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SAC brings the festival
By Jack Deming
A&E writer
An all out bonanza will end the long spring semester this weekend with SAC’s Spring Concert, joined this year with the annual Political Science Club Pig Roast. The music festival will make for a fun Saturday afternoon on the Quad. Quadapalooza begins at 1:00 p.m. with a line-up of entertainment fit for the college crowd with three bands and a comedian opening for the keynote entertainment of the band, Quietdrive.
The pig roast will provide the day’s feast, making an appearance with many other MCLA clubs providing prizes and giveaways for lucky students.Quadapalooza has more of festival feeling this year rather than a expo. Concert Director of MCLA Student Activities Council, Vanessa Leikvoll, gives the impression that it will be a hit.
“We aim to have this be the event that people will remember the end of the spring semester by,” she said. “We want to go out loud and fun, but also relaxed, so that students can just chill and take a mental break from studying for finals and just dance and eat.” For the opening acts, comedian Ronnie Jordan will provide the laughs and MC the full line-up of good times.
There will be something for everyone at Quadapalooza this year, as the event was carefully planned for students by students. It is a great alternative to spending a lump sum for a shortened appearance by a big name celebrity.“I was inspired by the summer music festival format,” Leikvoll said. “Of having several bands, multiple stages, food and music outdoors. I thought it would be really fun to recreate that on campus,” she continued, expressing her excitement for the big day. Leikvoll and the rest of SAC seem like they have succeeded in putting together that melting pot.
“This year, we all agreed to combine our interests and resources to make one large splash on campus, offering both a variety of music and activities, and one larger musical production to follow,” Leikvoll explained.Quietdrive reached 25 on the American top 40 in 2007 for their single “Time After Time,” which also appeared in the film “John Tucker Must Die.” The pop-punk band based out of Minneapolis, Minn. formed in 2002, and in the past eight years has began to emerge on the American music scene.
Quietdrive’s set begins in Venable Gym, conveniently next to the Quad, at 4:15 p.m. and will surely draw many people away from their novels and papers two weeks overdue, on the weekend before finals.
Quadrapalooza will provide a day of good times, or as Vanessa Leikvoll described it, “You take vanilla ice cream, add hot fudge and whipped cream, and what do you get? A Sundae! Enjoy MCLA!”
By Eli Jace
A&E Editor
Oh can’t you feel it? End times are almost here. Soon 2012 will arrive and we’ll all collapse under the wave of time. Put your brains on ice! Are you seeing clear?
When I close my eyes there’s Mephistopheles looming forward and a burning pushed to the forehead. Fever dreams for the future, knees shivering. Yes we can. Live fast, die old and leave a corpse caked in mud and a mountain of debt. Diving into piles of loan receipts like Uncle Scrooge in Duck Tales, Ah-woo-ooh!Where’s the whiskey when you pull that cap and gown from the closet?
Graduate, extrapolate, hallucinate, sex ornate and Chubby Checker in a blue suit drowning. Now make a living. Put money in the bank. Isn’t the Boston Globe soon to go under? Isn’t all the news already streaming on handheld computers? Newspaper, sweet Newspaper where will you go? When the Internet comes and sells you for gold? Headaches come richly when staring at a screen. Newspaper, oh, Newspaper will it ever be the same? I’ve gotten a glimpse of the Olde Tyme and I’m ever thankful to have for changes are coming at the crumbling of tradition.
The Newsroom is a holy place and the streets shall forever benefit, but it’s shape-shifting in this twenty-first century storm. Remember Edward Murrow and all his pals smoking endless cigarettes figuring ways to twist stories? Remember Hunter Thompson, hunched, with sweatglobs breaking on the typewriter, eyes back and forth from gun to word, gun to word? Remember the journalists? Not the blogheads and first commenters and nobodies, but the real journalists? They exist, they do!
In times of great hardship one must “improvise, problem-solve and adapt.” The photography teacher who was always late to class playing War Craft taught me that. I fought the law and the law won, but the pen is mightier than the cop’s gun. May God bless the Beacon and may the Beacon rest heavy on your soul. “This is my assistant Colleen and she’ll be performing some tricks for you later this evening.”Happy Mater’s Day.
And now I pass the column to the left-hand side to John Durkan.
Web Photo/Quietdrive Music
Quietdrive will close out SAC’s spring music festival Saturday in Venable Gym.
