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Jamie and Jordan

Jamie and Jordan, which returns on April 28 as part of the monthly Performance Network children’s theater series, is a charming musical about two boys born in the same hospital on the same day who become best friends until...

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Lyn Coffin reads Jiri Otren

Last November, Lyn Coffin read from her translations of Jiri [YEER-zhi] Orten’s poems, published last year under the title White Picture (Night Publishing). She was joined by the singer-songwriter, Laz Slomovits, of...

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Live at the Ravens

“We were taken by surprise by the PJ’s sale,” says Molly Motherwell, general manager of WEMU (89.1-FM).  For two years, the jazz and blues public-radio s­tation had been presenting the Jan Winkelman 5:01 Jazz...

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Jack Driscoll

Some folks say Jack Driscoll doesn’t get out much. The same people are inclined to say that this is the reason Driscoll remains “our best-kept literary secret.” If they mean that this fabulous writer...

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Wedded to the Tenor Sax

Charles Lloyd is a jazz musician who revels in spirituality and in sound. When he first came to public attention in 1960 as a member of the popular Chico Hamilton Quintet, like many saxophonists of the time he was heavily...

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Machines of Loving Grace

“I like to think / (right now, please!) / of a cybernetic forest / filled with pines and electronics,” wrote the late American poet and writer Richard Brautigan, imagining a utopian future “where deer stroll...

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The David Wax Museum

Missouri native David Wax attended Deep Springs College, a school in the California high desert where the twenty-six students spend part of their time helping operate a cattle ranch. He went to Mexico as part of an American...

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Three Nights of Cacophony

NIGHT ONE: March 22None of the pieces performed in the first of Michael Tilson Thomas & the San Francisco Symphony’s American Mavericks concerts were much good, though the Copland was certainly the best and the Bates...

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Embellished

The Muehlig Funeral Chapel on the corner of William and Fourth Avenue is a serious building, with thick corbels under the deep eaves, tall narrow windows with ornate arches, and a hipped, low-peaked gray roof. Which makes it...

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Here Comes Cacophony

This may hurt some. Heck, it’ll likely hurt … a lot. What it’s called is American Mavericks, a series of four San Francisco Symphony concerts, March 22-25, featuring some of the hardest of hardcore repertoire...

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Bruce Duffy

Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, Patti Smith–all of these important popular musicians have worshipped the example of Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), the young nineteenth-century French poet and iconic poete maudit who confronted the...

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The Levon Helm Band

I grew up listening to The Band, since my father is something of a fanatic. I still listen to them often, but in the last few years my dad has directed my attention to Levon Helm’s Midnight Ramble recordings. I’ve...

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Dead Man’s Shoes

“Are you calling me fat?” the rotund prisoner asks the inmate in the next cell. It’s dirty and dark in the North Dakota jail, and soon Jean-Phillipe DeLaRoux Baptiste, better known as Froggy, will have problems...

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A Stone Carver

After a long string of homegrown scripts, the Purple Rose is presenting A Stone Carver by East Coast playwright William Mastrosimone. Best known for his 1980s Extremities, and more recently for Bang Bang You’re Dead,...

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The Kingsley Post

“This ornate facade is hidden away on Kingsley,” writes Joel Batterman–“809 E. Kingsley,” adds Michael Ferguson, identifying February’s photo of what Kristen Schleick further decscribes as...

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Match by Match

Match By Match’s soft, hypnotically intricate sound grabs me from the first song. Gray Bouchard stands center stage with his acoustic guitar and curious tuft of dyed blond hair hanging awkwardly above his forehead....

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