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ENTERTAINMENTpage 17 Technique • Friday, February 6, 2004 • 17 A little off the top Nothing soft about it Ice Cube revives the local Barbershop Girls take to the diamond, softball ENTERTAINMENT with the suprisingly hilarious sequel. season is about to start. How does Check out our review. Page 19 our team stack up? Page 32 Technique • Friday, February 6, 2004 Lions and tigers Frankenstein one-acts open today and bears—oh my DramaTech performs local playwrights’ works in newest production Me, Thy Creature Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus is set to arrive in By Jessica Luza town, with shows beginning Thurs- Contributing Writer day, Feb. 12, and running through Feb. 22. Times vary, but usually DramaTech’s current stage pro- take place late morning and 7:30 duction was created to coincide with p.m. Tickets range from $12 to $90, the traveling exhibit entitled Fran- for those with deep pockets and a kenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of desire to whiff elephant excretions. Nature, which will be coming to the Like last year, the event will be held Georgia Tech Library in early March. at Phillips Arena. Pay parking Me, Thy Creature consists of three abounds, but Centennial Place has one-act plays penned by local At- free on-street parking. lanta playwrights who were inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Promethea, Unlaced examines the Dane Cook show relationship between Mary Shelley and her famous feminist mother, for Friday canceled Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin. With- The scheduled Dane Cook show in the two scenes, Godwin dies just for this Friday has been canceled days after giving birth to her daugh- due to a death in his family. The ter, and eighteen years later Mary show has been rescheduled for March Shelley gives birth to her famous 22 at 8 p.m. in the Ferst Center for character, Frankenstein, after a con- the Arts. Check out www.fun. frontation with the ghost of her en- gatech.edu for complete details on couraging mother. what to do with your tickets and The scene explores the bitter more details concerning schedul- grudge Mary feels toward her dead ing. Pablo Francisco, a member of mother as well as the components MadTV, will entertain in the Stu- of Mary’s miserable marriage to the dent Center ballroom Tuesday, Feb. poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Cleverly 17. Francisco’s show is $5 for stu- written by Marki Shalloe, it fea- dents and $7 for the public. The tures the talent of Jill Adams, Alex- show starts at 8 p.m. andros Salazar and Martha Jaworski. While Promethea, Unlaced is dark By Stephen Marek / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS and alluring, the next one-act play, Who could go wrong with monsters, mad scientists, lingerie and biological warfare? DramaTech delivers Get Rock tickets Dark Heart, by Robin Seidman, is moments of hilarity along with moments of reflection in their newest production. Make sure to check out the show. remarkably funny. This comedy re- while still available volves around two sisters, Erika and the basement. When they begin to cept of trying to regenerate and re- out above the rest and features Kelly Lacey, which run a love clinic for counsel a new couple on the impor- create the lives of the dead bodies, Lefler, Aubrie Lee, Jessica Berglind, Speaking of comedy, Chris Rock pre-marital couples counseling. tant meaning of truth and honesty, much like how Frankenstein was Andrew O’Brien and Adam Johnson, will be in Atlanta again Friday, March The only problem is that Erika Erika must face her own frozen de- created and given life by his inven- scantily clad in black lingerie. 12, for a performance at the Atlanta has a horrible habit of killing her mons in the basement and be hon- tor. The third play, entitled The Vec- Civic Center. Purchase tickets early own husbands (she is currently at est with herself. Full of hilarious one-liners and for any chance of seeing the man number five) and freezing them in The scene deals with the con- interesting characters, this play stands See Drama, page 21 himself, as shows frequently sell out. The show is at 7 p.m., and tickets can be bought through Ticketmas- You, yes Y-0-U Punk 80’s throwback band ter, Civic Center Box Office. stellastarr* debuts first video Annual film fest showing at Emory By Justin O’Neal Miller audienceless performances. Contributing Writer The production of Tim O’Heir The fourth annual Atlanta Jew- (Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr., Hedwig and ish Film Festival is underway now Granted, it becomes harder with the Angry Itch) is characteristically through Feb. 8. The event includes time to write music that is not de- approaching flawless but fails to sub- numerous movies. Check out fined by comparisons to other and due the painfully forced vocal in- www.atlantajewishfim.org for show older musical legends, but any men- flections of frontman Shawn times and locations. Most movies tion of stellastarr* is always cross- Christensen. He soars when not try- are a user-friendly $7-$8. Emory is referenced to The ing to sound like wrapping up its French/Francoph- Cure, The Pix- a frontman of one film festival this Friday with ies, The Talking their obvious in- two selections, one at 6 p.m. and Heads and Devo fluences. another at 8 p.m. Admission is only more times than “I know this eighties The annoy- $2 or free with a donation. More they have years revival is seductive, ing composition info. at www.emory.edu/french/ between them. I and redundant festival.htm. am thinking of but it is this year’s verbal abstrac- black holes and gimmick. We will all tions of “Jenny” Landmark playing The Darkness. be as embarrassed of burst into an im- Here come the pressively taut unique Triplets ‘80s. Or back to it next year...” crescendo, but the future. Or disappoint Landmark Theaters is showing something. nonetheless. The Triplets of Belleville, a French The truth is The abstracted animation about Champion, a boy that stellastarr* sounds more like an lyric booklet is reminiscent of (and who enters the Tour de France but impressive karaoke medley of all these almost as frustrating as) the album is kidnapped, later to be rescued by bands. But its female bassist makes and song structure of the full-length three famous female singers. This me think: cover band. The karaoke debut. The self-designed booklet re- eccentric journey is supplemented trope is self-inflicted, however, by duces the album’s lyrics to one large by a special treat. Tacked on to the the band’s new and politely preten- paragraph of dismembered words end of the movie is the never-be- By Andrew Saulters / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS tious video for “My Coco.” It prob- and phrases, suggesting some poet- fore-seen collaboration between Walt If you are looking for a local rock band to track, check out Y-O-U. ably has something to do with reality ic layer that we are otherwise inca- Disney and Salvador Dali. The six- Their poppy rock sound is palatable to most people. Under the television. A series of excessively ex- pable of receiving. The members of minute feature is entitled “Desti- Couch featured them entertaining an eager audience last Friday. cited lip-synchers are intercut with no”, and is set to a Spanish song, one of those always provocative and See Stella, page 21 though devoid of dialogue. 18 • Friday, February 6, 2004 • Technique ENTERTAINMENT Q.E.D. Original Comic Strip by Brian Lewis ([email protected]) Come to our weekly meeting Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. in meeting Come to our weekly Tuesday room137 of the Student Services building and eat free pizza. Services building and eat free of the Student room137 ENTERTAINMENT Technique • Friday, February 6, 2004 • 19 Second Barbershop trims away at boring sequel stereotype By Fenton Gardner reason, considering the quality of Leonard Earl Howze), the film gives Contributing Writer Next Friday in comparison to Fri- you non-stop laughter and has the day, the first of the Ice Cube-pro- same dynamic as Barbershop. The “That was funnier than the first!” duced movies to have more than film explores the interaction of the “I couldn’t stop laughing!” “I have one installment. Barbershop 2, how- barbers with one another, as well as got to go see that movie again!” All ever, far outstripped all my expecta- customers and other guests to the comments that could be heard from tions and was considerably funnier shop, with jokes and witty remarks the crowd exiting the theater after than the first movie. that have no end. the advanced screening of Barber- In Barbershop 2, Ice Cube (Fri- In contrast to the first film, how- shop 2: Back in Business, and to say day after Next, Torque) reprises his ever, the major conflict is the arrival the least, I agree totally. role as Calvin Palmer, owner of a of competition from a big franchise As I sat waiting for the lights to barbershop on the infamous south barbershop that intends to open up dim, I had the dreaded fear that this side of Chicago. In a similar fashion shop across the street. Now a father movie would fall under the usual to the first movie, we get to see both himself, Palmer has to decide what’s “curse of the sequels,” where a great professional and personal trials that best for his family and is once again movie would have a sequel that wasn’t Palmer faces in running a legendary presented an offer to “sell out,” but nearly as good or as funny or as neighborhood barbershop left to him not in the same manner as in the suspenseful as the first(see Speed 2, by his father.