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Athens Music Scene
May 8, 2008
Things that hack me off and make me sad this week>>
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Killers to woodshed new album
May 8, 2008
Psychedelic blues-rock trio the Buffalo Killers will make an appearance with Athens’ favorites Wheels on Fire and the Dragline Bros. Saturday night at the Union Bar and Grill.>>
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Play addresses class divisions and politics during Harlem Renaissance
May 8, 2008
Ohio University’s School of Theater is performing a play this week and next that features a ’20s Harlem “Renaissance” setting while exploring class divisions within the African-American community.>>
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Believing in imaginary rabbits doesn’t make you crazy
May 8, 2008
What do you get when you mix a 6-foot-1-and-a-half-inch invisible white rabbit who can foretell the future and stop time; a middle-aged, bar-hopping bachelor; a very conventional matron and her marriageable daughter; and the staff of a psychiatric asylum?>>
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Mississippi roots-rock trio brushes off their chops for first tour in years
May 8, 2008
Once upon a time, my children, a new musical genre burst upon America’s pop-music scene. Dubbed alternative country, this genre’s “New Testament” period started with Uncle Tupelo in the late 1980s, though it traced its roots back generations in musical prehistory to such rock and country-rock performers as Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Buffalo Springfield, The Band, and for obscurists out there, Great Speckled Bird.>>
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Event at OU to showcase hair and hairstyles from countries across the world
May 8, 2008
The Nigerian Community at Ohio University is collaborating with the Cares Network Initiative and other groups to organize the Hair Art Theater (HAT) this Sunday and a followup three-day training and consultation where women will be trained in hair braiding.>>
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Fest features award-winning authors
May 8, 2008
The 2008 Ohio University Spring Literary Festival takes place yesterday through Friday, and features five award-winning authors who will present readings of their work, visit classes, and give lectures while on campus.>>
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Artists, community members mix at ‘live art’ event at OU
May 5, 2008
It was hard to distinguish between artists and visitors in the crowd that gathered under the tent filled with paints, printing screens, t-shirts, poster boards and even hair dryers at Ohio University’s Howard Hall site on Friday. But that’s just what made the event so successful. Fresh, new and original prints came together before the eyes of both the artists who worked so hard to create them and the people who had come to support their creativity.>>
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Athens Music Scene
May 1, 2008
My television is talking to me. For real. I think it is trying to communicate with me. It is using the Closed Caption feature to send me secret communiqués.>>
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On a comeback of sorts, Paleface heads into Athens
May 1, 2008
Punk-folk survivor Paleface is on his way back from the abyss and obscurity, and he’s heading to Athens tonight. With drummer Mo Samalot, he’ll play the Casa Cantina at 10:30 p.m.>>
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Singer/songwriter shows increasing polish on new six-song CD
May 1, 2008
As a long-time street busker, Steve Zarate has earned a reputation as a carbon-based iPod. You request a tune, he’s likely to know it – or at least he’ll make a passable attempt to fake it. (He also knows all the verses to Phil Ochs’ “Crucifixion,” which should be mighty impressive to anyone familiar with that epic.)>>
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Hot Americana guitar picker set to play Fur Peace Saturday
May 1, 2008
One of the hottest Americana guitarists around is playing at Jorma Kaukonen’s Fur Peace Station in Meigs County this Saturday.>>
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Upcoming play an alternate ‘high-school musical’
May 1, 2008
An original musical will debut this weekend at ARTS/West in Athens, and its authors are three Athens High School seniors who decided they’d rather do something different.>>
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Lost Flamingo launches spring season with ‘Short Stack’
May 1, 2008
This Friday and Saturday, the Lost Flamingo Company will present Short Stack, a compilation of eight short student-written plays.>>
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Dance studio turns 30; pushes to meet two-year fundraising goal
April 28, 2008
With its annual spring dance concert coming up this Saturday, the Factory Street Studio is also approaching its 30th birthday.>>
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Athens Music Scene
April 24, 2008
Whacko Alert: I spent Sunday honoring many of the tragedies that have occurred in the past number of years (Waco, Oklahoma bombing, Hitler’s birth, etc.) by watching a disc of movies about the events of 9/11.>>
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Jarts CD shows leap forward for frontman
April 24, 2008
Local band The Jarts have chosen a most regrettable name, conjuring up as it does images of small children with huge, finned metal projectiles lodged in their tiny skulls.>>
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Film fest entry probes American icon
April 24, 2008
At first blush, the subject matter of “This American Gothic” might not seem to merit an hour-long documentary.>>
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Big band legend teams up with OU jazzers
April 24, 2008
Jazz legend Gerald Wilson will conduct the Ohio University Jazz Ensemble in a free concert of his works from 12:10 p.m. until 1 p.m. this Friday in the School of Music Recital Hall in Glidden Hall.>>
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Four-day poetry festival captivates crowds with linguistic wizardry, stage bravado
April 24, 2008
It’s not every day that a talented group of writers, poets and spoken-word artists get together, but when they do, it’s not an event worth missing.>>
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