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I keep imagining that one episode of “Friends.” The one where Rachel tries to make dessert, but two pages of her cookbook stick together, resulting in an English trifle shepherd’s pie combo — the beef custard thing. Lord, please don’t let that be me.
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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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Taylor Swift has locked up the title of “next big thing” in country music, but the award for “next long-term career” appears to be going elsewhere — the Zac Brown Band. Imagine an act whose style is so crossover it implies and recalls everyone from Kenny Chesney and Toby Keith to the Dave Matthews Band, the Allman Brothers, Old Crow Medicine Show, the Band, Commander Cody and Jimmy Buffet. And Phish.
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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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Block Artspace celebrates its 10th anniversary this month — and a stimulating and productive decade it has been. From the moment the gallery opened just off Main Street on 43rd, it became the public face of the Kansas City Art Institute, a place anyone in the community could enter and explore without an escort, a school ID or the time constraints of a special event.
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We get few books about the living jazz artists. Fortunately, Pat Metheny, a hometown hero who has found a market for his music around the world, has inspired a good new book.
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