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Juggalos coming
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11/22/2009
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Lindsey Millar
Reason number 376 that the apocalypse is drawing nigh: Insane Clown Posse, the Detroit rap duo famous for painting their faces like evil clowns, carrying the torch for horrorcore (dark, largely horrifying subject matter) and spraying Faygo soda on its fans at concerts, pulls in up to $10 million annually.
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Can't quit the Celts
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11/18/2009
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Lindsey Millar
The Celtic onslaught on Central Arkansas continues. In the last year, we've seen the Boys of the Lough, Celtic Woman and about this time last year, Celtic Thunder. Our Scots-Irish roots must run deep.
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An apple today
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11/12/2009
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Lindsey Millar
In 1919 Arkansas raised five and a half million bushels of apples; now that figure stands at about 67,000 bushels. One way to reverse this decline is to have an official state apple, and one particular apple at that, the Arkansas Black.
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Knoxville throwbacks
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11/8/2009
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Lindsey Millar
Royal Bangs mixes fuzzboxed, synthesized, highly percussive instrumentation with spacey, warped vocals — a combination that would've been right at home in the mid-'80s. But beneath the strange layering lies quality songwriting and smart lyrics
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Loudon up now
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11/6/2009
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Lindsey Millar
Loudon Wainwright III, famous for his 1973 hit “Dead Skunk” (“Take a whiff on me, that ain't no rose/Roll up your window and hold your nose”), which he brags in his bio held the number 1 spot in Little Rock for six weeks, headlines the Ozark Folk Festival with a concert at noon Friday in the Auditorium.
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To be young and a thespian
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11/5/2009
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Lindsey Millar
In preparation for the Rep's annual young performers showcase, Nicole Capri Bauer became an expert on holidays. Not just on the big ones, but on the ins-and-outs of more obscure--yet very real, Bauer insists--celebrations like Dress Up Your Pet Day and Leave a Zucchini on Your Neighbor's Porch Day.
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Puppet revival
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11/4/2009
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Lindsey Millar
Who'd have thought, after a hiatus that stretched across much of the last decade, including at least a year when brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood didn't speak, that the Meat Puppets would be on such steady, productive ground these days? Tonight, they play Revolution.
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Prairie songs
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11/3/2009
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Lindsey Millar
Melissa Gilbert, famous for her star-making run as Laura Ingalls, comes to Little Rock in the new musical adaptation of "Little House on the Prairie."
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Local band dress-up
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10/31/2009
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Lindsey Millar
On Halloween, a host of local bands try to embody the look and sound of a host of popular bands at two concerts in Little Rock. At White Water, the Good Fear (left) do Six Tom Pettys and the Heartbreaker.
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