This Week in the Mercury
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:41 PM
HIS NAME IS EARLE—As Walon on HBO's The Wire, Steve Earle could get Bubbles off the smack, but it's his music that is the real draw. The ironic face to the alt-country movement, Earle's best material might have been left in Guitar Town, but the man's gravelly voice and personal/political lyrics still sound as good as ever. EAC
w/Hayes Carll; Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie, Tues Jan 19 & Wed Jan 20, 8 pm, $36.50-38, all agesREAD IT, SEE IT—After last year's fantastic adaptation of Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion, Portland Center Stage tackles another Northwest literary classic. David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars, set on a small Puget Sound island in 1954, examines racial conflicts in the aftermath of WWII and the US's Japanese internment policy. AH
Portland Center Stage, Gerding Theater at the Armory, 128 NW 11th, Tues-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm, through Feb 7, $28.50-65
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