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Q® ^^LACKAMASPríflt March 9, 2005 Arts fiyEntertainme Punk show spreads awarene Mike Guidice I The Clackamas Print On Tuesday, Feb. 23, the Take Action Tour hit P-town with tre mendous force. The concert was held at the new Meow Meow on 320 SE 2nd Avenue and included well known national acts as well as unknown punk bands. The concert was a huge suc cess from the beginning, building anticipation and excitement for the closing acts of Hawthorne Heights and Sugarcult. Two less er known bands, Plain White T’s and Hopesfall were decent open ing acts. Plain White T’s could be compared to the sounds of Jimmy Eat World, a more pop/punk-type sound. Hopesfall was a lot more hardcore and has been touring for almost two years straight with the likes of Coheed and Cambria and The Ataris. Anberlin, a Christian band, brought yet another style to the stage and performed very well. Lead singer Stephen core punk scene. Hawthorne also implements a rare triple guitar attack that isn’t seen among too many other groups. The main event of the eve ning was defi nitely Sugarcult. Their highly anticipated per formance sent waves of excite ment through the air creat ing an electric environment. With songs that everyone could Internet Photo sing along to, Sugarcult headlined the Take Action Tour’s Portland leg at the Meow the crowd involve Meow on Feb. 23. The tour is an effort to spread suicide awareness. ment reached a climax when lead Hawthorne Heights was a huge singer Tim Pagnotta called upon a Christian has a great stage pres ence and everyone enjoyed their hit and has really come to the member of the audience to come forefront of the “screamo” hard onstage and sing the hook to performance. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------r Fancy vittles at student prices . Isaiah Creel J j Editor-in-Chief The vantage, menu and ambience at the Portland City Grill are fancy enough to warrant a suit and tie, but during happy hour even broke- ass college kids can afford to dine with the powerful elite. Are you single? Do you have a significant other? Are you at least 21 years of age? Do you own a shirt, pants and shoes (socks optional)? Is your girlfriend tired of eat ing BK’s value meal No. five in the passenger seat/ garbage receptacle of your two-toned 1989 Honda Prelude? Do you yearn for the high life, but set tle for the PBR life? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, the Portland City Grill could be the answer to your prayers and/or social woes. The Portland City Grill, located conveniently on Fifth Avenue for exceptional bus access, takes up the entire 30th floor of the Unico/U.S. Bancorp Tower. The view is incredible and the atmosphere elegant, but don’t be put off by an elegant atmosphere, you poor slob. I got in, after all, and 1 can’t tell the difference between a salad fork and a meat grinder. I can, however, use chopsticks, which is more than I can say for the hoity-toities who add that special bit of class (dis tinction) to the restaurant. The wait-staff wear tuxes for Chrissakes but the patrons use two frickin’ hands for one pair of chopsticks! Regardless of the gentry’s total lack of sophistication (ironic due to their social status) the Portland City Grill’s happy hour menu provides foodstuffs worthy of what Restaurant & Institutions Magazine calls “one of the nation’s top 50 restaurants.” Prices for the happy hour menu go no higher than $3.95 for delicious items such as: Kung Pao calamari, Dungeness crab & bay shrimp bruschetta, flatiron seared blackened Tombo tuna, yakisoba stir fry and teriyaki chicken rice paper spring rolls (to name just a few). A $1.95 drink order is manda tory, but you’re saving so much money on food that you can splurge on that Saki-Tini (a mar tini made with sake and vodka) with a clear conscious. Happy hour starts at 4 p.m. on Sundays and goes until closing, but if you want a table, it’d be best to get there at 3:30 p.m. and endure a bit of waiting. Even if you do get a table, be prepared for vultures circling and sali vating over the foodstuffs you are enjoying whilst they stand dejected. Indie film lacks entertainment Sam Krause (l Contributing Writer In order to find the proper independent film to critique, I made my way to Movie Madness on SE 43 rd "and Belmont in Portland. For the person who thinks they have seen every movie known to man, this out-of-the-way video rental store is a sinful dream come true. The film I found is called “A Day Without a Mexican”. It is ; a satirical and honest movie. In it, the entire Mexican popula tion di sappears from California. What is shown is the entirety of the day with bits of retrospec tive news clips about the situ ation. Throughout the movie Writer/Director Sergio Arau plants little bits of factual infor mation that present a sympa thetic of a Mexican’s plight in America. A Mexican’s plight is shown as a constant deg radation despite their large contribution to America and especially California. He points out over 90 percent of all produce picked in California was by Mexicans. On top of which, he refutes the idea that Mexicans take away billions of dollars each year from the system. In all actu ality, illegal immigrants may take away about 26 billion dollars each year from government-run pro grams, but they contribute 91 bil lion dollars to the economy each year. The message that Arau is trying to make clear is, without Mexicans or illegal immigrants in America, much of California’s and America’s economic stability would be in jeopardy. However important the mes sage is, Arau fails to create a solid move. There were too many instances where I was lured into something that may be funny. My only reaction was mere annoyance with a lack of original writing and decent acting. What is sup- posed to be 'viewed as witty social commentary turns into sad repre sentations of ignorance. Not only are white people stereotyped, so are Mexicans. White people live in beautiful homes with garden ers, painters, nannies and the like played by Mexicans. Even when trying to show Mexicans as the better people, Arau fails and turns them into meager vacu ums of all that is pure about American society making them thieves of jobs, thieves in general, and thieves of the American Dream. But the acting and the writ ing weren’t the only weak parts. One of die worst ele mente of the movie was the editing. There were many instances when the angle of the camera would change and so would the color of the light in the scene. Shadows were disgustingly different; it was hard to tell if some scenes took place during mid-day or at sunset. Whether on purpose or not, the film visually comes off as a project without the full attention of its creator: choppy, lost, and weak. Documentaries usually fail without insightful research, but Arau checked his insight at the door. With an interesting begin ning and premise, “A Day Without a Mexican” becomes disappointing and is only worth watching for half an hour. “Bouncing off the Walls.” Overall the concert blast, and if you’ve neverl a punk show, I’d highly mend you check one oil the show people were abl autographs and meet the bers of the bands and see jt down-to-earth all the mi really were. All my priori experiences were predom rap and you never even® enough to yell at the perfi so I really had an apprecia the performer/fan interacts This tour was particula nificant because it was ; efit for the National Ha Network that supports who have issues with suici mental health. So not onlyi get to enjoy some great ¡ k ers and hear a variety off musicians, one got to siij good cause. So if you’re i fanatic like myself and k open mind, you most dd should attend some punk; they just might surprise y( Work-related stress 11 double the risk of ■ dying from heart disease ” fcsrtional Mentaf Healtli Isa ' - JU ••XW ' j | Mb • c . IP* % A* /JE ‘ t I Mjd out whaVyou can do about itn iftith a career less ordinary.tM^J^ Get a degree in Health Psychology and learn about the mind/body connection. For the best natural health educat
