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Show ‘ a e TheKattLakeTribune NiCa E Faia CALENDAR STINGS, E-7-12 fl CLUBS & CONCERTS, E-14 ll DINING, E-15 >» CALENDAR RATED G FOR GREAT SHE’S NOT ALONE The Kids First! Film Festival, a touring exhibit of family-friendly movies and videos, comes to Utah this weekend. After a reception today at4 p.m.at the University of Utah’s Olpin Union Building, there will be sneak previews of “Trumpet of the Swan” and “Lady and the TrampII: Scamp’s Adventure,” at 6 p.m., followed by a screening of short films made by Utah schoolchildren. Saturday, movies will be shown in the U.’s Union Building, with movies for kids 2-to-6 and 6-to-12 years old, and at the Education Building, 1255 Park Ave. in Park City. Admissionis by donationof$1- $3; $5 for the Pop remake wonderTiffany, of “I Think We're Alone Now” fame, stopped in Utah during Sundance fora gig at a private party and returns this week. She'll perform twofree outdoor shows in. Utah County: at Brigham UJ Ook OE VULTURE ly BY DAN NAILEN MARCH 9, 2001 Young University, Provo, on Monday and at Utah Valley State College in Orem, on Tuesday. Theconcerts will be on the campus quadsat noon, and she is hoping for a crowd. sneak previews. loseph Meets Shady Whata difference an ocean makes en it comes to awards-showtelecasts. e Grammy Awards were generally a ring affair. Even the controversial Eminem/Elton John performance was sanitized for the homeaudience (note the ‘Jack ofcrotch grabs by the diminutive rapper). _~Last week’s Brit Awards, England’s equivalent awards show,was infinitely better. Fansinstead ofsuperstars filled the front rows; Eminem actually broke olit his chainsaw and“Friday the 13th”obtyle hockey mask for a medleyofhits, and Steely Dan was nowhere to be found. * Donny Osmond was presenter, and ina post-Brit Awards interview with the ‘eveland Plain Dealer, he revealed that iehad met Eminem,a k a Slim Shady, aKa Marshall Mathers, backstage. “J just have to shake your hand, just to ‘gay I met you,” Osmondsaid hetold the ‘firug-advocating, wife-beating, gun-toting srapper. To which Eminem reportedly replied, “Donny Osmond! Man! Your music réally influenced me! Yeah, man,I used to listen to your musicall the time!” Whyaren’t the cameras everrolling for those kind of exchanges? 5 Q Exporting the Hype Monday’s USA Today featured a “Life” section coverstory on Utah’s porn czar, Paula Houston, in which reporter Marco R. della Cava described Utah as “less a state and more nation within a nation.” To prove hispoint, della Cava de- scribes JoAnn Hibbert Hamilton, a Bountiful motherof21 kids (from two marriages and foster parenting) who wants magazines like Glamour and Redbook hidden from children,as “afairly typical resident”of the state. The reporteralso talked to Ray Hines, the Orem video-store entrepreneur who removes profanity, violence and/or nudity from customers’ tapes, on request. Hines is skeptical ~whether Utah needs the Obscenity and Pornography Complaints Ombudsman of- fice at all. “T’'m not so sure weneed her,” Hines told USA Today. “We're stocked with people with the highest moral values. I don’t know, maybe Nevadacan use her.” The Czar Speaks, Again » USA Today-was onein a longline ofinftérviews Houston granted in herfirst mipnth in the porn czar job. Aside from lo- Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune MasterLu teaches sword dancingat his studio at 3220 S.State St. in South Salt Lake, where about half the students are non-Asians intrigued by Chinese culture. THE MUSI OTION OF WHO WE ARE “cal media outlets, she has explained her job to the Los Angeles Times, Time magazine and Penthouse.com, amongothers. juIn the USA Today story, a few of Hous{gn’s quotes warranted their own section, including: On what's worthy of scrutiny: “I was “aka conference recently and I overheard ‘spmeonesay that a community [in another state] had managed to bah Cosmopolitan, andI thought, ‘Wow,I need to tlk to them.’” ‘©0npolitical matters:“I describe Utah as-conservative; and I am, too. Even. our liberals are conservative.” }=If you hear someone say “even our lib- eyals are conservative,”it's a pretty safe bet that person has never met an honestto-goodness, loud-mouthed liberal. a\ Qa One Powerful Sculpture | Hadtheartist been immortal, Tuesday uld have been Michelangelo’s 526th day. TheItalian is best remembered Folkloric dance finds outlets as explore new cultures or their own “Anyonecanlearn it at any age.” roots. As Utah Director of Polynesian Af- Yee teaches at Master Lu’s, 3220 S. State St. South Salt Lake, every fairs William Afeaki said, “Dance is Saturday at 2 p.m. Abouthalf her stu- part of our entertainment. How can we varied as its people celebrate without dance?” Dance instructor Rachel Yee teaches her students traditional Chinese dances like the ribbon, fan and cup dance every Saturday. With success of the movie “Crouch- dents are non-Asian — intrigued by the traditional dances, such.as those performed at Chinese New Year — and wanting to knowhow to do them. BYJESUS LOPEZ jR. THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Dance is a defining element of a culture — the languageis in thelyrics, and there is meaning in every sound European Folk: Margret Strickland, a dancer in her 60s, said folkloric dancing exposes people to new forms of music andofliving, but she does it for just the fun ofdancing. She studies mainly Eastern European folk dances from countries like Bulgaria, Poland and Ukraine, and takes an African dance class through Amazingly Graceful: Martha Veranth does Scottish country dances at BryantIntermediate School, 40 S. 800 Traditionally, the sword dance is East, Salt Lake City, Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. She says dance provides a used in martial-arts training — dancers use basic kung fu and t’ai chi sense of community. The dance's logical natureattracts ging fall under the name “folkloric ch’uan movesin their choreography. engineers and computer scientists. It is “It's tai chi-based,” Yee said. “Dance is my favorite way of sovery friendly physical exercise.” “Theylove to learn about the culwhat the meaningis,” and movement. Even the costumes reflect traditional dress. Today, dances like the hula, the sword dance, the hat dance and clogdance,” and Utahns can use them to Park. cializing,” Veranth said. “Dancingis a ture,” Yee said. “They wantto learn ing Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” Yee has seen renewed interest in the sword dance, performed in the film by Chow YunFat. Utahnscan see it performed at the AsianFestival this summer. recreational and formal situations in Scotland. The dance group performs ‘on summernights at Sugar House a dance that is still done in Repertory Dance Theater. Eastern European dance is based in See FOLKLORIC DANCE,Page E-6 for his fresco on theceiling of the Sistine Chapeland,of course, the statue of David, epnsidered by manythefirst sculpture to accurs ‘ely reflect the size of a man’s, er, um, “manhood.” Michelangelo funfact: According to the Wireless Flash News service, more Aerosmith, Just Pushing Itself This Time than 100 foreign tourists have had heart attacksor fainted after viewing David. BY DAN NAILEN ‘No,they weren't shocked puritanical | “Stendhal Syndrome,” a mysterious con- On“Just Push Play,” Aerosmith’s Toxic Twins |dition brought on by too muchnatural ec- decided they stasy. Italian psychiatrists claim it usually affects middle-aged English or French women “whoare single and very ‘pmotional.” * Q Singer Steven Tyler andguitarist J e Perrystill ‘Shrub Speaks ei would rather be the Chemical Brothers. (f\eThis week's George W. Bushism,reseounted in The Slate Book ofthe Accidenjal Wit and Wisdom ofOur 43. d President, vedmes from a Los Angeles speech April 7, 2000. Considerit a celebration of The Vulture’s flight next week to the president's hipmestate: ».|. “I was raised in the West. The west of 'Qexas.It's pretty close to California. In Jdbre ways than Washington,D.C., is Plose to California.” v ownstudios withlittle outside interference, Tyler, Perry, guitarist Brad Whitford, bassist Tom ‘THESALT LAKE TRIBUNE rtypes; the tourists were victims of groundtheir songs inriff-he: but throughout “Just Push Pl ering R&B, their first new expected when Tyler and Perry announced they album in four years, released Tu lay, they hint of would be producing themselves, If anything, they Play” is not the lo-fi experimental sound many a fascination with electronica REVIEW sounds and themes, “Beyond Beautiful” opens hee album with samples mixed with sitars. Thetitle track starts with a drum'n’ bass: Style beat, then breaks out some hip-hop scratching. Psyched imagerypops up inat least half the songs, The: even a tunecalled “Trip Hoppin,’" for goodness’ one-upped Ballard’s overproducing tendencies, Surprising as the modern flourishes are, “Just Push Play”remains distinctly Aerosmith. Tyler's wailis in fine form,his lyrics still obsessed with love, lust and lechery. Perry's guitar, sometimes buried in the heavy production,slices through the mush ata moment's notice, with Whitfordholding down the rhythm-guitar slot, Hamilton and sake, Kramer are a solid rhythm section, even leading What's going on with these 50-something dudes whose first album came out some 28 years ago? Tyler and Perry produced “Just Push Play” them selves . Hamilton and drummer Joey Kramer must have felt free to try any aural trick that struck their collective fancy. While their last album, 1997's Glen Ballard-produced “Nine Lives,” featured production that was downrightglossy, “Just Push that might explainit. Recording in their a the band forward in songs like “Beyond Beautiful.” The midtempo “Jaded,” the album's first single See AEROSMITH,Page E-16 |
