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Thursday | November 3, 2005
Serving UNC Wilmington since 1948
Volume LVII I Number 9
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Coming this fall
Doug Biggerstaff
Correspondent
When the people at the headquarters of
the Cucalorus Film Festival aren’t working
on they’re annual film festival, they find
other ways to keep themselves busy.
For the past 10 years, the Cucalorus Film
Festival has brought m some of indepen
dent film’s best films and filmmakers to
Wilmington. And after relocating to Jengo,
the festival’s new downtown office at 815
Princess St., Cucalorus director Dan Brawley
and his crew have the resources to keep
Wilmington better supplied with indepen
dent films throughout the year.
Jengo is now a home to many of
Wilmington’s film festivals and independent
screenings.' The Final Cut Film Festival was
held there last weekend. Nov. 4 and 5, the
first ever Cucalorus Kid’s Film Festival will
also be held at Jengo.
And as for attending any of the events at
Jengo, you just have to go down there. There
is no website and no big ad in the paper. There
is just a strong do-it-yourself ethic. '“This is
really underground,” Brawley said.
A lot of work has been going into the
Cucalorus festival itself Two festivals will
be held in 2006. Cucalorus 11 will run from
March 30 to April 3 and Cucalorus 12 will
run Nov. 8 to 11. Starting with Cucalorus 12,
the festival will begin its yearly run in the
fall. By moving from the spring to the fall,
the festival will face less competition from
other prominent film festivals in the spring.
A DVD of the best short fihns from
Cucalorus is also on the way. This will give
filmgoers an opportunity to view the films
when the Cucalorus headquarters isn’t
hosting one of the many events that have
found a home at Jengo.
Q & A with the first UNCW professor to be
elected to City Council
Hollan Peterson
Assistant News Editor
Dr. Earl Sheridan, a professor in
the Political Science Department,
was recently elected to serve on the
City Council. Sheridan discusses
his experience, campaign, chal
lenges facing Wilmington over the
next few years, and how he hopes
his election to City Council will
enhance UNCW’s ties to the great
er community of Wilmington.
Q: Why did you decide to run for city coun
cil?
A: 1 have been approached about it several
times and 1 was approached again. I have been
active in the community for a long time in a
variety of ways and I just saw this as another
way that I could be active and try to be of ser
vice to the community. This is my hometown
so I have a special interest in what goes on
here and saw this as a way that I could con
tribute positively to the community.
Q: How many years have you been a profes
sor here at UNCW?
A: I am in my 26th year here at the
University?
Q: So then, you have been analyzing and
teaching politics for quite a while, how does it
feel to be on the other side, so to speak?
A; As 1 told someone the other day it feels a
lot safer on the analytical side, then actually
being involved in politics because people have
their views about what you are doing and
how things ought to go and of course they are
not very shy about expressing those views...
There is a lot of scrutiny about everything
that you say or do, it’s a different world. It is
a lot more comfortable on the analytical side
of things.
Q: What was the most difficult part of the
campaign?
A: It was extremely time consuming. Since I
did not have a campaign manager I had to do
the job of being candidate and managing my
campaign at the same time and that was a lot
of things to do. So having to be both manager
and candidate, and the time consuming nature
of it was difficuh.
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Earl Sheridan, a political science pro
fessor at UNCW, was recently elected to
city council.
Q: On the other side, was there any part that
you really enjoyed?
A: I enjoyed getting out and meeting all kinds
of people and interacting with all kinds of
people and hearing what they had to say.
Q: How do you feel about what appears to
be the current city council frame of mind
regarding growth issues such as rezoning
and downtown development?
A: I want the idea of managed growth.
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Best selling author Sarah Vowell to discuss 'Assassination Vacation'
Benjamin Mahan
Staff Writer
Sarah Vowell, best-selling author and the
voice of Violet Parr from the animated film
“The Incredibles” will
be giving a book read
ing at UNCW on Nov.
5, 2005 at 8 p.m. in
Keenan Auditorium.
Her latest work,
“Assassination
Vacation” begins; “One
night last summer, all
the killers in my head Sarah Vowell
assembled on a stage in
Massachusetts to sing show tunes. There they
were John Wilkes Booth, Charles Guiteau
and Leon Czolgoisz in tune and in,the flesh.”,
“Assassination Vacation,” Vowell’s fourth
book, is an exploration into the assassina
tions of presidents Abraham Lincoln, James
Garfield and William McKinley.
“She offers a witty and wry sense of
humor and her unique voice adds to her
WHO I Sarah Vowell
WHEN 18 p.m. Nov. 5
WHERE I Kenan Auditorium
delivery,” said Shannon Hooker, assistant
director of UNCW Presents, “It will give us
an opportunity to laugh about things that we
normally wouldn’t.”
Vowell will also read excerpts from new,
unpublished material Hooker.said
Vowell is a contributing editor for
national public radio’s This American Life.
She is a former columnist for Salon.com,
Time Magazine and the San Francisco
Weekly. Vowell has also written for the
Los Angeles Times, The New York Times,
Rolling Stone, Spin, GQ and Esquire maga
zine.
“I love Sarah Vowell because she pres
ents her material in an interesting and funny
way,” said student Sarah Gagliardo. “And
because I loved her in ‘The Incredibles,”’
she said.
Her appearance is part of the UNCW
Presents’ Arts is Action performance
series. An informal question and answer
session, sponsored by the Creative Writing
department, will take place on Nov. 5 at
.4:30 p.m.