March 11, 2016
ENTERTAINMENT
Blueprint
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Logic’s performance at Aragon Ballroom was out of this world headphones everyday walking to class. He performed every song on his sophomore album, and also performed some “How many of you have been waitclassic songs from his first album “Under ing months for this?” Logic said. The Pressure,” along with other songs from crowd roared and waved their hands in his mixtapes “Young Sinatra” and ‘Welresponse. He then replied saying: “I’ve come to Forever.” His best performance waited my whole life for this.” by far was his final song, and my As an avid hip hop fanatic, I was personal favorite, “City of Stars.” privileged to witness such an epic, Everyone in the audience waved spectacular performance by Logic, their phone flashes in the air, the the Marylandborn rapper who ceiling painting of the stars and brought “The Incredible World the stage lights refracted off of the Tour” to a crowd of 5,000+ at Araorbiting discoball to light up the gon Ballroom in Uptown Chicago. whole room. The show in Chicago on March After what was supposed to 4 was a part of his sold out world be his final song, the audience tour for his sophomore album chanted “Logic” repeatedly for an “The Incredible True Story,” a rap/ encore performance. Sure enough, he came back on stage and perhip hop album based around a formed arguably one of his best scifi story of two space voyagers 100 years in the future exploring Logic at the Aragon Ballroom located at 1106 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago in front of a crowd of over 5,000. songs from his first album, “Gang space The rapper topped BillPhoto by Joe Stellato Related” to end the night with high energy and plenty of positivity. board’s Hip Hop Album charts on Nov. album’s scifi theme. interact with the 19 for the first time in his short career Logic had already been an icon for me When Logic came on stage, it was elec- crowd or recite some sick rhymes and in honor of his second album selling before attending his concert, and now trifying. After opening with his hit single ridiculously fast flows. 135,000 copies in its first week. my admiration for him has only grown “Fade Away,” he took a moment to talk The lighting effects were mesmerizing The Aragon Ballroom looked like an to the audience about this event being a and flawlessly in sync with every melody stronger. One of the most underrated aged and slightly worn building from the night of “unity,” spreading his message of and vocal cue. The bass vibrated through artists in rap made a great imprint on the city of Chicago with his legendary outside, but the inside looked classical “peace, love and positivity” at any chance my body, and my ears absorbed the high performance last Friday night. and wellmaintained. They had a coat he had. At one point, he had the lights decibels of the speakers. Being there room, lounges for men and women and in the whole room lit and began pointmade me feel the music more, spiritually Contact Joe at a staircase at the end of the hallway ing out specific fans in the crowd that he and literally. It was an amplified experijste1881@csd99.org that lead to the ballroom floor. When remembered from his past shows. ence in comparison to listening to my By Joe Stellato, Editor-in-Chief Print
I walked up the stairs and into the ballroom, I looked to the ceiling and was welcomed by a vivid canvas painting of the stars, accompanied by a dangling disco ball. The ceiling made me feel like we were in outer space making it the perfect venue to correlate with the
For being 20 feet away from the stage speakers, the sound quality was remarkable. Every beat of the music and every syllable recited emitted through my ears crisply and clearly despite the masses of people surrounding me. At some points, he would just cut the beat off to either
Turnabout turned it around Deadpool kills box office By Eileen Tyrrell, Head Copy Editor Every year I go to the DGS winter dance not sure what to expect, and this year was no different. I walked into the large gym hyped to hear the student DJ, senior Nishant Lala, and virtually no idea what to expect for anything else -- decorations, BOOM DJ’s or attendance. Maybe it was because I didn’t have high expectations for the dance, but I left the school at 10 p.m. feeling not necessarily the exhilaration a good dance can bring, but at the very least, Inside turnabout while DJ Lala is DJing for the crowd. satisfaction with the dance. Photo by Eileen Tyrrell Satisfaction is something DGS has been struggling to achieve from its my internal organs feel like they were winter dance for the past couple of vibrating. There was a little too much of years, and the revival of Turnabout with the microphone being passed around for DJ Lala played the role of a somewhat my taste, but otherwise, DJ Lala was a obvious attempt to increase attendance. huge success. And for the most part, it worked; almost Other than the music, my main focus a thousand tickets were sold. was the decorations. Spotlights propped The biggest complaint about dances on a sketchy-looking truck added a Holin the recent past has been the music, lywood feel to the school, and right after and if that was the only criteria I was being scanned in guests were welcomed judging Turnabout on, I’d give it an by a red carpet, red and gold stanchions A-. Although the Boom Entertainment and two blow-up Oscar statues. The DJ still had that forty-year-old-manonly decorations inside the gym were pretending-to-be-in-high-school vibe, he balloon chains dangling from the ceiling was still a huge improvement over the and black and gold table clothes with BOOM DJ’s of the past; my only real funky centerpieces. Although sparse, complaint was the constant air horn the decorations sufficiently did their job, blasting out every ten minutes. as most of my attention was taken up The anticipation to hear DJ Lala was by trying to see past the blinding blue probably my biggest factor in deciding and purple stage lights. to attend Turnabout. I had very high exEven though Turnabout this year pectations for the DJ -- and for the most didn’t fully live up to the hype, it did its part, DJ Lala met them. He had the job successfully with great music, good advantage over the BOOM DJ’s of being decorations and a decent-sized crowd. an actual student and knowing what It looks like DGS’s winter dance has we wanted to hear, and he successfully turned about in a better direction. pumped the crowd with t-shirts, confetti Contact Eileen at guns, students dancing on top of DJ etyr2717@csd99.org equipment and bass levels that made
fused as the audience may have been: why was this “superhero” taking a cab around the city looking for someone? Marvel and Fox studios have moved The driver and Deadpool’s interaction past their typical film plots and now is witty, as is the majority of Deadpool’s introduce Deadpool, a hero unlike all lines in the film. From there, fast paced others. It not only showcases beautiful action sequences and sly humor make action sequences, but the humor and up the entirety of the movie. drama throughout make for a good Save for the emotional cancer scenes action flick, but an unorthodox and the parts where he resuperhero movie. ceives his powers, the Deadpool follows movie never switches the life of protagoits pace. These nist Wade Wilpowerful scenes son, portrayed help add some by actor Ryan reason to root Reynolds, for Deadpool, who meets and some the love insight into of his life, why he does in a bar… what he and then does. Mixed contracts into these sean incurable rious moments form of cancer is enough light seconds after his humor and fourth unorthodox (and wall breaking that sort of nasty) proposhurries the scene al. Yeah, that’s how their along to the present with lives start together. From Cartoon by Joe Stellato some laughter. there, the movie follows Deadpool was a highly a familiar but very different revenge anticipated film at the beginning of scheme, where Wilson (now donning 2016-- and it definitely lived up to its the costume and name of Deadpool) expectations. Reynolds’ portrayal of tries to get the man who turned him a character he has been trying to get into Deadpool by torturing him in a done right was amazing and kept me government experiment. laughing the whole way through with Deadpool, as a mutant like Wolverine his personality and actions. From the in the X-Men films, has several superbeginning fight scene in the car to the powers. His primary superpower is his final battle where Deadpool teams with astounding healing abilities, letting the X-men. him recover from gun shots and other If you’re looking for another superextreme instances. hero movie, or just more action in life, The movie opens with a seemingly see Deadpool in theaters now. random encounter of Deadpool, porContact Jared at trayed by actor Ryan Reynolds, and a jbur2426@csd99.org taxi cab driver who seems just as conBy Jared Burrow, Business Manager