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letter from the editor
The Great Gatsby was one of my
favorite books I was assigned to read in
high school. Granted, I was an English
nerd, so taste amongst students certainly
varies, but I thoroughly enjoyed the
heavy symbolism and biting commen-
tary on the American Dream F. Scott
Fitzgerald peppered throughout. Others
just loved immersing themselves in
1920s fashion and elegance.
It was only a matter of time before
Hollywood gave it a big-budget update.
For star Leonardo DiCaprio, he seemed
to latch onto the same themes I did, as
he discusses on pages 32 and 33. For
director Baz Luhrmann, critics (such
as ours on page 23) say he focused on
the latter, painting a colorful picture
onscreen with a lavish old brush. He
would probably enjoy our guide to
creating your own 20s party, found on
page 33.
For those of us living in the present,
there are plenty of other ways to spend
your weekend that dont involve total
escapism, which youll fnd throughout
the rest of the issue, but going back to
the past every once in a while can be
fun and thought-provoking.
It makes me want to grab my old
copy of Gatsby off the shelf and
revisit it, though since Im not being
tested this time, I may just catch the
movie instead.
-Rich Howells, Weekender Editor
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Music
Though shes celebrating four
years with her band this weekend,
area resident Jeanne Zano has made
music a main focus of her life since a
very young age.
She began playing piano at the
age of six, then started her foray into
vocals in college. Shes been a part
of local bands, most notably Flaxy
Morgan, and, four years ago, she
settled into the groove with a group
of her own.
Things took off for the area native
in 2005 when she won a vocal talent
competition at the Wyoming County
Fair, receiving the chance to open for
country singer Jason Aldean in 2006.
She was then asked back to the fair
to open for Lorrie Morgan, which is
when she met the singers keyboard
player and producer Mark Oliverius.
Oliverius invited Zano to Nashville
to record, where she then produced
her 10-song album, Here I Am,
fnished in 2008.
Zanos career began in country
roots, though it has expanded into
other genres.
Ive always liked country music;
Patsy Kline was a favorite, she
began, but right now, I wouldnt say
were exactly country. Were bringing
in a lot of rock and pop, mixing it up.
We do throw in some Johnny Cash,
but we also perform songs from Sug-
arland and Carrie Underwood.
Zano is going to get back into
the studio in June to record another
album, one that she said will continue
to stick with her sound now without
being full-on country. She enjoys the
eclectic sound because she believes
it only helps build a stronger fan base.
This is what Zano calls a triple
threat, covering the main musical
bases.
We call it the triple threat: the
country, the rock, the pop, she said.
You have to do that now, especially
with the economy and trying to get
people out. You need to be versatile
and not only get them out, but make
sure they stay.
The band is also reaching out to
masses via a phone app that works
for both Android and iPhone that con-
tains show dates, a way to upload fan
photos, and songs to listen to, among
other things.
Staying power is something the
band certainly wields, especially
considering the lineup has undergone
several changes over the years. The
band members are currently Gary
Flanagan on lead/acoustic guitar,
harmonica, mandolin, and vocals;
Mike Dantone on bass; Bob Bartoli
on lead guitar; and Joe Partash, whos
been with the band since the start, on
drums.
Though member changes could po-
tentially break a musical group apart,
it hasnt slowed Zano down.
I have been fortunate enough to
be successful and have a recognizable
name and good reputation, so it seems
Im never lacking with people who I
can work with, she said.
Honestly, I love playing music,
and as long as I can do it, I will. My
drive, my love of music has kept me
moving on. There are a lot of amaz-
ing musicians in this area, and Ive
been fortunate enough to play with a
lot of them, and I hope to continue to
do so.
With four years under her belt,
Zano is looking forward to many
more.
Id like to put more albums out,
collaborate with more people, get out
there and play music, she said. Its
getting tricky, of course, because I
have two kids and they come frst,
but so far Ive been very fortunate to
work around their schedules. I mean,
theyre involved with everything, but
I still somehow do it.
Anna, 8, and Adam, 10, enjoy see-
ing their mother on stage and have
even started to get involved with
her career.
Theyve really gotten into the
merchandise, when I have CDs
or t-shirts to sell, Zano said with
a laugh, and they get very upset
when no one comes to their table.
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Area resident Jeanne Zano
is very much evolving in her
career also passing the four-
year mark with her band.
Zano celebrates four
and many more
By Sara Pokorny
Weekender Staff Writer
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You no longer have to wait to nd out, because the lineup has been announced.
Itll be another season with a little something for everyone, from headliners
like Merle Haggard and Cesar Millan; Broadway shows like American Idiot,
operas, family shows, and the Young Peoples Theater Series; as well as offbeat
performances such as famed Japanese drummers YAMATO.
As always, the Kirby Center is aiming to please with the acts it brings in.
We agree with the YAMATO Drummers and just want to make the world a little
more happy, said marketing manager Anne Rodella.
For a complete list of events, visit kirbycenter.org.
should you work on you body slam? Because, this year, youve got only one shot
to meet with some of wrestlings greatest the WWE Superstars.
WWE Live will come to the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza (255 Highland
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Ticket prices range from $15 to $95 and go on sale May 18 at 10 a.m. Tickets are
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...can you sing your heart out? Local Chris Concert, known in the country scene
and for his website In the Woodshed, is raising money for a local charity yet again
by holding Crazy Chris Karaoke Contest 2013, with proceeds from the event going
to the Larksville Volunteer Fire Company.
Winners will receive a $500 cash prize, with the nals being held July 14 at the
Larksville Bazaar at 6 p.m. For complete contest rules, visit inthewoodshed.net.
is a perfect treat for a hot summer day? Find out when you stop in at Froyo
Mania (10 E. Northampton St., Wilkes-Barre).
Therell be a ribbon-cutting ceremony today at 12:30 p.m. for the new business.
Froyo Mania is a self-serve premium frozen yogurt shop that offers various choose-it-
yourself toppings.
The ribbon-cutting is a part of Froyos grand opening celebration, which will take
place today from noon to 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The business will offer free
samples, a 50 percent discount, a t-shirt giveaway for the rst 25 customers, and
hold a drawing for a chance to win an iPad mini.
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Jeanne Zano Band Fourth Anni-
versary Party with No Vacancy:
May 18, 7-11 p.m., Coopers
Cabana (304 Kennedy Blvd.,
Pittston). Info: jeannezano.com.
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Ned Russin | Special to the Weekender
Working with, and
without, the Internet
Last time we spoke, I wrote
about the importance of Record
Store Day and briefy touched upon
a simple but important subject that
I would like to elaborate on today:
the Internet and music.
Its not breaking news that the
Internet has completely revolution-
ized our day-to-day lives. I have
been traveling throughout Europe
for three weeks, and thanks to my
tiny, sleek computer phone, I have
been able to talk, e-mail, and even
video chat with people 3,000 miles
away. While its practically impos-
sible to think of life today without
these little gadgets, I think there
should be some important thought
put into these tools.
I often get asked how I feel
about the Internets presence in
music today and how it has helped
our hurt the music community. I
honestly feel like this is always a
trick question. Today, we have the
greatest and fastest communication
tools. In 2008, Title Fight booked
our frst ever tour with Tigers Jaw
all through the social network
MySpace. We were able to contact
people from all over the East Coast
who were able to put shows to-
gether for us in basements and fre
halls. This was our frst jump into
touring and our frst time playing
outside of Wilkes-Barre.
Besides the luxury of contacting
people, bands are fortunate enough
to self-promote with ease. Within
seconds, a bands demo can be
released online and anyone from
Moscow, Penn., to Moscow, Russia
can hear it. Just the other week, a
new band from Wilkes-Barre called
Grin released a three-song demo
online, and this week Strength For
AReason streamed their new EP
as well. To me, its admirable to
see a band put up new songs and
let them speak for themselves. You
can tweet, retweet, or tag your way
into getting thousands of views,
but it seems almost impossible to
get anywhere without that.
Its hard to say that these are bad
options for bands to use because
they are so easy and so effective.
But the thing is, if you look back
on our area just 10 years ago, there
were shows happening and being
promoted by fyers at the mall and
by word of mouth. People like
Bobb Mac were booking shows by
calling strangers phone numbers
that they acquired, and he still con-
tinues to book events today like the
art show he is holding at Utopia on
South Main Street in Wilkes-Barre
on May 18. While the means have
certainly changed, the mentality
hasnt.
Its hard to pick exactly what I
feel is the drawback because just
when I think something is causing
a problem, it seems to offer its own
solution. Maybe Im just nitpicking
at something that is irrelevant, but
its clear that things are constantly
evolving. Perhaps people said the
same thing when people started
using computers to record instead
of analog tape machines.
In high school, I took a pho-
tography class. Now while this
was well into the digital age, we
rolled our own flm, developed our
own negatives, and then printed
the fnal product. While we could
have done this with a digital
camera and Photoshop, we
learned how to operate the
equipment that today seems
obsolete to some.
I think this is the most im-
portant thing to learn. While
you can use every technologi-
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it is best to understand that
you can still do everything
without it.
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Korn has sold millions of albums
worldwide and earned two Grammy
Awards as they continue to top Bill-
board charts and break new ground,
but something has been missing for
almost a decade now.
Founding guitarist Brian Head
Welch left the popular metal act in
2005 after becoming a Christian,
releasing an autobiography and a
solo album called Save Me from
Myself, chronicling his struggles
with addiction and need to get away
from the decadent rock star life-
style. Now clean and sober, he and
his bandmates have made amends
are touring together once again,
stopping at the Sands Bethlehem
Event Center (77 Sands Blvd.,
Bethlehem) on Thursday, May 23,
with his new band, Love and Death,
opening the show.
The Weekender picked Heads
brain about what has changed, why
he rejoined, the making of a new
album to be released later this year,
and how his time away solidifed his
future with Korn.
THE WEEKENDER: For
years, youve been asked by
Korns management to rejoin the
band. What fnally convinced you
to give it a shot?
HEAD: It was the timing. I feel
like I have a sense of feeling when
things are right now, because I was
just making bad decisions before.
As far as like how things fall into
place in life, I feel like Ive got a lot
of wisdom with that. It was a heart
thing. I hooked up with Korn in
2012, and I ended up jamming with
them on stage at a big concert, and
it was all about friendship rather
than money and business. Thats
the short answer right there. All
this happened because of friend-
ship rather than the business aspect
of it. And so once we connected as
friends again, it just fell into place.
W: What was it like reuniting
with Korn at Carolina Rebellion
in 2012? What was going through
your mind at the time?
H: It was really trippy. Its crazy
because as it was happening, it felt
like it was a lifetime ago that I was
doing that with Korn, you know? I
didnt expect it at all. I was trying
to kind of lay low at that concert, so
some people wouldnt try to make it
happen or something because I just
wanted to chill with my daughter.
I was there hanging out with my
daughter, but when it happened, I
was like, Oh man, this is supposed
to happen.
Last time I was on a big stage, I
was wasted, so I was like, Whoa,
this is what its like being sober. It
was just surreal. But now that Ive
been hanging out with Korn and
stuff, its all come back and it feels
like Ive only been gone like a year
rather than eight years.
W: What is the band dynamic
like now?
H: Oh my gosh, its so great. Its
so positive. Theres no negative
energy zero negative energy in the
room. Everyone is friends. Everyone
is just happy, and its crazy. It was
all negative before. Everything was
negative, like almost everything,
because there had to be some kind
of a drama or drug or something go-
ing on that was sneaky and just not
good. That was just going on all the
time, but now, theres nothing thats
going on thats sneaky or negative.
I dont mean to sound like its all
perfect or nothing, but it really feels
like everybody and everything has
been healed and just set back stron-
ger than ever.
W: You were concerned about
everyones drug use and way
of life in the past. Have things
changed since the old days?
H: 100 percent, yeah. Everybody
has put everything behind them, and
everyone just wants to be happy.
The biggest thing is that everybody
is so grateful now for Korn and the
music that theyve been able to do
and the traveling and the fans that
they have. Everyone is so thank-
ful for it, and they dont take it for
granted anymore, and thats one
thing thats really powerful for me
to see because there were a lot of
egos foating around before, 10
years ago.
W: As you guys work on the
new album together, what is the
sound or vibe thats coming out
so far?
H: Its heavy on guitar. I think
theres a lot of mixture because it
sounds very familiar, like me and
Munky doing guitars and stuff like
that, but then theres a new sound
too thats 2013 Korn. Jonathan
Davis vocals have never sounded
better in his life, I dont think, in his
entire life. Something is just going
on with his voice, how hes putting
lyrics together, and the words are
just way more I dont know just
thought out. Im tripping on what
hes doing. This is my favorite Korn
album just from the choruses and
the heart; the words that hes putting
together are revealing his heart and
what hes been going through the
last two years. I think the Korn fans
are really going to relate to it.
W: What do you think has
inspired the writing?
H: Well Jonathan will always be
Jonathan. He doesnt write about
happy things. Life is hard, and
therere a lot of pressures, and he
tackles that stuff head-on. I do that
a lot in my solo band, too. I sing a
lot about overcoming things that
are coming against us because there
seems to be something trying to
smack you around in life. On some
of the songs, I feel like hes wanting
to get out of a dark place hes at,
you know? And other songs are just
kind of Jonathans twisted mind
going off.
W: What do you feel youre
personally bringing to this album?
H: Munky always says that Im
like the melody guy, the chorus guy,
and so Id probably say that, mainly
the choruses and the melody and the
heart. The melody comes through
the music; thats my thing. I love
it. To hear the power come from
Jonathan mixed in with the melodies
that I bring and stuff, and then the
crazy stuff Munky brings, then Ray
and Fieldy with the bass and drums
just all blends together well. Its all
blending together so great.
W: How does writing with them
differ from your solo work with
Love and Death, and has your
other band had an affect on the
way you write now?
H: Thats totally what happened.
You know what it is? I left Korn, I
focused on raising my daughter, I
focused on getting rid of all the an-
ger and rage that I was dealing with,
and then I went back into music
and I relearned how to write, how
to sharpen my skills musically. In
every way, I relearned how to do it.
I just polished it up and I came back
to Korn, and I just feel like I have
a new bag of tricks, and they have
them too because everyone is sober
and everything.
It was all meant to be. Thats all
I can say. I look back at the last
eight years every year that I went
through was meant to be because it
was like adding something positive
on my life every year, whether its
with family, emotionally, mentally,
musically, and professionally. It was
like I was being rebuilt every year in
all those ways.
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Courtesy Photo
Brian Head Welch left
Korn in 2005, but has
since returned.
Korn gets its Head on straight
By Rich Howells
Weekender Editor
Korn with Love and Death:
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Earlier this month, online music
magazine SingerUniverse named
Danville-based singer/songwriter
Tim Farley Best Vocalist of the
Month for his performance on
Steady As She Goes, one of six
songs from his latest EP, Squaring
Circles. After listening to his sec-
ond solo album, its easy to see why.
The former Pan.a.ce.a frontman
made a local splash with his current
band, simply called Farley, in the
summer of 2011 with the release of
AGood Problem to Have. While
that EP contains great songs that
hold up well, Squaring Circles
seems to take his songwriting to the
next level. This is pop rock done
right, appealing to a wide variety of
listeners and ready for radio play, yet
maintaining an emotional earnest-
ness and raw talent often lacking in
the mainstream.
The upbeat Dance All Night
opens the independently-produced
CD with a fun song about defying
age and staying out into the wee
hours of the morning, providing the
perfect clap-along party song before
entering the slow build-up of Dont
Go. It starts simply with an acoustic
guitar, adding a steady drum beat
before the electric guitar and bass
join in. Just as he is overwhelmed
with feelings for his parting lover,
the song swells with trumpets and
heartfelt pleas.
The aforementioned Steady As
She Goes is the run away with
me ballad that avoids clichs and
goes right for the heart, while 12
Oclock is the country-tinged tale
of a soldier calling home that goes
straight for the gut, soulfully mourn-
ing the passage of time as he holds
onto memories of long, late-night
strolls with his other half.
Kiss Kiss Bang delivers the
most lively and digestible declara-
tion of the YOLO attitude yet,
describing youthful love on the
run, and inspiring album closer
Eyes Wide Open has an accompa-
nying stop-motion animated video
that has reached over 100,000 views
on YouTube, refecting, much like
the lyrics, that Farley is on the cusp
of a major breakthrough: On the
threshold of a great wide open / To
the future with eyes wide open.
While the short EP leaves listeners
wanting more, the upside is a com-
plete lack of fller. Each song sticks
for all the right reasons and will
have audiences singing along by the
second chorus, though the simplic-
ity can be deceiving. There is much
more going on that can be absorbed
through future spins, but that, along
with Farleys bright musical future,
is inevitable.
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Melodic Michigan metal monsters Pop
Evil follow up their 2011 album, War of
Angels, with their fourth studio release,
Onyx a disc that captures the intensity of
their dynamic, livewire stage show, right down
to the last bead of wicked seed sweat that can
only come from such dark swagger. Pop Evil
rough-hands Nickelbacks heaviest moments,
mixing it with the arena-level connection of
Shinedown and the tortured, electro-metallic
visions pioneered by artists like Trent Reznor,
resulting in their own addictive, sweet-sound-
ing catharsis.
Produced by heavy rock mastermind John-
ny K, whos responsible for some of Disturbed
and Sevendusts best recorded sonic brutality,
Onyx is indeed a little darker and edgier
than your standard modern rock fare. Onyx
features tracks like Goodbye My Friend, an
emotionally exhaustive rocker where vocalist
Leigh Kakaty begs the question, How did it
end, inside this living hell were in? Trench-
es pairs some of the most sinister Malcolm
Young-meets-Killswitch Engage guitar riffs
along with light programming amid Kakatys
rap-like delivery, offering the perfect middle
fnger for when push comes to shove (Stand
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Divide is a glimpse of what Linkin Park
would sound like without the synths, keys, and
loops simply unrestrained anger and blind
defance. Pop Evil affxes heart to sleeve with
softer, but no less gripping tracks like Silence
and Scars admitting to past wrongs and
a sense of closure with not having all the
answers, eventually coming to the realization
that were just left helpless. Behind Closed
Doors treads similarly unsettling, hair-trigger
anxiety territory with Kakaty vocalizing, I
know the sound of your worst fears.
With a scathing sense of ever-climaxing
melodic tension and cutthroat energy, Pop
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their musical essence into roughly 45 minutes
of audio a viciously deviant trip from true
rock stars on the rise.
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The opening track on The Wonder Years
third release, The Greatest Generation, starts
with singer Dan Campbell singing as softly
as ever. Im sorry I dont laugh at the right
time, he almost whispers. As the line closes,
the song fully kicks into full swing, but some-
thing is different. There is no toe-tapping, fast-
paced, chorus. Instead, at frst, listeners get a
light guitar riff and an easygoing feel.
Its not bad by any means; its just different,
until Campbell repeats the same line about a
minute later. At that point, the guns start blar-
ing, and The Wonder Years we all know and
love kicks in.
When they followed debut record The
Upsides with Suburbia, they proved their
arrival was not a fuke and that they are able
to build upon their sound, yet still grow and
mature with their audience.
This was great until it lead to what seemed
like unbearable pressure for the bands latest
release. With every fan flled with unreach-
able expectations, The Wonder Years were
bound to tank with their third release, right?
Wrong.
First single Passing Through a Screen
Door proves the group can build on its past
sound, yet still grow musically a tough task
for any artist.
The Wonder Years have always been
known to write personal records that connect
with a lot of young adults. The Greatest
Generation does just that.
Filled with Philadelphia references and
heartfelt screams, TWY put together one of
the better rock albums of 2013. Teenage
Parents is written from the perspective of the
child, and Dismantling Summer deals with
vices young adults face today.
There isnt a song about being in college
or running into an ex-girlfriend, but instead
a bunch of little stories bundled together in
each tune. The fnal and thirteenth track, I
Just Want to Sell Out My Funeral, sews the
album up perfectly with a ton of twists and,
of course, references to past Wonder Years
melodies and lyrics.
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Pop Evil deliver
dark, deviant rock
Wonder Years reach
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4. Michael Buble: To Be Loved
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For four decades, the New
Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festi-
val has been a mecca for music
lovers from across the nation.
Before multi-day festivals ever
became popular, Jazz Fest has
been offering weekend-long
celebrations of the music that
defned the sound of The Big
Easy, along with the many
genres it infuenced. The festival
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days from May
2 through 5,
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again, provided
the perfect
early summer
escape.
Housing
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stages, Jazz
Fest offers
enough music
to pacify any
music fan
from country
and bluegrass, to reggae and
straightforward rock n roll.
While the main stage lineup for
the second weekend featured
A-list acts like Fleetwood Mac,
Maroon 5, and The Black Keys,
if one wandered around the
festival grounds, a slew of other
lesser-known acts were deliver-
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weekend, including Galactic,
who turned in a funky hour-long
show featuring an appearance by
vocalist Corey Glover of Living
Colour.
Traversing between mul-
tiple stages can prove to be a
daunting task especially with
crowds exceeding 100,000 but
being able to take a fve-minute
walk from watching Maroon 5
on one stage to see the legend-
ary Willie Nelson on another is
certainly a nice reward, though
having so many stages running
simultaneously can cause a bit
of frustration for fans hoping to
catch a full set by their favorite
acts. For instance, Saturday,
May 4 had Fleetwood Mac,
Phoenix, Frank Ocean, and Los
Lobos sharing the same times-
lot, but having a true Jazz Fest
experience ultimately leads to
catching brief snippets of certain
acts and planning your route to
catch others playing at the same
time.
For those who did stick it out
for their favorite acts, the music
did not disappoint. Fleetwood
Mac, arguably the headliner
of the second weekend, put
together a set chockfull of hits,
including Second Hand News,
Tusk, Rhiannon, an exqui-
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voice, and a
pounding Go
Your Own Way,
which turned
into one of the
loudest sing-
alongs of the
weekend. Earlier
on Thursday,
a reunited
Widespread
Panic trudged
through a rain
storm with a
fery set, includ-
ing Climb to
Safety, Black-
out Blues, and
a fne take on
Traffcs Dear
Mr. Fantasy.
On Sunday,
popular alt-rockers The Black
Keys played one of the more
lively sets of the festival with
upbeat crowd favorites like
Howlin For You, Dead and
Gone, Little Black Subma-
rines, and a driving Lonely
Boy. Later in the evening,
New Orleans favorites Trom-
bone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
brought the festival to a close
with a charging 90-minute set
full of funk, blues, rock, and
brass. While his name may not
be too familiar in NEPAyet,
Trombone Shorty is proving
himself to be a force on the up-
and-coming list and will prob-
ably be reaching a much bigger
audience in the very near future.
Aside from the music, Jazz
Fest distinguishes itself from
other festivals in various ways,
including ground performers,
parades, and most importantly,
the southern cooking that has
helped New Orleans establish
itself as a culinary hotspot. Sure,
theres standard fare of burgers,
soft pretzels, and Sno-Cones,
but Jazz Fest may be the only
festival where youre able to
catch your favorite bands while
indulging in soft-shell crab po
boys, alligator jambalaya, and
more variations of shrimp than
any person can handle. Its al-
most enough to make the music
seem like the backdrop for the
weekend.
With an early ending time of 7
p.m., Jazz Fest somewhat serves
as a catalyst for the New Or-
leans night scene, with many of
the acts playing clubs or theaters
after the festival concludes. For
those who wanted more music,
the city offered late-night head-
lining gigs with everyone from
Robert Randolph and the Family
Band and The Black Crowes to
George Clinton and Parliament
Funkadelic, albeit for a small
price. Even in the French Quar-
ter, there were multiple clubs
featuring the brass and funk
bands that have become part of
the New Orleans sound.
After more than forty years,
the New Orleans Jazz & Heri-
tage Festival is still one of the
biggest festivals in our country.
The music, food, people, and
this year the mud, helped
uphold its tradition of being a
yearly destination for people
from almost every state. For
anyone looking for a relax-
ing, music-flled, and delicious
vacation to quote actor Woody
Harrelson, who was spotted
on the grounds this year the
answer is simple: F-g Jazz
Fest!
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Montage kicks off the summer
with Cabinets Old Farmers Ball
Repurposed wood boards soaked
up the luminous violets, greens, and
reds of the stage lights, providing a
rustic backdrop for the rich array of
talent that took the stage at the in-
augural Old Farmers Ball. Curated
by NEPAbluegrass band Cabinet
JP Biondo, Pappy Biondo, Mickey
Coviello, Todd Kopec, Jami Novak,
and Dylan Skursky and manager
Bill Orner, the festival, produced
by Live Nation, was held at Mon-
tage Mountains Toyota Pavilion in
Scranton on Saturday, May 11, fea-
turing many of the regions favorite
national acts and local legends
previously billed with Cabinet.
Local strummer Kyle Morgan
kicked off the festival, followed by
Cabinets Pappy. The fddler was
joined by cousin and bandmate JP
Biondo for traditional bluegrass
songs Mole in the Ground and
Tears Will Turn to Laughter.
Scrantons Coal Town Rounders
Jason Zarnowski, Ian OHara,
Matthew Hiller, and Christopher
Kearney strummed, plucked, and
harmonized through a set of old
timey tunes. The crowd swayed
along as Kearney tossed his voice
like a lasso, covering The Shape
Im In as dancers flled the foor.
The name Old Farmers Ball isnt
just a nod to Cabinet song Old
Farmers Mill. The event featured
a merchants row, including a
seasonal farmers market, local
artisan vendors, and an open-air art
display, the Grateful Gallery, which
featured touring concert posters and
music photography among other
original works. There was also a
family-friendly kids corner. Old
Farmers Ball offered an exceptional
selection of food vendors mixed
among the beer and pretzel stands
were baked goods, farm-fresh eggs,
crisp apples, hummus, and leafy
greens.
The crowd had developed an ap-
petite for more than bread and beer.
With the exception of a few sur-
prise gigs, And the Moneynotes
Mike Quinn, Mitch Williams, Brian
Craig, Pat Finnerty, Setty Hopkins,
and Roy Williams had been on
hiatus for years. The Scranton
favorites were reunited and ready
to put on a show. Holy Ghost Tent
Revival bassist Kevin Williams
looked forward to their set. Its
gonna be good an enlightening
experience, as usual, said Wil-
liams, whose band dedicated a song
to the Moneynotes in their own set.
The Body in My Trunk
sparked with the bands spectacle,
while Mimosa intoxicated the
crowd. The Spinto Bands Nick
Krill played guitar on a raucous
My Kid Smokin, while Scran-
ton RailRiders baseball mascot,
Champ, danced upstage.
Quinn dipped into a Cajun
bellow for Swamp Rock as Cabi-
nets Pappy struck lighting on his
fddle. The sweet Ms. Edison sent
the audience spinning and dancing
at the foot of the stage before Nick
Driscolls sax ushered in a funky
rendition of APirates Confession
Part III. Foot-stomper Eliza Jane
warmed up the band for the end of
the set two of the zaniest songs
in the Moneynotes catalog, drawn
out into a jam, featuring kamikaze
vaudeville dancing by percussionist
Hopkins.
North Carolinas Holy Ghost
Tent Revival singer Stephen Mur-
ray, guitarist Matt Martin, bassist
Kevin Williams, drummer Ross
Montsinger, and horn section Hank
Widmer and Charlie Humphrey
scattered a few old favorites among
their newer songs from 2012s
Sweat Like the Old Days. The
band has creatively grown away
from their down-home bluegrass
tunes and hits from their 2009 LP
So Long I Screamed, like the
quick and catchy Getting Over
Your Love and the tambourine-
laden Needing You.
We used to be more bluegrass-
oriented, recalled Martin. We had
a banjo with us the last time you
heard us, probably, but now were
writing more rock-inspired tunes.
Theyve pulled infuence from
the likes of Dr. Dog and The Band,
and though their roots are still
showing, HGTR brought a bright
bit of rock to the Ball on Saturday.
Martin hopes that the move to
include more rock elements proves
accessible to different crowds.
Youve got two guitars two
electric guitars, as opposed to an
acoustic guitar and a banjo. It cuts
through to the core a little more.
MiZ, known for his acoustic
circuit, played the other end of
the spectrum, reprising his role as
festival veteran and bringing his
backing band to fll the Toyota
Pavilion with a striking electric set.
Brooklyns Grammy-nominated
Americana group, Yarn, brought
the steady beat of well-crafted
alt-country jams and the ferce
mandolin of rootsy grooves, includ-
ing a few songs off their 2013
release, Almost Home, that kept
the audience spinning and stomping
along. Cabinet started off with the
hooting, hollering, and hat-tossing
of Old Farmers Mill before the
ensemble mellowed seamlessly into
their staple grooves, including sev-
eral songs from their latest album,
Leap. The hosts played an array
of fan favorites, from Nashville
Blues to Shady Grove to Dia-
mond Joe to Eleanor.
Cabinets Old Farmers Ball was
an enormous success, thrilling
not only fans but the bands and
vendors, too. We had an amaz-
ing time at the Old Farmers Ball
and got to be a part of something
really special, gushed Alchemy
Home Companys Stacy Giova-
nucci. Alchemys stand featured
some of their all-natural cleaning
products and original fragrances.
It was wonderful to get to share
our unique products with so many
talented people and dedicated mu-
sic fans. The creative team at Al-
chemy crafted event-specifc scents
and debuted them at the festival.
We adore Cabinet and creat-
ing scent stories, so when we
were asked to be a vendor at Old
Farmers Ball, we thought, what
could be more fun than trying to
capture Cabinets music in scent?!
The unisex scent is drenched in
bourbon, padded with hay and
sweet grass, and dances with hints
of cannabis, beer, and barn wood.
Im pretty much elated, smiled
Cabinets JP Biondo. Im really
glad that were kind of bull-heading
this cool little thing in Scranton.
Its nice, and I have to give some
props to Bill Orner for that and to
Live Nation for really getting this
going.
Hopefully, the Old Farmers Ball
will continue the momentum of its
debut and roll into next year.
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Travel. Music. Musings.
Kait Burrier (words) and Jason riedmiller (photos) | Weekender Correspondents
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The Knoxville, Tenn. quintet
playing at Brews Brothers West on
May 19 may call themselves 10
Years, but theyve been working
for much longer than a decade to
hone their alternative metal sound
and earn a fan base independent of
big labels and creative restrictions.
After three albums on a major
label, 10 Years broke away and
formed Palehorse Records, record-
ing their latest release, Minus
the Machine, at drummer and
guitarist Brian Vodinhs Kashmir
Recording. Before the bands Sun-
day performance, Vodinh talked to
The Weekender via e-mail about
taking that leap and its affect on
the band and its album.
THE WEEKENDER: How
did the group frst form, and
how did you decide on the name
of the band?
BRIAN VODINH: The group
formed when I was around 16 or
17 years old. It formed out of a
group of friends who happened to
all play instruments who decided
to try to make music together. We
actually booked our frst show
back in 1999 but did not have a
name yet. After we came up with
dozens of names that we ulti-
mately passed on, we decided on
10 Years. It was a song title at the
time, but we liked it for the band
name.
W: What made things really
take off after Jesse Hasek came
on as your singer?
BV: Right before Jesse came
on as our singer, we had decided
to devote 110 percent to the band.
Everyone had day jobs, and we
were all broke, but we felt it was
time to push things to the next
level. Our vocalist at the time
just had other aspirations that he
wanted to pursue, so he moved on
and we were then left looking for
a new singer. We found Jesse and
he was luckily on the same page
as the rest of us.
W: You guys went from work-
ing with a major label to going
independent. Is that just the way
the music industry is going?
BV: Yes. Major labels are a
graveyard for most rock bands.
Major labels are concerned with
their bottom dollar, and genres
like hip-hop and pop better suit
the criteria for most major labels.
Rock bands need time to develop
and time to cut their teeth on the
road. Trying to nurture the career
of a legit rock band is usually a
job better suited for the band and
their team, not an executive from a
major corporation.
W: What was it like starting
your own label?
BV: Starting our own label
was something that we could not
have done without the help of our
management team. They, luckily,
house the infrastructure that was
necessary to pull off such an en-
deavor. Aside from being sure that
the proper business decisions are
being made, our biggest concern
was just to ensure that we hold
onto our creative integrity.
W: Did you end up starting
your own studio, Kashmir, to
record the Minus the Machine
independently, or did you start
the studio before that?
BV: I had been wanting to start
my own studio before Minus the
Machine, but it worked out that
this was the perfect time for it. I
used to be an engineer in a studio,
and I had produced other acts and
written for numerous other proj-
ects, so having my own studio is
the single best thing I could have
done for myself and my career.
W: What inspired the songs
on this record?
BV: Inspiration comes from
any and everywhere. Honestly,
we were really inspired by the
newfound freedom we could sink
our teeth into from starting our
own label.
W: Did making the album
yourselves change the record
thematically at all?
BV: The only difference was
that we did whatever we wanted.
Depending on who the outside
producer is, sometimes they tell
you to change certain lyrics or
something like that. There was
none of that this time. Only us
critiquing ourselves.
W: Do you think it would
have turned out differently if
you hadnt self-produced?
BV: Absolutely. Most of these
songs would not have even been
written. Since we wrote and
recorded simultaneously, so much
of the music and vocals just came
out of the process. Most produc-
ers want to hear fnished demos
before starting to record an album,
so we probably would have writ-
ten totally different songs had we
gone about this process differently.
W: 10 Years has experimented
with different sounds over
the years. Is there ever a fear
of what fans will think when
youre moving in different direc-
tions?
BV: We have joked that certain
songs might gain or lose fans, but
we dont genuinely fear that. I
know for a fact that it is a 100 per-
cent impossibility that we could
ever please everyone. People will
always fnd something that they
dont like about you! We just
make music that we love and go
from there.
W: How has this current tour
been going since it started ear-
lier this month?
BV: The tour is going well. We
are enjoying getting some spring
time festivals under our belt as
well We are playing some songs
that we havent played in a long
time, and we are just up there hav-
ing fun!
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Tennessee-based band 10 Years recently went independent
with its new album Minus the Machine.
10 Years breaks away
from labels, limitations
By Rich Howells
Weekender Editor
10 Years with Graces Downfall:
May 19, 6 p.m., Brews Broth-
ers West (75 Main St., Luzerne).
$13-$15.
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BRIGGS FARM BLUESFEST
(88 Old Berwick Hwy., NescOpeck)
570.379.3342, Briggsfarm.cOm
Featuring Lurrie BeLL, more: JuLy
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75 main St., Luzerne
570.283.1300
ticketS at ticketFLy.com, venue or
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10 yearS: may 19, 6 P.m.. $13, ad-
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aaron carter: June 1, 8 P.m. $18,
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QueenSryche: June 11, 8 P.m., $21,
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F.M. KIRBY CENTER
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Steve martin & the SteeP canyon
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MAUCH CHUNK OPERA HOUSE
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commander cody / ProFeSSor Louie
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877.682.4791, mountairycaSino.com
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BLueS traveLer: June 21, 8 P.m., $38
kanSaS: aug. 11, 7 P.m., $25-$45
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NEW VISIONS
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the zomBieS: June 20, 8 P.m., $27
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dooBie BrotherS: JuLy 7, 8 P.m.
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RIVER STREET JAZZ CAFE
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exoduS: a Journey through BoB
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SCRANTON
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888.669.8966, ScrantoncuLturaLcen-
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nePa PhiLharmonic: maeStro at the
movieS: June 8, 8 P.m., $34-$65
SHERMAN THEATER
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570.420.2808, Shermantheater.com
StePhen Lynch: may 17, 8 P.m., $30
BuLLet For my vaLentine /
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TOYOTA PAVILION
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1000 montage mountain road, Scran-
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dave matthewS Band: may 29. $40.50-
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Steamtown Beer and muSic FeStivaL:
June 15.
kid rock: JuLy 6. $20.
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vanS warPed tour: JuLy 16. $35.
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rockStar energy drink uProar
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honda civic tour Featuring maroon
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TOWER THEATER
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215.336.2000, thetroc.com
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JuaneS: June 21, 8 P.m.
dyLan moran: June 22, 8 P.m.
zomBie Beach Party: the SharkSkinS
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Luciano: JuLy 20, 9 P.m.
the miSSion uk: SePt. 4, 8 P.m.
kameLot / deLain / exLiPSe: SeP. 5, 8
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(1 harBour BLvd., camden, n.J.)
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tim mcgraw: may 17, 8 P.m.
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toBy keith: June 22, 8 P.m.
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Gins: Mr. Echo
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Liams: Zayre Mountain
Lower End: Rhythm & Blues
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Careys Pub: Karaoke w/ DJ Santiago
The Getaway Lounge: Mr. Echo
Irish Wolf Pub: Dave Brown
Lower End: Bike Day
Metro: Strawberry Jam 7p
Woodlands: 90 Proof w/ DJ Fritz
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Tuesday:
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Grotto, Harveys Lake: The Blend
Hops & Barleys: Aaron Bruch
Jim McCarthys: Wanna Bs Karaoke
Metro: Karaoke 8-12
Tommy Boys: Open Mic
Woodlands: Dodge City Duo at SKYY V DeckBar
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Hes tattooed, has shaved
his head during the course of
his run on Hells Kitchen,
and, unfortunately, was booted
from the competition this past
Monday night.
Fortunately for area residents,
however, Chef Barret Beyer
of the popular cooking reality
show will come to the area on
May 20, cooking a three-course
meal at a brand new establish-
ment in Plains Township.
279 Bar & Grill is the newest
eatery/watering hole to pop up,
one that Jim Guasto is executive
chef and general manager for.
Were taking things in a new
and different direction, he said
of the bar, which opened with
its new name two weeks ago.
Weve got premium spirits,
fne food, and live entertain-
ment.
Though the Friday and
Saturday entertainment will be
varied, there is a regular house
band that appears on Mondays,
a blues night on Wednesdays,
and a country trio of Alicia
Lynn, Jody Busch, and Bruce
Feist on Thursdays.
We want to serve our food
all day long and, at night,
transform into a music scene,
Guasto said.
Currently the lunch menu
is served from morning until
night, but Guasto is working on
putting together dinner features
nightly.
I will run them until they run
out. Im not freezing anything;
its all going to be fresh food,
he said.
Guasto worked with Chef
Michael Langdon, also of
Season 11 of Hells Kitchen,
which is how he got hooked
up with Beyer. Guasto plans
to have many more Hells
Kitchen chefs come through
his restaurant for special nights
of cooking.
This time around,
Beyer will make several
scrumptious plates, from
vodka-famed black tiger
shrimp to tequila and
caper cream sauce and
beer-battered strawber-
ries.
Season 11 flm-
ing wrapped up eight
months ago but is still
airing on Fox. Beyer, 35,
who is currently a chef
at Bread & Butter Bistro
in Holtsville, N.Y., is a
Long Island native who
attended Long Islands
prestigious Culinary
Academy upon comple-
tion of his service to the United
States Coast Guard.
Beyer took a moment to chat
with us about life as a chef,
how Hells has changed him,
and what its like to work with
chef Gordon Ramsey, a man
notorious for a temper that gets
so hot it puts any type of heat in
the kitchen to shame.
THE WEEKENDER: What
was it like being on Hells
Kitchen?
BARRET BEYER: It was a
once in a lifetime opportunity,
unbelievable. To have a mentor
like (Chef Ramsey) training
me in the kitchen, I cant even
explain it. When I frst saw him,
I had a tear in my eye. Ive met
many celebrities in my life but
have never been star-struck.
When I met him, I was beside
myself.
W: Its safe to assume you
were a fan of the show before-
hand, then?
BB: Hells Kitchen is actu-
ally the reason I got into cook-
ing. I was watching the show,
watching people run around the
kitchen, and I thought, Hey,
I can do that. I know how to
cook. Im a go-getter. If I see
something happen in my head, I
go and I make it happen.
W: What was the most chal-
lenging thing about being on
the show?
BB: Just dealing with the dif-
ferent personalities in the kitch-
en and getting to know what
Chef Ramseys standards are.
In the outside world, you think
something is good enough, but
its really not when youre put-
ting it in front of Chef Ramsey.
His standards are set so high;
you have to make sure every-
thing is on point, otherwise its,
Hey you, come here, taste this.
Taste this. If he says, Taste
this, its not a good thing.
W: Is there more to him
than the screaming man
TV audiences have come to
know?
BB: When were not in the
kitchen, getting ready to do
the challenge, hes not yelling.
When I shaved my head on the
show, we cracked a big laugh.
He does have a certain person-
ality outside the kitchen, but
when hes in the kitchen, its
go time. Hes got to set the stan-
dard and make it perfect.
W: Do you have any advice
for aspiring chefs?
BB: The only thing I would
tell anybody, and Im hoping to
be an inspiration to people, is
to not put a lid on what youre
capable of. Dont get discour-
aged. This is a tough industry
to be working in. Just work as
hard as you can, dont give up,
and youll make it happen.
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Chef Barret Beyer
Hell leads to heavenly dishes
for 279 Bar & Grill
By Sara Pokorny
Weekender Staff Writer
279 Bar & Grill, 279 S.
River St., Plains Township.
570.235.1037. facebook.
com/279BandG
Hours: Mon: 6 p.m.-2 a.m.;
Tues.-Fri., 11 a.m.-2 a.m.;
Sat.-Sun., noon-2 a.m.
Chef Barret Beyer will appear
on the evening of May 20.
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Baz Luhrmanns caffeinated inter-
pretation of The Great Gatsby is
sumptuous to behold conspicuous
consumption come to life. It leaves
you feeling slightly depressed. Gats-
by, a man whose fortune is based on
smoke and mirrors, is not a heroic
fgure, yet Luhrmann celebrates
artifce at the cost of substance. Like
Gatsbys life, the movie is a regular
Belasco.
If you read the book in high
school, you know that last line isnt a
compliment. And you also know the
plot, the bones of which remain the
same. Set in 1922, Nick Carraway
(Tobey Maguire) is the working
class go-between for two estranged
lovers: his neighbor, enigmatic
millionaire Jay Gatsby (Leonardo
DiCaprio), and Nicks cousin, fap-
per ingnue Daisy Buchanan (Carey
Mulligan). Gatsby is part of the new
money millionaires in West Egg,
Long Island, while Daisy is nestled
in the inherited wealth of East Egg.
Abody of water is not the only
thing separating them. Years have
passed since Daisy and Gatsbys
last rendezvous, when he was a poor
doughboy and she was a Kentucky
belle. Shes now fully entrenched in
her life with Tom (Joel Edgerton),
a polo-playing brute who regularly
cheats on her. Gatsby, who has got-
ten everything he felt was owed him,
doesnt realize that you cant acquire
the past. The debt is too high.
The Great Gatsby is still a
staple of school reading lists because
those themes hold true today.
Society operates on the fallacy that
our happiness can be purchased; we
embrace the past with each remake
and nostalgia-tinged comeback.
Luhrmann supports the packag-
ing behind this thought, but not the
content. Spectacle and cartoonish
booziness are the movie when it
should be a complement. The sizzle
isnt the steak.
Luhrmann uses the books setting
to practice his jazzy, amped-up
technique instead of commenting
on contemporary life or adding to
our appreciation of what we already
know. (Either way, having Jay-Z
songs pepper the soundtrack does
not count.) The director captures
Gatsbys raucous parties and the
luxuriousness of being indescribably
rich I love how Tom and Daisys
butlers act in synch, and the Lucky
Charms rainbow of Gatsbys shirts
that shower Daisy but he rarely ex-
pands upon the images he presents.
Most of Luhrmanns shots rarely
do more than look good. Anyone can
do that, even Michael Bay. Great
flmmakers use scenes as dialogue:
Up told the history of a marriage
in four heart-breaking minutes; the
pain of Travis Bickles phone call to
Betsy in Taxi Driver is expressed
by the camera moving away from
this poor, hurt soul. That kind of
artistic subtlety is not Luhrmanns
forte, so we are told every emotion,
courtesy of Nicks narration. Whats
Luhrmanns interpretation of the ma-
terial? I have no idea, but everything
sure looks glittery.
Some things shatter the facade.
DiCaprio has never looked more like
a movie star while displaying the
vulnerability that keeps him around.
Luhrmann shoots Mulligan in soft,
angelic colors, so we learn what
Gatsby doesnt: shes impossible to
grasp. Mulligan, a frst-rate actress,
captures Daisys fragility. Daisy
and Gatsby are fghting a hopeless
war against reality and priorities. It
would have been nice if Luhrmann
were an ally.
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musings, please visit his blog, what-
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Over 12 years ago, Ross
Mathews was fetching coffee as
a Tonight Show intern when
he was approached with an op-
portunity that would prove to be
the biggest break in his career:
producers asked him to cover
the red carpet for the premiere
of Oceans 11 when another
comedian couldnt make it. De-
spite his self-doubts, Mathews
went in to the project with a
plan.
Im self-aware. I know that
when I open my mouth and start
talking on this national televi-
sion show, that the audience
was gonna start laughing at
me, Mathews told me in studio
on The Ralphie Show. I
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like, everyone can win. Thats
something she says all the time.
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book and shoot a pilot for the
aforementioned talk show. His
program will debut this fall.
Man Up! I defne as this:
yunno you are what you are
what you are, and you have to
celebrate what makes you differ-
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to use what makes you different
to stand out because thats
when things really happen.
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his tale is one of a small-town
boy who grew up on a farm and
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Mathews. I remember being
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happy, successful, grown-up,
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Failing Adulthood
Sometimes our laughter can-
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Spidey may not have been the one running the bases when
Rich visited the newly revamped baseball stadium in Lacka-
wanna County, but he found himself drawn to the collecting
pastime before his comic book days.
How I stopped worrying and
learned to tolerate baseball
Last week, I took my frst trip
to PNC Field since the over $40
million renovation of the Moosic
stadium. It made me rethink, albeit
briefy, my self-imposed exile from
sports.
Much in the same way I now
obsess about comic books, I used
to avidly collect baseball cards. At
frst, I think I was just a kid who
liked to amass cool-looking pictures
and neatly place them in albums,
but with my grandfather being a
spirited sports fan and my father
regularly taking me to local games
and conventions (including a trip to
the National Baseball Hall of Fame
and Museum), I learned to appreci-
ate baseball as more than a hobby
and its players as more than just
pin-striped celebrities.
That changed starting in 1993
with Texas Rangers pitcher Nolan
Ryans retirement, one of the last
great heroes in baseball for me.
I wasnt aware of, nor did I care
about, his political beliefs at the
time I just enjoyed following his
record-breaking seven no-hitters
and complete lack of personal con-
troversy; he seemed like a decent,
talented guy worth looking up to.
When a strike cancelled the 1994
World Series, my loyalty to the
sport began to actively fade.
It seemed like everyone was in
it for the money now, to the point
where they would break this great
American tradition over pure greed,
and no rising star seemed to com-
pare to those honored in Cooper-
stown. The 1998 home run battle
between Mark McGuire and Sammy
Sosa to break Roger Maris record
briefy caught my attention, but the
resulting steroid scandal solidifed
why my interests veered elsewhere.
Locally, I fondly remember
the Red Barons games when the
Triple-Ateam was still tied to the
Philadelphia Phillies, a team I also
traveled to see a few times. The fun
faded once again when the team
became the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
Yankees in late 2006. The New
York Yankees, with their exorbitant
wealth and reputation as the Evil
Empire, certainly werent going to
change my views on baseball at this
point, and the owners subsequent
behavior towards fans and Lacka-
wanna County taxpayers, playing
hardball over franchise ownership
and millions in stadium restoration,
didnt do them any favors.
Admittedly, the makeover was
sorely needed, and the rebranding
of the team as the RailRiders made
the Yankee overlords a bit easier
to tolerate, though I wasnt about
to run out and buy tickets. I hadnt
set foot in that building since the
Barons played there, and it had
been many years since I had even
caught a few minutes of a game on
television. Ever since the X-Men
animated series debuted on Fox in
1992, I became a comic book geek
through and through, and the only
kids I knew who enjoyed sports
were the same jocks who picked on
me, leaving little to love or identify
with beyond those collectible cards.
Accepting an offer of free tickets
to a RailRiders game last week, I
was fnally able to appreciate the
renovation of Lackawanna County
Stadium, now PNC Field, frst-
hand, and many of the sights I took
in reminded me of my previous
fandom. I looked around in awe at
the new seating and open layout
that allows fans to sit right in the
home run zone. I watched mascots
and uniformed employees excitedly
dance, sing, and hold contests for
free prizes. I noticed ushers cheering
fans on as they leapt to catch foul
balls and t-shirts shot from a cannon
as kids played in their own area
flled with infatable bounce houses.
Grabbing a hot dog and an ice
cream served in a souvenir helmet
made me forget the off-and-on rain
and casually enjoy the game, which
was much less eventful than its
surroundings. At this point in my
life, however, I wasnt there to make
amends and renew my appreciation
for the Great American Pastime
I was just there to take in the good
and ignore the bad.
Funny enough, Im doing the
same with comics now. As an adult,
one sees the other side of the indus-
try, which is famous for screwing
its creators out of credit and money
while raking in billions from movie
adaptations, cartoons, and boatloads
of overpriced merchandise. Its an
unsteady balance between artistry
and big business, and the latter tends
to win out, particularly since comics
went completely mainstream once
Hollywood got heavily involved. I
cant ignore the corruption behind
the panels, but I can appreciate the
genuine writing and innovative
artwork in them, free of scandal and
full of timeless imagination.
Every day, another headline
emerges about nasty contract negoti-
ations or shocking storylines simply
crafted to sell more books, but I still
fnd that more comic creators are in
it for the love of the art than base-
ball players are for the love of the
sport, so I dont plan on switching
teams any time soon. I will, on the
other hand, understand when some
of my friends choose a game over a
midnight movie release, as its really
about fnding the fun amongst the
uncomfortable details.
-Rich Howells is a lifelong Mar-
vel Comics collector, wannabe Jedi
master, and cult flm fan. E-mail him
at rhowells@civitasmedia.com.
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Ah, doughnuts. For some,
theyre a daily coffee break nosh.
For others, a forbidden treat you
might try to sneak.
For Arthur, theyre bread
and butter, the wares he sells in
the little shop his dad founded
decades ago.
If you want to think about
symbolism, actor James Goode
pointed out, doughnuts have
holes and so do the characters in
Superior Donuts, the play the
Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble is
presenting through May 19.
Everyone seems to have a
hole in themselves that needs to
be flled, said Goode, who por-
trays doughnut merchant Arthur.
Hes kind of a burned out old
hippie He sees his life as at a
dead end, and hes not yet 60.
The character was a draft
dodger who avoided service in
Vietnam, and that may be when
his troubles started, director
Elizabeth Dowd said.
At a critical moment, he did
not fght but evaded, she noted.
You dont hear that much about
it, but you learn that hes stuck,
and something about what hap-
pened during those turbulent
times is when he started getting
stuck.
Brightening Arthurs life,
Dowd said, are the really color-
ful characters that come into his
shop, including the wonderful
Russian immigrant who owns the
DVD shop next store and a street
person named Lady.
Then theres his new assistant,
Franco, who has lots of ideas for
ways to improve things from
the doughnut shop menu to
Arthur himself.
It takes a lot to crack me up
on stage in performance, Goode
said. But theres this one scene
where Franco is giving Arthur
makeover advice, trying to get
the old hippie to get with it a bit
more. It is so funny, Im going to
have to have a handkerchief, and
if I start to giggle, Im going to
bring it out.
While neither Goode nor
Dowd wants to give away too
much of the plot, they said the
show is about second chances
and should have special appeal
for the men in the audience.
The engine of the play fol-
lows friendships between men
of different generations and
different races, Dowd said.
The characters are so vivid, you
feel like youre watching a really
well-written situation comedy. It
has a plotline that pulls you in.
The play does have strong
language, she added. Its hard
language and a really good heart.
The journey of the play is a re-
ally rewarding journey.
As an added treat for audience
members who journey to the
theater, Dalo Bakery of Berwick
will supply doughnuts for inter-
mission, just as it is supplying
doughnuts for props.
I had some fritters after
rehearsal the other day, Goode
said. They were so good.
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The donuts in the show Superior Donuts have a lot more
in common with the characters than one would think.
Doughnuts, characters all
have something missing
By Mary Therese Biebel
From the Times Leader
Superior Donuts by Blooms-
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16-18, 7:30 p.m.; May 19, 3
p.m.; Alvina Krause Theatre
(226 Center St., Bloomsburg).
$11-$25. Info: 570.784.8181.
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By Amy Longsdorf
Weekender Correspondent
T
he rst time
Leonardo DiCaprio
read The Great
Gatsby, he was
instantly intrigued by the
love story at the heart of the
novel. But years later, when he
revisited F. Scott Fitzgeralds
Jazz Age cocktail, he found
himself appreciating the book
on a whole different level.
Narrated by the Fitzgerald-
esque Nick Carraway (Tobey
Maguire), the story concerns
the mysterious millionaire Jay
Gatsby (DiCaprio) and his
efforts to reignite the spark with
his now-married ex-girlfriend,
Daisy Buchanan (Carey
Mulligan).
The Gatsby that I remember
reading when I was 15 years old
in junior high school was far
different from the Gatsby I read
as an adult, says DiCaprio,
38. What I remember from
my years in junior high was
this hopeless romantic who
was solely in love with this one
woman and created this great
amount of wealth to be able to
respectfully hold her hand.
But then when I re-read it
as an adult, it was incredibly
fascinating [how it seemed
to change.] It is one of those
novels that is talked about a
hundred years later for a reason.
Its nuanced, its existential, and
here at the center of [the book]
is this man that is incredibly
hollow and is searching for
some sort of meaning in his life.
Hes attached himself to
this relic known as Daisy. Shes
a mirage. I was struck by the
sadness in him for the rst
time, and I looked at him really
differently.
As depicted in the $120
million lm, the 1920s are
a time of loosening morals,
bootleg czars, endless parties,
and skyrocketing stocks. In the
middle of it all is Gatsby, a self-
made who is, in some sense, the
manifestation of the American
Dream.
One really telling sequence
that we talked about a lot and,
for me, was really important
is the one where, after [Gatsby
builds] this great castle to lure
Daisy in, hes still staring out at
the green light [across the bay].
Hes nally got her in his arms,
but hes still searching for this
thing that he thinks is going
to complete him. That was the
Gatsby that I was incredibly
excited about playing as an
actor.
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Security required.
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Close to Industri-
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ways. Off street
parking. Plenty of
storage.
Large basement
with billiards & air
hockey. All utilities
included. $450.
Call Doug
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971 Vacation &
Resort Properties
PRIVATE COUNTRY
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Several sites avail-
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1039 Chimney
Service
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Liners Installed,
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288-1701/655-3505
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All Types.
Large & Small Jobs.
Repairs.
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