2B - Thursday, September 6, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2B - Thursday, September 6, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom ARTS RECOMMENDS In this feature, Daily Arts writers will give their endorsements for the arts you need to experience to help you deal with current events. "Red" Mark Rothko is afraid that the black will one day overtake the red. So goes the abstract theme of "Red", which focuses on the later days of the painter Rothko, who helped popularize the abstract expressionist movement. Knowledge of art history isn't required to enjoy this show. If you like smart dialogue and diatribes about the power of art, thenyou should make a date to see "Red". CENTER THEATRE GROUP Tigermilk - Belle & Sebastian When the change that comeswrth a new school year becomes too dizzying to bear, there's noth- ing like tuning out the hectic world and grounding B Byourself with something familiar. Belle & Sebas- tian's Tigermilk is worth dusting off and giving a listen - it's sometimes peppy, sometimes sad, but ELETTR T Hasty always warm and welcoming like a longtime friend. "Detention" "The Breakfast Club" was an excellent movie, - but there's no doubt a couple of additions could've transformed the film. Like, don't you wish it had moretime-travelingbears? Masked slasherkillers? Josh Hutcherson? Mother-daughter brain switch- es? "Detention" may seem like an average heartfelt high-school prom tale, but ends up being an unpre- dictably satiric romp through adolescent tropes. SONY Cancel your future, see "Detention." . "Revolution" Of the new series in the works, "Revolution" is perhaps the most-anticipated pilot to debut this September. After all the "Hunger Games" hul- laballoo, a dystopian, end-of-the-world-as-we- know-it, new show might be just the thing to grab attention, but with J.J. Abrams at the helm, the ' trick will be.holding that attention. Check out an advance viewing of the pilot on NBC.com, or catch NBc the series when it airs beginning Sept. 17. JUDGING A BOOK BY ITS COVER Daily Arts writers go against the famous idiom, choose a random book and make assumptions about its contents based on the cover art. their crimes: death. But as she kills her way up the chain of command, she must come to terms with the truth about the life from which her father tried to shield her ... and decide just how much she is truly willing to discover about his connections to the men who are now her victims. And when she finally faces the leader of her charcoal-clad adversaries, she may find herself facing an adversary that's much more than he seems.. Thrilling, gripping and thought-provoking, this page- turner will keep you asking for more! -LAUREN CASERTA Sixteen-year-old Ekaterina "Katie" Irons thought she had a picture-perfect life. Her loving and doting parents were the cen- ter of her quiet suburban world, and only her father's long and unexpected business trips could put a dent in her cheery moods. But when her parents are suddenly and violently taken from her one cold December night, she can remember noth- ing about their mysterious masked killer - nothing but the color of his tie. Unwilling to let him escape without retribution, she follows him back to his lair -- and stum- bles uponthe discovery of her life. Suddenly, she is plunged into a world of dangerous alliances and twisted lies, as she learns of her father's secret double life as an accountant for the Russian mob. Swearing to avenge her par- ents' deaths, she begins teaching herself to blend into the fabric of the criminal underworld, learning the arts of deception and defense as she desperately searches for the killers who destroyed her family. At the center of it all she finds the Fifty Shades of Grey, Rus- sia's most infamous necktie-clad crime ring, who soon find them- selves becoming the victims of her unquenchable vengeance as she begins dealing out the only punishment she judges fit for 0 0 MCIIIGA. QIJIDDITCII MASS MEJTiNG SWPTWM1VFI 9, 1PMV KOESS ER ROOM, JlAGUE followed bya pick-up fame in tb FIND OUT WHO WE AIE WHAT WE DO AND HOW TO PLAY QUESTIONS? UMICHQU3DDITCH.CO1'A ARTS NEEDS FRESH BLOOD FOR THE ALTAR. COME "WRITE" FOR US. Request an application by e-mailing arts@ michigandaily.com To avoid the sluggish TV lull that is the first week of Septem- ber, A&E premiered a two-part, two-night mini-series even fromtal- ented produc- 'Coi er-duo Ridley and Tony Miniseries Scott, direc- or Mikael &E Salomon and screenwriter John J. McLaugh- tin. Unfortunately, "Comaplays out much like being in a coma would feel. The premise: First-year resi- dent Susan Wheeler (Lauren Ambrose) spends the first two hours ferreting out the truth of the numerous, mysterious patients who fall into comas after routine surgeries. The next two hours are spent in a mildly hilarious, campy, uninspired mash-up of what feels like every stereo- typical "scary" or "shocking"