Friday, October 29, 2010
Trailer Gazing Watch a trailer for a documentary on a puppet play about Disfarmer
This new documentary by David Soll follows the production of Dan Hurlin's 2009 theater production of "Disfarmer," a puppet play about the Heber Springs photographer. It debuts at Doc NYC next weekend.
Surely, the Little Rock Film Fest will scoop it up next go 'round.
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Quotes Ben Nichols goes back to college, Mary Steenburgen goes back to the future and Jane Seymour goes to crazytown
"I haven't used my degree in any official way, but I appreciate my college experience every day." Lucero's Ben Nichols on the value of college in an article in Hendrix's alumni magazine. Until three or four years ago, Nichols says in the article, his mother kept waiting for him to apply his history major at Hendrix to become a history teacher.
"I guess she would still be married to the Doc and they would be flying in and out of the time space continuum." At the recent 25th anniversary celebration of "Back to the Future," Mary Steenburgen speculates on what her character, Clara Clayton, would be doing today.
'Something extraordinary is happening to this kid. He is writing the most amazing music, he is being recorded already, and you're going to hear about him in the next year.” Jane Seymour on her son, Johnny, who she say is channeling the spirit of Johnny Cash. Angels are among us! ["The View" via The Daily Mail]
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
What's going on / Music Saturday To-Do: Arkansas Symphony Orchestra's 'Titan'
- DAVID STANDRIDGE
'TITAN'
8 p.m., Robinson Center Music Hall. $14-$48.
The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra already did its Halloween-themed concert, but there's no reason you can't don a suit for the orchestra's second Masterworks performance and, post-concert, apply some make-up and be a zombie symphony-goer and join in the revelry nearby at the Peabody or elsewhere around town. Better yet, tote along a frilly blouse and a powder wig to be zombie Mozart, whose music opens new director Philip Mann's third performance of the season. Mozart's overture to "The Magic Flute," written during his fecund final year of life, will play nicely into Strauss' Horn Concerto No. 2, a work that recalls Mozart's style and concludes with a section the ASO describes as "a fiendish test of agility and breath control" for the solo horn player, David Renfro. The orchestra closes with Mahler's Symphony No. 1 "Titan," a work that was widely panned when it debuted in 1889, but which has since helped the composer become one of the most beloved of our era. The ASO reprises the performance on Sunday at 3 p.m.; same place and price, though students, grades K-12, can go for free if accompanied by a paid adult as part of the new Entergy ticket program on Sunday.
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What's going on / Music Saturday To-Do: 'Seven Deadly Sins'
SEVEN DEADLY SINS
9 p.m., Discovery. $20.
This Halloween, Disco's not just coasting by on its reputation as the place where all the sexy nurses go to get down. The dance club's putting up $1,000 for a costume contest, bringing in six DJs and continuing its rollout of a new DJ format. You'll recognize the change as soon as you step into the club's lobby, where the grinding hordes have long congregated for hip-hop jams. No more. Now the lobby's about Top 40 house music, dubstep and indie. The techno room remains the same, but with bigger and better lighting. After a special Halloween drag show and the culmination of the costume contest, the theater will transform — with lighting and massive video screens — into the hip-hop room. Grind on, y'all. DJs Balance, Jared Lawler, SleepyGenius, Michael Shane, Justin Sane and Big Brown will be spread throughout the venue. Last year, the club turned folks away at the door late in the evening, so don't tarry.
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What's going on Saturday To-Do: 'Boo Bash'
BOO BASH
8 p.m., The Peabody. $10.
If you've been working on your Halloween costume since September, this is the party for you. Once again, the Peabody's annual Boo Bash is home to one of the city's fattest cash costume prizes. A thousand smackers goes to the best outfitted. Or rather the best outfitted as determined by judges including ALICE 107.7 DJs Heather, DC and Poolboy; KATV's Pam Smith and Christina Munoz, and chef Donnie Ferneau. Last year, a "Where the Wild Things Are" duo jointly won the prize. Their costumes looked good, but Lady Gaga in a meat dress they weren't. In other words, bring it creative Little Rock. Popular local cover bands CRISIS and Tragikly White provide the soundtrack, which will be augmented by "a spooky light show." Don't want to try to fit the hoop skirt in your Marie Antoinette costume in a cab? The Peabody's offering special rates and one free ticket for guests. Only those 21 and older can attend.
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What's going on / Music Saturday To-Do: 'The Great Halloween Cover-Up' / 'Halloween Cover-Up" 2010
"THE GREAT HALLOWEEN COVER-UP"
6:30 p.m., Vino's. $7-$10.
"HALLOWEEN COVER-UP 2010"
9 p.m., White Water Tavern. $5.
Every year since 2003, the Arkansas Community Arts Cooperative has thrown a big Halloween blowout in which local acts impersonate national ones in look and song. Inevitably the line-up is hit or miss. Bands either go all-out and practice like crazy and recruit girlfriends to sing back-up (like the American Princes did when they played, near flawlessly, as The Pixies) or they spend too much time finding the perfect wig, don't practice and spend their time onstage muddling through your favorite songs. If this year's roster follows the former path, it'll be epic. The line-up includes Mandy McBryde as Loretta Lynn, Mad Trucker and Jen Shaw as Portishead, Real Live Tigers as Bruce Springsteen, (clap!)Kidzpop as Belle & Sebastian, Osyrus as Common and The Flaming Death Faeries as KISS. Dress-up and you'll save $3 on the $10 cover charge.
White Water Tavern came later to the party, but its track record — The Libras as Fleetwood Mac, The Good Fear as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (check out "Breakdown" for proof), The Moving Front as The Clash (again, "London Calling") — has been just about uniformly great. This year, three acts try to keep the streak alive. The Moving Front take on punk-pop icons The Jam, while two collectives take on perhaps the most beloved albums of '90s indiedom: A large group of friends of the late Little Rock musician Luke Hunsicker, who movingly paid tribute to him at a memorial service, come together to do Neutral Milk Hotel's spectral "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea," while members of the local literary collective [we at the book] try on songs from Weezer's emo classic "Pinkerton."
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What's going on / Music Friday To-Do: Ra Ra Riot
RA RA RIOT
9 p.m., Revolution. $15.
When you throw down $15 to see a favorite band for the first time, there's always that risk that what you fell for on record won't translate live. But short of a speaker blowing or a freak violin accident, Ra Ra Riot looks like a safe bet to put on a strong live show. The six-piece specializes in slightly prog-y pop with big orchestral flourishes; these guys really know how to play their instruments. Formed when its members were students at Syracuse, the band enjoyed a rapid ascent in the indie ranks. In the winter of 2006 they were students; in the winter of 2007 they were signed to Universal subsidiary V2. Comparisons to Vampire Weekend, which entered the New York scene around the same time, have followed the band through two albums. Sure, both are polite and sunshine-y, but there's way more drama in Ra Ra Riot's music than in that of its pals Vampire Weekend — the chamber pop flourishes provided by cellist Alexandra Lawn and violinist Rebecca Zeller and frontman Wes Miles' mournful vocals almost recall Morrissey. Heralded Dublin act Villagers recalls Elliott Smith in the opening slot. Lafayette, La.'s Givers round out the bill for the all-ages concert.
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Theater Rep unveils trailer for 'Hamlet'
It's HD, so give it a minute to load.
Looks great.
Read more about the production, which debuts tomorrow night, in JT Tarpley's preview feature.
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What's going on / Music Weekend: J. Roddy Walston, Stoney LaRue, Cody Belew
FRIDAY 10/29
The Town Pump hosts Baltimore good-time rockers J. Roddy Walston and the Business, The Wicked Good and The See, 9 p.m. Consider this a rare treat: J. Roddy leaves the next day to open for Weezer the next day in Atlanta.
Fayetteville kings of the wah-wah pedal Punkinhead make a rare return to Sticky Fingerz, 9 p.m., $10.
At the Afterthought, vocalist Cody Belew belts out songs you know, 9 p.m., $7.
Flying Saucer is doing a pubcrawl with Willy D’s, Prost, Deep, Underground Pub, and Gusanos on Oct 30th. $10 will get you in all 5 bars.
SATURDAY 10/30
At Cajun's, DJ g-force spins all your favorite jams and 103.7 "The Buzz" hosts a costume contest that comes with a $500 first prize, 8 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m.
The Arkansas Blues Society hosts a "Halloween Bash" at Cornerstone Pub with Charlotte Taylor, Gypsy Rain, Kim Griffin and Billy Jones, 9 p.m.
DJ and loveable weirdo Rob-O hosts his 16th "Halloween Hoody-Hoo" at Pizza D, 9 p.m.
Red dirt country standout Stoney LaRue returns to Revolution, where Midnight River Choir opens, 9 p.m., $10 adv., $12 d.o.s.
One of Little Rock's favorite cover acts, The Gettys, provide the entertainment for Sticky Fingerz's Halloween get-down, 10 p.m.
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Music Kris Allen raises $100K for Blackbird Academy
And that, friends, is one wild stack of semolians.
According to Kris Allen's Twitter, last night's fundraiser concert at UCA's Reynolds Performance Hall raised $100,000 for the Conway-based Blackbird Academy of Arts, a non-profit organization focused on arts education in the fields of dance, music, theatre, visual arts and creative writing.
Photo via Amy Willard's Flickr
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What's going on Thursday: Al Green, Lydia Davis, The Libras
Al Green, Arkansas's — and arguably the world's — greatest soul man, makes a rare appearance in Little Rock at the Statehouse Convention Center, 6 p.m. The only rub? It'll cost you $250. The evening of "supper and soul" is a benefit for Arkansas Baptist's Capital Campaign Fund.
At White Water Tavern, The Libras play all your favorite covers in celebration of the 60th birthday of the bar's long-time owner, Larry "Goose" Garrison, 8:30 p.m., free.
At Hendrix College's Reves Recital Hall, renowned short-short story writer and Proust translator Lydia Davis offers a lecture on humor, 7:30 p.m., free.
Get a jump on Halloween fun by bringing the fam to the Big BOO!-seum Bash events at the Old State House, the Historic Arkansas Museum, the Central High School Historic Site, the Clinton Presidential Library, the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, the Heifer Village and the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center and EMOBA, 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m., free.
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Lisa Blount dies at 53
Terrible news over the wires from KARK. Lisa Blount, the local Oscar-winning actress and wife of Ray McKinnon, was found dead this afternoon in her Heights Hillcrest home, reports Coroner Garland Camper.
She's pictured here singing during the recent "Voices for Justice" rally at Robinson.
Our condolences go out to McKinnon and the Blount family.
Her death is under investigation, although KATV's Christina Munoz says it appears to be by natural causes.
We'll keep you updated as more information becomes available.
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Comedy Matt Besser wants to get you high
Besser explains:
My name is Matt Besser, one of the founders of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and one of the creators of This Show Will Get You High. A year ago I approached the leaders of Comedy Central with the idea to create a sketch show so funny that it had the power to get the viewer high. I theorized that if we can get the kids high on sketch comedy, then they won’t have to be in the empty lots and the abandoned malls looking for real drugs like heroin, crack, and worst of all, marijuana. To accomplish this dream I recruited some of the best sketch comedians from the UCB Theatre including Brett Gelman, John Gemberling, Paul Rust, Betsy Sodaro, combined with the directing genius of Eric Appel, plus Nathan Barnatt, Sergio Cilli, Allan McLeod, and Jessica Williams. Upon completion of the experiment, Comedy Central showed it to focus groups where it was determined that it got them way too high. It has since been decided that the safest time to exhibit the special are the hours when only those who are used to being “way too high” are still awake. On November 2, citizens in communities across America will vote on various marijuana legalization propositions. Before that date, America needs to wake up and realize that you don’t need to get high on the weed, when you can get high on This Show Will Get You High.
Preview clips here.
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What's going on / Music Wednesday: Kris Allen, Indian Jewelry, Future Leaders of the World
"American Idol" Kris Allen returns to his alma mater for a concert to benefit the Blackbird Academy of the Arts. The Echo has details. He'll sing in UCA's Robinson Performance Hall, 8 p.m., $25-$150.
Indian Jewelry brings their incredible live show to ACAC. They play with Hot Springs' Cold Mold and creep-freak funkers Ginsu Wives, 9 p.m., $7.
Vino's hosts a night of post-grunge with Future Leaders of the World and 3 Miles From Providence, 8 p.m., $13.
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