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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
Concert Preview: Folklore center is a good fit for singer Kate Campbell
Singer-songwriter Kate Campbell has played all manner of Memphis churches and concert halls, but the venue she keeps coming back to is the Center For Southern Folklore. The Center, when it was located on Beale Street, was one of the first places Campbell performed more that 15 years ago when the former history teacher gave up an academic career to pursue songwriting full time. “The Center is just a really nice place for me,” Campbell says of the nonprofit that, like her songcraft, is dedicated to the preservation of regional history, heritage, and traditions.
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Movies
Film Review: Holiday season movies provide numerous escape routes
In hard economic times, people seek escape at the movies.
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Dining
Dining Spotlight: Taste Europe in the 'burbs at Chateau Country
Dinner at Chateau Country Caterers & Bistro begins with a promising amuse-bouche -- a complimentary bite-sized appetizer designed to whet appetites.
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Arts
Stage Review: Two plays reflect on past, look ahead
Sometimes humanity teeters on the brink of collapse, or appears to. Hurricanes, earthquakes and other natural disasters ravage the world's cities. Manmade wars and enormities happen with such regularity that it's almost as if people were hell bent on destroying themselves. But then comes a spark of hope, or at least the revival of the hope mantra. The cycle begins again, we rebuild, we dream, we leave the past behind.
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11.21.2008: Agricenter International: Memphis International Auto Show. 7777 Walnut Grove.
11.21.2008: DCI Gallery: Artists' Holiday Show Reception. 772 Brookhaven Circle E.. 901-767-8617.
11.21.2008: DCI Gallery: Artists' Holiday Show Reception. 772 Brookhaven Circle E.. 901-767-8617.
11.21.2008: University of Memphis - Concert Hall: "Hansel & Gretel" by Engelbert Humperdinck.
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Singer-songwriter Kate Campbell has played all manner of Memphis churches and concert halls, but the venue she keeps coming back to is the Center For ...
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 ...
Imagine this: The band you've invested more than a decade into goes on hiatus, so you form a new group. Then, after you've booked a ...
At age 29, J.D. Reager has spent more than half his life -- well, in some ways all his life -- in the music business. ...
Dinner at Chateau Country Caterers & Bistro begins with a promising amuse-bouche -- a complimentary bite-sized appetizer designed to whet appetites.
I just snagged a menu for Noodle Doodle Do, Karen Carrier's new lunch spot that opened in Do Sushi this week, and I couldn't help ...
I just didn't get hot wings until I tasted the enormous ones at Miss Polly's Soul City Cafe (154 Beale; 544-7011) last spring. They were ...
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 ...
In hard economic times, people seek escape at the movies.
Not being a teenage girl, I feel somewhat unqualified to review "Twilight," the breathlessly anticipated film version of the first in the series of romantic ...
"Lassie Come Home" for kids raised on superhero movies and "Hannah Montana," "Bolt" is a funny, charming and thoroughly family-friendly computer-animated tale of canine/human loyalty ...
OPENING TODAY: Bolt (PG, 96 min.) Forest Hill 8, Stage Cinema, Majestic, Collierville Towne 16, DeSoto Cinema 16 (in 3-D), Raleigh Springs Cinema, Cordova Cinema, ...
Sometimes humanity teeters on the brink of collapse, or appears to. Hurricanes, earthquakes and other natural disasters ravage the world's cities. Manmade wars and enormities ...
Memphis Botanic Garden, 750 Cherry Road (Audubon Park): The Memphis Potters' Guild 28th annual Holiday Show and Sale. Opening reception, 5-9 tonight. Work by local ...
"Altar Boyz": Musical theatrical spoof of the boy band industry. 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, through Dec. 21. Tickets: $30 ($20 ...
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 ...
Brad Paisley, Alan Jackson and Hank Williams Jr. are among the country music singers who've performed at FedExForum. Reba McIntire, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Johnny ...
Michael Donahue’s After Dark goes to a Pickin’ Party at Kudzu’s. The 8 p.m. Thursday night-attraction has been described as “guitar karaoke;” folks bring their ...
The 1980s was the theme of the eighth annual Hollywood Casino St. Jude Red Carpet Bash Saturday night at Hollywood Casino, so big hair was ...
If sports events are airing on seven plasma TVs, people wearing jerseys with numbers on the back are eating, drinking and watching the TVs, you’re ...
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