6 — Friday, February 28, 2020
Arts
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com

puzzle by sudokusnydictation.com

By Mark MacLachlan
©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
02/28/20

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

02/28/20

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

Release Date: Friday, February 28, 2020

ACROSS
1 Big divides
7 Vat sediment
11 Swindler
14 Aid, as a fallen 
teammate
15 Munch Museum 
city
16 Crazy Eights 
relative
17 Connected
18 Power of a 
Hummer?
20 Greek group
22 Discreetly, in 
slang
23 Enormous card 
revealed at end 
of magician’s 
routine?
27 Form fig.
28 Fictional anchor 
Nessman
29 Goes apace
33 “Your point 
being?”
34 __ 51
36 The slightest bit
38 Tattoo depicting 
the last woolly 
mammoth?
41 Avoids
42 Muslim leader
43 Carol 
contraction
44 Immobilize with a 
charge
45 “Moby-Dick” 
setting
46 Bullring bravo
47 Avian mascot 
on a refueling 
vessel?
53 Three on a 
match, they say
56 Ikea purchase
57 Hotel employee 
who only works 
one day a 
month?
59 Acted greenly?
63 It usually needs 
breaking
64 1968 self-named 
folk album
65 Stands in a 
studio
66 Wrap up
67 Changes to 
green, say
68 Subject of a 
2016 U.K. 
referendum, and 
a hint to five 
puzzle answers

DOWN
1 Comic Margaret
2 Egg producer
3 The lot
4 Calvin’s 
spaceman alter 
ego, in comics
5 Literature 
Nobelist Alice
6 Weapon for 
Goliath
7 Teammate of 
Babe
8 Legally prevents
9 Justice Kagan
10 Cymbal sound?
11 “Friday I’m in 
Love” band, with 
“The”
12 Saved, in a way
13 Holiday song
19 “Ah, I see what 
you meant”
21 Household 
cleaning brand
23 Give a hand
24 Dolphins Hall of 
Famer Larry
25 Japanese 
mushrooms
26 More 
substantial
30 “Will this work for 
you?”
31 French star

32 Longtime breath 
freshener
34 Back to a mate
35 Dorm, briefly
36 Gasteyer of 
“SNL” (1996-
2002)
37 Network for film 
buffs
39 Chocolatey Post 
cereal
40 Apple models
45 Declining due 
to age

48 “Grr!”
49 Comic Denis
50 Biblical mount
51 “The bad news 
is ... ”
52 It might have a 
champion
53 Sound __
54 Score after deuce
55 Monopoly card
58 Mexican pair
60 __ roles
61 Inventor Whitney
62 Summer hrs.

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COMMUNITY CULTURE REVIEW

‘Remain in Light’ 
show rocks the 
Michigan Theater

The drummer walked in 

first. The stage was bathed in 
a strobing blue light and he sat 
behind numerous percussion 
instruments. He started with 
his fingertips tapping the 
bongos. Then an additional 
drummer found a place behind 
the traditional drum kit and 
added his coloring of snare 
and high hat. Through just 
this percussion, the Michigan 
Theater 
auditorium 
filled 

up with the lushness of a 
chorus. A guitarist and bassist 
were the last to enter before 
the 
singer. 
The 
foursome 

introduced themselves to the 
audience, already improving 
and riffing off one another’s 
energy. 
Angelique 
Kidjo 

emerged from the shadows 
of the curtains with held her 
head high, strutting into the 
light with boots, a traditional 
headwrap, dress, gold hanging 
earrings and glittery tights. 

Kidjo’s voice rang clear and 

percussive. It looked as if her 
body struggled to contain her 
energy as she stomped and 
swayed with her eyes closed. 
Each time I scribbled in my 
notebook to write something 
down, I was afraid I’d missed 
something during that short 
glance away. 

According 
to 
the 
UMS 

website, Kidjo’s inspiration 
for covering Talking Heads’ 
seminal 1980 album Remain 
in Light was their heavy blues 
and rock influences that trace 
back to Africa. She wanted to 
pay homage to those roots, 
particularly 
West 
African 

music. 

For the performance on 

Feb. 16, Kidjo stood alongside 
her band of Dominic James on 
guitar, Magatte Sow playing 
percussion, Michael Olatuja 

on bass and Yayo Serka on 
drums. 

After just the first song, 

some 
audience 
members 

jumped to their feet and 
stood along the edges of the 
aisles. The bass thudded with 
vibrations that I felt in my 
feet, chest and throat.

I had to keep reminding 

myself that these weren’t her 
songs. Kidjo approached each 
song with such bravado that it 

felt like her own. A few rows 
ahead of me, a man began 
playing air drums in his seat. 
Her enthusiasm and vigor 
ran through each song like a 
bolt of electricity, bringing 
her own funk to the group’s 
classic quirky hits.

In one of the concert’s 

turning points, she threw her 
headscarf off and motioned 

for the audience to get on their 
feet and dance. 

UMS volunteer and Ann 

Arbor resident Lili Henderson 
called Kidjo “a force of nature” 
with “such a big voice for a 
tiny woman, and a unifying 
one.” 

Kidjo dedicated a cover 

to Tina Weymouth, the bass 
player of Talking Heads and 
Mother Earth. She spoke of the 
importance of the feminine 
and taking care of her and the 
women of her earth.

Later, the guitar, bass player 

and Kidjo formed a line to 
shuffle left to right according 
to her direction. Her swagger 
and confidence kept the crowd 
alight with excitement. 

Kidjo introduced us to a new 

millenium. Before launching 
into one of the album’s most 
famous songs, “Once in a 
Lifetime,” 
she 
asked 
the 

audience to change who they 
are by accepting others. She 
emphasized the need for more 
compassion and empathy in 
the world, a way to give back 
to those around us. She then 
ran through the aisles of the 
audience, directing us like 
a conductor above a sea of 
people. 

Back on stage, she invited 

those who wanted to dance 
to come forward, calling men, 
women and children. A little 
boy began breakdancing while 
the percussionist with a drum 
thrown 
over 
his 
shoulder 

clapped him on. Men and 
women got on stage dancing 
and daring each other to battle 
against 
the 
drummer 
and 

Kidjo, who kept pulling new 
people into the dance circle. 

After 
the 
show, 
Amy 

Moore, an audience member, 
approached me to ask about 
the notebook I was holding. 
She wanted to tell me what she 
witnessed. 

“Angelique Kidjo is what the 

world needs now,” Moore said. 
“And, her show is fantastic.”

NINA MOLINA
Daily Arts Writer

TV REVIEW
‘Hot Ones’ is fun but inauthentic

JOSHUA THOMAS

For The Daily

The concept behind the YouTube series 

“Hot Ones” is simple: Take the typical 
celebrity interview and spice it up with 
some hot wings. The show is extremely 
well researched, insightful and genuine. 
TruTV has decided to adapt “Hot Ones” 
into a game show on its channel: “Hot 
Ones: The Game Show.” The game show 
centers around two teams of “bros” as 
they devour some hot wings and answer 
some trivia for a cash prize. 

Despite all the game show’s theatricality 

and flair, where the YouTube series is 
wholesome, fun and entertaining, the 
game show is just plain bland. “Hot Ones: 
The Game Show” doesn’t add anything 
new or interesting to the game show 
formula and lacks the heart that made the 
YouTube series so successful. 

So what’s so bad about the game show 

adaptation? 

Let’s start with the host. Part of what 

makes the Hot Ones series on YouTube 
so engaging is the interviewer himself. 
Sean Evans is an absolutely fantastic 
interviewer: He is thoughtful and funny, 
bringing the right amount of energy to 
his interviews. Unfortunately for Sean, 
interviewing celebrities across a table and 
hosting a game show aren’t the same thing. 
His voice hardly carries across the stage, 
and his interactions with contestants are 
dry and lifeless. In the new fantastic 
world of lights and spectacle of the game 
show set, he looks meek and out of his 
element.

The game is divided into three rounds: 

In the first two rounds, the teams “clean 
the wing,” answering a series of trivia 
from Sean for increasingly large cash 
prizes. If a team answers a question 
incorrectly, the other team automatically 
wins that money. The categories of 
questions revolve around pop culture. In 
the final round, the team with the most 
money has the chance to win $25,000 by 
playing a condensed version of charades. 

The game’s structure doesn’t provide 

that much entertainment, either. Since a 
team that answers incorrectly has more to 
lose, it is a riskier move to answer a trivia 
question than to stay silent. During the 
premiere, one team walked away almost 
uncontested despite not attempting to 
answer the majority of the trivia. Besides 
these strange rules, the show doesn’t 
present its audience with anything else 
that any other game show hasn’t done a 
thousand times before, and better. If not 
for the hot wings, the show would look 
like “Jeopardy!” for dude-bros. 

Despite all of this, there are some 

aspects of the show that aren’t all 
that bad: The set itself is incredible. It 
maintains the dark, ambient design of 
the original YouTube series with an 
updated version of the iconic logo. The 
show also has “behind the scenes” footage 
of contestants struggling to finish their 
intensely spicy wings (the puke bucket is 
also a nice touch).

They say all good things must come to 

an end. In that case, all good YouTube 
channels must become game shows. 

Television has a way of eating up the 
authenticity of YouTube and spitting out 
the shell. Lucky for those of us with a 
sense of taste, Hot Ones has returned to 
YouTube for season 11.

TRUTV

HANNAH YOO/THE DAILY

‘Angelique Kidjo 
is what the world 
needs now. And, 

her show is 
fantastic.’

It looked as if her 
body struggled 
to contain her 
energy as she 
stomped and 

swayed with her 

eyes closed

“Hot Ones”

Series Premiere

TruTV

