Will taking away two teams help pro baseball?, plus another loss for the Grizzlies.
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Party Music, The Coup (75 Ark) The Coup may not be a name that is immediately familiar, but chances are you read about this Oakland-based hip-hop duo — producer/MC Boots Riley and DJ Pam the Funktress — in the days following September 11th, which just so happened to be the day the cover art for […]
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thursday, 15
BOOKSIGNING BY THE YOUNG CHEFS OF CALDWELL ELEMTNARY. Students will sign The Young Chefs Family Reunion Cookbook. Davis-Kidd Booksellers, 387 Perkins Ext. 6:30 p.m. BOOKSIGNING BY MARK WINDGARDNER. English professor and author will read Crooked River Burning. Deliberate Literate, 1997 Union. 5:30-7 p.m. CELEBRATION OF THE SPOKEN WORD. Yarnspinners of Memphis will host the event […]
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Feminist Sweepstakes, Le Tigre (Mr. Lady) Kathleen Hanna is probably the most interesting and vital pop-music figure of the last decade that most people reading this haven’t heard of. Hanna’s current band, Le Tigre, is a poppish project that acts as a musical counterpoint to the cathartic noise of her seminal ’90s punk band Bikini […]
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Ooey and Gooey
In the planet K-PAX, there are two suns and several purple moons. The light, according to K-PAX‘s hero and alien, Prot (Kevin Spacey), is twilight soft. Here on Earth, however, the cast of the sun is a good deal harsher, and quality of life depends largely on the angle from which you view it. The […]
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Rejected By Jesus
It took a while,” Michael Schiefelbein says about his novel Vampire Vow and about the two years it took him to find a publisher. Key word he heard over the course of those two years: “but.” As in: “My agent told me he really liked it, but he also told me from the outset it […]
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No More Drama Mary J. Blige (MCA) The first few times we heard “Family Affair” on the radio, my wife didn’t believe the single was really by Mary J. Blige. And who could blame her? Blige’s vocals on this lead single from No More Drama (already the biggest pop hit of her career) are lighter […]
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The Last White Queen
Not very long ago in a land not very far away, there lived two queens. Each had equal power, each had equal respect, but one was always black, the other always white, for as long as most people could remember. All of that ended a few weeks ago. In the town of Coldwater, Mississippi, four […]
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Live At the Fillmore East (March 7, 1970): It’s About That Time Miles Davis (Columbia/Legacy) The most important aspect of this previously unreleased two-disc set, which was recorded at New York City’s premier rock-and-roll venue of the time a month before the arrival of the nonpareil Bitches Brew, is that it marks the first time […]
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Hoods
Good manners are no excuse for criminal behavior,” one bank manager says in Bandits. That might be true, but the other 122 minutes of the film would have you believe otherwise. Joe (Bruce Willis) and Terry (Billy Bob Thornton) are bank robbers with a better way. Deciding regular robbery is too risky (the guards, the […]
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Last Man On Earth Loudon Wainwright III (Red House Records) It’s funny how much Loudon Wainwright and his rock-star son Rufus complement each other. Rufus embraces melodies from every era of history; Loudon’s been writing with the same few chords for years. Rufus’ voice soars and purrs as he preaches sweet nothings to an imagined […]
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tuesday, 16
Ah, just go to Anderton‘s and eat several dozen raw oysters. There’s an ‘R’ in the month.