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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: 'Bolt' carries on Disney tradition
"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 and companionship that marks an auspicious first feature for new Walt Disney Animation Studios chief John Lasseter, who also heads the now Disney-owned Pixar.
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Dining
WHINING & DINING: Noodle Doodle Do
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 but laugh at the irony. Don't get me wrong -- the menu looks incredible and I can't wait to get over to eat. But I've had this horrible cold, the world's worst, for weeks. Karen called me when it was raging to tell me about the noodle bar and the name of it.
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Arts
Art exhibits
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 artists in porcelain, stoneware, earthenware. Daily hours: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. 685-1566 or 458-2354. thememphispottersguild.com.
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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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The Who at Kilburn: 1977 (Not rated, 120 min.) This North London concert -- the second-to-last live performance for drummer Keith Moon -- was shot ...
In "What Just Happened," an airless, humorless, "insider's" satire of Hollywood, Robert De Niro plays a veteran movie producer named Ben who is trying to ...
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