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McTavish Weekend: Chelsea and Hank and Alice and Harry

If Chelsea Handler and Hank Williams Jr. made a sex tape, would Alice Cooper watch it? And where does Harry Truman figure in?

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McTavish Weekend: Get yours at Free Comic Book Day

Did Mom throw out your comic books?

Maybe you went away to college. Maybe you got married. Maybe you unwisely decided to take a walk on garbage day.

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McTavish Weekend: What a drag it is being Tyler Perry

Tyler Perry owes his fortune to dressing up like his mother. Whatever works, right?

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McTavish Weekend: Go fly a kite why don’t you?

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McTavish: City in Motion mixes old and new moves in 25th anniversary show

Vanessa Vaughn-West, president of City in Motion Dance Theatre, shared a few Continue reading

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McTavish Weekend: Get rocked, stomped or just laid back

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McTavish Q&A: Car biz turns into multimedia celebrity gig for McCarthy Girl

When she was just 17, Lauren McCarthy wanted to sell cars for her father’s McCarthy Auto Group. But first she had to convince pops.

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McTavish Weekend: Pretty words at Prospero

Somewhere in this land of electronic media-fueled visual stimulation, the painstakingly crafted spoken word delivered by a live human voice still matters.

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McTavish Weekend: Get Your Comic On at Planet Comicon

With scads of comic book movies, comic book TV shows and comic book video games now being consumed by the not necessarily comic-book-reading public, let Continue reading

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McTavish Weekend: Escape to the Old West in KCK

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McTavish: Willie’s fans at Ameristar get full Nelson

Willie Nelson long ago transcended country music stardom to become an American icon. But if his overarching fame packed Continue reading

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McTavish Weekend: Curses! Irished Again!

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McTavish: Cheap Trick is Real Rock Treat at Ameristar

Cheap Trick was on stage for only an hour before blazing through its signature rocker, Continue reading

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McTavish Weekend: Cheap Trick Still Wants You to Want Them

Just when you think if one more classic rock act coughs up another greatest hits tour you Continue reading

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McTavish Weekend: Old Piano Men Never Die, They Just Play Away

The hits! The hairpieces! The health care!

OK, only Elton John famously wears a piece, but maybe for fun he Continue reading

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McTavish Weekend: “Young Frankenstein” is Sufficiently Silly, but Misses Movie’s Mark

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McTavish: Small Crowd Pleased by Motley Crue’s Hard-Rocking Vince Neil

Old-school commercial hard rock was the ticket at Vince Neil Continue reading

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McTavish Weekend: The Fonz, Hot Lips and Scooby Doo, Too

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McTavish Weekend: Could it Be…the Son of Satan?

Say you love Satan.

No?

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McTavish Weekend: BOCC has ’80s Hits Covered

Think of a rock radio hit from 25 years ago and Blue Oyster Culture Club probably knows it. If not, the party-hearty cover band obsessed with the 1980s will probably give it a go anyway. Or at least get Continue reading

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