Published Sunday, March 23, 2008
Burnished beauty
By SARA AGNEW of the Tribune’s staff
With silver leaf and sweat, paint and planning, the renovated Missouri Theatre takes shape.
Actor Paul Scofield dies at 86
Lynch gives $1M for meditation
Halle names new baby
MUSIC
BEHIND THE SCENES
Maplewood, Big Muddy
offer up Bard, folk tunes
By LYNN ISRAEL of the Tribune’s staff
The end of March represents the calm before a storm of great entertainment coming in April and May.
Twisted Sister guitarist devotes anthem to Obama
By WAYNE PARRY
of The Associated Press
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Jay Jay French wants to rock. He also wants
Barack.
At home in the music
By JOHN KOSIK
of The Associated Press
NEW YORK - Who said you can never go home again? For Dublin-born singer-guitarist Dave King of Irish-American punk rockers Flogging Molly, all it took was a little help from his eventual wife and
bandmate, violinist Bridget Regan.
LIVE MUSIC
CHART TOPPERS
REVIEW
PERFORMING ARTS
Born for the part
By MICHAEL KUCHWARA
of The Associated Press
NEW YORK - When Patti LuPone was in her early teens, she appeared in a local Long Island production of "Gypsy," put on by what she said was "a group of kids that got together in the summertime. … It was just kids who loved musical theater."
ON STAGE
VISUAL ARTS
NICHE: A WEEKLY PEEK AT AN EMERGING ARTIST
Eon-Ju Jeon
By SARA AGNEW
of the Tribune’s staff
Sometimes Eon-Ju Jeon has no idea where she is going with her artwork.
‘other/self’ exhibit celebrates MU teachers’ talents
Fabric artist added to Smithsonian’s collection
By KATE BRUMBACK
of The Associated Press
FLORENCE, Ala. - Jean Schulman has made it into the permanent collection at the Smithsonian by painting with vivid colors from the earth.
Click on quirky
By DANIEL LOVERING
of The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH - An enormous painted shark covers the side of a building in Florida, its jaws gaping above garbage heaped in the foreground. Towering statues of women warriors loom over cars parked, like toys, along a California road.
EXHIBITS
BOOKS
COVER TO COVER
“The Man Who Pushed America to War” by Aram Roston; (Nation Books, 367 pages).
By CARL HARTMAN
for The Associated Press
Who is the real Ahmad Chalabi?
Author Steve Weinberg examines a fearless
reporter, MU journalism school in new books
By ANNIE NELSON
of the Tribune’s staff
If you’ve ever wondered why both the Tribune and the Columbia Missourian throw out free papers every week, the answer is in a new book: “A Journalism of Humanity” by University of Missouri Professor Steve Weinberg.
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