William Faulkner

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Hophead: Prime (But Cold) Beer At The Meridian Room

Civilization begins with distillation.--Meridian Room motto, attributed to William Faulkner. (We would argue that civilization begins with brewing, but that doesn't rhyme.)I wanted to visit the Meridian Room even before it closed and reopened back in the fall, but only managed to get there this week ... More >>

Singles Going Steady

Why buy the whole thing?

The Decemberists

Wednesday, October 25, at the Gypsy Tea Room

Sweet Revenge

Playwright Tracy Letts gets the last laugh on Dallas

Dead All Over

There's something funny, not scary, about Cold Creek Manor

Blood From a Stone

In tracking down a lost author, Mark Moskowitz brings his own literary passion to life on the screen

Throne of Their Own

Mississippi's Kudzu Kings rule a little patch of Delta sound

Go the Distance

Centro-matic's Will Johnson chases the ghosts of Mississippi

Dirty South

For the North Mississippi Allstars, the blues ain't nothing but dance music

The rip-off artist

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Love Hurts

A new record pays homage to Gram Parsons, a hero before his time

Maybe he's doing it wrong

But a new boxed set proves you can't keep Randy Newman down

Mose's better blues

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Baby, it's them

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Jim of all trades

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The 28th Annual USA Film Festival Film Clips

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Work in slow progress

The sounds are great, but the sights are meager in Lyric Stage's Cather County

Events for the week

The sounds are great, but the sights are meager in Lyric Stage's Cather County

Close to the bone

Tom House's backwoods sound carries essential sparks

City of angles

How Curtis Hanson turned James Ellroy's epic crime novel L.A. Confidential into one of the year's best films

Rapt in a rat's brain

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Ehn control

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Placebo prescription

New Theatre Company's Faith Healer is a half-cure for the dramatic itch

A river runs through it

Extraordinary film celebrates the ethic of an ordinary man

Events for the week

Extraordinary film celebrates the ethic of an ordinary man

Oedipus Tex

Nothing is what it seems in John Sayles' border-town tragedy, Lone Star

Angel's wings

Cowboy Junkies drone and moan toward brilliance

The baddest seed

Nick Cave digs in and gets his hands bloody