Thursday August 5, 2010

Music to chill to, come in, text your friends and tell them to come out.

OPEN MIC- Your mic, Your rules. Come share your poems (it is still national poetry month), rhymes, songs, lyrics, stories, whatever ya got!

ASU SunDevil Feature- Your ASU Sun Devil Slam Team is BACK and made it to the semifinals at Collegiate National Poetry Slam, finishing 9th in the nation!

So you can see what they did to rock the mic in Boston, PATRICK, KATE, and DISHA are all featuring this Thursday night at Black Pearl Poetry showcasing the incredible pieces they performed at Collegiate Nationals!

Bring friends, bring money, bring poems, bring smiles!

And Ed Mabrey will be back in the building hosting this week!

Let's have some fun!

Private Event

A decade after their last hilarious short, the Oscar-winning A Close Shave, Claymation wonders Wallace and Gromit return for a full-length adventure. Daffy scientist Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) and his heroic dog Gromit are doing well with their business, Anti-Pesto, a varmint-hunting outfit designed to keep their English town safe from rabbits chomping on prized vegetables. Wallace meets Lady Tottington (Helena Bonham Carter), who appreciates Wallace's humane way of dealing with rabbits (courtesy of the Bun-Vac 6000), and sets up a rivalry with the gun-toting Victor Quartermaine (Ralph Fiennes, enjoying himself more than ever). Creator Nick Park, with co-director/writer Steve Box, delivers a story worthy of the 85-minute running time, although it stretches the act a bit; the formula plays better shorter, but the literally hand-crafted film is a joy to watch. Taking a chapter from classic horror films, a giant were-rabbit is soon on the prowl, and the town is up in arms, what with the annual vegetable contest close at hand. (Anyone who's seen the previous three shorts knows who saves the day.) Never content to do something simply when the extravagant will do, W&G's lives are filled with whimsical Rude Goldberg-style devices, and the opening number showcasing their alarm system is pure Aardman Animation at its finest. Even though there's a new twist here--a few mild sight gags aimed at adults--this G-rated film will delight young and old alike as Park, like team Pixar, seems incapable of making anything but an outstanding film.