Jesse Kees leaned back on a stool in The Compact Disc Store, located on the corner of Jefferson Highway and Government Street. His long unkempt hair is covered by a simple black beanie. His white, collared work shirt looks like it was picked up at a thrift store.
A streamlined path is one that offers the least resistance and turbulence. For five Los Angeles musicians, that path includes the road to Baton Rouge. Those musicians are members of Streamline, a newly-formed rock band fresh from the entertainment capital of the nation.
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" will ignite the stage of the Baton Rouge Little Theatre Friday at 7 p.m. with a dramatic tale in which fraud, lust and hidden passions threaten to rip a broken family to shreds. The theater's rendition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Tennessee Williams classic will impress audiences of all sorts with Broadway star Ana Maria Andricain joining the cast as Maggie the Cat.
One of contemporary music's most exciting, inventive and original acts will bend genres and explore sonic possibilities tonight at the University. Bang On A Can, a New York based collection of composers and performers dedicated to creating, exposing and performing new music, will take the stage of the Union Theatre tonight for a five-hour marathon concert starting at 6 p.
