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JACKSONVILLE NING! OPE Local Holiday entertaining u newspaper Gift Guide free weekly guide to entertainment and more | november 23-29, 2006 | www.eujacksonville.com 2 november 23-29, 2006 | entertaining u newspaper table of contents feature Holiday Events ................................................................................ PAGE 15 Holiday Gift Guide ....................................................................PAGES 16-19 Gifts For Kids .................................................................................. PAGE 20 movies Tenacious D & The Pick Of Destiny (movie review) ............................ PAGE 6 Movies In Theatres This Week ....................................................PAGES 6-10 Seen, Heard, Noted & Quoted ............................................................ PAGE 7 The Fountain (movie review) .............................................................. PAGE 7 Dèjà Vu (movie review) ..................................................................... PAGE 8 Deck The Halls (movie review) .......................................................... PAGE 9 Bobby (movie review) ..................................................................... PAGE 10 at home DVD Gifts ........................................................................................ PAGE 12 Mark Zupan (TV interview) .............................................................. PAGE 13 All A-Twitter (Wild Birds Unlimited)................................................... PAGE 14 Video Games .................................................................................. PAGE 14 food Turkey Leftovers ............................................................................. PAGE 13 music Marie Osmond (interview) ............................................................... PAGE 15 Aly & AJ (Florida Theatre) ................................................................ PAGE 21 Neurotic Butterfly (Whitey’s) ............................................................ PAGE 21 Music Calendar ........................................................................PAGES 22-26 Nimble Jim & The Ointment (Brewsters) .......................................... PAGE 22 J.J. Grey - Mofro (interview) ............................................................ PAGE 23 Delbert McClinton (interview) .......................................................... PAGE 24 Mt. Eerie (interview) ........................................................................ PAGE 25 Sean Lennon (album review) ........................................................... PAGE 25 arts / theatre / on stage Forbidden Broadway (UNF Fine Arts) ............................................... PAGE 26 Snow White (Alhambra Dinner Theatre) ........................................... PAGE 28 Arts Calendar ...........................................................................PAGES 27-28 St. Augustine Art & Craft Festival ..................................................... PAGE 28 Greetings (Limelight Theatre) ........................................................... PAGE 29 columns and stuff The Jock ......................................................................................... PAGE 29 NASCAR news & notes ................................................................... PAGE 30 eujacksonville.com | november 23-29, 2006 3 thisweek NOVEMBER 24 - 26 Christmas Made In The NOVEMBER 23 thursday South Creativity abounds as hundreds Cattle Decapitation, Daath & Goatwhore of artists and craftsmen gather What better way to settle that tummy full of turkey and sweet to demonstrate and sell their potatoes than an evening of Death Metal? Over the span of a work. Get a head start on decade, Cattle Decapitation has forged its not-so-humble beginnings your gift list and enjoy the in gore-grind into one of extreme metal’s most relentless forces, Christmas shopping experience encompassing a sound as schizophrenic as their record collections of the season. Prime Osborn but with a determined lyrical stance resolutely damning the ills of Convention Center, Fri. 9-6, Sat. humanity. 10-6, Sun. 11-5 Adults - $ 5.50 Death Metal / Grind @ Thee Imperial (325 W. Forsyth St.) - 7:00P (Good for All 3 Days), Children Info: 475-0488 12 & Under – Free friday NOVEMBER 24 saturday NOVEMBER 25 Slightly Stoopid & Annual Light Pepper Boat Parade The Jagermeister Music Tour For more than 20 years consists of rock/reggae/dub-funk the Jacksonville Light DON’T Miss thE DONOVAN HURDY GURDY TOUR Pepper and jammy surfer-rock Parade has illuminated ON FRidaY at thE flORida thEatRE. Slightly Stoopid. Ocean Beach, the St. Johns River. CA’s Slightly Stoopid, fuse acoustic Boats of every shape Zoso Led Zeppelin Tribute rock and blues with reggae, hip- and size are imaginatively adorned with decorations The quartet pays homage with its powerful and unmistakable hop, and punk. Their signature that captivate senses and stimulate imaginations. The Zeppelin sound. sound has created a legion of Light Parade is the perfect way to stay afloat after the Freebird Live- $10 Info: 246-BIRD die-hard fans affectionately known Thanksgiving holiday. You can view the light parade as Stoopidheads. Pepper consist near the Main Street bridge downtown - 7 pm. of three young innovative minds mixed with divine inspiration from the Hawaiian Islands. You know JJ Grey & MOFRO With the Pepper from “No Control,” a great Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra driving tune. Plugged In Series Plush - Tickets: $22 Info: 743- The soulful swamp-funk of JJ Grey & MOFRO hits 1845 the Jacksonville Symphony with Morihiko Nakahara, slightlY stOOpid guest conductor for another jamming night in Jacoby Symphony Hall. Continuing their Thanksgiving Donovan Hurdy Gurdy Tour weekend collaboration, JJ Grey & MOFRO and the Jacksonville First promoted as Britain’s answer to Bob Dylan, Donovan similarly Symphony go together like fried turkey on silver platter. JJ Grey began as a straightforward modernizer of folk music, achieving & MOFRO’s symphonic set will include several tunes from their virtual overnight UK stardom in 1965. When Dylan zigged in the new studio album to be ANathallO direction of soul-deep blues, Donovan zagged in the direction of released in February, pop, embracing the flower-powered spirit of hippie mysticism that 2007. Following Anathallo characterized the mid-’60s. Often ahead of his time musically, intermission, JJ Grey & The Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, noise-makers use an array Donovan was also one of the first to be subjected to a public drug MOFRO play in concert, of sounds from unconventional objects like chain links, bust, and one of the first to embrace Eastern philosophy. without orchestra. Read hand claps, and cookware, but it never feels gimmicky Florida Theatre Info: 355-2787 interview with JJ Grey or out-of-place. These sounds are merely ornamental on page 23. to the main instrument the band utilizes—their voices. Times-Union Center for Jacksonville Landing 20th Annual Christmas Tree There are, currently, eight members in Anathallo, and the Performing Arts - they use that number to its full advantage. There are Lighting Ceremony 8:00 p.m. songs where they can sound like a heavenly choir, tribal With special performances by Douglas Anderson School of the Arts’ Ticket Prices: $15, $20, chanters, town criers, or a solo singer /songwriter. Orchestra and Choir. Mayor John Peyton and Toney and Bonnie $25. For info: 354-5547 Fuel Coffeehouse Sleiman will officially light the tree this year. Festivities begin at 7:30 or jaxsymphony.org. pm. See a list of holiday activities for the coming week on page MOFRO Info: 425-FUEL 15. 4 november 23-29, 2006 | entertaining u newspaper LOVEDRUG sunday NOVEMBER 26 Lovedrug, Brandston and Myraid The Ohio-based rock band, Lovedrug, delivers a highbrow sound akin to Spiritualized, Sunny Day Real Estate, or Muse, crossed with the arena grandeur of Queen. A unique crossbreed of art and accessibility, powerful melodies are driven by smartly crafted lyrics of truth, intrigue, love, spite, death and damn near everything in between. Lovedrug live is truly less a show and more an experience. Jack Rabbits - 8:00 PM Info: 398-7496 monday NOVEMBER 27 Mount Eerie, Jason Anderson, Thanksgiving Moon Colony Razorblade (downtown) - 2pm This will be the final show at Moon Colony Razorblade but it should be a good one. Read interview with Mount Eerie on page 25. Later in the evening see Mount Eerie (formerly known as the The Microphones), Jason Anderson, Thanksgiving at Café 11 in St. Augustine. Info: 469-9311 tuesday NOVEMBER 28 Lynne Arriale with the University of North Florida Jazz All-Stars International jazz pianist Lynne Arriale will perform with the University of North Florida Jazz All-Stars in a free concert. Arriale is the new jazz piano professor in UNF’s music department and she has just returned from concerts in England. She is celebrating her ninth CD release “Come Together”. Ponte Vedra Beach Library - 7 pm Bayanihan The origin of the term bayanihan can be traced from a common tradition in Philippine towns where community members volunteer to help a family move to a new place by literally carrying the house to its new location. The Bayanihan Dance Company is a world acclaimed dance group which travels to different countries to perform the various traditional folk dances of the country with the objective of promoting Philippine culture. The Florida Theatre - 7:30 PM Info: 355-2787 BaYANihaN wednesday NOVEMBER 29 Olivia Newton-John English born Olivia Newton John