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Theater offers free movies Saturdays

The 2010 Family Winter Series started Jan. 30 and runs each Saturday through March 6. Families can see a free movie at 10 a.m. Saturdays and receive discounts on certain snacks. Tickets are available the day of the show at the Cape West 14 Cine box office. The schedule of movies is "Monsters Vs. Aliens" Saturday; "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" Feb. 13; "Aliens in the Attic" Feb. 20; "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" Feb. 27; and "Shorts" March 6.

Tickets available for Jazz Lab Band show

The second concert in the 2009-2010 Jazz Series by Southeast Missouri State University's Department of Music will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Bedell Performance Hall. The Studio Jazz Ensemble and the Jazz Lab Band will perform along with Joe Eckert, former lead alto saxophonist with the Air Force's jazz band, The Airmen of Note, and a faculty member at Texas Christian University. Tickets are $10 and available at the River Campus box office, 651-2265 or metrotix.com, keyword "jazz concert."

'Dark Road' to be shown at Mud House

The Mississippi Mud House will transform into a cozy theater for a screening of "Dark Road," the locally-made thriller about a small-town sheriff who gets caught up in a mob murder. The viewing will start at 7:15 p.m. today. Two more shows will be at 7 and 9 p.m. Saturday. Admission for each show is $2. The cast and crew will be available for questions at the shows.

Valentine special for Sunday concert series

The Valentine's Day edition of Chamber Music Sundays at Three will feature violinists Liesl Schoenberger and Ching-Yi Lin. Schoenberger started violin at age 2 in Cape Girardeau, received her bachelor's and master's from Indiana University and is now an artist diploma candidate in violin performance at Yale University. Lin is a soloist and chamber musician who has performed throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe and Taiwan. The concert begins at 3 p.m. Feb. 14 in the Shuck Recital Hall on Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus. For more information, call 651-2141 or visit www.chambermusicsundays.com. Tickets are $15 for general admission, $10 for seniors and Southeast employees, $2.50 for students. For tickets, visit or call the River Campus box office at 651-2265 or visit metrotix.com.

*** 'Loveline' host to speak at Southeast

Just before the holiday of love, Dr. Drew Pinsky will speak at Southeast Missouri State University. Pinsky, host of radio call-in program "Loveline" and star of the VH1 show "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew," will speak at 7 p.m. Feb. 11 in Academic Auditorium. Tickets are free, but required for entry. They are available at the University Center, room 202 or the Office of Residence Life in Towers Complex.

-- From staff reports