http://www.washingtonpost.comNews (www.washingtonpost.com)en-us14020http://www.washingtonpost.comhttp://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gifhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51399-2003Dec10.htmlWed, 10 Dec 2003 10:07:24 GMTYou've heard of show trials? Well, last night's appearance by the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center was a show concert. By Tim Pagehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51133-2003Dec9.htmlWed, 10 Dec 2003 10:07:24 GMTEVERYTHING TO EVERYONE Barenaked Ladies Barenaked Ladies have been dismissed as a joke band and as too clever for their own good, but the fact of the matter is that the Canadian group has rarely been particularly funny or clever. More often... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47727-2003Dec8.htmlWed, 10 Dec 2003 10:07:24 GMTRyan Adams is one fabulous mimic. His sensitive, sometimes suicidal, singer-songwriter ditties are straight out of the Nick Drake school of sad-eyed songs. And on his new album, "Rock N Roll," he howls and hurts exactly like Paul Westerberg of the Replacements. Plus he can do the ponderous and gloomy Strokes thing, the raging, despairing Nirvana thing. And he has all the alt-country tricks up his sleeve as well. If polka suddenly becomes next year's rage, you can bet Adams will spend every waking hour practicing the accordion. By Joe Heimhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47729-2003Dec8.htmlWed, 10 Dec 2003 10:07:24 GMTRosa Parks's legal battle against the hip-hop group OutKast got a green light from the Supreme Court yesterday. By Reilly Cappshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47786-2003Dec8.htmlWed, 10 Dec 2003 10:07:24 GMTBy the time the Dead Boys and Pere Ubu released their debut albums -- in 1977 and 1978, respectively -- the two bands represented opposite extremes of the punk movement. Yet the trashy Boys and the arty Ubu both derived from the same Cleveland progenitor, Rocket From the Tombs. Last year, that group's small recorded legacy was given its first proper retrospective, and now a band called Rocket From the Tombs is undertaking its first American tour. Sunday night at the Black Cat, the quintet took up in the general vicinity of where it left off 28 years ago.