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Looking back on Harry Potter

“It’s just like withdrawing a billion dollars and putting it into your personal bank accounts. There’s no challenge.” This was Steven Spielberg’s explanation for why he turned down directing the Harry Potter movies, and it points to what’s remarkable about …

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Idiot Glee

The tracks are up on Amazon.uk mp3 downloader. Cover art, bright yellow and red blazing, by Robert Beatty, check. “Not available” is the current legend online. On May 16, that

Lexington Visual Collective: A Force for Change in Lexington

This article appears on p 12 of the April 7, 2011 edition   by Kate Sprengnether The Lexington Visual Collective (LexVC) wants you to know that the Lexington art community

JJ Grey Solo Tour

by Alan Sculley JJ Grey may bill his albums as JJ Grey & Mofro, but it’s not like his records have ever been anything but essentially solo efforts, in

ART LOVERS Kurt Gohde and Kate Sprengnether

The most hands-on visual arts couple in town, Kurt Gohde and Kate Sprengnether couldn’t find a place to get a slice anywhere when they first moved to Lexington

To the Wind and On To Heaven Sunday Valley Releases New CD

Much of Sunday Valley’s power comes from their live set where fans are singing along with almost every song, and a single tune can go on for ten

Mr. Lucky comes to Town Chris Isaak Live at Singletary

Chris Isaak put out a studio CD, Mr. Lucky, in 2009 and even in his own view, he hasn’t had much luck with retail sales of the album. But

November is National Novel Writing Month Meet the Lexington WriMos

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. —Franz Kafka In 1999 twenty-one writers in the San Francisco area decided to binge-write a novel with little

Raj Recommends movie options off the Saw 3d beaten path

Pickings are a bit slim amongst movies in wide release this week – those who aren’t particularly interested in the eighteenth-or-so Saw sequel are stuck with Clint Eastwood’s

ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO HOMECOMING By Lynne Margolis

“When we were recording, everything was in place. It was so easy to play those songs.”—Alejandro Escovedo on ‘Street Songs of Love,’ recorded in Lexington Alejandro Escovedo’s 2008 album,



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