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a week or two,” says Libba. “It wasn’t The group’s sound evolved over like the one night stands of the late the years, from the jazz fusion of Birmingham’s Musical ‘80s and ‘90s. It was actually kind of Forecast—which included lots of cool; You’d move in for two weeks.” instrumentals—to a funky sound that Eventually, the bar business shifted eventually became heavy funk after King and Queen to less residencies and more one- bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers night shows. Driving as far as Little and Living Colour became popular. Fixtures on the local entertainment scene, Glen Butts Rock and returning to Birmingham “We were always evolving,” says immediately after the gig was not Libba. “Then suddenly, record deal! and Libba Walker have been performing together unusual. They caught us doing something at for more than three decades. By the late ’80s, the group had that one moment. That’s who you changed their name to The Cast. are at that point. We would’ve just By Ed Reynolds Butts and Walker are an amusing kept evolving but that’s just the pic- pair, arguing about timelines and ture the record company took right memories, interrupting one another then.” The band was forced to play ew singers possess the sexy, cool semester and then when I came back frequently, especially when dis- showcase gigs for music industry F detachment on stage that Libba I joined the band River with all these cussing the name change. “We executives and other low-paying jobs Walker radiates, regardless of how guys that I grew up with in played and played as Forecast and to promote the record. “The publish- uncomfortable she might feel in the Guntersville. Every band I’ve been then we dropped the ‘Fore’ and ing money was nice, though; a little spotlight. Having a masterful guitar in, we’ve always had the weirdest started calling it The Cast,” says nest egg,” she admits. accompanist like Glen Butts eases song lists because I’m a flute player!” Glen. “People used to come and “But the whole thing is, it ruined most anxiety, she admits. The two Glen Butts, age 61, grew up in shout: ‘Go Cast! Go Cast!’ Honestly, playing, because you just really have been performing as “Glen and Tuscaloosa, playing as a teen with a it really wasn’t a good name at all couldn’t come home and play,” com- Libba” for the past 14 years after young Chuck Leavell after he and but we didn’t want to lose the peo- plains Glen. When they did finally playing for the previous 20 years in Leavell convinced their parents to let ple who knew who we were. Neither return to Alabama, the crowds were various lineups of local bands them quit high school. They relocat- Forecast or Cast were good names, I great. “But what I noticed,” Libba Forecast, The Cast, and Vova Nova, ed to Macon, Georgia, home of thought, even though I’m probably adds, “and this is me being cynical, and they continue to make a living Capricorn Records. Leavell, of the one who came up with the maybe—as soon as it got around that doing what they love best. “My course, went on to fame and fortune names.” Libba disagrees with Glen’s the record deal was over, the rats Daddy was an engineer,” says Libba. as pianist for the Allman Brothers explanation of the change in names, jumped ship. And I went, ‘Well, “He said that most people don’t before eventually joining the Rolling replying, “We found out there was a good. We know who our friends are, enjoy their jobs. Most people don’t Stones. “Chuck stayed but I came band in Texas named Forecast.” Glen who’s listening and who isn’t.’ But get to drink on the job, either. Sleep back to Tuscaloosa, and you see claims he doesn’t remember that but yeah, I enjoyed the gigs much better late and drink on the job! No health where his career went compared to Libba doesn’t miss a beat. “Well, you after that deal was over because we benefits, though.” mine,” Glen says with a self-deprecat- don’t remember a lot of things,” she could finally do something that’s not On a recent afternoon, the pair ing grin. After returning to Alabama, scoffs good-naturedly, adding, “The on the song list [approved by the shared their history outside a pizza Butts joined the group Chair, which name Forecast actually had to do label]. Butts believes that Vova Nova joint in Cahaba Heights across from traveled to California to record for with [jazz fusion band] Weather was too old to succeed in a business Satterfield’s, an upscale restaurant Warner Brothers. “It was a Southern Report.” where successful bands were at least and bar where they’ve played every rock-blues band,” Butts says. “We ten years younger than they were. Wednesday evening for the past five played all over the South and “Oh, no shit!” Libba interjects. “I was years. As the sun sets, Glen greets a worked out a record deal in 1969. The Record Deal supposed to be the female Anthony late-arriving Libba by wiggling his fin- We stayed at the Tropicana [in By the early ‘90s, The Cast was gar- Kiedis. I said, ‘Shit! He’s a guy and ger in her palm. “That means ‘Don’t California] when Frank Zappa was nering overtures from major labels. he’s 22! He could kick my ass so eas- f*** up, Libba,’” she explains, laugh- staying there and we went to They eventually signed with ily.’ It’s awful to have somebody ing. Disneyland with The Mothers of Chameleon, a subsidiary of Elektra telling you how you’re supposed to The pair started playing together Invention.” Records. The band changed their wear your hair and that you’re sup- in 1978 as members of Tuscaloosa Forecast worked frequently in name to Vova Nova at the insistence posed to jump around on stage.” jazz fusion group Forecast. The 59- the 1980s, often traveling on the of the group’s publisher, according In a recent telephone conversa- year-old Walker, who plays flute and road for two or three months at a to Libba. Signing a major label deal tion, the band’s longtime drummer harmonica in addition to being a time. Walker and Butts refer to this and jumping through the requisite Mark Lanter says he believes that the world-class vocalist, grew up in era as their favorite time. (Drummer hoops, however, was a miserable night The Cast went to The Nick to Guntersville, Alabama. “I played flute Mark Lanter joined in 1980 and experience for the band, which still see the Red Hot Chili Peppers in all through high school. I didn’t sing Milton Davis signed on as bassist included Walker, Butts, Lanter, and 1987 was a turning point for the until I was 20, when I joined a four years later.) “It was a good time Davis. Their self-titled album Vova band. “Everybody flipped out. That band,” she recalls. “I went to school for bands that could travel, because Nova was released in 1992 but the did it,” Lanter recalls. “All of a sud- at Berklee College of Music for a you could go to Florida and play for band found little success. den Glen went out and bought a Marshall [amp] and that’s what everybody wanted to do, go in that [heavy funk] direction. We started writing that way and sort of aban- doned our eclectic, funky, smoother jazz kind of thing we’d been doing. But we really had a long, wonderful ride, though it was up and down at times. When I first got in Forecast, they were traveling all over the place. I wasn’t used to being gone so long. They had this great circuit. We did a USO tour and we played in Key West a couple of months out of the year. But after the record deal crashed, it was time for me to go. I just felt kind of beaten up at that point. The thing I thought was the answer was a record deal, and it real- ly kind of destroyed us.” He agrees that the early 1980s were the most fun. “Oh yeah, we had it made! I think I was probably the restless one,” Lanter admits. “Glen and Libba were so laid back; it was kind of like they didn’t give a shit. In hindsight, it was wonderful. We were just kind of going with the stream, but I was hungry, I was pushing [to go to a higher level]. I’d had my first child and I was like, ‘Oh, God, I gotta do something!’ But really,

4 December 13, 2012 • www.bwcitypaper.com • black & white everything was just fine. I feel like had I not pushed so hard and we had just kept going the way we did— it’s hard to say—that things might’ve turned out better.” Lanter said every- one in the band got excited about the record deal with perhaps the exception of Walker. “I think Libba was like, ‘Well, the boys want to do this, I’ll go along with them.’ But it really wasn’t her thing. We made it her thing and I think we did a good job with it,” he surmises. Vova Nova was with Chameleon Records for about a year and a half, but after the record deal ended they returned to calling themselves The Cast. “We played and had a good time, and then finally it fizzled out to where we were going back to playing the older stuff,” says Butts. “And then finally people in the band started getting other jobs. Milton left because he wrote the hit song ‘I Know’ for Dionne Farris.” Milton Davis, who wrote the song while still in the band, offered it to Vova Nova initially. “He tried to get us to do that song but it wasn’t me,” Libba admits. “It wouldn’t have been a hit for us.” After Mark Lanter left, drummer Leif Bondarenko joined the band. “I played with them for five years. We Forecast in 1978 at the Wooden Nickel (aka The Nick). worked a lot,” says Bondarenko. “Milton was the bass player the first was. “I was in New couple of years I was there and then York City in the mid- Eric Onimus played bass after that. I ’70s playing a gig started in 1993. It was a good run. with my roommate The mid-’90s were a good time for Debbie from music; We probably worked six Berklee,” Walker nights a week.” recalls. “She and I played a couple of gigs on the Upper Odd Gigs and Such East Side at some Forecast played NCO clubs on three place and I came off USO tours, going to Greenland first. stage with Debbie “It was dark the entire month we and walked down- were there,” says Glen. They got the stairs and there was USO jobs while playing in Memphis this crazy guy cutting when someone told them that if they up. Debbie said to had a woman in the band, USO tours me, ‘Do you know were easily available if they simply who that is?’ I asked, applied for them. Another USO trip ‘Did we go to school Vova Nova: Glen Butts, Milton Davis, Libba Walker, Mark Lanter. was to the Caribbean where the with him at Berklee?’ band played in Cuba at the And he heard me and said, ‘Yeah, around. “He’s so good at accompa- up best: “I always think of Libba as Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. The class of ’69.’ Debbie said, ‘That’s nying a singer. He plays all the being the best example of a woman third tour was to Panama. The band John Belushi. He’s on ‘Saturday chords and will sneak in some lead who was accepted as a ‘player’ by had a blast on each trip “except for a Night Live.’’ I had never seen that lines within all of that,” Bondarenko the guys in the band. She was classi- couple of times in Cuba when we show because I always played on says. Glen admits that it was never cally trained as a flautist, but could had to play at sundown,” gripes Saturday nights. He sat in with us his goal to be in a band where gui- kick ass in a hard rock context; sing Libba. “There were these insects later and did the Joe Cocker thing. tarists competed with one another. “I as hard as any front person; trade called ‘noseeums.’ [tiny biting We did ‘Feeling Alright’ or some- hate that. It’s not fun at all,” he says. dirty jokes; drink many of us under insects that are practically invisible] thing. He did the bit where he falls “It’s almost like a gunslinger attitude. the table; and still be a ‘hot chick.’ Sometimes they call them ‘teeth.’ I down flat on his face. And I went, I like supporting and making the When she took up blues harp later, had to quit playing, I couldn’t stand ‘Oh my God! This idiot!’ Then I saw music full of richness and texture.” she jumped on that with the same it.” One show in Cuba was in a him later when they were doing Libba Walker’s reluctance to be a sort of passion. I know Topper Price movie theater where they played as reruns of ‘Saturday Night Live’ and front woman was an issue at times. respected her harp playing, and the opening act before a showing of I’d say, ‘I know that guy!’ But he was “We used to have to cajole her to be that’s saying something.” The Buddy Holly Story. an idiot. He came up to me—and I’m a front person,” says Mark Lanter. Walker sometimes gets preoccu- Butts once played Bryce psychi- sure he did it to Debbie, too —and “We’d get into these fights because pied with having objects on stage in atric hospital in Tuscaloosa with a said, ‘You know, you’re better than she wanted to sit up on the side of just the right place (guitar and trio. Everyone in the audience wore she is!’” the stage and didn’t want to talk to microphone chords arranged so as football helmets, he claims. But the the audience. And we’re like, ‘Libba, not to distract her, etc.). Even little oddest venue was in Gainesville, you’ve got to,’ because Libba is so things in the audience that others Florida, at a prison for the criminally Born to Perform good-looking and sexy, and people would never notice sometime bother insane. It was where executions were Glen Butts is not considered a loved her. So that was a little bit of a her. “Oh, it makes me not breathe carried out, including that of serial ‘shredder’—a guitarist who plays struggle. She wanted to be a side- right,” she says about such distrac- killer Ted Bundy. Libba adds, “The aggressive, ripping solos, though man. We were always like, ‘Well, tions, laughing. “At Satterfield’s, prisoners were heavily medicated he’s certainly capable of such. “He’s Libba, you can’t be a flute player and somebody will leave the seats in dis- and they did not blink, like wolves. a music-maker, he orchestrates,” says be a sideman. You gotta sing and go array when they leave and I’ll go fix That was the first time I ever heard Mark Lanter. “He’s unbeatable at up front and take it and work the them while I’m singing.” Glen claims the expression ‘they’re all doing the that. I think he had that reputation crowd.’ I think she always resented he’s seen her clean glasses off the Thorazine shuffle.’ They were behind way before I knew him; He came out that.” Leif Bondarenko calls her a bar while performing. Butts notes a chain link fence.” of high school and played with “powerhouse, a fireball.” He says her attention to detail, commenting, One of Libba Walker’s most Chair. He was very much a legendary that she’s not shy about telling you “Libba likes to do things very correct- unusual performances was before she guitarist even back then. His is a sub- exactly what’s on her mind. ly and she works hard and focuses ever met Glen. She shared a stage tle approach that not everybody can Boutwell Studios co-owner Mark on it to get it right. Once she gets it one night with a showbiz legend and pull off.” Leif Bondarenko and Libba Harrelson, who has known Walker right, she says, “Look, this is what had no idea who the famous star refer to him as the best accompanist since the 1970s, perhaps sums her I’ve done. Appreciate it.” &

5 black & white • www.bwcitypaper.com • December 13, 2012 FEATURE unqualified dismay at Rudolph’s tions as an analog for America of the glowing snout. Donder nervously civil rights era, where our prosperity Rudolph and the New tells his boss, “I’m sure it will stop as and defense of liberty around the soon as he grows up.” A doubtful, globe was marred by social injustice astonishingly aloof Santa replies, at home. As we witness later, “Well let’s hope so, if he wants to Rudolph becomes the key figure in Social Conscience make the sleigh team some day.” As altering this social condition, using narrator, Sam the Snowman drives his outsider status to bring forth a Is there a connection between the civil rights movement home with a hammer this dilemma new social conscience. and a beloved holiday TV special? by asserting “For the first year the To further illustrate the conform- Donders did a pretty fair job of hid- ist mindset that defines the village, By David Pelfrey ing Rudolph’s, er, nonconformity.” another outsider is introduced. Hermie, one of the elves in Santa’s factory, is not happy making toys; he he Rankin-Bass animated special blizzard, accompanied by footage of Rudolph guides the tele- wants to be a dentist instead. His T Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, city dwellers battling wind and ice. vision audience through a desire for self-actualization confronts a holiday television favorite, is coming Then the setting switches to the North head-on a rigid corporate structure up on half a century since its cre- Pole, where Sam the Snowman (voiced blizzard of discrimination that punishes and shuns noncon- ation. Put another way, this television by Burl Ives) assures the viewer that toward social harmony formists. Out of place in the work- show premiered the same year that this fairy-tale village, Christmastown, is shop—an assembly line replete with the federal Civil Rights Act was very much like any neighborhood, and respect for the a bellowing shop steward and a passed. That may be a coincidence, referring to Santa’s place as “the first individual. screaming factory whistle—Hermie but a close reading of the tale’s sub- castle on the left.” This opening seg- sings, “Why am I Such a Misfit?” In text suggests a casual confluence. The ment links the real world to the fanta- This scene establishes two key stark contrast, the other elves/work- popular song by Johnny Marks is a sy world, establishing right away that elements, the first being the inherent ers sing “We Are Santa’s Elves,” a gentle lesson in valuing those who the lessons learned in one will apply hypocrisy of intolerance where a per- number that emphasizes productivity are somehow different from us, but to the other. To further establish the ceived “abnormality” or aberrance is in every verse and thus functions as a the television program expands this profundity of Rudolph’s story, it begins concerned. A reindeer with a glow- corporate anthem: theme to craft, in almost mythic with his birth in a scene that strongly ing nose is hardly more abnormal terms, a larger story of tolerance and resembles the Nativity. than an entire fleet of deer that can We are Santa’s elves; we fill empowerment. Like Bob Dylan dur- The core narrative dilemma is fly. Santa Claus himself, as we know Santa’s shelves ing the early 1960s, the makers of this introduced as soon as Rudolph is from Clement C. Moore’s A Night We work hard all day, but our show sensed something blowing in able to stand, at which time his little Before Christmas, is in fact a giant work is play. the wind, and not just snow. This par- nose glows like a 40-watt red bulb. elf. Yet Rudolph is singled out as the We don’t like to brag, ticular incarnation of Rudolph, with His father, Donder, is appalled, but odd one. In addition to this double Christmas Eve we always fill his nose so bright, acts as the catalyst Rudolph’s mother gently intones, standard, it is also clear that the core Santa’s bag. for a new social conscience, guiding “Well, we’ll just have to overlook it.” values held by the inhabitants of the his community and the television That his doting parents can be so North Pole may be called into ques- When Hermie informs the toy audience through a blizzard of dis- strongly alarmed by Rudolph’s “oth- tion. This is a hard-working commu- shop’s foreman about his alternative crimination toward social harmony erness” indicates that we are in a nity whose primary goal each year is career plans, he is berated by his boss and respect for the individual. realm of rigid conformity. This to bring joy to children, but intoler- and castigated by the entire assembly The story opens with shots of notion is compounded when Santa, ance of the cruelest kind is plainly of workers. 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6 December 13, 2012 • www.bwcitypaper.com • black & white values displayed by Santa Claus. The group ultimately arrive at the Island of Misfit Toys, where Rudolph recognizes not only that intolerance and discrimination are pervasive, but that this unfair social order has created a growing minority class: “Hey, we’re all misfits!” he exclaims. Later the group encounters the Abominable Snowman, or as Yukon calls him, the “Bumble,” who represents the ultimate outsider. Hermie implements his skills as a dentist to de-fang the beast, and eventually finds the Abominable Snowman a place in the community because he is tall enough to place the star on the village Christmas tree. The Bumble is an analog for a mem- ber of the marginalized criminal class who, post rehabilitation, may be embraced like any other outsider. “No Justice! No Peace!” They may look innocent, but Hermie and Rudolph are plotting a revolution Once Rudolph has exhibited his in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. courage in the conflict with the Bumble, he returns to the village and emphasis on the Christmas toy proj- cal or social endeavor. The pair join minerals with his spiked hammer, the tells his story to the community. ect at the expense of those who are in a new rendition of “Misfit,” craft- fortune-hunting Yukon is a kind of Suddenly recognizing the value of different. In 1964 America, this sce- ing in the process a few slogans for reverse Santa. As such, he presents the these outsiders, the village instantly nario must have registered with the age: “What’s the matter with mis- most subversive image in the story; he adopts a new social conscience, and young execs and ladder climbers who fits?” and “Who decides the test of may not be using his resources to dis- harmony is restored. It is significant were behaving correctly for corporate what is really best?” While singing, tribute toys to children each Christmas, that this occurs prior to Rudolph’s U.S.A., yet privately sensing that the Hermie stages the first outright but he embraces Rudolph and Hermie being asked to lead the sled team times they were a-changing. demonstration by building a snow without compunction. His very nature through the blizzard, otherwise When Rudolph and Hermie leave “effigy” of his factory boss and then suggests that a different kind of morali- Santa’s acceptance might be suspect the village, the two inevitably meet smashing it with his fists. Talk about ty is possible, and even desirable. of exploitation. Furthermore, while and share their plight. The earliest workers of the world . . .; this Although Sam the Snowman has reser- the North Pole village finally hints at a movement take hold as unapologetic solidarity of labor and vations about Yukon (“Seems all he embraces Rudolph and the others in Rudolph explains his social position. civil rights surely moistened the eyes thinks about is silver and gold”) we can spite of their differences, it is note- “I’m independent,” he blurts out, of socialists at the time. plainly see that he is a better friend to worthy that the very thing they suddenly finding empowerment by Along their journey the duo meet the outsiders than Santa, or anyone shunned—his red nose—is ultimate- the very act of boldly redefining his another outsider, the blustery gold else at the North Pole, ever attempted ly the thing which, on that night of identity. Hermie declares, “Let’s be prospector Yukon Cornelius. Driving a to be. Just as the Civil Rights Movement nights, renders Rudolph most valu- independent together,” establishing sled pulled by a team of malamutes, called into question our culture’s pecu- able to his community. Say amen, the solidarity so crucial to any politi- and sampling every inch of ground for liar morality, so this story confronts the somebody. &

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Comedy Club Stardome, 1818 Data disaster. $8. 7 p.m. Alabama Theatre, ❖ Comedy “Casio Kid a.k.a Matt Drive. Details: 444-0008; www.star- 1817 3rd Avenue North. Details: 252- Mitchell.” Mitchell got his start on EVENTS dome.com/events.php. 2262; alabamatheatre.com. the Rick and Bubba radio show, con- tinued to reality show “The 12/13, Thursday 12/13–12/21 12/14–16, 12/19–23, and Fatchelor,” an on-air correspondent ❖ Film Home Alone. An 8-year-old boy, ❖ Book Sale The Friends Bookstore 12/26–31 for “The Tonight Show with Jay accidentally left behind while his family will hand out bags for $6 which you Holiday Lights “ZooLight Safari.” Leno,” appeared in music videos, flies to France for Christmas, must can fill them with as many books as Outdoor ice skating rink, carousel, games shows, and commercials on defend his home against idiotic bur- you can. Proceeds go to fund library train ride, and hayride. Ride tickets MTV and FOX. $12. 6:30 p.m. glars. $8. 7 p.m. Alabama Theatre, 1817 programs. Monday–Saturday 9:30 $4–$6. All-You-Can-Ride Wristbands Comedy Club, 1818 Data Drive. 3rd Avenue North. Details: 252-2262; a.m.–5:30 p.m. Sunday 2:30–5:30 $12. Admission $8. 5–9 p.m. Animal Details: 444-0008; alabamatheatre.com. p.m. Birmingham Public Library, East exhibits are closed. Birmingham www.stardome.com/events.php. Building 2nd Floor, 2100 Park Place. Zoo, 2630 Cahaba Road. Details: ❖ Art “Slow Art Sundays: Sound 12/13–15, Thursday–Saturday Details: 226-3676; 879-0409; www.birminghamzoo.com. Suit.” View the collections in the ❖ Comedy “Henry Cho.” Cho’s www.bplonline.org. museum’s art by looking slowly. credits include NBC’s “Bob Hope’s 12/15, Saturday Docents ask and answer questions to Young Comedians Special,” “MTV’s” 12/14, Friday ❖ Opera/Film Aida. Live broadcast guide the slow art experience and half-hour Comedy Hour” and VH-1’s ❖ Film Christmas Vacation. The presented for one day only. An foster conversation. Look at Nick “Stand-up Spotlight.” Thursday $12. Griswold family’s plans for a big family enslaved Ethiopian princess caught in Cave’s “Sound Suit.” Free. 2 p.m. Friday and Saturday $18. Times vary. Christmas predictably turn into a big a love triangle with the heroic Birmingham Museum of Art, 2000 Radamès, played by Roberto Alagna, Rev. Abraham Woods, Jr. Blvd. and the proud Egyptian princess Details: 254-2565; www.artsbma.org. Amneris, sung by Olga Borodina. ❖ Art “Behind the Covers: Norman Fabio Luisi conducts. 11:55 a.m. Rockwell as Storyteller.” Dolores $16–$24. Birmingham broadcast will Hydock shares a behind-the-scenes be shown at the Vestavia Hills 10, look at how Rockwell created one- Patton Creek 15, and Trussville 16. image stories on the covers of The Encore presentation will be exhibited Saturday Evening Post. 2 p.m. Emmet in select theatres on January 16 at O’Neal Library, 50 Oak Street. 6:30 p.m. Details: www.fath- Details: 870-0459; www.eolib.org. omevents.com/#!aida. 12/17, Monday 12/15 and 12/22 ❖ Holiday Displays “3rd Annual ❖ Breakfast with Santa $15 for Crestwood Aglow.” Crestwood North NEW YEAR’S EVE children. $19 for adults. Times vary. residents are asked to place white Birmingham Zoo, 2630 Cahaba paper bag luminaries outside their Road. Details: 879-0409; www.birm- home, sidewalk, walkway, or stairs. WITH THE ASO inghamzoo.com. Driving or walking tour of neighbor- Lakeview Pub Crawl “1st Annual hood event welcome. Free. 6–9 p.m. Reindeer Romp Bar Crawl.” Visit Details: www.facebook.com/crestwood- A Viennese Celebration Lakeview starting at Tin Roof, Nana north. Funks, and ending at Innisfree. Drink Monday, Dec. 31, 2012 | 6 p.m. specials and no cover charges. Helps 12/18, Tuesday families of the Ronald McDonald Holiday Lights “Wacky Tacky Light Alabama Theatre house. 21 and up. $25. 5:30 p.m. Tin Tour.” Guided bus ride to see light Roof, 2709 7th Avenue South. Details: shows. For adults. 7 p.m. $10–$20. Christopher Confessore, Conductor 638-7263; http://tinyurl.com/cg5xeb3. Includes bus ride and holiday meal. Rhoslyn Jones, Soprano Avondale Brewery, 201 41st Street 12/16, Sunday South. Tickets and details: 540-6642. Join the ASO at the beautiful Alabama Theatre for our annual toast to a happy, prosperous and musical 2013. Ring in the New Year with waltzes, polkas, operetta arias and a champagne toast at intermission. Sponsored by PNC Bank

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8 December 13, 2012 • www.bwcitypaper.com • black & white www.freshairfamily.org. Theatre, 1817 3rd Avenue North. ❖ Film Miracle on 34th Street When Details: 252-2262; alabamatheatre.com. a man claiming to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a lawyer 12/21–22, Friday–Saturday decides to defend him by arguing in ❖ Film The Polar Express On court that he is the real thing. $8. 7 Christmas Eve, a boy boards a train p.m. Alabama Theatre, 1817 3rd headed to the North Pole and Santa Avenue North. Details: 252-2262; Claus’ home. Proceeds go to Kid alabamatheatre.com. One Transport and the Lyric Theatre ❖ Music/Drums Benefit Juke Tribe restoration project. $12. 2 p.m. and Magic City Harvest are partnering Alabama Theatre, 1817 3rd Avenue to help alleviate hunger. Performers North. Details: 252-2262; alabamath- Erynias Tribe-Tribal Fusion Bellydance. eatre.com. 6–11 p.m. $10 at the door plus canned good or non-perishable item. 12/21 and 23, Friday and Sunday Bottletree, 3719 3rd Avenue South. ❖ Opera “Home for the Holiday’s.” Details: 591-3663; www.jukatribe.com; Family-friendly concert featuring www.magiccityharvest.org. familiar carols and Christmas songs. $20 and up. December 21 at 7:30 12/19, Wednesday p.m. December 23 at 2:30 p.m. ❖ Holiday “Santa Comes to Slice.” Samford University, Brock Recital Hall, Santa and Mrs. Claus are traveling to 800 Lakeshore Drive. Details: 322- Birmingham for dinner. Free pictures 6737; www.operabirmingham.org. with the Claus’. Free. 6–8 p.m. Slice Pizza and Brew, 725 29th Street 12/23, Sunday South. Details: 715-9300; www.slice- ❖ Battle of the Bands “Jingle birmingham.com. Bell Rock Metal Fest.” 18 and up show. $10. 4 p.m. Zydeco, 2001 15th 12/20, Thursday Avenue South. Details: 933-1032; ❖ Film Elf. After wreaking havoc on www.zydecobirmingham.com. the elf community due to his size, a man raised as an elf at the North Pole 12/25, Tuesday is sent to the U.S. in search of his true ❖ Improv/Games “Santa’s identity. $8. 7 p.m. Alabama Theatre, Underpants.” Short form games such 1817 3rd Avenue North. Details: 252- as The Alphabet Game, Broadway, 2262; alabamatheatre.com. and Four Square with improv actors. $8–$10. 8 p.m. Fifth Avenue 12/21, Friday Antiques, 2410 5th Avenue South. Through December 20, the Vulcan Materials Gallery at the Alabama School of Fine Arts presents works by Jim Burnett in an exhibition ❖ Film A Christmas Story. Ralphie has Details: 687-5233; www.extempora- entitled Stranger” (Wherever You Go, There You Are). The exhibit is to convince his parents, teachers, and neoustheatre.com. free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday Santa that a Red Ryder BB gun is the from 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. perfect gift. $8. 7 p.m. Alabama

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9 black & white • www.bwcitypaper.com • December 13, 2012 # CALENDAR 12/26, Wednesday Details: 328-4733; http://rojo.birm- inghammenus.com. ❖ Improv Comedy “Ugly Baby ❖ Predicts 2013.” $4. 8 p.m. Avondale Get Down Downtown Brewing Company, 201 41st Street Celebrate New Year’s Eve in the Loft South. Details: www.facebook.com/- Entertainment District. $20 tickets Day Trips uglybabyimprov. get you onto the party bus and into Pale Eddie’s, Rogue Tavern, The Destinations More Than 60 Miles 12/28, Friday Wine Loft, Steel, and The Metro Bar. From Birmingham Party starts at 8 p.m. and ends in ❖ Dance “Jesco White: The Dancing “❖ ” Denotes a new listing. 2013. Rooms available at the Outlaw with The Hunter Lawley Sheraton Birmingham for $79/night. Fast Forward: Modern Moments 1913>>2013 Drawn from the Band.” Taking the shoes handed The Sheraton, 2101 Richard collections of MoMA, this exhibition includes for than 130 works of paint- down from his father; Jesco will per- Arrington Jr. Blvd North. Loft ing, sculpture, graphic design, film, video, and installation art by well- form a style of dancing that is a mix District, 1st and 2nd Avenues North. known artists such as Matisse, Dali, O’Keeffe, and Koons. Forward also of tap and clog dancing derived from Details: http://tinyurl.com/a28kylv. presents work by Sarah Sze, Aaron Curry, and Katharina Grosse. Through the Appalachian region. 18 and up. January 20. High Museum of Art, 1280 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta. ❖ New Year’s Eve Folk $10. 9:30 p.m. Zydeco, 2001 15th Details: 404-733-4400; www.high.org. Avenue South. Details: 933-1032; Extravaganza Bring in 2013 with German Expressionism from the Detroit Institute of Arts www.zydecobirmingham.com. Henry Dunkle, Colossal Gospel, and Adventure the Great. Doors open at Exhibition includes paintings, sculpture, and works on paper while 12/28–29 and 12/31, 8 p.m. Show at 9 p.m. 18 and up. exploring the artistic movement from 1905 to 1950. Includes work by Friday–Saturday and Monday $8. Details: www.thebottletree.com. Max Beckmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Kathe Kollwitz, and Franz Marc. Through February 10. The Frist Center for the Visual ❖ New Years Eve Celebration ❖ Concert Black Jacket Symphony Arts, 919 Broadway, Nashville, TN. Details: fristcenter.org. performs The Police’s Entertainment by Total A$$ET$, “Synchronicity.” General admission food, midnight champagne toast, on first come/first serve basis. Doors and access to view entire collection arias from guest soprano, Rhoslyn 4 at 7:30 p.m. January 5 at 2 p.m. and open 8:30 p.m. Show 9:30 p.m. $35. of antique automobiles. Doors open Jones. 6 p.m. $34–$59. Alabama 7:30 p.m. $18–$62. BJCC, 2100 WorkPlay Theatre, 500 23rd Street 8 p.m. Performance 9 p.m.–1 a.m. Theatre, 1817 3rd Avenue North. Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd North. South. Details: 879-4773; www.black- $65. Old Car Heaven, 115 35th Tickets and details: www.alaba- Details: 800-745-3000; www.bjcc.org. jacketsymphony.com. Street South. Table reservations and masymphony.org/nye.htm. ❖ Violin “Masterworks: details: 326-8902; oldcarheaven.com. Mendelsohn’s Violin Concerto.” Irish 12/31, Monday ❖ New Year’s Eve: A Viennese 1/4–5, Friday–Saturday Conductor, Courtney Lewis, to play ❖ ❖ Champagne Toast Midnight. Celebration Annual champagne Trucks “Monster Jam.” Monster Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite and Free. Rojo, 2921 Highland Avenue. toast featuring polkas, waltzes, and trucks will undertake custom- William Walton’s First Symphony. designed track with obstacles. January $24–$69. 8 p.m. Alys Stephens

Final Weeks of Norman Rockwell Exhibit Time is running out to see Norman Rockwell’s America at the Birmingham Museum of Art (2000 Reverend Abraham Woods, Jr. Boulevard). The exhibition, which ends Sunday, January 6, includes 52 original paintings and drawings, and all 323 Saturday Evening Post covers Rockwell created between 1916 and 1963. Rockwell’s six-decade career coincided with semi- nal moments in American history, including four wars, the Great Depression, the space race, and the Civil Rights Movement, all depicted in his work. Tickets are $15. For details, call 254- 2565 or visit www.artsbma.org. On Sunday, December 16, at 2 p.m. the Emmet O’Neal Library (50 Oak Street) will host storyteller Dolores Hydock presenting Behind the Covers: Norman Rockwell as Storyteller. Hydock will share a behind-the-scenes look at how Rockwell created his one-image sto- ries in some of most renowned covers of The Saturday Evening Post. “Over the summer, I read a lot of books about— and by—Norman Rockwell, and I’ve been fascinated by his description of how he tried to tell stories through his paintings,” says Hydock. “The program will detail Rockwell’s own explanation of how he carefully crafted his paintings to create the stories inside them. Learning what he said about his process has made me better able to ‘see’ the stories that he told on canvas.” Admission is free. For more information, call 445-1118 or visit www.eolib.org. —Jane Longshore

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1/10, Thursday Tickets and details: www.alabamabal- Christmas pageant. Times vary. ❖ Art Lecture UK Artist, Michael let.org/Nutcracker2012.shtml. $10–$15. Community Education Harding, will present his paints in a THEATRE & DANCE South Building, 1220 South 50th demonstration that discusses what “❖ ” Denotes a new listing Through 12/15 Street. Tickets and details: 590-0155; makes “quality art materials” and Sister Robert Anne’s Cabaret www.bhamparkplayers.com. archival techniques in preparation 12/13–16 and 20–22 Class Solo act starring Tam DeBolt A Dickens Vest Pocket and painting. Free. 6 p.m. Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay as Sister RobertAnne. The newest of Christmas Carol Join the Reservations recommended. Forstall Dance Party Play about an ele- the “Nunsense” musicals is about a Cratchets, Tiny Tim, all of the Art Center, 402 Palisades Blvd. mentary school teacher who is put street-wise Sister teaching a class the Christmas Spirits and Ebenezer Reservations and details: 870-0480; on trial after producing a pageant art of cabaret. Thursday–Saturday Scrooge in an adaptation of Charles www.forstallartcenter.com. that depicts former President night shows at 8 p.m. $30. Cash or Dickens’ famous tale. Holiday craft- ❖ Concert “The Classical Edge: Abraham Lincoln as gay. Times vary. check only. Terrific New Theatre, making and photos with Santa one Gabriel Kahane.” 8 p.m. $19–$39. Alys $12–$17. Fifth Avenue Antiques, 2821 2nd Avenue South. Tickets and hour before the morning perform- Stephens Center, Jemison Hall, 1200 2410 5th Avenue South. Tickets and details: 328-0868; www.terrific- ance; the Birmingham Girls Choir 10th Avenue South. Tickets and details: details: 565-8TDT; www.theatre- newtheatre.com. will perform carols before the 975-2787; www.alabamasymphony.org. downtown.org. The Best Christmas Pageant evening show. Hot cocoa and cook- Ever The Herdmans are “the worst ies before both performances. 1/12, Saturday 12/14–16 and 12/21–23 kids in the history of the world.” $8–$10. 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets and details: 975-2787; ❖ Concert Patterson Hood, co- The Nutcracker The Alabama Ballet They lie, steal, smoke cigars, swear, www.alysstephens.org. founder of Drive-By Truckers, to per- will perform George Balanchine’s ver- and hit little kids. So no one is pre- form. Happy hour begins 6:30 p.m. sion of this classic holiday ballet. Times pared when this outlaw family The Snow Queen A contemporary featuring local craft beers. Show 7:30 vary. $27–$52. Samford University, invades church one Sunday and spin on the classic Hans Christian p.m. $33. Alys Stephens Center, 1200 Wright Center, 800 Lakeshore Drive. decides to take over the annual Anderson tale of good prevailing 10th Avenue South. Tickets and details: 975-2787; www.alysstephens.org. ❖ Concert A musical tribute to Ray Charles with Ellis Hall. 8–10 p.m. $27–$69. Samford University, Wright Center, 800 Lakeshore Drive. Tickets SHOP LOCAL and details: 975-2787; www.alaba- BIG IDEAS from masymphony.org. 1/13, Sunday ❖ Southern Bridal Show Meet LITTLEHARDWARE wedding professionals, taste samples of cakes and foods from caterers, attend fashion show, get ideas for We are a local distributor for this outstanding brand. High-quality trusted bridal registries, and plan honey- equipmentusedbypoliceofficers,firefighters,andtroopsincombat. moons. Noon–5 p.m. BJCC, 2100 Durable, powerful, and dependable. Hundreds of styles. Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd North. Details: 800-532-8917; www.eli- teevents.com. ❖ Music “UAB Piano Series.” Performance by Alexander Shtarkman. $5–$15. 4 p.m. Alys Stephens Center, 1200 10th Avenue South. Tickets and details: 975-2787; http://tinyurl.com/96ldebb.

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11 black & white • www.bwcitypaper.com • December 13, 2012 # CALENDAR over evil. 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. December 21. Gallery hours $10–$20. Alabama School of Fine Wednesday–Saturday 11 a.m.–3 p.m. Arts, Dorothy Jemison Day Theatre, 800 19th Street North. Tickets and Artists Incorporated details: www.arova.org. 3365 Morgan Drive; 979-8990; www.artistsincorporated.com. Through 12/16 “Back Together.” Artwork by Frank The Best Christmas Pageant Fleming and Al Sella. Exhibit through Ever The Herdmans are the worst December 31. kids in the history of the world. They lie, steal, smoke cigars, swear, and Beta Pictoris hit little kids. So no one is prepared 2411 Second Avenue North; 413- when this outlaw family invades 2999; www.betapictorisgallery.com church one Sunday and decides to “DRIFT.” Five artists, Ben Dowell, take over the annual Christmas pag- Stacy Fisher, Christian Sampson, eant. $10–$15. December 13–15 at James Woodfill, and Matt Wycoff, will 7:30 p.m. and December 16 at 2:30 exhibit their works of art. Exhibit p.m. 1220 50th Street South. Details: through December 28. www.bhamparkplayers.com. “Unexpected Protocol.” Featured Through 12/21 artists Deborah Karpman and Mario Trejo. Exhibit through December 28. Holiday Performance “Holidaze.” Christmas Comedy Performances by Lexie Dorsett, Haley Birmingham Civil Rights Institute When the family togetherness of the holidays becomes stifling, comedy Evans, Davis Haines, Anthony 520 16th Street North; 328-9696; offers the perfect escape. On Tuesday, December 25, Extemporaneous Washington, and Cecil E. Washington, www.bcri.org Theatre Company (ETC) will present Santa’s Underpants, featuring short- Jr., accompanied by the RMTC Youth ❖ “Black from the Heart of Dixie: form improv games with a holiday twist. Games will include the Alphabet Programs. Includes classics like Game, the object of which is to create a scene in which each line of dia- Famous African American Alabamians.” “White Christmas,” “The Sleigh,” logue starts with the letter that follows the letter that started the previous Features portraits of influential African “Christmas Lullaby,” and “Christmas line, and Broadway, in which the audience suggests the name of an imagi- Americans. Several photographs are Time is Here” plus original songs like nary Broadway musical and its signature hit song, and the actors take from The National Portrait Gallery “Frosty the Soul Man” and “Snows up turns singing one word of the song at a time. including Hank Aaron, Jesse Owens, Baby!” Thursday–Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; ETC will follow Santa’s Underpants with To Mock a Killing Bird from Saturday–Sunday, 2 p.m. $30–$35. and Booker T. Washington. The Friday, December 28 through Monday, December 31. Four guests arrive at RMTC Cabaret Theatre, 301 19th remainder of the exhibition consists of a holiday party, and soon there’s a cold-blooded murder. The audience is Street North. Tickets and details: 324- paintings from the Alabama Music Hall invited to help solve the improvised homicide. All performances begin at 8 2424; www.redmountaintheatre.org. of Fame and from artist Ronald p.m. at Fifth Avenue Antiques/Theatre Downtown (2410 Fifth Avenue McDowell, which include Wilson South). Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door (cash or check 12/28–31, Friday–Monday Pickett, The Temptations, George only). For more information, call 687-5233 or visit www.extemporane- ❖ To Kill a Mockingbird Four Washington Carver, and Rosa Parks. oustheatre.com. guests show up to a holiday party, Through December 30 On Wednesday, December 26, head to Avondale Brewing Company and soon there’s a cold-blooded “Servant of the Soul.” An exhibition of (201 41st Street South) at 8 p.m. for Ugly Baby Predicts 2013. This group murder. When the police arrive, the drawings, paintings, and installations performs improvised comedy in the long-form, Chicago style of Second audience is invited to help in the by Birmingham artist Rob Clifton. City Improv. Performers will include Brian Barrett, Billy Ray Brewton, Tim investigation to solve this improvised Childers, Nick Crawford, Mike Cunliffe, J’Mel R. Davidson, Christopher ❖ yuletide homicide. 8 p.m. $8–$10. “In Retrospect.” Photography exhibi- Davis, Callie Mauldin, and Arik Sokol. Admission is $4. For details, visit the Fifth Avenue Antiques, 2410 5th tion by Celestia Morgan. Morgan’s work Ugly Baby Improv Facebook page at www.facebook.com/uglybabyimprov. Avenue South. Details: 687-5233; reflects on “family long-kept traditions, —Jane Longshore www.extemporaneoustheatre.com. treasured memories, and socioeconom- ic transformation of a Birmingham com- BMA.” The Birmingham Museum of Art Featured artists include Michael Baker, munity.” Through February 24, 2013. presents an after-hours experience on Matthew Barton, Christina Daniel, Leah Artist details: www.celestiamorgna.com. the first Thursday of each month when Hamel, Melissa Kirkpatrick, Kelsea GALLERIES Birmingham Museum of Art the museum is open until 9 p.m. Nichols, Brandon Oswalt, Tracey General Admission is free. Wander the Resler, Constance Sellers, Lindsay 2000 Eighth Avenue North; 254- “❖ ” Denotes a new listing. galleries, sip cocktails in the garden, Sheikh. Opening reception is Friday, 2565; www.artsbma.org. catch a movie, or sit with friends for December 14, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. All Things Gallery Through January 20 tapas at Oscar’s. Birmingham Museum 4704 Cahaba River Road J-2; 977- “Arctic Beauty.” This exhibition pres- of Art, 2000 Rev. Abraham Woods, Jr. gallery 1930 8620; www.allthingsgallery.biz ents 87 works of art made by the Inuit Boulevard. Details: 254-2565; 1930 Cahaba Road; 870-1930 Through December 31 people of Canada. Formerly known as www.artsbma.org/events/first-thursdays- New works including sculptural Works by Richard Russell. Eskimo, the Inuit are descended from event-information. assemblages and paintings by Patricia cultures that have inhabited the Arctic Ellisor Gaines. Every Sunday regions of Canada, the United States, Art Folk Gallery Docent-led tours of various galleries Greenland, and Russia for over a The Library Theatre 1731 1st Avenue North; 908-3665; and exhibitions. 2 p.m. Free admission. www.artfolkgallery.org. thousand years. 200 Municipal Drive; 739-7124; www.thelibrarytheatre.com “Dreaming Tracks.” New paintings by First Thursday of the Month Cassandra Griffen Studio ❖ Arthur Price. Exhibit through “First Thursday: After Hours at the 1620 Cherry Avenue; 791-0656 Abstract, mixed-media paintings by Kate Merritt Davis. Open during Through December 22 Hoover Library hours. Through “From Civil Rights to Jazz and on to December 28. Artist details: BellyDance with Aziza! Do You Want to Blues.” Black and white photography. www.katemerritdavis.com. 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14 December 13, 2012 • www.bwcitypaper.com • black & white BOOKS Beer Hopping New Year’s Eve The world of craft beer. By Danner Kline PARTY WITH THE WORLD AND ALL ITS GREAT BEER Greatest Local Beer Moments of 2012 Oskar Blues, arrived and a few dozen This is the last Beer Hopping column others joined shortly afterward. In of 2012, and that can only mean one addition to cans from locals Good thing: an end-of-year listicle. Here is People and Straight to Ale, canned my Birmingham-centric top six craft beers from Sierra Nevada, Abita, Avery, beer moments of 2012. Tallgrass, Shiner, Southern Star, Anderson Valley, NOLA, Westbrook, 1. The passing of the Gourmet Bottle and more are widely available. You no Bill. I’m pretty biased on this one, longer have any excuse for drinking since raising the sixteen ounce limit on watery beer in places where glass is beer containers was one of the two prohibited. Grab some craft cans and original goals I had in mind when I drink the good stuff. started Free the Hops in 2004. Although it took eight long years, it was 6. Taking a larger view, one of the worth the wait because it brought a biggest stories in craft beer this year couple of thousand new beers to our was the move by several established state, many from breweries shipping craft breweries to open second loca- beer to Alabama for the first time. tions in distant states. Sierra Nevada, New Belgium, Oskar Blues, and 2. The opening of Birmingham’s Lagunitas all made big announcements third local brewery, Cahaba Brewing about opening facilities in other states Company. Good People hit the scene to help with shipping costs and ensure in 2008, Avondale opened its doors freshness. This was a major develop- in 2011, and Cahaba began brewing ment in the craft beer universe beer on 3rd Avenue South this past because where the beer is brewed has summer. While Beer Engineers cur- long been a point of importance for 600+ BOTTLED & SELECT DRAFT BEERS | LIVE MUSIC | GREAT FOOD | rently brews at Back Forty’s facility in craft consumers. Folks knew that when Gadsden, they hope to open a brew- they bought a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, PARTY FAVORS | MIDNIGHT CHAMPAGNE TOAST | 23 LARGE-SCREEN TVS ery in metro Birmingham next year. they were getting beer from Chico, Down the road a little ways, Druid California. They knew Fat Tire was PARTY INSIDE OR OUTSIDE ON THE PATIO OR COURTYARD City Brewing just opened in brewed in Fort Collins, Colorado. The Tuscaloosa. We are witnessing the beers’ origin contributed to their per- | golden era for local beer. Enjoy it. sonality. Now, some of the biggest OPEN 3 P.M. TO 3 A.M. PICKWICK PLAZA names in craft beer have made a huge FREE VALET PARKING | FREE VALIDATED PARKING IN MAGNOLIA AVE. LOT 3. The sixth annual Magic City bet on a craft beers’ origin becoming Brewfest. Another bias for me, as I less significant. The new facilities don’t put a lot of effort into bringing the come online until next year, so we’ll inaugural Brewfest to life in 2007 see how it goes. and continued to have an active role for a few years. I’m thrilled it is rec- And finally, my greatest wish for 2013. URBAN LIVING - SOUTHSIDE STYLE ognized as one of the premier food The last missing piece in Birmingham One Bedroom, Two Bedroom & drink events in Birmingham now beer culture is a brewpub. The line and keeps getting better each year. between a production brewery and One Bath $450 Two Bath $495

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15 black & white • www.bwcitypaper.com • December 13, 2012 BOOKS Long Player By Chris Richards 360 Sound: The Columbia label in the world became one of the most powerful, propelling the Records Story careers of Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, By Sean Wilentz. Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand, Johnny Cash, Simon and Garfunkel, Bruce Chronicle Books, 336 Springsteen, Mariah Carey and pages, $49. Beyoncé. With so much turf to cover, Wilentz does his best to resist text- book dryness. Instead, 360 Sound ith all the books and CDs that ends up reading more like a moistur- W used to live on our shelves ized Wikipedia page, recounting how ascending into the clouds, we still Columbia adapted to changes in for- need something to put on our coffee mat—the radio, the jukebox, the LP, recordings. Artists and labels have tables, right? the CD—only to crash on the rocks squabbled ever since. That’s one way to explain 360 of digital file-sharing. In 1948, Columbia introduced the Sound, a large, lovely, photo-crammed It’s a trajectory that was impossi- 12-inch, 33-rpm album, a sleek black book celebrating a storied American ble to imagine in the 1880s, when the platter that could hold up to 22 1/2 record label’s 125 years in a business Columbia Phonograph Co. opened minutes of sound on each side. that’s recently turned perilous. for business in Washington at 627 E Responsible for some of the book’s Commissioned by Columbia, Princeton Street NW, taking its name from the many sidebars, music critic Dave Marsh parachutes in to point out that the format shift benefited Broadway before the Beatles. “These cast albums can be seen as the first ‘concept albums,’ 10 years before Sgt. Pepper’s, 25 before Thriller,” he writes. The book’s star power is in the photos. There is an image of Bob Dylan jamming with Johnny Cash, portraits of Beyoncé looking Beyoncélicious, and snapshots of Miles Davis wolfing cigarettes in the iconic Columbia studios—photos so intimate that you might cough. Also impressive are the vintage advertisements sprinkled throughout. In one, a bearded guy in a chambray ciently, but he never really captures shirt stares us down beneath a the identity of the label itself. He prophetic tag–line: “This man puts writes of its “mystique of tradition, more thoughts, more ideas and images sophistication and elevated taste,” into one song than most people put but in the end, Columbia feels more into an album.” It’s an ad for like a business that tried to touch Springsteen’s debut disc, Greetings any corner of popular music that from Asbury Park. might generate dollars. With the pictures doing a lot of the Between 2002 and 2003, the talking for the talent, Wilentz’s text label took a historic dive, losing offers a slightly more thorough exami- $132 million. Wilentz soberly closes nation of Columbia’s executives, things out with a prescription worthy including Clive Davis before he found- of an annual report: “Fulfilling its ed his Arista Records empire and commitments to musical excellence historian Sean Wilentz has undertaken District. In the 1890s, the company Tommy Mottola, who oversaw some of as well as financial success will the tricky task of sprinting across 13 relocated to Manhattan, where it Columbia’s fattest days. The most inter- require unprecedented acuity and decades of music, technology, and scored some of its first commercial esting in the lot is John Hammond, a innovation in the digital era.” commerce, sharing precious page successes with recorded marches by jazz and blues advocate who consid- But on the adjacent page, there’s space with 300 gorgeous archival pho- John Philip Sousa. One guy who was- ered his support of black artists in the an antidote to the anticlimax—a hand- tos of Columbia signees who helped n’t pleased about it: John Philip 1930s to be an act of “social protest.” some photograph of Springsteen as he shape the arc of American song. Sousa, who warned against “the men- (Decades later, he signed Dylan, who explores the aisles of an empty arena It’s a story that starts with ace of mechanical music,” predicting initially flopped and was nicknamed in Somewhereville, U.S.A. What’s he Thomas Edison and ends with Adele. that performing musicians would lose “Hammond’s Folly.”) looking for? Perhaps a spot on your Along the way, the oldest record income to these inanimate new Wilentz renders these men effi- coffee table. &

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16 December 13, 2012 • www.bwcitypaper.com • black & white MUSIC A Mosaic of Jazz Icons CONCERT New DVD and CD releases by the giants of the genre. By Bart Grooms CALENDAR

he Jazz Icons DVD series, which peter then, and you hear (and see) it. (Bolded text indicates a new listing.) T has been described as doing for Rahsaan Roland Kirk was jazz video what the Criterion utterly unique, playing two or three Collection does for movies, almost horns at a time and covering the histo- Local Shows came to an end a couple of years ago ry of jazz in a single concert. That’s 12/15 Grime Fest Tour W/ Trill Bass—Matthew’s Bar & Grill when the DVD market went into what you get on this 1972 date, which 12/15 Dylan Leblanc/Belle Adair—Bottletree freefall. We can be thankful (again) for is a bit more avant-garde in places than 12/15 Scotty McCreery—BJCC Concert Hall Mosaic Records (mosaicrecords.com), the 60s shows on his earlier Jazz Icons 12/21 Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires/Monitors/Action Action—Spring mail-order niche marketers par excel- DVD, but an exhilarating experience Street Firehouse (all ages, free—but can of food or article of winter lence, for bringing us the fifth box set nonetheless. This is the best example clothing requested) from a crew who does justice to of where seeing as well as hearing the 12/27 Corey Smith—Alabama Theatre priceless performances of the greatest performance makes it so much richer. 12/27 Autumn Lords—The Nick names in jazz, with loving attention to Finally there is perhaps the most 12/28 Trey Songz/Miguel—BJCC Arena their product: cleaned-up sound, special of all—a 1969 solo piano 12/29 Zac Brown Band/Blackberry Smoke/Levi Lowery—BJCC Arena accurate info, informative liner notes. recital from Thelonious Monk, 12/31 The Ladies Of . . . (Johnny Blade, James Hall, Sam Smithwick)— Once again drawing from the vast alone in a studio, playing whatever Rojo well of European (this time, all tunes came to mind (and some inter- 12/31 Total Assets—Old Car Heaven French) TV archives, Jazz Icons round esting ones emerged, like the rarely 1/10 Floating Action—Parkside Café five focuses on post-bebop giants. played “Ugly Beauty”, a title that 1/12 David Allan Coe—Zydeco evokes the stark, raw angu- 1/16 Justin Bieber—BJCC Arena larity of Monk’s music). 1/17 Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers—Workplay Monk’s tunes seem simple 1/19 Jon Spencer Blues Explosion—Bottletree at first, but this video helps 1/21 Candlebox—Zydeco you get the subtleties of his 1/27 Yo La Tengo—Workplay Theatre sound as well as the straight- 2/01 Little Big Town—Alabama Theatre forward swagger. It’s almost 2/08 Skybucket Records 10th Anniversary w/ Belle Adair/Barton like having the genius him- Carroll/Terry Ohms & Them/Through the Sparks—Bottletree self in your living room. 2/09 Skybucket Records 10th Anniversary w/ The Magic Math/Delicate Many of the past Jazz Cutters/13ghosts/Vulture Whale—Bottletree Icons series are also available 2/15 Will Downing—BJCC Concert Hall for rent through Netflix. 2/20–21 Leo Kottke—Hoover Library Theatre 2/23 Kid Rock/Buckcherry—BJCC Arena Mosaic also continues to set 2/28 Ken Stringfellow—Bottletree the standard for jazz music 3/05 Bruce Cockburn—Workplay reissues, especially in their 3/07 They Might Be Giants—Workplay Theatre breathtakingly elegant limit- 3/17 “Winter Jam”—BJCC ed edition CD (and LP!) box 3/18 Jim Gaffigan—BJCC Concert Hall sets, with extensive notes 3/25 Garrison Keillor—Samford Univ. and photos in LP-sized pack- 3/26 Maroon 5/Neon Trees/Owl City—BJCC ages. Check the web site for what moves you, but don’t Drummer Art Blakey’s concert miss having a look at these: Regional Shows in the earliest of this batch (1959), The Quincy Jones 12/31 Bassnectar—Bridgestone Arena, Nashville and features tenor saxophonist Wayne ABC/Mercury Big Band Jazz 12/31 Lee Bains & the Glory Fires—Standard Deluxe, Waverly, AL Shorter four months into his first Sessions Yes, Q was a great jazz 1/12 William Shatner—Tennessee Perf. Arts Center, Nashville important gig; he plays brilliantly, as arranger/bandleader before he was a 1/13 William Shatner—Cobb Arts Centre, Atlanta does trumpeter Lee Morgan, and— superstar record producer, and this 1/18 Bloc Party—Cannery Ballroom, Nashville not least—their irrepressible boss. 5-CD set has most of his 1959-61 tri- 1/18 Ellie Goulding—Tabernacle, Atlanta Tenor sax giant John Coltrane’s umphs, with soloists like Art Farmer, 1/19 Rain Parade—The Earl, Atlanta set is with his classic McCoy Tyner- Zoot Sims, Phil Woods, Freddie 1/23 Lucinda Williams—Alys Stephens Center Jimmy Garrison-Elvin Jones quartet. It Hubbard, and Benny Golson. 1/29 Morrissey—Ryman Aud., Nashville is from 1965, and be forewarned that The Complete Atlantic 1/31 Morrissey—Cobb Arts Centre, Atlanta by this point Trane’s playing and Studio Recordings of The 1/31 Lloyd Cole—Eddie’s Attic, Decatur, GA approach had reached a fire-breathing Modern Jazz Quartet 1956-64 2/02 The English Beat—Melting Point, Athens, GA intensity unprecedented in any music, They set the standard for class with 2/05 The Residents—Variety Playhouse, Atlanta let alone jazz. It is a bit less so than their mix of baroque vocabulary and 2/09 Steven Wright—Variety Playhouse, Atlanta the large-ensemble Ascension, record- the blues, and there are few groups 2/14 Rick Springfield—Wildhorse Saloon, Nashville ed a month before (a short version is whose music feels so good to listen 2/15 Kid Rock/Buckcherry—Bridgestone Arena, Nashville played here), and if you’re a Coltrane to (or who turned on more people 2/24 Kid Rock/Buckcherry—Von Braun Center, Huntsville devotee (like me), it’s essential, but it to jazz itself). This 7-CD box has 14 2/27 Bon Jovi—Philips Arena, Atlanta may not endear you to members of of their albums, including some of 2/28 Mary Chapin Carpenter/Shawn Colvin—Alys Stephens Center your extended family. their best, and the remastered sound 3/01 Pink—Philips Arena, Atlanta Another great tenor man was is very fine. 3/02 Pink—Bridgestone Arena, Nashville Johnny Griffin, whose 1971 shows Charles Mingus - The Jazz 3/02 Steve Martin—Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta have him staying close to the bebop Workshop Concerts 1964-65 3/05 Eels—Variety Playhouse, Atlanta ethos on which he was all but unbeat- The groundbreaking bassist/compos- 3/10 Lady Gaga—Bridgestone Arena, Nashville able. Drummer Art Taylor keeps the er ran his own record label during 3/11 Lady Gaga—Philips Arena, Atlanta swing hard, and it’s fitting that they are this period, but only a small part of 3/16 Lisa Loeb—Variety Playhouse, Atlanta joined by bop patriarch Dizzy Gillespie the music on this 7-CD set was ever 3/16 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds/Sharon Van Etten—Ryman Aud, for a 14-minute segment. Griff is at his released on CD, another part only on Nashville ecstatic, soulful best here. LP, and two hours’ worth not at all. 3/17 KMFDM—Variety Playhouse, Atlanta Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard Long, polymorphous, high-energy 3/22 Eric Clapton—Bridgestone Arena, Nashville (from 1973) essays three long num- performances with soloists like Eric 3/27 Eric Clapton—Gwinnett Center, Duluth, GA bers with Junior Cook (tenor sax) Dolphy, Jaki Byard, Clifford Jordan, 4/11–12 Wayne Shorter—Schermerhorn Symph. Ctr, Nashville and George Cables (electric piano) in and Charles McPherson. The sound 4/18–19 Taylor Swift—Philips Arena, Atlanta the quintet. There’s some of the rock is less rich than what a major label 4/22 Rihanna—Philips Arena, Atlanta flavor of Hubbard’s albums for this would have achieved, but Mingus 4/26 B.B. King—Von Braun Center, Huntsville era, but mostly take-no-prisoners and the others come through clearly. 4/27 George Jones—Marc Smith Concert Hall, Huntsville blowing on open-ended song struc- Not for the casual Mingus fan, but a 4/28 Rod Stewart/Steve Winwood—Philips Arena, Atlanta tures; he was the dominant trum- feast for the devoted. & 5/18 The Dalai Lama—Lakefront Arena, New Orleans

17 black & white • www.bwcitypaper.com • December 13, 2012 O The Oasis: Haley Bop Metro Bar: Brooke Phillips Trio Ona’s Music Room: Ona Watson with Ona’s Music Room: Stalker, Walker & Moonlight on the Mountain: Four Champagne Moss Shillings Short Otey’s: Blues Old Stand Otey’s: Cooper Trent Mulligan’s: Miss Used Pub 261: Zippy D & Dirty Luv Pablo’s Mexican (Lee Branch): Mark Hill The Nick: West End Motel (featuring Rare Martini: Red Mountain Pub 261: Pearman Park Brent Hinds)/Ricer/Great American Redline Bar: John & Gio Live Redline Bar: Bobby Legg Breakdown Shelby’s: A.J. Beavers and Co. 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18 December 13, 2012 • www.bwcitypaper.com • black & white Wednesday, 12/19 Moonlight on the Mtn.: Lee Anna Culp Friends/Scott Ward and Big Mule Dirty Dogs Saloon: Matt Bennett Metro Bar: Dorian Green Buffalo Wild Wings (Hoover): Zach Doss Mulligan’s: Robert Delicious Gable Square Saloon: Scott Hudson The Nick: Skeptic?/Æthenoth/Drunk Cafe Firenze: Primer 55 North Tavern: DeeDee Acoustic Gabriel’s: 540 And Poor Cajun Steamer (Trussville): Rex Murphy Oak Hill: Derek Sellers & Kendrick Gip’s Place: Ms. Aretta and the Review North Tavern: Naked Eskimos Acoustic Show Wallace Band Oak Hill: The Caddle Trio Courtyard 280: Matt Barnes & David The Oasis: Tony Brook Grey Bar: The Undergrounders The Oasis: Alpha Groove Koonce/Matt Hill & Sean Bunn Ona’s Music Room: Gary Edmond Trio Innisfree: Souled Out Ona’s Music Room: Bonus Round Courtyard Southside: Kat Delacruz Otey’s: Cooper Trent Iron Horse: Dirty Pop Otey’s: The Old Paints Dirty Dogs Saloon: Derek Sellers Pub 261: David Cooley Mafiaoza’s: The Hurlers Pale Eddie’s: Ophelia/Adam Hood Gabriel’s: K Kid Redline Bar: Matt Bennett Margarita Grill: Jerome Pablo’s Mexican (Lee Branch): The DB Iron Horse: Imran Shelby’s: Kolby and Jerm Show Marty’s: Stuart McNair and the Cooper Trio Margarita Grill: Erath Merchant Stillwater Pub: The Exhibit(s) Contrabands/Allan Tolbert Unit Pub 261: Hunter Lawley Marty’s: Steve McCullough/Errick Smith Tilted Kilt: Songwriter/Open Mic Night Metro Bar: The Whiskey Dix Redline Bar: John Elrod Mulligan’s: Whiskey Dix Tin Roof: Red Mountain The Nick: Dead Fingers/The Satterfield’s: Carlos Pino & Brandon The Nick: Bunny Austin Village Tavern: Jeff Tyler Joiners/Magic Math Peeples The Oasis: James Resha Workplay: Slippery When Wet - A North Tavern: Another Hero Shelby’s: Excalibur Ona’s Music Room: India Ramey Tribute to Bon Jovi Oak Hill: Chris Staggs & Aaron Stillwater Pub: Festival Expressions Otey’s: Matt Smith and Blanton Zydeco: Eat A Peach McDonald Tin Roof: Sean Rivers Reed/LT and Rockstar The Oasis: Muddy King Friday, 12/21 Workplay: Ages Apart w/ Special Pale Eddie’s: Open Mic Night w/ Ona’s Music Room: II Da Maxx with Guests Rearview Ghost & Christa Finney James Back 9: The Tommy Crowder Band James & Maxine Jordan Pub 261: Boss & Huck Beef ’O’ Brady’s: Bob Green Otey’s: Bonus Round Zydeco: Dirty Pop Redline Bar: Live Band Karaoke with Bottletree: Jeffrey Bützer and T.T. Pale Eddie’s: T.U.B. Pub 261: Chris Gio & Ted Torres Mahony perform Vince Guraldi’s A Saturday, 12/22 Slang Satterfield’s: Glen & Libba Charlie Brown Christmas Redline Bar: Matt Ritchie Back 9: 90 Proof Shelby’s: Open Mic with Kolby Buffalo Wild Wings (Trussville): Zach Shelby’s: Jarrett Smith and Allison Blackwell’s Pub: Kat Delacruz Stillwater Pub: Rickie Castrillo & Friends Doss Reid Bottletree: Downright Christmas Upper Deck: Chip McCain Cafe Firenze: Top Dead Center Stillwater Pub: The Renegades of Folk Show Village Tavern: Jeff Tyler Courtyard 280: The Mauders/Matt Hill Tin Roof: Savannah Jack Band Cafe Firenze: Mister Mayham Workplay: Todd Simpson & Mojo Thursday, 12/20 DanielDay Gallery: The Hearts Courtyard 280: Shake the Kitty/ Child and Christian Herring & True Jarrod White Bottletree: Ugly Baby Improv Comedy Christmas Blues Night Dirty Dogs Saloon: Roosevelt Franklin Cafe Firenze: Vertigo Gable Square Saloon: Open Mic with Cajun Steamer (Trussville): Cody Howell Brent Stauffer Courtyard 280: Erica & Eric Gabriel’s: Outshine Dirty Dogs Saloon: Scott Ward Grey Bar: Sam Foster Gabriel’s: Live Music Acoustic Innisfree: Teenage Daddy Grey Bar: Jared White Iron Horse: Az Izz Innisfree: Billy Gant Mafiaoza’s: Robert O’Neal & Gregg Iron Horse: Violent Stupidity Staggs Margarita Grill: Jason Mayo Margarita Grill: Chase Evan Marty’s: Brent Adams/Errick Smith Marty’s: Patrick Mullins and

19 black & white • www.bwcitypaper.com • December 13, 2012 LIVE MUSIC Sunday, 12/23 Cafe Firenze: Morning Wood DJ/DANCE Courtyard 280: Kyle & Josh Gabriel’s: K Kid Iron Horse: Johnny D Thursday, 12/13 Saturday, 12/22 Thursday, 1/3 Margarita Grill: Kevin Smith Nana Funks: DJ Matrix Innisfree: DJ Mark AD Nana Funks: DJ Matrix Marty’s: Carlos Pino Jazz Group Rare Martini: DJ Lee J Nana Funks: All Night Dance Party Rare Martini: DJ Lee J Metro Bar: Frankie Velvet Steel: DJ C Dubb with DJ Matrix Steel: DJ C Dubb Mulligan’s: Paul Sisson Rare Martini: DJ Dlow The Nick: Comedy with Zach Caradine Friday, 12/14 Steel: DJ Flux Friday, 1/4 Stillwater Pub: Stuart McNair Bailey Dance Studio: DJ Ivan Correa Innisfree: DJ Blake Innisfree: DJ Blake Wednesday, 12/26 Nana Funks: Retro Dance Party with Monday, 12/24 Nana Funks: Retro Dance Party with Nana Funks: DJ Matrix DJ Matrix Cafe Firenze: Kverser DJ Matrix Tin Roof: Dj Lee J Rare Martini: DJ Quackenbush Margarita Grill: Dee Dee Rare Martini: DJ Quackenbush Steel: Mark AD Marty’s: Brent Adams Steel: Mark AD Thursday, 12/27 Nana Funks: DJ Matrix Saturday, 1/5 Tuesday, 12/25 Saturday, 12/15 Steel: DJ C Dubb Innisfree: DJ Mark AD Bottletree: Antl’rd Innisfree: DJ Mark AD Nana Funks: All Night Dance Party Courtyard 280: Erica’s Playhouse Jazz Underground: A Tribute to Friday, 12/28 with DJ Matrix Dirty Dogs Saloon: Karaoke with Bruce Motown Innisfree: Livewire Rare Martini: DJ Dlow Grey Bar: Sam and Justin Matthew’s Bar & Grill: DJ Dizaster, Nana Funks: Retro Dance Party with Steel: DJ Flux Iron Horse: Johnny D Superpro, Grumpy, Grime, and DJ Matrix Marty’s: George Scherer Tryptone Rare Martini: DJ Quackenbush Wednesday, 1/9 The Nick: Olympic Swindle/The Great Nana Funks: All Night Dance Party Steel: Mark AD Nana Funks: DJ Matrix Book Of John with DJ Matrix Tin Roof: Dj Lee J The Oasis: Rollin’ in the Hay Rare Martini: DJ Dlow Saturday, 12/29 Stillwater Pub: Eric McGinty’s Karaoke Steel: DJ Flux Innisfree: DJ Mark AD Thursday, 1/10 Nana Funks: All Night Dance Party Nana Funks: DJ Matrix Unplugged Wednesday, 12/19 Tin Roof: Bham Bourbon Jams with DJ Matrix Rare Martini: DJ Lee J Nana Funks: DJ Matrix Rare Martini: DJ Dlow Steel: DJ C Dubb Tin Roof: DJ Lee J Steel: DJ Flux Wednesday, 12/26 Friday, 1/11 Courtyard 280: Matt Hill & Sean Bunn Thursday, 12/20 Monday, 12/31 Innisfree: /Matt Barnes & David Koonce DJ Blake Nana Funks: Nana Funks: Nana Funks: Courtyard Southside: Kat Delacruz DJ Matrix DJ Matrix Retro Dance Party with Rare Martini: Rare Martini: Dirty Dogs Saloon: Kat Delacruz DJ Lee J DJ Dlow DJ Matrix Steel: DJ C Dubb Rare Martini: DJ Quackenbush Fuego Cantina Saloon: Kat Delacruz Tuesday, 1/1 Steel: Mark AD Gabriel’s: K Kid Friday, 12/21 Grey Bar: DJ NYE Iron Horse: Dee Dee Innisfree: DJ Blake Saturday, 1/12 Margarita Grill: Rob West Nana Funks: Retro Dance Party with Wednesday, 1/2 Innisfree: DJ Mark AD Marty’s: George Scherer/Errick Smith DJ Matrix Nana Funks: DJ Matrix Nana Funks: All Night Dance Party The Nick: The Beaver Brothers Band Rare Martini: DJ Quackenbush Tin Roof: Dj Lee J with DJ Matrix The Oasis: James Resha Steel: Mark AD Rare Martini: DJ Dlow Pale Eddie’s: Open Mic w/ Finney James Steel: DJ Flux Pub 261: Matt Carrell Redline Bar: Live Band Karaoke with Chris Gio & Ted Torres Satterfield’s: Glen & Libba Workplay: Electric Monkey Wrench Dirty Dogs Saloon: Roosevelt Grey Bar: Brother Star Foot Stillwater Pub: The Big Tasties Franklin/Matt Carroll Innisfree: Mr. Mayhem Upper Deck: Chip McCain Gable Square Saloon: Open Mic with Iron Horse: U.S. Village Tavern: Jeff Tyler Thursday, 12/27 Mandy Langford Mafiaoza’s: Over the Mountain Music Cajun Steamer (Trussville): Jeff Tyler Grey Bar: Jason Mayo All stars Courtyard 280: Huck & Boss Innisfree: Livewire Margarita Grill: Reagan/Rebecca Dirty Dogs Saloon: Mandy Langford Iron Horse: Rexton Lee Marty’s: Earthbound/Blue Ribbon Gabriel’s: Live Music Acoustic Mafiaoza’s: Over the Mountain Music Healers Grey Bar: Jared White All stars Metro Bar: Elijah Butler Innisfree: Billy Gant Margarita Grill: Huck/Boss The Nick: Great American Iron Horse: Danny and Randy Marty’s: Steve McCullough Breakdown/GT/Grandaddy Ghostlegs Mafiaoza’s: Left-Hand Monkeywrench Band/Sassy Brown Band North Tavern: Mikah Adams Band Marty’s: George Scherer/Errick Smith Metro Bar: Dirty Bourbon River Show Oak Hill: Jarrett Smith Metro Bar: Jerome Moonlight on the Mtn.: Rachel Lynn The Oasis: CBDB Moonlight on the Mtn.: Jimmy Robinson Sebastian Pale Eddie’s: Zippy D. and Dirty Luv The Nick: Autumn Lords/The Dirty The Nick: India Ramey/Josh Brown Pub 261: Traveling Bones/Brooklyn’s Lungs/iPod Kid North Tavern: Neon Samarui Cry North Tavern: Jager Muffin Oak Hill: Derek Sellers Shelby’s: A.J. Beaver and Co. Oak Hill: Allen Barlow & Jon Campbell The Oasis: The Expandables Stillwater Pub: The Stephen The Oasis: Thrine Ona’s Music Room: Vibe with Jay Mac McCullough Trio Pub 261: John Elrod Pale Eddie’s: 90 Proof/Wayne Mills Tin Roof: Reverb Control Redline Bar: Danielle & Topdead Center Pub 261: Whiskey Dolls Workplay: The Black Jacket Shelby’s: Cicly Juliano Redline Bar: Mike Eskew Symphony presents The Police’s Stillwater Pub: Jason Bailey & Peyton Satterfield’s: Carlos Pino & Brandon “Synchronicity” Grant Peeples Tilted Kilt: Songwriter/Open Mic Night Shelby’s: J-Ko and Onlive Sunday, 12/30 Tin Roof: Fours a Crowd Stillwater Pub: Jasper Coal Bottletree: Chad Fisher Group pres- Village Tavern: Jeff Tyler Tin Roof: Jacob Reynolds ents Hank Williams, Sr. Tribute. Zydeco: CBDB Workplay: Black Jacket Symphony Courtyard 280: Jager Muffin presents The Police’s “Synchronicity” Gabriel’s: K Kid Friday, 12/28 Zydeco: Jesco White Iron Horse: Johnny D Bacchus: Matt Carroll Margarita Grill: Jerome Back 9: Mr Mayhem Saturday, 12/29 Marty’s: Jason Bailey Band Beef ’O’ Brady’s: Joey Arata Boss Lounge: The Patrick Mullins The Nick: New Orleans Suspects/Hill Bottletree: Preston Lovinggood/Taylor Band with Mark Kimbrell Roberts and The Law Hollingsworth Bottletree: Autumn Lords/Dirty Lungs Stillwater Pub: Tyler Diuguid Buffalo Wild Wings (Trussville): The DB Cafe Firenze: Eddie And The Haulers Workplay: Locust Fork Cooper Duo Courtyard 280: Voodoo Jones Cafe Firenze: Voodoo Jones Gable Square Saloon: Mandy Langford Monday, 12/31 Courtyard 280: Gentleman Zero Gabriel’s: Old Town Revelry Back 9: The Raygun Administration DanielDay Gallery: The Paybacks Gip’s Place: Johnny No Band Bottletree: Henry Dunkle/Colossal

20 December 13, 2012 • www.bwcitypaper.com • black & white Gospel/Adventure The Great Peeples Gabriel’s: Live Music Acoustic Cafe Firenze: Deputy 5 Shelby’s: Acoustic Grey Bar: Jared White Courtyard 280: Smear Tin Roof: Sean Rivers Innisfree: Billy Gant DanielDay Gallery: Sharbaby’s New Zydeco: Good Doctor/Festival Iron Horse: Danny and Randy Years Ball Expressions Moonlight on the Mtn.: Ona’s Korby Gabriel’s: Citizen Jayne Lenker/Brooke Annibale MUSIC ROOM Innisfree: Tennage Daddy Saturday, 1/5 Oak Hill: Allen Barlow & Jon Campbell Iron Horse: Naked Eskimos/Reckless City Vineyard: Kat Delacruz Pub 261: Pearman Park At Pepper Place Marty’s: Scott Hudson Grey Bar: Sam Foster Project Redline Bar: Delicious Metro Bar: Jerome and Friends Innisfree: Onlive Shelby’s: Kolby and Jerm Show Moonlight on the Mtn.: The Beatlads Metro Bar: Jager Muffin Tilted Kilt: Songwriter/Open Mic Night An intimate, Mulligan’s: Gentlemen Zero Moonlight on the Mtn.: The Hollows Tin Roof: Cal Ecker warm, charming The Nick: The Grenadines/The Green The Nick: Cutthroat Conspiracy/ Village Tavern: Jeff Tyler nightclub featur- Seed/Feather Canyon American Romantic Movement/ ing Birmingham’s North Tavern: Lynam The Cancers Friday, 1/11 The Oasis: Red Mountain Oak Hill: Jarett Smith Courtyard 280: Brooklyn’s Cry / Matt finest musicians. Old Car Heaven: Total Assets Pub 261: Microwave Dave & The Nukes Hill Band Ona’s Music Room: Ona Watson with Redline Bar: Acoustic Show DanielDay Gallery: Haley Bopp Birmingham’s Best Kept Secret. Champagne Shelby’s: Acoustic Grey Bar: Atomic Radio Great drinks, reasonably priced, top-notch Parkside: Magic City Soundsystem Stillwater Pub: Brother Starfoot Innisfree: Slang service and outstanding music. Visit our Pub 261: Tommy Crowder Band Tin Roof: Francisco Vildad Iron Horse: Deputy 5 website for monthly performance schedules. Redline Bar: DeeDee Rokstar Zydeco: DrFameus Mafiaoza’s: III Outta V Rojo: Johnny Blade, James Hall, Jack Metro Bar: The Wild Fruit Massey, and Sam Smithwick/Holy Sunday, 1/6 Moonlight on the Mtn.: Wilder Youth Courtyard 280: Huck & Boss/Morgan Adkins/David Story/Erin Rae Shelby’s: Outshine Copes McCaskle NEW YEAR’S EVE Stillwater Pub: URI (New Year’s Eve DanielDay Gallery: Kingfish Oak Hill: Jarett Smith & Friends Celebration begins at 9:00 p.m. Party) Gabriel’s: K Kid Pub 261: Todd Simpson Tin Roof: Heavy Solo Iron Horse: Johnny D Redline Bar: Acoustic Cafe Live music starts at 10:00 p.m. Upper Deck: Voodoo Jones The Nick: Thomas Wynn & The Believers Satterfield’s: Carlos Pino & Brandon with Workplay: The Black Jacket Rojo: Lindsey Hinkle Peeples Ona Watson & Champagne Symphony presents The Police’s Shelby’s: The Escape Artist “Synchronicity” Monday, 1/7 Tin Roof: Barefoot Renagades Party favors, food, and Zydeco: Trotline Pub 261: Jason Mayo Zydeco: Archnemesis complimentary champagne Tuesday, 1/1 Tuesday, 1/8 Saturday, 1/12 for a midnight toast. 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21 black & white • www.bwcitypaper.com • December 13, 2012 of the Sept. 11 attacks and other ter- GlobeScan survey of environmental rorist suspects, and by ongoing attitudes and behavior among 17,000 detention operations. Army Lt. Col. consumers in 17 countries ranked Todd Breasseale explained that the Americans last when it comes to new underwater fiber optic line practicing sustainable behavior tt ee from Guantanamo Bay to Florida has involving housing, transportation, ssrara gg more bandwidth, is more reliable food, and consumer goods. Despite NN than satellites and “will bring the finishing last since the survey began base online with communication in 2008, only 21 percent of technology equal to that of the Americans reported feeling guilty Department of Defense footprint about their impact on the environ- ee around the world.” ment. The survey found consumers TaTa in India, China, and Brazil are the LLss The Don’t-Show-Me State greenest but feel the most guilt Seeking to determine whether mem- about their environmental impact. WEIRD NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE bers of the Missouri National Guard dispatched to Joplin after last year’s Second-Amendment Follies tornado to secure the city instead After his girlfriend refused to shoot a Cheap Dates The nation’s Amish communi- looted it, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch .380-caliber, semiautomatic handgun Police arrested Khadijah Baseer after ties are expected to double over the filed an open-records request. The in his family’s backyard in Alamo, they said she opened customers’ car next 40 years, according to a com- guard denied the request, citing its Texas, Israel Torres, 17, grabbed the doors at a McDonald’s drive-through prehensive survey by researchers at exemption to the state open-records weapon and fired at a butane tank. in Burbank, Calif., and offered to Ohio State University, which cites a law. Missouri is the only state that The bullet richoted, fatally hitting have sex in exchange for chicken combination of traditionally high shields the National Guard from him in the head. McNuggets. birthrates and falling defection rates public accountability, an exemption Federal authorities blamed among adults. Their numbers are from the state’s Sunshine Law that Craig Shiflet, 23, with starting a Looming Booms not only increasing, but also even the lawmaker who in 1987 wildfire that burned more than An advancing tidal wave of mental ill- expanding geographically, “often requested it believes was a mistake. 18,000 acres of Arizona’s Tonto ness among aging baby boomers locating in rural communities that “I’d have a hard time supporting any National Forest by firing a shotgun poses a challenge to U.S. health offi- have been declining, both economi- government entity paid for by tax while at a bachelor campout with cials, according to the nonprofit cally and in terms of population dollars being exempted from the four other men. The round was an Institute of Medicine. Its report esti- size,” OSU professor of rural sociol- open-meetings law,” former Sen. “incendiary shotgun shell” whose mates that between 5.6 million and 8 ogy Joseph Donnermeyer said. John Scott said. Denied access to packaging promises, “Shoots 100 million older Americans have one or records, the newspaper went direct- feet of fire, setting everything in its more mental health conditions or America’s Footprint ly to Brig. Gen. Randy Alewel, com- path ablaze. Warning: Extreme FIRE problems stemming from substance Instead of closing the U.S. prison at mander of the 35th Engineer HAZARD.” misuse or abuse. That number will Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the miltary Brigade. He confirmed that mem- increase, Dan G. Blazer of Duke announced plans to spend $40 mil- bers of his unit were involved in the When Guns Are Outlawed University Medical Center warned, lion to upgrade communications at looting and that “disciplinary action Police accused Lawrence Deptola, because the magnitude of the prob- the Navy base, whose outdated satel- was imposed on those soldiers.” 49, of trying to rob three banks in lem is so great that no single lite communications system was Utica, N.Y., by threatening tellers approach or isolated changes in a overburdened by the military court U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! with a toilet plunger. He was appre- few federal agencies could address it. hearing the cases of the top plotters A National Geographic Society and hended outside the third bank. &

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