[ Circuit>>Events ] What are the odds you'll like these five February events?
The Betting Window (ODDS-ON FAVORITE) 2:1
Drive-By Truckers Upside: Guitar solos. Downside: Contact buzzes. Upside (an addendum): Contact buzzes. (Feb. 9. $25. Headliners, 584-8088, headlinerslouisville.com.)
6:1 Hughesical: The Musical
Upside: If The Breakfast Club is your favorite John Hughes movie, you'll enjoy this per- formance about high school classmates who reunite at their 20-year reunion after living by "Hughesian" prin- ciples as adults.
13:1 The Kentucky Stickhorses
Upside: The Kentucky Stickhorses are the North American Lacrosse League's Louisville team, and they play at home against the Jack- sonville Bullies and the Hershey Haymakers. If you don't know anything about lacrosse, you're missing the point: These names are fantastic!
6:1 Puscifer
Upside: Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan is one of this writer's heroes, and here's one of Keenan's other bands.
Downside: Puscifer? Name's definitely scarier than "Stickhorses."
(Feb. 29. $39.50. Brown Theatre, 584- 7777, kentuckycenter.org.)
Downside: Five teams — one of which calls Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Pa., home — make up the entire North American Lacrosse League.
(Feb. 4 against Jacksonville, Fla., or Feb. 12 against Hershey, Pa. $7-$20. Freedom Hall; visit kentuckystickhorses.com for more information.)
(LONGSHOT) 25:1 Leigh Anne Tuohy
Upside: She's the mom Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for portraying in The Blind Side, based on the book about a rich white family that takes in an impoverished black offensive lineman. Downside: A Leigh Anne Tuohy motivational speech may be more nauseating than the movie The Blind Side.
(Feb. 5 at the Brown Theatre. A registration form and $25 are due ahead of time, so it'll probably be too late to snag a seat by the time you read this. Send "thank you" emails to jmoss@loumag.com.)
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Downside: If Maid in Man- hattan is your favorite John
Hughes movie (yes, Hughes wrote it, hiding behind the pseudonym Edmond Dantes), you'll need to stop watching movies. Forever.
(Feb. 9-18. $10-$20. The Alley Theater, 713-6178, thealleytheater.org.)
>>By Josh Moss