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1 Band aid
4 “Lohengrin”
soprano
8 High-priced
13 Saint-Tropez sea
14 Chicken (out)
15 Wildly impulsive
17 Well-worn, as
comfy shoes
19 “Finito!”
20 Stretches on the
road
21 Inventor Nikola
23 Director who
sued Spike TV
for using his
name
24 British prep
school
25 University of
North Carolina
city
27 Fives and tens
29 Clueless
30 Lennon’s love
32 Door fasteners
35 TV radio station
39 Firehouse crews
43 Rural road sign
silhouette
44 Shellac
ingredient
45 Insect egg
46 Not a pretty fruit
49 Surprise for the
taste buds
51 Relaxing soak
56 Almost closed
59 Pee Wee
Reese’s number
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Pavements”
singer
61 English class
lesson
62 Like a plum
tomato
64 Lead singer, and
a hint to the
beginning of 17-,
25-, 39- and 51-
Across
66 Royal residence
67 Apple product
68 Gift-wrapping
time, often
69 Hinged entrances
70 Beantown
hockey great
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2 Reason for a
raise
3 Virtual coupon,
briefly
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5 Civil Rights
Memorial
architect
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Legend”
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9 Wrapped cantina
food
10 Baseball Hall of
Famer Roush
11 Bad bacteria
12 Science fair
judges, e.g.
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18 Hawaii’s __
Coast
22 Some jerks
25 Burn a bit
26 Gibson’s “Bird on
a Wire” co-star
28 “__ Will Be
Loved”: Maroon
5 hit
30 Word with
country or world
31 “You wish,
laddie!”
33 Writer on scrolls
34 Usher’s creator
36 Nickname for
LeBron
37 Outdoor gear
brand
38 L.A. clock setting
40 Shellac
41 Nitty-gritty
42 “Wheel of
Fortune”
purchase
47 Carom
48 Ibex resting
places
50 Political
cartoonist
Thomas
51 Cartoon flapper
52 Put away, as
groceries
53 “Twilight”
heroine
54 Michael Caine
role
55 U. of Maryland
team
57 Tequila source
58 Make one’s
Fortune last
longer?
61 Counterclockwise
arrow function
63 Cereal grass
65 “Alley __”
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Arts
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Ekko’s ‘Time’ is
a dynamic debut
Mikky Ekko steps
out of Rihanna’s
shadow on ‘Time’
By GIBSON JOHNS
Daily Arts Writer
Mikky Ekko has a compli-
cated relationship with time.
On the one hand, he prefers to
tread
lightly
and take his
time
profes-
sionally — it’s
been over two
years
since
he broke out
as
the
fea-
tured
artist
on
Rihanna’s
slow-burning Top 40 smash,
“Stay,” and he’s only just now
releasing his debut album. On
the other hand, when it comes
to his rocky relationship with
love, he’s impatient with time,
as evidenced by his dark mus-
ings throughout his debut.
It’s clear that with Time,
Ekko wanted to establish a
dynamic sound for himself that
both solidified the one we would
have previously expected from
him — the tender, emotional
voice that worked in perfect
harmony with the R&B lean-
ings of “Stay” — and brought
forth newer, less genre-specific
settings for his voice to explore.
Though this approach occa-
sionally pays off, more often
than not Ekko exudes a desire
to prove he doesn’t fit into one
Rihanna-established
mold.
This unfortunately gets in the
way of what he does remarkably
well, which is to croon hurtfully
about love, time and heartache
on soaring, midtempo, slightly
left-of-center pop.
On the title track, “Time,”
Ekko does just that — over an
orchestral backing, he uses his
beautiful falsetto to prove his
dedication to a rocky relation-
ship. “Time doesn’t love you
anymore / But I’m still knock-
ing at your door,” he sings on
the song’s bridge. It’s lyrics
like these that exemplify his
standing on the twisted affair
between time and love. He
doesn’t believe in waiting for
a love that has become stag-
nant because he sees waiting
as harmful to the future of
romance.
However, he also recogniz-
es the sometimes inescapable
nature of waiting on “U,” another
standout track. Over a simulta-
neously ethereal and pulsating
beat, Ekko acknowledges that
there is a “long, long road to love”
and sounds almost as though he’s
channeling Ne-Yo. “Mourning
Doves,” another dark midtempo
track, continues this strong, self-
assured sound but sees Ekko
start to experiment a bit. Rusty
screeching is littered throughout
the verses, which foreshadows
the change in sound coming in
the album’s second half.
“Riot” is a call to arms
against the pressures time plac-
es on love that strays a little bit
too far into the realm of pop-
rock. “Loner” is a bland, rock-
tinged track that fails to take off
about (you guessed it) being a
loner. “Watch Me Rise,” though
a better attempt at capturing a
more effective rock sound, feels
too much like a OneRepublic
B-side and, thus, is out of place
on Time.
Ekko’s affinity for experi-
mentation occasionally pays
off, though — like on the static,
distorted “Pressure Pills” and
the twinkling, confident “Made
Of Light” — and the album’s
preoccupation with time and
love provides it with a much-
needed string of continuity. It’s
clear that Ekko’s struggle to
accept that waiting for love is a
necessary evil is one that took
him a long time — two years,
to be sure — and for a chunk
of Time, his struggle is one we
want to listen to him sing about.
Mikky Ekko has a clear
wheelhouse that he excels in.
It’s one that comes in the form
of a midtempo ballad with a
dark place, and it’s the same one
that we heard the first time he
sang with Rihanna. What’s also
clear, though, is that Ekko is
searching to expand upon that
wheelhouse. Has he found a
way to successfully do that? Not
quite, and I’m not really sure he
needs to. Only time will tell if
he keeps looking.
2015 set to be a big
year for blockbusters
By BRIAN BURLAGE
Daily Arts Writer
Film in 2014 seemed to be
largely about the human drama,
as movies like “Boyhood,” “Selma”
and “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
(all Oscar favorites) told stories in
a wholly new honest and human
way. Many of the most critically
acclaimed films relied on little CGI
animation, instead opting for a
more straightforward approach to
cinematic grace.
2015, however, seems to prom-
ise a different set of riches. Many of
this year’s heavyweights exist now
as big-budget, big-stick blockbust-
ers waiting to rake in the millions
(billions likely) — poised to smash
box office records and ticket sales
and reduce last year’s film pool
into a puddle of rainwater. While
this is, of course, not a bad thing, I
predict that 2015 will be a year of
computerized movie magic – but
one of the strongest yet.
“The Peanuts Movie”
Though Bill Melendez, creator
of the original “Peanuts” TV film
series, passed away in 2008, his
legacy will thrive in 2015. Melen-
dez’s paramount voice work as
Snoopy and Woodstock will be
revived, as director Steve Mar-
tino (“Ice Age: Continental Drift”)
plans to integrate archival record-
ings of the voices. Produced by
Paul Feig (“Bridesmaids”), writ-
ten by Charles M. Schulz’s sons
Craig and Bryan and scored by
Christophe Beck (“Frozen”), “The
Peanuts Movie” will deliver all the
charm and sentimentality of the
original cartoon with the wit and
animation effects of the modern
age.
“In the Heart of the Sea”
Nathaniel
Philbrick’s
2000
eponymous nonfiction book sets
something astir in the mind of
director Ron Howard, something
like confidence. The story’s been
told and retold a hundred times
(most notably in Herman Mel-
ville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick) but
never with the technological capa-
bilities of today. “In the Heart of
the Sea” is a nautical tragedy, one
that speaks to the fear all sailors
face when confronted by one of
nature’s most eminent forces: the
sperm whale. The tragedy of the
whaleship Essex is, as the trailer
states, a story about men. And a
demon.
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
It takes two full plays of the
trailer to fully grasp everything
that’s
happening
in
director
George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury
Road,” the fourth installment in
the Mad Max franchise. Specially
engineered cars tear across the
Australian desert as music from
the previous century illustrates
the terror of their flight. Men with
facial deformities yell things like,
“What a lovely day!” as they make
chemical weapons out of gasoline
and oil. Explosions, storms and
strangeness abound in this fantas-
tical flick. Prepare for anarchy.
“Jurassic World”
While Steven Spielberg’s origi-
nal “Jurassic Park” film observed
a variety of dinosaur species and
focused mainly on the Tyranno-
saurus Rex, “Jurassic World” will
look at a few dinosaur species and
focus mainly on the Velociraptor.
Chris Pratt (“Guardians of the Gal-
axy”) stars as Owen, a member of
the theme park’s on-site staff who
conducts behavioral research on
the vicious Velociraptor species,
and who seems to be able to con-
trol them in some way. “Jurassic
World” will add a more jarring and
horrific element to the franchise’s
already thrilling story.
“St. James Place”
Directed by Steven Spielberg
(“Lincoln”), written by the Coen
brothers (“No Country for Old
Men”), starring Tom Hanks (“Cap-
tain Phillips”), shot by Janusz
Kaminski and edited by Michael
Kahn (the team that brought you
the unforgettable reality of “Sav-
ing Private Ryan”). “St. James
Place” is a spy thriller based on
the 1960 U-2 Incident. Be ready. Be
excited.
“The Revenant”
Alejandro González Iñárritu,
who directed last year’s comedy-
drama sensation “Birdman,” will
return this year with “The Rev-
enant,” a story about the life of
American
frontiersman
Hugh
Glass. Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio,
“Wolf of Wall Street”) was a fur
trapper and adventurer renowned
for his exploits in the American
West throughout the 19th century.
The film will focus mainly on his
expedition with Ashley’s Hundred
(a band of 100 people), in which
Glass was mauled by a grizzly bear,
crawled more than 200 miles to
Fort Kiowa, recovered and sought
the revenge of those who left him
behind.
“Avengers: Age of Ultron”
Big budget, big sequel, big
characters, big action, big stakes.
“Sisters”
Though this film’s premise
seems to draw a bit (or a lot)
from the 2008 comedy hit “Step
Brothers,” it certainly promises
its fair share of laughs, gags and
memorable lines. Director Jason
Moore has made a career on
Broadway and directed his debut
film in 2012 with “Pitch Perfect,”
a combination of music, fun per-
formances and wild theatrics.
“Sisters” stars Tina Fey, Amy
Poehler and Maya Rudolph, a trio
of Saturday Night Live comedi-
ans so funny and so right for each
other, this film is bound to be a
home run.
“Ricki and the Flash”
If the writer of “Juno” (Dia-
blo Cody), the director of “The
Silence of the Lambs” (Jona-
than Demme) and Meryl Streep
announced that they had a movie
in the works, would you believe
them? What would you imagine?
“Ricki and the Flash” answers
both of those questions. Streep
(“Into the Woods”) is set to play
Ricki, an aging rock star who
abandoned her family to become
a famous musician. Ricki’s life
takes an even greater dramatic
turn when her ex-husband Pete
(Kevin Kline, “The Conspirator”)
asks her to visit Chicago in order
to help their estranged, divorced
daughter Julie (Mamie Gummer,
“Cake”) through a difficult time.
“Star Wars Episode VII: The
Force Awakens”
You’d think they could come
up with a better title. J. J. Abrams
(“Star Trek”), Lawrence Kasdan
(“Indiana Jones and the Raiders
of the Lost Ark”), Adam Driv-
er (“Frances Ha”), Oscar Isaac
(“Inside Llewyn Davis”), Andy
Serkis (“Dawn of the Planet of
the Apes”), the entire main cast of
the original films, John Williams,
George Lucas and practically all
the forces of a galaxy far, far away,
and they come up with, “The Force
Awakens.” Well, personal qualms
aside, this film seems to reinvigo-
rate all the themes and tropes that
made the original trilogy so popu-
lar. I just hope Kasdan and Abrams
bring back Jar Jar Binks.
ALBUM REVIEW
RCA RECORDS
“I want you to stay, I want you to stay, I want you to stayyyyyy.”
B
Time
Mikky Ekko
RCA Records
A complicated
relationship
with time.
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