Play is based on the children's book by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd. Adventure Theatre, 7300 MacArthur Blvd. 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
LIVE MUSIC ALLEY KATZ -- 10 Walnut Alley, 643-2816. The Independents, Jackmove, The Laylons and The Curfew Breakers, 9 p.m. Friday, $8. Thru the Rear View, They Found Her in Pieces, Letter Box Tragety and others, 5 p.m. Saturday, all ages, $7. Boondoxx, Score One for the Little Guy, Brad Doggett and others, 7 p.m. May 23, $7.
The stinging effects of racism are explored in The Great Debaters: Two-Disc Special Edition (2007, Genius, PG-13, $32) by director Denzel Washington's tribute to Melvin B. Tolson (Washington), a Wiley College professor who oversees a Depression-era debate team savvy enough to take on the fast-talkers at Harvard University. A smoldering romance among teammates (Nate Parker, Jurnee Smollett) and a
To his credit, saxophonist John Ellis does not take his jazz too seriously. At the WWOZ Jazz Tent, he and his Double Wide combo showcased whimsically titled and arranged instrumentals from the excellent new Hyena Records release "Dance Like There's No Tomorrow."
Tom Petty's early band Mudcrutch, which he's reformed as a side project, isn't much differnet from the Heartbreakers, but its Southern/country sound is different enough.
It was a double-header of a concert that returned the blues to its source in radically different ways, pairing Otis Taylor's Reclaiming the Banjo project with Bassekou Kouyaté, who, with his group Ngoni Ba, took two world music awards a few weeks ago, including Album of the Year for his debut, Segu Blue.
If you were going to build the perfect acoustic bluesman, he'd probably turn out looking and sounding exactly like Eric Bibb. Well-spoken, good-looking and sophisticated, Bibb has always seemed almost too perfect.
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