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Friday, November 20, 2009
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| The highly anticipated Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bout between Heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar and Shane Carwin is no more. Due to a bacterial infection in his intestinal tract, Lesnar is unable to fight. In fact, it is still in question whether he will be able to fight again. The main event replacing the Lesnar-Carwin bout in UFC 106 on Saturday, Nov. 21 is a rematch of one of the greatest fights in UFC history between Tito Ortiz and Forrest Griffin. | |
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As Hollywood closed specialty divisions that aimed for quality and personal stories, as studios focus more and more on superhero sagas and action blockbusters, cinema fans have rightly wondered, who's left to make great American movies?
This year’s new batch of music box sets contains many gems. In hopes of luring buyers back to traditional record stores and spurring online sales of physical product, record companies have filled the sets with audio upgrades and extras.
Only in "Tropico 3" is it possible to hear that your biggest fan has shaved your name on the side of his llama or that your people are so unhappy they are joining the rebel cause against you and preparing an assault on your palace.
Doug Varone and Dancers are winners of 11 New York Dance and Performance Awards, and they’re coming to the Claude L. Shaver Theatre in the LSU Music & Dramatic Arts Building as a part of the 2009-2010 Performance Arts Series.
The reclusive Pynchon, author of V., Gravity’s Rainbow, The Crying of Lot 49, Mason & Dixon, Vineland and others, is practically a cult figure. Whenever he publishes a book, and he does so every few years, his legion of fans make it an instant best-seller.
Jim Carrey and Robert Zemeckis discuss their collaboration to bring Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" to life. In "Disney's A Christmas Carol," Ebenezer Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt. However, when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it's too late.
Singer-pianist Norah Jones collaborates with a new producer and new group of musicians for the new sound of The Fall. Her voice tastefully blurred by reverb, Jones sings with warm, relaxed presence.
Tony Jarreau, promoter and owner of Gladiator Promotions in Baton Rouge, will host the Bayou Challenge, a mixed martial arts and boxing event, Friday, Nov. 20, at the Southern University mini-dome. “I have always thought that Southern University would be a good location to throw a mixed martial arts event,” Jarreau said.
CHICAGO — From Greektown to Chinatown, from the Polish Triangle to Pakistani restaurants on Devon Street, Chicago has a wealth of diverse ethnic neighborhoods to explore.
They’ll leave a light on for you.
And if you choose to investigate the warm illumination cast by the Mid City Merchant Association’s White Light Night, you’ll find plenty of art, music, food and good conversation.
