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Entertainment News
Thunder Over Augusta will provide its own lightning
Web-posted 05/15/08
The inaugural Thunder Over Augusta, a city-centered salute to America's armed forces, will include a performance by country singer Lee Greenwood (Proud to Be an American), military exhibits, a parachute demonstration and a fireworks display that organizers promise will be the largest in Augusta.

WiiWare in high demand at debut
Web-posted 05/15/08
Nintendo's WiiWare service is up and running, finally giving Internet-connected Wii owners the chance to download original games.

Applause calendar
Web-posted 05/15/08
Send event schedules, pricing and other information along with a contact name and phone number to Steven Uhles, The Augusta Chronicle, P.O. Box 1928, Augusta, GA 30903-1928. Send e-mail to steven.uhles@augustachronicle.com.

Club calendar
Web-posted 05/15/08
Send club listing by 6 p.m. Mondays to ryan.wehmeyer@augustachronicle.com or fax it to (706) 722-7403.

Movies
'Debaters' triumphs as classic sports film
Web-posted 05/15/08
Great because it never tries to be grand, The Great Debaters succeeds as a classic sports movie (if debating can be considered a sport) and as an indictment of the Jim Crow South.

'Prince Caspian' exhibits maturity lacking in first episode of 'Narnia'
Web-posted 05/15/08
More is more in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian , the follow-up to the 2005 fantasy hit The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe . It's darker and funnier, more substantive and more engaging, more violent and more technically accomplished.

DVD releases
Web-posted 05/15/08
Here's a sampling of films out this week in DVD, and a calendar of what's coming:

Mini reviews
Web-posted 05/15/08
For an online guide, go to augustachronicle.com/movies:

Music
Jewell's victory on 'Nashville Star' handed singer 'instant' success
Web-posted 05/15/08
Buddy Jewell's first single was released two days after he won the first Nashville Star competition, and his first album was recorded in only two weeks. Still, despite the rapid turn in fortune, Mr. Jewell's success was hardly sudden.

Concert calendar
Web-posted 05/15/08

Arts
Artist's pictures remind us of troubled past
Web-posted 05/15/08
Forgetting the past isn't an option for photographer William Anderson. That's evident in an exhibit of his work, Lest We Forget, drawn from 40 years of photos depicting the lives of blacks, which will open today at the Lucy Laney Museum of Black History.

Clowns have a sinister side in 'Pagliacci'
Web-posted 05/15/08
Pagliacci proves that opera can be just as grand in two hours as four. The deeply tragic and musically affecting and accessible opera revolves around a troupe of traveling clowns confronted one evening with infidelity, mistrust and murder.

Arts calendar
Web-posted 05/15/08
Send exhibit schedules to Steven Uhles, The Augusta Chronicle, P.O. Box 1928, Augusta, GA 30903-1928 or e-mail steven.uhles@augustachronicle.com.Please include a contact name and number.

Ramblin' Rhodes
Singer Eddy Arnold never let stardom go to his head
Web-posted 05/15/08
Today would have been Eddy Arnold's 90th birthday, but he died one week short of that, on May 8, at a health care facility in Franklin, Tenn., near Nashville.

Steven Uhles
We celebrate Sinatra for great movie roles
Web-posted 05/15/08
It's been a decade since Frank Sinatra left the board without a chairman. The Pack's head Rat, the voice that defined popular music in the 20th century and a performer who established himself as both an exceptional actor and master musician, Sinatra died 10 years ago Wednesday.