ACROSS
1 See 1-Down
5 Risk taker
10 Minimally
14 He sang about
Alice
15 Ooze with
16 Bond’s first
movie foe
17 Word with
interest or service
18 Lavin of “Alice”
19 Water retainer
20 *More than is wise
22 River racers
24 Rose of Guns N’
Roses
25 Poetic pair
26 *Luxury resort
chain
31 “__ to leap tall
buildings ... ”
32 “David
Copperfield”
villain
33 Cain, to Abel,
informally
36 *Dominated the
election
41 Teachers’ org.
42 Sufficient, to
Shakespeare
43 Working hard
44 *Complete with
ease
48 Descends, as a
rock wall
52 Fluke-to-be
53 Worried
54 Farewells ... or,
homophonically
and read top to
bottom, what the
first words of the
answers to
starred clues
represent?
59 Fly in the
ointment
60 Fly-fishing catch
62 Tennis score
63 Floor piece
64 “Maybe, just
maybe”
65 Big name in
furniture
66 Clairvoyant
67 Got by
68 See 58-Down

DOWN
1 With 1-Across,
Whoppers and
McRibs, e.g.

2 Embossed cookie
3 Southwestern
clay pot
4 Remove
respectfully
5 First-class
6 Armpit
7 Squirt
8 Teacher’s deg.
9 Thought (out)
10 Make sense
11 Composer’s
embellishment
12 Bracelet spot
13 Biblical verb
21 Toy inserts
usually not
included
23 Crescent points
25 Either “The Man
Who Wasn’t
There” director
26 Doe’s dear
27 Wind in a pit
28 Arm bone
29 Bull Run soldier
30 Over-the-
shoulder garb
33 In __: as placed
34 “Understood,” in
hippie-speak
35 “Little Women”
sister
37 Verbal nods

38 Kind of 
geometry
39 “The Giver”
novelist Lowry
40 Thai language
45 Entertainers on
the road
46 Partner of
hollered
47 Wine choice
48 Reddish-brown
colors
49 Singer Lennox

50 “Positive thinking”
advocate
51 “Your table’s
ready” signaler
54 Sticky stuff
55 Radar dot
56 Team 
connection
57 All tied up
58 With 68-Across,
“Milk” Oscar
winner
61 Letter after pi

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Last Friday, I once again 

found myself in a sea of most-
ly 
bearded, 
20-somethings 

(apparently a common motif in 
my life) at the beautiful Royal 
Oak Music Theatre. This time, 
it was to witness one of emo 
rock’s most talented bands 
Circa Survive. In honor of its 
ten-year anniversary, the band 
performed their second LP On 
Letting Go in full, including 
two b-sides recently put out on 
Bandcamp with all proceeds 
going to the ACLU.

Circa Survive are an astound-

ingly gorgeous band. Their 
music is absorbing, and their 
visual performance keeps up 
toe-to-toe. Last year, Circa did 
an anniversary tour for their 
first record, Juturna. While 
still a beautiful show, Circa 
decided to one-up it and go all 
out with their stage presence 
this time around. Two replicas 
of their iconic woman’s head-
turned-hot-air-balloon 
image 

from the album cover flanked 
each side of the stage, featuring 
mesmerizing projections timed 
to the music. In contrast to last 
year’s show, I found my eyes 
constantly sweeping the stage 

from the fantastical light show 
and energy flowing through 
every member.

A 
caveat 
to 
anniversary 

shows is that there’s no sus-
pense to the setlist — the 
album is the setlist. There’s 
no thinking involved in pac-
ing the set. When an artist has 
such expertly crafted material 
like Circa’s, they really can’t 
be blamed for wanting to con-
tinue playing them through. 
On Letting Go encapsulates 
the inimitability of Circa while 
still remaining an incredibly 
cohesive listen ten years later. 
Even with the addition of the 
heavier b-side tracks, the play-
through felt incredibly satisfy-
ing.

Beyond 
the 
spectacular 

lights and sounds, the band 
members themselves add vol-
umes to the merit of the per-
formance. This was my third 
time seeing frontman Antho-
ny Green in concert, and the 
enigmatic ecstasy in which he 
performs remains radiant. He 
commands the sea of fans with 
ease, hands grasping for him 
as they scream the words back 
in his face, attempting to pull 
off his unmatched growling 
falsetto. His bandmates follow 
suit, moving with the music, 
rarely stagnant. The entirety 
of the stage was as visually 

dynamic as I’ve ever seen at 
the venue — the performance 
demanded absolute attention.

Another prominent feature 

of the show (and anniver-
sary shows in general) is the 
intensity of the crowd. The pit 
moved as one big mass as long-
time fans let themselves go 
(no pun intended) to the music 
they’ve loved for years. United 
in their love, strangers and fans 
sing with each other, throw 
each other in the pit and boost 
each other to crowdsurf in 
their passion. The camaraderie 
amongst the crowd — especial-
ly those within the punk rock 
scene — adds a uniquely beau-
tiful, dynamic element to the 
entire experience.

Circa Survive is a band 

whose beauty, both sonic and 
visual, simply crackles with 
electricity. The complexity of 
their recorded music trans-
lates perfectly into perfor-
mance. Every word and note 
were heard with the utmost 
clarity, and the band’s spar-
kling brilliance shone through 
every aspect of the show. Circa 
proved they know damn well 
how to put on an anniversary 
show for the second year in a 
row, this time outdoing them-
selves and more than satisfy-
ing the fans who have been 
with them since the beginning. 

DOMINIC POLSINELLI

Daily Arts Writer

Circa Survive is electric at Royal Oak

Band’s ten-year anniversary show celebrates their penchant for
musical complexity and fervor, both onstage and in their studio

ATLANTIC

NICKELODEON

‘Airbender’ primed for future chaos 

For some, television is an outlet 

for escapism from worldly prob-
lems and personal anxieties. But 
while that may be true for real-
ity TV and other forms of vapid 
entertainment, television should 
be a medium that goes beyond 
just an escape. It should be pro-
active in informing the public 
about how to deal with issues that 
affect everyone.

Recent programs like “Atlan-

ta,” “Insecure,” “Bojack Horse-
man” and “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” 
are such cases that offer both 
subtle and overt commentary 
on today’s most prevalent topics 
— race, sexuality, fame, gender 
and mental illness. But perhaps 
the two programs that feel more 
relevant than ever are the bril-
liant Nickelodeon animated show 
“Avatar: The Last Airbender” and 
its just-as-brilliant spinoff “The 
Legend of Korra.”

While both are currently off 

the air — “The Last Airbender” 
finished with three seasons in 
2008 and “The Legend of Korra” 
wrapped up its four seasons in 
2014 — their critical look at xeno-
phobia, terrorism, social unrest 
and totalitarian populism makes 
for an eerie, albeit timely, fore-
shadowing to today’s milieu. 

In “The Last Airbender,” the 

messianic 
protagonist 
Aang 

spends the entire series learning 
how to “bend” the elements of 
earth, water and fire in order to 
defeat the evil Fire Lord Ozai and 
restore balance to the world. The 

story is a classic powerful-hero-
versus-powerful-villain scenario, 
but “The Last Airbender” offers 
a mix of solace and intelligence 
by humanizing the characters, 
both the good and bad ones. 
Along with its terrific animation, 
intelligent writing, breathtak-
ing action and droll humor, “The 
Last Airbender” is masterful 
in presenting moral dilemmas 
and giving practical solutions to 
those challenges. During the epic 
series finale, Aang, a non-violent 
airbender, is faced with the chal-
lenge of killing the Fire Lord, a 
power-hungry firebender. In the 
end, the writers make an effec-
tive, inspired choice to have Aang 
take away Ozai’s bending instead 
of killing him, which proves to be 
even more poetic in its reflection 
of the show’s recurring conflict 
between corruption and purity. 
Instead of resorting to complete 
destruction of another person, 
Aang shows restraint by taking 
away the only power that the Fire 
Lord possessed using a peaceful 
yet powerful tactic. 

However, even with “The Last 

Airbenders” ’s happy ending, a 
new evil force would inevita-
bly appear again in the show’s 
excellent spinoff, “The Legend of 
Korra.” Set 70 years after Ozai’s 
defeat, “The Legend of Korra” 
tracks the journey of the new 
Avatar, a crafty waterbender 
named Korra, who must learn 
airbending in order to fulfill all 
four elements. In contrast to the 
Fire Lord and an amalgama-
tion of other antagonists in “The 
Last Airbender,” “The Legend 
of Korra” introduced a new vil-
lain in every season, each more 

powerful than the one before. 
Korra first engages in a hard-
fought battle against Amman, an 
anti-bending populist, followed 
by spirit-obsessed waterbender 
Unalaq, 
airbending 
anarchist 

Zaheer and totalitarian earth-
bender Kuvira. After each major 
clash, Korra grapples with the 
fear of being the sole savior of 
the entire world, knowing that 
she’ll be weakened as the forces 
of evil grow stronger. But similar 
to Aang in “The Last Airbender,” 
Korra finds the moral compass 
within her and fights for the 
greater good of humanity with-
out resorting to simply annihilat-
ing the enemy.

Of course, we don’t live in a 

world where people can manipu-
late classical elements through 
kinetic, supernatural abilities. 
But it is still satisfying and almost 
relieving to have shows with a 
remarkable amount of depth like 
“The Last Airbender” and “The 
Legend of Korra.” Given the cur-
rent tense sociopolitical climate, 
television plays an even greater 
role in shaping a viewer’s percep-
tion on the world, as well as offer-
ing consolation and clarity in 
times of confusion and profound 
distress. In an era where “alterna-
tive facts” and “fake news” have 
become embedded into the main-
stream American consciousness, 
truth can often be found in places 
like television shows. So maybe 
next time, instead of mindlessly 
watching an episode of “Keeping 
Up with the Kardashians,” watch 
TV shows that can entertain and 
educate. Otherwise, how else are 
we supposed to make sense of the 
world?

SAM ROSENBERG

Daily Arts Writer

COMMUNITY CULTURE PREVIEW
‘Winter’s Tale’ at Miller

Every year, the Department of 

Musical Theatre puts on a studio 
production of a straight play: No 
music, no designers and no bud-
get. In comparison to the upscale 
musical performances that come 
before and after this one in the 
department’s season, this show 
is a refreshing and immensely 
impressive change of pace.

This Thursday, the theatre 

department 
will 

be 
presenting 

Shakespeare’s 
“The 
Winter’s 

Tale.” 
Professor 

Malcolm 
Tulip 

will 
be 
direct-

ing, as he does 
each year, along-
side two student 
assistant 
direc-

tors: Senior BFA 
Acting 
Major 

Zoey Bond and 
sophomore 
Act-

ing Major Marty 
McGuire.

“The Winter’s 

Tale” tells the intrigue-filled 
story of King Leontes of Sicily on 
a quest for redemption. As one of 
Shakespeare’s later plays, pub-
lished in 1623, the play is often 
considered one of the author’s 
tragicomedies or late romances. 
Despite a happy ending (gener-
ally speaking), death and the 
fantastically haunting elements 
situate the play evenly between 
his more classical, delineated 
comedies and tragedies.

“The first three acts feel like 

a completely different play, so 

the challenge lies in uniting the 
tragedy/comedy, and making it 
all exist in the same world,” Bond 
said.

Although the play is one of 

Shakespeare’s least popular, it is 
one of Bond’s favorites.

“Each character is strong, lay-

ered, and has a nice arc, providing 
a wonderful treat and challenge 
for actors — especially in an edu-
cational setting,” Bond said, “in 
some ways it is a better, re-devel-
oped version of Othello.” 

However, Marty McGuire, the 

other assistant director, said that 

the major theme of 
the play is transfor-
mation.

“It’s ‘The Win-

ter’s Tale,’ so there 
is the transforma-
tion 
of 
seasons 

happening, there’s 
the transformation 
of time, and most 
importantly, 
the 

transformation 
of 

people,” 
McGuire 

explained. “At the 
center of the play is 
King Leontes, who 
makes some bad 
decisions, and as a 

result he has to transform from 
that in order to be forgiven or in 
this case also move on with his 
life.”

Although the play and the 

entire theatre season was set 
about a year ago, there is an 
unavoidable and eerie echo of 
the show and our current politi-
cal climate –– the fact that “The 
Winter’s Tale” follows the story 
of a rash dictator is an accidental 
irony that the production team 
has not neglected to emphasize.

“The character of Leontes is 

a dictator of sorts who operates 
on the basis of his emotions, and 
makes very rash decisions that 
solely benefit him and how he 
appears to other people, without 
regards to how that might affect 
them,” McGuire said. “So, we 
have changed a couple things in 
order to draw the allusion a bit 
more strongly towards a certain 
political character in our country 
right now.”

With that being said, and apart 

from switching the genders of 
some characters, not much will 
change from this production 
to the original. This is mainly a 
result of the low budget of the 
production.

“The cool thing about hav-

ing no budget is that you don’t 
have the money to really go time 
and place, so the time and place 
becomes androgynous and non-
specific,” McGuire said, “It’s this 
cool design mismatch of just what 
we had to create a very universal 
play with themes that are true to 
all times and places.”

What’s best about these pro-

ductions each year though, is 
not due to the mastery of Shake-
speare, but to the students them-
selves who are given the freedom 
to take the creative lead.

“It’s the perfect conglom-

eration of teamwork in the arts,” 
McGuire said. “I think that mov-
ing forward, as we try to create 
theatre that can relate to all peo-
ple, of political persuasions, gen-
der, we include all people in this 
process in order to allow as many 
voices heard as possible.”

Following the performance on 

Friday, there will be a post-per-
formance discussion moderated 
my director Tulip, also featuring 
members of the cast and crew. 

GRACE HAMILTON

Daily Arts Writer

“The Winter’s 

Tale” 

Arthur Miller 

Theatre

February 16th, 17th 
& 18th @ 8 P.M. & 
February 19th @ 2 

P.M. 

$18 General 

Admission, $12 for 
students with ID 

CONCERT REVIEW
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