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Show Trie College Times MONDAY, OCTOBER'29, 2007 Royal Palace hosts open mic show Atmosphere in Salt Lake City White hip hop pleases crowd Erik Frederickson Life writer The underground urban hip-hop group Atmosphere stopped in Salt Lake City on October 11 and rocked the nightclub In The Venue. They pleased a receptive crowd until the late hours of the night after a handful of opening acts warmed the up the stage for the Minnesota natives. It's not very often a hip hop group, especially one as well established as Atmosphere, take the stage without all the lights, jewelry, dancers and slick attire to spice up the show. They came out dressed down disregarding all the hoopla and Slug didn't miss a beat with his latest appearance of a long hair and a mustache. Slug had no accompaniment of a hype man or Erik Frederickson Life writei See HIP HOP • B3 Luke Hkkman Ah, Wilderness' set, designed by Steve Purdy. Bluesjam gains momentum Into the great wide open Wilderness in Ragan Every first Thursday of the month at the Royal Palace Theater in Spanish Fork (located at 165 N Main St) the "BluesJam" rocks the house. Local blues artists play for a couple hours. And it doesn't disappoint. The BluesJam has been jamming since December '99, and it's showing no signs of slowing down. The artists are playing simply for the love of the music and when you see them on stage, it's obvious that they are having tons of fun. The Royal Palace Theater is an intimate and quality venue. There is no cover charge to BluesJam-only a donation jar passed around. This last BluesJam, the host band was Good Karma and they where fantastic. They played cover songs and originals. Good Karma never missed a beat, even though most of the songs were performed with artists they had never played with. They do not make money from- the event, but when you see how much fun they're having on stage, you'd think they were getting rich off of it. The whole concept to the event is to get people involved and, most importantly, have fun playing blues. Anyone that wants can get up and rock out with the band. They had vocalists, guitarists, drummers, harmonica players-even a beat boxer got up and let loose with Good Karma to Jimi Hendrix's See OPEN MIC - 03 Luke Hickman Life editor N ow playing the Student Center's Ragan Theater is professor John Graham's simply entertaining rendition of Eugene O'Neill's classic comedy Ah, Wilderness. Ah, Wilderness is the projection of experiences O'Neill wished would've taken place in the earlier years of his life-his first love, family conflicts and experiments with rebel lion-through the eyes of the lead character, Richard Miller. Once Richard's future father-in-law bans him from being with his true love, the rebellion begins. UVSC's production of Ah, Wilderness is perfectly well rounded. Playing Richard is Wesley Tolmann, whose performance of the "nice guy trying to be bad guy" is smooth and very fun to watch. His softon-the-inside, trying-to-be-rough-onthe-outside parents are played perfectly by the mesmerizing Jeremy Minagro and "everybody's mom" Laura Garner. And with a large cast of memorable side characters, Ah, Wilderness lacks nothing in the acting department (pun intended). Though the set appears cold and insufficient as one enters the theater, upon seeing it applied, it fits the feel, mood and purpose of the show exactly. The simple design reemphasizes the pure, simple-natured theme of the play. At no point during Ah, Wilderness does itfeel slow or lagging; it's pacing keeps you Ah, Wilderness interested through the entire two-hour Where: Ragan Theater UVSC performance. When When:Mon,Oct29-Sat, Nov3 the lights come up Cost: $6 students, again, one's ' left $8 UVSC faculty/ with a warm taste of early 1900s Ameristaff and seniors, cana and a reassur$10gen. admission. ance of why families and parents hold an influential crucial role in this society. Ah, Wilderness finishes its run this week with performances Monday through Saturday, with the exception of Halloween on Wednesday. For more information, visit Campus Connection or call (801) 863-8797. Rocking out for a cause Benefit for Wheelchair Foundation Lindsay Johnson Life writer To support the Wheelchair Foundation, a group of local college students held their sixth "Rock the Block" benefit concert and dance party Friday, Sept. 28 in the Reams's parking lot on University Parkway. DJs Kendall and FUJ donated their time and talents spinning on the main stage to pack the spacious venue, while a slideshow recycled images of previous trips the See ROCKING • B4 Wes Anderson not Limited at all Darjeeling takes fans on new emotional ride ligent humor that Anderson their father's death. The has perfected, his audience journey that ensues doesn't Ufe editor is bigger than ever - except only take the brothers on an Several years back, only with his new film The Dar- emotional ride, but every a small number of self-pro- jeeling Limited, Anderson audience member, as well. claimed elitists knew writ- is about to throw his fans Anderson's longtime er/director Wes Anderson off balance for the good. friend and collaborator (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, While still full of Ander- Owen Wilson plays FranThe Royal Tenenbaums and son's humor, The Darjeel- cis, the always-in-charge, The Life Aquatic With Steve ing Limited is more serious, bossy brother whose face dramatic and emotional is heavily bandaged nearly ,.,• Now that networks have than anyone would expect.. the entire film. Co-writer beien producing mainstream Darjeeling tells the story of Jason Schwartzman plays shbw$ (like Arrested De- the three Whitman broth- Jack, the lonely, low selfvelopment) that introduce ers' adventure to strengthen esteemed brother who lives nu4ienjces to the same type their friendship on a spiriof ""punchline-less," intel- tual retreat in India after See DARJEELING * 03 Luke Hickman - • • ! - Fox Searchlight The Whitman brothers, played by (left toright)Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody and Owen. WiUqn.,,^,,.. |