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Entertainment News
Lunch Money: Roadrunner Cafe
Web-posted 11/05/09
We have a new option in our southside dining rotation: Roadrunner Cafe, at 2508 Peach Orchard Road.

Wine time
Web-posted 11/05/09
Spanish wine seminar with distributor Avant Partir's Michael Hirsch, Vineyard Wine Market, 7 p.m.

Applause calendar
Web-posted 11/05/09
Plantation Blood continues this weekend in Grovetown.

Club calendar
Web-posted 11/05/09
Send club listings by 4 p.m. Monday to jonathan.overstreet@augustachronicle.com.

Movies
'Men Who Stare at Goats' has fuzzy vision
Web-posted 11/05/09
A fun tone is undermined by disjointed storytelling in George Clooney's The Men Who Stare at Goats , and it all starts with the disclaimer that opens the movie: "More of this is true than what you might imagine."

Mini reviews
Web-posted 11/05/09
For an online film guide, see augustachronicle.com/movies:

Music
Rain's John Lennon immerses himself in The Beatles' mystique
Web-posted 11/05/09
For Steve Landes, a member of the touring Beatles tribute band Rain, being John Lennon is more than picking up a guitar and playing the band's songs. It is, he said, an act of transformation.

Sonic Spotlight: Not Gaddy
Web-posted 11/05/09
Not Gaddy is in the Sonic Spotlight.

Concert calendar
Web-posted 11/05/09
The Zac Brown Band will perform November 12 at Bell Auditorium.

Quick hits: Transition
Web-posted 11/05/09
Harvard graduate and artist Ryan Leslie's album Transition, released on Universal Motown Records, provides a fresh and clean-cut sound for the latter part of the year.

Arts
ASU's 'You Can't Take It With You' plays to modern economic woes
Web-posted 11/05/09
Carolyn Cope never met a period piece she didn't like. So it was no surprise when she chose the Depression-era comedy You Can't Take It With You as the theater department's fall production. What was surprising was her decision to update it.

Arts calendar
Web-posted 11/05/09
Send listings to steven.uhles@augustachronicle.com, or to The Augusta Chronicle, P.O. Box 1928, Augusta, GA 30903-1928.

Ramblin' Rhodes
Azar found inspiration from blues performers
Web-posted 11/05/09
Gardeners know Steve Azar as the smooth-voiced singer who opens P. Allen Smith's Garden Home series on PBS each week, singing the program's theme song, I Can't Help but Smile. Country music fans know Mr. Azar from his hits, including I Don't Have to Be Me ('Til Monday).

Steven Uhles
Pop rocks
Web-posted 11/05/09
Steve Hall is probably the most successful independent promoter working in Augusta today -- and he doesn't even live here. Mr. Hall, of Alabama, is responsible for most of the radio rock shows booked in clubs, pubs and other venues around town.