JACKSONVILLE heat up the holidays Last Minute Gift Guide | Michelle’s Southern Home Cooking | The Heat is On with Rita Hayworth | Jim Brickman Interview free weekly guide to entertainment and more | december 13 - 19, 2007 | www.eujacksonville.com 2 december 13-19, 2007 | entertaining u newspaper COVER PHOTO FROM THE HEAT IS ON (see page 26 for story) table of contents feature Holiday Events ...............................................................................................PAGES 13-14 Last Minute Gifts ............................................................................................PAGES 15-19 movies Movies in Theaters this Week ...........................................................................PAGES 6-10 Alvin & The Chipmunks (movie review).................................................................... PAGE 6 I Am Legend (movie review) .................................................................................... PAGE 7 The Perfect Holiday (movie review) ......................................................................... PAGE 8 FireTrail (movie review) ........................................................................................... PAGE 9 Me Again Productions (local film director spotlight) ............................................... PAGE 10 home Netscapades ......................................................................................................... PAGE 12 Videogames ......................................................................................................... PAGE 12 dish Dish Update .......................................................................................................... PAGE 20 Michelle’s Home Cooking (restaurant review) .................................................PAGES 20-21 Ghetto Gourmet .................................................................................................... PAGE 21 music Music Calendar ..............................................................................................PAGES 22-26 Jim Brickman (interview) ....................................................................................... PAGE 22 Machina (interview) .............................................................................................. PAGE 23 Conrad Oberg (interview) ...................................................................................... PAGE 24 Rock for the Rescue (5 Points Theatre) ................................................................. PAGE 25 arts / theatre / on stage The Heat Is On (FCCJ Artist Series) ....................................................................... PAGE 26 Downtown Church Tour ........................................................................................ PAGE 27 The Pillowman (Orpheus Theatre Group) ............................................................... PAGE 28 O. Henry Christmas (ABET) ................................................................................... PAGE 29 columns and stuff Native Foreigner .................................................................................................... PAGE 30 The Jock ............................................................................................................... PAGE 30 NASCAR News & Notes ........................................................................................ PAGE 31 eujacksonville.com | december 13-19, 2007 3 thisweek thursday DECEMBER 13 friday Sleeping Beauty on Ice DECEMBER 14 Magnificent costumes, fantastic choreography and music by Tchaikovsky combine art and storybook entertainment with the Johnny Winter tradition of world ballet in “Sleeping Beauty.” Under the direction For over 30 years, Johnny Winter has of former principal dancer and choreographer of the Kirov constantly shifted between simple country ballet, Konstantin Rassadin, this performance blends many art blues in the vein of Robert Johnson, to all- forms to create a magical rendition of this classic tale that will out electric slide guitar blues-rock. Winter, be cherished by all ages. Tickets: $28-$38/general admission, an international ambassador for rocking $10/UNF students. UNF Fine Arts Center- 7:30 pm, Info: unf.edu/ Texas blues, is still going strong. See him fineartscenter live this week with special guest Seth Walker. Tickets: $20. Freebird Live- 8 pm, Psychostick Info: (904) 246-BIRD Mad Happy Mad Happy is a guy/girl electronic duo Sesame Street Live with a distinctive sound, blending electro, hip-hop, folk, and pop. Drawing on a rainbow of influences, from Hasidic folk melodies to Public Enemy to Hank Williams, Nina Simone, Madonna and Sly DECEMBER 15 Stone, the band twists it all up into electro-pop/hip-hop. Mad saturday Happy’s live show is tight, energetic and emotionally charged. According to their website, the charismatic pair can start a The XXX-Mas Massacre party anywhere. TSI Discotheque in downtown, Info: (904) Ho ho hosted by Daddy’s Little Princess this poorly publicized rock The Holiday Hate Tour with Psychostick 424-3531 or visit clubtsi.com. Straight out of Tempa, Arizona, Psychostick show features Jonathan Appleseed, The Loons and, of course, is a tongue-in-cheek metal act with Daddy’s Little Princess. Get your radio rock fix and drink enough songs about busted cars (‘Two-Ton Big Sam’s Antarctic beer to forget the whole thing by morning. Fuel Coffeehouse Funky Nation Jacksonville is buzzing about this band. The Paperweight’), sex (‘Orgasm = Love’) post rock quartet is playing a house show with and the real reason why musicians get 2007 Jingle Bell Run Alligator and The Sky Went Black. Misdemeanor together (‘In a Band to Get Chicks’). The Imagine the sounds of hundreds of thousands of bells jingling as Manor. 2218 Myra St in Riverside. band will spread the anti-holiday cheer people from coast to coast run, walk and cheer in the Arthritis with guests Indorphine and Screaming Foundation’s Jingle Bell Run for Arthritis. Across the country, bells Mechanical Brain. Tickets: $10. Jack Big Sam’s Funky Nation will be ringing as people like you tie jingle bells to their shoelaces, Rabbits- 8 pm, Info: (904) 398-7496 Presiding over his Funky Nation is Big Sam, don festive holiday costumes and join friends and neighbors in formerly the trombonist for the Dirty Dozen Brass support of the Arthritis Foundation’s mission to prevent, control and The Packway Handle Band Band, who blows the funk out of his trombone cure arthritis and related diseases. The Jacksonville Landing- 2:30 and refuses to let the audience sit still. Between Originating in Athens, Georgia in 2001, pm, Info: 07jacksonville.kintera.org solos and trombone riffs, Big Sam gets the the Packway Handle Band is a solid and crowd going both in movement and in replies to innovative bluegrass quintet. The band’s Dr’s Lake and Swimming Pen Creek Lighted Boat his call-and-response MC-style. Mojo Kitchen, appeal lies rooted in tight three- and Jacksonville Beach- 10 pm, Info: (904) 247- Parade four-part vocal harmonies, extensive and 6636 Whitey’s Fish Camp will be hosting the 5th annual lighted boat progressive original material, off-the-wall parade this Saturday. Get bundled up and head to Whitey’s to see covers, and energetic performances. DECEMBER 14 - 16 this spectacular display float by. Whitey’s Fish Camp- 6 pm, Info: European Street Listening Room- Info: (904) 269-4198 399-1740 Sesame Street Live: Ready for Action The Heat Is On! Actionville Noise Cotillion Sesame Street Live has been wowing kids (and their parents) for 28 years with their high-energy, education-disguised-as- Following 35 sold-out shows in Athens Greece, 25 sold-out shows If you’re bored with the sounds you usually hear, check out this fun stage shows. In this hygiene-focused adventure, Super in California, and numerous sell-outs from NYC to Florida, The wicked crazy show featuring OFTEN (Ultra sadistic guitar and Grover has lost his superness and it’s up to Elmo, Rosita, and Heat Is On! celebrates the life, loves and career of Hollywood’s glass ensemble!), The Slightest (Optometry informed noizlectro!), all the Sesame Street friends, along with First Coast audiences, most electrifying redhead, Rita Hayworth. Expect to hear some of Jameson Williams (Smooth saxophone jams 4 the grown and to help their loveable pal find it. Through song and dance, Hayworth’s most unforgettable hit songs including ‘Bewitched,’ sexy!), Fiver’s Stereo (SPACE RABBITZ!!!), Silent Auction children will learn about healthy habits. The production begins ‘Steppin Out,’ ‘Put the Blame on Mame,’ ‘The Lady is a Tramp,’ (Islamofascist breakcore shaving cream advertisements!), Acid this Friday and will run through Sunday. Tickets: $12-$26. and many more. A can’t miss theatrical evening for every fan of Michael (Contemplative modern raving!) and Lissajou (Destroys Moran Theater, Times Union Center, Info: sesamestreetlive. great standards, romance and Hollywood spice. Tickets: $35-$40. everything with his giant ass laser!). 9th & Main in Springfield, com Wilson Center for the Arts, FCCJ South Campus- 4 pm and 8 pm, show starts at 8 pm. Info: 632-3373 (Read the story on page 26) 4 december 13-19, 2007 | entertaining u newspaper Holiday Pops Concert Members of the Jacksonville Symphony, Vernon Humbert, conductor and Rhonda Hambright, soprano, will perform a concert to benefit the locked-out musicians of the Jacksonville Symphony Players’ Association. Admission is free but tax deductible donations will be accepted. New Life Christian Fellowship, 2701 Hodges