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On December 11th The prolific country star Clint Black invites us to join in the holiday spirit as he performs music to light up the season!

SHOW SCHEDULE 11. 06.2014 Irish Christmas. Start your holiday season at the EPC with a little Irish magic. From clas-sic Christmas carols to Irish holiday traditions, An Irish Christmas brings holiday cheer through storytelling, music, song, and dance. Featur-ing the music of uilleann pipes, flutes, fiddles, button accordion, and bodhr`ans, and performers from groups such as Riverdance, Magic of the Dance, Kerry Dance Troupe, the voice squad, and more, An Irish Christmas is sure to get you in the spirit of the season with some Irish cheer!

11.08.2014 Ronnie Milsap. With 40 #1 hits in 40 years, Ronnie Milsap is a true legend. With his first hit

Pure Love, he started a remarkable run where he didn’t leave the Top Ten for 15 straight years. During that time, he had a number of pop cross-over smashes, beginning with It Was Almost Like a Song, Smokey Moun-tain Rain, No Gettin’ Over Me, and Any Day Now. Not only has Ronnie Milsap been a consistent chart top-per and true icon in the industry, he is known for his highly entertaining live show. Mr. Milsap has a diverse mix of hits that showcase his amaz-ing musical talent.

11.13.2014 Last Standing Comic. America’s favorite sum-mer comedy and NBC’s top-rated television comedy competition show, “Last Comic Standing, is launching a live tour, ‘Last Coming Standing Live,’ this Fall. The tour arrives in

EFFINGHAM, IL at the EFFINGHAM PERFORMANCE CENTER. ‘Last Coming Standing Live,’ will feature Season 8’s winner as well as the top four finalists in live performances. Go V.I.P. for the ultimate Last Comic Standing live experience. Get more details at TheEPC.org.

11.22.2014 Ozark Jubilee. Branson comes to Effingham for the holidays as the Ozark Jubilee pres-ents A Branson Christmas. Enjoy an evening with talented folks who love making the audience an extension of the family. Combining great music with wholesome comedy, this show is undeniably fun! So whip up some Christmas cheer Branson-style with Ozark Jubilee!

12.06.2014-12.7.2014 Three Chicks and a stage. Mrs. Frump, di-rector of the Peaceful Valley Orphan-age, has planned for the children to spend Christmas with local families. Setting off in an old bus on Christ-mas Eve to deliver the kids, they are pursued by the Busybodies from the board of trustees and the suspi-cious sheriff, and they even pick up a lovesick troubadour on his way home. This ride turns into an adven-ture Mrs. Frump and the kids didn’t expect; one that you and your family will never forget! 12.11.2014 Clint Black heralded as one of Country music’s brightest stars, for a Christmas performance to remember. Boasting nearly two dozen #1 hit singles and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Black remains a devoted family man and Honorary Chair for the International Rett Syndrome Foundation. This prolific country star invites us to join in the holiday spirit as he performs music to light up the season!

12.19.2014 Dailey & Vincent “Spirit of Christmas Concert. Three-time Grammy nominated Daily & Vincent, one of the most elite Bluegrass acts in America, Here in Effingham to delight us with their “Spirit of Christmas Concert” by four-time International Bluegrass Music Association’s “Vocalist of the Year” winner Jamie Dailey and five-time Grammy Award winner Darrin Vin-cent, this Bluegrass powerhouse will get you in the mood for the season with their highly acclaimed signature sound live concert performance.

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Every year since 1934, the Detroit Lions have taken the field for a Thanksgiving game, no matter how bad their record has been. It all goes back to when the Lions were still a fairly young franchise. The team started in 1929 in Ports-mouth, Ohio, as the Spartans. Portsmouth, while surely a lovely town, wasn’t quite big enough to support a pro team in the young NFL. Detroit ra-dio station owner George A. Richards bought the Spartans and moved the team to Detroit in 1934.

Although Richards’ new squad was a solid team, they were playing second fiddle in Detroit to the Hank Greenberg-led Tigers, who had gone 101-53 to win the 1934 American League Pennant. In the early weeks of the 1934 season, the biggest crowd the Lions could draw for a game was a relatively paltry 15,000. Desperate for a market-

ing trick to get Detroit excited about its fledgling football franchise, Richards hit on the idea of playing a game on Thanksgiving. Since Richards’ WJR was one of the bigger radio stations in the country, he had considerable clout with his net-work and convinced NBC to broadcast a Thanks-giving game on 94 stations nationwide.

The move worked brilliantly. The undefeated Chicago Bears rolled into town as defending NFL champions, and since the Lions had only one loss, the winner of the first Thanksgiving game would take the NFL’s Western Division. The Li-ons not only sold out their 26,000-seat stadium, they also had to turn fans away at the gate. Even though the juggernaut Bears won that game, the tradition took hold, and the Lions have been playing on Thanksgiving ever since.

The Three F’s on Thanksgiving

are Family, Food &

FOOTBALL

Cowboys and Lions, Why?

Because it’s tradition! But how did this tradition begin?

DETROIT LIONS

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The Cowboys, too, jumped on the opportuni-ty to play on Thanksgiving as an extra little bump for their popularity. When the chance to take the field on Thanksgiving arose in 1966, it might not have been a huge benefit for the Cowboys. Sure, the Lions had filled their stadium for their Thanksgiving games, but that was no assurance that Texans would warm to holiday football so quickly.

Cowboys general manager Tex Schramm, though, was something of a marketing genius; among his other achievements was the creation of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.

Schramm saw the Thanksgiving Day game as a

great way to get the team some national public-ity even as it struggled under young head coach Tom Landry. Schramm signed the Cowboys up for the game even though the NFL was wor-ried that the fans might just not show up—the league guaranteed the team a certain gate rev-enue in case nobody bought tickets. But the fans showed up in droves, and the team broke its attendance record as 80,259 crammed into the Cotton Bowl. The Cowboys beat the Cleveland Browns 26-14 that day, and a second Thanksgiv-ing pigskin tradition caught hold. Since 1966, the Cowboys have missed having Thanksgiving games only twice.

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Movies

PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR

D Super spy teams aren’t born…they’re hatched. Discover the secrets of the greatest and most hilarious covert birds in the global espionage biz: Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private. These elit-ists of the elite are joining forces with a chic undercover organization, The North Wind. Led by handsome and husky Agent Classified (we could tell you his name, but then…you know), voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch. Together, they must stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine, voiced by John Malkovich, from Destroying the world as we know it.

Rated: PGRelease: November 25th 2014Genre: Comedy, Animated Director:Eric Darnell, Simon J. SmithStudio: 20th Century Fox Running Time: 1 Hour 44 minutes

HORRIBLE BOSSESAfter a shady investor steals their new company, Nick (Jason Bateman), Dale (Charlie Day) and Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) conspire to kidnap the man’s adult son and ransom him to regain control.

Rated: RRelease: November 26th 2014Genre: Comedy Director: Sean AndersCast: Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Fox, Chris Pine, Christoph Waltz, Kevin SpaceyStudio: Warner Bros. PicturesRunning Time: 1 Hour 44 minutes

MOCKINGJAYThe worldwide phenomenon of The Hunger Games continues to set the world on fire with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, which finds Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) in District 13 after she literally shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin (Julianne Moore) and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) and a nation moved by her courage.

Rated: PG-13Release Date: November 21st, 2014Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Director: Francis LawrenceCast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks Studio: Lionsgate FilmsRunning Time: 2 Hour 3 Min

MOVIE CLUB UPCOMING MOVIE RELEASES FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER

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MOVIE CLUB UPCOMING MOVIE RELEASES FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER

DUMB & DUMBER TO

Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels reprise their signature roles as Lloyd and Harry in the sequel to the smash hit that took the physical comedy and kicked it in the nuts: Dumb and Dumber To. The original film’s direc-tors, Peter and Bobby Farrelly, take Lloyd and Harry on a road trip to find a child Harry never knew he had and the responsibility neither should ever, ever be given.

Rated: PG-13Release Date: November 14, 2014Genre: ComedyDirector: Peter Farrelly, Bobby Far-rellyCast: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Kath-leen Turner, Laurie LakeStudio: Universal PicturesRunning Time: 1 Hour 49 minutes

VHS VIRALA police chase through the streets of Los Angeles inspires dozens of fame-obsessed teens to try to capture the salacious footage, but they are unaware that they will face their own deaths as stars of the next video sensation.

Rated: RRelease Date: November 21st 2014Genre: HorrorDirector: Justin Benson, Gregg Bish-op, Todd Lincoln, Aaron Moorhead, Marcel Sarmiento, Nacho VigalondoCast: Patrick Lawrie, Emmy Argo, Heather Hayes, jessica Luza, John Curran, Justin Welborn, Mary Ralston, Micheael Aaron MilliganStudio: Magnolia PicturesRunning Time: 1 Hour 22 Minutes

HOMESMANWhen three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs (Tommy Lee Jones), to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women head east, where a waiting minister and his wife have offered to take the women in. They must firsttra-verse the harsh Nebraska territories.

Rated RRelease Date: November 14th, 2014Genre: Western Director: Tommy Lee JonesStudio: Weinstein CoCast: Tommy Lee Jones Running Time: 2 Hour 2 Minutes

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