House Call: Bill Bellamy
set to appear in Chapel
By Tamara Dunn
Bill
Bellamy, the actor and comedian of MTV fame, is at it again. With a
new television series debuting on the WB network and a stand-up comedy
tour, Bellamy is building his reputation as a multifaceted performer.
Jump,
Little Children gives 'Vertigo' to full house at Ziggy's
By Elizabeth Turnbull
A
head-banging bassist, a cello, and a miniature pink guitar combined
to form an exciting, energy-charged Jump, Little Children concert Oct.
6 at Ziggy’s.
'Butterfly'
takes to the sky
By Bethany Dulis
There’s
more than one game in town. For students seeking a cultural counterpoint
last weekend to their night at the Dixie Classic Fair, the Piedmont
Opera Company offered the perfect complement with a performance of Giacomo
Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. The first of two works in the company’s
2001-2002 season, the tragic opera had three performances in the School
of the Arts’ Stevens Center downtown. With English subtitles to
the Italian libretto projected above the stage, the two and a half hour
performance was sung by an international cast, which included adjunct
music professor Laura Ingram Moore in the role of Kate Pinkerton.
New
Garbage album lacks gothic sound
By Ethan Dougherty
Garbage
burst onto the national music scene in 1995, driven by the sexy hum
of Scottish singer Shirley Manson’s unique voice and the drumming
of lauded producer Butch Vig (the Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana), and became
an almost-instant hit with their surreal single “Stupid Girl.”
The band’s sophomore effort, 1998’s Version 2.0, combined
Manson’s furious singing with referential lyrics and sprawling
synthetic sounds to make a brilliant, if not groundbreaking, piece of
madness. All signs were in favor of their third release, beautifulgarbage
(Interscope, 2001), being an even edgier and louder follow-up. Unfortunately,
these signs were a bit premature.
Washington,
Hawke team up in good cop/bad cop thriller 'Training Day'
By Ernie Hatfield
Topping
the box office in its first weekend of release, Training Day, starring
Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke, delves deeply into the underworld
of narcotics on the mean streets of L.A. Chocked full of wicked gunplay,
twisted plot developments and stellar acting, it is one of the best
cop films to hit the theaters in recent years.
Johnson
sets indie rock ablaze with 'Brushfire'
By Hayley Sanders
Indie
solo artist Jack Johnson fuses honest, refreshingly rhythmic acoustic
ballads with roots rock and a bluesy, folksy twang on his latest album,
Brushfire Fairytales.
Flavored
condoms add more pleasure to intimacy
By Brandy Jones
The
lights are low. Soft music plays in the background. Candles, while illegal
in dorm rooms, are lit, providing a soft glow on two people sitting
on a dirty, smelly and quite possibly diseased second-hand couch.
