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Show I JFIR&nTlfT ill SECTION FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, EDITOR I Doug Fox 344-254- 6 2008 dfoxheraldextra.com CONCERT REVIEW Queensryclie rocks SLC, karaoke dude flops Doug Fox DAILY - HERALD It turns out this singing thing may not be quite as easy as a true 77 77 pro can make it appear. That was the brutal lesson one contestant learned Tuesday night at Queensryche's sold-ou- t concert at the Depot in Salt Lake City, As part of a promotion for its new covers record, "Take Cover," Queensryche is holding a highly glorified karaoke contest at each of the stops on its current tour. Three contestants are preselected, usually through radio station contests, and they perform portions of their chosen songs to a backing tape prior to the start of the actual concert. A winner is chosen, using a decibel meter that rates crowd applause, and that Vocalist is invited back at the end of the night to sing the full song with Queensryche during the encore segment. Two of the three contestants Tuesday did excellent jobs in their . would-b- e o auditions. One perform- er did not. It was somewhat painful to watch the crowd almost instantly turn on the one overmatched contestant who,, truthfully, looked more the part of an Elder's Quorum president than a potential rock star. He gamely fought through the initial booing for a slight reprieve, but then his voice started cracking in a few places and, well, let's just say there were with no requests for an encore or without Queensryche. To make matters worse, while measuring crowd noise to rate the performance, Queensryche tour manager Adam Parsons had to specifically point out to the crowd that booing would register the same as applause on the decibel meter, so if they didn't want to vote for that contestant then they needed to remain silent. Northstar Village catches up to the mountain as attraction J3ary ties. REGISTER M ht Ray-Bans- ). catch-ya-nev- three-quarte- release "Bridge." "Well, we have a lot of music to play for you tonight," Tate told the fired-u- p crowd early in the show. "We are going to take you all over the place i all over the Queensryche landscape." The album that was the greatg est beneficiary of the Ritz-Carlto- back-catalo- approach was the 1986 the release "Rage for Order" band's second full studio record. Queensryche played four songs See Warner ORANGE COUNTY n Queensryche lead vocalist Geoff Tate had no such problems with the crowd as his band took the stage later that evening. Band members casually strolled out, sans intro tape, and, after a few brief comments by Tate, launched into "Burning Man" off the 1999 album "Q2K." In a phone interview the week before the concert, Tate said the band was delving deep into its back catalog this tour. His assessment certainly proved accurate on Tuesday as the first of the set featured mostly deep album cuts and really only that one known radio single largely being the played-todaw A. I arrived to find what was advertised as a village experience was more like a construction site with y beef was never with one restaurant, a coffee cart and a lot the bowl. I wasn't angry at of exposed insulation flapping in the breeze. The rooms were worn out. Woodcutter or Grouse During a snowstorm, it was a two-hoAlley, fuming at Side- wait for dinner at the one eatery winder or Lower Jibboom. You wouldn't catch me dead on Rail Spliopen in the village. I don't need to pay tter. Well actually, Rail Splitter would $300 a night to hear a kindergartner probably kill me outright. But dead or scream "I'm hungry!' I can get that for free. alive, I had no quarrel with that black After two days of a "mandatory" diamond monster. three-nigIt wasn't the slopes or the quads or stay, I left in a huff. But fair is fair and after a harsh the triples or the hot chili at the lodge that had me fuming at critique in these pages, I've returned Northstar-at-TahoIt certainly wasn't twice since to check things out and all that white powder so bright if made want to signal, at long last, a big "all clear." Northstar finally shines. While my eyes hurt (it's a long way back to some nostalgic types may miss the the car for the ramshackle charm of the old Northstar Still, Northstar and I had a tiff. A bye-byVillage, there is no denying that the place now has the cachet to compete breakup. in league with Squaw Valley down the See, it may all be about the mounroad. tain for those that ski. The arrival of the Village is just in But I don't ski. I take people skiing. I bring family and friends to the time for Northstar's 35th anniversary. And while I might prefer some peace slopes for days of downhill fun while I shiver as the designated cocoa and and quiet around the place, the buildpizza delivery guy. Four or five hours ing isn't stopping altogether. East outfit that is as the goggle and glove caddy. Tying West, the Colorado-base- d shoes. Helping with bindings, trackpumping money into Northstar, plans a partnership with Hyatt to create ing down sunscreen, evolving into a timeshare residences. A bit more flash human coat rack when the sun hits it schedis expected at the zenith and all my crew want to strip uled to open at Northstar next year. down to shirtsleeves. It's the marquee name among a small My payoff is down the hill, at the end of the day. In "the Village." Apres-sk- i, slew of luxury lodgings to premiere as the Lake Tahoe resorts try to position or after ski, as the saying goes. themselves as a swanky destination in And Northstar did me wrong. Two years ago, I came to Northstar, league with Aspen and Vail in Colorab lured in part by a glossy brochure in do, Park City in Utah, in British Columbia and Sun my local Big 5 Sporting Goods shops touting the great new evening ameni THE Ouch! forgotten-tomorro- v m i y ii lit QGnpitions l Whistler-Black-com- See D2 NORTHSTAR, CONCERT, D2 There's a first time for every award She's a bit overwhelmed by it all, too. But she's wearing theSring that her husband ; of 56 years, the late Ossie Davis, put on y her finger "for hick" as she makes her You've seen that look before, the one "Juno" star Ellen Page and other first-tim- e Academy Awards appearance Sunday Oscar nominees sport when on TV night. . "I know a little of what (Ellen) is going or gracing magazine covers, chatting about "the Oscars." The phrase "deer in through. I too was intimidated when it was announced, had a real headlights" comes to mind The star of the comedy about a sarcas- on this whole Oscar thing. But even if tic, sweet and pregnant teen who decides you don't win, you should go." the to have a baby is a veritable babe in the Marjane Satrapi, 38, animated film version of her life's story, woods herself. She turned 21 this week. told in her autobiographical graphic nov"It's been something I try and roll X with," she says with a nervous laugh. "Of el "Persepolis." It's about growing up in course, it's been very unexpected, this revolutionary Iran, rebelling against the mullahs, moving to Western Europe and overwhelming reaction to this little film we did. The awards, all of this, even if I rediscovering her Iranian roots, a lot for KEVORK DJANSEZIANAssociated Press probably won't win, is just very surreal." KEVORK DJANSEZIANAssociated Press an animated film to chew oa She's also Oscar nominee. And like Dee a first-timEllen Page, nominated for actress Ruby Dee is seen backstage with Ruby Dee, at 83, is also a and Page, she's a long shot. She knows nominee. She's up for best supporting the Chairman's award at the in a leading role, for "Juno, " that all the smart "best animated film" actress for her work opposite Denzel 39th NAACP Image Awards on poses for a photograph in "American in in Los 14 4. Feb. Feb. money is on "Ratatouille," the Disney- on Gangster." Hills, Washington Calif., Angeles. Beverly Roger Moore THE ORLANDO ; SENTINEL ' ' ' fear-to-tre- d : first-tim- e e Pixar cartoon about a French rat who longs to be a chef . "Of course I have a shot," Satrapi says, with a little too much of a giggle to be convincing. "Normally, a film like this would never earn an Oscar nomination, serious animation, and animation at that. To many people, animation is a genre, a children's genre, so we also have the movie about penguins "Surf's Up" and the movie about the rat who likes to cook. But to me, animation is just the medium for the story I wanted totelL" She has her fingers crossed, but she's looking for support against the Mouse's rat cartoon in every corner. "You hope I win, dont you?" Every Oscar night has its favorites, and Julie.Christie ("Away From Her") and Marion Motillard ("La Vie En Rose") e See (i NOMINEES, D2 |