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Busy band Green River Ordinance to rock Snowden Grove
The members of the Ft. Worth, Texas, pop-rock band Green River Ordinance have been spending a good bit of time in the Memphis area lately. They recorded most of their major-label debut, Out Of My Hands, here last summer at producer Paul Ebersold’s Seven Four Seven Studios. They returned earlier this year for a set at the Beale Street Music Festival. And next week, they share the stage with Collective Soul and Gavin DeGraw at Snowden Grove Amphitheater’s Summer Nights $10 concert series.
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Music
Black Hollies make Memphis stop on road to higher profile
As singer, songwriter and bassist for New Jersey combo The Black Hollies, Justin Angelo Morey is a seriously styled musician. Since first emerging in 2004, Morey and company have been affectionately mining the music of the '60s Nuggets scene, with a period-perfect look, sound and feel. The band kicks off the second leg of its summer tour in Memphis at the Buccaneer next week with locals Bulletproof Vests.
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Movies
Film Review: No yawn at 'Dawn' as antics engage all
Let us thank the producers of "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" for remembering that adults sit beside the youngest viewers. The film interweaves vigorous, inventive slapstick, captivating voice talent and a script that depends more on tongue-in-cheek humor than perfunctory pop culture gags. Kids who are just graduating from Pull-Ups should have a blast, and ditto for their babysitters.
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Dining
Best bets: Brownies
It's the rare chocolate treat that tempts me: Instead, I'll take a creme brulee or a scoop of vanilla ice cream when I succumb to dessert. But the brownie at Fino's is going on my crave list. My daughter and I ducked in for a quick lunch, but we were victimized by a stroke of effective marketing when we glanced the brownie in the pastry case.
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Arts
Print masterpieces: Brooks' Jacob Lawrence exhibit stirs the mind and heart
As powerful narrative, the work of Harlem Renaissance artist Jacob Lawrence speaks directly to the African-American experience. As powerful art, it speaks in equally direct tones to the human experience. In one of the most visually exhilarating exhibits to arrive at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in some time, "The Prints of Jacob Lawrence, 1963-2000," chronicles most of the etchings, woodcuts, silk screens and lithographs by this important 20th century artist.
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07.02.2009: New Daisy Theater: He Is Legend. 330 Beale Street. 901-525-8981.
07.02.2009: Rizzi's Paradiso Pub: Yes No Maybe. 6230 Greenlee Street. 901-592-0344.
07.02.2009: Mud Island Amphitheatre: New Kids on the Block. 125 N. Front.
07.02.2009: Harrah's Casino Tunica: John Legend. 13615 Old Highway 61 North. 800-946-4946.
07.02.2009: Playhouse on the Square: "Rent". 51 South Cooper Street. 901-726-4656.
07.03.2009: The Cove: Dan Montgomery. 2559 Broad Avenue. 901-730-0719.
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