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This must have been what Ed Sullivan felt like when he introduced a guy named Elvis Presley. Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for the one, the only ... Jim ... Schuuuuuuutze! ... O.K., this is my first time over here on Sportatorium, and I'm feeling kind of insecure. I'm a City Hall ... More >>

North of the Dial

This must have been what Ed Sullivan felt like when he introduced a guy named Elvis Presley. Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for the one, the only ... Jim ... Schuuuuuuutze! ... O.K., this is my first time over here on Sportatorium, and I'm feeling kind of insecure. I'm a City Hall ... More >>

Rain Drips With Beatles Nostalgia, While Freakshow and Misanthrope Make for Hard Day's Nights at the Theater

This must have been what Ed Sullivan felt like when he introduced a guy named Elvis Presley. Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for the one, the only ... Jim ... Schuuuuuuutze! ... O.K., this is my first time over here on Sportatorium, and I'm feeling kind of insecure. I'm a City Hall ... More >>

A Day in the Life

Rain showcases the Beatles' career

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Rain showcases the Beatles' career

Hairspray, Get Back to Your Roots!

Movie musical of the musical of the movie is nowhere near divine

Young Lions

Canada's Constantines chat about rock's golden trifecta: Dylan, Neil Young and Motorhead

Send in the Clowns

Slappy and Monday challenge clown stereotypes

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Just Do It

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Viva Las Vegas

Ring-A-Ding in the new year

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Fab Film

Forty years ago, Al Maysles met the Beatles

Shiny Happy People

The Polyphonic Spree is one Big Moment away from stardom. Right?

Plaid Tidings

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Happy Freakin' Valentine's Day

Some local CD-release shindigs make this horrible holiday a little more tolerable

I've Got Happy Feet

Admit You're Happy Month is here ... joy

A mother of a father

Bo Diddley created rock and roll -- now, where's his check?

Along comes Gary?

The Association were the true bad boys of rock, at least according to a security guard who may or may not have been in the band

Live from New York?

Saturday Night Live and DreamWorks Records team up for two not-ready-for-prime-time compilations

The ponce

The sort-of true adventures of a kind-of real rock star and her not-made-up boyfriend

Squeeze player

With his mob connections and starlet phone numbers, Dick Contino was the coolest accordionist in 1950s L.A. -- which is why he's James Ellroy's buddy

Little boy blues

Andrew Baxter Jr. may be a mere child, but the 11-year-old guitarist is no novelty

You're getting sleepy

Andrew Baxter Jr. may be a mere child, but the 11-year-old guitarist is no novelty

Hat's off

Dwight Yoakam's the last great country singer left--and he doesn't need a twang to prove it

Pop mart

South by Southwest '97: Will guitars give up the ghost? Yes and no, but mostly no

The Morse code

Texan Ella Mae influenced rock, then she crawled under one

Theater was alive in '95

Last year's offerings brightened local stage

Let it be? Never

The Beatles' Anthology is the first chapter you've never heard

Far from Gone

Dwight Yoakam's latest conjures up echoes of '60s AM radio

Welcome Home

In Stephen Wade's hands, the lowly banjo is the key to the American experience

Hot Dish

In Stephen Wade's hands, the lowly banjo is the key to the American experience

Big star

Robert Gordon's new book reveals Memphis is once and forever music's Shangri-La

Events for the week

Robert Gordon's new book reveals Memphis is once and forever music's Shangri-La

Idol worship

In the 1950s and '60s, Tony Zoppi wrote about -- and rode with -- the stars

End of an era

After seven years and hundreds of thousands of miles, Killbilly calls it quits