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Concert preview: Album brings J.D. Reager's career full circle
At age 29, J.D. Reager has spent more than half his life -- well, in some ways all his life -- in the music business. Though he's played in several bands, engineered numerous records, and been onstage since junior high, he's never put out his own album. "And it started to feel like if I didn't put an album out or did something with these songs I had," says Reager, "that I would always regret it." Reager won't have to nurse any regrets, as his solo debut The Repechage is released locally this week.
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Music
Listen Up: J. T. Schlichter
Thanks to a restaurant coupon, J. T. Schlichter began playing guitar with Mike Strickland at the Los Pilares restaurants. “It was buy-one-get-one-half-off on any meal at Los Pilares,” recalled Schlichter, 18. Three years ago, Schlichter and his mom visited the restaurant where Strickland was performing. They then began going every Saturday. Schlichter worked his way into Strickland’s act.
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Movies
Film Review: Just gloom in Holocaust film 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas'
"I hated that movie, but I loved it," the weeping woman behind me said after a preview screening of "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas," a film that cynically might be described as the inspirational feel-bad Holocaust hit of the holiday season. Nondocumentary Holocaust movies ("Life Is Beautiful" being one of the most celebrated and infamous) tend to divide audiences and critics -- and sometimes individuals, like the woman quoted above.
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Dining
Chef's Special: Paula Naumcheff
Paula Naumcheff, executive chef/owner of Sweet Bistro Memphis, has been working with desserts since she was 16 and had a job making ice cream cakes at Baskin Robbins. The desserts at her shop can be downright decadent. But when she wants junk food, what does she reach for? Pink snowball cupcakes.
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Arts
Art Review: For Botero, bigger is better
Massive. That's the only way to describe "The Baroque World of Fernando Botero," currently on exhibit at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Many of the paintings and sculptures, all culled from the Colombian painter's personal collection, are physically huge, dominating entire gallery walls or, in the case of three bronze sculptures called "Smoking Woman," "The Rape of Europa," and "Hand," the courtyard outside the Brooks' main entrance.
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11.20.2008: Orpheum Theater: Mamma Mia!. 203 South Main. 901-525-7800.
11.20.2008: Rhodes College: "The Skin of Our Teeth". 2000 N. Parkway. 901-843-3000.
11.20.2008: Orpheum Theater: Mamma Mia!. 203 South Main. 901-525-7800.
11.20.2008: Newby's: Adam Gregory. 539 S. Highland. 901-452-8408.
11.20.2008: TheatreWorks: "A Queer Carol". 2085 Monroe. 901-274-7139.
11.20.2008: Hi-Tone Cafe: Singer-songwriter Paula Nelson. 1913 Poplar Avenue. 901-278-8663.
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Apparently, I was about the only person in the world who wasn't wild about "Casino Royale," the 2007 back-to-basics reboot -- and international smash hit ...
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