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16B Tuesday, August 20, 2002 fei ~** ' XftnwtaL. ' rmKm stfmf Jj : A Hl • ■ i \ ly . -r Summer Heat Brings Out Stars Months filled with good music, movies Bv Brian Milukin Assistant Arts & Entertainment Editor The mercury still climbs to 90, and the humidity is heavy in the air as ever, but summer is over. It hasn’t died in vain. Unlike a lot of the past few summer breaks, this year’s lazy days saw more than their fair share of highlights. Popcorn flicks suddenly had more kernels for thought, and big-release CDs weren’t throw-aways again. This sum mer belonged to some terrific big dogs, and they’re going to take a bow. ■ Red Hot Chili Peppers, By the Way They’ve come a long way, baby. Launching from the maturity and grace of Californication, the Peppers’ new album is startlingly grown-up and accomplished. A subdued Anthony Kiedis and club still turn on their wild side, but what they’ve lost in spunk they’ve more than recovered in soul. ■ Weezer, Maladroit Not as classic as the band’s first albums and not as sunny as last year’s comeback ■ Cooking at the Cafe is designed to capture the vitality of Italy & the Mediterranean with a contemporary & imaginative twist. Fresh seasonal pasta, wood burning pizza oven, dessert and cappuccino bar and much more. j Serving dinner nightly at 5:00 J'JL jf a Lunch Tues-Sat rvnf eterm 411 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill ♦ 967-2782 ITALIAN CAFE SRUIKY’S ||i§! RESTAURANT6tBAR V p £iIHSSa A Chapel Hill Tradition! tjfißP An American grill featuring burgers, sandwiches, BBQ, ribs, fresh salads and homemade desserts. jfrprfPP j BOOK YOUR NEXT BANQUET OR SOCIAL AT SPANKY’S. Lunch every day, dinner Mon-Sat, late night kAJffla - - > 101 E. 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Songs like “Keep Fishin” and “Slave” restore faith not just in Weezer, but in pop-rock itself. ■ Eminem, The Eminem Show Whether he’s acting or not, it’s a shame that the guy’s so pigheaded, offensive and hugely self-absorbed. He’s all theatrics this time, and it’s clear now how talented a rapper he is. He uses words and rhymes no one else does and produces tracks that sound fresh in an increasingly stale market. ■ David Bowie, Heathen Already the coolest 55-year-old in the world, Heathen makes a case for Bowie being the most talented, too. After two decades of dubious success, Bowie final ly made a record you can place beside his classics. The album is introspective but with that dash of the absurd that he’s been missing. Bowie has stopped pandering and started commanding once again. ■ Counting Crows, Hard Candy Reminiscent of August and Everything After, Hard Candy sees a band in full charge of its music. Sharp and up tempo, Adam Duritz has come miles as both singer and songwriter. The Crows are reaching that level of consistency and potency that demands respect. ■ “Road to Perdition” A painting put to film. Director Sam Mendes follows up American Beauty with a sort of American Gothic. Gorgeous, dreamy and mythic like the best gang ster films, it has the sort of emotion and desperation that other movies about hit men simply don’t. ■ “Minority Report” Sure, the final act is a bit of a let down, but the future noir chase could hardly be better. In the alphabet of director Spielberg, it’s closer to “A.1.” than to “E.T.” but something like an electrical “Raiders of the Lost Ark” at its most adventurous. ■ “Austin Powers in Goldmember” Who thought that this would be so hilarious? After the disappointing sequel, all signs pointed to turkey for this one. Credit Mike Myers and a few excellent guest stars for recharging the series. ■ “Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones” It’s not “great,” per se, except for the final hour, but mediocre “Star Wars” is still more exciting than most anything else. Hard to argue with the most joyful scene in any movie this year, when mighty, tiny Yoda finally tests his mettle. The Arts & Entertainment Editor can be reached at artsdesk@unc.edu. News JR - !*_- , - ’ ■ *, lb *... . . . - ' PHOTO COURTESY OF NICHOLE DOUB A team of UNC students works at an excavation site on the island of Crete, part of a five-year project that senior Nichole Doub took part of this summer. Students Cross Oceans To Broaden Horizons Trips to Israel, Crete and Kenya allow students to learn, serve Bv Jordan Bartel Assistant Features Editor The traditionally long, lazy days of summer were still long but never lazy for several UNC students this year. Some UNC students attempted to make this summer a learning experi ence far from crowded classrooms and away from the normal internship route. While many students watched the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine escalate on television this summer, senior Toby Osofsky spent most of her summer in the dangerous region. Osofsky, a biology major from New jersey, took part in a program sponsored by N.C. Hillel and Hillel International that gave students the chance to explore the region and discuss the Middle East conflict with officials. “We had the opportunity to discuss Israeli positions with the most intelli gent and accurate people who were all very receptive to my opinions,” she said. Osofsky also had the opportunity to take courses at Tel-Aviv University while visiting the city and areas around the Gaza Strip -a hot spot of terrorist activity. 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States, Osofsky said she felt even more compassionate about educating others. “A trip like this really helps to shape one’s college experience,” Osofsky said. “It affects the way you see your self and the way you see other people, and I learned to never underestimate the power of word.” Other students this summer learned to never underestimate the power of ahr Daily (Ear Uepl hard work, especially UNC students who took part in an archaeological excavation on the island of Crete. This was the first season of the new dig and is part of the Azoria Project, a five-year excavation of a site dating to 700 B.C. Senior Nichole Doub, a classical archaeology major, said the project, though a lot of work, was beneficial in many ways. “I had the opportunity to meet about half of the people that I had heard about in my textbooks,” Doub said. Doub said the project was a good way to study archaeology up close and redefine her academic experience. “The trip allowed me to put my career in focus,” Doub said. “In a way, I was able to reaffirm my interests and discover that knowledge is not con fined to only textbooks and lectures.” For Tanya Rogo, who was bom in Nairobi, Kenya, the best way to reaf firm her interests was to travel home. Rogo traveled alone to Kenya on a UNC Burch Fellows grant to study how the AIDS epidemic has affected the country. A senior biology major, Rogo said she spent the summer traveling to hos pitals and villages in Nairobi and Kisumu and taking part in training offices that help educate AIDS care givers. “A huge part of the problem is elders pushing traditions that put peo ple’s health at risk,” Rogo said. “I found that educating people on mod em techniques really does make a dif ference.” Rogo said that in Kenya, the HIV infection rate is twice the world aver age. She said she saw entire villages in her homeland wiped out by the vims. “I think it’s one thing to hear about the vims, but to see it with one’s own eyes is completely devastating to the spirits,” Rogo said. Despite the overwhelming emotion al impact, Rogo said she left the coun try optimistic about recovery. “I was happy to see what was being done in the labs I visited, and the new techniques being used should definite ly help,” Rogo said. Rogo, who plans on applying to medical school after graduation, said she also discovered a great deal about her career. “On the trip I was challenged by a doctor to return to the region to work, and now I feel very dedicated to the field,” Rogo said. “In many ways it widened my hori zons.” The Features Editor can be reached at features@unc.edu.
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