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Show TTTlIll Hi 5B8SS5BS in rggmajiwM Olo " We are on the lookout for i! theater and music critics for spring semester. If you think youve got what it takes to be I j the voice of authority, contact Rhiannon Bent to join us! bentdixie.edu Pickens Festival set to ring in the season MICHAEL CHRISTENSEN Staff Writer A at this years Dick-Christm- lists many phrases and greeting for vendors to learn and memorize. Cheerio! Due to limited room and rules and regulations, not every business that submits an application to participate in the festival is accepted. "When selecting vendors for the festival we look for vendors," said festival event coordinator Melissa Dailey. "We look for hand crafted and homemade merchandise that vendors sell." This is the ninth year the Dickens Festival has been presented in St. George. This year the festival will also be held in Salt Lake Z starting Dec. 9. The Dickens Festival Z first started in Salt Lake 30 years ago, Dell said. I was a little match girl at th age of four. Prices for admission are $6 for adults, $4 for sen- iors, $4 for children ages 4 12 and children under 3 get! in for free. "This festival has a great family friendly Dailey said. "It's a to start as a tradition great Christ- the family during " mas season." as Festival the nhere sights and sounds ((nineteenth century Lon-jo- o will come alive. (he Dickens Christmas festival will be held Dec. 1 4 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. the Dixie Convention (enter, 1835 Convention (enter Drive. The festival represents spirit of Christmas in unique time in London r ' 4 V jte he Turing ap- residents will Local jther the festival. The vendor plication page at the nineteenth cen- - nry feels like you are steppiin time into old back ng "It said festival Brittany Dell. Its a nn shopping and entertainment experience. The smell of tasty food id the sound of entertain-nen- t in the distance is all irt of the ambience at the astival. There is street the-'e- r London, V or being performed dur-igt- he festival as well as replays A Christmas arol and Oliver Twist. While visitors stroll along aoth by booth they will holiday decor, craft 'eas, innovative toys, rack booths, caricature joths and other creative e resentations. t resident Tom Parker poses in his Santa Claus costume. Parker plays Saint Nicholas during the Dickens Festival. The festival will be held at the Dixie Convention Center, 1835 Convention Center Drive, today through Saturday from 10 a.m. until 9 p.m. St. George There are over 200 craft, food, entertainment and learning booths, Dell said. There is also a fun candle dipping booth. Vendors can use pop up tents or old carts for their booths. The tents and carts must be decorated to represent old time London. Booths that are not deco rated are not allowed at the festival. Vendors must also be in costume. There are three classes that vendors can choose to dress up as. The simple folk are part of the lower class and are street vendors. The simple folk are known to be very casual, friendly, bantering and somewhat loud. The shopkeepers are classified as the middle class and are merchants. They pose as hard workers who are industrious and proper. The last class is the upper class: the lords and ladies. They are formal, refined and somewhat snooty and proper. Festival coordinators would like vendors to choose a class that will represent the vendors personality, the merchandise they are selling, and the ability to market their product. After vendors walk the walk, they must also talk the talk. Coordinators of the festival expect vendors to brush up on their old English and speak it during - atmos-phere- ," artists Latest Harry Potter movie ivork showcased additional controversy brings at North Plaza Alumnus ec geek, and had a different take. I thought it was ridiculous that people refused to watch the film," Baldwin said about the claims by some residents who boycotted the film due to that content. Baldwin said the content of the film was darker than the prior six. In the opening scene the antagonist speaks to his inner circle, all the while a dying professor floats suspended by magic while wearing a tortured expression. BY TAYLOR GRIN Staff Writer STEVIE DUTSON Staff Writer his experience at DSC was very enjoyable because there was a sense of kinship with the years ago artist laryl C. Wilson found himself Kquently writing in his jour-2- 1 But each entry didn't con'- professors. I felt like having smaller classes allowed me to develop my skills," he said. "It seemed like I belonged there." Wilson later moved to northern Utah to get his degree in art, but then he switched to international business for a more sustaining career. But he continued to make art a part of his life and even branched out more into poetry, photography and even a little sculpture. Although he is talented at many forms of art, Wilson said he doesnt have a favorite. It just depends on how I want to express myself, he said. Its like clothes. One day you want to wear jeans. The next, you want to wear a sharp suit. It all depends. Over 10 years Wilson created a variety of creative works and compiled many of them for the North Plaza ait showcase. All but one of the pieces in the show are for sale. The pamtings in the showcase are all abstract works. Wilson said he prefers abstract painting because if he wanted to capture a scene with realistic detail he would just take a picture of it. He said abstr act works allow him to be freer in his expression. I try to include texture, color complements and composition in my paintings he said. "By BY About s! 1 of his 1 activities, tod, each page was filled A sketches, paintings and tens that captured the emote he felt during that day. Wilson continues to express teelf creatively and has an assortment of Mings, photographs and tens for a unique showcase 'Gently being displayed in the ''orth Plaza at Dixie State Col-l;g- e. day-to-d- ay ed student art showcase is Mon by the Dixie State Colli6 art department to feature :,e'vork of a student, alumnus Community member, fts just something we do on 'teion, DSC art professor kinis Martinez said. said the department likes lsPotlight artists whose work tributes greatly to the art l0umunity. This showcases artist, Wil-'attended DSC 1 1 years Martinez said even back tei Wilson rose above many Tthe other students. TTaryl had taken a few art kses from me," he said. I "ays noted his creativity." Wilson was an art major at time and surrounded him-Tfvvi- th all things creative, Staking classes to serving a Model for art professor Del teons classes. Wilson said see ARTIST page 8 If nothing else, this can be said about the Harry Potter franchise: It has an unparalleled capacity to cause debate and discussion. The premier of the first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, was met with critical acclaim from some media arid bans and calls of blasphemy from the religious right. It should be no surprise that The Deathly Hallows Part One has stirred up just as much controversy and conversation as a way to round out the penultimate film in the series. Criticisms of the film abound. Here in Utah it seems the biggest hang-u- p has been over the now infamous nude scene involving Potter and Granger, who are played by Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson. The scene, which portrays Ron Weasley, played by Rupert Grint, confronting his inner fears and insecurities shows the former two actors in an embrace. They are nude, but detail is masked entirely below the waist and the is blocked from top-u- p showing any egregiously scandalous skin. Chelsey Baldwin, a senior mathematics major from St. George, styles herself as a Harry Potter Hnwj The film was definitely more graphic; It was on the dark and scary side, Baldwin said. The professors death was totally unneeded. Despite it being more graphic, the movie has made $220 million thus far. This places it as the 10th y gross for greatest Hollywood films, and the best earnings for a Harry Potter film so far, according to the CNN report Harry Potter ekes out Friday victory by John Young published Nov. 29 n fi , ,t . see POTTER page A 1 Tf t "4! v x- - 1 ( i lJ 1 i ? n 1 .A . 'iDSC students who dressed up at the midnight showing of Harry Potter and the the second Deathly Hallows competed for awards and prizes. Some patrons hope first. , the film will have something more to offer than , .'! iron j J on CNN.com. This has made some peo- pie feel as though the filmmakers are only milking . out the franchise before it ends. It seems like they could have made the film longer and put it all in one, and people would have sat through it, said Jake Rasmussen, a freshman major from Santa Clara. Rasmusssens biggest complaint about the movies 10-da- r I 8 |