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Night & Day
1964: The Tribute
Published: April 30, 2009
Relive the British invasion through a musical journey of the Fab Four. From the Beatle boots and Vox amplifiers. . .to the mannerisms and unmistakable harmonies,...
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Night & Day
Draw the Line
Published: April 30, 2009
Draw the Line, a gallery style show includes a collection of graphite, colored pencil, pen & ink, and other media depicting realism, cartoon and caricatured images with over 70...
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Night & Day
Off the Wheel
Published: April 30, 2009
Crossroads art gallery the Blue Bouquet presents recent works by Debbie Barrett-Jones, who is known for her color, handwoven panels. Fri., June 5, 6-10 p.m.; Sat.,...
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Town Without Pity
Dead pigs, garbage in the river, mercenary hauling — it’s a wonder we’re still here
By Scott Wilson
Published: April 30, 2009
In last week's just-in-time-for-Earth-Day cover story, "Piling On," staff writer Carolyn Szczepanski dug into the metro's garbage business and found cause for concern as well...
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Studies in Crap
Cheer Up, Fatty
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: April 30, 2009
Title: CHEERLEADING! Authors: Pauline Finberg and Peter Filichia Publisher: Scholastic Date: 1983 Discovered at: Used book store in Winnipeg, Manitoba The cover promises:...
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Ask a Mexican®
Here’s a “Drinko por Cinco” mariachi cheat sheet
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: April 30, 2009
Dear Readers: As you drinko por Cinco this May 5, please take around this column, listing songs that mariachis will actually, gladly play instead of having to glumly strum...
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Letters
Letters from the week of April 30
Published: April 30, 2009
Town Without Pity: "Bunch of Teabaggers," April 23 Tea'd Off Scott Wilson, what race baiting did you encounter at the April 15 tea party? Sure, most in attendance were...
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Interview
Brad Cox and the People’s Liberation Big Band aim a jazz warhead at classic film Battleship Potemkin
By Hugh Welsh
Published: April 30, 2009
As a big band leader, Brad Cox never wanted to be in the company of totalitarians such as Joseph Stalin. "I want the band to be a return to socialism's beginnings," Cox...
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Wayward Son
Adam Lee and the Dead Horse Sound Company give classic honky-tonk a shot of the new
By Jason Harper
Published: April 30, 2009
With hair slicked back and plaid western shirts tucked behind leather belt buckles, Adam Lee and Johnny Kenepaske are a couple of dapper-looking dudes. Under stage lights...
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Bonus Tracks
Hyper Sniper
The Last Living American Patriot
(self-released)By Kyle Koch
Published: April 30, 2009
Like many rappers in the area, Hyper Sniper seems to take his conceptual cues from Tech N9ne. The cover art of his latest full-length, The Last Living American Patriot, finds...
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CD Reviews
Rusty Scott
Yonder Goes the Light
(self-released)By Richard Gintowt
Published: April 30, 2009
Every once in a while, a guy with an acoustic guitar comes along whose guy-with-an-acoustic-guitar thing makes you hate the genre a little less. Langhorne Slim and William...
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CD Reviews
Trio ALL
Trio ALL
(self-released)By Jason Harper
Published: April 30, 2009
Pianist Mark Lowrey says an improvisational recording is a snapshot of a moment in time. The moment in which this first, self-titled release from Lowrey's trio was captured...
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Critic's Choice
The Killers
By Richard Gintowt
Published: April 30, 2009
As good as some of the songs on Day & Age are, the Killers' third record seemed to elicit more shrugs than gushes. Perhaps it was the neo-Pet Shop Boys syrup of the first...
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Critic's Choice
Eddie & the Hot Rods
By Chris Parker
Published: April 30, 2009
Though they came to prominence in the first throes of the U.K. punk explosion, Eddie & the Hot Rods have more in common with the hopped-up R&B of British pub rock than the...
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Critic's Choice
Neil Young
By Aaron Ladage
Published: April 30, 2009
If you had to sum up Neil Young's career in one word, "steadfast" would be a pretty good adjective. From Farm Aid in the 1980s to his scathing look at the Bush era on 2006's...
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Critic's Choice
Richard Lloyd
By Chris Parker
Published: April 30, 2009
As a teen, Richard Lloyd hung out with Jimi Hendrix, who was teaching guitar lessons to Lloyd's friend Velvert Turner. Later, Lloyd developed a close friendship with schoolmate...
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Critic's Choice
Elvis Perkins in Dearland
By Elliott Johnston
Published: April 30, 2009
With Elvis Perkins in Dearland (the album and the band), throwback songsmith Elvis Perkins successfully dodges the dangers of a second-album sinkhole by letting his band help...
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Critic's Choice
MerleJam
By Jason Harper
Published: April 30, 2009
When Tom Petty sang, You got a heart so big/It could crush this town, he could have been talking about Merle Zuel — in more ways than one. When Zuel, a longtime...
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Cafe
Ricco’s: Almost ecstasy in a Johnson County strip mall
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: April 30, 2009
So I was sitting in a coffeehouse last week, trying to read a magazine, when I happened to overhear the woman sitting in back of me discuss, in passionate detail, a meal she...
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Film
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
By Melissa Anderson
Published: April 30, 2009
Matthew McConaughey stars as NYC photographer Connor Mead, who tries to convince his brother that marriage is an oppressive institution. One of the bridesmaids is childhood...
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