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GOD LOVES FILM and so does Mark Sanders

Introducing Joss Stone

I've been making short films since the summer Joss Stone is a British soul and R&B singer. Her before my Senior year of High School. Since third album, Introducing Joss Stone, is not like her then I've made over previous two. This album shows off her ability to 70 short films. As to sing over different rhythms and styles. Introducwhy I make films ing... not only features guest appearances from on my own, instead Common and Lauryn Hill, but also is produced by Raphael Saadiq, the former lead singer of early '90s pop music band Toni, of just for classes, it's mainly because I Tone, Tony. couldn't stop even if Saadiq brings a lot syncopated rhythms, off-beat drums and catchy loops to I wanted to. I bethe album. This all blends for on awesome pop and soul sound. This forces lieve this is what I Joss to sing in different styles; as a result, she's not able to showcase her was meant to do. voice as much. This is good if you just want to hear some good music, but if I always think of you want to hear her strong voice, buy her first two albums. Eric Little from Chariots of Fire when I think It is a good album to have for a second date, relaxing with a special friend about making films. He says that he feels God's during open hours; it's also good if you just like Joss Stone or Raphael pleasure when he runs, and he can't stop running Saadiq. --js because God made him fast. I feel the same way about making and watching films. When I see a ONE NIGHT WITH THE KING film by directors like Wong Kar Wai, Jia Zhang Director: Michael O. Sajbel Ke, Chan Wook Park, or Hou Hsiao Hsien I not Writer: Mark Andrew Olsen only see God in the humanness and artistry of Starring: Omar Sharif, Tiffany Dupont Studio Info: PG, 123 Mins, X8 Entertainment those films, but I feel God calling me to go out there and do the same. The makers of this film had great source material for God loves films. He loves new innovative styles this. You can read the book of Esther in less time and cinematography. And I love films because I than it takes this movie to draw out the mundane see God's beauty and truth in them. He made me parts of the story. to love films, and I'm just doing what he created The film doesn't even qualify as a good Sundayme to do. That's the amazing thing about movschool lesson. The important parts of the story are ies--they capture God's creation. Films capture pushed to the margins to make the film the story of one woman's courage to humans in God's world, and we can experience change the heart of King Xerxes (also one of the stars of the film 300). At so much of God's love, truth, and beauty in his times the film seems forced into trying to be a romantic tale. I found the in- creation through films. And the cool thing about terpretation of the story to be trite (there are overt references to Haman being it, is that we experience them through a film in a a Nazi; red and black flags with a frightening symbol on them). new, fresh, unique way that we could never do in Where the text allows for high drama, the audience of the film gets bad mon- real life. A minimalist film like Last Life in the tages and didactic narration. I have always found the story of Esther to be Universe shows a real-life situation in Bangkok. fascinating, but this version makes it seem absurd. --gpv But the style of the film makes it extraordinary. The music, the cinematography, the pacing-- all CULTURE. ISH. CALENDAR Always at www.culture-ish.com of these things add to this world that would not be there in every day life. Films celebrate the Saturday, April 21st possible beauty of everything! As Christopher 1 PM Jogging for Justice Doyle says, "maybe--just maybe--by celebrating 4 PM Light for Darfur the possible beauty in things, films can change Tuesday, April 24th the world just a little." 7:30 PM Over the Rhine, David Bazan Rachel Zylstra Tickets are starting to go; so, buy yours today. Students FIVE BUCKS. Non-Geneva SIXTEEN BUCKS.

The other huge reason I make films is because I think (I hope at least), that I have something to say that will mean something to someone. I want WE NEED YOU TO HELP MAKE CULTURE. ISH. RADIO. people to walk out of my films asking big questions. I want people to love people more after watching my films. I want people to love God Go to culture-ish.com and click the radio link. The more the merrier. more after watching my films. I want to challenge people in the messages I bring across. Name

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No Cars Go

The Arcade Fire

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For The Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti

Sufjan Stevens

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City Of Love

Persephone's Bees

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We Will Become Silhouettes

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The Ice Storm, Big Gust, And You

Tilly & The Wall

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July Jones

The New Pornographers

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As I Rise

The Decemberists

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Pink Moon

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Islands

10 When We Become

I hope my latest film Got a Light accomplishes some of that. I hope I showed the beauty of God's world and God's people in this film. --Mark Sanders

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NOT FOR SALE David Batstone The current hot topic of justice is the subject of David Batstone's "Not for Sale." Offering detailed accounts of slavery found in the United States and in outside countries, the words flowing from the pages touch close to home. This is not an easy read. Although it is intriguing and heart wrenching, it is also scary, holding stories of which we would rather claim ignorance.

The Light for Darfur Project arose from the desire of students to raise awareness about the situation that has been going on in the Sudan for the past four years. The project will culminate with an event in Johnson Gym on Saturday, April 21st from 47 p.m.

The official book of the Amazing Change campaign, this book both challenges and offers hope. Batstone skillfully networks together the different abolitionist efforts such as International Justice Mission and Free the Slaves, showing that this is a joint effort that needs more energy. He writes with passion and high expectations as he challenges readers to become abolitionists, a vocation that he believes still continues. This book tells stories of college students who have made successful efforts towards abolition.

During the first hour, attendees will have the opportunity walk through a pictorial history of genocide. Dr. Ali Dinar, a native of the Sudan and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, will be speaking at 5 p.m. Students have been hard at work to create a multimedia experience that will challenge you to move from being a bystander to an active participant in the fight against the injustice of genocide. There will be opportunities for prayer support and also monetary support through donations and the purchase of t-shirts. Come and be educated, informed and challenged.

For more information on the Light for Darfur Project, visit our Read this book. I challenge you to read it and to not feel a fire website at http://www.geocities.com/lightfordarfur. burn inside of you as you read of children soldiers in Uganda, -Rachel Veydt of little girls being enslaved, of women continually tricked into prostitution. My hope is that after reading "Not for Sale" N.O.R.E. you will be unwilling to except the sight of injustice without Y la Familia...Ya Tú Sabe digging past the surface. --sk This band is part of a noticeBAYSIDE able trend that has been occurring in the past couple The Walking Wounded years known as “Spanglish.” This is the basic four-man band: the Bands like N.O.R.E. singer with his guitar, another guitar(pronounced NOR-EE or ist, a bassist and a drummer. Singer Ene-O-Ere-Eh), Daddy YanAnthony Raneri has a unique enough kee and Shakira have been voice in contrast to popular music out throwing both Spanish and on the charts right now, but the band English into their songs, making their potential audience larger. doesn't stray much from the rock/pop-punk sound. Regardless, they are definite material to be popular soon. It is easy to Dedicated to Puerto Rico, the album features Fat Joe, Diddy, Ja understand and sing along to the words. The rhythm is simple Rule and many others. For the genre lovers this album is enough to rock and dance to in concert. And they actually known to be reggaeton, rap, and hip-hop. The album title translates to something like, “[N.O.R.E.] and the family…Now you have a band name that is someone easy to remember. know.” What they are trying to relate by this is that they are So, let's suppose that this band does get popular with their new going to talk about how things are in Puerto Rico. Then, in the hit “Duality?” This is a song about two personalities. It is al- end, you will understand. most like any other, “I’m frustrated with everything” song. It is very insecure lyrically: “There’s no telling what tomorrow Many of the songs have definite references to Puerto Rican holds / There’s no telling which voice takes control / Is there culture and history. In the song “Y Voy,” they speak of a Jianybody out there? / Is there anybody calling? / What if what I baro, a specific reference to the working-class man on the isthink is really wrong? / I’m not in control” Being a fan of fun land. There are also references like “Boriqua,” slang for a music when it comes to rocking out or dancing the night away Puerto Rican male or female. at a concert, this song leaves me very conflicted as I see it is It is surprising that this album was not more popular. It is a going mainstream and will be listened to mainly by young great compilation of genres, cultures and artists. Though the people. I guess like many other bands, this band’s lyrics can lyrics may not be the best, it is a good album. The artists put not be taken all too seriously. Although, the sound is great, so thought into what they were making and made conscious efhave fun with it. --jc forts to make this album very specific to Puerto Rico. --jc ANDREW BIRD Armchair Apocrypha Cliché or not, Andrew Bird has come a long way in past ten years. From his stint as violinist for hotjazz revivalists Squirrel Nut Zippers to the non-stop barrage of eclectic solo albums, the dude isn't afraid of tweaking his sound to improve it. And thankfully, the little tweaks make Armchair Apocrypha his best release.

atop one another to form structurally impressive pop songs. Tracks slap everything from gypsy swing to folk rock together, more often than not using Bird's deft lyrical imagery as glue. And from the metaphysical "Dark Matter" to the pop culture-probing "Plasticities," the album is as thoughtful as it is impossibly catchy. Armchair Apocrypha is that rare album not only provides common ground for classical musical purists and Top 40 radio listeners, but also ends up being Bird's most accessible release without sacrificing anything in the process. --jp culture. ish. is: adam parsons. kerri lyn landes. greg veltman. steph kunes. nate campbell. megan drew. julian sangster. janet chamberlain. chris klein. amanda stern. jason panella. chris carson. and you.

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