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All the King's men

When GO! interviewed Ed Enoch of The Stamps Quartet fame severalyears back, it was just three days away from the 28th anniversary ofElvis Presley's death. The anniversary was no small matter: Enoch andthe group had been Presley's concert backup singers for seven yearsat the time the King passed. Once called "the most powerful and bestlead voice in gospel music," Enoch and The Stamps were in town toperform a fundraising concert for Bloomington's Clare House foodpantry. They're coming back to perform the same service this weekend:at 7 p.m. Saturday in Bloomington's Trinity Lutheran Church.Admission is free, though a donation of nonperishable food items tostock the Clare House pantry shelves is requested.

Who ya gonna call?

Fans of The Discovery Channel's ever-popular series, MythBusters,know the name of their game: Each hour-long episode is devoted towrestling two or three popular myths, from urban legends to Internetbabble, to the mat. They're rendered down and out by cold, hard,scientific fact. Then again, sometimes the myths gain the upper handand are proven to be part of that same cold, hard, scientific fact.In other words: it's a hit-or-myth kinda series. For fans wanting tosample the procedure outside the confines of their TV sets, a touringedition of MythBusters will be on the campus of Illinois StateUniversity this weekend - at 7 p.m. Saturday in Braden Auditorium.Admission is free.

It's a jungle in there

Downtown Champaign's historic Virginia Theater will beexperiencing the call of the wild this weekend via one of America'smost famous zookeepers, Jungle Jack Hanna, of TV's "Jungle JackHanna's Animal Adventures." Jungle Jack is set to take over theformer vaudeville stage and turn it into a veritable menagerie at7:30 p.m. Friday. Though the exact critter list wasn't available tous, we're assured such things as fur, teeth, four legs and tails willbe in ample supply during his presentation. Tickets are $20 to $26 at(217) 356-9063.

In towns

Among other offerings in B-N this week are ... historian-filmmaker Ken Burns, 2 p.m. today in IWU's Hansen Student Center and7 tonight in ISU's Braden Auditorium ... Blessings of the Table:Thanksgiving at Clover Lawn, today through Nov. 18 at the David DavisMansion in Bloomington ... Fiddler on the Roof, opening with a pay-what-you-can preview at 7:30 tonight at Community Players inBloomington ... the annual Around the Corner Art Walk, 4 to 9 p.m.Friday at six downtown Bloomington galleries ... the IllinoisSymphony Orchestra: Masterworks II, with pianist Davide Cabassi, 8p.m. Friday at the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts ... andthe national tour of Cats, 3 p.m. Sunday, also in BCPA(sold out).

Around towns

Outside B-N city limits, this week's options include ... theopening of the Christmas Memories Quilt Show, today through Nov. 11in Lincoln's Postville Courthouse State Historic Site ... AConversation with Thomas Jefferson, 7:30 tonight in the Peoria CivicCenter ... R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), tonight through Sundayin Eureka College's Pritchard Theatre ... the annual Chris CringleCraft Sale, Friday and Saturday at the Assembly Hall in Champaign ...and the national tour of Gypsy, 7:30 p.m. Monday in Springfield'sSangamon Auditorium.