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LOS ANGELES | Michael Jackson made history by winning four American Music Awards on Sunday night, but he couldn’t beat Taylor Swift as the year’s favorite artist and the evening’s top winner. The 19-year-old took the evening’s top award, giving Jackson his only loss of the night, and she took five trophies in all.
Three days after he was presented with the Left Field trophy at the MTVU Woodie Awards in New York City, Tech N9ne showcased his left-of-center world view at the Independence Events Center. The music network acknowledgment suits the Kansas City-based star.
Bet that romantic cliffhanger in “New Moon” got you salivating for the next “Twilight” movie, which just finished filming. Here are some tidbits about the upcoming films to help tide you over until “Eclipse” moves in June 30.
World premieres are a little risky: untested repertory with uncertain effect. Friday night’s concert by the Kansas City Symphony featured just such a toss of the dice, and everyone left a winner. The orchestra commissioned Avner Dorman’s “Lost Souls, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra,” composed with pianist Alon Goldstein in mind. Before the performance, Dorman described the narrative behind the music: a séance calling forth composers and pianists of the past, a recital that turns demonic and an ultimate exorcism.
TONIGHT For whatever reason, this year’s anniversary of the killing of President John F. Kennedy seems to be sparking more than the usual cultural interest. History Channel had a two-hour special in October, and tonight Discovery offers two new hours: “Did the Mob Kill JFK?” makes that case at 7 p.m., while “JFK: The Ruby Connection” at 8 p.m. takes a more skeptical view of theories linking Jack Ruby to Lee Harvey Oswald.
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The Iron Horse bills itself as “an American bistro,” and the concept fits. In France, a bistro is usually a small, informal neighborhood joint specializing in a limited menu of home-style classics.
For a few fleeting moments Sunday, the music at the Beaumont Club was quite lovely.
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Next month brings some big movies, like “Avatar,” “Sherlock Holmes” and “The Princess and the Frog.” Vote here for your favorite.
One of the many shocks in “The Road,” the screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel, comes when actor Viggo Mortensen pulls off his tattered, grimy clothing to luxuriate in a waterfall. The hunky star who played Aragorn in the “Lord of the Rings” movies now looks emaciated.
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In the space of 90 minutes Saturday night, Roger Rees took an enthusiastic audience at the Folly Theater through a few hundred years of great literature and pungent theater history in his splendid one-man show, “What You Will.”
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Addresses, Web sites and phone numbers for music venues throughout Kansas City and Lawrence
Check out the finalists and the winners in our 28-Second Film Fest contest
For young to old, funny to serious, our holiday movie guide is stuffed with gifts for all sorts.
