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JACKSONVILLE FALL performing arts preview columbia restaurant | al letson for npr american idol | unearth interview | love brigade at the cummer free weekly guide to entertainment and more | september 27-october 3, 2007 | www.eujacksonville.com 2 september 27-october 3, 2007 | entertaining u newspaper table of contents Cover Photo Courtesy of FCCJ Artist Series for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Photo by Andrew Eccles feature Fall 07 Performing Arts Preview ............................................................................PAGES 14-27 Musicals .......................................................................................................PAGES 14-15 Stage Plays ...................................................................................................PAGES 15-17 Dance ...........................................................................................................PAGES 18-19 Classical .......................................................................................................PAGES 21-22 Jazz & Big Band ....................................................................................................PAGE 23 Family Shows ...............................................................................................PAGES 24-26 Alt-Theatre ....................................................................................................PAGES 26-27 movies Movies in Theaters this Week ..................................................................................PAGES 6-11 The Kingdom (movie review) ...........................................................................................PAGE 6 Good Luck Chuck (movie review) ....................................................................................PAGE 7 The Game Plan (movie review) ........................................................................................PAGE 8 Sharkwater (movie review) ..............................................................................................PAGE 9 Resident Evil: Extinction (movie review) .........................................................................PAGE 10 dish The Columbia (restaurant review) ..........................................................................PAGES 12-13 Caring Chefs Profi le (Blue Bamboo) ...............................................................................PAGE 13 music Music Calendar .....................................................................................................PAGES 28-33 Tea Leaf Green (interview) .............................................................................................PAGE 28 Unearth (iinterview) ......................................................................................................PAGE 29 Helios Eye (interview) ...................................................................................................PAGE 30 Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (interview)...........................................................................PAGE 31 Blistur (album review) ...................................................................................................PAGE 32 August Burns Red (album review) .................................................................................PAGE 32 arts / theatre / on stage Up & Cummers .............................................................................................................PAGE 33 Al Letson (interview) .....................................................................................................PAGE 34 Billie to Badu (Karpeles) ................................................................................................PAGE 35 Doubt (Hippodrome) .....................................................................................................PAGE 36 columns and stuff Native Foreigner ............................................................................................................PAGE 37 Netscapades ................................................................................................................PAGE 38 The Jock .......................................................................................................................PAGE 38 NASCAR News & Notes ................................................................................................PAGE 39 eujacksonville.com | september 27-october 3, 2007 3 thisweek thursday SEPTEMBER 27 friday SEPTEMBER 28 Light the Night Walk Theatreworks presents: The Hundred The Light the Night Walk is the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s nationwide evening walk. Walkers carry illuminated balloons to Dresses Based on the Newbery Honor Book by Eleanor Estes, celebrate and commemorate the lives touched by cancer. Funds this endearing tale focuses on the diffi cult issue of raised will support their mission to cure leukemia, lymphoma, bullying and how mistreating someone because he or Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and to improve the quality of life she is different brings as much harm to the bully as to of patients and their families. Riverplace Tower- 5:30 pm (check-in) the victim. Suitable for families of 2nd to 6th graders. Info: (904) 268-8827 or lightthenight.org Tickets: $6 Florida Theatre- 10 am and 12 pm Info: (904) 353-3500 Jason Feller JaxCore Benefi t Show Local skate shop and cultural outlet JaxCore meant more to the people of Jacksonville than just a place Blake Shelton will be performing at the with a half-pipe inside, it housed Suicide Notes, the Ham Jam Festival Saturday night. record store, and R. Land artwork on their T-Shirts and signature skateboard decks until some crazy person drove their car through the front window. Help them get back on their saturday SEPTEMBER 29 feet at this benefi t concert featuring Crash the Satellites, the comedy of Joel Land, the art of R. Land, and more. The Pearl (on the corner of 1st and Main in Springfi eld) River City Showdown - FSU vs. Alabama Downtown Jacksonville comes alive as Florida State University Info: (904) 791-4499 faces-off against University of Alabama for the fi rst time in over 30 years! Jacksonville Municipal Stadium- 1 pm Airport Factory Info: 1-800-374-BOWL or gatorbowl.com/rivercityshowdown/ Clubtsi.com says “You’re going to have to listen to understand uavsfsu.asp how great” Wuden is. The haunting avant-pop sextet will join Airport Factory, which performs “Lovely Casiotone Indie Pop” at TSI downtown on Friday night. TSI, 333 E Bay St. Info: Jacksonville’s Dancing with the Stars See local celebrities like Mary Baer, Kelly Jason Feller (904) 424-3531 Goedde, Suzanne Jenkins, Stephen Vocally, Jason is a smoother, sweeter version of Bruce Springsteen Atreyu or Jakob Dylan (he has a bit of that sexy, raspy thing going on). Schnepel and Theresa Smith face off in a Lyrically, he’s a fantastic storyteller following in the footsteps of Atreyu dance-off at this fi fth bi-annual dance event Coming out of Southern California during Springsteen and the other Dylan. Hear his beautiful music this benefi ting The American Cancer Society. the rap-metal explosion around the turn of Thursday at the European Street Listening Room. European Street- Tickets: dinner and show/$95; show the century, Atreyu crafted a sound much 8:30 pm Info: (904) 399-1740 only/$25 University Center at UNF- 6 pm/ closer to Agnostic Front or Hatebreed. Their dinner, 8 pm/show Info: (904) 262-9709 or warped, detuned guitars are matched by asocialaffair.net SEPTEMBER 27 - 28 pounding drums and acidic vocals, which give the material an edge otherwise absent Manhattan Short Film Festival from their sludge metal. See Atreyu live this Strung Out Jacksonville cinephiles get the opportunity to be a part of the Simi Valley punk band Strung Out formed Friday with Haste the Day, It Dies Today and Manhattan Short Film Festival this weekend, a worldwide movie way backing 1992. They managed to stick So They Say. Tickets: $18/advance, $20/ event taking place in 99 different cities around the globe at the around all these years thanks to their perfect day of show Plush- 6 pm Info: (904) same time. The 10-year-old event will feature 12 shorts from all fusion of punk rock and heavy metal. See 743-1845 over the world and receptions before the screenings on both nights. them live at the Freebird this Saturday with I This unique weekend at the movies is expected to sellout, so get Am Ghost and Jacksonville’s own Evergreen your tickets early! Tickets: $15 Shands Jacksonville at 5:30 pm SEPTEMBER 28 - 29 Terrace. Tickets: $15 Freebird Live- 8 pm Info: (904) 633-9308 Info: (904) 246-BIRD SEPTEMBER 27 - 29 Buffy Sing-A-Long Buffy the Vampire Slayer has been off the air for over four Billie to Badu First Coast Ham Jam years but fandom never dies. The San Marco Theatre knows This play explores the lives of women in music through the lives The name really says it all. The 20th Annual Ham Jam will be this, hence the Buffy Sing-A-Long, a fun-fi lled evening of Buffy of Billie Holiday (Joy Dennis) and Erykah Badu (Akia McDaniels- the biggest barbecue in Florida and will defi nitely have better on the big screen. Join 200 Buffyverse fans as they watch the Davis). Featuring live music, spoken word poetry, visual art, dance entertainment than your average backyard get together. Chow down fabulous musical episode, “Once More With Feeling,” complete and a vendor’s marketplace. (Read the review on page 35) while enjoying the musical stylings of Joanna Cotton, Eric Church, with captions for singing along and props for use during Karpeles