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OPE entertaining u newspaper change your free weekly guide to entertainment and more | february 15-21, 2007 | www.eujacksonville.com life in 2007 2 february 15-21, 2007 | entertaining u newspaper table of contents cover photo of Paul Paxton by: Dennis Ho feature NASCAR Media Day ............................................................................PAGES 16-17 Local Music Preview ...........................................................................PAGES 18-24 movies Breach (movie review) .................................................................................PAGE 6 Movies In Theatres This Week .................................................................PAGES 6-9 Seen, Heard, Noted & Quoted .......................................................................PAGE 7 Hannibal Rising (movie review) ....................................................................PAGE 8 The Last Sin Eater (movie review) ................................................................PAGE 9 Campus Movie Fest (Jacksonville University) ..............................................PAGE 10 Underground Film Series (MOCA) ...............................................................PAGE 10 at home The Science Of Sleep (DVD review) ...........................................................PAGE 12 Grammy Awards (TV Review) .....................................................................PAGE 13 Video Games .............................................................................................PAGE 14 food Sushi .......................................................................................................PAGES 25 music Big Engine CD Release Party ......................................................................PAGE 26 Music Calendar ...................................................................................PAGES 26-30 Warehouse Party (MOCA) ..........................................................................PAGE 27 Great Guitar Gathering (DASOTA) ...............................................................PAGE 28 Little Brazil (interview) ................................................................................PAGE 29 Country Ghetto - Mofro (album review).......................................................PAGE 29 Coco Montoya (interview) ..........................................................................PAGE 30 arts / theatre / on stage Jane Grey Gallery .......................................................................................PAGE 31 Shenandoah (Alhambra Dinner Theatre) ......................................................PAGE 32 Arts Calendar ......................................................................................PAGES 32-33 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Limelight Theatre) ..................................................PAGE 33 All The Way Home (PBTS) ..........................................................................PAGE 34 columns and stuff The Jock ....................................................................................................PAGE 34 eujacksonville.com | february 15-21, 2007 3 thisweek Deerhoof, Busdriver, Harlem FEBRUARY 15 Shakes thursday Deerhoof’s music is noted for its unconventional song structures, lyrics Tom Chiu And Joan La Barbara and rhythms. Some call it noise but Violinist Tom Chiu and sound artist Joan LaBarbara present a they have impressed the critics with unique evening of contemporary classical music. Chiu has received a deep degree of composition to their wide acclaim for his performances as a soloist, chamber artist and experimental music. Also playing, the experimental improviser. Lazzara stage UNF Fine Arts Center - 7:30 hip-hop underground group, Busdriver. pm Info: 620-2878. Jack Rabbits – 8 pm Info: 398-7496 Old Crow Medicine Show Jacksonville Blues Festival Old Crow Medicine Show is a young five-piece rollicking, punkified The Jacksonville Blues Festival is a old-time acoustic band. They bring it all together to play songs from celebration that delivers high-energy some of the earliest traditions of American music - tunes from jug entertainment with love, happiness and bands and traveling shows, back porches and dance halls, southern nostalgia-all in the name of the Blues Appalachian string music and Memphis blues. Tickets: $25. The performers include Shirley Brown, Florida Theatre - 8 pm Info: 355-2787 Marvin Sease, Theodis Ealey, Latimore, Bobby Rush, Mel Waiters, BIG SANDY & HIS FlY-RITE BoYS Bobby Blue Bland, and Sir Charles Jones. Veterans Memorial Arena – 8 pm Tickets: 353 3309 or www.ticketmaster. com Douglas Anderson School of the Arts 21st Extravaganza The annual variety showcase of the students’ talents with dance, theater, YOU doN’T WANT to MIss thIS! vocals, instrumental music, film and JJ Grey and Mofro celebrate the release creative writing will include the talent of of their new album this Friday at the 450 students who will sing, dance and Florida Theatre. produce the show, said Principal Jackie Cornelius. Gallery/Silent Auction - 6:30, Performance - 7:30 pm. Times Union Center, Moran Theater Tickets: 353-3309 or www.ticketmaster.com saturday FEBRUARY 17 Big Sandy & His Fly Rite Boys Florida Roots Tour The 2006-2007 Florida Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys have emerged as one of the world’s Local roots rock and reggae bands, Dubwise and Sangria will most respected practitioners of American roots music, western join Badda Skat, Tribal Style and Legacy from St. Petersburg/ Forum - Katie Couric swing, rockabilly, and traditional country—playing it like they Tampa for a show at Endo Exo, 1244 Kings Ave. – 8 pm, all Katie Couric shares her stories invented it. “I think of us as just a rock and roll band, a rock and ages show. of sitting down with the famous roll band that’s letting the roots show,” says bandleader Big Sandy. and infamous headline makers. These guys bring on some great old-time rock and roll. A tireless advocate for charitable Jack Rabbits – 9 pm 398-7496 Urban Cowboy - The Musical causes and named one of Glamour This is a rousing, high-energy rodeo of a dance show that magazines Women of the Year, features songs from top selling country artists. Tickets $45-$26 Katie is the author of two children’s Thrasher-Horne Main Stage, 283 College Dr, Orange Park - 7:30 books, The Brand New Kid and pm Info: 276-6750 FEBRUARY 16 The Blue Ribbon Day. The Florida friday Theatre - 7 PM 355-2787 Mad Happy and The thE LASERstAR Laserstar Southern Culture on the Skids JJ Grey & Mofro CD Release Show Mad haPPy’s live show is tight, SCOTS have played their unique hybrid of Americana, surf, The latest JJ Grey & Mofro studio album, Country Ghetto, is by energetic and emotionally charged. The R&B, rockabilly, and swamp pop (the band describes their far the group’s most well-recorded album to date, with choral charismatic pair, with manic colored sound as “toe sucking geek rock - kinda weird, but it feels arrangements and horns tastefully injected into the mix. JJ’s 11 hair, a laptop and a free spirited good when you’re doing it”), all the while driving fans into songs are typical of his honest storytelling about his life in Northern approach, can start a party anywhere. ecstatic, sweat drenched paroxysms of joy. They have also Florida, the madness of war, and other subjects near and dear to Club TSI – 8 pm (ALL AGES) Info: been known to throw fried chicken and banana pudding JJ’s heart. Read review of Country Ghetto on page 29. Tickets: 424.3531 or www.clubtsi.com into the audience when performing as well as inviting $25 Florida Theatre - 8 PM audience members to dance onstage. Info: 355-2787 Jack Rabbits – 8 pm 398-7496 4 february 15-21, 2007 | entertaining u newspaper Celtic Woman Celtic Woman features the very special talents of four young Irish female vocalists and a very exciting young fiddle player.The five women vocalists and fiddle player are led by David Downes, a prodigious young Irish talent, who has previously worked as musical director of Riverdance. Times Union Center, Moran Theater – 8 pm Info: 632-3373 sunday FEBRUARY 18 DAYTONA 500 Once again Daytona is the first stop for the stars of the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series. Coverage will begin at 2 p.m. on FOX with the Daytona 500 pre-race show. Country music stars Big & Rich will sing the National Anthem, actor Nicolas Cage will serve as Grand Marshal, singer Kelly Clarkson will provide a Tribute To America and baseball legend Cal Ripken Jr. will be the Daytona 500 pace car driver. The drivers begin the 500 laps to the finish line at 3 p.m. If you want to experience the thrill and noise in person you can get a Daytona 500 2-Day Superstretch Pkg for just $190.00. Be sure to read about our NASCAR Correspondent’s experiences at Media Day on page 16-17. For more info go to www. daytonainternationalspeedway.com. Les Ballets Africains “Sheer physical energy and beauty” says The New York Times. Les Ballets Africains, the national ensemble of the Republic of Guinea, has thrilled audiences worldwide presenting traditional dance, music, acrobatics and storytelling using ancient instruments and exuberant choreography. Ritz Theatre – 7:30 pm Info: 632-5555 or [email protected] The Peking Acrobats The Peking Acrobats perform daring maneuvers atop a precarious pagoda of chairs; they are experts at treacherous wire-walking, trick- cycling, precision tumbling, somersaulting and gymnastics. They set the world record for the Human Chair Stack when they balanced six people precariously atop six chairs 21 feet up in the