Calendar of Events in St. Louis

Wednesday, June 19
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  Wine and Cheese Howl
  Endangered Wolf Center

  If wolves were wine drinkers, today's professional wine tasters would have to step aside. It is through the nose that the aromas, perceived flavors and general characteristics of a wine are tasted, and wolves have a much keener sense of smell than man. In good weather conditions, a wolf can smell its prey from nearly two miles away! While wolves have long been in competition with man for... Read more about this event >>

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  Jason Isbell
  Off Broadway

  w/ American Aquarium - From this 2012 show preview: Five years and three proper albums into his solo career, Jason Isbell is today a different character than he was in 2007. Back then, Isbell was feeling his way around as a guy with a new lease on life, shaking off a failed marriage, settling into his new role as a bandleader and no longer serving as a Drive-By Trucker. If Isbell seems more... Read more about this event >>

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  Lost and Found: The Search for Harry and Edna
  Foundry Art Centre

  Frontenac couple Harry and Edna Grossman lived long, quiet lives until their deaths in the 1980s. During their 80-odd years on Earth the Grossmans traveled the world, capturing their adventures and everyday experiences alike in hundreds of photographs. Several years ago, collector Jeff Phillips found a box of the Grossmans' unmarked pictures in a St. Charles consignment shop. Captivated by... Read more about this event >>

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  Pagliacci and Il taborro
  Loretto-Hilton Center

  Kelly Kaduce starred in five operas in six years for Opera Theatre of St. Louis, but she hasn't appeared here since her 2009 turn as Salome. Her star has continue to rise in the opera world, so OTSL is fortunate to have Kaduce back for Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. Kaduce stars as Nedda, the wife of the clown Pagliacci. Their marriage -- and the family act -- is threatened by Nedda's... Read more about this event >>

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  Always...Patsy Cline
  Robert G. Reim Theatre

  When most young 'uns think of ol' Patsy Cline, their minds no doubt turn to her hit song "Crazy," and maybe then to a weak karaoke rendition that a friend drunkenly unleashed upon the world. Of course, Nashville's fair lady was so much more than that song -- she was a mother, a beloved performer and a dear friend. To learn more about this star who died much too soon and to revel in her songs,... Read more about this event >>

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Thursday, June 20
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  Adult Play Date
  Magic House St Louis Children's Museum

  The Magic House (516 South Kirkwood Road, Kirkwood; 314-822-8900 or www.magichouse.org) is always fun for kids. As an adult, however, it can leave one wanting; at some point, most grown-ups wish they could have a crack at that electro-static generator without having to dodge all the kids. Tonight's the night when that idle fancy becomes a reality, as the Magic House hosts an Adult Play Date... Read more about this event >>

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  Mike McCubbins and Matt Bryan: The Book of Da
  St. Louis Public Library

  Local comic-book creators Mike McCubbins and Matt Bryan have been friends for fifteen years and have many joint projects to show for their professional relationship. In addition to their comics anthology, Mixed Feelings (now in its fifth issue), are hours of animation, several albums from their musical endeavors and now their dazzling new hardcover graphic novel, Book of Da. Book of Da is a... Read more about this event >>

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  The Mountain Goats
  Old Rock House

  w/ The Baptist Generals - Once the purveyor of boombox anti-heroism, John Darnielle has settled into richer sonic territory with a fuller sense of what it means to be the leader of a great rock band. But he hasn't lost the Mensa intelligence, the thrill of high and low culture and the avenging whine of his voice, quick as a whip, tender as the skin it strikes. The outcasts who populate... Read more about this event >>

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  Jo Jasper Dean: Drunk on Color -- High Voltage Oil on Canvas
  phd gallery

  Grisaille is an old painting technique whereby the artist creates a piece using only one color (traditionally), with additional hues sometimes used to enhance important bits as needed. St. Louis painter Jo Jasper Dean begins with a grisaille in red for her current exhibition, Drunk on Color -- High Voltage Oil on Canvas, and then cranks up the works by laying down super-saturated layers of... Read more about this event >>

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  King Lear
  Gaslight Theater

  There is no greater rule than that of king. Ha, just kidding! The greatest of Shakespeare's tragedies, King Lear, proves this thought to be quite a lark. Lear is not in charge of much of anything; neither his kingdom, his daughters' love for him, nor his own physical abilities. His two eldest daughters, Goneril and Regan, divide the responsibility of caring for him, which in their tender... Read more about this event >>

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  Six Degrees of Separation
  Tower Grove Abbey

  Ten years ago Stray Dog Theatre staged its first show, John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation. The company remounts the play to cap its first decade of work, and to point the way towards the next ten years. Six Degrees follows the colliding lives of two New York couples, the ritzy Kittredges and the closer-to-the-bone Rick and Elizabeth. The man causing the colliding is Paul, a con man who... Read more about this event >>

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  The Wiz
  Grandel Theatre

  If you only know The Wiz from the movie starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, you haven't really experienced The Wiz. Charlie Smalls and William F. Brown's Tony-winning musical is a far cry from Joel Schumacher's screen adaptation. Dorothy starts in Kansas, ends up in Oz and joins forces with a cowardly lion, a tin man without a heart and a no-brains-having scarecrow in order to get back... Read more about this event >>

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  Bukowsical
  Washington University South Campus Theatre

  Charles Bukowski was a hard-drinkin', casual womanizing, blue collar product of Los Angeles between the two world wars. His sizable body of work is rife with drunken parties, blurry moments of rage and a strong romantic streak for women he's loved and lost, as well as a deeply personal distaste for the workaday world he left behind when he pursued a career as a writer and poet. So of course,... Read more about this event >>

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Friday, June 21
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  Black Flag
  Fubar

  w/ Good For You, Ultraman - Black Flag is one of the most revered bands of the punk era, thanks in part to its trademark tempo shifts, unadorned raw aggression and brilliant internationally recognizable quad bar logo. And though the band is well-loved by the masses, its current tour is not without controversy. Black Flag has had many personnel changes since it was first founded in 1976, and... Read more about this event >>

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  Skin Graft St. Louis Homecoming
  Schlafly Tap Room

  w/ Yowie, Xaddax, Lovely Little Girls, Decent Al Johnson - From "Meet the 2013 RFT Music Award Nominees: Yowie": The elusive, brain-bending Yowie hides away in St. Louis to build on singular forms of progressive music. Yowie plays a dense foreign language through two guitars which communicate in an angry, six-string banter through strictly scattered drums. This power trio speaks in alien code... Read more about this event >>

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  Hap Phillips and Nita Turnage: We See Saw
  Center of Creative Arts (COCA)

  You will not see the finished project at the opening reception for Hap Phillips and Nita Turnage: We See Saw art installation at 6 p.m. Friday, June 21, in the Millstone Gallery at the Center of Creative Arts (524 Trinity Avenue, University City; 314-725-6555 or www.cocastl.org). What you will see is an idea machine being switched on. Phillips and Turnage, founders of the recurring Artica... Read more about this event >>

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  Romeo and Juliet
  Wapelhorst Park

  Of all William Shakespeare's plays, none have proven more durable than his romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet, because star-crossed lovers from rival families resonate in any age. The Riverside Shakespeare Theatre Co. updates the play slightly by recasting the Montagues and Capulets as America's most famous feuding families, the Hatfields and McCoys -- and they're fixin' to let the whole dern... Read more about this event >>

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  St. Louis Fringe Festival
  Grand Center

  Is there any phrase more fraught with possibility than "you wanna see something?" Anything could follow those words -- they are the herald of the unexpected. And so for a second year running, the St. Louis Fringe Festival returns to ask, "You wanna see something?" Just say yes and prepare yourself for five days of dance theater, improv comedy, puppet shows and eight-bit musical theater, all... Read more about this event >>

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  King Lear
  Gaslight Theater

  There is no greater rule than that of king. Ha, just kidding! The greatest of Shakespeare's tragedies, King Lear, proves this thought to be quite a lark. Lear is not in charge of much of anything; neither his kingdom, his daughters' love for him, nor his own physical abilities. His two eldest daughters, Goneril and Regan, divide the responsibility of caring for him, which in their tender... Read more about this event >>

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  Six Degrees of Separation
  Tower Grove Abbey

  Ten years ago Stray Dog Theatre staged its first show, John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation. The company remounts the play to cap its first decade of work, and to point the way towards the next ten years. Six Degrees follows the colliding lives of two New York couples, the ritzy Kittredges and the closer-to-the-bone Rick and Elizabeth. The man causing the colliding is Paul, a con man who... Read more about this event >>

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  The Wiz
  Grandel Theatre

  If you only know The Wiz from the movie starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, you haven't really experienced The Wiz. Charlie Smalls and William F. Brown's Tony-winning musical is a far cry from Joel Schumacher's screen adaptation. Dorothy starts in Kansas, ends up in Oz and joins forces with a cowardly lion, a tin man without a heart and a no-brains-having scarecrow in order to get back... Read more about this event >>

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  Bukowsical
  Washington University South Campus Theatre

  Charles Bukowski was a hard-drinkin', casual womanizing, blue collar product of Los Angeles between the two world wars. His sizable body of work is rife with drunken parties, blurry moments of rage and a strong romantic streak for women he's loved and lost, as well as a deeply personal distaste for the workaday world he left behind when he pursued a career as a writer and poet. So of course,... Read more about this event >>

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Saturday, June 22
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  Huey Lewis and the News
  River City Casino

  Honestly, is there anything Huey Lewis can’t (or won’t) do? The man went to Cornell University, sued the guy who sang the Ghostbusters theme, became synonymous with Back to the Future, raised money for Tony LaRussa’s needy animals, acted in a karaoke movie with Gwyneth Paltrow, and with the News had nineteen top-ten singles across the Billboard charts in the '80s and '90s.... Read more about this event >>

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  Humdrum Record Release and Tower Groove Records Singles Club Release
  Off Broadway

  From this 2012 write-up: Humdrum hasn't skipped a beat since guitarist Gareth Schumacher left the mercurial Midwest weather for the sun-glazed coasts of California. It has been recording an album with Steve Albini and mixing it with Jay Pellicci at San Francisco's Tiny Telephone studios. Aside from polishing that, its third LP, the band is still an active live presence in St. Louis. Its... Read more about this event >>

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  Gateway Men's Chorus: Celebrate!
  Edison Theatre

  It's the last concert of the season for the Gateway Men's Chorus, but don't worry -- they're not leaving without throwing one last musical party. Celebrate!, which is performed at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday (June 21 and 22) at the Edison Theatre on Washington University's campus (6465 Forsyth Boulevard; www.gmcstl.org), is a show that honors the LGBT community and love itself. Featuring songs... Read more about this event >>

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  High, Low & In Between
  White Flag Projects

  Humans are social creatures, capable of working together and sharing ideas and inspiration, even when working toward different ends. Artists Ryan Johnson, Johannes VanDerBeek and Sara VanDerBeek are friends, studio mates and (in two instances) siblings. Each has their own interests and purposes for making art, but their proximity (both physical and emotional) results in concepts migrating... Read more about this event >>

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  Six Degrees of Separation
  Tower Grove Abbey

  Ten years ago Stray Dog Theatre staged its first show, John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation. The company remounts the play to cap its first decade of work, and to point the way towards the next ten years. Six Degrees follows the colliding lives of two New York couples, the ritzy Kittredges and the closer-to-the-bone Rick and Elizabeth. The man causing the colliding is Paul, a con man who... Read more about this event >>

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  The Wiz
  Grandel Theatre

  If you only know The Wiz from the movie starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, you haven't really experienced The Wiz. Charlie Smalls and William F. Brown's Tony-winning musical is a far cry from Joel Schumacher's screen adaptation. Dorothy starts in Kansas, ends up in Oz and joins forces with a cowardly lion, a tin man without a heart and a no-brains-having scarecrow in order to get back... Read more about this event >>

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  Bukowsical
  Washington University South Campus Theatre

  Charles Bukowski was a hard-drinkin', casual womanizing, blue collar product of Los Angeles between the two world wars. His sizable body of work is rife with drunken parties, blurry moments of rage and a strong romantic streak for women he's loved and lost, as well as a deeply personal distaste for the workaday world he left behind when he pursued a career as a writer and poet. So of course,... Read more about this event >>

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  The Pirates of Penzance
  Loretto-Hilton Center

  Frederic is stuck in a job he hates, just like so many other idealistic people in their twenties. There's hope for him yet though -- when he turns 21, he'll be released from his current job and able to pursue his dreams. The big day arrives and he leaves to find his destiny. In short order he meets a great girl and plans to settle down with her, but she's the last of many daughters, all of... Read more about this event >>

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Sunday, June 23
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  Le Pont du Nord
  Webster University-Moore Auditorium

  In Jacques Rivette's French new-wave thriller Le Pont du Nord, Rivette regular Bulle Ogier stars as a claustrophobic ex-con who encounters a young, self-proclaimed kung-fu expert who is inexplicably driven to slash the eyes from the faces of Paris' billboards. The two women attempt to piece together a meaning behind the contents of a mysterious suitcase, packed with odd clippings, patterns... Read more about this event >>

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  Open Studios STL: West of Grand
  Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

  There's a lot going on in the St. Louis art scene, and in more places than in the obvious strongholds of Washington Avenue or along Cherokee Street. Here's a free opportunity to check out the wide variety of work being made by artists who practice their craft west of the city core. Open Studios STL: West of Grand Boulevard invites you to tour the studios, galleries and alternative art spaces... Read more about this event >>

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  Portugal. the Man
  The Pageant

  w/ Guards - From this 2012 show preview: Portugal. the Man gravitates toward dank psychedelic pop jams, and its members have hair both long and unwashed enough to make Fleet Foxes look trim. Yet beneath this hippy exterior, the band's story reads like a classic tale of punk-rock triumph. The obstacles were daunting, its members having hailed from the inconvenient state of Alaska and its name... Read more about this event >>

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  King Lear
  Gaslight Theater

  There is no greater rule than that of king. Ha, just kidding! The greatest of Shakespeare's tragedies, King Lear, proves this thought to be quite a lark. Lear is not in charge of much of anything; neither his kingdom, his daughters' love for him, nor his own physical abilities. His two eldest daughters, Goneril and Regan, divide the responsibility of caring for him, which in their tender... Read more about this event >>

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  The Wiz
  Grandel Theatre

  If you only know The Wiz from the movie starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, you haven't really experienced The Wiz. Charlie Smalls and William F. Brown's Tony-winning musical is a far cry from Joel Schumacher's screen adaptation. Dorothy starts in Kansas, ends up in Oz and joins forces with a cowardly lion, a tin man without a heart and a no-brains-having scarecrow in order to get back... Read more about this event >>

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  Pagliacci and Il taborro
  Loretto-Hilton Center

  Kelly Kaduce starred in five operas in six years for Opera Theatre of St. Louis, but she hasn't appeared here since her 2009 turn as Salome. Her star has continue to rise in the opera world, so OTSL is fortunate to have Kaduce back for Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. Kaduce stars as Nedda, the wife of the clown Pagliacci. Their marriage -- and the family act -- is threatened by Nedda's... Read more about this event >>

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  Circus Flora: A Trip to the Moon
  Circus Flora Big Top

  From the outside, the red-and-white tent on the Powell Hall parking lot looks like -- well, a tent. It's attractive enough, as tents go. But inside that tent, that's where the magic is. The very air is different. It reeks of sawdust and daring. Has another year passed already? Apparently so, because Circus Flora -- which only blooms in June -- is back, eager as ever to beguile, delight and... Read more about this event >>

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Monday, June 24
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  Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
  Missouri History Museum

  Can you live a moral, upstanding life as a crusader for justice and still end up forgotten by everyone you help? In the case of Bayard Rustin, it seems to be a distinct possibility. Rustin fought antisemitism, protected the rights of Japanese Americans interned by the U.S. in World War II, worked with Gandhi in India and then used his wealth of organizational knowledge and pacifism to help... Read more about this event >>

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  Eleanor Friedberger
  The Demo

  w/ Teen - From this 2011 show preview: The distribution of power for the sibling band the Fiery Furnaces has long been simplified thusly: Older bro Matthew Friedberger writes the lyrics and wrangles the serpentine arrangements, and little sis Eleanor Friedberger delivers the lines with a dorkily unflappable charisma. So when Eleanor's solo record Last Summer was released this year, it was... Read more about this event >>

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  Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaoahs
  Saint Louis Science Center-OMNIMAX

  After playing the Frankenstein Monster and Dracula, Christopher Lee wrapped himself up in another monstrous role, playing Kharis in 1959's The Mummy for Hammer Studios. Lee refrained from putting on the bandages for any of Hammer's subsequent Mummy movies, but thanks to his booming baritone-bass voice, Lee returned to ancient Egypt half a century later as narrator for IMAX's Mummies: Secret... Read more about this event >>

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  Ugly: An Alternative Look at Western Art
  Washington University-Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

  Throughout history, beauty has been idealized in the fine arts, and anything less is discarded at best and loathed at worst. In particular, ugliness (as opposed to homeliness or commonness, which are at least somewhat acceptable) was and often still is associated with notions of evil, worthlessness and lacking in any positive attributes. The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum's new show, Ugly: An... Read more about this event >>

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Tuesday, June 25
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  Michael Kahn
  St. Louis County Library Headquarters

  The last readers saw of attorney Rachel Gold, she was about to get hitched. When Michael Kahn's new novel, The Flinch Factor, catches up to her, she's a widowed mother who's thrown herself into the Frankenstein Case, a hopelessly mired lawsuit pitting a working-class neighborhood against developers intent on building a gated community on top of them. The seemingly unconnected case of a... Read more about this event >>

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  Fumer
  Fubar

  w/ Nifty Breed - For the love of God, bring earplugs, because Fumer delivers hard-edged rock through a blisteringly loud wall of speakers. The guitar stays tied tight to straight-laced beats and pummels with a harsh dirge. Punchy bass lines keep the affair grounded in grunge, but Fumer's clever take on beaten genres invokes familiar bands filtered through a noisy mesh. Fumer, at first glance,... Read more about this event >>

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  Lost Egypt
  Saint Louis Science Center

  Perhaps because mummies are endlessly fascinating, all other aspects of ancient Egyptian culture -- which is rich and vast -- are often overlooked. The Saint Louis Science Center's new exhibit, Lost Egypt, features artifacts that make Egypt's past seem not so distant. Objects that were used in everyday life play a prominent role in the exhibition, offering the opportunity to see how Egyptians... Read more about this event >>

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  Shrek theMusical
  The Muny

  He's big, he's green and he's mighty unclean. Despite all that (or maybe because of it?) the kids love Shrek, the surly ogre who just wants a little peace and quiet in his swamp. Instead, the big lug ends up going abroad, making friends with a real ass and finding someone who loves him for who he is. Oh, and there's also a boatload of songs about life, love and the importance of letting your... Read more about this event >>

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  Pagliacci and Il taborro
  Loretto-Hilton Center

  Kelly Kaduce starred in five operas in six years for Opera Theatre of St. Louis, but she hasn't appeared here since her 2009 turn as Salome. Her star has continue to rise in the opera world, so OTSL is fortunate to have Kaduce back for Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. Kaduce stars as Nedda, the wife of the clown Pagliacci. Their marriage -- and the family act -- is threatened by Nedda's... Read more about this event >>

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  Always...Patsy Cline
  Robert G. Reim Theatre

  When most young 'uns think of ol' Patsy Cline, their minds no doubt turn to her hit song "Crazy," and maybe then to a weak karaoke rendition that a friend drunkenly unleashed upon the world. Of course, Nashville's fair lady was so much more than that song -- she was a mother, a beloved performer and a dear friend. To learn more about this star who died much too soon and to revel in her songs,... Read more about this event >>

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