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ENTERTAINMENTpage 15 Technique • Friday, October 5, 2007 • 15 DARRELL ROBERTSON CONCERT COMMITTEE Defensive player, Robertson, has started After bringing T.I. to campus last ENTERTAINMENT in two full seasons and has been crucial spring, the committee is currently to many of this year’s games. Page 24 working with Adult Swim. Page 9 Technique • Friday, October 5, 2007 Murphys give Turandot triumphs energetic set By Aileen Li brutality and begs for the Staff Writer CITY SCENE Prince’s life. Turandot appears By Ryan Hautau with her maids and orders the Contributing Writer Yard Dogs in town Just a few days after its execution to continue. grand opening, the Cobb Upon seeing Turandot’s If you’ve seen Th e Departed, you know who the Featuring a brilliant combi- Energy Performing Arts beauty, Calaf, forgets about Dropkick Murphys are. Originating from Boston, nation of performance art and Centre staged Turandot, one her cruelty, falls madly in the Dropkick Murphys have become the epitome music, this playful, colorful of the most compelling operas love with her and decides to of the Irish punk rock genre (alongside others such “rock and roll vaudeville” group of the famous Italian libretto, vie for the Princess’s hand in as Flogging Molly and Street Dogs). If you’ve nev- will be playing at the Variety Giacomo Puccini. marriage. er heard Irish Playhouse Oct. 6 at 8 p.m. For Set in the ancient city of Th e next part of the story punk rock be- more information: www.yard- Peking, Turandot tells a story is just like any other fairy tale. fore, envision dogsroadshow.com. of passion and love tangled Calaf correctly answers all of the Clash with with death and sacrifice. Turandot’s riddles and escapes bagpipes. In As the curtain rises, we are death with a marriage off ering fact, the Drop- Portugal in ATL greeted by an announcer for from the Emperor, despite the kick Murphys the Imperial Palace reading Princess’s opposition. draw inspira- Portugal. Th e Man, who re- the law of the land: “He who At this point, the audi- tion from the cently released their sixth album, desires to wed Princess Tu- ence learns that it is not that Clash, along Church Mouth, will be playing randot must answer her three Turandot is picky about her wit h ot her at Th e Loft Oct. 12 along with riddles. If he should fail, he husband; it is that she hates popular bands fellow bands Rocky Votolato will be beheaded.” men and wishes to lure all such as AC/ and Th e Great Depression. Don’t As the eager crowd moves those who desire her beauty DC and the miss this fun and exciting show. close to the Palace to witness to their graves. Pogues. Doors open at 8 p.m., and the the execution, our hero, Calaf, being the gentle- First let show starts at 9 p.m. Calaf, reunites with his man that he is, decides that me say that By Colin Ake / STUDENT PUBLICATIONSS father, Timur, the old King he wants none but Turandot’s when I heard The Dropkick Murphys played of Tartary. Timur tells Calaf love. He tells her that if she can the Dropkick a variety of instruments. Eco-friendly music that after Tartary had been fi nd out his name by sunrise, Murphys were conquered by the Chinese he will die and she won’t have coming to Atlanta, I was pretty excited. Th eir new Th e Echo Project is hitting rulers, only Liu, a devoted album, Meanest of Times, which came out Sept. the Atlanta area Oct. 12-14. Th is slave girl, remained faithful See Opera, page 19 18, is an amazing studio album release and is truly green festival of music and fun to him. worth checking out. It does well in keeping con- features tons of bands, including When the Prince of Persia sistent with their hardcore, upbeat and rebellious Th e Killers, Flaming Lips, Phil is brought out to be beheaded, style, all the while raising Irish pride and avoiding Lesh & Friends, moe., and many Calaf, along with the people of being repetitive. more! For more information Peking, curses the Princess’s And while their new album, along with their about this huge music festival, previous releases, avoids such redundancy, I can’t check it out online at the-echo- say the same about the performance they put on project.com. last week at the Masquerade. I’ve seen a lot of pop rock and punk rock con- certs in my day, almost all of which I came out of Netherworld tours having had one of the best experiences of my life. I didn’t feel that way when I left the Masquerade It’s October, which means last Th ursday night. As hard as this is to admit, I Netherworld, the #1 haunted thought the music was too loud (and I love loud house in America, is back! Walk music), to the extent where if I had to drive home the twisted halls of the Leviathan I probably would have had to wait an hour to where creepy experiments in retain suffi cient enough hearing to avoid a head- re-animation of the dead linger on collision. the depths. Th en, head down Sound quality was lacking too. Whether this into the nightmarish realm of Prince Calaf confronts was the result of the volume and/or bass being Primal Fear, where everyone’s Turandot, the opera’s turned to high, or an unfortunate consequence worst fears become reality. For cruel, title princess. of having seven diff erent band members on the more information: www.fear- world.com. By Michael Skinner / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS See Murphys, page 18 Immensely anticipated Halo 3 scores sky-high with fans By Hamza Hasan Many gamers, young and old, authorities that gave Halo 3 a Contributing Writer bought an Xbox 360 specifi cally perfect score of 10 include the for the release of Halo 3. Many Australian Offi cial Xbox Maga- Game developer Bungie specialty stores opened their zine, 1Up.com and the UK-based Studios released the conclusion doors for the midnight release www.edge-online.co.uk, the to their Halo trilogy last week. because of the expected revenue last of which has given only fi ve Gamers have anticipated the from game sales. other perfect scores for all games release of the game since Nov. A local Gamestop in Fayette- in the past 25 years. 22, 2004. ville, Georgia got approximately Undoubtedly, the critical Halo 2 sold 2.4 million cop- 600 pre-orders. Th ese numbers reception for Halo 3 has gone as ies its fi rst day, bringing in $125 are nothing compared to other expected and beyond in some million, out-grossing all other shops nearby. Another Gamestop cases. releases in entertainment his- in Fayetteville had 1,000 pre- Th e gameplay will not be af- tory until the release of Halo 3, orders, and the Gamestop in fected by the game disc edition, which brought in $170 million nearby Peachtree City received except for one feature available on its fi rst day. 2,000 pre-orders. in the extra disc for both limited Th e midnight release occurred With all the hype surrounding and legendary editions. at many specialty electronics and Halo 3, many wonder: is it good? Bungie has included an gaming locations, such as Game- Good is an understatement. audio/video calibration tool for stop and Best Buy. Game Rankings, an aggregator televisions and sound systems “Halo is going to be the for reviews on game launches, so that a gamer may achieve Image Courtesy of Bungie Studios biggest game in video game listed it at 94% according to maximum utilization from his Master Chief returns in this upgraded and highly anticipated fi nal installment history,” said the manager of a the reviews of major gaming of Bungie’s popular Halo series. The game was released Tuesday, Sept. 25. local Gamestop. magazines and websites. Several See Halo, page 17 16 • Friday, October 5, 2007 • Technique ENTERTAINMENT ST. MATTHEW’S UNIVERSITY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY PREVIEW Let us light your way. At St. Matthew’s University, we realize how important medicine AT L A N TA A R E A is to you and how many places you can go to study. That is why we are coming to you! Through a series of personal interactions, we hope to help light your way as you pursue your goals of October 20, 2007 developing yourself and helping others. 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