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RECREATION CENTER CLOSES TEMPORARILY • WOHL RECREATION CENTER, 1515 NORTH KINGSHIGHWAY, TEMPORARILY WILL CLOSE SUNDAY SO $2.7 MILLION IN RENOVATIONS CAN BE MADE TO THE BUILDING. IT WILL REOPEN IN EARLY JUNE. MOST OF THE PROGRAMS OFFERED AT THE CENTER WILL MOVE TO WEST END CENTER, 5250 ENRIGHT AVENUE AT UNION BOULEVARD. THE FULL SCHEDULE IS ON THE WEB PAGE TINYURL.COM/YLO9YZQ. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL THE RECREATION DIVISION AT 314-289-5320. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION • MADISON COUNTY TRANSIT PLANS A MEETING IN EDWARDSVILLE ON NOV. 17 TO GATHER PUBLIC INPUT ON THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN THE COUNTY. PLANNERS FROM METRO WILL ALSO BE ON HAND TO GAUGE OPINIONS ON TRANSIT SERVICES IN ST. LOUIS AND ST. CLAIR COUNTY. THE "OPEN HOUSE"-STYLE MEETING WILL RUN FROM 5:30 TO 7:30 P.M. IN THE MCT EDWARDSVILLE STATION IN DOWNTOWN EDWARDSVILLE. BENEFIT FASHION SHOW • "HEADS AND THREADS FOR LOVE," A FASHION SHOW OF ORIGINAL DESIGNS AND HAIRSTYLES CREATED BY LILLIAN BATES AND CONYA COWAN, WILL BEGIN AT 7 P.M. NOV. 7 AT THE JACOBY ARTS CENTER, 627 EAST BROADWAY IN ALTON. COCKTAILS, SUSHI, CHOCOLATE FONDUE, DELICIOUS HORS D'OEUVRES AND GIGI DARR AT THE PIANO WILL ACCOMPANY THE EVENING. TICKETS ARE $60 FOR A PAIR OR $35 EACH AND CAN BE PURCHASED AT FRINGE SALON, 618-462-0202, BYDESIGN, 618-433-1400, AND BOSSANOVA, 618-462-1175. ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT LOVE146, A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO STOPPING CHILD ABUSE. 618-462-5222.
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Film screening — The science fiction classic "Alien" will be screened at 7:30 tonight at Moore Auditorium at Webster University. In the movie, the crews of a deep space mining ship Nostromo are awakened from hypersleep to investigate a strange signal from a nearby planet. While investigating, they discover it was intended as a warning and not an SOS. Tickets are $4 to $6. 314-968-7487 or www.webster.edu/filmseries. Dance performance — The Thai Music and Dance Ensemble will present "Thai Classical Music and Dance" at 8 tonight at the Center for International Studies at the University of Missouri at St. Louis in the Social Sciences & Business Building. From classical Thai music to chatri, the prototype for all Thai dance, the performance will take the audience through the history, folklore and geography of the ensemble's homeland. Tickets are $18, but students, seniors, UMSL employees and alumni are eligible for discounted ticket prices. 314-516-7299 or www.cfis-umsl.com. Opera performance — The Community Music School of Webster University, 535 Garden Avenue, will host "Highlights of Classical Chinese Opera" at 7 tonight. The performance troupe is from the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, the premier school in China for training professional Beijing opera performers. An expert will be providing explanations of the meanings of the different masks, roles, costumes and movements, as well as the stories of each performance (there are six episodes from six famous traditional Beijing operas). There will also be English subtitles. Art exhibit — The exhibit "Vestiges: Sculpture & Photography" will be on display from noon to 4 p.m. today at the phd gallery, 2300 Cherokee Street. The exhibit depicts the evidence of time's passage and the beauty that can exist in the legacy left behind. Found wooden sculpture by Susan Nanny and Marsha Sanguinette is juxtaposed with the photography of David R. Hanlon, Jim Sabo and Mark Florida. The exhibit runs through Nov. 14. 314-664-6644.
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Highway 40 project • From 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. today, one lane of eastbound Highway 40 (Interstate 64) will be closed between the South Forty Drive entrance ramp and McCutcheon Road.
RECREATION CENTER CLOSES TEMPORARILY • WOHL RECREATION CENTER, 1515 NORTH KINGSHIGHWAY, TEMPORARILY WILL CLOSE SUNDAY SO $2.7 MILLION IN RENOVATIONS CAN BE MADE TO THE BUILDING. IT WILL REOPEN IN EARLY JUNE. MOST OF THE PROGRAMS OFFERED AT THE CENTER WILL MOVE TO WEST END CENTER, 5250 ENRIGHT AVENUE AT UNION BOULEVARD. THE FULL SCHEDULE IS ON THE WEB PAGE TINYURL.COM/YLO9YZQ. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL THE RECREATION DIVISION AT 314-289-5320. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION • MADISON COUNTY TRANSIT PLANS A MEETING IN EDWARDSVILLE ON NOV. 17 TO GATHER PUBLIC INPUT ON THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN THE COUNTY. PLANNERS FROM METRO WILL ALSO BE ON HAND TO GAUGE OPINIONS ON TRANSIT SERVICES IN ST. LOUIS AND ST. CLAIR COUNTY. THE "OPEN HOUSE"-STYLE MEETING WILL RUN FROM 5:30 TO 7:30 P.M. IN THE MCT EDWARDSVILLE STATION IN DOWNTOWN EDWARDSVILLE. BENEFIT FASHION SHOW • "HEADS AND THREADS FOR LOVE," A FASHION SHOW OF ORIGINAL DESIGNS AND HAIRSTYLES CREATED BY LILLIAN BATES AND CONYA COWAN, WILL BEGIN AT 7 P.M. NOV. 7 AT THE JACOBY ARTS CENTER, 627 EAST BROADWAY IN ALTON. COCKTAILS, SUSHI, CHOCOLATE FONDUE, DELICIOUS HORS D'OEUVRES AND GIGI DARR AT THE PIANO WILL ACCOMPANY THE EVENING. TICKETS ARE $60 FOR A PAIR OR $35 EACH AND CAN BE PURCHASED AT FRINGE SALON, 618-462-0202, BYDESIGN, 618-433-1400, AND BOSSANOVA, 618-462-1175. ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT LOVE146, A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO STOPPING CHILD ABUSE. 618-462-5222. To submit items, e-mail them to headsup@post-dispatch.com or fax them to 314-340-3050. yesterday's most emailed
 
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