HAPPY
TUESDAY!
ACROSS
1 Campaign
display
7 Tuber made into
poi
11 Actor Beatty
14 Give in
15 Out for the night
16 Australian bird
17 *Oft-minced bulb
19 Came in first
20 Woman in a
Beethoven piano
title
21 Oscar night rides
22 Classic sports
cars
23 Absorbed
24 *Laura
Hillenbrand best-
seller about a
racehorse
26 Honest prez
28 Math comparison
29 Sally Ride, e.g.
35 Diarist Frank
37 Island wreath
38 Recipe direction
... and a literal
hint to what you
can do to the
starts of the
answers to
starred clues
41 “Dig in!”
42 Celebrity
44 Statues, often
46 “Now you __ ... “
49 Fist-up call
50 *Dry-climate
landscape option
54 Palms-down call
58 Photo lab abbr.
59 Dubai bigwig
60 “MASH” setting
61 __ juice: milk
62 *Olympic sport
with a hollow ball
64 Company abbr.
65 Sheep’s cry
66 Candy heart
message
67 Shatner’s
“__War”
68 Backwoods
possessive
69 Rains ice pellets
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1 Cell alternative
2 Florida horse-
breeding city
3 Doc’s order to a
pharmacist
4 Early
communications
satellite
5 Falco of “The
Sopranos”
6 TiVo button
7 Actress Shire
8 Manhattan
Project creation
9 “Au __”: “Bye,
Pierre”
10 Texas or Ukraine
city
11 World’s second
largest island
12 Showing strong
feelings
13 Kirsten of
“Spider-Man”
18 The Browns, on
sports tickers
24 Pop in the mail
25 Windy City
commuter org.
27 __ constrictor
29 Landon who ran
against FDR
30 Opening set of
TV series
episodes
31 Hourly worker’s
device
32 Fleet VIP
33 Put into operation
34 Scottish cap
36 Sci-fi staples
39 Diving lake bird
40 Capote
nickname
43 It’s a scream
45 Picking-up-the-
tab words
47 Song words
before “with a
little help from my
friends”
48 Husk-wrapped
Mexican food
50 Pay
51 Concrete-
reinforcing rod
52 Shoulder
muscles, briefly
53 Before, before
55 Golfer with an
“army”
56 Deceptive move
57 Makes more
bearable
60 Capsize, with
“over”
63 Superstation
initials
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6 — Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Arts
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
We need to stop
enabling Shinola
The corporate
brand from Texas
is using the Motor
City like its puppet
By ANAY KATYAL
For the Daily
Growing up in Chicago, I
always had a fascination with
Detroit. For so long, I consid-
ered the Motor City my sister
city of sorts — while Detroit
and Chicago are similar in many
ways, each city manages to have
its own unique, distinguishing
quirks. Detroit was endearing to
me, and it came to take a special
place in my heart. As a result,
Detroit’s fall from grace hit me
harder than it did most non-res-
idents. Besides, a city in crisis,
caused by the malfeasance and
mismanagement of questionably
elected politicians, is something
I can empathize with fairly well.
I so badly wanted Detroit to get
back on its feet, that I blindly
supported any shiny new initia-
tive that emphasized any intent
to “revitalize” Detroit.
Shinola soon made its mark
on the fashion scene and Detroit
revitalization
simultaneously,
touting “quality, Detroit-made
goods” with a dedication to
“American luxury and American
quality.” With its shiny branding
and lofty promises, I really want-
ed to like Shinola. A company that
wants to give Detroiters a second
chance on the backs of something
that isn’t automotive? Great. A
second chance on the backs of
Detroit-made watches and other
craft goods? Even better.
I told my Dad to go buy a
Shinola watch, I extolled the
merits of the company to my
friends; there was even a point
where I tried saving up for my
very own Shinola timepiece.
I can’t really say I fell in love
with the company, because that
requires a genuine, confident
feeling of attachment; rather,
like many others, I had a period
of deep infatuation, finding
myself in love with the idea of
the company and its products,
rather than the company itself.
The slick marketing materials
that tried to simultaneously
appeal to a penchant for luxury
goods and love for Detroit
worked on me.
After the honeymoon period
was over, it was pretty easy to
see the false narrative Shinola
was trying to sell to consumers
like me. Owned and operated
by Bedrock Brands, a venture
capital firm started by one of
the founders of Fossil, Shinola
operates under the pretense
of being a homegrown Detroit
company, when in reality its
corporate home is found in
Texas, though its individual
company
headquarters
are
in Detroit. A quick look at
Shinola’s website can give a
fair bit of perspective. Watches
aren’t manufactured in Detroit,
but rather assembled using
sourced parts from suppliers
in Europe (the cheapest among
them being ~$550). In addition
to that, you’ll find $500 leather
boxing gloves, $1,500 fixed-
gear bicycles and $50 felt
pennants adorned with the
Shinola logo as well as a $15,000
“vintage” American flag.
Shinola
bills
itself
as
a
company that works for the
people of Detroit, but in reality,
it’s a trendy way for wealthy
residents of Bloomfield Hills or
Grosse Pointe (or even Chicago,
in my case) to feign a sense of
empathy for Detroit’s problems.
When a company that claims
to serve the city of Detroit is
trying to front a piece of fabric
that costs more than a brand
new car, one can’t help but
think there are other motives
at play.
I don’t really have a problem
stomaching
many
of
the
byproducts
of
the
Detroit
revitalization
movement,
or
the waves of gentrification
that have come with it. All
things considered, trying to
generate a sense of positivity
in a city blighted by a storm of
poverty and despair isn’t really
a negative thing. But Shinola’s
insistence
on
perpetuating
the idea that “Detroit isn’t as
terrible as you thought, and
here are some shiny, expensive
products to prove it” does more
harm than good for the people
of Detroit.
By simply choosing Detroit
as a backdrop for its products,
Shinola thinks it’s better than
other companies in the same
business. Their ad campaigns
feature smiling white people
riding their expensive bicycles
on
city
streets
juxtaposed
with
smiling
little
Black
children rapping, with their
CEO remarking how residents
of the city are “really nice”
and “looked you in the eye,”
as if the people of Detroit
aren’t as savage as outsiders
thought. There isn’t a genuine
intent to see Detroit improve
on the part of Shinola. They
hope that by using Detroit as
Shinola’s puppet, they can push
a caricatured ideal of what it
means to invest in America
and cities like Detroit. I can’t
see Shinola’s business model
defaulting on their intended
goals anytime soon, but for the
sake of Detroit and its residents,
remaining conscious of the
reality of Shinola’s business
practices would be a good first
step to take.
STYLE NOTEBOOK
‘Crime Story’ takes a
bold look at O.J. case
By SAM ROSENBERG
Daily Arts Writer
Along with the multitude of
other shows Ryan Murphy is pro-
ducing at the moment, “American
Crime Story”
is an anthol-
ogy
series
that acts as
a
companion
piece to Mur-
phy’s
other
popular
FX
show “Ameri-
can
Horror
Story.” For its
first
season,
“American
Crime Story”
takes the audi-
ence back to
the 1990s and
the 1994 trial
of football star
and actor O.J. Simpson. Arguably
one of the most notorious trials
in recent history, the O.J. Simp-
son case and its not guilty verdict
still resonates with people to this
day. This is an event that divided
an entire nation, that the media
made a huge spectacle of and that
many already know the outcome
of. But with daring camerawork,
intelligent writing and spec-
tacular acting from a talented
cast, “American Crime Story”
is already setting standards for
gritty television drama.
The show’s opener, “From the
Ashes of Tragedy,” thrusts the
audience into the story of O.J.’s
trial, moving swiftly from one
sequence to the next. It opens on
a rather dour but relevant note:
archival footage of the Rodney
King beating and the subse-
quent 1992 L.A. riots. Though
the Rodney King trial doesn’t
hold a direct connection to O.J.
Simpson’s case, the parallelism
between the two signifies how
the show wants to be perceived
as not just a commentary about
race, class and culture clashes,
but about America itself. While
it’s only the first episode, “From
the Ashes of Tragedy” covers a
lot of fascinating material, from
the cops finding Nicole Brown
Simpson and Ronald Goldman’s
dead bodies in front of Brown’s
condo to O.J.’s suicidal behavior.
Cuba Gooding Jr. delivers
an emotionally stirring perfor-
mance as the season’s titular
character, probably his best since
his Oscar-winning role in the
1996 sports drama “Jerry Magu-
ire.” Though he looks and sounds
nothing like his real-life counter-
part, Gooding Jr. emulates O.J.’s
charisma, aggressiveness, pill-
popping habits and despair dur-
ing the most devastating moment
of his life. David Schwimmer
(“Friends”) does his best in con-
veying Robert Kardashian, one
of O.J.’s closest friends, despite
somewhat whitewashing the role
(Robert Kardashian was 100%
Armenian).
University
alum
Selma Blair (“Legally Blonde”)
also makes a powerful impres-
sion as Kardashian’s ex-wife and
current reality show gem Kris
Jenner, evoking both Jenner’s
physical features and personal-
ity. Though John Travolta (“Wild
Hogs”) matches the mannerisms
of O.J.’s confidant and defense
lawyer Robert Shapiro, he falters
slightly by giving an exaggerated
caricature of Shapiro’s character
rather than a three-dimensional
portrayal.
On the other side of the O.J.
case is Marcia Clark, played
devilishly by “American Horror
Story” favorite Sarah Paulson.
In addition to Paulson, the best
performance comes from Court-
ney B. Vance (“Joyful Noise”)
as Johnnie Cochran, a TV per-
sonality and the integral lawyer
in O.J.’s defense and criminal
acquittal. In the brief moments
he appears on-screen, Vance
steals every scene he’s in with
his gripping presence and says
some of the episode’s best lines.
During one tense scene between
Cochran
and
his
co-worker
and ultimate rival Christopher
Darden
(Sterling
K.
Brown,
“Supernatural”), Vance chilling-
ly utters, “The world needs more
Black men willing to make a dif-
ference.” Amen to that.
The
behind-the-scenes
craft
of
“American
Crime
Story” is almost as good, if
not better than the show’s
actual
depiction
of
events
on-screen. Screenwriting duo
Scott Alexander and Larry
Karaszewski
(“Goosebumps”)
create
powerful
dialogue,
while
executive
producer
Murphy directs the episode
with exceptional skill. The
cinematography
is
well-
executed and immersive, with
the camera capturing some
fantastic close-ups and wide
shots.
Interestingly
enough,
two specific shots give some
insight
into
O.J.’s
moral
ambiguity: both show O.J. from
the back, the first being when
he discovers the death of his
ex-wife over the phone and the
second being when he stands
over her body at her funeral.
We understand O.J.’s pain and
suffering, but showing only his
back clearly conveys some of
his character’s restraint and
uncertainty. It’s as agonizing
and frustrating as one would
expect when thinking about the
ethical dilemmas imbued in the
O.J. trial. The episode’s very
last scene — O.J. escaping from
the cops in a white Ford Bronco
that would become an infamous
chase on the freeway — makes
it
all
the
more
haunting,
especially with Nina Simone’s
“I Shall Be Released” scoring
the final seconds.
The
deeply
rooted
issues
within the O.J. Simpson trial still
exist today. The show poses tough
questions about the case (the most
important being: Did O.J. really
do it?) — and doesn’t give many
answers. But luckily, what “Amer-
ican Crime Story” has done, and
will most likely continue to do,
is highlight the case as a way of
engaging viewers in having an
honest conversation about what’s
going on in our society, whether
it’s about issues of race, class,
fame or America as a whole.
Shinola thinks
it’s better than
any other
company.
A-
American
Crime
Story: The
People
vs. O.J.
Simpson
Series Premiere
Tuesdays at
10 p.m.
FX
FX
Let the record show that the defendant was great in “Snow Dogs.”
TV REVIEW
R.I.P. SPOT SULPIZIO,
15-AND-A-HALF YEARS
YOUNG (78 IN DOG YEARS)
ENJOY EATING TOMATOES
OFF THE VINE IN BEAGLE
HEAVEN
Not just about
race, but
America itself.