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Smoke Leaves Town (Peola Records)
By Christian Schaeffer
Hailing from St. Louis, Joe Stickley's Blue Print is a folk-rock
band — in that order. The gentle strums of Stickley's acoustic
guitar provide the engine for many songs...
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Critic's Choice
By Danny Alexander
Snoop Dogg knew what he was doing when he reached out to Charlie
Wilson for a sample and four guest vocals to enhance Tha
Doggfather, the rapper's 1996 follow-up to...
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Critic's Choice
By Alan Scherstuhl
It's no insult to point out that country music radio confectioners
Sugarland are about as pop as country comes. That's pop
as it used to be: melodically unfussy, equal parts...
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Critic's Choice
By Richard Gintowt
Each time Hopewell swings through the Replay Lounge, the tiny
venue seems to have a harder time containing it. Few bands bring a show
as mammoth as Hopewell's, replete with...
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Critic's Choice
By Chris Parker
Hubert Sumlin's brand of the blues creeps in like fog. It
moves with a deliberate groove, slowly enveloping you until suddenly
you're soaking in it. His guitar playing has an...
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Critic's Choice
By Berry Anderson
For the fourth year in a row, tickets for this huge all-ages rock
festival sponsored by KQRC 98.9 have sold out. Fortunately, plenty of
scalpers close to the gates at Penn...
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Cafe
By Charles Ferruzza
This is an embarrassing admission, but it's true: I always
wake up on the wrong side of the bed. One of the reasons I'm not much
of a breakfast eater is that I'm perpetually...
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Film
By Robert Wilonsky
First of all, Up is not a movie about a cranky old
coot who finds his inner child, with the help of a roly-poly Boy Scout,
during a series of magical adventures experienced...
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Film
By Robert Wilonsky
Writer-director Rian Johnson's movies are clever and soulful
confabulations. The filmmaker's screenplays read like novels, and he
serves up movies that could play like...
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Film
By Nick Pinkerton
Director Sam Raimi defaults to the horror romps that made his name
(the Evil Dead trilogy). Playing a bank loan officer, Alison
Lohman bears the brunt of this film's...
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Stage
By Alan Scherstuhl
At the Kansas City Repertory Theatre's dizzy, lavish A Flea in
Her Ear, there's only one problem most audience members might
face: They might be glutted.
So generous is...
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