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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Recaps / Fashion See photos from the Designers Choice Fashion Preview
- Brian Chilson
- Designers Choice Fashion Preview
Tireless Times cameraman Brian Chilson was on hand for last weekend's Designers Choice Fashion Preview and got a ton of great shots. Check out several after the jump, including a slideshow.
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Monday, February 20, 2012
Recaps Check out some photos from Nuclear Cowboyz
- Zoie Clift
- Nuclear Cowboyz
The Nuclear Cowboyz crew brought its post-apocalypse themed motocross extravaganza to Verizon Arena last weekend, and local journalist Zoie Clift caught Friday night's show.
She described it as "something like a motocross ballet. They seem to be suspended in slow motion when they are at the peak of their aerials which is amazing when you consider how fast they are moving. The acrobatics they are able to perform on these machines are mind blowing."
There are more of Clift's photos after the jump.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Recaps Geena Davis on gender in media
- Rebecca Wright
- Geena Davis at the Statehouse Convention Center
Because of overwhelming public interest, the Clinton Foundation moved Geena Davis's talk on gender stereotypes in media to a ballroom at the Statehouse Convention Center. Even so, every chair was full, with the overflow standing respectfully in the back. Davis is 56. She was most visible as an actor from the '80s to mid '90s, so the crowd was largely middle-aged and beyond. But university students and young professionals were well represented, and several folks had teenage daughters in tow.
The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media was spawned in 2004, although its roots are in the 1991 film "Thelma and Louise". Davis played Thelma. It was arguably her most popular role ever. "I didn't realize it would change my life. And really, the biggest standout about the film is that it had two good female parts," Davis said.
Afterward, women stopped her everywhere — in the grocery, rolling down windows at traffic lights — to tell her how much they enjoyed the film. Critics were polarized. Some loved the film, while others dismissed it as man-hating. It won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Screenplay. To Davis, the film's aftermath was "a lesson on the power of media images."
"Ever since, I've thought about women in the audience and what they'll think about the parts I'll play," she said. "But really great parts for women are few and far between ... that I'm able to be so picky means I haven't run out of money yet. If you ever hear that I've signed on to play the kidnapped wife of Sean O'Connery, you'll know I'm broke."
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Friday, June 3, 2011
LRFF / Recaps LRFF: Media and the West Memphis Three
Following yesterday's showing of "Voices for Justice," a short film by Mike Poe that premiered at the West Memphis Three benefit last August, our own Lindsey Millar hosted a panel discussion on "The Media and the West Memphis Three" at the Argenta Community Theater. The discussion featured Joe Berlinger (director of the "Paradise Lost" films), Mara Leveritt (author of the book "Devil's Knot"), Capi Peck (founding member of the WM3 advocacy group Arkansas Take Action) and Lorri Davis (wife of Damien Echols). Panelists touched on a number of issues including early news coverage of the case (would you believe most media outlets were a little biased against the WM3?), the reaction to the "Paradise Lost" documentaries here in Arkansas and the movement that has built up around the case over the years.
If you've followed the case closely, then there wasn't a whole lot that you haven't heard before. However, there were a number of insightful comments and even some new information that we'd never run across. We've attempted to include most of that in the video above. For example, Berlinger said that when he and co-director Bruce Sinofsky started the project, their original intention was to make a film about disturbed teenagers who committed a terrible crime. Berlinger said until he got to know the kids involved and learned more about the evidence (or lack thereof) he, like everyone else, thought they were absolutely guilty. Finally, he called HBO and told the higher-ups, "These guys are innocent."
Berlinger also talked about the practice, decided upon during the filming of the first documentary, of paying the families they were interviewing. He says they realized they were making money off of families who didn't know where their next meal was coming from and made the decision to give the families of the victims and the defendants $7,500 each. He said he felt it was the right decision to make at the time, but he would not do it again. Also, stay tuned to the end of the video to hear how he and Sinofsky were able to get cameras into the courtroom. It's something Berlinger said he has never talked about before in public.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Music / Recaps Last night: Bob Dorough at The Afterthought
A few quick thoughts on last night's sold out show:
- Who is he even comparable to? Harry Nilsson seems to be his closest kin: whimsical, hyper-melodic, omnipresent but largely unknown.
- The only guy in the room that was more thrilled with Joe Vick (bass) and Dave Rogers (drums) than me was ol' Bob himself. Ditto when Dr. Barry McVinney (sax, brilliant flute on "Baltimore Oriole"), Brandi Herbert (guitar) and Jack Pritchett (percussion) joined for the second set.
- I had no idea Jamie Cullum covered "But For Now". Ditto Diana Krall and "Devil May Care."
- Is Dorough the first—dare I say, here in 2011—musical hipster to sprout out of Arkansas?
- Even at 87, the man's idiosyncracies—physical, facial and musical—were in full, animated effect. He's still a refreshingly warm (necessary, even) juxtaposition to steely-eyed, standoffish popular jazz ego. His songs and interpretations are pure joyous, toothy exuberance. Maybe it's that humble Arkansas background of his.
- It would have been great to hear "Figure Eight" and "I'm Beginning to See the Light", but the night's setlist was an stellar, heavy on his two most well-known albums ("Devil May Care" and "Just About Everything") and "Electricity" is about as much of a deep cut as you can pull from "Schoolhouse Rock!"
- If someone told me beforehand that "Conjunction Junction" would make me well up, I'd have called them crazy. And if anyone in the room didn't get choked up during the last song, "We'll Be Together Again," they're a straight-up sociopath and should be approached with caution.
That's about it. Like everyone else in the room, I was rapt. Too rapt in my favorite show I've seen in recent memory to worry about being anything other than a smiling dope reveling in the presence of one of his musical heroes, much less a stankin' music writer.
Setlist:
First set:
Nothing Like You/Three is a Magic Number/Devil May Care/But For Now/I've Got Just About Everything/The Winds of Heaven/I've Got a Small Day Tomorrow/Wonderful Night at the Water Hole/Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head/Lazy Afternoon/Conjunction Junction
Second set:
Right on My Way Home/Moon River/I Get the Neck of the Chicken/Yardbird Suite/Music Makers/This is Always/Baltimore Oriole/Straight Up/Electricity/We'll Be Together Again
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
Music / Recaps Last night: Iron Tongue/The Body @ Juanita's
Seven quick, quick items about last night's show:
1. Iron Tongue is still deceptively melodic. Did "7 Days" always have those great harmonies from Tedford?
2. CT shaved, shook off a few pounds, now looks just like Cut Chemist.
3. It took all of 50 seconds for The Body to blow a house speaker (a subwoofer, maybe?) and fill the floor with smoke.
4. This was almost as impressive of a feat as their drummer's ability to shred while blowing gum bubbles without making a mess in his huge beard.
5. Seeing singer Chip King do his car-peeling-out shrieking live is shocking. His tongue starts stabbing wildly out of his mouth, sending big gobs of spit everywhere. He didn't even really use the microphone. Think about that. He blew an enormous speaker and you could hear his wailing just fine without a mic.
6. The show only lasted 20 or 25 minutes.
7. It's impossible to discern any lyrics. But, good pattern-making machines our brains are, the subconscious is quick to step to the plate, with mixed results. I knew the duo are fascinated by Jim Jones, so I suspected one song was about Jonestown, with King screaming "I love it heeeeere!" like a man on fire. Shudder. It took me a while to slip out of my new goosebump gear.
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Monday, June 28, 2010
True Blood / Recaps True Blood: Heads will roll
Are we already over the hump? Only twice in last night's episode three did I wish an act of blood and carnage would swoop in and free me from scenes of emotional gooey-ness, down a good 30% from episodes one and two! The most wretched, of course, involved yet another flashback. This time, of Bill going home to visit to visit his wife in the early postbellum days. Their son is dead, recently, of small pox, which is a cheap way to make us care about Bill's past family. The reunion, predictably, does not go well: Bill cries tears of blood, Mrs. Bill shoots Bill, Lorena comes and freaks everyone out further and, though Lorena spares Mrs. Bill's life, Bill leaves with the understanding that vampires and humans don't mix. All of which is supposed to help us understand why he's able to forsake Sookie: Burn my loved ones once, shame on naivete; burn them twice, shame on foolishness. But why is turning her, as the King of Mississippi suggests, so out of the question? Because he thinks its wrong, or because he knows she's some supernatural other?
Otherwise, this episode had great stuff: Eric kills an evil werewolf gruesomely. Vampire Detective Franklin Mott woos Tara and makes a severed head talk. Sam's reunion continues with his new family (who are more than a little rednecky, no? Who, other than Arkansas hillbilly cartoons, wears only saggy, dirty whitey tighties?). Upon finding the body that was once attached to Jessica/Franklin's severed head, Sheriff Dearborn quits exasperatedly, leaving an obvious in for Jason join the force and quickly cut-off his uniform's sleeves. And, for a certain contingent, most importantly: Werewolf Alcide Herveaux comes to Sookie's aid, with a Just For Men beard, a lumberjack plaid shirt and a significantly gruffer interior voice than his speaking voice (it's the beast within, of course). Which means that the show now has the three pillars of leading man cliches in trash romance — the Southern Gentleman (Bill, duh), the Rogue (Eric) and the Blue Collar Brawler — all fighting for Sookie's affections. Even if Alcide's type is almost less interesting than Bill's (at least in every way except wish fulfillment), at least he gives Sookie something more to say than a variation on "I've got to find Bee-Yul!"
Lingering questions from this episode: Is Eric the only vampire who can fly? If not, why, other than special effects cost a lot, is this not happening more? What's the point of the "humans must ask vampires to enter their home" rule if vampires can just glammer them? Seems like cheating. And what would you call that move from the closing scene between Bill and Lorena? Hate sexing with a twist?
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Monday, June 21, 2010
True Blood / Recaps True Blood: Get on with it
Tedium, thy name is the first two episodes of this season of "True Blood." Sure, some things have happened. Vampire Bill gets kidnapped by vampire-blood-addled werewolves, who we learn in episode two are under the charge of the vampire king of Mississippi, who rides a white horse and has his own piano recital theme music. Eric, when not flashing back to WWII, where he and Godric posed as SS officers and killed a naked lady werewolf, pushes up on Sookie in the latest portent of the inevitable fang bang to come. Sam visits Arkansas, where he enjoys some brotherly hazing from his shifter sibling, who tries to make Sam roadkill. Jessica and Pam (above) share a nice moment, when Jessica asks for advice on feeding without killing and Pam offers that she always thinks of "crying children with saggy diapers" and "maggots." And a vampire with a British accent, breaks into casa de Compton, rifles through an incriminating "Sookie" drawer, absconds with the trucker Jessica's killed and helps Tara beat up racist rednecks who you might recognize from "Justified."
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