Subject: Kurt Weill

• Toasters of the Town

  The ska veterans want you to know that the music wasn't born yesterday.

  October 29, 1998

• Feast of Reason

  Pleasure Forever indulges the senses in a dark, debauched sound.

  June 20, 2002

• Top 10 Reissues of 2008

  Over the next couple of weeks, Backbeat will feature some Top Ten lists from around the Village Voice Media chain. Click here for previous year-in-review coverage from Backbeat and VVM. It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scenes From an Itali

  December 23, 2008

• Best ensemble

  June 29, 2000

• Sum of Their Parts

  With a twisted vision, Reverend Glasseye and His Wooden Legs get a leg up on the competition.

  May 23, 2002

• Urinetown, the Musical

  PHAMALY shows you how to go with the flow.

  August 9, 2007

• Blue Angel

  January 18, 2007

• Lucinda Williams

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  Lost Highway

  March 1, 2007

• The Dresden Dolls

  Tuesday, April 4, Bluebird Theater, 1-866-468-7621.

  March 30, 2006

• The Evil That Men Do

  Mother Courage shows raw courage.

  March 2, 2006

• Raise the Rufus

  Rufus Wainwright thinks the world could use a little romance right now.

  November 1, 2001

• From the Heart

  Germinal Stage Denver celebrates Bertolt Brecht.

  April 19, 2001

• Latin Play, Boys

  Barrio Babies takes on Hollywood's treatment of Hispanics.

  November 25, 1999

• Give My Regards

  July 22, 1999

• Night & Day

  July 8 - 14, 1999

  July 8, 1999

• The ABBA Experiment

  Twenty-five years later, Sweden's still getting its revenge.

  April 15, 1999

• The Power of Positive Thinking

  For the members of Thinking Plague, simple isn't necessarily better.

  January 7, 1999

• Kids Do the Darnedest Things

  Three members of famous musical families provide a good argument for nepotism.

  July 16, 1998

• Quick-Change Artist

  Don't try to pigeonhole vocalist Holly Cole.

  March 5, 1998

• Thrills for the week

  January 30, 1997

• The Odd Couple

  A new boxed set paints Miles Davis and Gil Evans in black and white.

  October 17, 1996

• The Three Faces of Bobby

  A boxed set examines the psyche of the late Bobby Darin.

  February 22, 1996

• THE MACK ATTACK

  August 9, 1995

• THRILLS

  April 19, 1995