, “On a daily basis, the kids are learning how important it is to give to other children, and that it’s not just about them. The pictures they created for the For Kids’ Sake Art Auction were a collaborative effort and served as a wonderful way for them to have empathy for others and learn about their peers in Bangladesh.”

The For Kids’ Sake Art Auction is targeted to raise $15,000. There are more than 160 pieces of art, mostly produced by local children, children from Bangladesh and a few local professional artists.

More than 20 gift packages and three raffles for dining out, getaways and spa treatments are also being offered.

For more information, call 618-529-5044.

— The Southern

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‘Radio Golf’ tees off April 24 at SIU’s McLeod Theater ‌CARBONDALE — The SIU Department of Theater will close its 20132014 season with “Radio Golf” by August Wilson.

The play will be presented Thursday through Sunday, April 24 to 27 in SIU’s McLeod Theater.

“Radio Golf” is the final installment in Wilson’s ten-play The Pittsburgh Cycle, which depicts comic and tragic aspects of African American life in the decades of the twentieth century.

“Radio Golf” was first performed at the Yale Repertory Theater in 2005 and had its Broadway premiere in 2007. It is Wilson’s final work. The playwright died in October, 2005.

“Radio Golf,” tells the story of Harmond Wilks, an Ivy League-educated man and Pittsburgh’s first black mayoral candidate, who uncovers the illegal acquisition of a neighborhood home as part of a redevelopment plan. On one side are his ambitious wife, Mame, and his eyeon-the-money business partner, Roosevelt Hicks.

On the other is the past as embodied by Elder Joseph Barlow, who disputes the demolition of the home in question, and Sterling Johnson, an ex-con who works as a contractor.

Harmond is in the middle and is torn between preserving the African American history of Pittsburgh’s Hill District and a homogenized future.

At the helm of this SIU production is Segun Ojewuyi, the head of the SIU Department of Theater directing program.

The production has a set designed by M.K. Hughes, costumes by Elise Kulovany and lighting designed by Anthony Patti. Jacob Josef creates the sound design.

The five-person cast includes Lloyd Coakley as Harmond Wilks, Tanya DeLeon as his wife, Mame, Jeff McGoy as business partner Roosevelt Hicks, Alan Selph as Sterling Johnson and SIU faculty dance teacher, Mark Allan Davis as Elder Joseph Barlow.

“Radio Golf” will be presented at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday through Saturday, April 25 to 26 and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 27 in the McLeod Theater at the Communications Building.

Tickets to the production are $16 for adults and $6 for students and may be obtained by calling 618-453-6000, visiting SouthernTicketsOnline. com, or in person at the McLeod Theater Box Office, noon to 5 p.m.

Monday to Friday or one hour before each performance.

Also, Mary Bogumil will give a pre-show lecture at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, April 27 in the MCMA Dean’s Conference Room at the Communications Building.

‘Radio Golf’ cast shown, left to right, are Alan Selph, Mark Allan Davis, Lloyd Coakley, Jeff McGoy and Tanya DeLeon PROVIDED BY SIU THEATER‌

Bogumil, associate professor in the SIU Department of English, will speak on “Radio Golf,

the life and final legacy of the great American playwright, August Wilson.”

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Theater spring semester comes to a close at SIU ‌CARBONDALE — The spring semester of the SIU Department of Theater will come to a close next month with two free performances and a workshop on the SIU campus.

“Directing Scenes,” an evening of short scenes directed by the students, features a wide variety of styles and stories and is an opportunity for the directing students to employ what they’ve learned this semester.

The evening of scenes is presented at 7 p.m.

Thursday, May 1, in the C.H. Moe Theater at SIU. A free musical theater workshop is set for 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 2 in McLeod Theater.

Pop/rock musical theater selections will be staged and performed by students of the musical theater workshop along with additional

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by Timothy Fink and Mark Allan Davis.

Musicals numbers include selections from “In the Heights,” “Memphis,” “The Wiz,” “Jesus Christ Superstar,” “Next to Normal,” “Spring Awakening,” “Miss Saigon” and “Once on This Island.”

“Picasso at the Lapin Agile” will be presented at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 3, in the C.H. Moe Theater.

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For more information contact the Department of Theater office at 618-4535741.

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Javors returns home De Soto native Keith Javors has found success as a pianist, performing across the globe. He will return home to Southern Illinois from April 23-25 to help teach the next generation of musicians and to perform at two of his alma maters, De Soto Grade School and Carbondale Community High School.

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The odds ended in and even played alongside Javors’ favor. Through the several SIU professors while in high school, Javors 25 years since he graduated decided – with encourage- from CCHS, the artist has ‌De Soto native Keith recorded several critically ment from his mentors Javors’ musical career – to seek out the best col- acclaimed albums and perstarted with a rendition formed alongside a literal legiate music program he of the “M*A*S*H” theme who’s who of jazz, includcould find. He eventually song performed on a ing Dave Brubeck, Gerry landed in Texas, leaving defunct family piano and Southern Illinois at age 17. Mulligan, Tom Harrell, grew into one of internaChris Potter and more.

College began Javors’ tional renown.

In addition to a busy real journey into making As a child, as young as U.S. tour schedule, Javors music a career. Through 3, Javors showed signs of also travels and performs the years, there have been being a musical prodigy, ups and downs, good times internationally at venues picking up the sounds of television theme songs and and hard ones, but through such as the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland recreating their sounds by it all, he put an emphasis and Russia’s International on keeping a focus and a ear. At 7, he began formal House of Music. His travrational mind. lessons, and he’s never els and experiences, he “I knew there was a looked back. said, are a blessing and the chance I could do really, “I’m not sure how I byproduct of the support really well, but, being a gravitated toward music, he received in Southrealist, I knew there were but I know it was love at first sound,” he said, add- factors in the business that ern Illinois.

While Javors has seen could stop that from haping he knew early in life all reaches of the map, pening,” he said. it would be his career. “I felt it very early on, maybe even as early as grade school, and it continued to solidify itself. In some ways, I really didn’t feel like I had a choice. It was a calling.”

Javors, now a traveling recording and performing artist and CEO of Philadelphia-based Inarhyme Records, credits his Southern Illinois support network and the spirit and nature of the region with preparing him for success.

A graduate of De Soto Grade School and Carbondale Community High School, he never felt out of place or under the gun.

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Renowned pianist Keith Javors, a De Soto native, returning home he’s most excited for his next journey. He’s coming home. Javors will return to Southern Illinois for a visit next week, from April 23-25. On his agenda are clinics and performances at his alma maters, De Soto Grade School and CCHS, and a special appearance with the New Arts Jazztet.

“I thought I’d love to get back into my old schools,” he said. “I didn’t ask for any fees; I wasn’t interested in that. I just wanted to get in and try to inspire some people.”

The performance with

New Arts Jazztet Who: Featuring guest pianist and De Soto native Keith Javors When: 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 25 Where: Altgeld Hall Room 112, SIU

the New Arts Jazztet, Southern Illinois’ premier jazz ensemble comprised mostly of SIU School of Music faculty, will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 25, at SIU’s Altgeld Hall Room 112. The concert is part of Jazz Appreciation Month and will feature original compositions by Javors and Jazztet members.

In addition to the concerts and school seminars, Javors will also be taking photographs and shooting material for his new album, a pop and R&B album with the working

title “It Takes A Village.”

The album draws inspiration from his small-town Southern Illinois roots.

Javors is also looking into establishing a trust, which would receive a portion of sales and licensing monies from the new album. Money in the trust would be used to support music programs in his hometown.

“The older I get, the more I really miss Southern Illinois and the warmth of its people,” he said. adam.testa@thesouthern.com 618-351-5031

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Concerts‌

African Drum Ensemble, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Saturday April Southern Illinois‌ 19, Curbside, 227 W. Main Matt Basler and Hollie St., Carbondale; also special Hiller: 6 p.m. Friday, April guests, Weedie Braimah, 18, Black Diamond Harley Djibril Camara and Assane Davidson, Marion; part of Seck; more information on Hunt For The Cure extravaSIWADE Facebook page ganza; 21 and over Easter egg Folk songs and hishunt, 8 p.m.; featured perfor- tory: Presentation by Bucky mance, Murphy 500, 9 p.m.; Halker, 7 p.m. Monday, egg hunt, $10; concert, April 21, Trial of Tears State $10; benefits the St. Jude Forest, Jonesboro; features Children’s Research Hospital, singing around a campfire; Memphis; 618-997-4577 title, “Goin’ Down to Cairo: Southern Illinois Opry: Folksongs in the Land of 7:30-9:30 p.m. Saturday, Lincoln, the story of the April 19, Herrin Civic Center; Illinois’ rich and diverse folk doors open 6 p.m.; music music traditions;” bring lawn

by Cassie Andrews & Calico chairs; 618-521-0789 or Creek, The Peyton Sisters, info@shawneeaudubon.org Donnie Falknor, Lookin Back Marilyn and Cedar Creek: and The Worthing 10’s; Doors open 6 p.m. Thursday, special tribute to Minnie April 24, senior center, Pearl; tickets, $15; Chuck’s Murphysboro; $5; potluck; BBQ before the show, $8; dance; 618-687-1641. siopry.com Spring Concert: 7 p.m.

SIWADE concert: Thursday, April 24, Rend Lake Southern Illinois West College, 468 N. Ken Gray

Parkway, Ina; 618-437-5321; www.rlc.edu Southern Illinois Steel Guitar Show: ThursdaySaturday, April 24-26, Holiday Inn and Conference Center, Potomac Avenue at Interstate 57, Mount Vernon; features steel guitar artists Joe Wright, Russ Hicks, Mike Sweeney, Mike Sigler, Terry Bethel, Bob Case, Rose Sinclair and singers Tony Booth, Leona Williams and Ron Williams; singing contest, Thursday April 24; tickets, $12/$22; discount with online advance purchase before April 20; proceeds to Shriners Children’s Hospitals; www.southernillinoisproductions.org 20th Cajun Fest: FridaySaturday, April 25-26, Bubba’s, 209 N. Second St., Nason; starts 5 p.m. Friday and noon, Saturday; music by the Crawdaddys Friday and Saturday, 7-11 p.m.; 618-279-7220

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 Movies  Art  Wineries  Books  Cover Story  Theater  Things to do  Music  Spring Orchestra Concert: 2 p.m. Sunday, April 27, Rend Lake College, 468 N. Ken Gray Parkway, Ina; 618-437-5321; www. rlc.edu Southern Illinois Flute Choir and SIU Flute Studio: Spring Concert, 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 2, First United Methodist Church, 214 W. Main St., Carbondale; free Mocking Bird Hill: Also, Amanda Wright & The Red Dirt Road and Lanny McIntosh, 7 p.m.

Saturday, May 10, Frankfort Community High School, West Frankfort; $15/$10; www.mockingbirdhill.com

Ky.; $17/$16/$10/$7.50; www.kentuckyopry.com; 888-459-8704 Chicago: 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 18, The Carson Center, Paducah; tickets now on sale; $135-$39; 270-450-4444; www.thecarsoncenter.org

Kentucky‌ Talent Search 2014: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 19, Kentucky Opry, 88 Chilton Lane, Benton,

Recitals‌ Jason Roberts, organist: Annual Artist Subscription Series Recital, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, April 25, Shryock Auditorium, SIU; free TESSI recital: Talent Education School of Southern Illinois recital, 12:30 p.m. Saturday, April 26, First Christian Church, 306 W. Monroe St., Carbondale; ages 4-adult perform vocal, piano, violin, and guitar solos and ensembles; free; refreshments; 618-457-6300

Cafés‌ Coulter, Goot and Wall: 7 p.m. Thursday, Grotto Lounge/Newell House, 201 E. Main St., Carbondale; 618-549-6400 Ladies Night: Starts 7 p.m. Friday, Fat Patties’ Red Corner, 611 S. Illinois Ave., Carbondale; features, in order of appearance, Lila Tejada, Anna Luxion, Jess Jolly, Sarah Bumgarten, Ann

Levin, Mandy Joe, Jordan McCoy, Mila Maring-Sims, Janis Esch, Jenny Johnson; 618-529-3287 Bill Passalacqua: 8-11 p.m. Friday, Yellow Moon Café, 110 N. Front St., Cobden; yellowmooncafe. com; 618-893-2233 Tim Beattie: Saturday, Grotto Lounge/Newell House, 201 E. Main St., Carbondale; 618-549-6400

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Bars & Clubs‌

FIND THEM HERE‌ Barb’s Place: 206 E. Market THURSDAY‌ St., Christopher 618-724-5562 Carbondale: Hangar 9, Carbondale Eagles: 1206 W. Afroman Linden St. 618-529-9345 PK’s, Leeches of Lore Corner Dance Hall: 200 Tres Hombres, Storm Crows Franklin St., Whittington Marion: The Mansion, 618-303-5266 Big Lake Country Band, Curbside: 227 W. Main St., 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Carbondale 618-490-1539 Benton: Senior Center, The Derby’s Community Swing N’ Country Dance Band, Hall: 214 High St., Du Quoin 7-9:30 p.m.

618-201-1753 FRIDAY‌ Gwen Wynn Senior Center: North 9th St., Benton Carbondale: Hangar 9, 618-967-4635 Hobo Knife Hangar 9: 511 S. Illinois Ave., La Fogata Mexican Bar and Carbondale 618-549-0511 Grill, Soul Census, 9 p.m.

MONDAY‌ Herrin Teen Town: 105 N. PK’s, The Whiskey Caper Du Quoin: Derby’s 13th St., Herrin 618-889-3651 Herrin: American Legion, Community Hall, Jerry’s Hideout Restaurant: bluegrass jam session, 3 p.m.

Jammers, 7-9 p.m.

2602 Wanda Drive, Marion Ina: Community Building, Marion: Youth Center, 618-997-8325 Friday Night Jam Band, Craig’s Country Band, 6-9 p.m.

Italian Club: 9038 Main 6:30-9:30 p.m.

TUESDAY‌ Street, Coello 618-724-4610 Marion: Youth Center, Just Elsie’s: 302 Jackson Herrin: Teen Town, Country Craig’s Country Band, 6-9 p.m.

St., Orient, 618-932-3401 Whittington: Corner Dance Ramrods, 7-10 p.m.

La Fogata Mexican Bar Marion: Hideout Restaurant, Hall, Rebel Country Band, Bob Pina, piano 5:30-8:30 p.m. and Grill: 519 S. Illinois Ave. 7:30-10:30 p.m.

SATURDAY‌ Carbondale: Hangar 9, Henhouse Prowlers and The Hatrick PK’s, White Gold Centerfold Tres Hombres, Mr. Swamp Fox Herrin: N-Kahootz Night Club, American Lion, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Marion: Hideout Restaurant, Bob Pina, piano 5:30-9:30 p.m.

Eagles, Big Country, 7-10 p.m.

Thompsonville: Old Country Store Dance Barn, Lil’ Boot & Classic Country, 7-10 p.m.

Carbondale; 618-457-2092 Marion American Legion: Longstreet Road, Marion 618-997-6168 Marion Eagles: Russell and Longstreet Roads, Marion 618-993-6300 Marion Youth Center: 211 E. Boulevard Ave., Marion 618-922-7853 N-Kahootz Night Club: 115 W. Cherry St., Herrin 618-942-9345 Old Country Store Dance Barn: Main Street, Thompsonville 618-218-4676 PK’s: 308 S. Illinois Ave., Carbondale 618-529-1124 Pinch Penny Pub: 700 E. Grand Ave., Carbondale 618-549-3348 Steeleville American Legion: 303 S. Chester St., Steeleville 618-965-3362 Tres Hombres: 119 N. Washington St., Carbondale 618-457-3308 The Mansion: 1602 Heartland Drive, Marion 618-579-4145

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SIWADE presents West African drumming and dancing ‌CARBONDALE — An evening of West African drumming and dancing is set for 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday, April 19, at Curbside, 227 W. Main St. The event will feature prominent West African musicians and dancers, who will perform with the Southern Illinois West Africa Drum Ensemble.

Some of the performers include Weedie Braimah, a djembe prodigy who was born in Ghana; Djibril Camara, a dance instructor from Guinea; and Assane Seck, a djembe drummer from Senegal.

Braimah is based in East St. Louis and has been on a life-long quest in the study of cultural music of Diasporas. He has studied with Mamady Keita, Famadou Konate, Abdoul Doumbia and Fadouba Oulare.

Camara is based in Champaign-Urbana. He began his formal training in dance at the National

SIWADE has been learning and promoting the styles of West African music and culture in southern Illinois for more than 15 years.

School in Guinea’s capital, Conakry. He was a principal dancer and choreographer for the international touring company Ballet Bougarabou for 17 years.

Seck is based in Chicago and well-known within the African musical community.

SIWADE has been learning and promoting the styles of West African music and culture in southern Illinois for more than 15 years.

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Folk songs around a campfire at Trail of Tears campsite ‌JONESBORO — An evening under the stars listening to folk songs around a roaring campfire is on tap for 7 p.m. Monday, April 21 at the Trail of Tears State Forest.

Bucky Halker will present “Goin’ Down to Cairo: Folksongs in the Land of Lincoln, the story of the Illinois’ rich and diverse folk music traditions.”

The presentation will include songs from the beginning of the 19th century through the folk revival of the 1950s.

Offerings feature historical ballads, labor anthems, early country songs and dance tunes.

As a long-time collector of folk music and the producer-scholar for the CD documentary series “Folksongs of Illinois, Volumes 1-5,” Halker says he has gained a deep appreciation for the folk music of Illinois.

He has written the only guide to archival holdings related to Illinois folk music. Halker will share his knowledge of the folk

music of Illinois with particular attention paid to historical ballads.

The presentation will take place at the Trail of Tears State Forest group campsite behind the picnic area, south of State Forest Road and east of Illinois 127. Rustic seating will be provided, but attendees may want to bring lawn chairs.

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SI Opry features Cassie Andrews & Calico Creek ‌HERRIN — Bluegrass favorite Cassie Andrews & Calico Creek will headline the Southern Illinois Opry concert starting at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 18, in Herrin Civic Center.

Other acts performing Saturday include the gospel duo, The Peyton Sisters; Donnie Falknor, also known as The Dinner Singer; a special tribute to Minnie Pearl; country group Lookin Back and The Worthing 10s.

Doors open at 6 p.m.

Dinner plates will be offered from Chuck’s BBQ before the show for $8.

Tickets for the concert are $15 and may be purchased online at siopry. com, at the Pawn Mart in Herrin or at the door the night of the event.

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Hiller and Basler make a most unusual duo ‌B enton singer Hollie Hiller loves the progressive sound of today’s country music.

For her, listening to Miranda Lambert or the infectious Country rhythm created by Scene Vince Hoffard the cutting-edge arrangements of The Band Perry is like chugging a 16-ounce can of Red Bull.

Herrin’s Matt Basler is a rock ‘n’ roller. He is an extremely talented guitarist with eclectic tastes, covering contemporary pop, foot-stomping blues and classic rock.

He doesn’t hate country music, but he admits a strong dislike for the steady stream of mind-numbing clutter dominating the charts, the latest batch of

“driving the pickup down the gravel road to a bonfire by the creek” tunes.

“I like Brad Paisley and Hunter Hayes, but I’m not a fan of the other new country stuff,” Basler said.

While not exactly musical polar opposites, the tastes of Hiller and Basler are very different, which was OK while she was playing acoustic shows in the area, and he was jamming at gigs as a member of the band Hash Tag Pop. However, now they are dating.

The duo met last October while competing in a Southern Starr vocal competition at Marion Cultural & Civic Center, and the romance started soon after.

They will be making a rare public appearance as a musical act at 6 p.m. Friday at Black Diamond Harley Davidson in Marion, as part of the Hunt For The Cure extravaganza.

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performance of the night will be a 9 p.m. concert by fast-rising local band MurWho: Hollie Hiller phy 500. and Matt Basler Tickets are $10 for the When: 6 p.m. Friday egg hunt and $10 for the concert; headliner concert. All ticket sales will Murphy 500 at 9 p.m. benefit the St. Jude ChilWhere: Black Diamond dren’s Research Hospital Harley-Davidson, in Memphis. Tickets are Marion available at the motorcycle Tickets: $10 for the dealership, River Radio in concert; sales benCarterville and the Bank of efit St. Jude Children’s Carbondale.

Research Hospital; Egg hunt participants available at Black must be 21 years of age Diamond, River Radio or older and will have a in Carterville, The Bank chance to win $500 and of Carbondale many other prizes. All ages What else: 8 p.m. egg are welcome to attend the hunt for participants concerts and watch the egg 21 and older; chance hunt. For more informato win $500 and other tion, call 618-997-4577. prizes “This is the first time we’ve had a show together,” Contact: Hiller said. “I’m excited. I 618-997-4577 know it’s going to be a lot of fun.”

Any hater complainHiller and Basler taking the ing in advance about the stage at 6 p.m., followed by an adult Easter egg hunt obvious clash of musical styles must be suffering at 8 p.m. The featured

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from short-term memory loss. The best performance at the recent Academy of Country Music Awards show was a smoldering duet with Blake Shelton and Shikira.

Hiller has been performing acoustic shows since amicably parting ways as lead vocalist for the band Mocking Bird Hill. She was replaced by Miranda Joy Willmore.

“I was going through a difficult period at the time, and I didn’t want to do it anymore. It was time for me to take a break,” Hiller said. “I love Miranda, and I wish the band all the success in the world.”

Hiller says she would love to join a new band that plays predominately Top 40 country hits.

“I love singing an old, country classic every now and then, but new country is my thing,” she says.

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Hoffard: An unusual duo carpentry skills polished by helping remodel a bar.

Basler cuts hair all day Hiller says her musical career has hit a plateau and at Hairbangers Salon & that she would like to break Spa in Energy, then makes as much time as possible out by joining a new band for music. of youthful musicians.

He has made several “The problem with getappearances at Black Diating a new band started is mond in the past and is my personality. I’m way looking forward to the Fritoo laid back. I don’t like to boss people around and day show. He has rehearsed with Hiller and they have tell them what to do. It worked up a crowd friendly would be great to have a manager to get everything blend of pop, country and rockabilly cover tunes, organized.”

Hiller is a waitress at the including a version of Bonnie Café. Although she “Summer Nights,” the John Travolta/Olivia Newton isn’t afraid to display her John classic from Grease. femininity and has done modeling work, she is more VINCE HOFFARD can be camo than lace. Hiller is reached at 618-658-9095 experienced at hanging or vincehoffard@yahoo. drywall and keeps her

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‘God’s Not Dead,’ but this movie doesn’t do him any favors God’s Not Dead 1½*

who would rather beat his child than let her study the Christian Bible, from Godless Chinese who fear government persecution to “ambush” journalists out to get those God-fearing “Duck Dynasty” millionaires.

It’s a movie where rare is the voice that is raised, but deep is the rage bubbling through its rabid antiintellectualism. When a ROGER MOORE non-believer is better off MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS‌ dead, that’s not brimstone you’re smelling. It’s bile. ‌When you lose your Shane Harper plays temper, mother always Josh Wheaton, a freshman taught you, “You’ve already lost the argument.” at Hadleigh University That’s not good news for who ignores warnings and enrolls in Professor “God’s Not Dead.” This is Radisson’s philosophy the angriest faith-based class. Radisson is a smug, film in memory. sneering atheist who Believers here are outinsists that his students numbered, a persecuted, sign an admission that righteous and intellectu“God is dead,” before he ally rigorous minority. even starts the semester.

Non-believers run the Josh refuses to sign, and gamut from fascist, bulthus the professor, played lying college professors by former “Hercules” to an abusive Muslim

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Kevin Sorbo in a Lucifer goatee, decides to give the kid the entire semester (apparently) to prove the opposite.

Radisson is a caricature of a know-it-all college prof: “In that classroom, there IS a god. And I’m him.”

But would this “god” allow a freshman to take over his class for an entire semester?

He’s fond of calling Christians “flat earthers,” of quoting Bertrand Russell, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking and the like — atheists all.

To which Josh fires back C.S. Lewis, John Lennnox (a British mathematician and debate foil for Dawkins) and “Lee

Strobel,” who is not identified as what he is — a TV preacher. No, those thrown into the fray from the “God is good, all the time” side are neither as numerous nor as credentialed.

Amy Ryan (Trisha LaFache) is a blogger for who wears her “Meat is Murder” and equivalent liberal bumper stickers with pride as she surprises Willie and Korbie Robertson of “Duck Dynasty” and Christian rockers Newsboys with confrontational interviews.

She’s dating callous atheist lawyer Mark (Dean Cain), whose believer sister (Cory Oliver) is dating her former professor, Radisson.

Hadeel Sittu is Ayisha, a student whose stern (implied) Muslim dad keeps her covered up and unassimilated.

And then there’s the preacher (David A.R. White) who only wants to take his African missionary friend (Benjamin Ochieng) to Orlando, but every car he gets into fails to start. Divine intervention?

He’s needed for a higher purpose here in this Louisiana college town?

The pace is stumbling, the characters are broad, the makeup and the performances uneven, though Sorbo dives into his tactless, unethical indoctrinator role with Satanic glee.

The “Put God on trial”

stuff, a Power Point debate in the classroom, is pointless and comically imbalanced, with Josh accusing those who declare that God doesn’t exist of “circular logic” when that’s all he has to lean on himself — that, and false equivalencies.

It’s a movie better versed in propaganda techniques than cinematic ones. Band-wagoning, for instance, filling the closing credits with decades of legal actions by the James Dobson-backed Alliance Defending Freedom against colleges that have somehow impinged on Christian students’ rights, suggesting more suits and a tidal wave of “success” that isn’t really there.

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‘Transcendence’ can’t transcend tried-and-true sci-fi cliches Transcendence *½

Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action and violence, some bloody images, brief strong language and sensuality; starring Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Morgan Freeman; directed

by Wally Pfister; opening Friday at Carbondale 8 and University Place 8 in Carbondale.

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‌For years, the rumor about Johnny Depp was that he wouldn’t take a role that required him to get a haircut. “Chocolat,” “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Once Upon a Time in Mexico,” “Sleepy Hollow” — mop-topped

coincidences or a career vanity?

With “Transcendence,” he’s got a part that requires a shaved head in some scenes. And acting. He needs to suggest a brilliant scientist, the first to crack “the singularity,” a very smart man transferring his mind to a machine and thus achieving “Transcendence” — immortality.

He cuts it off, but he doesn’t pull it off.

This thoughtful but windy and winded sci-fi thriller plays shortchanges the science — understandably — and the thrills. The directing debut of “Dark Knight” cinematographer Wally Pfister is a mopey affair with indifferent performances, heartless

romance and dull action. It transcends nothing.

Depp is Dr. Will Caster, a mathematician, computer genius and artificial intelligence theorist who, with the help of his brilliant wife (Rebecca Hall), is close to a computer that might “overcome the limits of biology.” It will think.

That troubles his equally brilliant neuro-scientist/ ethicist pal, Max (Paul Bettany) who doesn’t give voice to fears of a machine that wants to jump from tic-tac-toe to “Global Thermonuclear War,” SkyNETand HAL not opening the pod bay door. But you know he’s thinking it.

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Morgan Freeman (left) as Joseph Tagger and Johnny Depp as Will Caster in the sci-fi thriller, See sci-fi / Page 17 ‘Transcendence.’

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And since this tale is told

by Max in flashback, from a desolate, off-the-electrical-grid San Francisco five years in the future, we figure Max knows what he’s talking about.

Terrorists have decided that this project is a threat and try to blow it up and kill Dr. Caster. They almost succeed, sentencing the not-so-mad scientist to a lingering death. That gives his friends the chance to try and skip a few steps in their research. They’ll load the electrical and chemical contents of his brilliant mind — his thoughts, memories, ethics — into a vast machine and save his life.

In a manner of speaking.

Kate Mara suggests nothing fanatical, clever or fearsome as the leader of the RIFT revolutionaries who tried to kill Caster and who then kidnap Max. Depp and Hall are supposed to have this “Ghost”-level love, a romance of longing that drives her actions to save him, in spite of Will’s warnings to her.

They don’t set off sparks. Depp is a bland presence as a disembodied face on a computer screen.

Hall seems to wish she had a flesh-and-blood actor to emote to and Bettany spends far too much time with Mara, who has never been worse in a movie.

Morgan Freeman shows up as a grandfatherly skeptic scientist, Cole Hauser as a military man brought in to deal with the growing problem that happens when Will’s insatiable brain gets on the Internet, manipulates Wall Street and starts to plan a technological revolution.

Small-town life, child’s faith tested in ‘Heaven’ Heaven Is for Real **

“Can we do ‘We Will Rock You’”?

Is what little Colton’s saying merely “an echo” of the house and environment he grew up in? Is this his elaborate fairy tale recreation of the sort of heaven kids are taught in Sunday school?

Or does he have too many details, too many descriptions of dead family members he’s never ROGER MOORE met for this to be not MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS‌ “for real”?

Pastor Todd buys in, ‌Greg Kinnear, an actor somewhat reluctantly, the perpetually on the verge film suggests. Mom (Kelly of tears, is the perfect Reilly from “Flight”) is a choice to play a preacher harder sell. The academic whose son tells him he’s Dad visits dismisses been to heaven. And “Heaven is for Real,” based him, or makes him feel dismissed. And his own on a book by a Nebraska congregation (Margo pastor about his then-4year-old son’s near-death Martindale, Thomas Haden Church) has its experience and account doubts, too. of a visit to heaven, is a That’s a tricky turn sometimes touching and that this film never quite comforting account of makes. A story with this family’s story. assorted health, personal It’s a child’s tale, and and financial crises the childlike faith of the facing this wholesome, kid (Connor Corum) small-town family, who almost died of a burst appendix is under- “Heaven” lacks real villains. Even the nosy scored at every turn in reporter who questions this Randall Wallace the kid is compassion(“Braveheart”) drama. ate. So when people Kinnear, as Todd Burpo, does his best to suggest a turn on the preacher for obsessing over guy overwhelmed by the thought that the words he his kid’sstory, it feels says every Sunday have a unnatural, half-hearted real-world relevance that and abrupt. The debates have no weight to them. his kid has witnessed, The best faith-based first-hand. films are embracing, What’s novel about and “Heaven is for Real” “Heaven” is the weight the film gives to alterna- aims for that. It’s too slow, the plastic smiles tive explanations for of the little boyare kind Colton’s miraculous of creepy (his sisterrecovery (his dad’s congregation prays en masse character reacts to for him) and what he says him that way) and the literal representation of he saw “up there” in the clouds, sitting on the lap heaven feels comically childlike. Jesus looks of Jesus, with singing just like Kenny Loggins, angels who giggle when circa 1983. he makes a request.

Greg Kinnear (left) and Connor Corum in a scene from ‘Heaven Is For Real.’

Rated PG for thematic material, including some medical situations; starring Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly, Thomas Haden Church, Connor Corum, Margo Martindale; directed by Randall Wallace; opening Friday at Carbondale 8.

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But it can, on occasion, touch you. Reilly has a wrenching moment or two and Kinnear is as sincere as a recent convert in the lead role. His Todd Burpo is an informal, caring preacher in the modern mold, a guy who

doesn’t wear a robe or a tie, but who sells his sermons with conviction.

“Heaven is for Real” accentuates the positive, the simple faith ingrained in a kid who learns “Jesus Loves the Little Children, All the Little Children

of the World” fresh out of the cradle. Whatever the film’s other failings, it presents an incredible story with a credulous, approachable innocence that it to be envied, whether or not you believe a word of it.

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Disneynature gets up close and personal and cute with ‘Bears’ Bears ***

Rated G; narrated by John C. Reilly; directed by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey; opening Friday at Carbondale 8.

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‌“Bears” is exactly the sort of nature documentary we’ve come to expect from Disneynature, the film division of the company that rolls out a new nature documentary every year at Earth Day. It’s gorgeous, intimate and beautifully photographed. And it’s cute and AP | DISNEY PICTURES‌ kid-friendly, with just This image released by Disney shows an adult bear named Sky enough jokes to balance the drama that comes and a cub named Scout in a scene from ‘Bears.’

from any film that flirts with how dangerous and unforgiving the wild actually is.

Here, it’s Alaskan brown bears we follow as cute cubs through their first year of life. A mama bear and her two cubs endure a year of hunger, dangerous encounters with other bears, a wolf and a riptide as they trek from snowy mountains, where the cubs were born, down to the coast where salmon streams feed into the sea.

The mother, “Sky,” needs to fatten up on salmon to be able to survive and nurse her cubs Amber and Scout through their coming second winter. The cubs need to discover the world, and stay

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out of the way of omnivorous male bears and assorted other dangers.

Uh oh.

More than once, “Bears” flirts with the grim realities of less-sentimental films such as “The Last Lions” and Disney’s own “African Cats.” The adult bear fights are quite intense and frightening.

But John C. Reilly narrates this nature tale with a hint of whimsy, especially when the cubs get into mischief — as, for instance, they try to learn how to dig up clams, and discover getting “clamped.”

“Leggo of my claw, clam!”

They’re craving salmon, but until the salmon run starts, the cubs have to get by on chewing grass.

“It’s like settling for a dirty salad!”

The cubs ride mama Sky’s back across freezing rivers, stick close when

danger is near and roughhouse with each other and their mother, forcing that involuntary “Awwww” out of even the most jaded viewer.

The filmmakers get right underneath the fur to see the tiny cubs just after birth, and the extreme close-ups and very cinematic tracking shots take us into a pristine wilderness where survival is a matter of instinct, pluck and more than a little luck.

So yeah, they’re cute.

But forget about that (and that there’s a whole TV channel devoted to this sort of film). Use these Earth Day delights the way they were intended — as big-screen rewards for the intrepid filmmakers who devote years at a time to making them and as a taste of nature most of us, especially the very young,will never be able to experience in the wild.

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‘Haunted House 2’ is too much of a bad thing A Haunted House 2 ½*

Rated R for crude and sexual content, nudity, pervasive language, drug use and some violent images; starring Marlon Wayans, Jaime Pressly, Gabriel Iglesias, Cedric the Entertainer; opening Friday at Carbondale 8.

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‌Imagine a Venn diagram charting three qualities: Silly, gross and dumb. At the point where they overlap you will find the fright film spoof “A Haunted House 2,” a scattershot, anything-goes affair that’s unapologetically stupid.

Proudly stupid. Aggressively stupid.

The film is writer/star Marlon Wayans’ take on suburban ghost stories.

Putting himself at the center of that usually lily-white genre gives him a target-rich environment for broad, politically incorrect satire. The first

entry in the series gave Wayans’ upwardly mobile new homeowner a headspinning freakshow of a girlfriend (we’ve all been there, right, guys?). Those demons banished, he takes another shot at suburban life with his new girlfriend (Jaime Pressly) and her two teenagers.

Once again the road to settling down and relationship building is strewn with supernatural stumbling blocks. Wayans is repeatedly hypnotized by a chalk-faced, creepyeyed antique doll whose erotic magic sends him into a mating frenzy, typically when Pressly or her kids are approaching the bedroom door. The star’s gymnastic, flesh-baring humping and randy pillow talk is funny at first. It’s not the kind of joke that improves with repetition, though. Wayans beats it to death, then to smithereens, then to dust motes.

To the limited degree that the film works, it’s thanks to the all-in

‘Abigail’ and Marlon Wayans appear in ‘A Haunted House 2.’

commitment of the cast.

In a Santeria bloodsacrifice ritual, Wayans has to catch, pummel and slaughter a chicken that turns out to be remarkably uncooperative and tough. The scene is a master class in physically punishing over-the-top slapstick. Pressly is winning as Wayans’ oblivious, cougarish new squeeze.

Gabriel Iglesias provides good-humored ethnic awkwardness as Wayans’ Hispanic neighbor, and Cedric the Entertainer returns as a serenely sinful exorcist.

The film parodies a lot of movies that deserve it (its basic framework comes from the “Paranormal Activity” series, the doll from “The Conjuring”) and one or two that deserve better (the sublimely scary “Sinister” gets a thorough drubbing, turning its occult killer into an accidentprone klutz). The script is lazy, recycling countless genre cliches rather than

But at least in one way, inventing novel twists. The “A Haunted House 2” jokes aren’t just painted improves on the first entry in broad strokes, they’re in the series. That film applied with a roller.

had a long, gratuitous shot of Nick Swardson’s bare rump, a horror that the sequel spares us.

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