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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2013
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MUSIC
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Trampled by Turtles, a bluegrass band from Duluth, Minn., will perform tonight at the Granada. This year, the band celebrates its 10-year anniversary.
Trampled by Turtles set to play tonight at the Granada
LYNDSEY HAVENS
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The quick-picking bluegrass band, Trampled by Turtles, will perform at the Granada tonight. The group consists of Duluth, Minn. natives Dave Simonett (guitar), Tim Saxhaug (bass), Dave Carroll (banjo), Erik Berry (mandolin) and Ryan Young (fiddle).
The group's title may seem humorous, but when asked where it came from, Berry said, "I wish there was a great story but there isn't, we were just brainstorming and it was hated the least."
This year marks the band's 10th anniversary, and in that time they have gained a strong fan following.
"It's pretty crazy. Outside of my parents and sister I haven't been in a relationship with anything for ten years," Berry said. "It's mind blowing, but it makes sense because it has always felt natural, easy and unforced. There's really been no reason why this shouldn't have kept going." In celebration, the band will perform in April and May at small
Minnesota venues to bring homage to their state.
The band's latest album, "Stars and Satellites," was released last April and since then they have kept busy with touring, playing festivals and appearing on late night television.
"We've had a really busy touring year," said Berry. "We've had a lot of high points, but it was a lot of work."
Considering that the group has played at Newport Folk Festival, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo and Outside Lands, to name a few—in addition to performing on David Letterman and Conan—down time has been scarce.
Although the group is focusing on promoting its album, Berry said that, "next year we will have more time off and more down time, and then we will start to focus on the future. To give ourselves the mental head space to do so, we need to take that break."
The show starts at 8 p.m. and is open to all ages. Tickets are $22.
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LOS ANGELES — Fans who marveled at Beyonce's prowess when she ripped out her in-earmonitor during Monday's national anthem at President Obama's inauguration might prepare to be disappointed.
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Suspicious arise that Beyonce, Marine Corps Band used pre-recorded tracks
POLITICS
Suspicions that the anthem performed by Beyonce and the U.S. Marine Corps Band used pre-recorded backing tracks—as documented by Los Angeles Times reporters on hand for the inauguration, among others—were confirmed when Marine Corps band
Beyonce performs the National Anthem at the inauguration ceremonies at the U.S. Capitol Monday. Fans and spectators alike were suspicious of its authenticity.
Will fans be slightly let down if the Beyonce they heard wasn't the singer "flying blind" and nailing the anthem on our nation's most hallowed ground? Given the gravity and audience of the event, it would make sense to take all measures to ensure quality musical accompaniment, so as not to let mistakes distract from the event.
Maybe fans should be happy knowing that she did give a ravishing performance of our national anthem—even if it was just in a studio, a few days ago.
RENO, Nev. — Long before Hostess Brands' plan to shut down made Twinkies the rage, Nancy Peppin found something special about the cream-filled snack cakes.
There's long precedent for using prerecorded music at inaugurals, due to the District of Columbia's tendency to be frigid in winter months, making it difficult for brass- and drum-heavy military bands to perform. Yo-Yo Ma used a similar tactic during his performance at Obama's last inaugural, as the temperatures made his cello difficult to play in tune.
spokeswoman told the Times of London that Beyonce made a last-minute decision to use pre-recorded music for her anthem performance.
"We did prerecord it and it was Beyonce's decision at the last minute to go with the prerecorded version," the spokeswoman told British paper. "We prerecorded all music as a matter of course and have done since time immemorial," she said. "This is our 54th inauguration ... There is no question of there not being any music—it's not because the performer cannot do it."
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It's not yet clear if Beyonce was singing live to a prerecorded vocal track, or if she was lip-syncing entirely (we've reached out to reps for both the Marine Corps band and Beyonce for clarification).
Artist features Twinkies in paintings
No, she doesn't have a sweet tooth for them.
The prolific Reno artist says she was first influenced to focus on Twinkies in 1975 by Andy Warhol, who demonstrated that even a Campbell's soup can could be an object of art.
But she has featured Twinkies in hundreds of pieces of quirky, satirical artwork because of an obsession with what she calls the "ultimate American food icon."
This undated image shows artist Nancy Peppin's "The Last Snack," modeled after Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper," one of the dozens of pieces of art Nancy Peppin has created over the years using Twinkies and other Hostess products.
"He showed you a new way of looking at a familiar object," said Peppin, who has sold and exhibited her artwork. "That's what I'm doing with Twinkies. I'm having
people look at Twinkies in a brand new way and in an entertaining way"
Shortly after Hostess Brands Inc. announced plans to go out of business last year, Peppin was among those who joined the rush to stores to fill shopping carts with boxes of the spongy cakes.
"I needed art supplies," said Peppin, who uses Twinkies and their packaging to create some of her pieces. She also features renderings of the snack cakes in watercolor paintings, mixed media, prints and artwork.
Her works include her "Twinkies in history series," which portrays how scientists such as John James Audubon, Charles Darwin and Leonardo da Vinci would have sketched and written about Twinkies in journals or books.
Peppin, an Oakland, Calif.
native who earned a bachelor's
degree in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966, conducted extensive research to make the series seem as authentic as possible.
The artwork reflects the offbeat sense of humor of a woman who by day creates special effects animation for Reno-based International Game Technology, one of the world's largest slot machine makers.
Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla., said he finds Peppin's artwork — and use of Twinkies as a metaphor to explore various subjects — clever, humorous and imaginative.
"In some ways, she takes this kind of silly art and treats it as a cultural artifact and imagines it as a subject of scientific studies," he said. "She's an excellent illustrator and the way she pulls these (works) together is amazing."
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