UNION PLANTERS IMAX THEATRE. In the Memphis Pink Palace Museum. Through June 27. Kilamanjaro: The the Roof of Africa, an exploratory group passes th4rough five diverse ecosystems to reach the glacier that crowns the snow-capped volcanos on the equator.
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sunday, 9
DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER. The bluegrass group will perform as part of the Lucy Opry bluegrass series. Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center, 3663 Appling Rd., 2 p.m.
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saturday, 8
Last night at Sharpe Planetarium at Pink Palace Museum for “Laser Rock featuring Pink Floyd’s Dark side of the Moon“
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friday, 7
MEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Come As You Are Series. Buckman Performing and Fine Arts Center. St. Mary’s Episcopal School, 60 Perkins Ext. Mozart Moment: Pianist Brian Gant will perform Mozart’s Concerto No. 20, along with work by Arvo Part and Beethoven.
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Hoodwinked
Anyone wondering what Marisa Tomei has been up to lately need look no further than the light but spicy romantic/spiritual comedy The Guru. I remember quite vividly my first notice of this talented actress when I developed a small TV crush on her while she was on The Cosby Show spinoff A Different World for […]
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thursday, 6
Something for stay-at-home types: Do yourself a favor and watch the blazing Memphis Tigers continue their roll versus the Houston Cougars at 8:30 p.m. on ESPN2. It’s the next-to-last game of the regular season, which is destined to end this year with the Tigers in the NCAA.
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Smoking Guns
If you’re struck with a case of Déjá vu while watching the formulaic corrupt-cop movie Dark Blue, there’s good reason. The film is based on a story by ace crime-fiction writer James Ellroy, the scribe behind L.A. Confidential, and the screenplay was written by David Ayer, who penned Training Day. Those are both better films […]
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Short Cuts
Audioslave Audioslave (Epic/Interscope) What happens when Rage Against The Machine turntable guitarist Tom Morello and his fellow lumbering, shrieking instrumentalists collide with the full-throated wail of Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell, the Samson of Seattle’s ancient grunge mythology? Well, there’s plenty of noise and plenty of old-fashioned soft-loud dynamics and a few genuine houserockers until the show […]
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Sound Advice
As frontman and primary songwriter for the onetime alt-country-identified Old 97’s, Rhett Miller emerged as about the most underrated songsmith of his era, a clean-cut collegiate version of Paul Westerberg. Miller’s subtly literate songs are as likely to be inspired by Raymond Carver as by Gram Parsons. (How many other pretty faces get a lyric […]
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City Sports
It was no holds barred in last Saturday’s best boxing match; What can Grizzlies fans expect from new acquisition Mike Miller?
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Short Cuts
Soft Rock Lifter Puller (The Self-Starter Foundation) Soft Rock is a posthumous collection of early music by a short-lived band that you’ve probably never heard of. Why care? Because at their very best, which is captured on the first six tracks of this two-disc compilation and occasionally throughout the rest of the 40 songs collected […]
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Sound Advice
There’s plenty of great blues to be had around town pretty much any day of the week: Beale Street, the Center for Southern Folklore, Wild Bill’s, and Huey’s are all reliable sources for the region’s greatest roots music. But this week Oxford, Mississippi, shames them all. The place to be is that little college town’s […]