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Recent Articles By Roy Kasten
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Poi Dog Pondering
9 p.m. Wednesday, June 4. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City
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B-Sides grooves to the global sounds of DeVotchKa and Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
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The Dirtbombs
8 p.m. Saturday, May 24. The Creepy Crawl, 3524 Washington Boulevard.
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Slaid Cleaves
7 p.m. Thursday, May 15. Lucas School House, 1220 Allen Avenue
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Chicago Afrobeat Project
9 p.m. Saturday, May 17. Lucas School House, 1220 Allen Avenue
National Features
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Village Voice
A Slice of Mafia With Your Sparkling Water?
New York's biggest distributor of bottled beverages likes the wise guys.
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Black Rushin'
For minorities in the U.S., admitting you like Rush is the ultimate taboo.
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Miami New Times
"I'm Suddenly Bruce Lee"
A Miami City Commissioner dishes about the beating that ended his political career.
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Houston Press
Move Over, Miley
Texan Demi Lovato is the Disney Channel's new tween sensation.
By Robert Wilonsky
Pieta Brown
8 p.m. Thursday, May 29. Lucas School House, 1220 Allen Avenue
By Roy Kasten
Published: May 28, 2008
On last year's Remember the Sun, Pieta Brown starts with the wrong question. "Peace on earth, where'd you go?" she asks, as if it ever existed anywhere but in peacenik delusions. But it's the wrong question, because Brown couldn't be further from the insipid-café school if she set up shop in a juke-joint on a Mississippi flood plain. With guitarist and paramour Bo Ramsey pouring down blues lightning, Brown lends her buzzed-and-slurred voice to honest-enough-to-get-angry rock and country vignettes of "divorce and pills," "masters of war still sleep[ing] at home in their beds" and the "hopes of people under the gun." Like her father, Iowa folk icon Greg Brown, she's a fierce and perceptive songwriter, with a voice and musical vision to match.
