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z MOVIES z ART z WINERIES z BOOKS z THEATER z THINGS TO DO z MUSIC z tickets $30 each or eightperson table, $225; 618-833The Carbondale 7470 or 618-697-2267 Comedians: 9 p.m. Mondays, Trinkets, Wine, & Hangar 9, Carbondale; 10 Treasures: A Shopping p.m. Wednesdays, Station 13, Extravaganza, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Carbondale; see The Saturday, Nov. 16 and noonCarbondale Comedians on 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17, The Facebook Pavillion, Marion; 618-997Paul Aldrich: Comedy, 3690 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, Splash of Trivia Night: The Gathering Place Dinner Designed for sports buffs, Theatre, 290 S. Burns St., 6:30-8:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. Sparta; $35; includes meal; 22, Hickory Ridge Country www.thegatheringplaceoffbr Club, Carbondale; proceeds oadway.com; 618-965-3726 to the Carbondale Splash Park and the SIU Sport Studies Association; doors Events open, 6 p.m.; also, silent Magician Bradley Fields: auction; six-person team, Out of Thin Air, 6:45 p.m. $90; ssasiuc@siu.edu; Friday, Nov. 15, The Carson www.facebook.com/SportSt Center, Paducah; bird cages udiesAssociation or call 618disappear, handkerchiefs 453-3324 come to life and eye-popping Christmas Bazaar: 9 a.m.miracles appear “out of thin 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, air;” $15; 270-450-4444; Williamson County Shrine www.thecarsoncenter.org Club, Illinois 37, Marion; bake Union County Historical sale, candles, purses, jewelry, Society Christmas Bazaar: Christmas items; food 8 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, Dancing With Artstarts — DuBois Building, 117 S. Broadway: 7 p.m. Saturday, Appleknocker Drive, Cobden; Nov. 23, Marion Cultural and continues Nov. 17, 23, 24, 29, Civic Center; proceeds to 30 and Dec. 1, 7, 8, 14; hours, area charities; $25; 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday and www.marionccc.org; 618Saturdays and 1-5 p.m. 997-4030 Sundays; collectible holiday Las Posadas celebration: items, greenery, wreaths, 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24, Anna lights, glassware and kitchen Arts Center, Cobden; prayer, items; 618-893-2567; a play, piñata contest; 618-893-2865 Christmas carols; 904-625Science Center Fall 1109 or email Fundraiser: Features moon vabchlee@gmail.com buggy, music, silent auction, 20th annual Arts & Crafts 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, Show: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Varsity Center for the Arts, Saturday, Nov. 30, Benton 418 S. Illinois Ave., Civic Center; more than Carbondale; music by The 50 vendors from across the Bankesters, Burning Hotels, Midwest; free; www. Mr. Swamp Fox; $10 in bentonciviccenter.com advance or $15 at the door; Holiday Bazaar: 10 a.m.618-529-5431; si.science 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30, center@gmail.com; Anna Arts Center, 117 W. www.yoursciencecenter. Davie St.; artists, crafters, org stain glass, art work, quilts, Fall Ball: 6-9 p.m. jewelry; 904-625-1109 or Saturday, Nov. 16, Blue Sky email vabchlee@gmail.com Vineyard, 3150 S. Rocky Comfort Road, Makanda; music by ReTreadz, featuring History members of Diamondback; Holiday Open Houses: proceeds benefit Two Rivers 1-4 p.m. Nov. 29 through Child Advocacy Center; Dec. 8, Magnolia Manor,
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2700 Washington Ave., Cairo; reserve by Friday, Nov. 15 for luncheons available Dec. 2-7 for $22; doors open 11 a.m. for luncheons which are served from 11:30 a.m.1 p.m.; 618-734-0201 Parker City program: By Richard Kuenneke, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17, community room, Vienna Carnegie Library; writer/producer Kuenneke will speak about filming a documentary on Parker City, a Johnson County ghost town that once was a thriving community; presented by the Johnson County Genealogical and Historical Society; 618-7716877 Public Tours: Of the Harrison Bruce Historical Village, 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 19, John A. Logan campus, Carterville; four historic structures; Docent guide; private tours can be arranged by calling 618-985-2828, ext. 8326
Theater Jesus Christ Superstar: 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 15 and 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Nov. 15-16, John A. Logan College, Carterville; controversial content; matinee, $2 or free for Logan students and employees; 7 p.m. shows, $12; 618-985-2828, ext. 8287 The Glass Menagerie: 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Nov. 15-16, West Kentucky Community & Technical College’s Clemens Fine Arts Center, Paducah; $20 for adults and $10 for students, children and senior citizens; artsinfocus.org; 270-5343212. Fool For Love: Play, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 21-23 and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24, McLeod Theater, Communications Building, SIU, Carbondale; $16/$6; 618-453-6000; www. southernticketsonline.com; also, pre-show lecture, 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24, MCMA Dean’s Conference
Room, Communications Building, SIU A Country Christmas: 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 6 and 7, John A. Logan College, Carterville; $12/$7; also matinee, 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 6 at a cost of $2, free for Logan students and employees; tribute to country music; 618-9852828 ext. 8287 The 39 Steps: An actionpacked, comedic thriller presented by The Jackson County State Company, Dec. 6-8 and Dec. 13-15, Varsity Center for the Arts, 418 S. Illinois Ave., Carbondale; performances, 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays; $15/$10; 618-549-5466; www.stagecompany.org
Auditions For Disney’s Aladdin, Jr.: 6-9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21 and 10 a.m.-noon Friday, Nov. 22 and Saturday, Nov. 23, Anna Arts Center, 125 W. Davie St.; performances dates, weekend of Feb. 28; www.facebook.com/AACChil drensTheatre; 618-697-8118 or hbhines@hotmail.com
Dinner Theater My Fair Murder: Murder mystery, 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, Cache River Basin Vineyard and Winery, 315 Forman Lane, Belknap; reservations required; $40 includes meal and play; 618-658-2274 or www. crbwinery.com Blend: A Doo Wop Christmas, 6:30 p.m. FridaySaturday, Nov. 29-30, The Gathering Place Dinner Theatre, 290 S. Burns St., Sparta; $35; includes meal; www.thegatheringplaceoffbr oadway.com; 618-965-3726 Paul Aldrich: Comedy, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, The Gathering Place Dinner Theatre, 290 S. Burns St., Sparta; $35; includes meal; www.thegathering placeoffbroadway.com; 618-965-3726
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‘Fool For Love’ described as heart-wrenching drama
‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ to be performed at Logan
CARBONDALE — Mismatched lovers, searing jealousy and long unspoken of skeletons form the center of Sam Shepard’s heartwrenching drama “Fool For Love,” being presented Thursday through Sunday, Nov. 21 to 24 in SIU’s McLeod Theater. The story features a rodeo cowboy who tracks down his old flame hiding in a Mojave Desert motel and tries to restart their destructive relationship. The cowboy has a history of abandoning her, and while the girl has a fiery passion for the cowboy, she knows he is unreliable. The lovers, bound by a pact made in high school, wrestle with need, anger, fear and desire. The play opened on Broadway in 1983 starring Ed Harris. Sam Shepard, who was born in 1943, was
CARTERVILLE — “Jesus Christ Superstar” will be presented by Dance4Grandma Theatricals and John A. Logan College this weekend in O’Neil Auditorium. The musical will be performed at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16. Music and lyrics of “Jesus Christ Superstar” are by Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice. The Logan production was directed by Derek M. Hamblin. The musical does contain some controversial content. Deemed the first rock opera, “Jesus Christ
a 40 years old when the semi-autobiographical play was produced. The piece, adapted to film in 1985, featured the playwright as the cowboy. Kim Bassinger starred as the girl. “Fool For Love” is directed by Department of Theater faculty member Susan Patrick Benson. Actors in the play include Michael Wilson as the macho rodeo cowboy, Eddie; Emily Thompson as May, the desperately lonely woman seeking a new life; Kim Curlee as Old Man, the keeper of the secrets; and Mark Gokel as Martin, May’s new boyfriend. The play will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 21-23 with a matinee at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24, in McLeod Theater, in the
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Communications Building on the SIU campus. Tickets are $16 for adults and $6 for students. Call 618-453-6000, go online at www.southern ticketsonline.com or visit the McLeod Theater and Arena Box Offices from noon to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Tickets are
also available at the McLeod Theater Box Office one hour before each performance. A free, pre-show lecture is set at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24, in the MCMA Dean’s Conference Room in the Communications Building at SIU.
Superstar” began as a concept album in 1970 and grew to become one of Broadway’s greatest shows. Christ’s final days are dramatized with “emotional intensity, a thought-provoking edge and explosive theatricality.” Matinee tickets are $2 for the general public and JALC students, employees and retirees are admitted free at the 10 a.m. Friday show. General admission for the 7 p.m. shows is $12. For more information, call 618-985-2828 ext. 8287 or go to www.jalc. edu/activities/performing arts.php — The Southern
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‘The Glass Menagerie’ this weekend in Paducah Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, and Saturday, Nov. 16, in the West Kentucky Community & Technical College’s Clemens Fine Arts Center. The play is loosely based on Williams’ life. The story is told as a memory through the eyes of Tom Wingfield. Tom tells of his family struggles within the economic strife of the depression and the looming global conflicts of World War II. Amanda, his mother, raised in a home of southern gentility and privilege,
has struggled for 16 years raising a family alone in the languishing economy. Tom has been burdened with caring for the family by working in a shoe factory and abandoning his dreams of becoming a writer. Tom’s sister, Laura, has become increasingly withdrawn and unable to cope. The character of Laura is based on Williams’ own sister, Rose whose struggles with mental illness haunted him throughout his life. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students, children and senior citizens. Visit artsinfocus.org or call
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A Splash of Trivia Night set Nov. 22 in Carbondale CARBONDALE — A Splash of Trivia Night, designed for sports buffs, will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22, in Hickory Ridge Country Club. The purpose of the event is to raise funds for the Carbondale Splash Park and the SIU Sport Studies Association Doors will open at 6 p.m. and the trivia contest will begin at 6:30 p.m. The night will consist of several rounds of trivia that focus on various sport categories. Teams consisting of six people may compete with a fee of $90 per team. To register early, send an email to ssasiuc@siu.edu. Registration will also be available the day of the event, space permitting. The evening will also include a silent auction with items from local businesses, a 50/50 raffle and a halftime game. For more, visit www. facebook.com/sportstudies association or call 618-453-3324.
Spend ‘A Country Christmas’ Las Posadas celebration features play, piñata contest first weekend of December COBDEN — A Las Posadas celebration is planned for 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24, in the Anna Arts Center, 125 W. Davie St. Las Posadas is a tradition that began in Spain and has spread throughout the world. It celebrates Joseph and Mary’s journey to Bethlehem and their search for shelter prior to the birth of Christ. The event is designed to be a Christmas celebration and will feature a time for prayer, a play and a party. A piñata contest will be part of the celebration. The piñata can be of any design. The winner will receive a ribbon and Colaciones (box of sweets). The deadline to submit the piñata is Friday, Nov 22. During the play, attendees will have a chance to make a pilgrimage to Bethlehem which will be symbolized by a procession around the block. Participants are asked to wear work clothes to symbolize that all walks of life want to meet Jesus. Those who do not want to walk may stay inside to sing Christmas carols. For more information, call 904-625-1109 or email vabchlee@gmail.com.
CARTERVILLE — “A Country Christmas,” directed by Nathan Arnett, will be presented at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 6 and 7, in John A. Logan College’s O’Neil Auditorium. A matinee will also be shown at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 6 Tickets are $7 and $12, except for the matinee, which is $2 for general admission; Logan students and employees are admitted free of charge. The presentation is a tribute to country music. Decades of country classics will be highlighted. For more information, contact the Office of Student Activities & Cultural Events at 618-985-2828 ext. 8287. The Logan College Student Senate will sell refreshments immediately before and during intermission with all proceeds used to help purchase gifts for 300 local children. See the rest of Logan’s performing arts schedule at www.jalc.edu/ activities/performingarts.php.
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Anna Holiday Bazaar is Nov. 30, and it will feature numerous one-of-a-kind items ANNA —A Holiday Bazaar set for the end of the month will feature artists, crafters, stain glass, art work, quilts, jewelry and other unique items. The Holiday Bazaar will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30 in the Anna Arts Center at 117 W. Davie St. The event will also feature an opportunity for adults and children to make a free Christmas ornament.
The Girl Scouts will open the event by presenting the colors and singing Christmas carols. Also, a fourth- through eighth-grade art exhibit will be open during the bazaar. Demonstrations and music will be featured throughout the day. To participate or for more information, call 904-625-1109 or email vabchlee@gmail.com. — The Southern
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COBDEN — The 11th Annual Union County Historical Society Christmas Bazaar will open at 8 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, in the historic DuBois Building at 117 S. Appleknocker Drive, next to Union County Museum. The event will feature a shop full of Christmas-related items. The Christmas Bazaar will be open weekends in November and December through Saturday, Dec. 14. The bazaar continues Nov. 17, 23, 24, 29, 30 and Dec. 1, 7, 8, 14. Hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 29, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays Hundreds of new, gently used, upscale and collectible holiday items and gifts including trees, ornaments, Dept. 56, greenery, wreaths, lights, glassware and kitchen items will be available for sale well below retail value. New merchandise is added each weekend. Proceeds from the bazaar, the group’s primary fundraiser, are used to support the Union County Museum and the Historical Society which is an all-volunteer organization. Call 618-893-2567 or the museum at 618893-2865 for more.
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Photography and Cedarhurst and 40 Years of History; through Dec. 31; www. cedarhurst.org; 618-242-1236 From the Heartland: Photographs by David Gilmore, Law office of Joni Beth Bailey, located at 1008 Walnut St., Murphysboro; through Jan. 15; hours, 9 a.m.5 p.m. Monday-Friday; gallery@jbbaileylaw.com Caught in the Sweep of History: Egypt in the Civil War – The Second Year exhibit and documentary now on display, Gen. 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; through May 9; 618-4535388; www.museum.siu.edu
Receptions Combined Faculty & Masters of Fine Arts’ Candidates’ Art Shows: 4-7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, University Museum, SIU; 618-453-5388; www.museum.siu.edu; through Dec. 7 Chicago Prints: 150 Years
of the City of Art from the John and Lucia Hollister Collection, University Museum, SIU; 4-7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15; gallery talk by John Hollister at 6 p.m.; through Dec. 13; 618-453-5388; ww.museum.siu.edu The Comic Book Project: 4-7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, University Museum, SIU; exhibit by students from Anna Junior High School, Brehm Preparatory, Cobden High School, Elverado High School, Massac Junior High School, Meridian Elementary School, and Zeigler-Royalton High School; funded by Carbondale Community Arts; through Dec. 7; 618-453-5388; www.museum.siu.edu Heidi J Belec: Photography exhibit, Art and Culture in the Scottish Landscape, 7-9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, B & L Photo, 213 W. Freeman St., Carbondale; photos from the Art and Photography Study Abroad program; through Nov. Yeiser Members’ Show: 5-7 p.m. Saturday Nov. 16, The Yeiser Art Center, 200 Broadway St., Paducah; through Dec. 21; www.theyeiser.org
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MURPHYSBORO — The General John A. Logan Museum has received a grant of $4,850 to support research, writing and development of the exhibit and documentary “Caught in the Sweep of History: Egypt in the Civil War — The Second Year.” The grant was presented by the Illinois Humanities Council. The “Caught in the Sweep of History: Egypt in the Civil War – The First Year” exhibit and its companion half-hour documentary of the same name were called a great success by museum personnel. The new exhibit covering Southern Illinois in the second year of the war is open to the public and will be on display until April 2014. Its companion video will premiere at Murphysboro’s Liberty Theater in April. Laura Varner, curator of collections at the Logan Museum, who helped research the exhibit and documentary, says the grant funds help in gathering and displaying information about the Civil War. Museum Director P. Michael Jones said, “Our museum, although small, strives to be professional and give the public a great experience. We could not produce these products without the IHC and it grants and we are thankful for our inclusion in the program.” The museum will host Civil War presentations through April. The museum is located at 1613 Edith St. For more, call 618-6843455 or go to www.logan museum.org.
Joan Skiver-Levy: Featured at The Sidney De Mont Waithe Studio/Gallery of Centralia; through Nov. 15; 618-3392501 Weavings, Paintings and Art Quilts: By Richard Cox, Carbondale Civic Center; during November; show sponsored by Carbondale Community Arts; 618-4576823 The Quilts Of Rose Cox: My Mother’s Quilts, Weaver’s Cottage, 1904 Bass Lane, Carbondale; throughout the month of November; open, 1-5 p.m. Friday, Saturday, Sunday; 618-457-6823 North Window Artist: Kris Killman, The Little Egypt Arts Association Arts Centre, downtown Marion; hours, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday and Tuesday; through November; 618-559-7379 A Photo Essay: Of African Americans in The 1900 Paris Exposition and Noted African Americans in Pulaski and Alexander County in the late 1800’s, Mounds African American Museum; through Nov. 30; 2-5 p.m. Saturdays
and Sundays Milana Braslavsky: Photography exhibit, Southeastern Illinois College Art Gallery, Harrisburg; through Dec. 1; free Conflict Zone: Photos and a video Iraq and Afghanistan, University Museum, SIU, Carbondale sponsored by the SIU School of Journalism; through Dec. 7; 618-4535388; www.museum.siu.edu Inuit Art: From the collection of William Rose, University Museum, SIU; through Dec. 7; 618-4535388; www.museum.siu.edu Archaeological Findings: At the Crawford Farm Site, University Museum, SIU; through Dec. 7; 618-4535388; www.museum.siu.edu Michelle Fredman: Exhibit, The Pavilion, Marion; work can be viewed during the Pavilion’s regular hours; through December Cedarhurst exhibits: Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, 2600 Richview Road, Mount Vernon; Shrode Photography Competition and Michelle Stitzlein: Second Nature; Sound and Vision: Monumental Rock ‘n Roll
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University focuses on work done by its own BY ADAM TESTA THE SOUTHERN
IU’s University Museum explores a number of topics throughout the year, but each fall, the focus narrows in on the university and its assets themselves. Two annual exhibits, featuring work by faculty members and graduate students in various departments across the university, will officially open with a reception Friday, Nov. 15. A third new exhibit, detailing the history of Chicago through artistic prints, is also opening that day. The reception is from 4 to 7 p.m. at the museum. Museum director Dona Bachman said the perennial Combined Faculty Show allows faculty members to showcase their current projects and their efforts outside the classroom. Faculty from the art and design, cinema and photography, theater and architecture departments all have items on display. “It gives them a chance to show off what they’re working on these days,” Bachman said. “There’s everything from paintings to photographs, ceramics and sculpture.” The faculty exhibit runs through Dec. 7. Graduate students pursuing masters of fine arts degrees will be giving the public a sneak peak of their thesis exhibits for the spring in the MFA Preview Show. Each student selects one item to display. In the spring semester, they will each have a full exhibit of their work displayed.
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SIU alumnus John Hollister of Chicago curated the ‘Chicago Prints’ exhibit at University Museum. The display collects images and prints showing imagery from 150 years of the city’s history, from before the Great Fire through the opening on Millennial Park in 2004.
For some of these students, this is the first opportunity they have to show their work on a bigger stage than just a classroom and can be a learning experience, Bachman said. “It reminds them of the importance and significance of their work,” she said. “It’s also a wake-up call. Even though they’re only showing one piece, they want it to be outstanding and representative of what they’re going to show in the spring.” The third new fall exhibit is “Chicago Prints: 150 Years of the City as Art from the John and Lucia Hollister Collection.” Hollister, an SIU alumnus living in Chicago, has collected various prints and photos depicting the city’s transformation from before the infamous Great Fire through the opening of Millennial Park in 2004. Hollister’s exhibit takes a sociological approach, Bachman said, in that each era of photos presents the city in the way it wanted to be seen, from the Great Depression through more affluent times. “It really captures the immensity, the lowliness and the vibrancy of the city of Chicago,” she said. “There’s a lot of interest. People have spent a lot of time in this exhibit, which
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Items created by Pattie Chalmers (far right), Harris Deller (inset) and Rachel Erickson (below) are featured in the University Museum’s faculty exhibition. ADAM TESTA / THE SOUTHERN
is always nice to see.” Hollister will speak and lead a gallery walk during Friday’s reception beginning at 6 p.m. These three exhibits help bridge the gap between the fall
and spring semesters, and come the start of the new year, there will be a new set of displays for patrons to explore. “The museum will totally transform itself in the second
semester, so we’re looking ahead to that even while showcasing these exhibits,” Bachman said. adam.testa@thesouthern.com 618-351-5031
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Victorian music, world-famous soloist featured at concert today MOUNT VERNON — The Independent Silver Band will take audience members back to the late 1800s in a performance at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, in First United Methodist Church. The band plays antique instruments common around 1884 and wears replicated uniforms to portray a band that existed in Mount Vernon from 1884-89. In addition to performances of the Civil War era and Victorian music, the band features world-renowned clarinettist Msgt. Jay Niepoetter, currently principal bass clarinetist with “The President’s Own” U.S. Marine Band in Washington, D.C. Niepoetter was a member of school bands in Centralia, studied at SIU with Eric Mandant and graduated from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb with a bachelor’s degree in music
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Clarinet soloist Jay Neipoetter will perform with the Independent Silver Band.
performance. He completed a master’s degree in music performance from the University of Maryland in College Park and won the Homer L. Ulrich Award for excellence in performance. In 2004, he completed his doctor of musical arts degree at UMD. Niepoetter was accepted into the clarinet section of the Marine Band in Washington, D.C., in 1988 at the age of 22. Over the course of his 20-year career he has performed in all 48
continental states, Norway, England and Switzerland. He also took part in a historic three-week tour of the Soviet Union in 1992. He also holds the bass clarinet position with the Maryland Symphony Orchestra in Hagerstown and performs regularly with the Annapolis, Fairfax and Alexandria symphonies. He has performed with Aretha Franklin, Trisha Yearwood, Marilyn Horne, Patty Lupone, André Watts, Leonard Slatkin, John Williams, Yo-Yo Ma, Mstislav Rostropovich, Denyse Graves, Frederica von Stade, Marvin Hamlisch, Quincy Jones, Oak Ridge Boys, Osmo Vänskä, Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle. Admission to the concert is free. Call 618-242-1537 or go to www.independentsilver band.webs.com. — The Southern
New era Kevin Lucas Orchestra releases ‘Revelations’ COBDEN — The Kevin Lucas Orchestra has released its first album since parting ways with the former band lineup last January. Lucas will be releasing “Revelations” as a soloist at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, at Rustle Hill Winery in Cobden. The first track is “Passion Grows,” composed by producer Matthew Shell, featuring Vahagn Stepanyan on keyboards and Aron Teo Lee on bass. The title track, “Revelations,” features Wouter Kellerman on flute and Paul Speer on guitar. The album transcends through many different musical styles including jazz, rock, new age, Celtic, classical and world. The Kevin Lucas Orchestra is in the race for a Grammy in the Best Pop Instrumental Album category, with nominations to be announced Dec. 6. Scott Healy, musician in the Conan O’Brien Band, says this about the new album, “Kevin Lucas has taken
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‘Three Tenors and More’Tuesday at Shryock CARBONDALE — “Three Tenors and More” will be presented by the Southern Illinois Symphony Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19 in SIU’s Shryock Auditorium. Edward Benyas will direct the program. SISO will be joined by the SIU Edwardsville Orchestra under the direction of Professor Michael Mishra. The combined orchestras help celebrate the bicentennials of the births of great opera composers, Giuseppi Verdi and Richard
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The presentation features the tenor voice of New York’s Brian Cheney, who performed the role of Don José in last summer’s music festival production of “Carmen.” Also appearing is Jamaicanborn Canadian tenor Paul Williamson and two SIU vocal professors, tenor Marc Schapman of SIU Edwardsville and baritone David Dillard of SIU Carbondale. The four men will sing opera arias and duets by Verdi, Puccini and Bizet. Tickets are $20 for adults and $8 for students of any age. Go to the SIU Arena or McLeod Theater box offices, call 618-453-6000 or go online at www. southernticketsonline.com. Tickets are available at the Shryock Auditorium box office beginning one hour before the concert. For questions, email benyas@siu.edu. — The Southern
THURSDAY Carbondale: Copper Dragon, Stoney LaRue w/Kyle Park Hangar 9, Jimkata w/Arpetrio PK’s, Ol Moose Band Tres Hombres, Traveling Broke and Out of Gas Marion: Williamson County Fairground Hanna Building, Big Lake Country Band, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Thompsonville: Lion’s Club, The Swing N’ Country Dance Band, 7-9:30 p.m.
7-10 p.m. 13th St., Herrin 618-889Orient: Just Elsie’s, Rusty 3651 Juveniles, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. J Dee’s Connection: 215 E. Main St., Benton Thompsonville: Old Country Store Dance Barn, Lil’ Boot John Brown’s on the & Classic Country, 7-10 p.m. Square: 1000 Tower Square, Marion 618-9972909 SUNDAY Marion: Eagles, Big Country, Just Elsie’s: 302 Jackson St., Orient, 618-9326-9 p.m. 3401 Lion’s Club: South Street, MONDAY Thompsonville 618-218Du Quoin: Derby’s 4888 Community Hall, Jerry’s Marion American Legion: Jammers, 7-9 p.m. Marion: Youth Center, Craig’s Longstreet Road, Marion 618-997-6168 Country Band, 6-9 p.m. Marion Eagles: Russell and Longstreet Roads, Marion TUESDAY 618-993-6300 Carbondale: Tres Hombres, Marion Youth Center: 211 E. SIU Jazz Ensemble, 8 p.m. Boulevard, Marion 618-922Herrin Teen Town, Country 7853 Ramrods, 7-10 p.m. Marion: Hideout Restaurant, N-Kahootz Night Club: 115 W. Cherry St., Herrin 618Bob Pina, piano 5:30-8:30 942-9345 p.m. Thompsonville: Lion’s Club, Old Country Store Dance Barn: Main Street, Mike’s Band, 6:30-9:30 Thompsonville 618-218p.m. 4676 PK’s: 308 S. Illinois Ave., FIND THEM HERE Carbondale 618-529-1124 20’s Hideout Restaurant: Steeleville American 2602 Wanda Drive, Marion Legion: 303 S. Chester St., 618-997-8325 Steeleville 618-965-3362 Carbondale Eagles: 1206 W. Linden St., Carbondale 618- The Zone Lounge: 14711 Illinois 37, Whittington 618303-9083 629-2039 Copper Dragon: 720 E. TrackSide Barn: 104 Rock Grand Ave., Carbondale St., Spillertown 618-993618-549-2319 3035 Corner Dance Hall: 200 Tres Hombres: 119 N. Franklin St., Whittington Washington St., Carbondale 618-303-5266 618-457-3308 Derby’s Community Hall: 214 High St., Du Quoin 618- Williamson County Fairground Hanna 201-1753 Building: Fair and Main Hangar 9: 511 S. Illinois Ave., streets, Marion 618-917Carbondale 618-549-0511 5230 Herrin Teen Town: 105 N.
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Those Darlins plan to blur the line at Hangar 9 CARBONDALE — Southern artists Those Darlins will be performing at Hangar 9 Friday, Nov. 22. The group’s new album, “Blur The Line,” has been called “tough and seductive” and “sleek, snarly rock.” Jessi Zazu, Nikki Kvarnes, Linwood Regensburg and Adrian Barrera make up Those Darlins. The group’s latest album, “Blur The Line” has been described as “a first-rate album of powerful tracks that mingle heavy rhythms and distorted Neil Young guitars with ear-candy harmonies and a slew of captivating lyrics.” The album is a huge departure from previous albums for the band, both sonically and thematically. Kvarnes says the album
“is a look inward, asking bigger questions and tackling an archetypal theme — the opposing forces that lurk in us and in our world. This may be the most important theme on this record. Balance and finding balance within ourselves and others.” The acoustic version of one of the tracks on the album, “Oh God” shows the Nashville darlings talent, stripped down and raw, live at The Southern Cafe and Music Hall. To listen to the album, go to http://ge.tt/ 1L7V3Ll/v/0?c. Opening up the show Nov. 22 at Hangar 9 will be Diane Coffee. Doors open at 8 p.m. and the show starts at 9 p.m. Admission is $10. Go to http://thehangar9. ticketfly.com. — The Southern
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Marvel to open show at Black Diamond for Corbin the industry. Gary Allan put Marvel on the map when he recorded “Right Where I Need to Be.” It was the most played Vince Hoffard song on country radio in 2000. When Jake Owen endell Marvel and Shad broke onto the scene in 2006, he debuted with Zimbro have known Marvel’s composition “Yee each other since they were teenagers, growing up Haw” and also had hits with Marvel creations during the late 1980s in “Startin’ with Me” and Franklin County. Sesser native Zimbro was “Don’t Think I Can’t Love You.” working at General Tire in Zimbro followed his Mount Vernon, where he dream, too. He always pulled a few strings to get wanted to own his own Marvel a job at the business. Teaming with company. The hometown buddy Rodney Thompsonville native Cabaness, they purchased wasn’t making enough Campbell’s Harley money in his local music Davidson in Marion in career to support a family, 2007. They changed the and the new job helped name to Black Diamond keep food on the table. Harley Davidson and Marvel is a blue-collar quickly turned it into one guy. He’s not afraid to get of the most successful dirt on his hands. Hard work is part of his DNA. He dealerships in the world. The company has a busy has played country music entertainment schedule, as long as he can having hosted major remember. He had a band concerts in the warehouse before he graduated high behind the dealership by school and was popular in rock superstar Vince Neil Southern Illinois and Bret Michael. Local honkytonks for many legend Head East had years. “Never Been Any Reason” Deep inside, he knew he would ultimately leave the echoing through the venue Saturday night. security of a good job and When rising country star test the turbulent waters in Easton Corbin, the singer Nashville, which he did in 1998. It was a smart move. of hits like “A Little More Country Than That,” “Roll He would struggle for with It” and current smash awhile, but he figured out the business and has made “All Over the Road,” was signed to perform at Black notable contributions to
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Diamond on Dec. 5, Marvel was a natural and immediate choice to serve as opening act. Tickets for the concert are not yet on sale. A date and ticket prices will soon be posted on the event calendar of the dealership website. “Me and Shad go all the way back to high school,” says the 43-year old Marvel. “I knew him when he had short hair and was clean shaven.” Until Zimbro recently shaved his facial hair for the first time in more than a decade, he could have been a body double for country outlaw Jamey Johnson. He still has shoulder length hair. For the first time in a long time, Marvel hasn’t written any of the hits songs being played on country radio. However, he has inked five songs on the new Josh Thompson, which will be released in early 2014. During an interview late Monday night, Marvel said he was recovering from a busy week in Nashville, which hosted several consecutive nights of parties leading up to last week’s Country Music Association award show, which is basically the Super Bowl of country music. Marvel said he was very surprised that Kasey Musgraves took home New Act of the Year, beating Florida Georgia Line, who won two awards and has the two biggest records of 2013 with “Cruise” and “Get Your Shine On.” “I’ve known Kasey for a long time and I’ve written with her in the past. She had a great year and I’m happy for her, but I didn’t see that one coming,” he said. “I’ve been out on the road with Florida Georgia
Line and they are some great guys. They have the top two songs of the year and are just killing it. I thought they would win everything.” Marvel said he missed the best part of the CMA awards. He had left his house and was traveling to a Big Machine Records after party when George Strait shocked the country music world and was named Entertainer of the Year. With over 100 single releases and more than 40 #1 hits to his credit during a remarkable career, as Strait walked to the podium to accept his award, it was the Marvel written tune “Twang” that played through the Bridgestone Arena sound system. “I’m driving to the party and my phone blows up. Everybody’s telling me ‘Twang’ is playing. It was a pretty cool feeling to have your song playing for the biggest star in this town over the last 30 years. I had just talked to George a few days ago at an industry event,” Marvel said. Strait released “Twang” in 2009. He is in the middle of his Farewell Tour. While he is retiring from the road, Marvel said King George recently signed a contract to make five more albums for MCA Nashville Records. Marvel says he stays busy writing and performing at clubs in Music City, including regular appearances at the prestigious Bluebird Café. He says he plays corporate functions about once a month, including a show schedules for Wednesday in the Virgin Islands. VINCE HOFFARD can be reached at 618-658-9095 or vincehoffard@yahoo.com.
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‘Holiday’ revives good feelings ‘The Best Man’ gave us years ago The Best Man Holiday ** ½ Rated R for language, sexual content and brief nudity; starring Morris Chestnut, Taye Diggs, Sanaa Lathan, Nia Long, Terrence Howard, Monica Calhoun, Harold Perrineau, Eddie Cibrian; written and directed by Malcolm D. Lee; opening Friday at AMC 8 in MCT / UNIVERSAL Marion and University Place Robin (Sanaa Lathan) and Harper (Taye Diggs) star in ‘The Best Man Holiday,’ opening Friday. 8 in Carbondale. and Robyn (Sanaa Lathan) prepare to have a baby. MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS Candace (Regina Hall) and Julian (a twitchy “The Best Man Holiday” Harold Perrineau) run an is a most welcome sequel to up-and-coming private school, but there are the 1999 sleeper hit, “The funding problems. Best Man,” about a tightJordan (Nia Long) may be knit circle of black friends a top exec at MSNBC, but who gathered then for a she’s embarrassed to be wedding, now to spend embarrassed by having a Christmas together. white beau (Eddie Cibrian). Yes, it’s occasionally Marketing consultant maudlin and and sometime music melodramatic, and it’s producer Quentin entirely too long. But it’s (Terrence Howard) is still also heartfelt and often partying and smoking pot downright hilarious, and like it was 1999. shows off just how And floozy Shelby canny Malcolm D. Lee’s casting was all those years (vampy Melissa De Sousa) may be the villain on ago. “Housewives of Everybody’s paired up, Westchester.” But she is now. Pretty much between marriages and everybody, anyway. And failing as a mom as she everybody seems manages her fame. successful, with careers, A flashback reminds us families and high-end cars. of the bonhomie they But when Mia (Monica shared back then. And this Calhoun) and her star cast of seasoned pros slips running back husband easily into playing Lance (Morris Chestnut) characters who can’t help invite everybody to their but fall back into their old suburban New Jersey roles within the group. mansion for the holidays, Once we get past the cracks show in everyone’s cliches and compliments facade. “You’re a sensitive Novelist Harper (Taye brother,” “I’m your man,” Diggs) is a long time “It’s all good” the fur flies between bestsellers and worries about money as he and things get a bit too real. BY ROGER MOORE
Lance and Harper have unresolved issues, which Harper needs to sneak around and fix if he’s to get Lance to agree to letting him ghost-write the jock’s autobiography. Julian has to figure out a way to raise money despite the fact that his wife’s ancient sexual history is now a YouTube phenomenon. Everybody’s got a secret, every player has a role in the play, with Howard as the funniest he has ever been doing a sort of sassy, stoned comic relief. The cute stuff the men do a lip-sync “talent show” as New Edition is balanced against the raw language and the downers that come in the serious and sad second half of the film. Tonally, it’s hard to reconcile the film’s raw bits with a shoehorned-in nod to faith. That weighs down “Holiday” and makes it overstay its welcome. But it’s still an amusing, wellacted and sharply-timed holiday comedy old friends getting together to prove that careers, families and kids aside, they’ve still got their R-rated edge, just as they did in college.
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‘12 Years a Slave’ may be the best picture of 2013 12 Years a Slave **** Rated R for violence, cruelty, some nudity and brief sexuality; starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong’o, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Benedict Cumberbatch, Alfre Woodard, Brad Pitt; directed by Steve McQueen; opening Friday at University Place 8 in Carbondale. BY ROGER MOORE MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS
We expect the lashings, the leg irons, the cruelty and injustice of it all. But what Steve McQueen’s brilliant “12 Years A Slave” does for our understanding of that “peculiar” institution is the utter hopelessness of those enslaved. It lets a GPS / smart phone-addicted generation understand what it was like to not know where you are, to realize the helplessness of attempting to run away or steal paper to write a plea for help. And it forces those who would rationalize the era’s mores and religious “justification” for human beings enslaving and torturing one another to see that there is no rationalization for it, that there were many who could tell right from wrong, even back then. Chiwetel Ejiofor conjures up just the right measure of dignity and refinement as Solomon Northup, a New York musician, husband and father who was tricked into taking an engagement in Washington, D.C., along the border between
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free and slave states. Yes, this really happened in 1841: A black American who had never been a slave was kidnapped, smuggled south and sold into slavery. He struggled to keep his spirits up and his hope alive, even as others around him committed suicide or fell into inconsolable weeping at having their children sold away from them. The beauty of this movie is in how we identify with Northup and come to understand the awful effects his loss of liberty
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had not just on him, but on the moral relativists and outright sadists who ran machinery of slavery. Even a so-called “good master” (the terrific Benedict Cumberbatch plays one) had to embrace an “it’s just business” myopia about what he was doing to other human beings. Even a “legitimate businessman” (Paul Giamatti) had to close his eyes to the unspeakable cruelty of breaking up families, to become less human by treating other humans as livestock.
And then there were the monsters. Paul Dano is hateful perfection as the classic low-class overseer, brutal to his charges because he needs somebody to look down on and lord over. A wild-eyed Michael Fassbender plays an alcoholic Louisiana landowner who keeps an enslaved paramour (Lupita Nyong’o, a revelation) whom his resentful wife (Sarah Paulson) insists on forcing her husband to torture in his sober moments. And Alfre Woodard plays
a one-time slave who has become mistress of her house, not above keeping slaves of her own, but capable of empathy and kindness toward those still confined. Ejiofor keeps Northup’s emotions close to the vest as he endures the unendurable hard labor, from cotton picking to cane harvesting and harder punishment. Northup’s music is one way he clings to his humanity, but even that isn’t enough. Ejiofor (“Kinky Boots”) never lets us see hate or fear in the
man’s eyes, only resignation broken by slivers of hope that he might somehow escape this hell. It’s a challenging, serious and scholarly film, not the blacksploitation burlesque that was “Django Unchained.” McQueen (“Shame,” “Hunger”) and his stellar cast take us on a difficult journey, a sometimes awful and only faintly inspiring odyssey that will make you want to avert your eyes. It is to their great credit that we never do.