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Friday, July 16, 2010

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week end what to do, hear, see, watch, read, listen to, visit and eat in Gwinnett and Atlanta New Dawn Theater presents ‘Cheaper by the Dozen’....................................Pg. 6

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Cathy Seith, from left, who plays Miss Brill in the play “Cheaper by the Dozen” acts out a scene with Kris Reeves (Anne) during a scene at a dress rehearsal on Monday. The play will run at New Dawn Theater company in Duluth through Aug.1.

The Dish.....................................................................Pg. 4 Art Beat ....................................................................Pg. 5 Movies ...........................................................Pg. 8-13, 15 Showtimes ............................................................Pg. 12

By Venue ................................................................Pg. 16 Gwinnett Calendar ............................................Pg. 18 Metro Calendar....................................................Pg. 19 The “Weekend” arts and entertainment guide includes select events in the coming week. To be considered for a listing, send a fact sheet to: Weekend, Features Department, Gwinnett Daily Post, 725 Old Norcross Road, Lawrenceville, GA 30045; or call 770-963-9205, e-mail features@gwinnettdailypost.com or fax 770-339-8081.

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Weekend design: Tori Boone

DINING GWINNETTTASTES A selection of local eateries recently featured in the Gwinnett Daily Post:

2010 Summer Concert & Movie Series

• Rice Station Rice Station offers a fusion of Chinese, Japanese and Thai selections, with more than 140 items on its menu.

The most popular selections are the Shanghai sesame chicken — lightly battered white meat chicken stir fried with mixed vegetables and a white sweet sesame sauce — and the Kung Pao chicken. The most popular Thai dishes are the Thai basil and the panang curry, both made with a choice of tofu, beef, shrimp, chicken, pork or seafood. Rice Stations serves beer and wine.

2300 Liam Ave., Suite 195, Dacula. 770-822-9999. www.ricestationdacula.com.

• Dakota’s Bar and Grill Typical sports bar fare — wings and burgers — is complemented by more elaborate preparings for steaks and seafood. But the wings and burgers still top the list of most popular menu items. Dakota’s also serves up ribeye, T-bone and sirloin steaks, along with ribs slathered with a signature rib sauce and a couple pasta dishes.

1304 Atlanta Highway, Auburn. 770-676-0957. www.dakotasbarandgrill.com.

• Bushels Seafood Cafe Bushels’ 2010 summer menu, which runs through September, is an expansive list of the myriad ways seafood can be prepared, from grilled, fried and boiled gulf white shrimp to steamed, oven-broiled and stuffed crabs. The shrimp, garlic crabs and crawfish are the most popular menu selections. All food is cooked to order so customers can expect a minimum 10 minute wait. Bushels Seafood Cafe also serves a variety of fish — flounder, grouper, red snapper, catfish, salmon and tilapia — lobster, alligator tail, gumbo, chicken fingers, burgers, po’ boys, wings and a bevy of sides, including

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The pad Thai, front, is one of the most popular Thai noodle dish and the most popular item on the menu at KoKai Thai Bistro. Rice noodles are stir-fried with egg, green onions, bean sprouts and chopped peanuts and can be topped with shrimp. The Thai boat noodle soup, back left, is another popular menu item, as well as the panang chicken curry, back right. corn on the cob, hush puppies, fried okra, green beans, potato salad and more.

1495-G Duluth Highway 120, Lawrenceville. 770-910-7710. www.bushelscafe.com.

• Gimza Polish Restaurant The menu at Gimza Polish Restaurant changes daily, but the focus on freshly prepared, authentic Polish food remains consistent. The most popular dishes are the pierogi — dumplings stuffed with various fillings. The potato pierogi is made with mashed potatoes, farmer’s cheese and sautéed onions, while the kasha and meat pierogi is filled with buckwheat, ground meat, cooked mushrooms and sautéed onions.

Also popular are the croquettes, Polish pancakes filled with ground pork, sautéed onions, mushrooms and sauerkraut and served with a mushroom sauce.

3435 Medlock Bridge Road, Suite 209, Norcross. 770441-2268. www.gimzapolishrestaurant.com.

• KoKai Thai Bistro KoKai serves made-fromscratch food one would find sold by sidewalk vendors on the streets of Bangkok. The Pengsuk family recipes are made with traditional Thai herbs and homemade sauces giving customers an authentic Thai experience.

The most popular menu items at KoKai correspond with some of the most wellknown Thai dishes: the pad Thai — rice noodles stir fried with egg, green onions, bean sprouts and chopped peanuts — and the Thai boat noodle soup — sliced beef, meatballs and bean sprouts in a spicy stew broth.

5495 Jimmy Carter Blvd., B21, Norcross. 770-409-9219. www.kokaithaibistro.com.

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THE DISH

Barnacles

The Norcross location of Barnacles offers a family-friendly sports bar atmosphere where fans can kick back in a booth or at a table and watch the game on one of the flatscreen TVs or large projector screens scattered throughout the restaurant.

5955 Jimmy Carter Blvd., Norcross

770-441-9509

www.mybarnacles.com

BY DEANNA ALLEN STAFF WRITER deanna.allen@ gwinnettdailypost.com

• Open since: 1991 but came under new ownership in 2008 • Location: Barnacles has two locations in Gwinnett, one off Jimmy Carter Boulevard in Norcross and the other near Gwinnett Place Mall in Duluth.

• Hours: Norcross location — 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Fridays, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Saturdays and noon to 11 p.m. Sundays; Duluth location — 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Mondays and Tuesdays, 11 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays and noon to midnight Sundays

ONTHEMENU • Crab-stuffed mushrooms — Fresh button mushroom caps filled with a savory crab meat stuffing topped with Parmesan bread crumbles and baked golden brown in a creamy scampi butter, $6.99 • Black bean chili — Tender prime rib simmered with black beans, crushed tomatoes, onions and jalapenos topped with sour cream, $3.49 for a cup and $4.59 for a bowl • Bistro BLT — Toasted sourdough bread filled with crispy bacon, fresh tomato slices and crisp lettuce with mayo and guacamole served with French fries and a pickle spear, $7.59 • New Orleans combo — A combination of penne pasta, crawfish and andouille sausage in a Cajun cream sauce served with Texas toast and a choice of soup or salad, $14.99

restaurant offers a familyfriendly sports bar atmosphere where fans can kick back in a booth or at a table and watch the game on one of the flatscreen TVs or large projector screens scattered throughout the restaurant. The location has two bars, one • Owner: Barnacles is operating during lunch and owned by a private investor both up and running for who is a former profession- dinner, along with a patio al baseball player, with two for outdoor dining. general managers, The Duluth location Stephanie Zirkle at the Nor- boasts a club-like atmoscross restaurant and Nick phere, complete with a Totino at the Duluth locaVIP room, but still serves tion, overseeing daily opera- a full menu of food from tions. open ’til close and smoking is allowed. This loca• Atmosphere: Barnation is open to those 18 cles is establishing two dis- and older until 9 p.m. and tinct identities with its 21 and up after. A DJ spins locations. The Norcross tunes five nights a week.

Both locations offer pool tables.

• Menu: Changes in ownership at Barnacles resulted in a downsizing of the restaurant’s menu, which Zirkle called a book, and a shift from the original focus on seafood. The updated menu includes previous customer favorites that have been revamped, as well as new items. Instead of being good at preparing a lot of foods, Zirkle said, Barnacles wants to be great a fewer selections.

“Unless you’ve come in the past two years,” she said, “you have no idea.”

Customers will find the same menu of all-American fare at both locations.

Popular selections include

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Barnacles in Norcross serves a ribeye dinner with rice pilaf and mixed vegetables. Also served is the smoked marlin fish dip and the Belgian waffle breakfast with scrambled eggs and bacon, back right.

the fish tacos — two soft tacos stuffed with grilled, blackened or fried fish fingers, cheese, lettuce and diced tomatoes served with warmed tortilla chips and salsa — and the newly added St. Louis ribs — 13⁄4-pounds of St. Louis-style ribs rubbed with spices and slow smoked before finished with Bull’s Eye barbecue sauce.

The smoked fish dip, one of Barnacles’ long-time signature items, is also a popu-

lar selection and is served with sliced jalapenos and crackers.

Barnacles has rounded out its menu with more than a dozen appetizers, soups and salads, sandwiches and burgers and more than a dozen entree selections, including steaks, seafood, chicken and pasta.

Breakfast selections available any time were added to the menu three weeks ago and include a breakfast burrito, a seafood scramble, Belgian waffles

and a create-your-own quesadilla option.

Barnacles also recently began offering drink specials, a longtime request from customers, including the Barnarita made with Cuervo, Midori, lime juice, Triple Sec and sour and pineapple juice.

• Things you might not know: Barnacles offers drink specials that change every 30 days, including a shot, beer and specialty drink of the month.

ARTS Theater welcomes Tony nominee for ‘Once on This Island’ gala Red Phoenix Theatre highlights its summer with a special weekend today and Saturday as it presents “Once on This Island,” a Broadway production that garnered eight Tony nominations. A special public preview will be held at 8 p.m. today. On Saturday, there will be a matinee at 2 p.m., and later a silent auction and black tie gala, culminating with an 8 p.m. performance.

On hand to support Red Phoenix will be a familiar voice for everyone who grew up with Disney’s “The Little Mermaid.”

Jodi Benson has portrayed not only Ariel but is the voice of Barbie in “Toy Story 3,” as she was also in “Toy Story 2.” Benson was given a Tony nomination for her work on Broadway in “Crazy for You,” and her resume is an almost endless list of impressive credits on film, television and stage.

The tie-in with the character of Ariel and “Once on This Island” is obvious.

The play is an adaptation

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of the fairy tale “The Little Mermaid,” only the setting is in Haiti. A young peasant girl named Ti Moune tests the strength of her love against powerful forces of prejudice, hatred and death.

“This show is one that truly carries a beautiful message,” said Red Phoenix Artistic Director Jeffrey Scott Bailey. “It tells us that moments of tragedy and loss can bring us together as a community. It is also one of those shows that starts out like a rocket and is perfectly paced. The audience is always sad for it to end.”

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“Once on This Island” is a production created by Red Phoenix’s “The Atlanta Musical Theatre Project,” and is presented through special arrangements with Music Theatre International.

There are 29 individuals in the cast which include professionals, pre-professionals and experienced students (some who have agents.) Christina Daves plays the lead role of Ti Moune. Louis Griffin is Daniel, and Joy Creamson, Justin Miskin, Justin Forte, and Lauren Dawidowicz are the Gods.

“My whole premise is to put people at different levels together, because they all learn something from each other,” Bailey said. “It’s an incubator.

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Plus, we run everything as if it were an Equity house, with all the same rules.

We take it very seriously.

This is not a camp. This is professional, but it’s still fun.”

The gala and silent auction will be held by Wallace Reid at the Duluth Art Gallery. Auction items include exciting artwork, evenings in downtown Atlanta with a six hour limo ride, tickets to Chastain Amphitheatre, dinners locally and in downtown Atlanta, and more.

Tickets for the special July 17 gala and silent auction are $35 for special seating and $24 for general admission. The gala begins at 7 p.m. at the Duluth Art Gallery, and patrons will walk the

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Holley Calmes is a freelance writer and public relations consultant specializing in the arts. E-mail her at hcalmes@mindspring.com.

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LOCAL EVENT

New Dawn Theater presents ‘Cheaper by the Dozen’

BY DEANNA ALLEN STAFF WRITER deanna.allen@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Duluth resident Theresa Kelly has four children.

On stage in New Dawn Theater’s latest production, that number is multiplied by three.

Kelly plays the role of Mrs. Gilbreth, the mother of 12 children ranging in age from 6 to 17.

“Let’s just say it’s quite entertaining and never a dull moment,” Kelly said.

Based on the real life story of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth and their sizable family, “Cheaper by the Dozen” is set in 1920 in New Jersey and follows 17-year-old Anne Gilbreth as she struggles to grow up under the careful watch of a strict father who puts his methods for improving industrial efficiency to work managing his family.

The results are terribly embarrassing for Anne but create comedic scenarios for the watching audience.

“People are going to be able to relate to it,” Kelly said. “Even though it’s dated back in 1920, kids are kids.”

New Dawn Theater will present “Cheaper by the

IFYOUGO • What: “ Cheaper by the Dozen” • When: 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturday and 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Aug. 1 • Where: New Dawn Theater, 3087 Main St. in Duluth • Cost: $15 for adults, $12 for seniors and $10 for students • For more information: Call 678-8875015 or visit www.newdawntheatercompany.com

Dozen” in its opening weekend with shows at 8 p.m. today and Saturday and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

“People will take away from this the love that they’ll feel from the cast and the dedication that parents have toward their children, these particular children,” Kelly said.

“They’ll take away how every moment is precious and every moment counts.”

For more information on the production, call 678-887-5015 or visit www.newdawntheatercompany.com.

Cathy Seith,from left, who plays Miss Brill in the play “Cheaper by the Dozen,” acts out a scene with Kris Reeves (Anne) during a scene at a dress rehearsal on Monday.

The play will run at New Dawn Theater company in Duluth through Aug.1.

Photo: David McGregor

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OUT IN THE CROWD Atlantabased Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ will perform tonight at Vines Mansion in Loganville.

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BY DEANNA ALLEN STAFF WRITER deanna.allen@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Kevn Kinney said his voice has never sounded better.

After a surgery four years ago to remove a cyst from his larynx, the Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ frontman said he can now sing every song from every album better than the original recordings.

“It’s better musically than it’s ever been, which is frustrating because I’m almost 50,” Kinney said.

“I’m 49 and I wish I would have been this good of a musician and singer back then because I think we would have made really a big difference for ourselves and the music community.”

After making music for 25 years, Kinney said the band, as a whole, has never sounded better.

“You can’t be a folk artist for 25 years,” Kinney

IFYOUGO • What: Music at the Vines Mansion featuring Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ • When: 7 p.m. today • Where: Vines Mansion, 3500 Oak Grove Road, Loganville • Cost: $15 • For more information: Call 678-601-5900 or visit musicatthevinesmansion.com

said. “Eventually you’re going to figure out how to paint. You can only be a beat poet for so long and even after so many books you become a real writer.”

The Atlanta-based band will perform with its improved sound during Music at the Vines Mansion tonight. The show will include Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ favorites such as “Honeysuckle Blue” and “Straight to Hell,” as well as selections from “Whatever Happened to the Great American Bubble Factory,” the band’s first full studio album in 12 years that was released in 2009.

It’s an album, Kinney said, that doesn’t stray

from the band’s signature southern rock sound.

“When you’re trying to make a Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ record you have to thing about Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ fans, southern fans,” Kinney said. “We decided early on we were going to make a southern record, a Georgia record, and stick with what our fans like. It was an easy record to make. To just be yourself.”

Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ will perform at 7 p.m. today, and Vines Mansion is at 3500 Oak Grove Road in Loganville. Tickets are $15. For more information, call 678-601-5900 or visit musicatthevinesmansion.com.

FRIDAY, JULY 16, 2010 • GWINNETT DAILY POST • PAGE 7

MOVIES

‘Kids Are All Right’ a good film with 3 strong leads dad Paul (Mark Ruffalo), a farmer and restaurant owner who conveniently lives near them. Ultra laidback and never married, Paul handles what could have been an awkward and mildly creepy encounter with grace and diplomacy.

BY MICHAEL CLARK Movie Critic Everyone involved is satisfied and is content to get on with their lives. All of Tackling a huge chunk that goes out the window of topical, often conwhen Nic catches wind of tentious moral and social issues, “The Kids Are All the clandestine meeting Right” is far more breezy and the good opinion the kids have about Paul. than its subject matter With parental jealousy would indicate and while and catty curiosity fueling quite good, it will likely her, Nic pretty much appeal to few outside of insists that Paul join everythe gay and lesbian communities or the respective body for a family dinner so she and Jules can, you fan bases of its three know, check him out. It’s leads. obvious neither woman Nic (Annette Bening) and Jules (Julianne Moore) subscribes to the adage “let sleeping dogs lie” and are a California lesbian after a wee bit too much of couple who’ve been the grape, Nic begins together for nearly 20 years, are almost boringly interrogating Paul who through it all remains normal and have two unflappable. happy, well-adjusted teen Even though the atmoschildren. Nic’s daughter phere at the dinner wasn’t Joni (Mia Wasikowska) and Jules’ son Laser (Josh ideal, Paul develops a taste for a life he never knew Hutcherson) have much but unconsciously longed more in common than other siblings with similar for and finds little ways to circumstances as they both remain in the picture.

Mostly everybody wants have the same biological him around and because donor father neither they Paul is sincere and so very nor their mothers have likeable, everything works ever met. Laser wants to out — at least in the short change that. term.

Laser leans lightly on This is only the sixth the barely 18-year-old colfeature film in 16 years lege-bound Joni to exerfrom co-writer/director cise her adult rights and Lisa Cholodenko, who has initiate contact with their

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also worked on the cable shows “The L Word” and “Six Feet Under,” two series’ with substantial gay and lesbian themes.

Long out of the closet, Cholodenko’s finest achievement here is in steadfastly avoiding politics or any kind of soapbox grandstanding. The subject of gay marriage is never brought up — not even in the abstract — something that is ticking off many in the LGBT fold. Some of these same people are also upset that Cholodenko suggests lesSpecial Photo: Focus Features bians enjoy watching gay Annette Bening and Julianne Moore, left, and Mark Ruffalo, right, star in male porn or consider the “The Kids Are All Right.” prospect of a part-time heterosexual relationship.

The films’ detractors are really grasping at straws here. The characters in this movie are just that: they’re THE LAST characters. They don’t AIRBENDER define themselves through their sexuality and have GAME IS raised two children with AVAILABLE love and a level of effiNOW! ciency that a lot of heterosexual couples simply can’t muster and would desperately envy. They should be happy and ecstatic that Nic and Jules — despite their universally normal flaws — are portrayed so respectfully and intelligently. They might also recognize that Cholodenko was enormously daring with her storyMail to GDP/Last Airbender telling choices and she P.O. Box 603, Lawrenceville, GA 30046 should be loudly applaudor visit gwinnettdailypost.com to enter at Name:____________________________________________ ed for her brave efforts.

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NOW PLAYING IN THEATERS EVERYWHERE!

MOVIES NOWSHOWING Lights, camera,

questions Test your film knowledge with Michael Clark

Recently reviewed films now playing in theaters:

on every level. 4 stars — Michael Clark

• Despicable Me (PG) Far more acerbic and intelligent than its cutesy trailers would indicate, this animated masterpiece featuring Steve Carell as a twisted, mad-scientist criminal who becomes the unlikely father of three orphaned girls is a triumph

• Knight and Day (PG-13) Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz break out of their collective slumps in this action thriller directed by James Mangold. More “Mission: Impossible” than “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” it’s not nearly as funny as the trailers indicate but is still quite worth-

So, you think you’re good at movie trivia?

Every week, we give readers the opportunity to flex their movie muscles by answering five trivia questions from our movie critic, Michael Clark.

1. In what year did Vito Andolini (later Corleone) first arrive in New York in “The Godfather II?” A: 1901 2. Who has played or voiced all of the following historical characters: Robert E. Lee, John Adams, Charles Lindberg, King Arthur, John Dillinger and two of the Kennedy brothers?

A: Martin Sheen 3. What Warren Beatty movie was a remake that was remade a second time?

A: “Heaven Can Wait” (a remake of “Here Comes Mr. Jordan” and later remade as “Down to Earth”) 4. What foreign language does Buzz Lightyear speak and sing in “Toy Story 3?”

A: Spanish 5. In what U.S. state did

• Twilight Saga: Eclipse (PG-13) While slightly better than the first two, the third installment of this tepid occult soap opera only serves those faithful to the series of books that spawned it. Rarely has there been so much attention lavished on something so strikingly sub-par. 2 stars — MC

Where’s Jeff?

Congratulations to last week’s winner, Michelle Jameson of Lawrenceville.

Here are last week’s questions again and the answers:

while. 3 stars — MC

Look throughout the Gwinnett Daily Post this Sunday, July 18th!

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Martin Sheen has played or voiced all of the following historical characters: Robert E. Lee, John Adams, Charles Lindberg, King Arthur, John Dillinger and two of the Kennedy brothers.

The first person to respond with all the correct answers receives a prize package of movierelated goodies, which Now, for this week’s could include promotional questions: T-shirts, hats, posters, 1. Name the two movies DVDs, video games and more. The winner also gets where Casey Affleck’s character had the same last their name published in the next Weekend section. name (hint: both films Please e-mail your were released in the last answers, along with your five years). name to clarkwriter@mind2. In what two major Eastern U.S. cities was the spring.com. Include “Gwinnett Daily Post Trivfilm “12 Monkeys” set?

3. Who is the only per- ia Contest” in the subject line. In the event no one son to be nominated for four or more Oscars in the answers all of the questions correctly, the person same year twice?

4. What movie included with the most correct answers submitted by 6 this line of dialogue: p.m. the Monday after the “What we have here is a contest is posted will be failure to communicate?” the winner. Only one win5. What feature film marked the acting debut of ner per household is eligible each 30-day period. musician/singer Sting?

Dr. Hannibal Lecter practice medicine?

A: Maryland

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MOVIES

in your

Dreams DiCaprio takes you on a dazzling mind trip

it’s every inch a blockbuster, but in the good sense of the word: with awesomeness, ambition and scope. The cinematography, production design, effects, editing,

BY CHRISTY LEMIRE AP Movie Critic score, everything down the line — all superb. But unlike so many summer Driving home from a movies assigned that tag, screening of “Inception” “Inception” is no mindthe other night, my husband said to me, “I don’t less thrill ride. It’ll make know how you're going to you work, but that’s part of what’s so thrilling write about this movie.”

“What, you mean with- about it. With its complicated concepts about out giving anything dreams within dreams, away?” I asked.

“No,” he said. “I don’t layers of consciousness know how you’re going to and methods of manipulation, “Inception” might explain what it’s about.”

Well, yes. There is that, make you want to stop a few times just to get your too. bearings.

We can begin by The juggernaut of announcing, with great relief, that all the hype is Nolan’s storytelling momentum, however, justified. Writer-director Christopher Nolan’s first keeps pounding away.

Even from the very film since “The Dark beginning, you may feel a Knight” is a stunningly bit off-balance, with gorgeous, technically Nolan jumping around in flawless symphony of time before dropping you images and ideas.

“Memento,” the mystery- into the middle of a tense in-reverse that put Nolan conversation between on the map a decade ago, Leonardo DiCaprio as dream thief Dom Cobb, looks almost quaint by Joseph Gordon-Levitt as comparison. his right-hand man, In its sheer enormity,

Inception (PG-13) ★★★★

Arthur, and Ken Watanabe as one of their clients.

That’s part of the game, though: making us question what’s reality and what’s a product of sleep, right alongside the characters.

That experience in itself may sound a bit familiar, and “Inception” does feature glimmers of mind-trip movies like “The Matrix,” “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and even a “Wizard of Oz” moment.

At its core, it’s actually a heist movie — the triedand-true One Last Job, to be exact — but Nolan takes these elements and combines them in a way that is daringly, dazzlingly his own.

So ... where were we again? Ah yes, explaining what “Inception” is about.

DiCaprio’s Dom Cobb is an extractor, a sort of master thief who enters the mind while a person is dreaming to steal their secrets. Watanabe, as the powerful businessman Saito, hires Dom and his team for a different kind of crime: sneak into the subconscious of a competitor (Cillian Murphy)

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Leonardo DiCaprio plays Dom Cobb in Christopher Nolan’s “Inception.”

and implant an idea that will ruin his empire. In return, Saito will help Dom clear his name for a crime he didn’t commit, one that’s torn him from his wife and two young children and forced him to go on the run.

And so, as in any classic caper, “Inception” provides the anticipation of watching Dom assemble his crew and map out his scheme, with each person performing a specific function. While Dom is the big-picture guy, Arthur handles the details. Eames (the hugely charismatic Tom Hardy from “Bronson”) is the forger — someone who can assume another identity to control the dreamer. Yusuf (Dileep Rao) is the chemist whose concoction allows them all to turn on, tune in and drop out together.

Ariadne (Ellen Page, showing an appealingly

low-key intelligence) is the architect, the one who builds the maze-like structure of the dream.

Since she’s the newcomer, she also serves as our guide in this brave new world. And her name, like that of several characters, couldn’t have been a coincidence; in Greek mythology, Ariadne helps lead Theseus out of the labyrinth with a ball of red thread when he enters to slay the Minotaur.

(Thanks, seventh-grade English class!)

But when they all fall asleep and dream together, both as practice and during the real deal, forces from their own subconscious states enter the picture — namely Dom’s wife, Mal (Marion Cotillard), someone else whose name offers a clue.

Here’s where DiCaprio infuses the character with vulnerability to complement his drive. Wistful

memories of their relationship provide the necessary heart to balance out the intense braininess of the picture, some softness to lighten the substantial heft of the machinery.

And what a machine it is. You’ve seen the big set pieces countless times in the commercials: a freight train plowing through downtown traffic, DiCaprio and Page sitting calmly in a cafe surrounded by explosions, Paris folding over on top of itself, Gordon-Levitt floating through a hotel corridor. You haven’t seen anything until you've seen them on the big screen.

They’re enormous yet intricately detailed, tactile while at the same time ... well, dreamlike.

It’s all part of one of the year’s best films, one that will surely get even better upon repeated viewings. (Warner Bros.)

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BAD TIME ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ an over-the-top, dark film The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (PG) ★★★ ★★

BY MICHAEL CLARK Movie Critic

If you want a surefire way to determine how bad or good a movie will be before the opening credits are finished, simply count the number of writers and producers. The more there are, the worse it will be.

“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” has five writers and nine producers. What’s that adage — Too many cooks spoil the broth?

Two of those producers are Jerry Bruckheimer and leading man Nicolas Cage who have now collaborated on six projects, with only one of them (“The Rock”) being worthy of our time and money. While technically “movies,” the remainder are little more than 2-D amusement park rides that can’t be ridden, only watched and boy do they ever get old fast.

Destined to fare only slightly better than Bruckheimer’s strikingly similar

early summer turkey “Prince of Persia,” “Apprentice” will offer strong appeal to 10-yearold boys already enamored with the “Harry Potter” catalog or easily satisfied adult fanboys. Everyone else can steer clear.

Beginning with a trite “once upon a time” type prologue set in the 8th century, the first of several explanations of the back story is given and it is mercifully to-the-point. Four disciples of Merlin the magician split into good and evil camps with the latter killing Merlin and then being locked away in a ceramic doll by the former.

Chief do-gooder Balthazar (Cage) then spends the next 1,500 or so years walking the Earth toting around the doll while in search of “the Merlinian” — Merlin’s biological and spiritual heir. He turns out to be Dave (Jay Baruchel), a geeky, 20-something science nerd living in New York still reliving a pantswetting episode from a decade earlier that lost him the love of his life.

She would be Becky (Kristen Stewart lookalike Teresa Palmer), an initially

hip and with-it college student and DJ. In an only-inthe-movies way, Dave and Becky reconnect and suddenly he’s faced with a perplexing dilemma: does he go for the power or Becky?

Not bright enough to realize that if he gets the power he’ll probably get Becky anyway, the lovestruck Dave only halfway pays attention to what Balthazar is telling him, which of course affords bad guy Horvath (Alfred Molina, dependably slimy) ample opportunity to steal Dave’s magic decoder ring, break open the doll, unleash hell and destroy the world. Yawn.

Teamed previously with Bruckheimer and Cage on the two relatively restrained “National Treasure” flicks, director John Turteltaub abandons any hint of finesse here and lets fly with every bell, whistle, sound effect, CGI image and explosive in the action/adventure arsenal.

The result is pyrotechnic/audio overkill of the highest order which is easily on a headacheinducing par with the two “Transformer” movies. As most of the story takes

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Nicolas Cage plays Balthazar in “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.”

place at night or underground, the primary color is black, which only adds to our collective pain.

In case you were wondering, yes, the movie does pay homage (or something like it) to “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” segment of the classic “Fantasia” with

Dave losing control of brooms, mops and his plumbing system while prepping for a date with Becky. It is fittingly clunky and serves no purpose other than to allow Disney the chance for a cut-rate, in-company tie-in.

You can be sure some

Disney minion somewhere will be paying close attention to next week’s stats to see if it all paid off and there was indeed a spike in DVD sales for “Fantasia.”

This company never misses a chance to make a cheap and quick buck.

(Disney)

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Grown Ups (PG-13)

The Last Airbender 3-D (PG)

12:00, 2:30, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 The Last Airbender (PG)

10:40, 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40, 12:10 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (PG-13)

10:40, 12:20, 1:40, 3:10, 4:35, 7:00, 7:30, 9:55, 10:20 Grown-Ups (PG-13)

11:30, 2:00, 4:35, 7:15, 9:45, 12:20 Knight and Day (PG-13)

10:50, 1:25, 4:25, 7:55, 10:35 Cyrus (R)

10:05, 12:25, 2:45, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50, 12:10 Toy Story 3 (G)

12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25

12:45, 1:35, 3:10, 4:05, 5:35, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30 Sorcerer’s Apprentice (PG)

11:00, 11:30, 1:30, 2:00, 4:10, 4:40, 6:50, 7:20, 9:25, 9:55

11:35, 2:30, 5:15, 8:05, 11:00 Toy Story 3 (G)

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11:10, 12:30, 1:00, 2:20, 3:45, 4:20, 5:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:45, 10:15, 10:35

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Inception (PG-13)

9:10, 11:10, 11:40, 1:40, 2:10, 4:20, 6:50, 9:15

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10:10, 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40

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Predators (R)

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The A-Team (PG-13)

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The Karate Kid (PG)

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11:40, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:40 12:50, 3:55, 7:10, 10:15

11:15, 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 10:00

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12:15, 2:45, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50

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Chloe (R) Movie: ★★★★ ★ Disc: ★★★★ In more ways than one, Amanda Seyfried (“Dear John,” “Mamma Mia!”) sheds her lily-white, girl-next-door persona as the title call-girl character in director Atom Egoyan’s atmospheric erotic thriller. Recalling Hitchcock, Brian DePalma and Adrian Lyne, “Chloe” is steeped in dreamy style and semi-noir attitude which go far in making-up for its sometimes lacking and predictable narrative. The inclusion of Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore as a troubled married couple lends the film a level of gravitas that lifts it out of B-movie territory and the frank, illuminating extras are far better than expected.

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INSIDE THE PERIMETER Georgia native Corey Smith to perform at Verizon Amphitheatre

BY DEANNA ALLEN STAFF WRITER deanna.allen@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Corey Smith isn’t comfortable trying to fit into a box, whether it’s the one around country music as a genre or around the breed of musician that caters to the masses.

“Some artists naturally lend themselves to that sort of thing,” the 32-year-old (turning 33 next week) said. “I wasn’t cut out like that.”

And it’s not something Smith has tried to change about himself or his music.

His desire to avoid being put into a box has kept him this far from pursuing opportunities with record labels, preferring to remain an independent artist.

“A lot of things about my personality that would make it difficult to make it work like that,” Smith said.

“A lot of the things that draw fans to my music are the things that would make it difficult for me to be presented to the masses. For one, I feel that it’s my responsibility as an artist to be very honest and to be poetic, but much like my role as a teacher, my job is to point to inconsistencies

in society and to open up people’s minds and ask questions and that require me to be pretty brutally honest sometimes.”

It’s an honesty that works for Smith. The former North Gwinnett High School social studies teacher will play the largest show of his career at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Alpharetta on Saturday.

As an independent artist, the Georgia native has built a music career from his hometown of Jefferson up but never saw his name in lights.

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Smith • From Page 14 “I didn’t realize that any of that was possible. I didn’t go into (music) with some big plan,” Smith said.

“I didn’t know what I was doing. I kept writing and whenever I wrote I just felt like I had to I felt like I had a sense of purpose. I can’t really describe where it came from but I was passionate about it.”

His first gig came just after he graduated high school, playing cover songs three nights a week at Buffalo’s in Lawrenceville while occasionally sneaking in an original tune.

It was a tough gig.

“I learned quickly that it wasn’t really gratifying really,” Smith said. “I would rather be a teacher than a cover musician.”

A teaching career it was.

After graduating from the University of Georgia in 2001, Smith taught social studies at North Gwinnett for a couple years, bringing in his guitar on Fridays to play for his students at the end of class.

“One of the reasons why I gained so much confidence in my music was that the students encouraged me so much,” he said.

But it wasn’t until a show at the Georgia Theatre in December 2005 that Smith decided to leave the teaching profession to pursue a career in music.

“I had played lots of small shows leading up to that, almost every small room in Athens (and venues around northeast Georgia), but that was the first venue that I played that had a legacy,” he said.

“I was in awe and it point-

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ed the way for me and told me this is really possible.”

That show at Georgia Theater sold out in advance. Opening for Smith that night was the now Grammy-nominated Zac Brown Band.

Since releasing his debut album, “Undertones,” two years prior in 2003, Smith has sold more than 150,000 albums and 700,000 singles.

Still, Smith’s goal isn’t seeing a record go platinum or filling the seats at large arenas.

“It never was my goal to

be a celebrity or to be on the radio,” he said. “It’s not that I don’t want to be at all, it just never was my goal. It’s a very artistic goal and it’s to master the art of expressing myself and continue being genuine and to maintain my integrity through it all.

“I don’t know exactly what my message is,” he said, “but I know somewhere in my songs there is a deeper message and listeners can dig in and find what that is. I just have faith that there is a purpose to this.”

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July 30 Suwanee Town Center Park will host the Suwanee Performing Arts Presentation at 5 p.m. July 30 and 31 at 370 Buford Highway in Suwanee. For more information, visit www.suwanee.com/whatsnew.events.php.

Suwanee Performing Arts presents “Footloose: The Musical” at 7 p.m. on July 30 and 31 in Town Center Park, 70 Buford Highway N.W. in Suwanee.

July 31 Movie at the Rock presents “The Spy Next Door” at 8 p.m. July 31 at Rock Springs Park, 550 Rock Springs Road in Lawrenceville. Cost is $5 and includes festival games and movie. For more information, call 678-442-7283.

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New Dawn Theater Company will present “Cheaper By the Dozen” through Aug. 1. The theater is at 3087 Main St. in Duluth. Tickets are $10 for students, $12 for seniors and $15 for adults. For more information, call 678887-5015.

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July 24 The Academy Theatre hosts “Old Pros in Showbiz” at 8 p.m. July 24, 119 Center St. in Avondale Estates. For tickets and more information, call 404-4748332.

The Georgia State Rialto Center and Global Achievers presents the Hangzhou Wenlan School Youth Orchestra at 2 p.m. July 24, 80 Forsyth St. N.W. in Atlanta. For more information, visit www.rialtocenter.org.

July 30 The 2010 Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival presents “Caddyshack” at 7:30 p.m. July 30 at the Fox Theatre, 660 Peachtree St. N.E. in Atlanta. For more information, visit www.FoxTheatre.org.

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Ongoing events MudFire Gallery is presenting the exhibit “American Masters Biennial” through July 24 at the studio, located at 175 Laredo Drive in Decatur. For more information, visit www.mudfire.com.

The Center for Puppetry Arts will present “Billy Goats Gruff and Other Stuff” through Sunday at 1404 Spring St. in Atlanta.

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Atlanta Shakespeare Company will present “Hamlet! The Musical!” through Aug. 8 and at 6:30 p.m. Sundays at the Shakespeare Tavern, 499 Peachtree St. in Atlanta.

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