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Concert review: Alan Jackson delivers straight country goods
Twenty feet of golden-locked, all-American-male country singer crossed the stage of the FedExForum Saturday night as Alan Jackson’s “Good Time Tour” pulled into town with supporting acts Trace Adkins and James Otto.
The casual country fan could be forgiven for confusing the three performers. Each stands over 6 feet 5 inches tall, has long blond hair, and sports some form of facial hair. But if the artists’ looked the same, their sounds were remarkably diverse within the narrow confines of what makes up the contemporary country music scene.
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Music
Country music giant Alan Jackson: 50 years and 50 million records
With his 50th birthday just around the corner (Oct. 17), country music superstar Alan Jackson is starting to take on the patina of an icon. Jackson, with his signature Stetson and wooly, anachronistic moustache, is the Gary Cooper of Nashville, a stoic, stone-faced monument to an era when men were men and country was country. But a recent avalanche of accolades and achievements have helped to cement the artist as, as one honor puts it, one of the music's giants.
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Movies
Indie Memphis Film Festival branches out, yet stays true to Southern roots
This week's Indie Memphis Film Festival marks the third stop for actor-turned-director Giancarlo Esposito and his new movie, "Gospel Hill."
But Esposito isn't following a strictly traditional film-festival path with his civil rights-themed directorial debut. True, the movie had its "official" world premiere Oct. 3 at the Woodstock Film Festival in upstate New York; but six weeks earlier, Esposito screened it at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
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Dining
Dining Spotlight: New Asia
We were enjoying our dinner at New Asia in Germantown and simultaneously getting free entertainment from the little girl sitting behind me. Her story was a modified version of the tortoise and the hare, peppered with insights and wisdom from Aesop.
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Arts
Power House exhibit celebrates William Eggleston
If William Eggleston's pictures didn't convey a sense of mystery, he might not be one of the most renowned photographers in the world today. His snapshots from everyday life -- a tricycle left on a sidewalk, a lightbulb against a red ceiling -- have captivated not only art critics but his fellow photographers.
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10.15.2008: Mud Island Amphitheatre: Widespread Panic. 125 N. Front.
10.16.2008: Cordova's Nightmarez Haunted Houses : Hauntedweb of Horrors . 700 N. Germantown Pkwy. .
10.17.2008: Memphis Zoo: Le Bonheur Zoo Boo . Overton Park. 901-276-WILD.
10.17.2008: Cordova's Nightmarez Haunted Houses : Hauntedweb of Horrors . 700 N. Germantown Pkwy. .
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With his 50th birthday just around the corner (Oct. 17), country music superstar Alan Jackson is starting to take on the patina of an icon. ...
Twenty feet of golden-locked, all-American-male country singer crossed the stage of the FedExForum Saturday night as Alan Jackson’s “Good Time Tour” pulled into town with ...
Alan Jackson keeps performance simple
Concert Review
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We were enjoying our dinner at New Asia in Germantown and simultaneously getting free entertainment from the little girl sitting behind me. Her story was ...
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Chris Windsor, chef at Grill 83, remembers his most challenging meal: "About 10 years ago I worked a wedding of about 400 people. For some ...
Elfo's Restaurant in Germantown makes a bold statement long before the first plate of food arrives at your table. Located in the building where Three ...
This week's Indie Memphis Film Festival marks the third stop for actor-turned-director Giancarlo Esposito and his new movie, "Gospel Hill." But Esposito isn't following a ...
John Chambers was awarded a special Oscar for transforming Kim Hunter and Roddy McDowall into fuzzy-muzzled simians in "Planet of the Apes." Maybe Daniel Phillips ...
Walden Media continues its string of quality adaptations of books for children and young adults with "City of Ember," an adventure film-with-ideas about a pair ...
Johnny Cash sings "What Is Truth?" in the documentary "Johnny Cash's America," and that question could be the theme for this year's Indie Memphis Film ...
If William Eggleston's pictures didn't convey a sense of mystery, he might not be one of the most renowned photographers in the world today. His ...
The return of "The Glass Menagerie" to Playhouse on the Square is also the homecoming of University of Memphis graduate Miles Potter, a stage director ...
Set in New York on Sept. 12, 2001, 'The Mercy Seat' at Theatre Memphis Next Stage concerns a man planning to fake his death to ...
Early in her working life, Lisa Lampanelli, the Grammy-nominated insult comic who performs Saturday at Sam's Town Casino's River Palace Entertainment Center, was in these ...
Cast and crew of "N-Secure," a movie produced and co-written by Memphian Julius Lewis and being filmed in Memphis, gathered for a party Sept. 29 ...
Michael Donahue’s After Dark visits karaoke night at Dan McGuiness Pub at 4698 Spottswood. Anyone can be a star on Wednesday nights. Choose from rap ...
The Blues Ball celebrated its 15th anniversary with fireworks, dynamic music and Memphis music legends. "Hallelujah Homecoming" was the theme of this year's bash, which ...
Remember Anderton’s, the Memphis restaurant/oyster bar with the fishnets, twinkling lights and pirate murals? It made you feel like you were in a 1950s time ...
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