College Times - January 2023

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11 THINGS HAPPENING IN 2023

ANNIKA TOMLIN • COLLEGE TIMES

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SUPERMOONS

ere are supposed to be four supermoons in 2023, including a blue moon. Supermoons are either a full moon or new moon that nearly coincides with perigee, which is the closest that the Moon comes to the Earth in its elliptic orbit. e closer the moon, the bigger it looks. Take a look outside on Monday, July 3; Tuesday, August 1; ursday, August 31 (blue moon); and Friday, September 29.

10. 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE

Located on the foreshore of Sydney Harbor in Australia, Sydney Opera House celebrate the company’s founding on Friday, October 20. Known as a worldfamous icon of architecture, this multi-venue performing arts center

will celebrate all year long with 50th anniversary-specific celebrations.

9. M3F

An event for everyone, M3F is coming back to the Valley on Friday, March 3, and Saturday, March 4. Walk among the art a ractions, dine out and jam to an assortment of performers including Maggie Rogers, Purple Disco Machine, the Jungle Giants and Slug Bug. All proceeds from this event go to charity.

8. CORONATION OF KING CHARLES III

Following the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles III began his reign. His formal coronation along with the coronation of Camila as queen consort of the United Kingdom will take place on Saturday, May 6, in Westminster Abbey. is will be the first coronation of a consort since King Charles’ grandmother Queen Elizabeth, later known as Queen Mother.

7. “INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY”

Indy is back! Harrison Ford adorns his signature fedora and whip in the newest installment of the “Indiana Jones” film series. e last film in the series, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” came out in 2008. e “Dial of Destiny” takes place in 1969 against the backdrop of the Space Race. John Rhys-Davies returns as Jones’ old friend Sallah who helped find the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail. Newcomers include Phoebe Waller-Bridge playing Helena, Jones’ goddaughter; Mads Mikkelsen as Jürgen Voller; Antonia Banderas as Renaldo; and Boyd Holbrook as Klaber. e movie comes to theaters Friday, June 30.

6. WARNER BROS. 100TH ANNIVERSARY

Starting its anniversary o early, Warner Bros. plans on celebrating 100 years in the business for 12 months with special programming, exclusive products, home entertainment releases, and a variety of live events for fans to a end. Founded on April 4, 1923, Warner Bros. has amassed an assortment of entertainment

4. DISNEY 100 YEARS OF WONDER

Also celebrating a century in business, e Walt Disney Company will transform Disneyland into Disney 100 Years of Wonder celebration highlighting the past, present and future of the brand. An all-new Mickey’s Toontown will be coming to the park along with new nigh ime entertainment and exclusive Disney100 merchandise. Keep up to date with events and a ractions on the website disney. com/disney100.

3. FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

Following Team USA’s win in 2019, the national women’s team heads to Australia and New Zealand for the 2023 FIFI Women’s World Cup held between Monday, July 10, to Sunday, August 20. Team USA’s first game will be against first time World Cup contenders Vietnam on Saturday, July 22, playing in Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand.

2. “THE LITTLE MERMAID”

Initially announced in December 2017, the live-action version of “ e Li le Mermaid” will hit theaters Friday, May 26. is rendition of the classic film features Halle Bailey as Ariel, Jonah Hauer-King as Eric, Melissa McCarthy as Ursula, Javier

Diggs as Sebastian, Jacob Tremblay as Flounder and Awkwafina as a female version of Scu le. Similar to the other live-action installments of Disney classics, new music will

Menken, the original composer for the animated film, along with LinManuel Miranda, who also produced

e Super Bowl returns to the February 12, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale. A plethora of Super Bowl-related events will be held

the big game featuring Rihanna as the hal ime performer. Tune into the February edition of e Entertainer!, which will feature a Super Bowl Guide to help everyone CT Miss an issue?

A GLIMPSE OF HOPE

AFTER FAMILY DEATHS, DRY CLEANING FINDS HAPPINESS

LUKE HERTEL COLLEGE TIMES

Dry Cleaning drummer Nick Buxton says his U.K. talk rock/spoken word band’s success comes from their age, experience and quite a bit of luck. e quartet are all in their 30s, something atypical of a new band in the space, and experienced, except for newbie singer Florence Shaw.

Because of this experience, the musicians could select the right members for the band and create a sound they’re proud of.

“We’ve been around the block,” Buxton says. “I think the bullshit indicator was always quite high. We were able to sni it out quite early.”

Dry Cleaning is now touring in support of its sophomore e ort, “Stumpwork.” e band will come to the Crescent Ballroom on Monday, January 23. Buxton admits Dry Cleaning is still working on how to express new songs live, so

“It’s a new experience taking it out on the road and really getting to learn the songs,” Buxton says. “And so things change around and the set changes and things get expressed differently and the songs expand and contract. So hopefully, we should be firing on all cylinders by then and I’m looking forward to really getting stuck in.”

Buxton adds that it’s not just the set that is changing. ey have added touring personnel, who improve the show.

“We’ll have a lighting engineer with us, who’s a really good friend of ours,” Buxton says. “I think he really adds to the show, like the kind of atmosphere that he helps us generate. It’s really important for us, like we can feel it onstage.

“You have to work with good people. You really do. You hear it all the time about these bands who signed to major labels, and they get loads of money. And then everything just sucks. It’s kind of all down to the personnel. It’s so important that you just work with people that you like and you trust.”

Luck played a role as well with Dry Cleaning.

“It’s really strange,” Buxton says. “You know, we’ve been really fortunate that we’ve met a lot of really, really good people. Everyone’s been nice to us. And … no one’s trying to patronize us or talk down to us or anything like that.

It’s always felt very mutual and respectful and kind to the people that we’ve met.”

“Stumpwork” is the follow up to “New Long Leg,” and saw the band — Buxton, Shaw, guitarist Tom Dowse and bassist Lewis Maynard — return to Rockfield Studios with producer John Parish.

e lyrics were inspired by a variety of topics and people, including artist Maggi Hambling and snippets from the press cu ings library of archivist Edda Tasiemka.

“Stumpwork” was made a er the deaths of Maynard’s mother and Dowse’s grandfather, both of whom were supportive of Dry Cleaning.

e overall vibe of “Stumpwork” is subtly upbeat, however.

And while pursuing a career in music has been a dream come true, according to Buxton, the four band members held onto their previous jobs as long as they could before committing fully to the band.

Buxton was the part-owner of a cabinetry business and says it was tough to leave that position.

“I worked as a cabinet maker, but also I had my own company that I ran with someone,” Buxton says. “So for me, personally speaking, it was really hard, because I had been playing music my whole life pretty much and the opportunity to do it for a living had never really come up before.

the concerts are evolving at an alarming rate.

“So, I’d always thought that I would just jump at that straight away, but it caught me at a time in my life where I wasn’t really able to just jump straight into it because I had a lot of other responsibilities. And … when we got involved with a manager, who laid out a plan for us and suggested the kind of route we might take through the music industry, it wasn’t easy for us to kind of accept that that’s what we all wanted to do.”

Buxton says he knew he wanted to make the career change when the musicians ate at Wimpy, a fastfood retro burger chain popular in the United Kingdom and South Africa.

“ e waiter in the restaurant came over and he was talking to us and he was like, ‘Oh, you guys are a band,’” Buxton says.

“We were talking to him, and he asked, ‘What’s the name of your band?’ And we were like, ‘Oh, it’s Dry Cleaning.’ And he was just laughing, and he was like, ‘Yeah, that’s a funny name.’ And I just remember thinking … it kind of brought me back down to Earth a li le bit. I was like, ‘You know, I would really like to do this. I really want to do this.’ We decided at that point that we were going to move forward with it.”

Despite traveling around the world in the last year and a half, Buxton says that he is proud to call South London his home.

“We are, quintessentially, a South London band and absolutely a product of our environment,” he explains. “I think if you were to take

us out of that environment and to somewhere else, I think you’d get a very di erent thing at the end of it. It’s a really unique place in the world. I think we’re all very proud to say we’re from there.” CT

Dry Cleaning w/ Nourished by Time

WHEN: 8 p.m. Monday, January 23

WHERE: Crescent Ballroom, 308 N. Second Avenue, Phoenix

COST: Tickets start at $22 INFO: crescentphx.com