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
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