Volume 124 Issue 99
Friday, February 17, 2012
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ENTERTAINMENT
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MIGRATING BLUEGRASS
LOCAL DUO TRUCKSTOP HONEYMOON
TOPS THE CHARTS AT KJHK // ALEX TRETBAR
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The husband-and-wife band had their start in the heart of New Orleans, but Hurricane Katrina forced them out of their home and onto the road. After nonstop touring and living out of a van with their two daughters, Truckstop Honeymoon finally settled on Lawrence as their new home.
Mike West and Katie Euliss honed their punk-infused style of bluegrass in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans they even took their name from their own wedding night spent at a truck stop near Lafayette, La. Their home was flooded by Katrina while the duo was on tour, so they were forced to stay on tour without a home to return to anytime soon.
Fast-forward to the present: Truckstop Honeymoon has toured all over the world, including shows in Australia, Holland, Germany and the United Kingdom. They've released seven albums, and a 2007 documentary explored the band and its family's triumphs and struggles. West and Euliss now have four kids.
Since arriving in Lawrence, the band has opened a recording studio, The 9th Ward Pickin' Parlor, and organized an annual Mardi Gras parade whose popularity has increased each year. You can pick up an instrument and march with them and many others on Fat Tuesday this month, Feb. 21. They march from Aimee's Coffeehouse to Free State Brewery for Mardi Gras each year.
Their latest album Steamboat in a Cornfield, which claimed the top spot at KJHK last week, retains the bluegrass spirit but leans a little more toward 1950s rock 'n' roll.
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"You get a minimal budget, a minimal set so that it's only about your acting and your directing," Lufkin said. "This is supposed to be about the students that you're directing and what you can get out of them as far as your acting ability."
A limited budget, a month of rehearsal and a cast and crew comprised completely of students could be a director's worst nightmare. For Jacci Lufkin, it was a dream come true.
This year Lukfin, a junior from Melbourne, Fla, was the one student selected by the University Theatre Department to direct a one-act play.
Lukin was excited about the chance to direct a project since opportunities for aspiring theater directors are often limited. But being in charge of the show isn't easy. Her first task was choosing a one-act play that could be successfully staged with the available
The length of the show also allowed Lufkin and her actors, Julie Miller, a senior from Hutchinson, and Alex Roschitz, a junior from Kansas City, Kan., to develop both the comedy and drama of the play. Roschitz said that being a part of a two person cast was something he had never done before, but it gave him an opportunity to explore his character and play off of Miller. Working with a student director instead of a professor or an outside director was also something new.
“It’s a totally different experience from anything I’ve had,” Roszitz
"It's so unique for a university to have this kind of opportunity for the students, just to have the group and the performance opportunities." Perez-Abraham said.
The second performance is tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the William Inge Memorial Theatre in Murphy Hall. Tickets are available on the University Theatre website.
After "Auto-da-fe," the recently formed group, Musical Theatre for Kansas, will perform a thirty-minute musical love story. Gil Perez-Abraham, a junior from Wichita, said the group members, like Lufkin, were excited to have a chance to show off skills that aren't always showcased in the theater department.
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"It's so raw; it's so easy without anything else," Lufkin said. "You could do this in a park. You could do this in a stairwell."
Student Union Activities hosted a dodgeball tournament that consisted of 10 teams, and each team had seven players with at least three women on the team. The tournament started out as double-elimination, which means a team must lose twice to be eliminated from the tournament. After half the teams were eliminated, the tournament switched to a round-robin format where all five teams played each other once. The teams with the two best records would face off in a best two out of three series.
The tournament used prison ball rules, which differ slightly from regular dodgeball rules. If you are hit anywhere on the body, including your face or head, you're out. The ball is live until it touches a ceiling, a wall or floors. This means a ball is still live if it bounces off a player, which is different from normal dodgeball, where a ball is only live if it has not touched anything.
1930s New Orleans, the story focuses on a mother soliciting gossip from her son, who is struggling with a secret. Lufkin was drawn to the one-act play because of its emotional intensity, but also because it required little set design.
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"Whether it's dodgeball or something else, we would like to see this continue to help student organizations who have smaller budgets."
DAKOTA STRANGE
SUA Spirit Coordinator
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SUA opened the tournament up to all students, but it was geared more toward student organizations. The winning team received $225, and second place winners received $150.
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Dakota Strange, spirit coordinator in SUA, was happy to see a student organization win first place. The tournament was originally exclusive for student organizations, but because of the lack of teams, SUA opened it up to all students.
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Strange said SUA held this tournament to benefit student organizations and to help with its budgets. He also hopes to make this an annual event.
"It was a good showing from student organizations, and we received a lot of positive feedback," Strange said. "We want to continue events like this in the future. Whether its dodgeball or something else, we would like to see this continue to help student organizations who have smaller budgets."
— Edited by Corinne Westeman
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Today's Weather
To learn about "Our Dangerous Universe" with Washburn astronomy professor Brian Thomas at 7:30 p.m. in Malott Hall. Be careful out there.
Beautiful day with sunny skies and light winds between 5-10 ophm
Good day to wash the Trans Am