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Ehr Saili* Jar Hrrl ‘How She Move’ takes standard plot North BY RACHAEL OEHRING STAfF WRITER Despite the awkward subject-verb agreement. “How She Move" is an entertaining dance-movie retread. The movie tells the same story of people trying to escape their lower class roots through dance step ping, in this case. If you’ve seen “Stomp the Yard," you can basically outline the plot of this movie. This time around, Raya Green (Rutina Wesley) is trying to get money so she can return to the pri vate school she was forced to leave after her drug-addicted sister's death. General themes of transcendence of the given surroundings and not being able to fit in, no matter the environment, bring weight to what could be a throwaway plot. As in all dance-heavy films, most of the people involved are obviously dancers and not actors (except Jessica Alba in “Honey" who, inexplicably, is neither), but they handle their uninspired dia logue with aplomb. Not that it really matters. The thin story just seems like some thing to connect the dance scenes. WARNPf: TEX MBS SO 600D... IT SHOULD BE ILLE6AL! WCJIb __ th* bast soft taco...PERIOD. ) 120 East Main Street, Carrboro, NC 919.929 4669 l armadillogrill.com v Free public Lecture THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL wrr Jewish Merchants f and Former Slaves: I The Economic Relationship in the Post-Civil War South ~~ ' ERIC GOLDSTE,N Monday, Feb. 4 Director of the Graduate f 7:30 p.m. P Program in Jewish Studies Sonja Haynes Stone V and Associate Professor of Center Theatre History and Jewish Studies, I Emory University, will explore the economic relationship forged between African Americans and Jews in the years fjj j OMC following the Civil War. ARTS • ICUNCIS MOVIE REVIEW HOW SHE MOVE which end up awkwardly wedged between scenes of people being angry at each other. But, to be fair, the dancing was really the main attraction anyway. Where the players stumble with dialogue, they excel in dancing. The stepping in this movie is quite extraordinary, and the routines seem perilously difficult. The visceral stomping and pounding bass drive the over-long rehearsal and performance scenes. By the time you get to that cli mactic performance that decides who wins the big competition, you're probably tired of all that dancing but still bobbing your head along to the music. The movie is set in Canada but has been stripped of any reference to it (except fleeting glimpses of non-American money). The movie sports an all- Canadian cast, and though Detroit Boston and Brooklyn are briefly mentioned, the location seems a Diversions bit too sterile to really pass for the inner-city it attempts to portray. Though the movie was made to be sold to a mass American audi ence, it seems disingenuous to sani tize an entire culture of Caribbean- Canadians in order to appeal to a demographic in America whose story they’re only halfway telling. If the movie had told the story of non-Americans trying to over come the same poverty, and how it’s a problem in other countries too, it wouldn't seem like as much of a cop-out. While it might not have gar nered as big an American audi ence (though, let's be honest, it probably won’t garner much of one to begin with), a story of how blacks in other cultural groups in a country like Canada incorporate African-American culture while keeping their own traditions and heritage would have been far more interesting. While problematic, “How She Move" is still an entertaining way to waste a few hours, especially if you're interested in dance. Contact the Diversion* Editor at dive (a) unc.edu Carroll goes down swinging BY JAMIE WILLIAMS ASSISTANT DIVERSIONS EDITOR Different songwriters deal with heartbreak in different ways. Some mope, scattering the pieces of their broken hearts for all to hear in a way that is not unlike throw ing ashes into a river to have them float where they may. Others just get bitter, writing an album of songs that say ‘I hate you’ 12 different ways. Barton Carroll takes a different approach. Barton Carroll is a tell-all. There’s no way around it. He’s been spurned, and he w ants every one to know it. Using incredible detail to flesh out every stage that occurs during the course of a heart being broken, the initial small crack expands until thousands of pieces arc strewn across the room. Carroll brings the listener along on the all-too-familiar ride from Are you currently experiencing jg PAIN jvj) around one or both of your lower w|w WISDOM TEETH? UNC School of Dentistry is presently enrolling healthy subjects who W are non-smokers between the ages of 18 and 35 |f have pain and signs of inflammation (pericoronitis) around a lower wisdom tooth (3rd molar) Participation requires three visits. 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It’s at this point, after the stage has been set with track one. that the fun really starts. The Lost One takes on the feel of a back porch gathering with Carroll as storyteller recounting tales of his journey from broken heart to hoping for new love and back around the circle to hoping for the next girl he meets to be merciful and not rip his heart out thursday.january 31,2008 MUSIQRFVIEW BARTON CARROLL THE LOST OM[ COUNTRY YOU again. But, like any good country/folk singer, he's been through it enough times to sense the inevitability of a broken heart. It’s the way he presents it, though, that makes it stand out He’s road-worn, aging and bit ter, but refuses to give up on love. On songs such as "Brooklyn Girl, You’re Going to Be My Bride," Carroll acknowledges that it could be anywhere, and he could stumble upon it at any time. But with everything he's been through, even he doesn’t believe that for one minute. Contact the Diversions Editor at dive (a) unc.edu 11
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