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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2009
Concert: The Wailers and Toots and the Maytals
Getting a free ticket to a show from a friend is always great, but I never expected I would see Bob Marley's old band, The Wailers, and Toots and his band, the Maytals, at one show.
Even after arriving at the Crossroads District in Kansas City, I did not really understand how lucky I was until The Wailers started to play some of Marley's classics and the crowd went wild.
Any fan of ska or reggae needs to see both bands to fully appreciate the styles of music.
The fun atmosphere and familiar tunes kept the crowd dancing for hours, starting with some of the songs Marley is most famous for, such as "Jammin" and "One Love." Although it may not feel the same as hearing Marley himself, the band is still amazing in its own right.
The singer, Elan Atias, led the crowd into a groove that didn't stop between sets.
Toots and the Maytals took the night's performance to a whole different level with their energy. Toots, the lead vocalist, has been
performing since the early '60s and he still leads the crowd in song and dance with a passion. The Maytals backed Toots up with groovy beats and wild solos. After their first grand finale, they came back for an unbeatable encore that left this audience member doubly satisfied.
I have no idea how often The Wailers or Toots and the Maytals come to Kansas from Jamaica, but these bands should never be missed.
David Ugarte
There's an alternate reality that stays with us into college and thereafter. A reality that may be a little dimmer and harder to reach, but one that never completely leaves our imagination.
We, like Coraline, the dreamer in this dazzling and creepy stop-motion animated fantasy adventure, still dream of other worlds and characters.
Henry Selick, the director of "The Nightmare Before Christmas," creates a world inhabited by Coraline Jones - voiced by Dakota Fanning - who moves with her parents to an apartment inside of a peculiar 150-year-old house.
DVD: Coraline
Inside the house there are colorful characters, including a Russian circus gymnast - voiced by Ian McShane - whose mustache is as wide as his big belly. Coraline is a curious
child, and is ignored by her parents until she discovers a secret door in her bedroom. And of course, she enters. Why wouldn't she?
On the other side of the door, she's greeted by her Other Mother - a flawless version of her real mother, better in every way except for buttoned-on eyes. There is a more musical button-eyed Other Father too, as well as more unusually impeccable versions of everyone she has left behind - that is, until the horrors behind the superlatives are finally revealed.
"Coraline" is pure visual gratification. The story is magical and the animation is state-of-the-art. The opening scene alone is one of the most intricate, strange and entertaining pieces of animation I have ever seen.
The DVD includes 2-D and 3-D
presentations of the main feature and comes packaged with four pairs of 3-D glasses. Wow!
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ENTERTAINMENT Former"The O.C."star released from hospital
LOS ANGELES — Mische Barton is out of the hospital and plans a return to work almost two weeks after Los Angeles police say they escorted her for an undisclosed medical problem.
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He said Monday that Barton planned to report to work on the new CW series "The Beautiful Life." A CW spokesman for the show said production was scheduled to begin Friday.
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said Monday that the 23-year-old actress was "out of the hospital and continuing to improve."
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"Moon" is a two-man show played by one man, actor Sam Rockwell, who carries it the whole way. Director Duncan Jones creates fluid scenes, combining Rockwell's alternating performances and amplifying the paranoia in the tight quarters of the moon base.
Astronaut Sam Bell works on the moon. He's ending his three year contract in two weeks, and except for the presence of a robot voiced by an atonal Kevin Spacy, he has been alone the entire time, or so he thinks.
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Bell oversees giant robots that farm Helium-3 from the moon dust, which provides power for most of Earth. He keeps in contact with his wife and daughter via webcam and watches his family live without him.
Movie: Moon
In actuality, Shawn's ability of attention to detail along with his photographic memory makes it easy for people to believe he is an actual psychic.
One guy who definitely knows Shawn isn't a psychic is his best friend Gus, played by Dule Hill.
One of USA Network's hit summer TV shows is back for a new season. "Psych" stars James Roday as Shawn Spencer, a guy who pretends he is a psychic and is taken on by the Santa Barbara Police's as their "Psychic Detective".
Gus juggles a job in pharmaceutical sales while helping Shawn solve crimes. Shawn also works with officers Juliet O'Hara and Carlton Lassiter. Carlton, or as Shawn calls him "Lassie," doubts Shawn is a real psychic and tries to prove he is a fraud in every episode.
Television: Psych
Bell talks to himself and focuses on building a model of his hometown. He hallucinates while checking out a broken robot and is stranded on the dark side of the moon. He is rescued by his clone, and then things get weird.
Jones, who is David Bowie's son, conjures a flierhier "2001: A Space Odyssey" with "Moon."
Adam School
What's great about "Psych" is its ability to mix in comedy while being true to itself as a crime-mystery show.
Coming into its fourth season August 7, expect the same funny antics of Shawn and Gus as they continue to solve crimes.
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