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IT'S BY CHANCE that Ray appears mere months after the death of its hero, Ray Charles, but it offers a needed lift for many of US laid low by the passing ......(Continue Reading) Branson's best season: come fall in the Missouri Ozarks, the nation's music show capital takes on a special glow
UNLESS YOU'VE BEEN TO Branson, you've probably never heard of Shoji Tabuchi, a master fiddler from Japan who sports spangly jackets and a n]op of black ......(Continue Reading)Dirty dancing: in part two of our Take Back the Music series, we go behind the scenes with video girls. As pimp culture goes mainstream, are we getting
They're what male fantasies are made of: One brown-skinned sister, wearing painted-on jeans and four-inch stilettos, is as tall as a runway model but ......(Continue Reading)Murder most foul: a dark musical about a man bent on personal revenge
Sweeney Todd Trafalgar Studios, London SW1 Sweeney Todd was a mass murderer. He was executed in 1802 having been convicted on a specimen charge of killing Francis Thornhill, but at his trial th...(Continue Reading)Tales of a Gen X Swinger - the revival, and popularity, of swing music
A music critic's juvenile cultural politics If adolescence is the discovery that every tradition, every habit, every quirk of your upbringing is arbitrary, ......(Continue Reading)
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