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.

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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."

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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
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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.

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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.