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Local restaurant pours Beatles-themed drink menu
Chris Barrett dreams up a special drink menu worthy of The Beatles’ Revolver album.
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Chicken-Fried News: Ruff night
Wayne Coyne and Miley Cyrus got matching tattoos of Cyrus’ deceased puppy, and then they released a short film with Moby.
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Film review: A Hard Day’s Night
The film captures the irresistible chemistry of The Beatles, the phenomenon of Beatlemania and the stirrings of what would be a worldwide cultural explosion.
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Miley, The Lips and … The Beatles?
All we know is that it is happening and we are as puzzled by it as you are. Lips frontman Wayne Coyne posted a photo to his infamous Instagram account (@waynewontpostpicsofnakedwomen, in case you forgot) of what appears to be Miley Cyrus rolling a joint with her trademark Bangerz-brand rolling papers. The caption? It’s about […]
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Big Jim
From Jim Halsey’s collection are guitars signed by Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney. You may never have heard of Jim Halsey, but surely you’ve heard of the acts he’s discovered, managed or guided the careers of: Wanda Jackson, Roy Clark, Hank Thompson and The Oak Ridge Boys, to name just a few. Chances are, without […]
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The Phynx
To review the movie, I need only tell you what it’s about. The dictator of communist Albania has swiped dozens of United States “world leaders,” including Butterfly McQueen, Johnny Weismuller, Maureen O’Sullivan, Dorothy Lamour, Xavier Cugat, Col. Sanders, Busby Berkeley, the Bowery Boys, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. (Mind you, all of them appear as […]
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Sir Toby
Credit: Brad Gregg Didn’t know that. We thought the Brits were a snobby group when it comes to music. Heck, they worshipped The Flaming Lips well before these United States — not to mention li’l ol’ Oklahoma — got around to it. We bring this up because Toby Keith looks well-prepared to conquer England. Last […]
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Mind the Fox — Songs for the Needy
The 11-track effort has the feel of a product made for and formulated in a dingy basement with dusty floral couches, shag carpet and tacky wood wall paneling … and I mean that in the best of ways. It’s something of a time capsule uncovered from four or five decades back, neither updated nor refurbished […]
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Thinkin’ about Woody
Photo: Robin Carson / Woody Guthrie Archives No one disputes that Woody Guthrie is the most significant Anglo-American folksinger, period. He merged the British ballad musical and storytelling tradition with African-American blues; added the incisive and humorous sociopolitical commentary of Will Rogers; and became the emblematic folk-music spokesperson for the downtrodden, beat-up, misused and abused […]