Visitors could very well be overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia when they see artist Bruce McCombs’ prints at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art.
That’s the feeling McCombs himself got when he saw photos of the prints on the museum’s Web site earlier this week.
“I haven’t seen these in probably 20 years,” McCombs says.
Squarely fitting Minus the Bear into a musical genre is about as difficult as finding a primo spot for a semi-truck in the Olive Garden parking lot on a Saturday evening.
The five-man Seattle group incorporates sonic experimentation and prog rock influences into its sound. No Minus the Bear album embodied this more than 2007’s “Planet of Ice,” in which the group played everything from acoustic guitars, tambourines and swizzle stix to snare drums, organ pipes and maybe even the kitchen sink.
Never judge a book by its cover, the old saying goes. Likewise, we should never judge a movie by its posters full of shirtless young men like Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson, with their brooding abs and heartthrob poses.
The core of the “Twilight” fanbase will always be boy-obsessed teenage girls, and the first film of the series was fine for them (watch the MTV Movie Awards for reference). The large remainder of the “Twilight” audience, however, had to endure god-awful acting, mediocre writing, poor special effects and an overbearing seriousness that bogged down the film. Not to mention, much of the movie deviated from the plot and dialogue of Stephenie Meyer’s book.
For the most part, all of those issues have been resolved in “New Moon.”
American rock ’n’ roll stalwart Aerosmith has made more news in the past two years than it has since the 1990s. Unfortunately, that has nothing to do with the band’s music.
America is a culture obsessed with recapturing youth from a physical standpoint. But with many of the problems adults face, they may also be wishing they were a kid again to go back to childhood when things were much simpler.
It doesn’t take long for people to start getting into the holiday spirit. Stores already have swapped out the orange and black colors of fall for shades of red and green, ornaments and snowflakes.
And sure enough, those familiar Christmas carols will start drilling their way into your heads. But your ears may perk up when you hear the Second Annual Holiday Jazz Express perform at 4 p.m. Nov. 22 at the Missouri Theater.
The tale of “Cinderella” is one that has been told for generations in books big and small, in animated Disney movies and on stages around the world. It’s not often, however, that the inspiring poverty-to-royalty story is told through the art of ballet — especially in St. Joseph.
But State Street Ballet of Santa Barbara, Calif., will bring the timeless fairy tale to life at 8 p.m. Nov. 21 at the Missouri Theater.
Country music is flooded with blonde starlets and hunky heartthrobs. There’s the occasional duo, trio or guitar hero.
So, the popularity that the everyman Georgia-based outfit Zac Brown Band has attained is a bit refreshing by Music City’s current standards.
It would be hard for any professional actor to learn an entire play in just five days, much less a group of local kids. Yet that’s exactly what the actors and actresses in Missoula Children’s Theatre’s upcoming production of “The Princess and the Pea” are doing.
