2008 Woodie Awards
You may have heard jazz referred to as the only uniquely American art. Watching Ricky Skaggs and his Kentucky Thunder bluegrass group fiddle, banjo and mandolin their way through heartland ballad after heartland ballad, it is hard not to wonder if the author of that quote did not miss something.
The current photography project sponsored by the Public Policy Research Center at the University of Missouri - St Louis, "Cherokee Street and Benton West Neighborhood," is a genuine work of honesty, spirit and pride. The exhibit is part of the PPRC's ongoing "Point-Of-View" community photography series.
Consider this a warning: "Homemade Junk Vol. II" by St. Louis' own DJ MAHF goes beyond the realm of the simply infectious and crosses directly into the territory of a full-blown epidemic. If you start listening to this flawless mix by one of the best DJs you have never heard, you may never stop.
Award-winning storyteller Ira Glass, host of "This American Life" NPR and PBS, held a sold-out audience at the Pageant Theater spellbound last Saturday night. The event was a benefit for the non-profit Prison Performing Arts, an organization that works with prison inmates to put on productions of Shakespeare's plays, as a form of rehabilitation.
Everyone knows that acid is extremely bad for you: its slew of atrocious side effects and bodily damage proves it. Jenny Lewis's sophomore album, "Acid Tongue," offers the same high, but without the ghastly and horrible symptoms. The Rilo Kiley frontwoman returns with a passionate, fiery follow-up to "Rabbit Fur Coat," and this time she means business.
The hilarious, hard-hitting politically comic documentary "Religulous" opens with political humorist Bill Maher in Israel, standing on the site of Megiddo, the Biblical location for Armageddon, and talking about how some religious groups see Armageddon on the horizon and what that means for the rest of us.
Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and FBI agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) are back for a third season of forensic anthropology in the TV show "Bones." The drama, which is derived from the book by New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs, was an immediate hit on Fox.
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