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September 25, 2003 Edition

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USCCB Movie Reviews
click for USCCB's movie and video reviews

The above link will connect you to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishop's movie and video reviews. They contain a brief overview of many movies with the USCCB's classification and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rating. They may have a comment on any inappropriate language or violence in the film.

You may also want to check out the Catholic News Service capsule movie reviews.


Edgewood College Arts Schedule

Madison, Wis.

Admission is free unless otherwise noted. Art exhibits take place in DeRicci Gallery, DeRicci Hall. Concerts take place in St. Joseph Chapel, Regina Hall, unless otherwise noted. The Edgewood College theatre is in Regina Hall. For theatre tickets, contact the Theatre Box Office, 608-663-6710 or TheatreBoxOffice@edgewood.edu

September, 2003

ART
Sept. 14 - Oct. 3
Christopher Knight, Erik Parra, Julie Weitz
"Fig.03.03 Figure Painting from the UW Graduate Art Department"
Reception, Sept. 24, 4 p.m., Gallery Talk, 4:30 p.m.

October, 2003

ART
Oct. 5 - Oct. 24
Nuwa Nnyanzi
"25 Years of Brush Strokes"
Reception, Oct. 8, 5 p.m., Gallery Talk, 5:30 p.m.

Oct. 26 - Nov. 21
Edgewood College Art Faculty Exhibition
Reception, Nov. 12, 5 p.m.

MUSIC
Oct. 5, 2:30 p.m.
Edgewood Chamber Orchestra
Blake Walter, music director/conductor
$4 general admission, free with Edgewood ID

Oct. 10, 8 p.m.
Faculty Concert Series: Music Scholarship Benefit Concert
JW Davis: Celebrating Thelonious Monk
$7 general admission, $5 students/seniors, $3 Edgewood ID

Oct. 17, 8 p.m.
The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Kenneth Sillito, artistic director/conductor
Performing Arts Center, 7400 North Ave., Middleton, WI
Ticket, call Edgewood College Events, 608-663-6999
$40 general admission, $35 with Edgewood ID

Oct. 18, 7 p.m.
Student Recital
Melanie Birkeland, Piano

Oct. 19, 2:30 p.m.
Fall Choral Concert
Kathleen Otterson, Joseph Testa, conductors

Media/Arts Briefs

Big Top performance

JEFFERSON -- The Council for the Performing Arts presents Big Top Chautauqua for a special school performance of the Best of the Big Top on Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center, 700 W. Milwaukee St. in Jefferson.

Tickets for the Best of the Big Top are $3 for students and $5 for adults. For more information, call 920-674-2179, visit the CPA office at 305 S. Main St. in Jefferson; or visit the council's Web site at www.councilfortheperformingarts.org.

Sunday Afternoon Live

MADISON -- Sunday Afternoon Live from the Elvehjem welcomes the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society on Sunday, Sept. 28, at 12:30 p.m. in Brittingham Gallery III.

Madison musicians Stephanie Jutt and Alan Berquist on flutes, Parry Karp on cello, and Jeffrey Sykes on piano will perform an arrangement of Mozart's Sonata for Two Flute and Piano, K. 448, Samuel Barber's Sonata, op. 6 for cello and piano, and Ned Rorem's Trio for flute, cello, and piano.

There will be a reception after the performance; a free docent-led tour of the Elvehjem Museum begins at 2 p.m.

The series, hosted by music commentator Lori Skelton, is broadcast live on Wisconsin Public Radio stations, including WERN, 88.7, Madison.

Bike ride fundraiser

MADISON -- On Sunday, Sept. 28, the third "Tour de Timor" bike ride fundraiser will start at 1 p.m. at the corner of John Nolen Dr. and Williamson St. (between Machinery Row and Monona Terrace) in Madison.

Participants will ride around Lake Monona. All proceeds will go towards scholarships and an agricultural support program in Madison's East Timor sister city, Ainaro.

More information and pledge sheets may be found at www.aideeasttimor.org.


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TV Programs of Note

Following are some theatrical movies and television programs of note. This information is being provided to assist people in making viewing choices.

Monday-Friday, 2:30 p.m., Inspiration Channel (cable) -- Catholic Mass.

Monday-Sunday, 7 a.m., 11:10 a.m., 6 p.m., 11 p.m., EWTN (cable) -- Daily Mass. No 6 p.m. showing on Sunday.

Thursday, Sept. 25, 7 p.m., WHA (PBS) -- The Wisconsin Gardener. The Wisconsin Gardener celebrates its 10th season on Wisconsin Public Television with a new program in the series that looks at ornamental edibles, the medicinal properties of garlic, the history of colorful root crops, and recipes for beets and chard. Repeats 5:30 p.m. Sept. 28.

Sunday, Sept. 28, 7 a.m., WISC (CBS) -- Mass. Celebrated by Msgr. Thomas Campion, sponsored by Apostolate to the Handicapped.

Sunday, Sept. 28, 6 a.m., Hallmark Channel (cable) -- The Other Holy Land. The rich and ancient Christian tradition of Turkey is explored in this program. Repeats 11 a.m. Blending visuals filmed on location around the eastern Mediterranean and interviews with leading Orthodox theologians, including Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople and Archbishop Demetrios, primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in America, as well as scholars in early Christian history, filmmaker Frank Frost invites viewers on a trip - back almost two millennia - to the place where the world religion we know today as Christianity matured from a persecuted Jewish sect to a faith that would change an empire.

Sunday, Sept. 28, 8:30 p.m., WYOU (cable) -- Christopher Close-Up: "City of Hope/The Fighting Temptations." Soap opera star Andrea Evans shares the reason behind her commitment to supporting breast cancer research. / Cuba Gooding Jr., Beyoncé Knowles, and LaTanya Richardson discuss the personal spirituality that they brought to their Gospel-driven comedy film, The Fighting Temptations.


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