Vol. 1 No. 21 by Waco Weekly

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03.27-04.02 meet the team PUBLISHER/EDITOR IN CHIEF Chris Shepperd EXECUTIVE EDITOR Matt Shepperd EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Sara Gilmore BUSINESS MANAGER Leisha Shepperd MANAGING EDITOR Chris Zebo CREATIVE DIRECTOR Bekah Skinner ASST. CREATIVE DIRECTOR Kaitlin Vickers WRITERS

Essentials: Listen Discover Taste Play Look

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Randle Browning Sara Gilmore Cheyenne Mueller Luke Murray

Cover Story:

Daniel James tells us the truth about his band, Leopold and His Fiction

INTERNS Haley Clark Katy DeLuna April Elkins Alex Gieger Brittany Holm Avery Moore Kelly Porter Heydy Sanches Kyla Spaugh Camille Youngblood

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Road Trip 12 - Ever wonder what

Listen 4 - Shakira is back with

Look 15 - Cheyenne gives

a rundown of this Waco was like 65,000 years hip shaking swagger, week’s top 20 box ago? Find out with this and Randy Rogers new week’s Texas Back Roads. release can be heard and office films. seen.

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Steve Moakler at Common Grounds By Katy De Luna

He tried out for American Idol, and during the Hollywood round J-Lo sent him packing. He experimented with modern pop and auto-tune, and he felt like a poser. He even thought about making a country album to make it on the radio, but alas, it was not the type of Steve Moakler he wanted to be. All those “failures” as he calls them, brought Moakler to the present, debuting his third studio album and on a North American tour.

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The Steve Moakler of today has gotten back to his love of music, rather than making music strictly as a pay check. He moved from his hometown of Pittsburgh to Nashville in hopes to promote his pop rock with indie rock roots music to a wider audience. He is now doing what he loves and moving up in the musical arena gaining fans in each state he visits. The average Joes are not the only fans he has, but rather Moakler has also been a hit with other music artist. His songs have been recorded by Dierks Bently, Jake Owen, Ben Rector, Matt Wertz, and Kellie Pickler. You have a chance to watch Steve Moakler yourself when he comes to Waco with opening act Cody Fry. Check him out at Common Grounds this Saturday, April 5. Doors open at 7:30pm, and the show is at 8pm. Tickets are $10 in advance, and $13 at the door.

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RANDY ROGERS BAND Album: Homemade Tamales Live at Floore’s

Release Date: March 4, 2014

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DISC 1: Intro Trouble Knows My Name Interstate Buy Myself a Chance Tonights Not the Night Better Off Wrong Speak to the Devil Flash Flood This Time Around If I Had Another Heart Last Last Chance One More Goodbye Goodbye Lonely Somebody Take Me Home

Tracks like “Fire Escape” and “The Truth” occasionally display clear signs of musical genius and even cognitive brilliance on the writing end. Consequently, Foster the People’s parting from their first album’s signature sound is the best decision they could made moving forward. Despite the rising electronic biosphere that is swallowing up indie pop/rock, the band still manages to dabble in synths with eclectic instrumental arrangements in tow. In due time, Mark Foster’s creative image will become clear as his work matures. Consider this a transition album, and you’ll be more than satisfied.

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With their second studio album Supermodel, Foster the People makes incredible effort strides on the experimental side, showing a group that’s willing to evolve and explore new frontiers. Supermodel is completely different from their first album, Torches, but this album is still a nearperfect indie-pop experience.

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DISC 2: Ten Miles Deep Kiss Me in the Dark Too Late for Goodbye In My Arms Instead Fuzzy Can’t Slow Down Like it Used to Be I’ve Been Looking for You for So Long They Call it the Hill Country Down and Out Satellite She’s Gonna Run

Reviewed by Katy De Luna

Shakira

“Shakira”

Release Date: Mar. 24, 2014 Reviewed by Heydy Sanches Hip shaking goddess and Latin pop royalty Shakira has finally released her tenth selftitled album after a long four-year break. With her last album, She Wolf, Shakira brought her Colombian flavor to the table by pushing the boundaries of dance music and by planting her Spanish roots in American pop soil. However, with this new self-titled album, Shakira is determined to charm listeners with her Grammy winning pop side rather than her sultry Latina roots. The album also includes other well-known cameos from artists like Rihanna and Blake Shelton.

Future Islands

“Singles”

Release Date: Mar. 24, 2014 Reviewed by Heydy Sanches Future Islands has finally gotten its big break! Singles manages to hook listeners by trading out the darker tone in their previous albums for a much more colorful, contemporary, strange, and original sound. In this 40-minute journey, Samuel Herring’s voice takes listeners to a colorful, luminous place that you’ve probably never been to before. Singles can easily be called a physical album, due to each song grabbing the listener in a magical way where they can imagine Herring showing off his best dance moves. No other band sounds like them; not even Future Islands sounds like Future Islands on this album. Singles gives you the feels.

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By Haley Clark, Katy De Luna and Heydy Sanches

P.S.-YOU’RE INVITED

by erica domesek Ever been in a store and just fell in love with something...and then once you saw the price, all your happiness turned bitter? Well, P.S-You’re Invited is here to show you how to make that same product on a budget! With over 40+ DIY projects teaching you to make cool things like jewelry, clothing, and even furniture, this book offers an easy way to add style, fun, and creativity to your life without breaking the bank. The book also offers different party themes and teaches you exactly how to make sweet decorations and adorable glam jewelry to show off at your next house-warming party. In addition, it’s filled with crafts that will get all your creative juice’s flowing. With its delightful illustrations and bold, colorful designs, P.S.-You’re Invited has all the ideas and inspiration you’ll need for extraordinary parties that are to DIY for.

JUST PAYING THE RENT by shyla lukens Jessie Billows is a twenty-something woman living rent free at a low-end apartment complex in Chicago. She’s a maintenance woman who lives quietly, trying not to think of her lacking love life. She also has a loudmouth, quirky best friend named Trish to follow her on all of her adventures. Throw in a murder, and an unexpected love triangle between Jessie, Eddie, an attractive Latino shop owner, and Devan Winters—the eye-catching British Detective—and you got quite a story.

COLLECTED COOL

by jay jeffers Jay Jeffers, founder of Jeffers Design Group in San Francisco, is a renowned interior designer who has been featured in Elle Décor’s A-List of Top Designers in 2011, 2012, and 2013. His designs have appeared in magazines, show houses, and Jeffers himself has taken part in various design panels throughout the country, as well.

Author Shyla Lukens was a paralegal before becoming a writer and has now written two novels about murder, mystery, and romance.

This is Jeffers’s first book, and the respected interior designer is well known for his bold use of color and pattern and his brilliant combination of art and furnishings. The book is divided into four sections: Collected Cool, Bold Bespoke, Unabashed Glamour, and Casual Chic. Each section includes a method and some guidance for reproducing the various looks on your own.

Just Paying the Rent is the first Jessie Billows Mystery novel of the soon to come series. The humorous novel is a concise, easy read. It’s a story for any fan of romantic-comedies minus the corniness, with a little bit of edge to boot.

Collected Cool is entertaining and clever, and it’s brimming with details about processes, color, furniture, and accessories to inspire readers to express their inner interior designer.

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Interview: Daniel James of Leopold & His Fiction By Sara Gilmore If you go to TrueLove on Friday night looking for Leopold, you won’t find him. But you will find lead man Daniel James and his band rocking your face off. The Detroit native gone Californian gone Texan brings an eclectic sound in his music, derived from all three regions he’s hung his hat in different seasons of his life. The rocker, Motown bluesman, Americana folk-master spoke with us this week about how the places he’s been have shaped his music, the story behind his band’s name, and how fatherhood is driving his songwriting these days. Don’t miss Leopold & His Fiction this Friday night at TrueLove Bar. WW: It doesn’t seem like anyone knows how to put you in any certain category. You’ve got the Detroit bluesy Motown thing going on, but you also have a folky Americana side, and then there’s the raw rock ‘n’ roll sound you have in other songs. How would you define yourself as an artist? DJ: My songwriting grew as I grew. I started at an age where I was still figuring out who I was. Being raised in

Detroit, that’s always influenced and inspired me. The thing is I didn’t really realize how much I was influenced by it until I left, and I started writing in that style. Then I moved to California and was still very impressionable at 22, and was kind of brought into that psychedelic influence. Then moving down to Texas, I guess you could say my musical writing has been entirely influenced by the surroundings that I’ve been in. WW: Would you say the things you’re working on now are defined by where you are geographically? DJ: I moved to Austin about two years ago, but the thing is that we tour so much that calling anywhere home is kind of hard. Our families now reside in Austin, but we live in a van. WW: Tell me about the name Leopold and His Fiction. Where does that come from? DJ: When I lived in San Francisco, there was a larger piece of work I was working on, in the form of a novel, and I

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was working on that for a while, and I felt like that was kind of like my first album. With the effort you put into an album, I imagine it’s the same kind of effort you put into a novel. It’s all-encompassing, everything you do, every time you wake up you’re thinking about the novel, thinking about the characters. That’s kind of how an album comes into play, between all the mixing and the mastering, the writing, rehearsing, everything. So the name came from pretty much the blueprints to a novel I was working on that segways into my first album. WW: Before Leopold, you were in a folk rock band, Cowboy & Indian. How and when did you find your current band along the way? What was that transition like? DJ: Well Leopold & His Fiction was actually my first band, the band’s been a band for about nine years now. Many years into Leopold touring, we ended up in Austin and that’s where I met Jazz Mills and Jesse, and we formed Cowboy & Indian. It was actually, I guess I wouldn’t say a side project but I joined Cowboy & Indian as producer, to get the songs recorded, but then the band started taking

off and they needed me, so I joined forces with them. It was a great time, a really positive time in all of our lives, and then we all kind of went back to our priorities, and for me that band is still going on but it’s definitely its own creation, its own thing that just happens every now and again. Leopold & His Fiction is who I am, it’s my makeup. WW: I know it’s been a couple of years since your last album, but I think I read that you’re working with Chris “Frenchie” Smith on your next. Where are you at in that process? DJ: We actually just finished the mixes, they’re being mastered right now. The album’s ready. We are figuring out where and how we want to release it, and when, but

we’re getting there, we hope to hold onto it. WW: What do you feel like drove the songwriting for the new album? DJ: Well, a couple of years ago, about three years ago, I thought the band was done. We weren’t really playing, Cowboy & Indian was coming to a halt, and Leopold hadn’t picked up again just yet, so I really wasn’t sure what we were doing or what I was doing. I’d just moved to Texas, and I was expecting my daughter, Ava, at the time. And you know, there’s a lot of stress that comes with that, with a big move from California out of all places to Austin, and it’s like a chapter of a book, you’ve got to turn the page and keep reading. So the move alone was huge,

“Moving down to Texas, I guess you could say my musical writing has been entirely influenced by the surroundings that I’ve been in.” - DANIEL JAMES, LEOPOLD & HIS FICTION in the meantime we play those songs live all the time, and we’ve kind of gone about it in a roundabout way because most cities we go to, they know those songs, so now’s the time to get the album out. We’re very excited about it, it’s definitely the best sounding body of work that this band has put together. The songwriting has come a long way, and we have high hopes for it.

and then all of a sudden the stress and anticipation of a first child brings a lot of emotion and thought, and so I can say that for the lack of sounding too cliche, having my first child was definitely a huge undertaking and huge encouragement for the songs. For better or worse, I should say, because some of the songs are really dark and sad and some are really uplifting and upbeat. It’s the entire spectrum.

WW: How does what you’re doing now measure up to what you’ve done in the past?

WW: Have you guys played Waco before?

DJ: It’s definitely a process, just like anything. With the first and second album we were really shooting from the hip, and hitting the target every now and again, and now it’s more refined. I think we’re in a very good spot. I think a lot of bands early on have a certain sound, especially in our genre, with kind of a garage filter, and then as they grow things become a little more polished, but a lot of bands I think lose sight of where they came from. I think the fact that we recognize that in others and learning from others’ mistakes, we’re getting to a really great spot and I’d like to hold on to that for a while. I believe we’re coming to a specific plateau that we’ve been aiming for, and now that

DJ: We have, this will be our fourth or fifth time at TrueLove. WW: What would be one thing you’d want to tell someone who was thinking about coming to check you guys out for the first time? DJ: From the response we’ve gotten from others in Waco, it’s a show you’re gonna need to see. We’re feeling really good about Texas as a whole. It’s really embraced us, it’s definitely our home now. I really feel like Waco in particular has been so open minded and open armed to come see us, and there’s so many people already into it, so it’s worth a shot. Worth the risk.

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•••••• When I lived in Boston, I spent a month working in a Northern Italian-style restaurant. Grad school hadn’t left me much time for the culinary adventures I imagined. Before I made the long drive back to Texas, though, I wanted to experience cooking in Boston. Of course, I ended up at my favorite Italian spot. More of a destination for suburban parents, I was in it for the freshly made pastas and interesting proteins, like skate fish and boar.

Perfect Roast Chicken (Serves 4)

As a temporary staff member, I got sent to the basement to chop vegetables and plate desserts pretty often, but a few weeks in, the head chef approached me with a dilemma. “We have three catering orders on Saturday and only two chefs available. Can you do it?” Out loud, I said, “Yes, of course!” In my head I said, “As long as it’s not chicken, you’ll be fine.” I’m sure you can guess what was on the menu. I pulled up to the gated house in my Ford Ranger, a cooler in the passenger seat and glasses and dry goods rattling dangerously in the truck bed. It was a party for a high school student graduating and celebrating with her family and music teachers. A charming evening ahead, except for one problem. In addition to all the passed apps and bowls of ricotta, the steaming polenta and melting semifreddos, I was making broiled chicken for thirteen in a single oven, and I had a paralyzing fear of poultry. More than red meat or fish, you really aren’t supposed to eat underdone chicken. The stakes are higher. How many horror stories have we read about chicken contamination? How often have you heard someone say they wanted their chicken pink in the center? Maybe they eat mediumrare chicken in high-end European restaurants, but not in New England townships. To top it off, overcooked chicken is tough and it makes your teeth squeak and your knife slide and jerk across the plate. There’s not a lot of margin for error. Let’s just say the sweat wasn’t dripping off my face because of the oven temperature. And the fact that the hosts kept telling their guests I was their “personal chef” didn’t make matters easier. Well, it wasn’t a smooth ride. The oven smoked like the dickens and I had to cook the chicken in batches since the oven was so small. But no one was ill, and to my surprise, people liked it. “My daughter never eats chicken! But she loves this!” I heard from a middle-aged man. “How do you keep the skin so crisp and the meat so juicy and tender?” asked the host. I think my response was just shock. After that catering job, I decided I had to conquer my fear of chicken. Eight months later, I’ve finally found what has become my foolproof roast chicken. I tried so many methods, but I discovered this trick in a Mediterranean cookbook: rub the chicken with salt 24 hours before cooking, and make sure to flip the chicken as it cooks. Sit back and enjoy the praise your friends and family will heap upon you for making the least pretentious and yet most satisfying roast chicken they’ve ever had. And don’t panic about it. I already did that for you.

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To look at the original inspiration for this chicken, check out The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook by Nancy Harmon Jenkins. It’s a classic in this kitchen. Ingredients: 3 ½ - 4 ½ lb. chicken (free-range, natural, all that) 3 Tablespoons coarse salt 3 medium carrots 1 white onion 6 garlic cloves 2 lemons 1-2 sprigs dill 3 Tablespoons parsley, finely chopped Cracked black pepper 3 Tablespoons olive oil 1 lb. egg noodles (optional) Directions: 1. Rinse and thoroughly dry chicken, inside and out, removing any innards. Coat with full 3 Tablespoons of salt and wrap in plastic. Return to refrigerator for 24 hours. 2. Preheat oven to 450 F. Chop carrots and onions in large chunks, about one inch. Peel half of the garlic cloves. Pour them into a layer in a roasting pan or casserole dish. 3. Dry chicken with paper towels (don’t worry about taking off the salt--it will have soaked in). Cut one lemon into wedges. Fill cavity with lemon wedges, dill, and remaining garlic cloves, slightly squeezing lemon to release juices. Slide parsley under the skin of the chicken breasts and thighs, or add to cavity.

4. Truss chicken with twine for even cooking. Your goal is to hold the legs together (and the cavity shut) and hold the wings down. Tie three feet of twine around the legs and along the back of the chicken, so that it knots across the neck. Rest chicken on top of the vegetables in the roasting pan. Cover the top of the chicken with cracked black pepper and half the olive oil. 5. Roast for 20 minutes, then reduce heat to 375 F. Roast another 10 minutes, then remove pan from the oven and flip the chicken upside down. Cover the back of the chicken with more black pepper and the rest of the olive oil. Roast for 30 minutes, then flip the chicken a final time. Squeeze lemon juice over the top with the second lemon. Finish cooking chicken for a final 20 minutes. 6. To check for doneness, pierce the leg and check that the juices run clear, or insert an instant-read thermometer along the inner thigh and check that it reads 180 F. If all else fails, lift up the chicken and see if the juices run clear. But like I said, don’t obsess. I already did. Rest chicken for 10-15 minutes before carving. Optional: Meanwhile, cook egg noodles according to package directions. Strain pan juices into a skillet and reduce into a sauce, adding a dash of white wine. Serve chicken and vegetables over a bed of egg noodles and drizzle with the sauce.

3 Apps You Won’t Regret Downloading TRULIA - BY KATY DE LUNA Trulia – Apts & Homes for Rent is designed for the on-the-go apartment and house hunter. Color coded map markers make it easy to find the newest, most relevant properties, and you can remove locations from the map that you don’t want to see. The app makes it easy to take notes and send information on properties to roommates, parents, aunts, uncles, or anyone that has Internet access. Classes are ending soon, and with students returning home for the summer, Trulia will send you push notifications and/or email notifications when a new rental becomes available. HOUZZ - BY KELLY PORTER Houzz Interior Design Ideas by Houzz Inc. “has the largest database of home design ideas on the net, with over 2,000,000 high resolution photos.” You can browse different photos by style, room, as well as location. The app allows you to have a virtual ideabook, where you can save your favorite photos (a step up from your previous home-ideabook, full of outdated, dogeared clippings). They have “everything from products curated by [their] editorial team to top-rated local designers, architects, contractors and other home pros”. The app also gives you access to various articles by renovation pros. RADPAD - BY HALEY CLARK If you’re looking to rent an apartment but don’t want to go through the hassle of looking through the classifieds or surfing the Internet, look no further than RadPad. The RadPad app makes finding an apartment to rent so much easier and accessible with its user-friendly design. Every listing on the app has at least three photos, so if you’re interested in a property, there are multiple pictures to size up rooms for couches and your fish tank. Another feature is called DriveTime, which allows you to see the distance from your apartment to work, family, or your favorite restaurant. Look for the video icons in the app, and if you find it, you can play a video tour of the apartment, too.

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Hanging Out in Waco for 65,000+ Years By Jeremy Rinard of txbkrds.com

Waco is what’s happening in Central Texas; and no, that’s not just a recent thing. Waco’s been known throughout history for many things; some not so great, but many of them are something to take pride in: the Chisholm Trail, the suspension bridge, three Army bases, Baylor University, Texas Christian University, Geyser City, the Waco Cubs, and more all of which brought folks to Waco by the thousands. With all of these things going on in Waco, it might be easy to overlook one of Waco’s greatest attractions: it’s natural beauty. The natural beauty is what brought one group to Waco 65,000 years ago or more and the reason why they never left. Discovered in 1978, the Waco Mammoth Site is the home and final resting place of the biggest nursery herd of Columbian mammoths in the world. The site was found by a couple of high school students when they stumbled upon a three-foot-long leg bone in a cow pasture. Knowing the bone didn’t belong to one of the cows, they took the bone to a professor at Baylor University. Upon further digging (pun intended), they unearthed the remains of 16 Columbian mammoths at the initial dig site. Since then, they’ve unearthed an additional eight mammoths along with the remains of some other extinct species spanning thousands of years and three flooding events. Today what you’ll find is a visitors center with a modest gift shop, temperaturecontrolled indoor dig site, a dig site for kids where they learn how to unearth fossils with replicas from the site, and trails that wind through 100 acres of wooded parkland. Open to the public four years ago, the facilities are top notch and a pleasant surprise off the beaten path. And while there some places you might be leery to take the kids, this site is perfect for the young and young at heart. Insider Tip: While you can tour the site on your own, 45 minute-1 hour tours (depending on size and how many questions you might have) are led regularly by knowledgeable staff that will tell you stories about the site, the region, and about mammoths in general. Waco Mammoth Site is located at 6220 Steinbeck Bend; just take Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway across Lake Shore and it will be on the left. The site is open Tuesday through Fridays 11am-5pm, Saturdays 9am-5pm & closed Sundays and Mondays. Admission is $7 per adult and $5-6 for children with discounts available. If you have any questions, you can call 254.750.7946. For additional information, check out wacomammoth.com.

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“It’s Really Nothing”

- and nothing can stop you! Across 1 Casino features 5 Pacific Coast salmon 9 King novel about a rabid dog 13 Feeling regret 15 Group whose O doesn’t stand for “oil” 16 Quite a distance away 17 Commend highly 18 Inbox item 19 Expensive Japanese beef 20 Amount of time before you stop reading inflammatory Web comments? 23 Laughingstock 24 Glitch 25 Cincinnati-to-Detroit dir. 26 $ fractions, for short 29 Did hayfield work 31 Wonder-ful count? 33 Force that I’m certain will pull you back to Earth? 37 “Let the Rabbit Eat ___” (mail-in 1976 cereal contest) 38 Hosp. area for critical cases 39 Reese’s “Legally Blonde” role 40 Food label units that don’t mind waiting around? 45 Get retribution for 46 Sour, as a stomach 47 Icelandic band Sigur ___ 48 7, for 14 and 35: abbr. 50 Microbrewery product 51 Dr. with six Grammys 54 Burp after drinking too many colas? 57 Beloved honey lover 60 Change of address, to a realtor 61 Barracks barker, briefly 62 Neighbor of Hank Hill 63 Risk territory 64 Wrath 65 Several 66 Good, to Giuseppe 67 Word appearing before or after each word in the long theme entries

Down 1 Moda Center, e.g. 2 Garb for groomsmen 3 Catchers wear them 4 ___-nosed kid 5 1978 debut solo album by Rick James 6 Abbr. on a phone dial 7 Castle Grayskull hero 8 “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer 9 Blue Velvet, for one 10 Roswell crasher 11 MMA move 12 Mined set? 14 Comprehensive 21 “To Sir With Love” singer 22 John of the WWE 26 Cook-off food 27 “Her,” “She” or “It” 28 Eye nuisances 29 Confine 30 Record label named for an Asian capital 32 Each’s partner 33 Face-valued, as stocks 34 “Top Chef” network 35 Focus of traffic reports? 36 Holy food? 41 Round toaster brand 42 Tension reliever 43 “I Shot Andy Warhol” star Taylor 44 “Battleship Potemkin” locale 49 Big name in farm equipment 51 Funeral lament 52 Rival of Rafael and Novak 53 January in Juarez 54 Use your jaw 55 Dash and splash 56 Horatio who played Aaron Neville on “SNL” 57 Kissing in public, e.g. 58 Lummox 59 “Nicely done!”

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Muppets Most Wanted Animated (PG)

In 2011, director James Bobin brought The Muppets back to the big screen with an all-star cast in The Muppets. In 2014, he’s done it again with Muppets Most Wanted, bringing more big-name actors such as Tina Fey (30 Rock), Ricky Gervais (The Invention of Lying), and Ty Burrell (Modern Family) to the film. In true Muppets fashion, Bobin incorporates numerous brief celebrity cameos with Chloë Grace Moretz (Carrie), Tom Hiddleston (Thor), Salma Hayek (Savages), and Celine Dion, to name just a few. A new member to The Muppets crew was brought on in 2011 named Walter. With everyone back together, The Muppets set out for a grand world tour to promote their reunion, represented by Dominic Badguy (pronounced Bad-gee). However, nothing is as it seems when they find themselves caught in a European jewel-heist headed by Badguy and a Kermit the Frog look-alike named Constantine. After Kermit is mistaken for Constantine and thrown into a Russian prison, The Muppets’ performances turn into utter chaos without their leader. Badguy finds venues “conveniently” located near national treasure museums, allowing for him and Constantine to steal precious artifacts. The new Muppets member Walter is the only one who senses that the Kermit dopplegänger isn’t who he says he is, and with Animal and Fozzie’s help, he rescues Kermit before it’s too late. The dopplegänger motif isn’t a new one, but you know what they say: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Like yin and yang, the beloved Kermit’s opposite is the world’s number one villain. There are some subtle differences between the two: Constantine’s collar is wider and with shorter spikes than Kermit’s; also, Constantine’s “resting face” is more mean than Kermit’s; but the major difference between them is the mole. Constantine frames Kermit by slapping a fake mole on his face and concealing his own with green make up. Constantine’s accent is Russian (because that’s where the bad guys come from lately), but he goes undetected by the rest of the Muppets. Their lack of intellect isn’t really their fault; after all, they’re made of felt. The family-friendly flick really focuses on the idea that you don’t have to be blood to be family. With a memorable cast and clever wit, Muppets Most Wanted is a great film for all ages. It’s 107 minutes and rated PG for some mild action.

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1. Noah

A man is chosen by God to undertake a momentous mission of rescue before an apocalyptic flood destroys the world. PG13 (138 min)

2. Divergent

In a world divided by factions based on virtues, Tris learns she’s Divergent and won’t fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it’s too late. PG-13 (139 min)

3. Muppets Most Wanted While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into a European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick. PG (107 min)

4. Mr. Peabody & Sherman The time-travelling adventures of an advanced canine and his adopted son, as they endeavor to fix a time rift they created. PG (92 min)

5. God’s Not Dead

College student Josh Wheaton’s faith is challenged by his philosophy professor, who believes God does not exist. PG (113 min)

6. The Grand Budapest Hotel Wes Anderson chronicles the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the world wars, and Zero Moustafa, a lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. R (100 min)

7. Sabotage

Members of an elite DEA task force find

themselves being taken down one by one after they rob a drug cartel safe house. R (109 min)

humble birth through his teachings, crucifixion, and ultimate resurrection. PG13 (138 min)

8. Need for Speed

15. Son of God

Fresh from prison, a street racer who was framed by a wealthy business associate joins a cross-country race with revenge on his mind. His ex-partner, learning of the plan, places a massive bounty on his head as the race begins. PG-13 (132 min)

9. 300: Rise of an Empire Greek general Themistokles leads the charge against invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes and Artemisia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy. R (102 min)

10. Non-Stop

After receiving a series of text messages demanding a transfer of $150 million into an offshore account, an air marshal must prevent a terrorist attack and clear his name. PG-13 (106 min)

11. The Lego Movie

An ordinary LEGO, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the universe together. PG (100 min)

12. Cesar Chavez

A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. PG-13 (101 min)

13. Bad Words

A spelling bee loser sets out to exact revenge by finding a loophole and attempting to win as an adult. R (89 min)

14. The Single Mom’s Club The life story of Jesus is told from his

The life story of Jesus is told from his humble birth through his teachings, crucifixion, and ultimate resurrection. PG13 (138 min)

16. The Monuments Men An unlikely World War II platoon are tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners. PG-13 (118 min)

17. Frozen

In a kingdom cursed to endure permanent winter, a young girl voiced by Kristen Bell teams up with a mountain man to rescue her sister and stop the curse in the latest Disney animated adventure. PG (102 min)

18. Ride Along

Fast-talking security guard Ben joins his cop brother-in-law James on a 24-hour patrol of Atlanta in order to prove himself worthy of marrying Angela, James’ sister. PG-13 (100 min)

19. The Nut Job

An incorrigible, self-serving exiled squirrel finds himself helping his former park brethren raid a nut store to survive, which is also the front for a human gang’s bank robbery. PG (86 min)

20. The Lunchbox

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai’s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. PG (104 min)

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