2B - Thursday, January 22, 2009 C NbAR The Daily Arts guide to upcoming events in Ann Arbor and the surrounding area. Today 1.22.09 Presenting the Past: Upoming Exhibitions in the New Kelsey Museum 6 p.m. At the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Free MCSP Film Series Presents: "Lost Boys of Sudan" with Guest Speaker Jacob Atem 6:30 p.m. Downtown Ann Arbor District Library Free Tomorrow 1.23.08 Charles C. Steidel: "Witness- ing the Formation of Galaxies" 7:30 p.m. At the Chemistry Building, Room 1800 Free The Macpodz 8 p.m. At the Ark $t5 Saturday 1.24.08 Ford Honors Program: Honor- ing the Royal Shakespeare Company, Michael Boyd and Ralph Williams 6 p.m. At Rackham $20 for students Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas 8 p.m. At the Ark $20 Sunday 1.25.08 World Tour: Sharing Culture and Traditions 6 p.m. At Michigan Union Ballroom Free Pleasensend all press releases and event information to arts@michigandaily.com. The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com High five A notable Ann Arborite gives five answers to a curious question. Bruce Conforthi Letuorer, Program in Amtricatn Cultrc IDepartmcnt What are your favorite blues songs? Robert Johnson, "Crossroad Blues" - A delta blues masterpiece and the perfect match of intensity between hard pushed vocals, heavily strained guitar and desperate lyrics. Muddy Waters, "I Can't be Satisfied" - Muddy's breakout disc that sold out in one day and really marked the beginning of the Chicago blues soundt it still holds up today assa classic. B.B. King, "How.Blue Can You Get?" - His vocals from his prime in his epic 1964 live performance at the Regal Theater in Chicago leave listeners in awe; he works the crowd into such a frenzy that it almost explodes. "Blind" Willie Johnson, "It's Nobody's Fault but Mine" - A marvel of facile bottleneck slide guitar-playing that straddles that never-never land of the spiritual and secular. John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, "Have You Heard?" - Reveals Eric Clapton still hungry and playing, as Muddy Waters used to describe it, "behind the note" in a solo fraught with great musical tension. SIN G LE R EVIE W . GET OLDER DAN DEACON After an in-your-face debut that giddily pushed the limits of campy funhouse electronics, Dan Deacon has pushed too hard. "Get Older" starts off with all the promising symptoms of an Atari-on-acid head trip: AOL dial-up tones, a tonm- battering drumbeat and ADD xylophone buffeting, all synced together in perfet rhythmic concord. But the head trip soon rots to ab hedache as the same overzeal- ous samples loop incessantly for six migraine-inducing minutes without any sense of attack or release. Of Deacon's going to continue building his career upon jokey electronica, he'd better come up with material that's actually funny. Because his isn't. I I ONLINE GAMES OF THE WEEK I ICE BREAKER TIME4CAT Your Viking companions are stuck The object of the g inside the ice, and you have to cut them unique: Dodge pedestr free. It's up to you to figure out how to use lecting food. What sets 30 cuts or fewer to get your frozen friends is that the pedestriansc back into your boat. Prepare to encoun- you move (part of yo ter fuzzy monsters, tricky levers, obese powers), allowing yout women in lederhosen and much more. intricate dodges. The g "Ice Breaker" is worthwhile, with chai- listically cool; it someho lenging puzzles and cute graphics. tic and edgy. ame is nothing ians while col- this game apart only move when ur time-control to pull off some ame is also sty- ow feels futuris- ne I Find it at: http://tinyurl.com/ay8x7m Find it at: http://tinyurl.com/9jh7m 4 4 Congratulations to six U-M doctoral candidates recently accepted into the Graham Graduate Fellowship Program. As part of this honor, each 2009 Graham Fellow will receive $50,000 over two years to support their interdisciplinary research related to sustainability. Left to right: Kathleen; Giridhar; Robert; Rebecca; & Doug (Ethan not shown) Kathleen Bush, School of Public Health: "Harmful Algal Blooms from a Toxicological, Ecological, and Human Health Perspective and Integrating New Techniques" Rebecca Henn, School of Natural Resources and Environment: "Constructing Green: Leveraging Sustainability in the Built Environment" Doug Jackson, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: "High-Biodiversity Agriculture for the Future: Using the Sciences of Ecology and Complexity to Understand Natural Pest Control in Agro-Ecosystems" Robert Levine, College of Engineering: "Novel Thermo-Chemical Processing of Microalgae to Concomitantly treat wastewater and Produce Bio fuels" Ethan Schoolman, Department of Sociology: "Fencing Themselves In: Sustainable Growth and the Future of the City" Giridhar Upadhyaya, College of Engineering: "Biologically Mediated, Simultaneous Removal of Nitrate and Arsenic from Drinking Water Sources" GRAHAM ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINAILITY INSTITUTE 4