ENTERTAINMENTpage 17 Technique • Friday, September 16, 2005 • 17 NEED PROOF? CLOUGH TALKS TULANE Anthony Hopkins plays a man of in- President Clough addresses the ENTERTAINMENT credible genius slowly being eaten away Faculty Senate about Tulane students Technique • Friday, September 16, 2005 by his flagging mind. Page 18 enrolling in Tech. Page 5 Journey into past, Bang tackles all of history in single night future By Siddhartha Parmar are rather poor at the time of their Contributing Writer show, they are forced to use their Pander to that deep dark part of imagination and make use of house- you that loves ‘80s hair bands. You What does a conversation be- hold objects on their set. Anyone can know that it calls to you. Failing tween The Virgin Mary and Mrs. use a bed sheet to make a toga, but that, just take your mom to relive Gandhi have in common with how about using two umbrellas to her high school days, terrifying and Cleopatra or even the Antebellum make a Scarlett O’Hara-style dress? horrible though the sight of it may South? The Big Bang. No, not the Or getting the Colonel Sanders look be. Chastain Park Amphitheatre is by using white shaving cream? Or, hosting “An Evening with Journey: best of all, using a lamp shade to Back…and Into the Future” tonight “How did history’s make a crown? at 7:30 p.m. greatest stars really The Big Bang is definitely worth Tickets cost $34-59. Your acid checking out. Tickets are reasonable wash jeans are just itching to get feel about their at around $20 and the play runs till worn. lives? Did The Virgin Nov. 19. The theater’s atmosphere fits Mary have the same perfectly with this play. Everyone Heal the Hood maternal problems gets a great seat, and it allows the audience to fully participate. Relief Concert as Mrs. Gandhi? As is usual for Little Five Points, Would Cleopatra the staff was well-informed and Join Nelly, David Banner, 8 Ball, friendly. During intermission, they MJG and others tomorrow night at spend most of her even serve cookies and wine and ask Philips Arena for the Heal the Hood for feedback about how their show Hurricane Relief Concert. The music time governing starts at 7 p.m. and the whole event Egypt or gosiping is hosted by Lil’ John. “Anyone can use a with her fellow Ticket prices are $25, $40 and bed sheet to make $100 with proceeds going to the divas?” relief effort in southern Missis- a toga, but how sippi, southern Alabama and New about using two Orleans as well as to the thousands Big Bang that created the universe of evacuees in Atlanta, Arkansas, but The Big Bang that is playing at umbrellas to make a St. Louis and Texas. the Horizon Theater in Little Five Scarlett O’Hara-style Points. PHOTO COURTESY HORIZON THEATRE COMPANY It has been called “Mel Brooks’ Two wannabe producers give an impromptu reenactment of the story dress? Or getting Shake your groove History of the World Part 1 meets The of Adam and Eve in an attempt to secure funding for their show. the Colonel Sanders Producers,” which is a very fitting must present the entire play in a Park comedic portrayal of history. thing, yeah yeah description. Avenue apartment to the financiers, How did history’s greatest stars look by using white The setting involves two produc- played by the audience. really feel about their lives? Did The shaving cream....” Get your soul music fix tomorrow ers who are trying to get financial After wrapping your head around Virgin Mary have the same maternal night at Chastain Park Amphitheatre backing for their musical comedy, the premise of the play, everything problems as Mrs. Gandhi? Would with the ‘70s Soul Fest. This retro the Big Bang. As “the most expensive else falls into place. It starts out with Cleopatra spend most of her time is going. festival will feature the Manhat- Broadway musical ever written” it original sin and ends prematurely at governing Egypt or gossiping with If that isn’t enough to entice tans, Dells, Chi-Lites, Dramatics calls for $83.5 million with a cast of the beginning of the 20th century. her fellow divas? one to head down to the Horizon and Stylistics. The music starts at 7 hundreds of people. Normally, a play about the his- The entire play is a fast-paced Theatre, a portion of the proceeds p.m. and tickets cost from $33.75 In order to get the necessary tory of the world would not be a big musical with hilarious lyrics and are going to aid the victims of Hur- to $53.75. financial backing, the two producers deal, but The Big Bang is unique in its great music. Because the producers ricane Katrina. Come by and get a Serene Republic turns out great album tree or two Kenneth Baskett talented lyricists and experimental You might not be too worried Contributing Writer arrangers. Not what one would about it now, but in a few months expect from a group of recent high Tech is going to turn brown and There are few times when a band school drop outs. dreary. To combat the winter blues, debuts with an album which renews However, listening to this CD it always helps to have a plant or two my faith in new artists. New bands is akin to having a child run up around and the Fernbank Science all too often fall into the trap of not and kick you in the butt, and then Center has just the thing. Tomorrow innovating. smiling innocently as if he’s done from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., they’re holding They pick the popular sound nothing. their Fall Garden and Plant Sale. It of the time and Seemingly, doesn’t cost a thing to go take a look forget that music that is the at- and they’re offering native plants, should be excit- titude they took trees, shrubs and perennials to good ing and differ- “Perhaps the best making this re- homes. All they need is a little water ent. And you song on the album cord. The play- and some love. can forget about fulness of each them actually is ‘Proposition 61.’ track allows it to being good mu- Rather than dwelling fly in under the Walk like an sicians. radar. And then That is why on the themes of it hits you, did I Egyptian I couldn’t be- love and happines just hear what I lieve my ears think I heard? lPHOTO COURTESY ARTS & CRAFTS PRODUCTIONS The Michael C. Carlos Museum when I heard spresent on the Thankfully, the The Most Serene Republic’s debut album, Underwater Cinematog- at Emory University is hosting “Ex- The Most Se- rest of the album, answer is yes rapher makes for a surprisingly good musical experience. cavating Egypt: Great Discoveries rene Republic’s every time. From the Petrie Museum of Egyptian (TMSR) debut this song recounts a Many words Herein lies one of the album’s painful experience at a party. Archaeology, University College album Under- painful experience can describe problems. All of the songs are so For this track, Jewett trades in London,” until Nov. 27. water Cinema- TMSR’s sound, rich musically that they sometimes his normally soft choral sound for The exhibit features antiqui- tographer. at a party.” but the one that cover up other important parts, like a spoken word approach. ties from the collection that was T M S R , serves best is the lyrics. Instead of using elaborate per- established by Egyptologist Wil- whose members “full”. Almost Perhaps the best song on the cussion and huge layered arrange- liam Matthew Flinders Petrie. The are Adrian Jewett, Ryan Lenssen, every song is brimming with guitars, album is “Proposition 61”. Rather ments of guitars and synthesizers, exhibits hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nick Greaves, Andrew McArthur, drums, electronic effects, piano, than dwelling on the themes of love they use one synthesizer and an Tuesday through Saturday and 12 Adam Nimmo and Emma Ditch- and Adrian Jewett’s unnaturally and happiness present on the rest p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays. Admis- burn, are at once skilled musicians, high lyrics. of the album, this song recounts a See Republic, page 19 sion is $7. 18 • Friday, September 16, 2005 • Technique ENTERTAINMENT Proof paints bittersweet portrait of math genius a way of thinking that is hundreds However; the cutting irony of the to the mental illness of their father, of years old. whole matter is that there isn’t any and that Hal wants “proof” that it Such are the sentiments conjured proof that she wrote this ingenious is her work—a total breach of trust up in one’s mind after seeing Proof. mathematical piece of material. and faith. Set in the a chilly autumn in the Windy City, it stars Gwyneth Pal- “Proof is a fast-paced emotional roller trow as the angst-ridden mathemati- cal genius Catherine so much like coaster that makes the audience genuinely her brilliant but mentally disturbed feel for the problems and frustrations of its father (Anthony Hopkins) and Jake Gyllenhaal, sporting an unshaven characters.” look unseen in his Donnie Darko Catherine must deal with the Proof is a fast-paced emotional days, playing Howard, an eager and inner turmoil of knowing she did roller coaster that makes the audience kind grad student who labors over her best work when her father was genuinely feel for the problems and his mathematics looking for his big slowly fading away, that her sister is “break” into the published world.