ENTERTAINMENTpage 19 Technique • Friday, October 19, 2007 • 19 FLOUNDERING VOLLEY TECH HOSTS MODEL UN Tech’s women’s volleyball team lost Students from Southeastern high ENTERTAINMENT Tuesday to undefeated Clemson. Th eir schools came to attend the 9th annual Page 33 Page 11 Technique • Friday, October 19, 2007 record has dropped to 5-4. Model UN Conference. Fall gets cool with fun festivals Food festival serves it up Atlanta unmasks Echo By Hahnming Lee By Hahnming Lee & Jarrett Oakley Sports Editor Sports Editor/Contributing Writer Taste of Atlanta attracted thousands to sample some of Atlanta’s Th is past weekend saw the inaugural run of a new music festival best food this past weekend at Atlantic Station. Starting Oct. 13, based in Atlanta: the Echo Project, which aimed to inform and this special two-day event hosted several of the most popular promote ecologically friendly advice and knowledge about the and acclaimed restaurants in the area, giving them a chance human footprint that’s destroying the environment. to show off their food to the public. Stands were Some 15,000 green-conscious patrons showed set up on the sidewalks of Atlantic Station, with up to see 80-plus bands on this fi rst of at least 10 chefs and waiters preparing signature dishes for annual music festival extravaganzas Oct. 12-14, people roaming the street. set on the beautiful 350-plus acres of Bouckaert Customers purchased entrance tickets and food Farm just 20 minutes south of Atlanta. coupons for the event that could be spent at vari- Along with a myriad of sponsors and vendors ous stands at their discretion. Some of the smaller selling products ranging from Bob Marley garb to samples, like milkshakes and popcorn, cost just pork falafels, these grooving hippies (complete with one ticket. Other smaller dishes, like mini Kobe tie-dyed Grateful Dead T-shirts and Jesus sandals) burgers and barbeque ribs, cost three tickets. Th e pitched tents for a great experience and cause. diversity of foods could easily satiate any visitor’s appetite. The Creator In addition, patrons were invited to attend several demonstrations from more prominent chefs as well as Th e mind behind much of a VIP wine tasting event. Shows included drink mix- the Echo Project is Nicolas ing lessons and a live demonstration on how Bouckaert, a 25-year to cook more health-consciously. Th e chefs old entrepreneur with were not limited to ones based in Atlanta; long-standing aspi- there were famous chefs from across the rations for creating nation. Th e popular wine tasting event had a constant line that stretched past several See Echo, page 23 See Taste, page 26 Photos by Blake Israel / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Photos by Jon Drews / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Sparta opens for Alice, Velvet at HiFi Buys By Vivas Kaul Opening for the Alice in Chains and concert was a good mix of tunes. Th ey Staff Writer Velvet Revolver show was one such opened with a fast moving hardcore opening act, Sparta. riff that was reminiscent of ATDI’s Ever since Dave Matthews Band After the break up of At the Drive- “One Armed Scissor.” Ward’s voice CITY SCENE played a sold out concert in Piedmont In, drummer Tony Hajjar formed is haunting in its tonality and has Park, a stream of great bands and mu- Sparta with former ATDI back-up defi nitely matured since Sparta’s StreetStage Atlanta sical talent has steadily fl owed into singer Jim Ward. What followed was fi rst album. the city of Atlanta. Th e week before the band’s fi rst album, Austere. It It’s unfortunate that Sparta is so Street performers from around Fall Break, studying was probably the emerged to limited success and failed obscure in terms of the concert-go- the world will gather for the farthest thing from most students’ to break into the mainstream. As a ing fanbase, particularly the Alice StreetStage Atlanta Festival Oct. minds as the Foo Fighters’ show sold result, most critics wrote the band in Chains/Velvet Revolver crowd. 19-21 in Woodruff Park. Th e out in 30 seconds. Th at same week, off , saying that it had yet to fi nd its In fact, given the vast diff erences in Festival will feature music, dance, Alice in Chains and Velvet Revolver sound. Th e release of their second the tonality of the opening act and street painting, acrobatics and played a packed show at HiFi Buys album, Porcelain, defi ned their sound headliners, it seemed to be a mistake more. Admission is only $1. By Colin Ake / STUDENT PUBLICATIONSS Amphitheater. However, in the chaos and showed that they were not just putting the two together. Sparta opened for Alice in generated by all the big bands, it was another punk knock-off . Chains and Velvet Revolver. easy to overlook the opening acts. Th e set that Sparta played at the See Sparta, page 22 Stars and The New Pornographers Netherworld combines fear, fun The Variety Playhouse is By Siwan Liu It wasn’t a short, fi ve-minute walk- parts. He then lets you through rounding out the month with a Entertainment Editor through either; rather, I found myself into the house, and you’re on list of jammin’ bands. Th e dreamy wondering when it would end. your own in this self-guided band Stars will perform Oct. 27, Before this month, the last time Netherworld, entering its 11th tour. and the ambitious eight-member I’d set foot in a haunted house was year, was recently rated the #1 Primal Fear is the power pop band, Th e New Por- at Six Flags’ Fright Fest. After stand- Haunted House in America by second stop on the com- nographers will hit the Variety ing in line for more than an hour Hauntworld Magazine, and it now plete tour and takes place Playhouse Oct. 30. and then paying an additional $20 comprises two diff erent haunted below the Leviathan to enter the house, I can’t begin to tours: Leviathan and Primal Fear. mansion. In its dark stress how disappointed I was. Th e Leviathan is a massive mansion recesses, be ready to Halloween Groove house was small, cramped, about as of dark twists, bridges, ramps and expect everything from G-rated as you could possibly get, maze-like corridors fi lled with thrills, crawling insects to dark, Athens-based Perpetual and I didn’t scream once. Th at night menacing lurkers and mind-boggling claustrophobic halls. Kronos, one Groove blends a wide variety I decided that I’d gotten too old for situations. When you fi rst enter All the actors and of the main of music styles to create their haunted houses. the premise, you’re introduced to performers on both tours Netherworld original rock sound. Th e band A few weeks ago, however, I went Dr. Colber, a mad scientist of sorts were eerily professional characters, will perform at the Variety to Netherworld’s Leviathan and who specializes in re-animation of poses with Playhouse on Halloween night shrieked the entire way through. the dead—and he’s after fresh body See Nether, page 26 Image Courtesy of Netherworld an axe. at 8:30 p.m. 20 • Friday, October 19, 2007 • Technique ENTERTAINMENT Impressionists inspire at High By Jenny Zhang were infl uenced by the masters so forth. An innovative bank of Layout Editor that Leroy once accused them touch screens that allows viewers of rejecting. to compare the impressionists’ Paris, 1874: A group of ren- “Th e truth is the impression- brushstrokes with those of the egade artists stage an exhibit that ists were very concerned with the old masters further underscores is poorly attended and widely art of the past and well versed in their similarities. ridiculed. A scathing review by the work of the old masters,” said Works of particular note the critic Louis Leroy denounces curator Ann Dumas. in the 86-piece collection in- them as being “hostile to good Th e exhibit juxtaposes works clude Cézanne’s “Still-Life with artistic manners, devotion to by the impressionists with those Statuette,” Renoir’s “Confi- form and respect for the masters.” of the masters for a fascinat- dences,” Cassatt’s “Th e Family,” Th eir paintings are radical – bro- ing lesson in art history. With Velázquez’s “Infanta Margarita” ken strokes of color and dappled one glance, it is evident that and Monet’s “Autumn on the plays of light brushed with an air Renoir was infl uenced by Ital- Seine, Argentuil.” of spontaneity and movement ian Renaissance master Titian’s Elegantly presented in galler- – mere sketches compared to luminous colors and depictions ies full of beautiful works, this the smoothly fi nished works of of feminine sensuality; that exhibit has depth and breadth Amongst the masterpieces the day. “Impressionists,” Leroy Morisot was struck by 18th- to spare, spanning centuries of showcased at The High’s sneers of the artists who will for- century Rococo-style Boucher’s artistic style to bring viewers “Inspiring Impressionism” ever change the world of art. light, diaphanous textures; that insight about the impressionists are “Confi dences” by Renoir Fast forward to the present Pissarro and Cézanne drew from who both defi ed and embraced (top left), “In the Garden century. From Oct. 16 to next the Baroque-era Lorrain to frame the tradition of the masters. A at Maurecourt” by Mor- January, the High Museum their paintings; that Manet was testament to the inspirations isot (top right) and the of Art is presenting “Inspiring impressed by the broad brush- that fueled the impressionists, classic “Autumn on the Impressionism,” an exhibit that work and dramatic lighting of this revelatory jewel of an exhibit Seine” by Monet (bottom).