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Ten regional premieres highlight Playhouse new season
The first show Jackie Nichols was certain would be on Playhouse on the Square's first full season in its new theater is also one of the company's most successful titles. "We've held off doing 'Peter Pan' for the last few years because we were waiting for our new fly system," the executive producer said. "We can finally do the show the way it needs to be done." The theater itself hopes to take flight during the 2010-11 season, both technically and in terms of variety.
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Music
Listen Up: Josh Leggett of Foresight
Josh Leggett told it like it was when he advertised for musicians for his band, which eventually became Foresight. “I got tired of being kicked out of bands in Memphis ’cause I didn’t want to play thrash metal or just insane punk,” said Leggett, 28, Foresight lead and rhythm guitarist and singer. Leggett, who learned to play guitar while in prison, and his band play Sham-Rock Fest in Hernando on Wednesday.
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Movies
People: Penn helping in post-quake Haiti
Look closely at the foreigners buzzing around a hospital tent above one of Haiti's biggest earthquake-refugee camps and a face stands out: There, carrying the box of supplies, that's Sean Penn.
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Dining
Dining Review: Confident Classic dishes at Judd Grisanti's Trattoria
Through their restaurants, the Memphis Grisantis have reveled in their Italian heritage for decades. Last year, Judd Grisanti left the glamorous dining space he created at Spindini on South Main and returned to the scene of his youthful introduction to the family business, the site once known as Ronnie Grisanti & Sons. His father's former restaurant on Poplar, west of Chickasaw Gardens, now is Judd Grisanti's Trattoria.
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Arts
Young artist makes his mark in Memphis
Ryan VanderLey admits that the title of his exhibition at L. Ross Gallery — “Ice Hockey Is for Abstract Painters Who Are Tired of Defending Formalism” — is both challenge and joke. Since he is 25 and a good-natured sort, it’s not surprising that gauntlets thrown down in the dust might come cloaked in jest. “Part of it is a joke that goes back to one of my friends from undergraduate days,” said VanderLey, who will receive his master of fine arts degree from the University of Memphis in April.
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