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SUMMARY:RRR at Marcus Point Cinema
DESCRIPTION:Rama Raju (Ram Charan) and Komaram Bheem (NTR Jr.) smile while in the midst of a choreographed dance move. \nNo prior knowledge of Indian historical figures Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem is necessary to appreciate as S.S. Rajamouli’s bombastic action film RRR (2022). This three-hour epic reimagines the two real life anti-Raj activists Bheem (N.T. Rama Rao Jr.\, often referred to as NTR Jr.) and Rama Raju (Ram Charan) as near-superhuman strongmen\, an analogue to Goku and Vegeta for 1920s India. It’s returning to theaters for just shy of a week\, on the strength of an Oscar nomination for best song and Rajamouli’s hobnobbing with the likes of James Cameron and Steven Spielberg since the film’s initial release last year. \nRajamouli’s infectious enthusiasm for over-the-top action set pieces have led to RRR becoming a crossover hit with audiences who aren’t usually tuned in to Indian cinema\, both in America and worldwide. (Of course\, having the highest production budget of any Indian film to date surely has something to do with it.) \nThe plot in brief: Bheem hopes to rescue a kidnapped child from cartoonishly evil British Colonialists. Rama Raju works for the British police. Both go undercover\, and the men become best friends without ever realizing each other’s true identity. Tension dramatically comes to head after the requisite dance number. \nRajamouli is clearly having a blast staging CGI-heavy action. Among 2022 action movies\, only Top Gun: Maverick‘s plane scenes come anywhere close to RRR’s level of excitement\, and the Indian production didn’t have to utilize taxpayer-funded fighter jets to do it. (That is not to say RRR doesn’t have its own problematic implications.) But at the end of the day\, it’s a giant spectacle that highlights the strengths of the theatrical experience. So please take the chance to see this film big and loud. \n—Lewis Peterson \n \nThis preview was slightly modified and republished from last September for this special re-release event.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/rrr-at-marcus-point-cinema/
LOCATION:Marcus Point Cinema\, 7825 Big Sky Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53719\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Monsters Of Poetry: Erika Meitner\, Paul Tran\, Nate Marshall\, and Matthew Guenette at Genna's Lounge
DESCRIPTION:At what cost are we alive? Erika Meitner\, Paul Tran\, Nate Marshall\, and Matthew Guenette grapple with this question in their poetry. As they take the Monsters of Poetry stage\, expect to hear their testaments of survival\, grit\, and endurance through the lyric.  \nThree of the four are faculty of the English Department at UW-Madison. Meitner joined last fall as a professor and the director of the MFA program. In her latest book Useful Junk\, published by BOA Editions in April 2022\, she writes about desire and the body—the liminal and the physical—through documentary poetry. She writes a liturgy for the masses: “we who collect regular explanations of benefits / we who worry about food security.” \nTran is an Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies. Their debut poetry collection All The Flowers Kneeling\, published by Penguin Random House in February 2022\, explores American imperialism and intergenerational trauma. In “Orchard Of Knowing\,” Tran writes\, “All of them point at me / as the kill to complete your mission.” Through history and the lyric\, they unflinchingly challenge how we see liberation and control. \nIn his 2020 book Finna\, Nate Marshall\, also an English professor at UW\, writes about survival: “imagine this\, a man / made donut\, chest open\, / hollow\, everything poured / out\, available\, nowhere.” Amidst his painful reckoning with his lineage and the ruptures violence has caused\, Marshall imagines a future of hope. \nMatthew Guenette teaches English at Madison College. In his book Doom Scroll\, which will be released this year from the University of Akron Press\, he talks about the anxiety of living today. He describes the lockdown\, the political state of our world\, and “a field of dandelions to break me in half” all within the same stanza. This existential plea encapsulates the experience of living through the pandemic and its aftermath. \nAll of these poets do not leave us with clean-cut answers as we go through the questions of life. But as we read their work and listen to their poems\, we know that we are not alone in the fight to remain here. The lyric testifies to this. \n—Hannah Keziah Agustin
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/monsters-of-poetry-erika-meitner-paul-tran-nate-marshall-and-matthew-guenette-at-gennas-lounge/
LOCATION:Genna’s Lounge\, 105 West Main Street\, Madison\, WI\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Matt Ulery Nonet at Café Coda
DESCRIPTION:Matt Ulery’s Mannerist 11 performs at Constellation Chicago in September 2021 as part of the Ear Taxi Festival. \nLast I caught up with Chicago bassist and composer Matt Ulery in the late 2010s\, his Woolgathering Records label had begun to take off as a platform to spotlight not only his own prolificacy and ever-evolving projects but also the endeavors of his colleagues Russ Johnson\, Tim Haldeman\, and Leslie Beukelman. \nAfter a memorable set at Arts + Literature Laboratory with trio Triptych back in spring of 2018\, Ulery has been both figuratively and literally expanding his repertoire in a myriad of configurations that include a string sextet (Become Giant) and special orchestra with more than 20 members (Sifting Stars). \nFor this BlueStem Jazz-presented show\, a regional collaboration between Ulery’s core rhythm section (pianist Paul Bedal and drummer Jon Deitemyer)\, plus six other Midwestern-based woodwind and brass players (Dave Cooper\, Allen Cordingley\, Hunter Diamond\, Tom Gullion\, Chad McCullough\, and Ryan Shultz)\, the collective nonet will be performing pieces at Café Coda from the upcoming Mannerist record. Like all the sweeping\, swooning chamber jazz Ulery has been making for more than a decade\, the music here\, as conceived for this larger ensemble\, captures Ulery’s predilection for duality—resonantly vast in sonic palette\, but delicately intimate in scope. The slower tempi of his precise songcraft tend to build with silken elegance\, stirring romantic pangs for slow-waltzing in an ethereal ballroom. \n“The Brink Of What\,” one of Mannerist‘s absolute standouts\, at first feels like a quietly pensive nocturne\, but then quickly hits with the force of overwhelming emotion and instrumental interplay—the richness of its polarity forged from the same aura as the tortuously gorgeous\, subtly dissonant horn and woodwind arrangements on These New Puritans’ best record\, Field Of Reeds (if artsy post-rock is your kinda thing). As with several other compositions on Mannerist\, like “Another Book Of Ornaments\,” Ulery harnesses his best impulses in steadily reaching for a transcendent\, ineffable intensity through sound dynamics\, while at once trying to pierce the veil of universal human yearning. \n—Grant Phipps \n \nThis event preview was updated on March 1 to reflect a change in the nonet’s lineup.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/matt-ulery-nonet-at-cafe-coda/
LOCATION:Café Coda\, 1224 Williamson St\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Proud Parents\, Scrunchies\, Graham Hunt\, Jane Hobson at Crystal Corner Bar
DESCRIPTION:A few dozen bands played the Dirtnap Records Super Show Extravaganza at the High Noon in June 2022\, Madison’s biggest punk show of recent memory. One of the newer acts that played the two-day event was Minneapolis’ Scrunchies (pictured above)\, an indie-punk trio who will be making their return to Madison on March 4 at the Crystal Corner Bar. Proud Parents\, Graham Hunt\, and Jane Hobson will play as the night’s local support. Each of those three local acts has left an impression on Tone Madison‘s coverage over the past few years\, with each claiming well-deserved spots in our year-end coverage of Madison music. \n\nHobson’s solo project has steadily evolved since debuting but hit a new high with 2022’s crushingly beautiful\, bittersweet single “If You Ask.” Historically\, Hobson’s recorded output has flittered between quiet\, introspective folk and something more aggressive and sinister. Recent footage of Hobson playing live demonstrates that her band’s live show gains some punch when the gloves come off. (This video of Hobson covering The Cranberries’ “Zombie” at Mickey’s neatly encapsulates that willingness to lean into brute force.) Softness isn’t entirely absent in Hobson’s live show\, though\, and does still elevate the material. At Crystal Corner\, it’ll also provide some balance amid an inordinately high-energy slate of indie-punk bands. \n\nArtistic restlessness has driven Graham Hunt’s work for over a decade. From Midnight Reruns to Sundial Mottos\, Midwives\, The Reptile Fund\, and everything in between\, Hunt’s been a consistent force in Wisconsin’s punk community—which remained true even after a brief relocation to Chicago. Three records into a solo career (2019’s Leaving Silver City\, 2021’s Painting Over Mold\, 2022’s If You Knew Would You Believe It) that’s shown virtually no signs of slowing\, Hunt’s consistently proven to be a versatile artist who excels in attention to detail. Each of Hunt’s records is stylistically distinct\, yet couldn’t have come from anyone else. Live\, Hunt’s band—a rotating cast of musicians that includes members of Disq\, Cult Of Lip\, Sat. Nite Duets\, and more—is a powder keg of volatility and exacting precision. Whenever Hunt’s name is on a bill\, it’s a non-negotiable\, can’t-miss occasion. \n\nSimilarly unmissable are Proud Parents\, who have been consistently invigorating Madison audiences with their distinct brand of sugar-rush indie-punk/power-pop catharsis since the mid-2010s. Everyone interested in attending this one should know what to expect from the jittery quartet by now\, and subsequently know how infectious their unfettered joyfulness has always proven. Scrunchies are likely to be the biggest question mark to most of the audience\, but as they ably demonstrated last year\, they are a wrecking ball of a live act. Heavy\, melodic\, discordant\, and unapologetically punchy\, they are perfectly suited to the Crystal Corner Bar’s punk-leaning aesthetics. \n\nAll four of the bands on this bill are worth seeing on their own\, but packaged together make up an incredibly enticing prospect. If you haven’t been to the Crystal since they started hosting live music again—or haven’t been at all—there may not be a better occasion to finally take foot inside.  \n—Steven Spoerl
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/proud-parents-scrunchies-graham-hunt-jane-hobson-at-crystal-corner-bar/
LOCATION:Crystal Corner Bar\, 1302 Williamson St\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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