28 - Thursday, September 15, 2011

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FOOD WARS
Each week, one Ann Arbor staple menu item becomes a
battlefield as Daily Arts editors butt heads over
which restaurant makes it best.
REUBEN

MAIZE AND BLUE'
1329 South University
The number you're looking for is 44
- the Triple Play Reuben. Corned beef,
Pastrami, Switzerland Swiss, Jarlsberg
Cheese, sauerkraut and Russian dressing
on grilled sourdough rye. It's a real good
sandwich. This Reuben is humble yet
shines with the grace of a superstar, like
the quiet sixth man on the team who turns
out to be Magic Johnson.
AFTERNOON DELIGHT
251 East Liberty
True to its name, Afternoon Delight's
Reuben was a delight. The diner improved
on the Reuben concept by substituting
lightly grilled pumpernickel for more tra-
ditional rye bread. A thick one-inch layer
of sliced corned beef was the perfect serv-
ing, though it did leave the sandwich rath-
er soggy. Make sure to show up before 3
p.m., when Afternoon Delight closes!

ZINGERMAN'S
422 Detroit
The Zingerman's Reuben is not a great
sandwich. This is not to say that it isn't deli-
cious, because the ingredients are all of
very high quality. However, the sandwich
construction doesn't do the ingredients
justice. There was a clump of cheese that
overwhelmed the other ingredients, and
the bread overwhelmed the meat and sau-
erkraut near the crust, which was huge.
AMER'S
312 South State
The standard reuben at Amer's is listed
as number one on its long sandwich menu,
butdon't let that fool you. There's little sur-
prise between the slices of rye. The swiss
isn't quite fully melted and the meat tastes
entirely typical . It's heavy on the salt and
pepper and light on the Russian dressing.
Overall, a satisfying lunch? Mildly, but it's
no number one.

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Sylvan Edwards
LSA sophomore
Auntie Anne's employee
What do you think of when you think of Detroit?
I think about sports, Detroit sports. That's why I always go
to Detroit.
Have you ever been to Heidelberg Project?
Yes, I have. I didn't really know what it was when I went
to it, and it was just cool because it was nothing like you
picture Detroit.
What was a club you joined at Festifall you may not have
actually followed through with?
I probably won't join the Comedy Club, because I'm not
very good with stand-up comedy. I did join the Triathlon
Club, though, which I plan on doing.

And the winner is: Maize and Blue

SINGLE REVIEW

TRAILER REVIEW

There was a moment in the
mid-'80s when independent
music seemed to be straddling
two lines -
moodier, more
texture-driven
groups like Wild g
Bauhaus and
Echo & the "Romance"
Bunnymen
staked their Merge
claim on one
side while all-out assault-rock-
ers like Hiisker DO and Dino-
saur Jr. shouted from the other.
Since the older days of post-
punk, it's almost like whenever
independent rock music seems
to run out of ideas, the response
is to either turn inward and
minimalist or to crank up the

volume.
Count the newly formed Wild
Flag as being firmly in the lat-
ter camp; composed of former
Sleater-Kinney grrris Carrie
Brownstein and Janet Weiss,
Helium's Mary Timony and
The Minders' Rebecca Cole, the
supergroup wants to make it its
mission to kick out the jams.
The leading single, penned
by Brownstein, is nothing if not
a call to arms for the laptop set
to shut off the loops and sam-
plers and to pick up a guitar.
You can almost picture Brown-
stein dishing out the rock kicks
without ahint of irony when she
growls, "Hey, hey / Can you feel
it?" at the track's opening like a
latter-day (and probably much

cooler) Joan Jett. Rocking out
for it's own sake - on record,
anyway - might seem more
disingenuous for a group with a
lesser pedigree; instead, Brown-
stein and co.'s reaffirming urge
to throw punches is nothing
if not refreshing. Brownstein
sums up the group's mantra -
and appeal - in a single line
in the track's rah-rah chorus:
"We've got an ear / An ear for
what's romance."
It's a rallying cry for those
whose ears have been craned
toward unabashed, get-
roughed-up rock long before
S-K's glory days and a wake-up
call for those who might have
fallen deaf since.
-MIKE KUNTZ

The trailer for "Machine
Gun Preacher" is extraordinary
in that it acquaints you with a
story that one
could eas-
ily write off
as blockbuster Machine
sensational-
ism - except Gun
most of it actu- Preacher
ally happened.
Unfortunately Relativity Media
it overstays
its welcome and goes the way of
the typical Liam Neeson action
movie trailer, revealing all the
plot details we'd rather have
paid for on opening night.
This unlikely tale of Hells
Angels biker Sam Childers'
(Gerard Butler, "300") conver-


sion and subsequent journey cal inspirational film. Armed
into the heart of LRA-occupied with RPGs, assault rifles and
Sudan goes well beyond the the street sense of a reformed
tame character of the typi- criminal, Childers conducts
secret raids against the LRA
to rescue children who've
been brainwashed and forced
M-an, Ann Arbor to fight for the rebels' cause.
wItheark.orgIt seems counterproduc-
tive to outline the entire nar-
rative of a film adapted from
a true story that's so rife with
* grandeur fromstart to fin-
ish. If you whet an audience's
appetite by giving them a
brief glimpse of a protago-
nist who doles out vigilante
justice with an AK-47 in one
hand and a Bible in the other,
it's a safe bet they'll come see
your movie.
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