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Alain Nu

Check out this week's ON THE GO to learn more about mentalist Alain Nu, "The Mind Guy," who will do his thing at Lebanon Valley College tomorrow night. Nu was featured in several hour-long specials on TLC, and has performed all over the world, including as a headlining act in Las Vegas. Also. Livingston Taylor will bring his dynamic stage show to Carlisle Theatre on Saturday. Two great events to keep you "on the go" this weekend!

Lead drummers Justin Spencer and Ryan Veniza - photo from Recycled Percussion's website

It started as an idea for a high school talent show. Now Recycled Percussion boasts a "junk rock" power percussion show, complete with a beat box session, an explosive stage show and the most important, plastic buckets. If you're wondering what the plastic buckets are for, lead drummers Justin Spencer and Ryan Vezina will surely show you. Todd Griffin (DJ) and Jim Magoon (electric guitar) complete the four-man traveling show, which hits the Luhrs Center at Shippensburg University this Tuesday at 8:00 pm. Tickets are $20 and $17.

Courtesy of Family Force 5

Head to the Chameleon Club in Lancaster Monday night for the Dance Rawr Dance II tour, featuring Family Force 5, Play Radio Play, Danger Radio and Ultraviolet Sound.

Family Force 5 is a Christian crunk rock band from Atlanta that is being hailed by Christian and non-Christian critics alike. Expect to hear newer songs off their latest EP "Dance or Die," which was released in June.

Tickets to the 6 p.m. show are $13 in advance and $15 the day of the show.

Harry Treadaway and Saoirse Ronan in Fox Walden's 'City of Ember'

(AP) - Life in a post-apocalyptic world is not a new film theme. Humans have dug themselves out of the ashes in movies from "Logan's Run" to "A Boy and His Dog." The only difference is how deep society has been buried.

More teenagers are carpooling to save money on gas.

The downturn in the economy is affecting all ages, including teenagers. Local students are economizing by carpooling, riding the bus, sharing the cost of gasoline and thinking twice about buying that latest DVD.

Bobby Burgard, a Mechanicsburg Area Senior High School junior, said teens "are a little more stingy on how much money they spend. When they go to the mall, I think they don't spend too much money. People are waiting a little bit longer to buy things. It's not spur of the moment."

Courtesy of Trio da Paz

Trio da Paz features three seasoned masters of both jazz and Brazilian music - Romero Lubambo, Nilson Matta and Duduka da Fonseca. Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz presents them on Sunday at the Harrisburg Hilton.

The Trez Music Education Center Youth Band opens at 5:00 p.m. Tickets range from $5-25.

Below is a live performance of "Jazz Samba."

Photo from the Bacon Brothers' MySpace

One brother is an international film star. The other is a songwriter/musician. Together, Kevin and brother Michael are The Bacon Brothers, formed in 1995. The duo and their band will be at the Majestic Theater on Sunday at 6:30 pm. Ticket prices vary from $40 to $100 (which includes a meet-and-greet with the artists).

Leonardo DiCaprio and Golshifte Farahani in Warner Bros. Pictures' 'Body of Lies'

(AP) - In "Body of Lies," Ridley Scott's fascinating and flawed spy thriller about a soulless CIA technocrat (Russell Crowe) pulling the chains of field agents in the Middle East, Leonardo DiCaprio furnishes the soul.

photo from www.myspace.com/templeofhiphopThe Blastmaster KRS-One live on stage.

Well, 1999's canonical Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists anointed KRS-One as the Muhammad Ali of emcees and I am not one to argue.

The Boogie Down Productions founding member who once boasted "I am hip-hop" returns to Harrisburg's Dragonfly Club on Saturday. Doors open at 9:00 p.m. Show scheduled to start at 10:30 p.m.

Don't act like you don't know.

Learn from the Teacher and proceed straight to class.

Rob Brown and Dennis Quaid in Universal Pictures' 'The Express'

As a kid growing up in the Northern Tier in the '70s, I occasionally played basketball games against a school from just over the border in Elmira, N.Y., named Ernie Davis.