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Show VOLUME LI • ISSUE 33 LIFE WWW.UVUREVIEW.COM JUNE 6, 2011 Summer Movie Previews and Predictions PART ONE This story is still in development. Be sure to check for updates online at uvureview.com Cannonized Cinema By KELLY CANNON Life Editor PHOTO COURTESY OF DONNA FAIRBANKS Although having the Wind Symphony perform at the London Olympics would be a huge opportunity, the $250,000 price tag may prevent the trip. This is the first of a threepart series . The first will discuss movies being released in June of 2011. The second will discuss movies being released in July 2011 and will be published on June 20. The last will discuss movies being released in August 2011 and will be published on July 5. It's that glorious time of year for cinephiles. It's the time for which we save up our hard-earned income, live at the movie theaters and survive off a balanced diet of soda & popcorn. It's summer, which means summer movies! Oh frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! As starving students, our money is precious. We can't afford to waste money on lousy movies. But fear not. I have taken the liberty of dividing up the main films being released in June into three convenient categories: Go See It, Wait for Redbox and Don't Waste Your Life. Heed my advice and you'll enjoy the best movies this summer has to offer. X-Men: First Class June 3 Action-Adventure/Drama PG-13 I'm sorry, I didn't see X-Men: Last Stand or XMen Origins: Wolverine. I was bored with the franchise. But this movie looks refreshing. It has a brand new cast, focusing on how Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr, a.k.a. Magneto, went from being friends to enemies. Set during the Cuban Missile Crisis, it offers a new twist to how history could have been. Verdict: Go See It. Ironclad June 8 Action-Adventure Rated R Described as a "Medieval Magnificent Seven," Ironclad focuses on a few men defending a castle from being captured by a corrupt king. From the looks of it, it's light on plot and heavy on gratuitous stylized violence, with a hint of a Braveheart mentality. If raw hand-to-hand combat is your thing, then this movie definitely provides that. Verdict: Wait for Redbox. Wind Symphony to perform 2012 Olympics...maybe Student musicians have a chance to perform for the world at the 2012 London Olympics. The only thing stopping them is funding. By JEFF JACOBSEN Life Writer Digging through a cardboard box in the corner of his office, Director of Bands Jim Colonna pulls out a proposed itinerary pamphlet for the Wind Symphony, detailing a potential trip to London to perform at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Flipping through the pages past details about performances and accommodations, he stops at a page and points to the $4,095-perperson bottom line. A conference call with a representative for KI Concerts, a special interest travel agency, and a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in March solidified the invitation extended to Colonna and the 54-member UVU Wind Symphony. According to Colonna, the match was made when he was asked what he would program for a concert if they were able to go. "I started listing pieces, and I could hear him and another man from England saying, 'Yes, that's exactly what we're looking for!' It seems like making sure the Wind Symphony made it to London for the games would be a no-brainer, but securing nearly $250,000 is a daunting task for any university. Even if knowledge of the trip were part of budget planning a year ago, the funds would have been difficult to arrange. "It's stuck. We were "I don't think there is any doubt in anyone's mind that this ought to happen," -Barbara Hammond Assistant Dean to the School of the Arts. said. "I don't think there is any doubt in anyone's mind that this ought to happen," said Barbara Hammond, Assistant Dean to the School of the Arts. Hammond has been working tirelessly for over a month to find donors to support the trip. "We don't have the money so we have to turn to the community, to busi- nesses and philanthropists." The faculty members working to make this trip agree that as far as funding goes, it's all or nothing. "I don't think it's an option to put the funding on the students...either we send the whole wind symphony, or we don't," Hammond said. Hanging up the phone from the unexpected IOC conference call, Colonna's mind spun. With tenure on the horizon, the repercussions of an opportunity like this would brighten the gaze of any professor. Colonna's first thought, however, was of his students. "What I did was I grabbed the first student that was in the hallway and said, `Come in here. I gotta tell you something.' They could tell it was something good that was up. I told them, 'We just got invited to play at the 2012 Olympics...in London!' What a great experience for all of my students!" According to Dean K Newell Dayley of the UVU School of the Arts, a performance tour is "a wonderful opportunity for students tc mature and form lasting relationships with the culture and people they visit." It is clear talking with Dayley that if it were up to him, funding would not be an issue. "This university is severely under funded. It doesn't receive the level of funding that other institutions in the state do, and yet it's achieving more for less," Dayley said. While the reality of a trir to the London 2012 Olympics may lie at the mercy of altruistic community members and business owners, the continued success of the wind symphony is a responsibility that the faculty and student musicians already own. Professor wins Chef of the Year By CHRIS DREW Life Writer This year the Best Chef of the Year Award given by the American Culinary Federation was awarded to Certified Executive Chef and culinary professor Todd C. Leonard on May 2. The rigorous competition was held in Scottsdale Arizona from April 29 through May 2. Leonard competed against four equally seasoned chefs from WA, VA, AZ and CO before being named as Best Chef of The Year in the Western Region. The American Culinary Fed- erations National Convention will be held at the Gaylord Texan restaurant in Grapevine, Texas on July 24 — 25. There, Leonard will compete against the three other ACF Regional winners. Leonard won the competition by preparing a Prosciutto Wrapped Duck Roulade, a dish where a duck breast is stuffed with prosciutto, or thinly sliced ham, complimented with a port and morel mushroom jus, or sauce. This was served with chevre, a very distinguishable goat cheese and herb polenta gratin, a type of cornmeal with cheese melted on top until brown or crispy. Leonard also served tomato-stuffed mushroom and seared foie gras, an over fed goose or duck liver with silky texture and rich flavor. Leonard also included a side of sweat pea and vegetable medley. Raised in Cottonwood Heights, Utah, Leonard has been a resident of South Jordan for ten years. After he graduated with his Associates in Applied Sciences from the Salt Lake Community College for Culinary Arts, his admiration for cooking led him to become a Certi- fled Executive Chef, or CEC, from the American Culinary Federation. Leonard feels "school was a small glimpse" but has brought him much joy in educating others on and off campus. For the past four years, Leonard has taught classes here on campus. He taught basic foods classes the first two years and has since moved on to teaching advanced hot foods classes the past two years. Leonard has been grateful for the opportunities being a professor at UVU has brought him "I love Utah Valley University," Leonard PHOTO COURTESY OF DONNA FAIRBANKS UVU can claim top professor in field. said. "And I am grateful for my job, all the programs and the systems that are in place letting us compete." Life Section Online This Week on the Life Section's Podcast: Life Editor Kelly Cannon sits down with Robbie Pierce, a talented storyteller recently featured at the first Storytelling Night at Muse Music on May 26. Don't miss Robbie's true story of how he was cursed by a gypsy at age 17. Only at uvureview.com . Be sure to check out the Life Section's exclusive coverage of the Spectrum Club's participation in the Pride Parade on June 5. This is the first time UVU's Gay/Straight Alliance will join the Pride Parade as they march in downtown Salt Lake City. Interviews, photos and video can only be found at uvureview.com. 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