THEATER AUDITIONS. Actors, dancers, and singers are needed for the show Phantom of the Gospel Choir. First Congregational Church, 1000 S. Cooper. 5-7 p.m., Through Thursday. INDEPDNDENT FILM AUDITIONS. Sponsored by Reelhouse Productions. Baymont Inn. 6020 Shelby Oaks Dr., 9 a.m.-noon.
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tuesday, 18
BOOKSIGNING BY RUDOLPH GIULIANI. Former New York City mayor and author will sign Leadership. Davis-Kiss Booksellers, 387 Perkins Ext. Noon. DEE POETRY NIGHT. Open-mic poetry. Owens & Edwards, 3141 New Horn Lake Rd. at Brooks Rd. 7:30 p.m. THE WISEGUYS. The troupe will perform improvisational and sketch comedy. Kudzu’s Bar and Grill, 603 Monroe Ave., […]
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monday, 17
LIFE AND ANIMATION. Artists present spoken word, song, poetry, hop hop, rap, interpretational readings, and music. Precious Cargo, 381 N. Main. 8-11 p.m.
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sunday, 16
PERCUSSIONS de GUINEE. The national ensemble of the Republic of Guinea will perform for Black History Month, Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, Memphis Cook Convention Center. 3:30 p.m. METAL VELVET DANCE PROJECT. ‘Seek Your Return’ A modern dance concert featuring work by local choreographers Carrie Cunningham, Kelly Ferris, Emily Hefley, and Ondine Geary. U […]
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saturday, 15
RHODES COLLEGE, MCCOY THEATRE, 2000 N. Parkway. Through Saturday. Giants have us in Their books, by Jose Rivera. THEATRE OXFORD, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Oxford, Miss. Through Saturday. Love Letters
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Praise Be
At 72, Jean-Luc Godard stands as the world’s most important living filmmaker, the greatest standing Colossus of a medium that has largely defined the past century. It is a career unlike any other. A critic before he was a filmmaker, Godard emerged in the ’60s as the postmodern prophet of the movies, his first 15 […]
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Tokyo Story
In Rock and the Pop Narcotic, SST records’ Joe Carducci defined rock music as a sound made by people playing guitar, bass, and drums. He got very formal and inflexible about this guitar+bass+drums = RAWK equation in that polemical screed, but he had a point. When it comes down to it, rock is just G/B/D […]
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Sound Advice
p>My guess is, if you caught the first Impala reunion show at Automatic Slim’s — a show they packed to the rafters — you’ve already made plans to go see them at the Hi-Tone Café on Saturday, February 15th. The Slim’s show came about after the boys sold one of their songs to George Clooney […]
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friday, 14
RHODES COLLEGE, MCCOY THEATRE, 2000 N. Parkway. Through Saturday. Giants have us in Their books, by Jose Rivera. THEATRE OXFORD, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Oxford, Miss. Through Saturday. Love Letters
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Usual Suspects
“Nothing is what it seems,” Al Pacino says early and often in The Recruit, Hollywood’s latest paint-by-numbers spy thriller. We can take it for granted, since in such spy thrillers nothing is ever what it seems. At least in the best ones, like No Way Out. Because the very nature of espionage and patriotic voyeurism […]
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Sound Advice
Like so many aspiring troubadours in Nashville, Mark Selby is probably better known for the songs he’s written for others than for the music he’s recorded on his own. Selby’s penned tunes for country-music royalty such as Trisha Yearwood, Wynonna Judd, and the Dixie Chicks, as well as blues-rock hotshot Kenny Wayne Shepherd. On his […]
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Short Cuts
Tallahassee The Mountain Goats (4AD) The second-most quotable album of 2002, after the Streets’ Original Pirate Material, comes from what would seem, outwardly, like a diametrically opposed source. Rather than a brash, beat-driven geezer, John Darnielle is a ‘zine writer (Last Plane to Jakarta, now available on the Web with a .com after its title), […]