entertaining u newspaper JACKSONVILLE Furthering Education Issue | Hot Rod movie review | interview with Ben Kweller | Michael Ealum exhibit at Screen Arts free weekly guide to entertainment and more | august 2-8, 2007 | www.eujacksonville.com JACKSONVILLE looking for excitement in the entertainment industry? we are seeking a professional, enthusiastic person to represent the area’s leading weekly entertainment publication. this is an exciting opportunity to deal directly with leading entertainment venues and businesses and to promote exciting new movie premiers. sales experience is preferred, enthusiasm necessary. (904) 730-3003 · a locally and family owned business for over 25 years. 2 august 2-8, 2007 | entertaining u newspaper table of contents feature Furthering Education ....................................................................................... PAGES 18-22 FCCJ ...............................................................................................................PAGE 18 Jacksonville University .....................................................................................PAGE 19 Online Degrees ................................................................................................PAGE 20 Culinary Institutes ............................................................................................PAGE 21 Tulsa Welding School .......................................................................................PAGE 21 DeVry Video Game School ...............................................................................PAGE 22 Unusual Career Schools ...................................................................................PAGE 22 movies Movies in Theaters this Week ............................................................................ PAGES 6-10 Bourne Ultimatum (movie review) ..............................................................................PAGE 6 Angel-A (movie review) .............................................................................................PAGE 7 Seen, Heard, Noted & Quoted ....................................................................................PAGE 7 I Know Who Killed Me (movie review) ........................................................................PAGE 8 Hot Rod (movie review) .............................................................................................PAGE 9 Introducing the Dwights (movie review) ...................................................................PAGE 10 Master Pancake Theatre (movie review) ...................................................................PAGE 10 at home Number 23 (dvd review) ..........................................................................................PAGE 12 New on DVD ...........................................................................................................PAGE 12 Mad Men (tv review) ...............................................................................................PAGE 13 Video Games ..........................................................................................................PAGE 13 Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows (book review) ....................................................PAGE 14 Last Summer Blast ..................................................................................................PAGE 14 food Dining Guide ................................................................................................... PAGES 15-16 Zaitoon Restaurant .......................................................................................... PAGES 16-17 The Pearl (pub profi le) .............................................................................................PAGE 15 music Music Calendar ............................................................................................... PAGES 23-27 The Format (interview) ............................................................................................PAGE 23 Bonerama (interview) ..............................................................................................PAGE 24 Ben Kweller (interview) ...........................................................................................PAGE 25 Danger:Radio (interview) .........................................................................................PAGE 26 arts / theatre / on stage Arts Calendar .................................................................................................. PAGES 28-29 Screen Arts Exhibit ..................................................................................................PAGE 27 Once upon a Matress (FCCJ theater review).............................................................PAGE 28 Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Alhambra theatre review) .........................................................PAGE 29 columns and stuff BeachWise ..............................................................................................................PAGE 30 The Jock .................................................................................................................PAGE 30 NASCAR News & Notes ..........................................................................................PAGE 31 eujacksonville.com | august 2-8, 2007 3 thisweek THE BLACK KIDS Bonerama No, Bonerama is not the name of Beavis and Butt-head’s new thursday AUGUST 2 band, although we’re sure they would choose it if they could. It’s actually a funk rock band out of Regions Bank Artist Celebration New Orleans made up of a guitarist, Regions Bank and Fogle Fine Art are partnering together to highlight a drummer, a sousaphone player the works of local and regional artists across the Southeast. and four trombones (the “bone” in Each month through November, Fogle Fine Art and Regions Bank “Bonerama”). They’re not a traditional will present a wine and cheese celebration at one of Regions’ brass band, but they’ve got brass to newest branch locations in the Jacksonville area. To coincide with spare-even with no trumpets or saxes this grand event, Fogle has selected artists that have resided or in sight. They can evoke vintage funk, currently reside in or around the branch area. This month, Jeanne classic rock and free improvisation in Pelligreno will be showcased at the Kingsley branch. the same set; maybe even the same Regions Bank, 1461 Kingsley Ave., Orange Park- 6 pm song. As Butt-head would say, “This Info: (904) 296-1414 is cool.” Read interview on page 24. MOJO Kitchen, Jacksonville Beach FL Info: (904) 247-6636 Appetite for Destruction Appetite for Destruction is the 1987 debut album from Guns N’ Roses. It’s also the name of the greatest Guns N’ Roses tribute band in the world. Not only do they sound like GN’R and play all your old favorites- ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine,’ ‘Paradise City,’ ‘Patience,’ etc.- they also look like the band circa 1987-1993, complete with Slash’s signature top hat and Axl’s fl annel-shirt-as-a-belt and bandana. Tickets: $10 Freebird Live- 8 pm BURDEN OF A DAY (904) 246-BIRD Burden of a Day Kelsey Smith Benefi t Concert Sarasota’s Burden of a Day will stake their reputation on their ability Kelsey Smith was a Kansas teen who was kidnapped and AUGUST 4 to perform. Playing out with bands like Mortal Treason, Chasing saturday murdered in June. In honor of Kelsey, the French Quarter and Victory, Staple, Anam Cara, and Forever Changed to name a few, fi ve terrifi c local bands will hold a benefi t concert, with all they’ve exhibited an energy and a presence seldom paralleled by proceeds to benefi t the Kelsey Smith Foundation, which funds First Coast Pride Festival even their more accomplished peers. See for yourself when Burden college scholarships in her name and raises awareness about First Coast Pride Presents “Tides of Change,” the 29th Annual Pride of a Day takes to the stage with Remove the Veil, Senseless Beauty, violence against women. Fed Up, New Day, Transpose, Esther, Festival. The day-long event will feature two premiere stages and Beneath a Burning Sky and more. and Gunwitch will perform. wandering performers. The young and young at heart will also Thee Imperial- 7 pm Tickets: $10 enjoy age appropriate diversions in the Fun Zone and in the Festival Info: (904) 475-0488 French Quarter- 8 pm Market Place. Entertainment will include Too Many Shoes, Nuñez, Info: (904) 732-9550 Ari Gold, The DC Cowboys, and much, much more. Sea Walk Pavilion- 12 pm to 10 pm AUGUST 3 - 4 Info: (888) 411-6482 or fi rstcoastpride.com friday AUGUST 3 Tour de Pain Any time “pain” is in the title of an event, we have to wonder Jacksonville Axemen host the Jamaican Rugby if it truly qualifi es as entertainment. For some, apparently, this League Team Black Kids is. Brave runners will take on three races in 24 hours, testing The Jacksonville Axemen will be hosting the Jamaican Rugby Black Kids is a local band destined for greatness. Come see them their endurance and causing spectators to question their sanity. League Team in an effort to help spread the sport of rugby around live this Friday at TSI before they become too big to be confi ned to Participants will run 4 miles at the beach on Friday evening, do the world and to increase the exposure to the City of Jacksonville as our fair city. This special show celebrates two future footnotes in a 5K in the Baymeadows area on Saturday morning, and take on a great supporter of the sport here in the USA. Come support the the band’s history: the release of their new album, Wizard of Ahhs, a “mile sizzler” Downtown later that