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Alexa Milan
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Comedian Jeff Dunham’s
“Spark of Insanity” Tour
7 p.m. Thursday June 26
Greensboro Coliseum Complex
Tickets $41.50
Visit WWW.
greensborocoliseum.com
Raleigh:
All events held at the Time
Warner Cable Music Pavilion
Dave Matthews Band with
Michael Franti and Spearhead
7 p.m. Wednesday July 2
Tickets $32.50-$62.50
Visit www.livenation.com/
raleigh
Brad Paisley with Jewel,
Chuck Wicks and Julianne
Hough
7:30 p.m. Friday July 19
Tickets $25-$54.25
Visit www.livenation.com/
raleigh
Miller Lite presents 311 and
Snoop Dogg
7 p.m. Wednesday July 23
Tickets $30-$40
Visit www.livenation.com/
raleigh
Miller Lite presents Projekt
Revolution Tour starring
Linkin Park
2 p.m. Friday July 25
Tickets $20.75-$60.75
Visit www.livenation.com/
raleigh
MOVIE REVIEW ★★★★
Burger King presents
SUPERJAM
7:30 p.m. Friday June 27
Greensboro Coliseum Complex
Tickets $10-$28.50
Visit WWW.
greensborocoliseum.com
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Maroon 5 and Counting Crows
7 p.m. Tuesday July 29
Tickets $23.50-$66
Visit www.livenation.com/
raleigh
Avril Lavigne and
The Jonas Brothers
7 p.m. Wednesday July 30
Tickets $27.50-$79.50
Visit www.livenation.com/
raleigh
Michael McDonald
8 p.m. Thursday July 17
Greensboro Coliseum Complex
Tickets $39.50-$49.50
Visit WWW.
greensborocoliseum.com
Joshua Radin and Vanessa
Carlton
8 p.m. Friday July 25
Greene Street Club
Tickets $15
Visit www.greenestreetclub.
Rascal Flatts with Taylor Swift
8 p.m. Saturday Aug. 2
Tickets $31-$75.75
Visit www.livenation.com/
raleigh
Journey
7 p.m. Sunday Aug. 10
Tickets $23.50-$125
Visit www.livenation.com/
raleigh
Jack Johnson
7 p.m. Tuesday Aug. 12
Tickets $29-$43.50
Visit www.livenation.com/
raleigh
Kenny Chesney and
LeAnn Rimes
7:30 p.m. Friday Aug. 22
Tickets $37.50-$75.75
Visit www.livenation.com/
raleigh
John Mayer with One Republic
7:30 p.m. Wednesday Aug. 27
Tickets $30-$50.50
Visit www.livenation.com/
raleigh
Chris Rock
8 p.m. Thursday June 26
Ovens Auditorium
Tickets $44.50-$74.50
Visit www.ovensauditorium.
Vans Warped Tour
11 a.m. Monday July 14
Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Tickets $23.50
Visit www.livenation.com/
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American Idols Tour
7:30 p.m. Sunday Aug. 17
Time Warner Cable Arena
Tickets $39.50-$68.50
Visit WWW.
timewarnercablearena.com
New adaptation of ‘Hulk’ outshines 2003 original
Adam Constantine
Reviewer
Not too many movies get
a second chance. After the
2003 edition of “The Hulk”
showed us that it’s not easy
being green, creator Stan
Lee decided to give “The
Incredible Hulk” a round two.
And what a round it is.
Bruce Banner (Edward
Norton) is a scientist on the
run. One of his disastrous
experiments has caused him
to shun the life he once knew
and seek a life of solitude,
including leaving the love of
his life, Betty Ross (Liv Tyler).
He makes this choice for two
reasons. He needs to find a
cure, and he will not risk what
could be sheer destruction and mayhem
if he stays and tries to live a normal life
in the city.
The experiment that he lost control
of lives Inside him, and when unleashed
he can only hope the beast within will
not kill everything in its path. The
second reason could be even more
costly. The U.S. Army led by Betty's
father. General Thaddeus Ross (William
Hurt), wants to capture Bruce, not to
help him but to use what he has as a
weapon.
He spends the beginning of the
film evading and eluding his would-
be captors through a run-down town
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Edwajd Norton stars as the title character in “The Incredible
Hulk, a second shot at the comic book franchise after the failure
of Ang Lee s 2003 adaptation.
in South America. When it seems
that he has nowhere else to run, the
circumstances give him no other choice
Enter the Hulk.
In spectacular fashion the Hulk
smashes onto the screen in all of his
anger, rage and greenish glory. But there
is an element the Hulk carries that takes
the movie to a new level. Although he is
filled with the urge to destroy, there is
a human element of compassion that is
there alongside it all. Even while he is in
a state in which he seems to be seething
the barbaric thirst for carnage and
violence, his higher intellect prevails
several times throughout this filnji.
Any remake is a risky
one especially for the actors.
But this acting crew did a
spectacular job in making this
work show its full potential.
Being an avid Hulk fan
growing up, Norton embraced
playing the role of Bruce Banner
and showed his tormented
and conflicted identity well on
the screen. The audience can
feel the urgency and sense of
frustration at trying to find a
cure and applaud him when he
realizes his ultimate destiny.
Tyler plays the brilliant
scientist Betty Ross, whose
strained relationship with
her father and love for Bruce
provides her with tough
decisions that she must live with
for the rest of her life. She plays
a character that seems to be weak in the
beginning (and whose voice takes a little
getting used to) to a character that holds
her own and makes the tough decisions
necessary to survive.
Along with this year’s “Iron Man,”
Thor (2010) and “Captain America”
(2010), “The Incredible Hulk” is part
of a string of movies that will be
remembered during this decade as
Igniting the fire in the land of fantasy.
The Hulk alludes to a meeting of several
superheroes, including “Iron Man’s"
very own, Tony Stark (Robert Downey
Jr.).
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Cary:
Wilco with Bon Iver
7 p.m. Friday Aug. 8
Koka Booth Amphitheatre
Tickets $22.50 for lawn,
$37.50 for reserved seating
Visit www.boothamphitheatre.
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All events held at the Cat's Cradle
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Harry and the Potters
6:30 p.m. Tuesday July 1
Tickets $10 in advance,
$12 at the door
Visit www.catscradle.com
She & Him featuring Zooey
Deschanel and M. Ward
8:30 p.m. Monday July 28
Tickets $16 in advance,
$18 at the door
Visit www.catscradle.com
Perpetual Groove
10 p.m. Friday Aug. 22
Tickets $15 in advance,
$20 at the door
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