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Find out if Weezer’s latest album Hurley follows up the bands recent rise.

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Pulse’s guide to arts and entertainment in the Metroplex this weekend. If you know of a cool Arlington event, let us know at features-editor. shorthorn@uta.edu.

On Campus

Today Stars, Stripes and Sousa!

When: 7:30 p.m.

Where: Irons Recital Hall Cost: $5 General, $3 students/ seniors The UTA Wind Symphony, under the direction of Douglas Stotter, presents a concert in the style of the Sousa Band from the early 20th century.

Friday Maverick Speakers Series: Ken Burns When: 7:30 p.m.

Where: Texas Hall Cost: Free, tickets required from utatickets.com Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is the first guest in the Maverick Speakers Series. Burns’ credits include his Academy Awardnominated 1981 documentary Brooklyn Bridge and he has directed and produced major historical documentaries for more than 30 years of his career.

In the Metroplex

State Fair of Texas When: Friday, Sept. 24 - Oct. 17 Where: Fair Park, Dallas Cost: $15 at the gate The State Fair of Texas starts this week with its fried foods, carnival rides and plethora of events and exhibits. Check next week’s Pulse for a look at the goods the fair is offering this year.

Hurricane Harbor’s last weekend of the summer When: 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Sunday Where: Hurricane Harbor, 1800 E Lamar Blvd. Arlington, Texas 76006 Cost: $21.99 when purchased online, $27.99 at the gate This is the last weekend the water park will be open for the 2010 season.

In Theaters Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Director: Oliver Stone Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Michael Douglas, Carey Mulligan In theaters: Friday Rating: PG-13 Fallen stockbroker Gordon Gekko teams up with a young Wall Street trader, whose mentor was recently

murdered, to track down the killer and warn others about an impending massive financial meltdown. —imdb.com

You Again Director: Andy Fickman Starring: Kristen Bell, Odette Yustman, Sigourney Weaver In theaters: Friday When Marni realizes her brother is about to marry the girl who bullied her in high school, she sets out to expose the fiancÊe’s true colors. —imdb.com

Concerts Friday Pepper, Shwayze, Poor Habit When: 7 p.m.

Where: House of Blues Dallas, 2200 N. Lamar St. Dallas, Texas 75202 Cost: $20-$30, ticketmaster.com Saturday Cadillac Sky When: 8 p.m.

Where: Levitt Pavilion, 100 W. Abram St. Arlington, Texas 76010 Cost: Free

Comedy Flo Hernandez When: 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday Where: Hyena’s Comedy Nightclub, 2525 E Arkansas Ln # 253 Arlington, Texas 76010 Cost: $10, two drink minimum Bill Bellamy When: 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday. 7:30 p.m. Sunday Where: Improv Comedy Club, 309 Curtis Mathes Way # 147, Arlington, Texas 76018 Cost: $22

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I didn’t think Weezer could come up with a worse album cover than the one for Raditude — I was wrong. If anything, Hurley shows Weezer is just now coming out of the coma it’s been in for most of the past decade.

Hurley, released Sept. 14, follows on the heels of Weezer’s late 2009 album, Raditude, the latest in Weezer’s post-2000 stinkers. But, it’s a new decade, and Weezer now has the chance to prove its naysayers wrong.

Frontman Rivers Cuomo is still a master with pop hooks.

Songs like “Brave New World� and “Smart Girls� will be stuck in your head, whether you want them to be (“Brave New World�) or not (“Smart Girls�). Highlights of the album include the aptly titled “Trainwrecks� with its railroad worksong-esque drums, and “Unspoken�, a fairly reserved track that finds Cuomo’s vocals and lyrics sounding the most sincere they’ve been in quite some time. “Brave New World� and the folky “Time Flies� also close the album out nicely.

Despite Cuomo’s genius with hooks, his lyrics can use some work. “Where’s My Sex� is probably one of the worst songs about socks I’ve heard in my life, granted, it’s probably the only one. It’s basically one big bad joke about a family member’s verbal slip up. “Smart Girls� isn’t much better

‘Hurley’ Band: Weezer Album: Hurley Label: Epitaph Records 3 out of 5 stars

with its bland lyrics and pointless name dropping of random girls.

Instrumentally, the band is exactly where you’d expect them to be, rarely straying from the typical palm-muted powerchords and simple choruses. Unfortunately, the band’s inclusion of synths in songs like album opener “Memories� and the previously mentioned “Where’s My Sex� is just plain annoying.

Hurley is nowhere near the best pop-punk album of the year, but it’s certainly nowhere near the worst. Finally, Weezer fans will have a post-2000 album they won’t be incredibly ashamed to admit they own.

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When and where VideoFest When: 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday.

Noon Saturday, Sunday Where: Angelika Film Center & Café, 5321 East Mockingbird Lane Dallas Cost: $15 Thursday/Friday student day pass $25 Saturday/Sunday student day pass $65 All-Fest student pass priced day

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Courtesy: Dan Borris

A young boy is left alone in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in, Katrina’s Son. The film by assistant professor Ya’ke Smith will show this Sunday at the film festival, VideoFest, in Dallas as a part of the Texas filmmakers showcase, Texas Fest. work is being done in countries like Nigeria.

While each day of the festival will have multiple works showing simultaneously on three screens, the final event, Texas Show, will shut down all other screenings Sunday evening to showcase Texas filmmakers that are selected by a panel of judges.

One of the entries chosen for the Texas Show was Katrina’s Son by film assistant professor and San Antonio native Ya’Ke Smith.

“I think there is a lot of great filmmakers in Texas, and to be among the best of them is an honor,” Smith said about the selection. “To know my film had an impact on the jury — its amazing. I’m humbled and honored to be in it.”

Smith, whose work has received awards and screenings worldwide, recently received the award of Best Narrative Short at the BET Urbanworld Film Festival and also took the Audience Choice and Outstanding Cinematography award at 2010 DC Shorts Film Festival for Katrina’s Son. The film, which premiered

in June, follows a boy who loses his grandmother during Hurricane Katrina and his travels to San Antonio in search of the mother who abandoned him

years earlier.

Smith said the film is part of a feature film he is currently raising money to make called From Here to Nowhere and was done

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“Because I live in Texas and I saw the influx of New Orleanians after Hurricane Katrina, I wanted to do a story about them,” he said. “Of course we just had the fifth anniversary, but I think people were starting to forget. People are still struggling to put their lives back together.”

The festival begins at 7 tonight and day and all-fest passes are available at videofest.org with a discount for students.

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Spanning the weekend and three screens at art film house Angelika in Dallas, Bart Weiss has once again put together the annual four-day independent film festival — VideoFest.

Starting in the late 80s, and now in its 23rd year, the film associate professor and Video Association of Dallas director said the festival began with a lineup that utilized both the editing aesthetic that came with video as opposed to film and showcased works from artists that were interested in changing the world.

“This kind of work was not being shown at traditional film festivals,” he said. “As I started programming this festival it was to be very interested in showcasing this work — but also finding new technologies that were coming up — and not just showing them but show where the art intersects with those.”

As the times changed, so has the festival. Weiss said VideoFest has always been on the cutting edge of technology but the festival has always looked at how those technologies interact and how filmmakers work with them. While the festival mixes these ideals, Weiss said the festival is always keeping with the social importance that he believes in.

“Videos can change the world,” Weiss said. “The images we see clearly affect us. Otherwise we wouldn’t have TV commercials.

By showing us the world differently, we can have empathy for issues, causes and people that we otherwise didn’t know.”

As the festival’s artistic director, Weiss chose the works on a local, national and international level to showcase today’s unknown and up-and-coming filmmakers. From his expeditions as a part of the American Documentary Showcase, Weiss was able to get a sense of what

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The Spoonfed Tribe’s lead vocalist, Egg Nebula, sings at a concert Friday at Dan’s Silver Leaf in Denton, Texas. Nebula also plays the flute and percussion instruments.

Spoonfed Tribe brings its unique beat to Levitt Pavilion

BY WILLIAM JOHNSON The Shorthorn senior staff

After an extensive history that goes back more than a decade, genre-blurring rock band Spoonfed Tribe continues to play across the nation and start the musical weekend in Arlington on Thursday at the Levitt Pavilion.

Placing the band’s sound into any one genre of music is even difficult to front man Egg Nebula. He describes the sound of the band as “experimental, avant-garde with a hint of psychedelica and plenty of good vibes.” Spoonfed Tribe blends together flute melodies with guitar rhythms and multiple types of percussion instruments, including the glockenspiel and the cow bell to produce what Egg Nebula calls booty-shaking music.

For the past 11 years, Spoonfed Tribe has performed across the country at various festivals. Tribe members include Jerome57, Kabooom, Egg Nebula, ShoNuff and Gouffahtts.

“It’s something to bring people out of their While each of the members specialize in different instruments, they all play a percussive de- box,” Nebula said.

“It’s something that we have to clean up at vice of some sort. Nebula described the band’s ascension as a trial and error process. One that, the end of the night,” he added.

Bassist Jerome57 said the he said, the band learned from band encourages sensuality and with each mistake.

When and where for their crowds to move, but still “We’ve grown over the years maintains a wholesome vibe at and honed our skills,” he said.

What: The Spoonfed Tribe shows.

At Ecofest this past SaturWhere: Levitt Pavilion “We just like everyone to have day, the band played all-percusWhen: 7:30 p.m. today fun,” he said. sion sets throughout the day in Cost: Free Fan David Mudd was at last 15-minute intervals. And at a Friday’s show and said he enjoyed show last Friday in Denton, a the band just as much as the first portion of the performance was strictly percussion with each member banging time he saw them, four years ago. He said the band’s sound was a powerful mix of genres that a different instrument.

“Coming you never know what to expect, but everyone could get along to.

“Anyone with a bit of hippie blood in them at the end of the evening if you have a bunch of people dancing around, not caring what they should see these guys,” he said.

Nebula said the band has no boundaries look like or what they‘re doing,” Nebula said.

“That’s what it’s all about. That’s why we’re when it comes to writing music. While their messages use to hold a political stance, the band here.”

At one point of the Denton show, the band now has one focus when playing live shows.

“We’re here to change the world and make members let their drumsticks hit the ground one by one as they filed off stage and into the sure everyone has a good time,” Nebula said. “I crowd. Once a part of the audience, the band think they can do it with a little focus and free asked the crowd to stand as they took their heart.” chairs and formed a statue from them, topping it with shredded newspaper and drinking WILLIAM JOHNSON glasses. After the completion of the structure, features-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu the band reappeared back on stage for the rest of the percussion set.

Two UTA sponsored acts play their wide-range of music at Levitt Pavilion this weekend This weekend avant-garde, psych rock and saxophone infused jazz will take their stages as they hold the weekend’s opening and closing acts at the Levitt Pavilion.

These UTA sponsored performances

by Spoonfed Tribe, Bob Mintzer and the UTA Jazz Orchestra bookend tonight’s and Sunday’s concerts at the Levitt. The two bands offer a genre-stretching spectrum of music played this weekend.

First up is Spoonfed Tribe, a DFWbased band that has brought their unique form of percussion and grooves to the area and abroad for more than 10 years.

The group will be playing tonight, sponsored by The Shorthorn.

Capping off the week will be Bob Mintzer and the UTA Jazz Orchestra with their musically trained methodology of performing. The group will be playing with Mintzer, an award-winning saxophonist.

Courtesy: Timothy Ishii

The UTA Jazz Orchestra performs fall 2009 at the Levitt Pavilion. The group performed with trumpet player Terell Stafford.

UTA Jazz Orchestra to play with Grammywinning saxophonist

BY MARISSA HALL The Shorthorn designer

In middle school, Aaron Johnson pleaded with his music director to let him play Jazz music.

Now the Jazz studies senior plays Jazz on his trumpet all the time. He practices to play for hundreds of people in Mexico City with famous jazz musicians and this weekend here in Arlington.

All because he’s one of 19 students that make up the UTA Jazz Orchestra.

The group, the top jazz ensemble at UTA, allows students to hone their jazz skills in class every weekday while they prepare to perform for hundreds of people at concerts throughout the year.

The orchestra’s next performance is 7:30 p.m.

Sunday at the Levitt Pavilion where they will perform in a free concert with Grammy-winning saxophonist Bob Mintzer.

Music education freshman Sadie Hernandez said she can’t wait to play her tenor trombone alongside Mintzer. She said she owns almost all of his albums.

“His musical arrangements are genius,” she said. music,” he said.

At competitions and festivals, the orchestra’s In 2009, the orchestra played at the pavilion performances consistently receive the best ratings. with trumpet player Terell Stafford.

Johnson said the relaxed venue is one of his They were named the outstanding college jazz favorites places to play and it’s eye-opening to orchestra at the North Texas Jazz Festival in 2009. play with renowned musicians, like Stafford and Every year they travel around the Metroplex and all around the world to perform, most Mintzer. recently in Mexico in fall 2008.

“It’s quite a thrill,” Johnson When and where Ishii said the final concert was said. “It’s mind-blowing how long standing room only in the packed these guys have been playing and What: Bob Mintzer and the room of Mexico City’s National how talented they are.”

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The student musicians aren’t Where: Levitt Pavilion “It was really outstanding,” he the only ones excited about the When: 7:30 p.m. Sunday said. “The audience didn’t want performance. Mintzer said he Cost: Free to leave.” learns something from fellow muThe orchestra members also sicians every time he plays with got to experience some of the culthem, especially students.

“Students have a great energy and enthusiasm,” ture. Johnson said it was interesting to meet people, especially children, who love music but don’t he said.

While the performance may be fun, getting have the means to learn to play it.

“The kids there are wanting to soak up everythere can be challenging, Hernandez said as she thing,” he said. spends more than half her day playing music.

Johnson and Hernandez were also eager to Every weekday, the orchestra practices for an hour with additional practices if a performance is learn music as kids. Both have played their instruments since the sixth grade. Both have a love for coming up.

But Johnson said he and the rest of the orches- jazz that led them to try out for the orchestra.

And now both of them want to share their tra enjoy it.

“We want to make what we have better,” he said. music with others.

“There’s more to music than hip-hop and rock,” Orchestra director Timothy Ishii runs the practices and has been the director since fall 2004. Johnson said.

Ishii’s goal for the musicians is simple — play well.

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By AlAnnA Quillen The Shorthorn senior staff

Hungry for Greek but don’t have a passport?

Not a problem.

The tastes and culture of the Mediterranean land is just a drive to Dallas Friday and Saturday as the Greek Food Festival of Dallas kicks off its 54th year with Greek food, entertainment and shopping. Organized by the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, the festival raises money for charities and the church.

Covering 17 acres of the church’s property, the event features many traditional Greek dishes, which can be purchased as a complete meal, individually throughout the festival, or on a sampler plate for $10.

“For someone who is not familiar with the Greek culture, I think this festival provides them an opportunity to see a complete offering of not only Greek cuisine, but also a little dancing and insight into the Greek orthodox faith,” said Irving resident Alex Valtadoros.

Valtadoros, whose parents are from Northern Greece, has attended the festival since he moved from Detroit in 2008. He said his main motivation to go is the food.

“I miss my mother’s home cooked meals, and this is the closest I get to it while here in Dallas,” he said.

The church intensively plans and cooks for several months before the festival. To give some perspective, they will use one ton of feta cheese, make 50,000 pieces of the traditional Greek pastry baklava and prepare 4,000 chickens.

The sampler plate brings together various Greek flavors into one sitting with Greek-style chicken and meatballs, spanakopita, spinach and cheese blended and wrapped in filo dough, and

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tiropitas, Greek cheeses blended and tucked into filo. The plate also includes rice pilaf, a salad topped with feta and olives, and pita bread.

“Don’t miss the loukoumades,” said Mary Carter, church marketing communications coordinator. “They are like little donut holes, honey soaked and dreamy.”

Besides indulging in the food, visitors can also watch cooking demonstrations throughout the weekend to learn the Greek recipes from area chefs and parishioners. To go along with the demos, the Pantopolion, or grocery area, of the festival sells ingredients that people can use to make the Greek dishes at home.

Throughout the weekend, a

dance troupe will perform traditional Greek folk dances and The Unexpected Boys, a Broadway group of actors and musicians, will put on a tribute show to Franky Valli and the Four Seasons. The festival also offers lectures, church choir performances and tours of the sanctuary building.

If food and entertainment aren’t enough, the Agora marketplace resembles an international market and features imports, fine jewelry, clothing and art by Greek and Greek-American vendors.

“Entering is like taking a mini trip to Greece,” Carter said.

Carter is a full-blooded Greek and thinks the festival is a great way to celebrate her heritage.

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“It’s fun to invite friends to the festival and share the sights, sounds and tastes of what it’s all about to be Greek,” she said.

Valtadoros said it’s nice to be able to fraternize with people from the same culture as himself.

“It enhances this sort of national pride in my background,” he said. “I think because Greece has such a rich culture and historical backings, people like to be immersed in something unique.”

The festival began with a group of parishioner women who started baking pastries and delicacies as a fundraiser. It then evolved into a luncheon, a fashion show and then into a full

fledged festival.

“It’s a multicultural event that’s been going on for more than 50 years that Dallas-ites and others have been raised on,” festival co-chair George Naftis said. “It’s a very old tradition that brings people of all ethnicities and cultures under a common interest — good food.”

Dallas resident Nicole Tishlias said she has attended the festival since she married a Greek and moved to the city in 1997.

She said she thinks the festival serves as a good excuse for people to get together to celebrate friends and family.

“It gives visitors a sense of friendship and community,” she said. “In this society, even toddlers are too busy. This is the time we all get together to unwind, visit and reconnect.”

Naftis, who’s been involved with the festival more than 30 years, said not everyone has the opportunity to visit Europe and festivalgoers can come and get a taste of Greece and its warm people without pulling out their passports.

“Greek people like to have fun,” he said. “They love to eat good food and drink good wine.

They’ve been throwing good parties for 2,000 years.”

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