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There's an eclectic mix of comedy, drama and spoken word in this week's theatre picks. Shut Up and Eat Your Groundlings The Groundlings’ latest sketch show hits the stage this weekend. Groundlings Theater. 7307 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles. (323) 934-4747 ext. 37. Tickets are $21.50. Opens Friday at 8 pm. Runs Fridays at 8 pm and Saturdays at 8 and 10 pm until Nov. 24. L.A. Voz L.A. Voz (Los Angeles Voice) is a series...

Last night, I went to see The New Year play at Spaceland. I’ve liked The New Year since they were Bedhead in the ’90s, so I was pretty excited about it. The New Year (somewhat inexplicably) have four guitars, but there are still a lot of quiet moments in their sets. Unfortunately, every time one of those moments came, all you could hear was people chatting and squawking about their various BS, so that...

Recommended Dixie Chicks - Shut Up & Sing - Remember when rugged individualism was the hallmark of the "American character"? Remember when that individualism was defined by a willingness to speak your mind? Remember when criticizing your governmental overlords was a patriotic duty? Yeah, me neither. But maybe country music trio The Dixie Chicks were trying to recall that mythologized frontier spirit when lead singer Nathalie Maines criticized President Bush for launching the Iraq...

Click around LAist. We don't really listen to a lot of new-fangled country music. We love the oldies: Cash, Willie, Waylon, Hank Sr., Patsy. But when we heard that NBC refused to run the ad for the Dixie Chicks documentary Shut Up & Sing, we ran to the theater to see what the fuss was all about. This is a great film. That's why NBC didn't like it. They hate things that are good....

This week NBC refused to run an ad for the Dixie Chicks' movie, "Shut Up And Sing", a documentary about the trio's problems when they dared disagree with BushCo. Before NBC blacklisted them, MSNBC had them on "Hardball" where they were able to speak with Babs-lovin' Chris Matthews. LAist plans on seeing "Shut Up And Sing" at the AMC Century City this week. Currently it's only showing in LA and NY until it's released...

Clearly forgetting that they're a card-carrying member of the Liberal Press, NBC has decided not to run thirty second spots, such as the one above, to promote the Dixie Chicks' new documentary "Shut Up And Sing" -- a film, ironically, about the struggles the 'Chicks encountered after they dared say that they were ashamed that the president was from Texas. Claiming that they "cannot accept these spots as they are disparaging to President Bush",...