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I knew I liked Alison Brie when as the constantly peppy Trudy Campbell, she and onscreen hub Pete Campbell rocked the Charleston in an episode of Mad Men. It wasn't until Community (Thursdays at 8 on NBC) that I fully appreciated Brie's talents. As the high-strung, overachieving Annie, Brie imbues her character with alacrity and acidity; because Annie's not the ingénue, Brie doesn't need to make her completely likable, and therefore she's the most watchable character on the show.
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They kinda seem like psychedelic weirdos — one video's defined by tie-dyed swirls and tight '70s shirts, another one's got a flailing cardboard monster and a flying piece of pizza — but Nashville duo Jeff the Brotherhood actually make some the catchiest, straightforward-est rock 'n' roll you've heard in a long time. Just fun as hell. They're opening for Japanese perpetual punk machine Shonen Knife at Johnny Brenda's on Monday.
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I can't speak for the remake premièring on Nov. 15 (AMC, 8 p.m.), but there are few shows like the cult '60s British TV show The Prisoner , now available on DVD. Created by and starring Patrick McGoohan, The Prisoner follows a defected secret agent who is taken to an ostensibly idyllic island called The Village, where his name is replaced by a number and he's not allowed to leave. Exploring themes of identity and free will, The Prisoner is a milestone; television has rarely been so deep or engrossing.
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She may not have made it to the Live Arts Fest's A.W.A.R.D. Show! finals back in September, but quirky Kathryn TeBordo certainly won us over at the performance's talk-back, during which the self-described "micro-choreographer" challenged the audience to think about how small dance can be before it becomes something else entirely. She'll pursue that question further as a Live Arts artist-in-residence this year; catch her tonight at the program's new second-Thursday series (livearts-fringe.org) at the Festival Studio in NoLibs.
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