Herald News Yellow Red Blue Black SECTION D Worth the wait Arranged marriages HERALDNEWS Believe it or not, Rocker Richard X. sometimes Heyman finishes Friday, they work out. his debut album. D5 April 13, 2007 Friday bringit, D11 SOLID GOLD Local students are in the spotlight at Black and Gold Idol competition By ED BEESON Herald News BLACK AND GOLD IDOL The second round of competition For a few minutes, the spirit of Lauryn will be held Friday, April 27 at 7 Hill filled the theater at the Rosa Parks p.m. at the Rosa Parks School for School for Fine and Performing Arts. Fine and Performing Arts, 413 Words made famous by the South Or- 12th Ave. in Paterson. Tickets ange songstress echoed off cost $10. MUSIC the auditorium’s vaulted ceilings as more than 300 The third and final round will be people rose from their seats and sang along held Friday, May 18 at 7 p.m. at with the young woman onstage. Rosa Parks. Tickets cost $15. “Killing me softly with his song,” the For more info, call 201-306-3215. crowd sang one recent Friday. “Killing me softly … with his song.” Even the technicians in the sound booth swayed and sang the pop classic. Photos by MICHAEL KARAS/Herald News You’d be forgiven for assuming the woman onstage was someone famous. But, On the Web Jazmyn Arroyo, above, performs during Black and Gold Idol at Rosa Parks School for Fine and Performing Arts in no, she was Jasmine Mottley, a 17-year-old For an audio slideshow Paterson. At left, from top, Junior Haughton takes his turn onstage; from left, Jazmyn Arroyo, Inez LaBoy, Kysheiya of Black and Gold Idol, log on Hargett and Tarlyn Brown watch Benjamin Roman warm up in a hallway backstage; and the lights cast a shadow Please see IDOL, D4 to northjersey.com/hn. of one of the judges commenting on a performance. Is Jersey happy with this meal? BEST BETS COUNTY FILM FESTIVAL: Win- ners of the third annual Pas- ‘Aqua Teen Hunger Force’ hits the big screen saic County student film fes- By ED BEESON INSIDE tival will be announced Sat- Herald News urday morning at a ceremo- Ed Beeson takes the Aqua Teens house hunting in New Jersey. D2 ny at the Passaic County Borat has Kazakhstan. Ron Burgundy has Community College’s Public San Diego. Safety Complex in Wayne. And the Aqua Teens have New Jersey. glob of ground meat named Meatwad — If there is one thing that today’s purveyors would share a ranch-style rental home in a The winning entries will be of gross, bizarre and in- rundown Garden State suburb. screened, awards will be pre- MOVIES fantile humor for adults A typical 15-minute episode of the show, sented and refreshments will need, it is a place to call which airs on the Cartoon Network’s late be served. Winners will also home. That’s because a hometown somehow night “Adult Swim” programming block, can receive cash prizes spon- makes the most out-of-this-world comic cre- feature the Aqua Teens spatting with the ation seem just believable enough to be real. Mooninites, a pair of haughty Moon crea- sored by area banks. So when Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis tures who resemble computer graphic glitch- This year’s short film festi- created “Aqua Teen Hunger Force,” a surre- es (and whose likenesses accidentally caused val, which was open to stu- al animated TV-series-turned-feature film about the lives of three sentient, human-sized Please see AQUA TEENS, D2 dents who live or attend fast-food products, they knew the show had school in Passaic County, re- to be set in New Jersey. To them, it made per- AP/Cartoon Network ceived its widest range of en- fect sense that the series’ stars — a hyper-in- tries yet. Students from Pas- telligent floating box of French fries named The Aqua Teen Hunger Force, from Frylock; a megalomaniacal milkshake left, Frylock, Master Shake and Meat- named Master Shake; and a sweetly stupid wad, lives in New Jersey. Please see BEST BETS, D2 Yellow Red Blue Black.