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How much reality does a vague childhood memory retain, and how much is fabricated over time? In their exhibition, photographers Leah Gose and Mary Kathryn Wimberly seek to capture the fragments of our memories as we remember them.

When Bob Dylan, the Dave Matthews Band, Nelly Furtado, the Avett Brothers, David Byrne with St. Vincent, the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, the xx and the Raveonettes all have albums — and they’re all coming out today — you know you’ve got a busy music season ahead.

Students at Baylor are more than likely to see at least one Baylor Mainstage production in the four or more years while they are enrolled.

The Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center, between North Village and the Baylor Sciences Building, almost always has banners hanging from it that advertise the newest big musical or theater production.

The Jazz Age is still alive and swinging thanks to the Baylor Jazz Ensemble.

Directed by Alex Parker, a senior lecturer in jazz studies, the band’s season begins Saturday with “A Moonlight Serenade,” an all Swing Era concert that features a “re-creation of what folks in the 1940s heard on radios, in nightclubs, on 78-rpm records and from the hotel ballrooms of their day,” according to a brochure published by the Baylor School of Music.

Wacoans by day and stars of the stage by night — the members of the Waco Civic Theatre are gearing up for their season opener this weekend with a trilogy of one-act plays in Neil Simon’s comedy “Plaza Suite.”

What better way to spend your Labor Day weekend than dancing with friends to the sounds of conjunto music and enjoying great food?

Waco Missions Club brings San Antonio’s Los Hermanos Farias to Waco for its pre-Labor Day event this Sunday.

Waco Missions Club member Frank DeLeon said the club began with mostly charity work.

ABC has acquired the television rights to Spike Lee’s upcoming Michael Jackson documentary, the network announced Tuesday.

The acclaimed filmmaker, who had previously collaborated with Jackson, has been prepping “Bad 25,” a documentary tracing the late king of pop’s creative vision during the making of “Bad,” the follow-up to his groundbreaking “Thriller.” It is one of two major projects pegged to the 25th anniversary of the 1987 hit-filled album.

Not so fast, Mr. Candidate!

Silversun Pickups is the latest band to take issue with politicos in this election year. The alt-rock band from L.A. recently sent a cease-and-desist letter to presidential candidate Mitt Romney to stop using the group’s 2009 song “Panic Switch” at campaign functions. The Romney campaign said it won’t play the song again.

When Creedence Clearwater Revival called it quits in 1972, that looked like the end for the rock band that gave us “Proud Mary,” “Bad Moon Rising,” “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” and “Susie Q.” And if lead singer-songwriter John Fogerty had his way, the end might have been more permanent.

The smooth tunes of Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald were revived and celebrated Sunday night at the Waco Swing Dance Society meeting as a multi-generational community gathered in the spirit of swing dancing.

The Baylor theatre will be presenting a new line up of five plays for the Fall 2012 semester, giving students and faculty something to look forward to later in the year.
The students of the Baylor theatre department put on seven to eight productions each school year. The department will show two productions during the fall semester and three productions in the spring.

On Sunday, Waco’s Got Talent announced its winners for the 2012 talent competition season. Labraska Washington won the adult category, while the duet group of Reagan Bruce and Lillian Kennedy won the child category.

World salsa champions David Zepeda and Paulina Posadas will be teaching and showcasing their salsa skills this weekend at the ninth Annual Salsa Invasion, presented by the Baylor Latin Dance Society. The event will take place in Hoffman Hall, located at 400 South 4th Street in downtown Waco.

Baylor Theatre’s latest production gives audiences a glimpse into the world of contemporary plays, as well as a chance to see two premieres from the Baylor Theatre community.

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Chelsea Peretti The Moontower Comedy and Oddity Festival has just announced the addition of Chelsea Peretti to its line-up. Peretti,…

I looked for things like choreography, song choice, vocal talent, overall execution and story development. I gave extra considerations to acts that were particularly entertaining, or creative, and how well each act developed the story within their performance. Please keep in mind that this is all just one man’s opinion.