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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
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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