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See if the Greek Food Festival of Dallas is worth the drive for traditional eats.

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Now Playing Greek outUTA professor puts indie filmmakers on the map at the annual film festival VideoFest. Page 3B

It might get loud

Find out if Weezer’s latest album Hurley follows up the bands recent rise.

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Review

Two genres clash as they open and close out this weekend of UTA sponsored acts at the Levitt Pavilion. Page 6B

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‘Hurley’

Band: WeezerAlbum: HurleyLabel: Epitaph Records3 out of 5 stars

BY ALLEN BALDWINThe Shorthorn staff

I didn’t think Weezer could come up with a worse album cover than the one for Raditude — I was wrong. If anything, Hur-ley shows Weezer is just now coming out of the coma it’s been in for most of the past decade.

Hurley, released Sept. 14, fol-lows on the heels of Weezer’s late 2009 album, Raditude, the lat-est in Weezer’s post-2000 stink-ers. But, it’s a new decade, and Weezer now has the chance to prove its naysayers wrong.

Frontman Rivers Cuomo is still a master with pop hooks. Songs like “Brave New World” and “Smart Girls” will be stuck in your head, whether you want them to be (“Brave New World”) or not (“Smart Girls”). High-lights of the album include the aptly titled “Trainwrecks” with its railroad worksong-esque drums, and “Unspoken”, a fairly reserved track that finds Cuomo’s vocals and lyrics sounding the most sin-cere they’ve been in quite some time. “Brave New World” and the folky “Time Flies” also close the album out nicely.

Despite Cuomo’s genius with hooks, his lyrics can use some work. “Where’s My Sex” is prob-ably one of the worst songs about socks I’ve heard in my life, grant-ed, it’s probably the only one. It’s basically one big bad joke about a family member’s verbal slip up. “Smart Girls” isn’t much better

with its bland lyrics and point-less name dropping of random girls.

Instrumentally, the band is exactly where you’d expect them to be, rarely straying from the typical palm-muted power-chords and simple choruses. Un-fortunately, the band’s inclusion of synths in songs like album opener “Memories” and the pre-viously mentioned “Where’s My Sex” is just plain annoying.

Hurley is nowhere near the best pop-punk album of the year, but it’s certainly nowhere near the worst. Finally, Weezer fans will have a post-2000 album they won’t be incredibly ashamed to admit they own.

ALLEN BALDWINfeatures-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

Weezer isn’t ‘Lost’New Weezer album Hurley not bad, but far from good

Pulse’s guide to arts and entertainment in the Metroplex

this weekend. If you know of a cool Arlington event, let us know at features-editor.

shorthorn@uta.edu.

On CampusTodayStars, Stripes and Sousa! When: 7:30 p.m.Where: Irons Recital HallCost: $5 General, $3 students/seniorsThe UTA Wind Symphony, under the direction of Douglas Stotter, presents a concert in the style of the Sousa Band from the early 20th century.

FridayMaverick Speakers Series: Ken Burns When: 7:30 p.m.Where: Texas HallCost: Free, tickets required from utatickets.comDocumentary filmmaker Ken Burns is the first guest in the Mav-erick Speakers Series. Burns’ cred-its include his Academy Award-nominated 1981 documentary Brooklyn Bridge and he has direct-ed and produced major historical documentaries for more than 30 years of his career.

In the MetroplexEclectic Visions: Through Eyes Of Texas ArtistsWhen: 1-5 p.m. Thursday, Friday. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. 12-5 p.m.

Sunday Where: Arlington Museum of Art, 201 West Main St. Arlington, Texas 76010Cost: FreeThis exhibition focuses on the di-versity of Texas art emphasized as eight artists from the DFW area are featured in a show that in-cludes personal visions expressed in eclectic subjects, mediums and styles.—arlingtonmuseum.org

State Fair of TexasWhen: Friday, Sept. 24 - Oct. 17Where: Fair Park, DallasCost: $15 at the gateThe State Fair of Texas starts this week with its fried foods, carnival rides and plethora of events and exhibits. Check next week’s Pulse for a look at the goods the fair is offering this year.

Hurricane Harbor’s last weekend of the summerWhen: 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, SundayWhere: Hurricane Harbor, 1800 E Lamar Blvd. Arlington, Texas 76006Cost: $21.99 when purchased on-line, $27.99 at the gateThis is the last weekend the water park will be open for the 2010 season.

In TheatersWall Street: Money Never SleepsDirector: Oliver StoneStarring: Shia LaBeouf, Michael Douglas, Carey MulliganIn theaters: FridayRating: PG-13Fallen stockbroker Gordon Gekko teams up with a young Wall Street trader, whose mentor was recently

murdered, to track down the killer and warn others about an impend-ing massive financial meltdown.—imdb.com

You AgainDirector: Andy FickmanStarring: Kristen Bell, Odette Yustman, Sigourney WeaverIn theaters: FridayWhen Marni realizes her brother is about to marry the girl who bullied her in high school, she sets out to expose the fiancée’s true colors.—imdb.com

ConcertsFridayPepper, Shwayze, Poor HabitWhen: 7 p.m.Where: House of Blues Dallas, 2200 N. Lamar St. Dallas, Texas 75202Cost: $20-$30, ticketmaster.com

SaturdayCadillac SkyWhen: 8 p.m.Where: Levitt Pavilion, 100 W. Abram St. Arlington, Texas 76010Cost: Free

ComedyFlo HernandezWhen: 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Fri-day, SaturdayWhere: Hyena’s Comedy Night-club, 2525 E Arkansas Ln # 253Arlington, Texas 76010Cost: $10, two drink minimum

Bill BellamyWhen: 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Fri-day, Saturday. 7:30 p.m. SundayWhere: Improv Comedy Club, 309 Curtis Mathes Way # 147, Arling-ton, Texas 76018Cost: $22

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By Andrew PlockThe Shorthorn Scene editor

Spanning the weekend and three screens at art film house Angelika in Dallas, Bart Weiss has once again put together the annual four-day independent film festival — VideoFest.

Starting in the late 80s, and now in its 23rd year, the film as-sociate professor and Video As-sociation of Dallas director said the festival began with a lineup that utilized both the editing aesthetic that came with video as opposed to film and showcased works from artists that were in-terested in changing the world.

“This kind of work was not being shown at traditional film festivals,” he said. “As I started programming this festival it was to be very interested in showcas-ing this work — but also finding new technologies that were com-ing up — and not just showing them but show where the art intersects with those.”

As the times changed, so has the festival. Weiss said Video-Fest has always been on the cutting edge of technology but the festival has always looked at how those technologies interact and how filmmakers work with them. While the festival mixes these ideals, Weiss said the fes-tival is always keeping with the social importance that he be-lieves in.

“Videos can change the world,” Weiss said. “The images we see clearly affect us. Otherwise we wouldn’t have TV commercials. By showing us the world differ-ently, we can have empathy for issues, causes and people that we otherwise didn’t know.”

As the festival’s artistic direc-tor, Weiss chose the works on a local, national and interna-tional level to showcase today’s unknown and up-and-coming filmmakers. From his expedi-tions as a part of the American Documentary Showcase, Weiss was able to get a sense of what

work is being done in countries like Nigeria.

While each day of the festival will have multiple works show-ing simultaneously on three screens, the final event, Texas Show, will shut down all other screenings Sunday evening to showcase Texas filmmakers that are selected by a panel of judges.

One of the entries chosen for the Texas Show was Ka-trina’s Son by film assistant professor and San Antonio native Ya’Ke Smith.

“I think there is a lot of great filmmakers in Texas, and to be among the best of them is an honor,” Smith said about the selection. “To know my film had an impact on the jury — its amazing. I’m hum-bled and honored to be in it.”

Smith, whose work has re-ceived awards and screenings worldwide, recently received the award of Best Narrative Short at the BET Urbanworld Film Festival and also took the Audience Choice and Out-standing Cinematography award at 2010 DC Shorts Film Festival for Katrina’s Son.

The film, which premiered

in June, follows a boy who loses his grandmother during Hur-ricane Katrina and his travels to San Antonio in search of the mother who abandoned him

years earlier. Smith said the film is part of a

feature film he is currently rais-ing money to make called From Here to Nowhere and was done

as a dedication to those affected by the disaster.

“Because I live in Texas and I saw the influx of New Orlea-nians after Hurricane Katrina, I wanted to do a story about them,” he said. “Of course we just had the fifth anniversary, but I think people were start-ing to forget. People are still struggling to put their lives back together.”

The festival begins at 7 to-night and day and all-fest passes are available at videofest.org with a discount for students.

Andrew Plockfeatures-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

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When and where VideoFestWhen: 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday. Noon Saturday, SundayWhere: Angelika Film Center & Café, 5321 East Mockingbird LaneDallasCost: $15 Thursday/Friday student day pass$25 Saturday/Sunday student day pass$65 All-Fest student pass priced day

Courtesy: Dan Borris

A young boy is left alone in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in, Katrina’s Son. The film by assistant professor Ya’ke Smithwill show this Sunday at the film festival, VideoFest, in Dallas as a part of the Texas filmmakers showcase, Texas Fest.

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BY WILLIAM JOHNSONThe Shorthorn senior staff

After an extensive history that goes back more than a decade, genre-blurring rock band Spoonfed Tribe continues to play across the na-tion and start the musical weekend in Arlington on Thursday at the Levitt Pavilion.

Placing the band’s sound into any one genre of music is even difficult to front man Egg Nebula. He describes the sound of the band as “experimental, avant-garde with a hint of psy-chedelica and plenty of good vibes.” Spoonfed Tribe blends together flute melodies with gui-tar rhythms and multiple types of percussion instruments, including the glockenspiel and the cow bell to produce what Egg Nebula calls booty-shaking music.

For the past 11 years, Spoonfed Tribe has performed across the country at various fes-tivals. Tribe members include Jerome57, Ka-booom, Egg Nebula, ShoNuff and Gouffahtts.

While each of the members specialize in differ-ent instruments, they all play a percussive de-vice of some sort. Nebula described the band’s ascension as a trial and error process. One that, he said, the band learned from with each mistake.

“We’ve grown over the years and honed our skills,” he said.

At Ecofest this past Satur-day, the band played all-percus-sion sets throughout the day in 15-minute intervals. And at a show last Friday in Denton, a portion of the performance was strictly percussion with each member banging a different instrument.

“Coming you never know what to expect, but at the end of the evening if you have a bunch of people dancing around, not caring what they look like or what they‘re doing,” Nebula said. “That’s what it’s all about. That’s why we’re here.”

At one point of the Denton show, the band members let their drumsticks hit the ground one by one as they filed off stage and into the crowd. Once a part of the audience, the band asked the crowd to stand as they took their chairs and formed a statue from them, top-ping it with shredded newspaper and drinking glasses. After the completion of the structure, the band reappeared back on stage for the rest of the percussion set.

“It’s something to bring people out of their box,” Nebula said.

“It’s something that we have to clean up at the end of the night,” he added.

Bassist Jerome57 said the band encourages sensuality and for their crowds to move, but still maintains a wholesome vibe at shows.

“We just like everyone to have fun,” he said.

Fan David Mudd was at last Friday’s show and said he enjoyed the band just as much as the first

time he saw them, four years ago. He said the band’s sound was a powerful mix of genres that everyone could get along to.

“Anyone with a bit of hippie blood in them should see these guys,” he said.

Nebula said the band has no boundaries when it comes to writing music. While their messages use to hold a political stance, the band now has one focus when playing live shows.

“We’re here to change the world and make sure everyone has a good time,” Nebula said. “I think they can do it with a little focus and free heart.”

WILLIAM JOHNSONfeatures-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

BY MARISSA HALLThe Shorthorn designer

In middle school, Aaron Johnson pleaded with his music director to let him play Jazz music.

Now the Jazz studies senior plays Jazz on his trumpet all the time. He practices to play for hun-dreds of people in Mexico City with famous jazz musicians and this weekend here in Arlington.

All because he’s one of 19 students that make up the UTA Jazz Orchestra.

The group, the top jazz ensemble at UTA, al-lows students to hone their jazz skills in class every weekday while they prepare to perform for hun-dreds of people at concerts throughout the year.

The orchestra’s next performance is 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Levitt Pavilion where they will perform in a free concert with Grammy-winning saxophonist Bob Mintzer.

Music education freshman Sadie Hernandez said she can’t wait to play her tenor trombone alongside Mintzer. She said she owns almost all of his albums.

“His musical arrangements are genius,” she said.In 2009, the orchestra played at the pavilion

with trumpet player Terell Stafford. Johnson said the relaxed venue is one of his

favorites places to play and it’s eye-opening to play with renowned musicians, like Stafford and Mintzer.

“It’s quite a thrill,” Johnson said. “It’s mind-blowing how long these guys have been playing and how talented they are.”

The student musicians aren’t the only ones excited about the performance. Mintzer said he learns something from fellow mu-sicians every time he plays with them, especially students.

“Students have a great energy and enthusiasm,” he said.

While the performance may be fun, getting there can be challenging, Hernandez said as she spends more than half her day playing music.

Every weekday, the orchestra practices for an hour with additional practices if a performance is coming up.

But Johnson said he and the rest of the orches-tra enjoy it.

“We want to make what we have better,” he said.Orchestra director Timothy Ishii runs the prac-

tices and has been the director since fall 2004. Ishii’s goal for the musicians is simple — play well.

“I want to train these musicians to play to a pro-fessional level and expose them to a wide variety of

music,” he said.At competitions and festivals, the orchestra’s

performances consistently receive the best ratings. They were named the outstanding college jazz orchestra at the North Texas Jazz Festival in 2009. Every year they travel around the Metroplex and all

around the world to perform, most recently in Mexico in fall 2008.

Ishii said the final concert was standing room only in the packed room of Mexico City’s National Centre for the Arts.

“It was really outstanding,” he said. “The audience didn’t want to leave.”

The orchestra members also got to experience some of the cul-

ture. Johnson said it was interesting to meet peo-ple, especially children, who love music but don’t have the means to learn to play it.

“The kids there are wanting to soak up every-thing,” he said.

Johnson and Hernandez were also eager to learn music as kids. Both have played their instru-ments since the sixth grade. Both have a love for jazz that led them to try out for the orchestra.

And now both of them want to share their music with others.

“There’s more to music than hip-hop and rock,” Johnson said.

MARISSA HALLfeatures-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

Two UTA sponsored acts play their wide-range of music

at Levitt Pavilion this weekendThe Shorthorn: Michael Minasi

The Spoonfed Tribe’s lead vocalist, Egg Nebula, sings at a concert Friday at Dan’s Silver Leaf in Denton, Texas. Nebula also plays the flute and percussion instruments.

Courtesy: Timothy Ishii

The UTA Jazz Orchestra performs fall 2009 at the Levitt Pavilion. The group performed with trumpet player Terell Stafford.

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This weekend avant-garde, psych rock and saxophone infused jazz will take their stages as they hold the weekend’s opening and closing acts at the Levitt Pavilion.

These UTA sponsored performances by Spoonfed Tribe, Bob Mintzer and the UTA Jazz Orchestra bookend tonight’s and Sunday’s concerts at the Levitt. The two bands offer a genre-stretching spec-trum of music played this weekend.

First up is Spoonfed Tribe, a DFW-based band that has brought their unique form of percussion and grooves to the area and abroad for more than 10 years. The group will be playing tonight, spon-sored by The Shorthorn.

Capping off the week will be Bob Mintzer and the UTA Jazz Orchestra with their musically trained methodol-ogy of performing. The group will be playing with Mintzer, an award-winning saxophonist.

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Parkour club entertainment chair and psychology sophomore Will Shotwell does a flip combo over undeclared sophomore Elisha Denham’s head, Tuesday afternoon in the Architecture courtyard. “The [Parkour] club started last semester...and we are working on getting people from other schools into it so that we can have tournaments at least two weekends per semester,” Shotwell said.

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Mechanical engineering freshman Logan McClenny practices praise songs Tuesday night outside of Brazos House. McClenny is a part of The Dewitt Avenue Band that is planning to release its first full album later this year.

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By AlAnnA QuillenThe Shorthorn senior staff

Hungry for Greek but don’t have a passport?

Not a problem.The tastes and culture of the

Mediterranean land is just a drive to Dallas Friday and Sat-urday as the Greek Food Festival of Dallas kicks off its 54th year with Greek food, entertainment and shopping. Organized by the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, the festival raises money for charities and the church.

Covering 17 acres of the church’s property, the event fea-tures many traditional Greek dishes, which can be purchased as a complete meal, individually throughout the festival, or on a sampler plate for $10.

“For someone who is not fa-miliar with the Greek culture, I think this festival provides them an opportunity to see a com-plete offering of not only Greek cuisine, but also a little danc-ing and insight into the Greek orthodox faith,” said Irving resi-dent Alex Valtadoros.

Valtadoros, whose parents are from Northern Greece, has attended the festival since he moved from Detroit in 2008. He said his main motivation to go is the food.

“I miss my mother’s home cooked meals, and this is the closest I get to it while here in Dallas,” he said.

The church intensively plans and cooks for several months before the festival. To give some perspective, they will use one ton of feta cheese, make 50,000 pieces of the traditional Greek pastry baklava and prepare 4,000 chickens.

The sampler plate brings together various Greek flavors into one sitting with Greek-style chicken and meatballs, spanako-pita, spinach and cheese blended and wrapped in filo dough, and

tiropitas, Greek cheeses blended and tucked into filo. The plate also includes rice pilaf, a salad topped with feta and olives, and pita bread.

“Don’t miss the loukou-mades,” said Mary Carter, church marketing communica-tions coordinator. “They are like little donut holes, honey soaked and dreamy.”

Besides indulging in the food, visitors can also watch cook-ing demonstrations throughout the weekend to learn the Greek recipes from area chefs and pa-rishioners. To go along with the demos, the Pantopolion, or gro-cery area, of the festival sells in-gredients that people can use to make the Greek dishes at home.

Throughout the weekend, a

dance troupe will perform tra-ditional Greek folk dances and The Unexpected Boys, a Broad-way group of actors and musi-cians, will put on a tribute show to Franky Valli and the Four Seasons. The festival also offers lectures, church choir perfor-mances and tours of the sanctu-ary building.

If food and entertainment aren’t enough, the Agora mar-ketplace resembles an interna-tional market and features im-ports, fine jewelry, clothing and art by Greek and Greek-Ameri-can vendors.

“Entering is like taking a mini trip to Greece,” Carter said.

Carter is a full-blooded Greek and thinks the festival is a great way to celebrate her heritage.

“It’s fun to invite friends to the festival and share the sights, sounds and tastes of what it’s all about to be Greek,” she said.

Valtadoros said it’s nice to be able to fraternize with people from the same culture as him-self.

“It enhances this sort of na-tional pride in my background,” he said. “I think because Greece has such a rich culture and his-torical backings, people like to be immersed in something unique.”

The festival began with a group of parishioner women who started baking pastries and delicacies as a fundraiser. It then evolved into a luncheon, a fash-ion show and then into a full

fledged festival.“It’s a multicultural event

that’s been going on for more than 50 years that Dallas-ites and others have been raised on,” festival co-chair George Naftis said. “It’s a very old tradition that brings people of all ethnici-ties and cultures under a com-mon interest — good food.”

Dallas resident Nicole Tishl-ias said she has attended the fes-tival since she married a Greek and moved to the city in 1997. She said she thinks the festival serves as a good excuse for peo-ple to get together to celebrate friends and family.

“It gives visitors a sense of friendship and community,” she said. “In this society, even tod-dlers are too busy. This is the time we all get together to un-wind, visit and reconnect.”

Naftis, who’s been involved with the festival more than 30 years, said not everyone has the opportunity to visit Europe and festivalgoers can come and get a taste of Greece and its warm people without pulling out their passports.

“Greek people like to have fun,” he said. “They love to eat good food and drink good wine. They’ve been throwing good parties for 2,000 years.”

AlAnnA Quillenfeatures-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

Opa! in DallasGreek Food

Festival of Dallas brings traditional food, dance and entertainment to

the Metroplex

When and where When: 4 p.m.-11 p.m. Friday and 10:30 a.m.-11 p.m. SaturdayWhere: Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox ChurchTickets: $6 general admissionContact: 972-233-4880

Courtesy: Greek Food Festival of Dallas

Two dancers perform a traditional Greek dance at the annual Greek Food Festival of Dallas. Authentic Greek food, a marketplace and various events will accompany the weekend’s celebration of Greek culture and lifestyle

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A line of Greek dancers pose at the annual Greek Food Festival of Dallas.

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