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‘Everything Must Go’ never lets go Strong performances brighten an otherwise dull and formulaic film
RENEE RODRIGUEZ Assistant Editor Memory Map with Sendaway Stranger, Sad Kids and The Popheads—Tuesday, May 17, doors 8 p.m. at The Farside. Admission: $5 to support touring band Hailing from Bloomington, Ind., Memory Map is an indie quartet consisting of Matt Tobey, Mike Bridavsky, Mixie Dixon and Josh Morrow, all of whom are ex-and-current members of Good Luck, Abe Froman, Matty Pop Chart and Rapider than Horsepower. The Midwest fourpiece recently released their debut LP, Holiday Band, on May 10 via 12” 180gm red and black vinyl. Local-act-by-way-ofGainesville Sendaway Stranger will be among the opening acts for Memory Map, along with fellow locals Sad Kids, consisting of Tommy and Mick from Jack Jackie as well as The Popheads, a psychedelic/indie band whose sound is locally referred to as “the Partridge family on acid.” Menace Beach: Did You Know It’s Every Friday? Edition with Team Jaguar, Masterbot, Ben Danner and Truewill—Friday, May 20, doors 9 p.m. at The Engine Room. Admission: $5 ($7 under 21), ladies FREE until 11 p.m., $10 after midnight The Engine Room’s once bi-weekly party is now going down every Friday night throughout the summer, giving students stuck in town for the summer something to do on an otherwise quiet night in Tally. Resident DJs Team Jaguar and Ben Danner will provide the night’s entertainment along with Masterbot, aptly described as a “drum machine with the heart of a man,” while the crowd’s favorite bearded man Truewill and others spin tunes out on the deck (weather permitting). As always, a keg’s worth of free PBR is available before they run out and for all the female newbies—NO heels allowed, seriously. Dangerous Ponies with Birdlips, Letters Home, Aircraft and Lucy—Sunday, May 22, show at 8 p.m. at The Farside. Admission: $5 Coming all the way from Philadelphia, Pa., seven-piece Dangerous Ponies is known for putting on a fun, energetic show for fans. According to The Farside, Dangerous Ponies is a band worth watching, claiming SEE LOWDOWN 6
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Will Ferrell and Christopher Wallace star as unlikely friends in the new drama ‘Everything Must Go.’
ERIC JAFFE Staff Writer Will Ferrell is an actor who works best in two extremes: outright crazy or abnormally subdued.
Anyone who has had the privilege of seeing the Saturday Night Live alumnus in action knows which of these two extremes seems to take priority over the other. Everything Must Go, standing alongside 2006’s excellent Stranger Than Fiction, is a member of the rare latter category—a film that finds Ferrell shout-
ing on the inside and not the out. Directed by first-timer Dan Rush, Everything Must Go tells the story of Nick Halsey, an alcoholic career salesman who loses his wife and his job after a falling out at the office. Based on the short story “Why Don’t You Dance?” by acclaimed author Raymond Carver, the film follows our pro-
tagonist as he attempts to rid himself of all of his possessions via yard sale. In the process, he finds a friend in Kenny Loftus (Christopher Wallace), a neighborhood teenager who may be the reason Nick has been searching for to put himself back together. Like other films in the “unexpected guest gives tortured individual’s life
new meaning” subgenre (think along the lines of Up, Bad Santa and The Karate Kid), Everything Must Go follows the usual formula: Nick starts out at a low point, resists help, and as time moves forward, begins his slow march toward normality. The film is cliché, but fortunately that isn’t SEE EVERYTHING 7
El Ranchito serves up a feast New restaurant offers Salvadoran dishes for student prices
ZACHARY GOLDSTIEN Photographer There are certain things students look for when choosing where to eat: price, location and (sometimes) the quality of the food. College campuses are
EL RANCHITO WHERE
460 W. Tennessee Street HOURS
Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m. through 9 p.m., closed Sunday PHONE NUMBER Zachary Goldstein/FSView
known for being surrounded by at least a few cheap and delicious eateries, and Tallahassee is no exception, with local spots surrounding every corner of Florida State University’s red brick campus. Still, there’s always room for something new, and El Ranchito is just that. El Ranchito is one of those places where diners are not quite sure what to expect when they first walk in. Formerly home to a Mexican restaurant, El Ranchito is now in the middle of a full-fledged conversion to a Salvadoran joint. But don’t let the change put you off: the food is cheap, damned tasty and within easy walking distance of the east side of campus. Nestled right off the corner of Macomb and Tennessee Streets, the restaurant’s bright orange façade gives way to an unpretentious interior featuring some tables, a food-bar and a window that leads back to
(850) 981-2700 SEE RANCHITO 8
Candida Hernandez cooks her signature pupusas in the kitchen of El Ranchito.
Tyler, the Creator kills them all with ‘Goblin’ Odd Future’s full-on debut is a bonafide shock to hip-hop’s system
J. MICHAEL OSBORNE Editor-in-Chief If you’ve missed the rise of L.A. rap collective Odd
Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All and the head to their Voltron, Tyler, the Creator, then you probably don’t care much about what music blogs are talking about, and if that’s the case, first of all, good for you. If you do care about that kind of thing, given their more recent notoriety on said blogs, it may surprise you to know that
Tyler’s new record Goblin is the first thing anyone in Odd Future’s done that’s actually been sold in stores. The scarily precocious 17-to-24-year-olds spent the last three or so years posting their entirely homemade mixtapes as free downloads on their Tumblr, and so have existed in a weird bubble
that’s already made them inescapable for a certain age group with a certain degree of Web savvy, and still almost completely unknown to most outside of that bubble—for now, anyway. The reason music bloggers have been piling onto OFWGKTA, and 20-year-old Tyler in particular, is because they have “next big thing” writ-
ten all over them, and everyone with a Twitter account wants to put their two or three or four cents in on the music before they jump ship and say they were more into OF’s early stuff. This isn’t a criticism—it’s just how things work now—but Goblin is Tyler’s first major move to step outside of his selfSEE GOBLIN 7