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(03/27/08 4:00am)
4 Months, 3 weeks & 2 days
3 stars
A Golden Globe nominee and winner of the Cannes Film Festival Golden Palm, Cristian Mungiu's "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" is not for the faint of heart.
Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) and Gabita (Laura Vasiliu) are college roommates, living in 1980s Romania under a restrictive regime. Otilia agrees to help her friend get an illegal abortion, an offense that could put all involved parties in jail for years.
(03/27/08 4:00am)
Album From the Vaults
Bellafea - Family Tree: The 2004 debut from Chapel Hill's Bellafea is an instrumentally spare affair, letting the fragile lives of its songs' characters take the spotlight. Beautiful stuff.
Movie Rental Pick:
"Rebel Without A Cause": The ultimate portrait of disaffected youth in Golden Age America. If you haven't already seen this, stop reading and go watch it now.
Something Random:
Talk about your feelings: Allegedly, it's good for you.
Events:
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Someone punched and kicked a victim at 10:41 a.m. Monday at 101 Manning Drive, according to Chapel Hill police reports.
A home at 109 Garden St. was broken into at 11:58 a.m. Monday, according to Chapel Hill police reports.
The suspect caused damage of $25 to the window screen but was scared off by the resident, reports state.
An incident of vandalism and willful damage to property was reported at 11:32 a.m. Monday at 211 Cloister Court, according to Chapel Hill police reports.
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The window of a 2004 champagne-colored Honda Odyssey at 150 E. Rosemary St. was shot with a BB gun, according to Chapel Hill police reports.
Damage of $600 to the rear window was reported at 10:21 p.m. Sunday, according to reports.
Two incidents of larceny and breaking and entering from a residence with force were reported Sunday on Ridge Trail, according to Chapel Hill police reports.
(03/25/08 4:00am)
Swimming & Diving
The North Carolina women swimmers who qualified for the NCAA Finals traveled to Columbus, Ohio last weekend.
Buoyed by a strong performance by Whitney Sprague, the Tar Heels finished 32nd overall with 17 team points. That represents a slight step backward, as the women's team finished in 30th place last year.
Last year's team had nine members qualify because of relays. This year's team only qualified four members - Sprague, Kelsey Morrissy, Alison Clemens and Katura Harvey - but they all did so individually.
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The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School Board met Thursday to discuss a potential redistricting plan and the upcoming budget.
School redistricting
A proposed redistricting plan could force the board to decide between overcrowding or a lack of diversity.
The plan, introduced at the board's Thursday meeting, would target Culbreth Middle School's overcrowding by cutting the percentage of students with the free or reduced-price lunch plan.
The free or reduced lunch plan is used as an indicator of the demographic landscape of a school.
(03/24/08 4:00am)
A UNC wrestling team member was arrested after officers saw him punching someone on the 100 block of West Rosemary Street, according to Chapel Hill police reports.
Vincent Toribio Ramirez, 21, of 1111 E. Franklin St., faces misdemeanor charges of affray/assault and battery and drunk and disruptive behavior, reports state.
Ramirez was released on written promise to appear in court on May 13, reports state.
A convicted felon was arrested after police discovered him with a handgun at 1:38 a.m. Saturday at 136 E. Rosemary St., according to Chapel Hill police reports.
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A Durham resident was arrested at 12:18 a.m. Wednesday for possession of a stolen handgun, according to Chapel Hill police reports.
Phillip Brandon Edwards, 24, was pulled over at the intersection of Merritt Mill Road and West Franklin Street and was arrested for driving with a revoked license. Police discovered a stolen Glock handgun, 7.4 grams of cocaine, 3.4 grams of marijuana and a digital scale, according to reports.
Edwards faces felony charges for possession of stolen goods, carrying a concealed weapon and maintaining a vehicle, reports state.
(03/20/08 4:00am)
Democrats to hold forum to discuss land transfer tax
Orange County Democrats will sponsor a forum tonight to discuss the proposed land transfer tax.
The Orange County Board of Commissioners proposed the tax, which would place a 0.4 percent tax on all eligible property transactions. It will now be on the ballot for the May 6 primary but faces fierce opposition.
The county needs a revenue source other than the property tax in order to bring in more money for capital expenditures, Board Chairman Barry Jacobs said.
(03/20/08 4:00am)
Music
Who is not name-checked in Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire?"
a. Marlon Brando
b. Buddy Holly
c. U2
d. Jimi Hendrix
e. Malcolm X
f. Elvis Presley
g. Chubby Checker
Which of the following is in the correct chronological order?
a. Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath Vol. 4, Sabotage, Paranoid, Master of Reality
b. Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Master of Reality, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Sabotage
c. Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath Vol. 4, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Master of Reality
d. Master of Reality, Black Sabbath, Paranoid
(03/20/08 4:00am)
Science for Girls
Science for Girls
electronica/pop
4.5 stars
While listening to Science for Girls' debut album, expect to feel morphed and transposed into an otherworldly alternate reality.
The brainchild of producer and composer Darren Soloman, the album completely sucks in the listener and captivates him fully with each sparkly beat and prickly vocal.
Each of Solomon's songs are delivered by a different singer. But this doesn't detract from the connectivity of the album, instead creating a smooth flow into the changing feelings that each song provokes.
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____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Things have really taken off recently for Nicole Atkins.
The singer has been on a roll, recently scoring a performance on "The Late Show with David Letterman."
And Atkins and her band, the Sea, are set to perform at the Local 506 on Saturday.
Staff writer Jordan Lawrence caught up with Atkins as she was traveling to talk with her about growing up in New Jersey, her relationship to the Charlotte music scene and awkward talk show moments.
Diversions: I hear you were known to get tired of people requesting Bon Jovi and Springsteen songs when you used to play bars in New Jersey.
Nicole Atkins: That's when I used to play in, like, pubs on the Jersey shore. I don't know why they hired me to begin with.
Dive: What bothered you about it?
NA: It didn't really bother me other than I didn't know any. I used to play just songs I knew. It wasn't that I didn't like Springsteen; it's just that I didn't take the time to learn any of his songs. I know some now.
Dive: I actually notice a lot of thematic similarities between your music and Springsteen's. Both of you seem to thrive on that "you can't go home again" aesthetic. Where does that come from?
NA: I can't really speak for Springsteen, but maybe it's a New Jersey thing.
Where we're from, it's a really, really cool place. It's close to the city. But it's still f--king New Jersey. You want to leave, but you also want to stay. I guess it's just trying to make yourself be okay with it.
Dive: You did the art direction for your EP and album, right?
NA: Yeah. The artwork came from the themes of the songs on (Neptune City). The two black swans on the cover came from where I live, the Shark River neighborhood.
It's right on this river. A couple of years ago I woke up, and there was a black swan on the river. Everybody was like, 'Where the hell did this come from?' They only have black swans in Australia.
One day we found it with its neck snapped. They guessed it was just the snapper turtle. Turned out, there was some rich couple that was importing black swans and clipped their wings for their private pond. The day before this one's wings got clipped, it flew to my town.
That's why I put it on the cover with a blue ribbon around its neck, to make it all better.
Dive: Shark River neighborhood?
NA: Yeah, they derived its name from the fact that the shark attacks that inspired "Jaws" happened there.
Dive: Did that make you scared to swim?
NA: No. I mean it's always an underlying fear, but, no, I like to swim.
Dive: You were big into the Charlotte music scene while you were there for art school.
NA: The music scene in Charlotte is a really cool scene. They took me in and let me be a part of it.
Some of them were pretty harsh critics of my work. They pushed me to write better songs than I already was. They gave me a good competitive streak.
Dive: Were there any bands form N.C. that inspired you?
NA: The Avett Brothers. They're two of my best friends. We went to (UNC-Charlotte) together. We both kind of started out having a full go at the music thing and supported each other.
If I didn't have a new song, they would get on my ass about writing more. That was always a really good motivator. Have a good song ready so you don't look like a jerk in front of The Avett Brothers.
Dive: Your Web site says that the first song you learned to play was by the Grateful Dead. Which song was it?
NA: It was "Uncle John's Band." I went to the mall and I bought a Grateful Dead song book.
Dive: What drew you to the Grateful Dead?
NA: A lot of things. When I was a freshman in high school I went to a show. That whole sense of community, one big party. I was really into the song "Dark Star." It's psychedelic, dark and kind of scary. A song like that really opens a 13- year-old's head up.
Dive: I saw your performance on ("The Late Show with David Letterman"). I noticed he gave you kind of a weird handhold. Was that awkward for you?
NA: He wouldn't let go of my hand. I wasn't expecting that. It was kind of funny. He dug it. He asked me if I wanted to go get a steak.
Dive: Did he actually buy you a steak?
NA: No.
Dive: That's lame.
NA: I guess that's, like, show-biz speak for "good job."
Dive: Well, hopefully I'll be able to come up and offer to buy you a steak at 506.
NA: Yeah, I'm keeping a notebook of people that owe me food.
Contact the Diversions Editor at dive@unc.edu.
(03/20/08 4:00am)
Album From the Vaults
Woelv - Tout Seul dans la For
(03/20/08 4:00am)
Horton Hears A Who!
3 stars
"Horton Hears a Who!" is the latest charming value-teaching movie with cutting-edge computer animation and a bevy of celebrity voices.
Based on the book by Dr. Seuss, it's the story of Horton (Jim Carrey), a kind, innocent elephant determined to protect the world of Whoville. Horton finds a friend in Whoville's mayor (Steve Carell), and as neither quirky male finds support in his respective world, they must take solo action to keep Whoville safe on each end.
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