Vantage Point: Confusing at first, but the pieces click in the end
(02/28/08)
In the action-packed thriller "Vantage Point," eight people with eight points of view try to unlock the one truth behind an assassination attempt on the president of the United States. Every time the clock turns back to 11:59 a.m. and the bell tolls, the audience around me gave a little gasp of anticipation. This movie kept me riveted in my seat with incredible camera work...
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Good bets
(02/28/08)PERFORMING ARTS Dance-apalooza 2008 Southeast Missouri State University dance students shake the stage with dance pieces written for the faculty/guest choreographer show. When: 7:30 p.m., Today through Sunday Where: Bedell Performance Hall, River Campus... 
Go green
(02/28/08)Get out your green. Irish Heritage Month begins this weekend in Illinois. The celebration starts with a production of "The Irish and How They Got That Way," at Mugsy McGuire's Entertainment Center at 1620 W. Main St. in Carbondale, Ill. The musical was written by Frank McCourt, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Angela's Ashes." It gives a brief history of the Irish in Ireland and in America up to the 20th century and shows different aspects of Irish and Irish-American history through songs ranging from the traditional to Tin Pan Alley songs.. ...
New on DVD
(02/28/08) "Beowulf" The monster Grendel is as repugnant as ever, but his mom gets a facelift, with Angelina Jolie playing the creature as a gorgeous seductress in Robert Zemeckis' adaptation of the epic poem. The film uses the same technology Zemeckis applied to "The Polar Express," with actors' performances digitally captured and costumes, sets, effects and other details then completed through computer animation. ...
Worth the drive
(02/28/08) LESS THAN 1 HOUR Saxon Lutheran Memorial, Frohna, Mo. The start of a new season is finally here. Saturday is the first day the Saxon Lutheran Memorial in Frohna, Mo., is open for the 2008 season. Visitors are welcome to come back from their winter break to once again explore history and experience life in the 18th century by touring through the log cabin village and living history museum. ...
ARTifacts
(02/28/08) Jerry Ford Orchestra performs benefit The Jerry Ford Orchestra will play a concert from 3 to 5 p.m. March 16 at the current Central Junior High School auditorium to raise money for renovations to the auditorium. Ford has been performing for 50 years and former members of Ford's orchestra are donating their services with all proceeds going toward renovations. ... 
Dance-Apalooza: Southeast students get ready to shake the stage
(02/28/08)It used to be called something else -- Full Tilt, Transitions, Terpsichore. But since 2006, the Southeast Missouri State University faculty/guest choreographed show has been known as Dance-Apalooza. Dance-Apalooza follows in the footsteps of other events like Lollapalooza that include different types or genres of something into one big show, said Marc Strauss, the artistic coordinator and one choreographer for the show...
Best-sellers
(02/28/08) 1. "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose" by Eckhart Tolle 2. "The Appeal" by John Grisham 3. "7th Heaven" by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro 4. "Bratfest At Tiffanys" by Lisi Harrison 5. "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne
And the award goes to...who?
(02/28/08) When I turn 80 years old, I hope people still come to my party -- and yes, I will be a partying 80-year-old. This Sunday I stayed at work extra late to watch the 80th annual Academy Awards. (My television, while bigger, gets terrible reception on that and the one other channel that I get.) As I watched the show, I struggled to find recognizable faces. ...
Vantage Point: Move missed the point
(02/28/08) A critic's job is made most simple when an audience audibly groans and sighs at the movie's plot points. At my screening of "Vantage Point" -- from the murmurs that I could make out, walkouts were moments away when the film finally got it's act together and started telling a story...
Savoring Ebert's 'Four-Star Reviews'
(02/28/08) Before critiquing Roger Ebert's latest collection of reviews, a bit of disclosure. I heart Ebert. I love the way he hated "I Heart Huckabees," though I disagreed with his opinion -- " ... nothing was happening between us," he wrote, after seeing it in 2004... 
Live weekend
(02/28/08)FRIDAY PERFORMING ARTS "The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr" @ River City Yacht Club, Port Cape, 7 p.m. Live Music Classic Country Band @ American Legion Hall, Jackson, 7 to 10:30 p.m. Defined Perception @ Broussard[']s, 9 p.m. The Intention @ Club Moxy, 9 p.m... 
Take your pick at Pop's
(02/28/08)Make a few lunch-time trips to Pop's Pizza on Clark Avenue and before you know it, you're one of the gang. Doyle and Cora Lee Sample own the place, which serves an all-you-can-eat lunch and dinner buffet seven days a week. "I pretty much run it," Cora Lee Sample said. "He's actually Pop," she added, pointing to her husband. He was sitting in the dining room laughing with a few employees, one of whom was Dana Wilson, a family friend and employee...
Surviving the storm Area musicians band together to raise money for Red Cross
(02/28/08) Although a few ice storms have made their way through the area this month, spreading havoc and causing several thousands to lose power, it seems Mother Nature herself cannot contend with the local good will. Schock's Pub in Scott City is hosting an American Red Cross fundraiser for victims of this month's winter storms Saturday. ...
Occupying abandonment St. Louis artist paints deserted factories of Midwest
(02/28/08)
The day she arrived in St. Louis to begin teaching painting at Washington University, Cindy Tower started following the smokestacks. They drew her across the Mississippi River to ruined places in blighted East St. Louis. By the fourth day she was climbing around St. Louis' old brewery caves... |
