WEST TENNESSEE CHORAL FESTIVAL. Featuring 200 students from area schools. Bartlett United Methodist Church, 5676 Stage Road, 5 p.m. GPA DANCE SERIES. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, a performance by the contemporary dance company founded by Lous Conte. Germantown Performing Arts Center, 1801 Essex. 7:30 p.m.
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wednesday, 25
Andy Grooms Living Room is playing at the Glass Onion tonight. And the Memphis Grizzlies are at it yet again playing the Golden State Warriors. And there you have it. As always, I really don t care what you do this week, because I don t even know you, and unless you can get Martha […]
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tuesday, 24
Tonight s Music After Hours: Women in Jaz concert at Calvary Episcopal Church features performances by Teresa Pate and Joyce Cobb. And tonight s Krewe of Harbor Mardi Gras Gala at the Radisson Hotel benefits the Church Health Center.
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Sound Advice
Sound Advice: The Flyer‘s music writers tell you where you can go.
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Local Beat
The hills are alive with the sound of music — the North Mississippi hill country, that is. Guitarist Daniel “Slick” Ballinger, a North Carolina transplant to Como, Mississippi, took second place in the Blues Foundation‘s International Blues Challenge last month; Rev. Slick, as he was billed, was backed by Pontotoc harp player Terry Bean and […]
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Sound Advice
What a week. Note that’s a period at the end of that sentence, not an exclamation point. There’s just not much going on out there that I want to recommend. I wanted to suggest The Bo-Keys because their classic Stax groove is timeless and sexy: a perfect way to end your Valentine’s Day festivities. But […]
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A Brush with Greatness
Girl with a Pearl Earring opens on a meticulously prepared meal of vegetables. Carrots, beats, and cabbage are painstakingly, if not artistically, sliced by young Griet (Scarlett Johansson), a properly raised and well-spoken young woman. We know immediately in the film that Griet, while of a poorer class, has intelligence, discipline, and even style. These […]
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Sound Advice
In 1973, Kris Kristofferson, a country-western wordsmith of the highest magnitude, produced Billy Joe Shaver‘s first album, Old Five and Dimers Like Me. If that wasn’t endorsement enough, Tom T. Hall penned the record’s liner notes. Legend has it that Shaver left his wife and kid (not to mention a few fingers) in Texas and […]
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Sound Advice
For those who made the scene during singer-songwriter Todd Snider‘s mid-’90s Memphis heyday, it won’t take much convincing to get you to head out to the Lounge Friday, January 30th, to catch the now Nashville-based Snider’s latest semiregular local appearance. But for those who missed out, you might want to take a listen to Snider’s […]
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POLITICS
NASHUA, N.H. — Sen. Jim Jeffords: “Kerry pulled a fast one.”
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Drawing Conclusions
It’s been a rich couple of years for animated feature films. Disney’s Pixar sensation Finding Nemo might be a finer blend of art and commerce than any of the current Oscar contenders starring actual humans, but most of the action is still outside the studios. There’s the lovely, audacious philosophizing of Richard Linklater’s cartoon for […]