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this ISSUE: Lewis Black
Mar. 4-17, 2011
ON THE COVER LEWIS BLACK Yeah, he’s loud. But that’s only because he something to say. Fortunately for us, his observations, while scathing, are hilarious.
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Barrage brings its wild violins and pulsating rhythms to Dubuque’s Grand Opera House. The plucky group promises a high-octane show.
16 Listen live Shake off the work week with some weekend entertainment. Check out our live music lineup to see who’s playing in your area and beyond.
11 Livin’ large Detroit rapper Big Sean has collaborated with Kanye, Eminem and other hip-hop heavy hitters. Now catch him live at The Union in Iowa City.
18 Reel deal It’s up to a Marine staff sergeant and his new platoon to draw a line in the sand in “Battle: Los Angeles,” the latest end-of-theworld thriller to hit theaters.
12 So blue Riverside Blues Weekend kicks off this month with Jonny Lang and other blues greats all in one place. It’s enough to make a grown man cry.
19 Suspect behavior Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker takes on a prime time challenge as special agent Sam Cooper in the new CBS “Criminal Minds” spinoff.
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ewis Black always seems on the verge of having a stroke. It’s not enough for the internationally known comedian, who has regular gigs on “The Daily Show” and hosts “Root of All Evil” on Comedy Central, to just tell a joke. For Black, it’s all in the delivery. “He went HUN-ting for QUAIL,” Black says in one joke about Dick Cheney from his recent HBO special, “Red, White and Screwed.” Black loudly emphasizes certain words for comedic effect. He also has a propensity to talk fast at certain points and flail his arms about like a frustrated customer in a long line. “You do NOT use the words ‘hunt’ and ‘quail’ together in a sentence. You don’t HUNT for quail. You might TRACK quail,” he goes on, using the kind of voice you might hear from your father after he caught you throwing a keg party. “THEY’RE THIS BIG. They’re TINY LITTLE BIRDS,” Black says, his face straining as he paces the stage. “Going quail hunting is like saying, ‘I’m going fishing’ and going to a goldfish bowl and going, ‘GOT IT!’” His audience reacts at the physical comedy — including inflection changes — almost as much as they do the actual jokes. But it took Lewis Black, 62, a long time to figure that out. “I was a writer, so I was thinking more about the writing, which really (expletive) up the comedy,” Black said by phone while traveling between stand-up gigs in Tennessee. “It takes most comics a while to realize what it is, where their funny comes from. I finally realized it was coming from when I was frustrated and angry.” It took Black a while to realize he was a comedian at all, in fact. Some might not know that he is a prolific playwright, with more than 40 stage plays to his credit. Stand-up comedy was just something he tried out and liked. “I kept doing it on the side, like a hobby — just a really strange hobby,” he
said. “And I kept doing it, and doing it, and doing it.” He’ll do it in his latest tour, “In God We Rust,” at Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 26. Tickets are still available at gbpac.com, which notes that Black’s show features “adult content.” That’s putting it mildly. Black find creative ways to insert a myriad of “adult” words into his act to make his satirical points. It’s not a show for the young or faint of heart in that respect. Those who are mulling the decision to see him have eight live albums, seven DVDs, books, movies and television appearances to learn about Black’s style. Nowadays, Black takes his brand of political humor, which leans unmistakably left, and proceeds to burn both Democrats and Republicans. “Both sides really deserve to be trashed,” he said. “In the last 15 years, one party was holding a match, the other was holding gasoline.” And though he points that out in stroke-inducing ways, he’s not one to subscribe to the escalation. “This whole sense of idiot panic of, ‘Oh God, the whole world’s gonna fall apart if—” It’s not,” he said. “We don’t move that quickly. Over time, things very, very incrementally change, and neither side has any ownership of the truth.” That realization, coupled with his experiences, has both gotten him angrier and calmer about life’s frustrations. “Certain things send me off the rails,” Black said. “(But) I’ve gotten more of a sense that you just take it in the a** and that’s that.” Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center Saturday, March 26 • 7:30 p.m. Tickets: gbpac.com PULSE
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f Aretha Franklin is the queen of soul, Alison Scott must be the princess. And she’ll bring her royal sound to The Hub in Cedar Falls at 9:30 p.m. Friday, March 11. Scott has opened for the likes of Bon Jovi, Boz Scaggs, Marc Cohn and Chris Isaak and plays to sell-out crowds across the country. Her third album, “Chinese Whispers,” dropped last fall and garnered rave reviews. “The album is a mix of pop, rock, R&B and a little taste of hip-hop all sewn together with soul,” Scott said on her website. Scott’s band includes triple platinum writer/producer/guitarist Kevin Bowe, drummer Peter Anderson and bassist Steve Price.
Admission: $5, and door proceeds benefit the Red Cross. www.thehublivemusic.com www.alisonscott.com
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The 2011 Earth Jam will begin at 5:30 p.m. Friday, April 15. Displays and children’s activities are set from 5:30 p.m. to 6:45 p.m., and the Banana Slug String Band will perform at 7 p.m. All activities are free at the E.B. Lyons Interpretive Center at the Mines of Spain, Dubuque. The purpose of the Earth Jam is to educate, inspire and have entire families participate in making responsible decisions for the earth. The event will educate the public through booths and hands-on children’s activities. The Banana Slug String Band will present its environmental message through song. All activities are FREE. E.B. Lyons Interpretive Center at the Mines of Spain, Dubuque
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Funded in part by Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust
Madagascar Live Friday, March 11 — Sunday, March 13 A new stage show, “Madagascar Live” stars the cast of popular characters from the beloved “Madagascar” film series, including Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo.
next to normal Wednesday, March 16 — Sunday, March 20 The Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning musical “Next to Normal” is an emotional powerhouse of a musical about a family trying to take care of themselves and each other.
My Mother’s Italian…
Jazz Sunday Worship service featuring
Wednesday, May 11 — Sunday, May 22 One of the longest running one-man comedy shows, “My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m In Therapy” is filled with a cast of outrageous characters created and played by comedian Steve Solomon.
Chicago Friday, June 3 — Sunday, June 5 “Chicago,” the story of good-girl-gone-bad Roxie Hart, has been postponed to June 3-5. All original tickets will be transferred to the rescheduled dates. Call 515.246.2300 for assistance.
BILL SHEPHERD’S “RED HOTS” Dixieland Jazz Band March 6th - 9:30 a.m.
Waterloo First United Methodist Church (corner of W. 4th & Randolph Sts.)
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Tuesday, April 19 — Sunday, April 24 “Rock of Ages” is a hilarious, feel-good love story told through the greatest songs of the ’80s — like those from iconic rockers Journey, Styx, REO Speedwagon, Foreigner, Pat Benatar, Whitesnake and many more. The Civic Center 221 Walnut St., Des Moines 515.246.2300; www.civiccenter.org Tickets: 800.745.3000, CivicCenter.org, Ticketmaster locations or the Civic Center ticket office.
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ip hop artist Big Sean will take the mic and take the stage at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 24, at The Union Bar in downtown Iowa City. The Detroit rapper is signed with Island Def Jam Records and is most known for his collaboration with Kanye West. He’s recorded multiple mix tapes in the last few year, and his debut album, “Finally Famous,” drops later this years. The album’s lead single, “My Last,” features Chris Brown, and other tracks feature the likes of Eminem, Mike Posner, Pharrell Williams, Drake, Kanye West and more.
Tickets: $20, available at www.livewknd.com.
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seat. With all precincts reporting, the rapper had 20 percent of the vote, trailing incumbent Alderman Willie Cochran, who had 46 percent. Since no candidate got more than 50 percent of the vote, the top two advance to the runoff. The rapper, who’s lived in Chicago for years, vowed to pick up support from three other candidates who did not make the runoff. He had received backing from the city’s powerful Chicago Teachers’ Union. His platform included bringing green business to the 20th Ward on the city’s South Side, which includes some of the poorest neighborhoods in Chicago. Rhymefest won a Grammy in 2004 for co-writing “Jesus Walks” with Kanye West. The award-winning rapper who wants to be a Chicago alderman looked down the block and counted up the boarded houses in this slice of the city’s South Side. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. “How can you walk here and not feel something in your heart? We’re living in an urban ghost town,” Rhymefest told The Associated Press during a van tour of the ward where he lives. “I see
two things. The first is neglect. The second is opportunity.” Rhymefest’s street-wise lyrics have given him a youthful following, in Chicago and beyond. The presence of Rhymefest — a broad battle rapper who once went toe-to-toe with, and many say easily defeated, Eminem — in a council seat would certainly shake things up in a body seen in recent years as a compliant rubber stamp for retiring Mayor Richard Daley. “He’s a homegrown advocate with a heart for his people,” said Stacy Davis-Gates, a spokeswoman for the teachers’ union “He’s a hip-hop artist, his initial expression is to champion the oppressed and inspire transformation.” Rhymefest paints himself as an alternative to business as usual for the 20th Ward. The 33-yearold rapper — named Che after the 1950s Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara — has pledged to give up a portion of his aldermanic salary for loans to bring business to the area and says he’ll only serve two four-year terms. His campaign headquarters are inside a dingy car wash surrounded by vacant lots, and some of his fundraisers have been held at nightclubs where he performs. He’s also got a criminal past, something that’s caused him some trouble on the campaign trail.
Rhymefest was convicted in 2001 for domestic violence involving his first wife and in 2005 for firing a gun following during a dispute with a real estate agent in Indiana. The rapper says he’s learned from his past, insists he’s changed and that others can benefit from his perspective. He’s says he’s happily remarried and has two kids, including primary custody of a son from his first marriage. “We’re telling people because you made a mistake when you were younger you can never take a position of leadership? You can never grow out of it?” he said. “Then what we’re telling the 20th Ward is, lay down and die, you’re done.” While driving around the area, Rhymefest discussed his frustration with poverty and how he felt those at City Hall had given up on his neighborhood. “Givin’ up on the hood, I’m not down with it,” he rapped. “We all in a pool of debt and just drowned in it.” PULSE
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Friday, March 25, to Sunday, March 27 Riverside Casino & Golf Resort 3184 Iowa Highway 22, Riverside Tickets: $40-$25 per show; Riverside gift shop, www.riversidecasinoandresort.com or 877.677.3456.
And the winners are ... Congratulations to our top five winners in the Cedar Valley Pulse Oscars Pool: Tyler Smedley Demetrios Lalopoulos Melanie Wagner Brian Herzog Andrew Hundley
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A professional musician since age 12, Grammy Award-winner Jonny Lang rocketed from his hometown of Fargo, N.D., to international renown in his mid-teens. While kids his age were still playing high school gigs, he was touring with giants like the Rolling Stones and Aerosmith and trading licks with mentors like B. B. King and Buddy Guy. “Every record I’ve done has felt progressively more and more like the real me,” Lang said of his latest, “Turn Around.” “But more than anything I’ve done, this one comes straight from my heart.”
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John Mayall & Shemekia Copeland 27 MaRch, 4 p.M. John Mayall first rose to fame under the name John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. After a few years and constant turnover of musicians, he met his soul mate in Eric Clapton. This historic union culminated in the first hit album for the Bluesbreakers. After Clapton and Jack Bruce left the band to form Cream, a succession of great musicians defined their artistic roots under Mayall’s leadership. As sidemen left to form their own groups, others took their places. Peter Green, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood became Fleetwood Mac. Andy Fraser formed Free, and Mick
Taylor joined the Rolling Stones. Mayall continues to release new albums, with his 56th album released in 2007, and he strives to remain true to the timeless music that first inspired a skinny young British lad to teach himself the guitar, harmonica and piano years ago. Shemekia Copeland is already a blues force to be reckoned with. She has opened for the Rolling Stones, headlined at the Chicago Blues Festival, scored critics choice awards on both sides of the Atlantic and shared the stage Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Taj Mahal and John Mayer.
The Robert Cray Band 25 MaRch, 8 p.M. Five-time Grammy Award-winner Robert Cray recently reunited with one of his oldest friends and colleagues: bassist Richard Cousins, whose tenure with the Robert Cray Band began in 1974. He joins keyboardist Jim Pugh and drummer Tony Braunagel. “Blues is one of the foundations of our music, but it’s not all that we play,” Cray said. “When I first started playing guitar, I wanted to be George Harrison — that is, until I heard Jimi Hendrix. After that, I wanted to be Albert Collins and Buddy Guy and B.B. King. And then there are singers like O.V. Wright and Bobby Blue Bland. It’s all mixed up in there.”
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Radiohead’s ‘The King of Limbs’ a mundane, simply OK release PRESTON JONES | McCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS Radiohead’s eighth studio album, “The King of Limbs,” appears to begin “in medias res,” picking up where 2007’s “In Rainbows” trailed off. That record, an admirable attempt at once more reconciling the gap between digital sterility and analog feeling, is remembered more for the circumstances of its release than anything else, although it was a fine effort from the band. With “Rainbows,” the Grammy-winning British rockers’ first in a decade without a major label’s support, Radiohead upended the conventions and evaded the machinery of the music industry, releasing “Rainbows” digitally for whatever fans deemed it was worth. “Free” isn’t an option this time around, however; consumers can download a MP3 version for as little as $9 or shell out for a deluxe package that includes a vinyl version of “Limbs” for $48. (“Limbs” will be released physically at the end of March.) “Limbs” was sprung upon the public in February. That proved to be the most startling part about the album, compact at eight songs and 37 minutes. Produced by the group’s long-time collaborator, Nigel Godrich, “The King of Limbs” is as close as Radiohead will likely ever get to making a folk album. There are pastoral themes at play here — frontman Thom Yorke’s quavering tenor caresses phrases about crystal-clear lakes and blossoms — embedded within tracks featuring Radiohead’s now-signature collage of chilly electron-
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ics, earthy, jagged guitar licks and beats that trip all over themselves en route to resolution. After several song cycles about technology crushing the life out of us, it’s surprising to hear one of the world’s foremost rock bands worrying about whether we’re spending enough time appreciating nature. Paranoia — another Radiohead staple — is likewise threaded through each song: “You stole it all/Give it back,” croons Yorke in “Morning Mr. Magpie.” This tension propels “Limbs” forward, towards an uncertain destination. Not that there aren’t moments of breathtaking beauty along the way; the glacial Codex hearkens back, in tone, if not spirit, to cuts from “OK Computer” and “Kid A.” It’s probably the album’s most enjoyable cut. But make no mistake: Radiohead has, yet again, made a record that will likely be more admired than loved. “Lotus Flower” isn’t just a song here, it’s a clue; these eight songs reveal their pleasures stubbornly. Radiohead’s hardcore fan base will embrace it without question, but those who yearn for the days of accessible and cerebral music from this band will continue wanting. “The King of Limbs” is merely OK, elevated somewhat by its unusual arrival. For most bands, it would likely be a triumph, a career accomplishment. That it simply feels mundane in Radiohead’s hands makes it unclear whether expectations are too high or if the band has simply tired of trying to fashion a sturdy, well-considered piece of art.
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Fixin to Die G. Love G. Love teams with the uber-hot Avett Brothers for a record of his previously unrecorded tunes as well as group of traditional songs. Loaded with country blues of the first order, “Fixin to Die” was recorded down in the Avetts’ home turf of Asheville, N.C., with the brothers also producing the album.
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LISA LING Lisa Ling will present “Open Heart, Open Mind,” discussing her own career path, how journalism plays an important role in the world around us and how, as times continue to change, it can be a force for propelling the world forward in new and positive ways.
Sunday, March 27, 2011 Robert and Ruth Kehl Center, Clarke University Campus 7 p.m. $15/adults, $10/students Purchase tickets beginning Tuesday, March 1, by calling (563)584-8642 or on-line at www.clarke.edu/mackin-mailander.
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Waterloo Bill Chrastil 8 p.m., The Isle Fling Lounge Eleventh Hour 9 p.m., Jameson’s Jester 9 p.m., Screaming Eagle Support Live Local Music Showcase featuring Astral Space, Brazilian 2wins, Still Tickin’ and The Openers 9 p.m., Spicoli’s
Cedar Falls Alison Scott 9:30 p.m., The Hub Blue Suede Cruze 9 p.m., Blue Room The Snozzberries 6 p.m., The Hub
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Dubuque Chuck Bregman 6 p.m., Mystique Rukus 9 p.m., Northside Tami and the Bachelor 9 p.m., Mystique Cedar Rapids Funk Daddies 9 p.m., Chrome Horse Saloon Paul and Gail Williams 7 p.m., Java Creek Iowa City Miracles of God with datagun, Ed Gray and Wolf Wars 8 p.m., Blue Moose Trevor Hall with Matthew Santos 9 p.m., The Mill Valentiger with Clovis Mann and Rea 9 p.m., Iowa City Yacht Club
Cedar Falls Blue Suede Cruze 9 p.m., Blue Room Free Fallin’ 9 p.m., The Hub Future Leaders of the World 9 p.m., Wheelhouse Dubuque 12 Car Pile Up 9 p.m., Northside The Boy’s Night Out 9 p.m., Pit Stop Bryan Popp and Corey Jenny 8 p.m., Spirits Chuck Bregman 6 p.m., Mystique Laura and the Long Hairs 3 p.m., Northside Rosalie Morgan 7 p.m., Taiko St. Patty’s Day Bash featuring Jabberbox 6 p.m., Jumpers Tami and the Bachelor 9 p.m., Mystique Cedar Rapids Flock of Funk 9 p.m., Chrome Horse Saloon Pat Recker 7 p.m., Java Creek
Iowa City Carmel Quinn 8 p.m., The Englert McKenzie River Band 9 p.m., Wildwood Old Thrashers IV featuring Acoustic Guillotine, Chance in Hell, Hott, Illinois John Fever and Wax Cannon 9 p.m., The Mill
18 friday Waterloo Soul Fusion 9 p.m., Jameson’s Cedar Falls Dakota 9 p.m., Blue Room Monsters of Mock 9 p.m., The Hub Dubuque Adam Beck 9:30 p.m., Mystique Chuck Bregman 6 p.m., Mystique Marmaduke 9 p.m., Northside Cedar Rapids Lockren 9 p.m., Chrome Horse Saloon Nick Stika 7 p.m., Java Creek Iowa City Cory Chisel with Ernie Hendrickson and The Vagabonds 8 p.m., The Mill Jazz After Five featuring Equilateral 5:30 p.m., The Mill Mooseknuckle with Todd Day Wait’s Pigpen 9 p.m., Iowa City Yacht Club
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travie mccoy WHEN: 8 p.m. Monday, April 11. WHERE: Neumann Auditorium, Wartburg College, Waverly. WHY: McCoy, a rapper and singer, blends elements of hip-hop, indie rock and soul as a solo artist. His debut double-platinum album, “Lazarus,” featured the Caribbean-flavored “Billionaire,” which climbed the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart to No. 4. The synth-rock “We’ll Be Alright” and “Need You” were other successful releases from that album. McCoy, who now lives in Miami, has said “Lazarus,” which is his middle name, reflects a “personal rebirth,” as with the Biblical character. The singer described his transformation as going from being “a pretty reclusive person” to “getting out of the house … and having fun.”
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11 MARCH STARS: Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Bridget Moynahan THE PLOT: For years, there have been documented cases of UFO sightings around the world. But in 2011, what were once just sightings will become a terrifying reality when Earth is attacked by unknown forces. As people everywhere watch the world’s great cities fall, Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected. It’s up to a Marine staff sergeant (Eckhart) and his new platoon to draw a line in the sand as they take on an enemy unlike any they’ve ever encountered before.
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THE PLOT: A mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he’s hiding a terrible secret.
THE PLOT: In a medieval village haunted by a werewolf, a young girl falls for an orphaned woodcutter, much to her family’s displeasure.
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THE PLOT: A young boy named Milo gains a deeper appreciation for his mom after Martians come to Earth to take her away.
THE PLOT: A lawyer conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills.
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orest Whitaker has built a career on channeling the souls of troubled characters. From his guest-star turns on “ER” and “The Shield,” where he played obsessive and violent men, to his 2006 Oscar-winning performance in “The Last King of Scotland” as the ruthless Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, the 49-year-old actor has distinguished himself as a fearsome, shape-shifting force on the big and small screen. Now he has taken what appears to be an odd fit: a network TV drama where he plays the good guy. In this “against type” role, Whitaker is the lead in “Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior,” a spinoff of the successful CBS drama that focuses on a team of FBI profilers who travel the country investigating horrific crimes. “This is a new situation for me,” admitted Whitaker. “I’m not used to being in just one place — I’m more like a gypsy, going from place to place. But I really like this character and I realized what I could do with him.” Showcasing an Oscar winner in prime time is a major coup for CBS’ lineup. The addition of Whitaker burnishes its star power, which includes Tom Selleck of “Blue Bloods,” Julianna Margulies of “The Good Wife” and Laurence Fishburne in “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.” And it’s also noteworthy: Whitaker and Fishburne are two of the only African American dramatic leads on a broadcast network. “We started out thinking, ‘You think Forest Whitaker could be interested in this?,’ and to actually get him on the show is beyond amazing,” said “Criminal Minds” executive producer Edward Allen Bernero, who is also serving as show runner on the spinoff. “It helps define what this show is — like ‘Criminal Minds,’ it’s not a procedural. It’s all about character.”
“it was a challenge at first trying to find that rhythm with the writers that would make me feel good,” he said. “we’ve really developed that now, it feels good.”
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In person, the 6-foot-2 actor, dressed in a sweatshirt and black pants that camouflage his size, is still formidable, though it’s obvious he has slimmed down from what audiences may remember from his portrayals of the British soldier in “The Crying Game,” jazz legend Charlie Parker in “Bird,” or the pigeon-loving hit man in “Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai.” He is soft-spoken and thoughtful, in sharp contrast to his often volcanic outbursts on-screen. It’s that subtle internal tension that animates Whitaker’s portrayal of Special Agent Sam Cooper, the leader of a special group of agents inside the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit. Cooper maintains a quiet and spiritual approach as he strives to understand the mind of his psychopath suspects. “Playing someone like Sam is at the source of what I’m always trying to do in my work,” said Whitaker. “He is a leader that thinks everyone has a light inside of them, no matter what kinds of horrible things they are capable of. I’m always interested in human nature. He wants to heal those that come in contact with this darkness.” Though a weekly TV series marks a new path for him, Whitaker is no stranger to taking unexpected steps. The actor, not noted for his comedic talents, memorably hosted “Saturday Night Live” in 2007, and in one skit played a waiter who could not stop singing. The actor has also notched success behind the scenes: directing the black female-bonding movie “Waiting to Exhale” in 1995, and executive-producing “Brick City,” a Sundance Channel docu-series about a gritty community in Newark, N.J. The often demanding schedule imposed by a TV series has meant some adjustments for Whitaker. “It was a challenge at first trying to find that rhythm with the writers that would make me feel good,” he said. “We’ve really developed that now, it feels good.” Playing his “Criminal Minds” character Cooper nicely fits with his philosophy of creativity. “I have a discipline about trying to do work that is truthful,” he said. “I was always fortunate enough to play interesting characters, and I’ve always gone by my heart.”
Author embraces quirky parents in ‘One Bird’s Choice’ ALAN SIMMER | Pulse staff writer
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here are certain markers of maturity we all (should) go through. One of those is the transition from being embarrassed by our parents in our teens to appreciating them for their eccentricities. Iain Reid, author of the autobiographical “One Bird’s Choice,” took a little longer to hit that mark than most. His debut novel is about the year he spent living at Lilac Hill, the hobby farm he grew up on outside of Ottawa — at age 27. Reid’s history degree hasn’t landed him much in the way of a career, so he’s taken a job doing a weekly book review on a radio station in Ottawa proper. The review gig leads to a now-and-then producing gig, for a time. Reid doesn’t intend to stay at home long, but he finds himself collecting eggs, shoveling manure and feeding animals for far longer than he intends as he writes in his free time — of which he has plenty. The focus of the book shifts back and forth between Reid’s quarter-life crisis and documenting the behavior of his lovable parents. Often these two go hand-in-hand; Reid is forced into an awkward day at the gym with his father because he literally has zero entries on the house social calendar, work or otherwise. He marvels at the absurdity of his parents, be it his mother thinking the parsley looks lonely or his father speculating that one of their ducks blew away in the cruel winter wind. For those of us with outside perspective, Mom and Dad sound like a hoot and a half. Their charm is the center of the story, the rock on which most of the anecdotes are built and laughed at. But accepting one’s parents first involves accepting oneself. Reid does seem to come to terms with his desire to write and his stay on the farm, though his self-transformation is spottily documented. By the end of the book, however, he’s rolling with his parents’ punches, no longer taking moments to sigh inwardly or question their quirks. He can see what readers already know: His parents are charming and unique, and that’s why we love them.
Narrative drives twists and turns in ‘Fates’ SUSAN CARPENTER | LOS ANGELES TIMES
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he sudden disappearance of a child is a specific sort of horror. Its effects reverberate through families and communities with unforeseen consequence. The aftereffects last for decades. It’s this sort of tragedy that is the centerpiece of “The Fates Will Find Their Way,” an emotionally taut and elegantly written novel about the disappearance of 16-year-old Nora Lindell. Inspired by the real-life experience of author Hannah Pittard, whose middle-school classmate lost a sister to a kidnapping, “Fates” plays with the ambiguity of such a scenario — chronicling the impact of a young girl who goes missing and is never found. The book opens with the discovery that Nora is gone. It is the day after Halloween in a close-knit town where the information is met with disbelief, then speculation. “Fates” presents multiple scenarios to explain Nora’s disappearance, but it stops short of definitively resolving the mystery. This what-if form of storytelling is intriguing. Pittard follows each potential story line as if it were reality. But it is not. Each possible outcome is merely theory, put into circulation by the neighborhood boys who knew her and from whose perspective the story is told. “Fates” is written from the collective viewpoint of six boys. One is a pedophile, another a drug addict —- characters who may or may not have been involved with Nora’s disappearance and whose negative attributes reveal themselves only over time. By turns, “Fates” is a mystery and a coming-of-age story, chock-full of sexual innuendo and misconduct that includes rape and possible murder. Although there is a lot of unseemly action in “Fates,” there is very little dialogue. Pittard prefers to let her narrators ruminate, allowing her readers to form their own conclusions about what may have happened and why.
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he University of Northern Iowa’s student body is sick. A dance created in a dorm there has gone viral. The Interlude dance has become the hit of the McLeod Center in Cedar Falls as well as catching fire on social media and getting attention from national sports media. The dance is born from a techno song by Attack Attack!, a hard-core band the bulk of whose music bears little resemblance to “Interlude.” The song’s name, as it sounds, was just a generic name for a link between two others. As the video has gone viral, it’s been imitated at other schools and universities.
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hat do Anderson Cooper and Sarah Palin have in common? “WTF!” you say. Exactly. The former veep candidate used the salty acronym in a TV interview, and CNN’s Cooper recently said it on his show, “Anderson Cooper 360.” Acronyms have been around for years. But with the advent of text and Twitter-language, it certainly feels like we’re speaking in groups of capital letters a lot more. It’s a question that intrigues linguists and other language aficionados — even though they’ll tell you they have absolutely no concrete research on it. “It’s fascinating,” says Scott Kiesling, a socio-linguist and professor at the University of Pittsburgh. “What’s interesting to me as a linguist is figuring out which words get picked up, and why. What is it that makes OMG and WTF and LOL so useful that they spread from the written to the spoken form?” One possibility, Kiesling proposes, is that some of these acronyms actually become a whole new thought, expressing something different than the words that form them. For example: “You wouldn’t say, ‘OMG, that person just jumped off a cliff,’” he explains. “But you’d say, ‘OMG, do you see those red pants that person is wearing?’” Which brings us to WTF, an acronym that needs no translation. When Palin used the expression recently in a Fox News interview — twice in two sentences, actually — some pundits were a little shocked. (Palin was
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playing on the president’s “Win the Future” message in his State of the Union speech.) “That’s going to be a tough one for her to come back from and explain,” remarked conservative commentator Pat Buchanan on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Host Joe Scarborough simply shook his head and said: “Not very presidential.” But the chatter died down quickly. “I haven’t seen any big blowup,” says Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert on political communication. “It was misplaced humor. But I assume she thought it was clever and thus would not be judged.” Clever may be in the eyes of the beholder. But Palin is not the only prominent person to use the expression on TV recently. On “Anderson Cooper 360” on a recent Monday, the host was commenting on rapper B.O.B.’s use of an airplane’s public address system to perform for the captive passengers. “WTF, B.O.B.?” Cooper asked. Imagine if he’d said the actual words — a quick call from network executives might have ensued. And Palin would’ve been further vilified. But WTF seems to have become a winking way of saying something with a little edge, a little bite, without being truly offensive. Cooper got away with the naughty-but-nice expressive. And so did Palin. LOL.
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Face to Facebook: A bridge for the bashful THE WASHINGTON POST
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osh Chiles is shy. In a gathering of unfamiliar people, he often waits for someone, anyone, to ask him a question or make small talk. At a party, bar or restaurant, “I just sit there, hoping someone will talk to me,” he said. “I wait.” But on Facebook, the 32-year-old Woodbridge, Va., resident is Mr. Personality. He constantly refreshes his status, comments on others’ updates, posts pictures, makes jokes and registers his likes. More important, when he sees his digital connections in person, he said, his shyness often disappears. “There is no doubt that Facebook has improved my life in building relationships with other people,” Chiles said. Chiles is, in many ways, the face of a counterintuitive new stream of research examining whether social networks, particularly Facebook, are for shy people what water is for the thirsty. The studies, with such titles as “The Influence of Shyness on the Use of Facebook” and “Shyness and Online Social Networking Services,” grapple with an important question: Can the Age of Oversharing bring the shy and lonely out of their cocoons? Recent studies have shown that shy people are spending more time on Facebook than more socially confident people are and that the shy report higher satisfaction with the service than do others. Shy people report feeling closer to friends on the network than the non-shy say they do. Although some experts consider Facebook just a crutch for shy people to avoid human contact, many therapists are embracing the technology as a tool that can open social avenues for shy clients. “What we are seeing is that for a lot of shy or socially anxious people, Facebook seems to be getting the ball rolling,” said Jonathan Dalton, a therapist at the Behavior Therapy Center of Greater Washington who counsels such people.
“Facebook can be used more as a bridge.” Facebook, with its 600 million members and built by a known shy person (Mark Zuckerberg, who sometimes sweats profusely in TV interviews), the site encourages people to broadcast intimate details of their lives: where they are from, hobbies, favorite TV shows, relationship status, pictures of family, favorite books, jokes, views on religion and politics. These details are the fabric of everyday conversations and the kindling for relationships. But for shy people, divulging or learning such intimate information is stress-inducing. Some might not try at all, while others might try but blush or sweat, then pull back. In a study published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Levi Baker of the University of Tennessee noted: “Given that learning about others and disclosing personal information often leads to greater intimacy, using social networking services that allow personal information exchanges may facilitate relational development.” “If you avoid people, you isolate, and if you isolate, you are lonely,” said Mary Alvord, a Montgomery County, Md., psychologist with an interest in social networking. “I am all for anything that can help promote interaction, to start the process.” That was the attraction to Facebook for Ian Luria, a 27-year-old student in Arlington County, Va. He had gotten to the point of avoiding most interactions. “My shyness really prevents me from approaching people,” he said. He feels less inhibited on Facebook, where he has more than 230 friends and posts almost every day — funny videos, interesting news stories. He even used the site to ask out a girl. He wasn’t successful, but still, he asked, and that was progress.
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NEW RELEASES video games
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CRYsis 2 Society is barely holding together after a series of natural disasters have ravaged the world — and now the aliens are back. Hellbent on humanity’s destruction, their first target is one of the March 22 most iconic cities on earth: New York. For: PC, xbox 360, Use enhancement technology from PLaYStatioN 3 the future to strike back at the alien foes in this first-person shooter, adapting to the ebb and flow of battles by altering your Nanosuit. Features online multiplayer for up to 12.
oKamideN taking place a few months after the events of “okami,” “okamiden” follows the adventures of Chibiterasu, a young sun god who is summoned to protect the land. Following in the footsteps of amaterasu, the sun-god-turned-wolf in “okami,” Chibiterasu takes the form of a wolf pup for the mission March 15 ahead — to fight off a new threat For: NiNtENDo DS that has leeched the world of its vibrant color again. Using the DS stylus, players wield a celestial brush controlled by Chibiterasu. this powerful tool can attack enemies, paint helpful objects and structures into existence. Chibiterasu’s partners in the game will have unique abilities of their own that help the player conquer puzzles in a world based on Japanese calligraphy and scroll drawings. PrEVIEW ThIS PUPPY Wii owners can grab a demo off the Nintendo Channel — or just watch some gameplay footage at cVPulse.com.
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‘King’s Quest’ fan games recall - and rewrite - the good old days rEVIEW BY aLaN SIMMEr | PULSE WRitER
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little backstory can be a dangerous thing. When done correctly, it adds depth to a story. Think “Harry Potter” — there’s rarely a big revelation, usually accompanied by an “ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,” that hasn’t been teased or hinted at somehow. But those hints and plot convolutions have been sewn into the fabric of the story from the beginning. It’s another thing to try to link preexisting stories by a common thread. Such is the task undertaken by two separate groups trying to breathe new life into the classic “King’s Quest” adventure games — “King’s Quest III Redux” and “The Silver Lining.” “Redux” is the third in a series of remakes AGD Interactive has done of the initial “King’s Quest” games, the first being a straight update and the second adding several new puzzles and an actual plot. “KQ3” splits the difference, sticking mostly to the original with a few new puzzles. Like the other two AGD games, it looks great. It’s wisely rendered in 2-D graphics that look like lush drawings from an illustrated fairy tale. I’m not entirely convinced that the pointand-click interface is better or easier than typing “dip fly wings into essence,” but like the new (and fairly clever) puzzles, it gives players familiar with the old ways a fresh look at a classic title without putting off newer gamers more accustomed to mouse-driven action. The voice acting is a welcome addition and an improvement on AGD’s previous work, though there are some small narrative sins. The plot, a continuation of “KQ2 Redux,” tries to cram events that rightly have gone unconnected into a neat little box with a ribbon and a bow. It’s not only unnecessary, it fails to be convincing. “The Silver Lining,” a fan-made sequel intended to be the ninth game in the series, is unfortu-
nately the bigger offender in this regard. The basic premise of the game is sound: King Graham is off to save his unconscious children. But the Phoenix Online writing team quickly begins playing fast and loose with the history of the series. The idea of the Black Cloak Society, a legion of evil wizards, has become a dead horse so thoroughly beaten it makes doornails look lively. If AGD’s backstory comes in a package with a bow, Phoenix chopped down a tree, turned it into pulp and made their own wrapping paper. There seems to be no event in the “King’s Quest” universe that won’t be the result of sinister machinations by the end of “Lining.” Questionable writing choices seep into the actual gameplay as well. A narrator has one function. Oddly enough, it’s to narrate: describe actions, then be quiet. “Lining’s” narrator talks to Graham, she talks to the player and — the worst trespass of all — she emotes. This is because she’s given longwinded things to say. Examine a certain brook and be forced to listen to a blustering reminiscence about Graham’s younger questing days. If
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New game modes, story missions and alternate costumes accompany new characters like tifa, Kain and Lightning in this second fighting foray into the Dissidia universe of the “Final Fantasy” series. PSP; March 22.
‘The silver Lining,’ episodes 1-3 For: Windows
it’s finally here: handheld 3-D gaming, no glasses required. available in Cosmo black or aqua blue, each device comes packed with applications including a 3D camera, Nintendo 3DS Sound and the Mii Maker. March 27.
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the story is really needed (sorry, but it isn’t), Graham needs to launch into soliloquy. And some of the voice talent for the gruffer parts sounds like, well, actors trying to be gruff instead of gruff actors. Then again, there’s no replacing the magnificent growl of the late Tony Jay as Captain Saladin, either. The main parts of the experience, the puzzles, do satisfy. Some can be almost too frustrating — there’s plenty of guidance on some obstacles and none on others — but they’re in that tongue-incheek spirit of the series as a whole. Both of these games are fan made — the real-life saga of “Lining’s” creation is epic, actually — and therefore lack a certain amount of polish, especially the complex 3-D animations of “Lining.” But considering they’re volunteeronly projects, they’re both quite amazing. I can only imagine what either group could turn out with actual budgets and dedicated staffs. And credit is due to both groups — an official reboot of the “King’s Quest” franchise was just announced, and it’s not hard to imagine the interest in both of these projects helped seal that deal.
Help pick games for display at the smithsonian american art museum
the Smithsonian american art Museum is asking the public to help select video games that will be included in its first exhibit to explore the art and visual effects of gaming. the exhibit, “the art rt of Video Games,” is scheduled to open in March 2012 with a focus on the evolution of games as an artistic medium over the past 40 years. the public can vote online through april 7. Voters can choose 80 games from a pool of 240 choices in various categories. the winning games will be displayed at the museum next year as screen shots or short video clips. www.artofvideogames.org PULSE
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Good Food. Great Prices. OTIS & HENRY’S SERVES UP ALL YOUR DELICIOUS FAVORITES AT GREAT PRICES! Dig into these savory signature items: POT ROAST NACHOS – homemade tortilla chips, beef, onions, peppers and cheese $6.00 RIBS – half rack of slow-roasted baby back ribs served with a baked potato & baked beans $12.00
Plus, try our delicious new menu, available March 16, with selections such as: STEAK AND SHRIMP – grilled sirloin steak and fried shrimp, served with a baked potato and vegetable medley $18.00 TOASTED RAVIOLI – cheese-stuffed toasted ravioli served with tomato cream $6.00
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