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NEW STUDENT EDITION 2006
THE LIST
Five upcoming
attractions
Some of the following events are hotly antici-
pated debuts while others are already arts
and entertainment perennials. Either way,
make sure to free up some time - they'll definitely
be worth your while.
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Royal Shakespeare Company
October - November 2006
Brit actor Patrick Stewart - better known as the "X-Men"
franchise's Magneto and Captain Jean-Luc Picard of "Star Trek"
- comes to Ann Arbor with the Royal Shakespeare Company. The
RSC holds down a three-week residency at the University in Octo-
ber and November, performing "The Tempest," "Julius Caesar" and
"Antony and Cleopatra." Be excited for some "A & C": No character
embodies the word "bitch" - in all of its pejorative and empower-
ing meanings - as Antony's "old Egypt."
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Justin Timberlake
FutureSex/LoveSounds
Sept. 12,2006
OK, this doesn't directly have to do with Ann Arbor, but Timber-
lake's sophomore album is one of the season's most hyped. Whether
the rest of the album sounds like the strangely robotically erotic lead
single, time will tell; it's already inspired New York Times critic
Kelefa Sanneh's line "it seems his assault on the lowly sbace bar
WillNotEnd/AnytimeSoon." Brilliant.
"Apocalypto"
Dec. 8, 2006
So we originally had something here about Mel Gibson
hating Jews as a joke, but as it turns out, he beat us to the
punch. Good work, Mel.
"Harry Potter VII"
July 2007
Rumor has it the last book of J.K. Rowling's ridiculously popular
series will be released July 2007. That's still a considerable ways
away, but expect Borders Books and Music on Liberty Street to
throw a Potter party as they did for the past books.
Shostakovich Centennial Festival
October 2006
The esteemed Kirov Orchestra returns to Hill Auditorium for per-
formances No. 3-5 to finish what they started last spring as a festival
series of Dmitri Shostakovich. Come celebrate the 100th anniversary
of Shosta's birth and hear for yourself some of the most striking, har-
rowing music ever composed.
- Kimberly Chou
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every student should
know before coming
to the University
Welcome back to the bottom of the food chain. Chicken
broccoli bake, new roommates, $5 cups of beer - the first year is looking up. Beware, though: While
you're sitting in a circle around any number of illegal substances with your 14 new best friends, the topic
of conversation may swerve uncomfortably toward what sounds like some staggeringly esoteric pop-
culture references. After all, you thought "The Old Man and the Sea" would
cover you for Hemingway, and what's with that "Forget it Jake, it's Ann
Arbor" line your roommate keeps throwing around? Don't look like a
PUBZ E ENEY
philistine. Daily Arts can get you in on the most widely abused pop-
culture references for your next four years.;You love us.
You stumble in with your extra-long
sheets and milk crates on move-in day, and
your roommate's already blasting Coldplay
on his laptop. Combat that shit: Whether on
vinyl, compact disc or cassette tape, these
are the albums you should already have in
your collection.
1.Public Enemy - It Takes aNation ofMil-
lions To Hold Us Back...
Modern political art rarely gets much bet-
ter. The most prolifically righteous rap group
of all time lets ringmaster Chuck D take
aim at 911, Reagan (adios, cowboy!),
smarmy journalists and white-washed
police forces over the break-beat sound
and fury of producers The Bomb Squad.
For rap in the 1980s, if N.W.A. was white
America's nightmare, Public Enemy was
the aware person's conscience. There's a
reason students in the former Yugoslavia
blasted this album as they overthrew Milos-
evic. Oh, and Flava Flav.
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greatest m
made -
of them
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1. "The Godfather
It doesn't get any bet
Though often pegged at
"Part II," Francis Ford Coppola
ushered in a new era in Hollywood is both a
landmark and a pre-college must see. There's
a good, violent, freely sprawling story of th
you in with the legitimate film kids, and th
time when a passing reference to the church-a
sequence will only get you so far. It's a movie
an industry, and one you'll never forget.
2. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The least conventionally satisfying of i
2. Pixies - Doolittle
When Kurt Cobain says "I was basically (re: Dave Matthews), The Pixies created and
trying to rip off the Pixies," you might want defined the title of the essential college-rock
to take notre. Before the days of cringe-wor- band. Make sure to listen to "Monkey Gone to
thy music blasting through porch speakers See MUSIC, Page 9D
not the Don't wait until your first H.D. Cameron lecture to
aovies ever realize that four years of high school haye left you laugh-
well, some ably ignorant. Bone up.
are - but
re no longer 1. "The Catcher in the Rye" - J.D. Salinger
why every- Ah, Holden Caulfield. More than just a blueprint
ur hall has for the rest of the world on how to deal with spiteful,
f Brad Pitt privileged, oh-so-witty youngsters (hey - sounds like
bar of soap, college freshmen!), J.D. Salinger's essential novel is the
us for mak- foundation of the postmodern, post-industrial ennui we
them. all like to believe we inhabit. An extended love/hate
relationship with the protagonist is practically a require-
ment for college.
ter than this.
notch below 2. "The Sun Also Rises" - Ernest Hemingway
a's film that Hemingway was a pretty messed-up guy, and the
filmmaking polar opposite of William Faulkner when it comes to
nothing like style. He doesn't waste words, and in this chronicle of
e mob to get the so-called Lost Generation, readers will get a perfect
ere'll come a example of Hemingway's distinct and
assassination well-known voice. There's also a
that defined pretty sexy woman, an absurd
(some would think biologi-
- cally impossible) amount
i" of alcohol and bullfights.
ndie mind- That's college, right?
fuck Charlie Kaufman's ingenious and outrageous-
ly high-minded screenplays is unquestionably his
most popular, and really, it's no wonder: More
than with any of his other work, this is ultimately
a story of love. Serious Jim Carrey is in, Kate Win-
slet with blue hair is still hot and just about any
movie with nonlinear structure can be passed off as
"deep." Trust us.
See FILMS, Page 9D
3. "The Bible"
Simply put, almost
all of our precious lib-
eral arts stem from this
book and the whole of
Greco-Roman culture.
If you haven't read the
See BOOKS, Page 9D
WHAT'S INSIDE
A2venues
A look at what Ann Arbor's finest entertainment
locales have to offer. PAGE 12D
BEAT MAEJOR
' student balances beats
with bluebooks. PAGE 2D
C. Wallace > T. Shakur
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