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Music Man to open ’14 season
posted: 02/13/2014 4:51 a.m. Discuss
Shirley Jones and son Patrick Cassidy will head up the cast of a concert version of The Music Man, and longtime stage and screen stars Barbara Eden and Hal Linden will team up for Love Letters as part of Celebrity Attractions’ 2014-15 Broadway Season.
MUSIC SCENE: Little Rock show finally makes Sebadoh’s list
posted: 02/13/2014 2:57 a.m. Discuss
Sebadoh, a renowned indie rock band formed in 1986, will finally make it to central Arkansas this weekend for a show Sunday night at Stickyz Rock ’n’ Roll Chicken Shack.
MUSIC: Tupelo native, former boxer beats path to Helena
posted: 02/13/2014 2:54 a.m. Discuss
Paul Thorn appreciates small towns, and their importance to legendary musical people and events. After all, Thorn is from Tupelo, Miss., and he’s proud to have become a fan of one of Arkansas’ most acclaimed musical sites.
ENTERTAINMENT NOTES
posted: 02/13/2014 2:53 a.m. Discuss
Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts: Consort concert The Baltimore Consort, one of the world’s premier early music ensembles, will put on a concert at 7 p.m. Friday in the Administration Auditorium at Harding University in Searcy.
The Arkansas Delta blues
posted: 02/12/2014 4:20 a.m. Discuss
Cliff E. Jones is a man on a mission. Jones, the senior vice president for learning and instruction at Mid-South Community College in West Memphis, is committed to learning everything he can about blues music in the Arkansas Delta.
The Weekend Ten: The top things to do, places to be
posted: 02/06/2014 3:31 a.m. Discuss
1 HOME Those looking to spruce up their home or maybe build a new one will find plenty of tips at the Home Builders Association of Greater Little Rock’s annual Home Show, noon-7 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday at Verizon Arena.
MUSIC SCENE: LR, Hot Springs clubs line up enticing, eclectic acts
posted: 02/06/2014 3:18 a.m. Discuss
Juanita’s continues to offer big-name entertainment of all stripes and this weekend finds the club with big-name acts today, Saturday and Sunday.
ENTERTAINMENT NOTES
posted: 02/06/2014 3:16 a.m. Discuss
Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts: Hypnotic Brass The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, eight brothers raised on the south side of Chicago, play original tunes with hiphop, jazz, soul, reggae and rock elements at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Fine Arts Center, East Arkansas Community College, 1700 Newcastle Road, Forrest City.
Names and faces
posted: 02/02/2014 4:17 a.m. Discuss
Rapper Kanye West will not face criminal charges over allegations that he punched a man in a Beverly Hills chiropractor’s office, prosecutors determined Friday.
SPIN CYCLE: Daft ’bots storm the Grammys in silence
posted: 02/02/2014 3:19 a.m. Discuss
Dearest Daft Punk, Domo arigato, Mr. Robotos!
ENTERTAINMENT NOTES: Tickets to Mars to go on sale
posted: 02/02/2014 3:13 a.m. Discuss
Tickets — $67.50, $79 and $99 — go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday for Bruno Mars’ “Moonshine Jungle World Tour” concert, 7:30 p.m. June 10 at North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena. The arena will be using its credit-card entry system (formerly known as “paperless ticketing” ) for approximately 5,000 seats.
Beatlemania at 50
posted: 02/02/2014 3 a.m. Discuss
On November 22, 1963, on the other side of the Atlantic and six hours ahead of Dallas time, EMI/Parlophone released one of the most significant albums in pop-music history. British teenagers crowded record shops to buy copies of With the Beatles, the group’s second UK LP.
No wrong notes in teaching the world to sing
posted: 02/02/2014 2:53 a.m. Comment 1
“I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it. But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail. As my father used to say: ‘The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it’s somewhere in there.’ ” —Pete Seeger, to the The New York Times in 1995