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Pulse’s guide to arts and entertainment in the Metroplex

this weekend. If you know of a cool Arlington event, let us know at features-editor.

[email protected].

EventsLone Star International Film FestivalWhen: Today through SundayDifferent venues include: • AMC Palace 9 220 E. Third St. Fort Worth• The Modern Art Museum 3200 Darnell St. Fort Worth• Box office 201 Main St. Suite 100 Fort WorthCost: $35 for a movie six pack, $100 to all films and discussion panelsContact: Box office 817-882-8129What: The festival is showing nine films at two different ven-ues. Films include The Innkeep-ers, Thief, Five Time Champion, High Road and Rampart.

Most Awesome Extreme ChallengeWhen: 6:30 tonightWhere: University Center Blue-bonnet BallroomCost: FreeContact: 817-272-2099What: Watch your fellow stu-dents sumo wrestle and race in an inflatable obstacle course. This event is an extension of Asian Heritage Month.

Young-Hyun Cho Faculty Piano Recital When: 7:30-8:30 tonightWhere: Irons Recital HallCost: FreeContact: 817-272-3471What: Music faculty Cho will perform a recital consisting of music composed by Franz Liszt for the bicentennial of his birth.

$2 Movie — Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger TidesWhen: 5:30 p.m. Friday, 2:30 p.m. SaturdayWhere: PlanetariumCost: $2Contact: 817-272-1183What: The fourth Pirates of the

Caribbean film is about Capt. Jack Sparrow’s quest to help King George II of London find the Fountain of Youth before the Spanish find it. In this film, Penelope Cruz is introduced as Angelica, Jack’s former love in-terest.

Sigma Alpha Iota Musicale BenefitWhen:7:30-8:30 p.m. FridayWhere: Irons Recital HallCost: Any amount donationContact: 817-272-3471What: Sigma Alpha Iota is spon-soring the soloist and small en-sembles performance. All pro-ceeds will go toward the Tarrant County Food Bank.

Duo Vocal RecitalWhen: 7:30-8:30 p.m. SaturdayWhere: Irons Recital HallCost: FreeContact: 817-272-3471What: Music faculty David Gro-gan and Rebecca Choate-Bea-sley are performing the vocal recital.

Golden Age of the Baroque Trombone RecitalWhen: 7:30-8:30 p.m. SundayWhere: Irons Recital HallCost: FreeContact: 817-272-3471What: The trombone recital will be performed by music faculty Dennis Bubert, David Begnoche, guest trombonists Ken Shifrin and Mike Hall and pianist Joss Cunningham.

Kid’s Mini RideWhen: 10 a.m. - noonWhere: River Legacy Park703 Northwest Green Oaks Blvd.ArlingtonCost: FreeWhat: Bring your kids to the three-mile ride around River Legacy park. Organizer Jenni-fer Yates will bring the snacks. Don’t forget helmets and jack-ets.

Society of Professional Journalists-UTA Coffee SaleWhen: 7:30-11 a.m. MondayWhere: Outside Pickard Hall facing Mitchell StreetCost: $1 per 16 ounce cupContact: 361-548-0665What: The Society of Profes-sional Journalists-UTA student chapter is raising money for training and education work-shops for communication ma-jors.

MoviesSideways — Alexander Payne Retrospective SeriesDirected By: Alexander PayneStarring: Paul Giamatti, Thom-as Hayden Church, Sandra OhRated: RWhen: Opens todayWhere: Angelika Film Center5321 E. Mockingbird Lane, Suite 230DallasCost: $8 matinee, $10 general Plot: Miles is getting tired of being an unsuccessful novel-ist. His brother Jack is tired of being an unsuccessful actor. In this film, the two brothers decided to go on a road trip to change their luck and the path of their lives.

ImmortalsDirected By: Tarsem SinghStarring: Henry Cavill , Mickey Rourke , Freida Pinto , Stephen Dorff , Kellan LutzRated: RWhen: Opens FridayWhere: Wide ReleaseCost: Prices VaryPlot: King Hyperion, played by Mickey Rourke, takes on Greece with the Heraklion army to find the lost Bow of Epirus.

Jack and JillDirected By: Dennis DuganStarring: Adam Sandler , Katie Holmes , Al PacinoRated: PG When: Opens FridayWhere: Wide releaseCost: Prices VaryPlot: Though Jack has every-thing he has dreamed of, a good family, a good job and a beautiful house, he always dreads Thanksgiving because that means his annoying sister Jill is coming to visit.

J. EdgarDirected By: Clint Eastwood Starring: Leonard DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi WattsRated: RWhen: Opens FridayWhere: Angelika Film Center5321 E. Mockingbird Lane, Suite 230DallasCost: $8 matinee, $10 generalPlot: J. Edgar Hoover is a FBI chief who was once called the most powerful man in America. In this film, it is rumored that DiCaprio plays his most chal-lenging and Oscar-worthy role since Titanic. Take Shelter

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about things going on this weekend in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Check out this short video for details about Sigma Chi Fight Night tonight, fi lm festival Lunafest on Friday, the Theatre Arts Department’s production of The School for Scandal on Saturday and a vinyl swap on Sunday.

To see the video visit, www.theshorthorn.com/shorthornselects or use the QR code to the left.

This is week two of the contest and our contestants interdisciplinary freshman Rolf Acklin, business sophomore Patrick Griffi n and computer science freshman Marvin Morales, already have some stubble. Stay tuned to see how big their beards are next week!

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GET ALONGArtist: Tegan and SaraLabel: Sire/Warner Music and Vapor RecordsGenre: Indie-folkRelease Date: TuesdayRating: 3 out of 5 stars

See why we gave Get Along three out of fi ve stars. This live album seems like it’s just for fans, not for newbies. Visit www.theshorthorn.com/entertainment or use the QR code above to hear a sample of the music.

Rolf Acklin, interdisciplinary freshman

Marvin Morales, computer science freshman

Patrick Griffin, business economics junior

BY T.J. GRIFFINThe Shorthorn staff

Kim Kardashian’s 72-day marriage sham is the kind of red meat gossip col-umns and tabloid rags dream of. It’ll keep the rumor mill running, people talking, the Internet buzzing and the paparazzi busy for days.

It’s reality-show drama with limelight hungry celebrities like the Kardashians that inspired Natalie Gaupp, director and the-ater arts senior lecturer, to place her The School for Scandal characters in contempo-rary Los Angeles.

The Richard Brinsley Sheridan play, which opens Friday, focuses around the drama, gossip and celebrity of three couples in 1777 London. And although the play may seem dated, the issues facing the charac-ters have easily carried over into the 21st century.

Gaupp said the play is considered a comedy of manner, which was popular at the time.

“There was a lot of ob-session with celebrity, sta-tus and fashion, gossip and scandal,” Gaupp said of 18th century London. “All of the things we kind of see in reality TV today, and news articles and tabloids spread over the Internet.”

Gaupp said The School for Scandal focuses on three couples with their own flaws. One couple is Sir Peter Teazle, played by theater arts senior Jackie Pickard, and Lady Teazle, played by theater arts senior Leslie Jones.

Pickard described the couple as some-thing straight out of Hollywood.

“There’s a line, ‘She dissipates my for-tune and contradicts my humors,’” Pickard said. “She spends of all his money and isn’t even nice to him, but she’s his pretty, young trophy wife. He’s the old rich man, and she’s his young hot wife.”

Because the play is set in L.A., Pickard and Jones both said the most difficult act-ing in the play is dressing modern fashion, but at the same time using the original 18th century language.

“We’ve adjusted everything but the lines,” Pickard said. “We’re keeping the text completely intact from the old-restoration style, which is really interesting because you have the penthouse apartment look for L.A. and everyone is dressed like that, but

we’re using the old language.”“It is very hard not to get stuck in the

old school style of acting,” Jones said about acting in a contemporary setting where the language doesn’t match. “Because we’ve had so many acting classes where we’ve done plays just like this for monologues, and we’ve been taught to do them in a

certain way, stand a certain way and deliver a certain way.”

Gaupp said looking at The School for Scandal through 21st-century eyes will help students under-stand the play better than with an 18th century-style set. She hopes the setting in a contemporary era will demystify the academic feel of a play written in 1777.

“Oftentimes when we’re studying plays at the uni-versity level, everything is very serious and academic,” Gaupp said. “We look at plays from a different era, and we think of them as very hard to get into some-times. But School for Scan-

dal has struck me as something that is very much like the obsession with gossip and scandal, the obsession with fashion and de-sign and all the plastic parts of our culture.”

And though she describes the play as “very, very in-your-face comedy,” there is a lesson to be learned. Perhaps a lesson that even the soon-to-be-divorced Kardashian could take a note from.

“The play in the end makes the point that all of the obsession with gossip and scandal only causes the demise of the human character, the demise of relation-ships,” Gaupp said. “But the play as a whole, though, leaves us with a serious thought. It makes the point that even though it’s a serious lesson, the play definitely is pure comedy.”

T.J. [email protected]

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Scandal takes center stageThe School for Scandal gets updated with a contemporary LA setting

The School for Scandal* When: 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday, Nov. 17, 18 and 19; 2:30 p.m. Nov. 20Where: Mainstage Theatre

*Pulse tip: Ticket prices are $10 for general public and $7 for students, faculty, staff and seniors.

The Shorthorn: Sandy Kurtzman

Joseph, played by theatre arts junior Gabriel Beiseigel, gropes Lady Sneerwell, played by theater arts se-nior Bethany Ham, during the dress rehearsal performance of The School for Scandal on Tuesday in the Fine Arts Building.

“There was a lot of obsession with

celebrity, status and fashion, gossip and scandal. All of the

things we kind of see in reality TV today, and news articles

and tabloids spread over the Internet.”

Natalie Gaupp,director and theater arts

senior lecturer

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The psychology sopho-more won’t just be fighting for himself, he’ll be fighting for a friend.

“I have a lot more drive to win than a lot of people competing,” he said. “It’s not about me trying to show how tough I am. It’s a fight for a special cause; to fight for my friend and honor his life.”

Lamas’ friend, fresh-man Grant Goodwin, died in September after a mo-torcycle accident. Lamas said Goodwin was a fan of mixed-martial arts fighting and would have supported the philanthropy involved with Fight Night.

Lamas said he works out regularly, doing lifting exercises, cardio, bag work and sparring.

“When my friend died is really when I started to kick it up a notch,” he said.

Computer engineering senior Jeff Williams, who fought last year, trained Lamas and the other fight-ers from the fraternity. He said Lamas’ height will give him an advantage.

“His arms are longer, so if he plays out, he will defi-nitely have the advantage,” Williams said. “His oppo-nent will be lunging at him the whole match and it will mess up his blocking.”

Williams said the length of the rounds means fight-ers aren’t given much of a chance to strategize.

“You don’t have time to plan like a chess match,” he said. “It’s a slug fest. You’re trying to get a knock-out. With [Lamas’] style against this guy, I think it’ll come down to points. I haven’t gotten a big hit from him since we’ve been sparring, but I know he can win with points for sure.”

Lamas said this will be his first time stepping into the ring, but he’s more ex-cited than nervous.

“When I get up there, it will be chaotic with so much going on around me,” he said. “It’s that moment that I’ve been building up for. Once I finally get to that point, it will give me peace of mind.”

The kinesiology se-nior has a little more on the line than the other fighters from his frater-nity because he is the president of Sigma Chi.

“It’s one of the pre-mier fights of the night,” he said. “Our fraternity against their fraternity to see who’s the better fraternity in a fight. You can’t lose for your own event. I don’t want to let down my fraternity. It gives me a mental edge.”

Abney trained with the other fighters from Sigma Chi to prepare for the event. Abney said he had little fighting expe-rience before the train-ing.

“I‘ve recently been training and learning to fight a little more prop-erly,” he said. “I’m not going in there like it’s a street fight. Being flex-ible and having enough energy to last is pretty important.”

Abney said he’s re-lying on his strength and power in the fight against Lamas.

“I know Lamas has more endurance than I do, he’s a runner,” Abney said. “But I feel, with the power I have, with the techniques I’ve learned, I’ll be able to last the rounds. It’s a matter of who can stay up longer.”

Sigma Chi member Jevon Powers said he thinks Abney has what it takes to knock out Lamas.

“Johnny is a compact dude, he’s a heavy hit-ter,” he said. “He’s not the fastest dude, but he can take the punish-ment. He has the knock-out power.”

Abney said his goal is to finish the fight before all three rounds are over.

“Getting knocked out and everybody sees you go down, that’s not what I’m going for,” he said. “It’s my goal to end the fight before the fight times itself out. Not win the fight by decision, but win by knock out.”

Smackdown for charityWhile stepping into the boxing ring

at Sigma Chi’s Fight Night, contend-ers will have one goal — knock the other guy out while trying to stay conscious.

Eight fraternities will send 26 fighters into the ring for a chance to win the 24th annual Sigma Chi Fight Night. The event is tonight at Cow-boys Dancehall, and all ticket pro-ceeds will go to the Arlington Boys and Girls Club.

Marketing senior Ryan Hicks said the event has raised $133,000 during

the last 23 years, and is not only at-tended by UTA students, but also by students from other local universities.

“There’s great participation from the Greek community,” he said. “It’s much bigger than one organization, and even one campus. It’s becoming a staple of the school.”

There will be 13 matches with three one-minute rounds per match. The organization that wins the most matches takes home the champion-ship belt.

Fight Night coordinator Jevon

Powers said the biggest fight of the night will be between Johnny Abney from Sigma Chi and David Lamas from Sigma Phi Epsilon.

“That’s going to be the main event,” the business management junior said. “Both fighters are coming from fra-ternities, and they are people that everyone in Greek Life knows. The crowd will be more in tune because they know both the fighters. It’s the last fight of the night.”

— Allen Baldwin

JEFF HAZELRIGS, 155 POUNDS

COREY MARSHALL, 252 POUNDS

DUSTIN LORANCE, 173 POUNDS

CHRIS DEAN, 158 POUNDS

TAYLOR JEZEK, 203 POUNDS

PARKER CONNALLY, 170 POUNDS

SCOTT NYE, 162 POUNDS

AUSTIN CROUCH, 165 POUNDS

CHRIS MOSIER, 245 POUNDS

RAMAHD ALMOND, 162 POUNDS

ALEX MORALES, 165 POUNDS

STEVEN EULER, 224 POUNDS

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JAMES EARL, 177 POUNDS

JULIO RODRIGUEZ, 195 POUNDS

MACK WHITE, 187 POUNDS

BRADLEY DONALDSON, 186 POUNDS

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JOEL PALACIOS, 148 POUNDS

JEREMY ROSALES, 148 POUNDS

NICHOLAS PASCUAL, 233 POUNDS

JULIEN YACHO, 148 POUNDS

NELSON GONZALEZ, 281 POUNDS

JAMES YATES, 154 POUNDS

ULISES ROSAS, 144 POUNDS

SERGIO REYES, 235 POUNDS

ALBERTO PEREZ, 154 POUNDS

RANDY SALINAS, 280 POUNDS

VS. VS.VS. VS. VS.

Sigma Chi Fight Night mixes together philanthropy and entertainment

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24TH ANNUAL SIGMA CHI FIGHT NIGHTWhen: Tonight, doors open at 6 p.m.Where: Cowboys Dancehall 2540 E. Abram St., ArlingtonCost: $12 pre-order, $15 at the doorAge: 18+

In this corner... In this corner...


BY T.J. GRIFFINThe Shorthorn staff

Esoterica Studios in Fort Worth’s up-and-coming West Seventh Street district is more than just a hair salon.

The 15 stylist stations with floor-to-ceiling mirrors are nothing differ-ent, but the scene changes walking past them. Next to the white sinks is a large disc jockey booth with a fiber-optic light installation directly above that illuminates and moves to the rhythm of thumping beats. Past that is a full-service bar with retro white and chrome bar stools inviting clients for a cocktail.

This SoHo-like sa-lounge, as dubbed by regulars, is a place for more than just styling hair. It’s a place for artists of all types. And it’s where history junior Lindsey An-derson will perform her original hip-hop music for the first time to a live audience on Saturday.

Anderson is performing the set as part of Esoterica stylist Lindsey McCullough’s hair show. Friends for more than 10 years, Anderson and McCullough said they discussed working together before, but the timing was too perfect to pass up this time.

“It’s just time,” Anderson said. “It’s time for me. It’s time for her. I’ve been talking about doing a show for a long time.”

Esoterica Studios owner Ale Bo-nilla said the show is McCullough’s opportunity to promote and market herself, and start off with a bang.

“It’s going to be basically every-thing she’s learned in the last six months, live in person,” Bonilla said. “We do a lot of training here. We put education first. For us, hair is more like a culture. It’s a lifestyle. We incorporate hair, and then there’s music and fashion and shows.”

Saturday’s event marks the end of McCullough’s 90-day boot camp period at Esoterica. The show is her rite of passage into a full-time posi-tion, and she wanted Anderson to be a part of it.

“She’s my best friend, and I want

to share this with her,” McCullough said. “She’s never performed live, and I just think it would be completely appropriate. The launch party is a ghetto fab-chic theme, and that’s why I had to get Lindsey on this.”

Anderson said she’s been writing material for more than four years leading up to Saturday’s show. With countless notebooks of lyrics, she said she takes inspiration for her raps from females in her life.

“I’m a strong female, and I come from a long line of strong females,” she said. “Queen Latifah, for exam-ple, is a big inspiration. Nina Simone — she’s probably my favorite musi-cian of all time. She had so much to say in a time where black women were not listened to. And she said it through music, and people listened to it. They can dance to it and get something from it. That’s inspira-tional to me.”

Pausing to stir up her cocktail of Hypnotic and Hennessy, she added she doesn’t rap about tired material

Call her Linlin the TerroristEsoterica salon features history

junior Lindsey Anderson’s hip-hop rhymes on Saturday

The Shorthorn: Casey Holder

Hairstylist Lindsey McCullogh, left, and her childhood friend, history senior Lindsey Anderson, right, will both display their talents 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Saturday at Esoterica salon in Fort Worth. The event marks the end of McCullough’s 90-day boot camp period at Esoterica and will be Anderson’s first live performance.

Linsanity: A Launch Party and Hip-Hop Show

When: 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. SaturdayWhere: Esoterica Studios941 Foch St.Fort WorthCost: Free

To hear some of ‘Linlin the Terroist’s’ songs go to www.thshorthorn.com/enertainment or use the QR code above.

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BY ALLEN BALDWINThe Shorthorn staff

The Environmental Society planted crops this spring at the newly-created UTA Community Garden. Now they’d like to share the benefits of their harvest with the community.

The society will hold the Au-tumn Harvest Festival at 1 p.m. Saturday at the garden.

The festival will feature an open mic, local art and the harvesting of some of the food planted in the garden.

“We wanted to have some-thing fun to get the community together,” interdisciplinary stud-ies junior Ann Mai said. “Envi-ronmental Society meetings are too serious. Something that’s re-ally important in environmental activism is getting people and forming community.”

The society planted food when the garden was created in March.

“We wanted to focus on food items as opposed to flowers,” philosophy junior Faith Socall said. “We feel that it’s sustainable to grow your own food. If we can work locally to grow more food and rely less on food from other places, that would be a big step.”

Socall said the club will har-vest the lettuce, cabbage and radishes currently planted in the ground. Interdisciplinary studies

senior Chowgene Koay said he plans to make a salad out of what the club harvests.

“Food tends to bring peo-ple together,” he said. “Think of every holiday or event, and there’s food. Christmas, Thanks-giving, Fourth of July — there’s usually food there. It brings peo-ple together for good reason. We all need food.”

The society will also plant more crops. Koay said he will bring seeds for common fall crops including broccoli, Brus-sels sprouts, spinach and tur-nips.

Mikael Hiestand, environ-mental and earth science junior, worked on finding musicians and artists for the festival.

“I went to open mic nights at America’s Best Coffee and Health and Harmony House and

got people’s numbers,” he said. “If I see some artists around campus, I tell them about the event.”

Hiestand said the event is open to anybody who wants to play music or read poetry.

Koay said the purpose of the garden was to create a commu-nity among the gardeners.

“If you just have your own garden, you can garden whatever you want,” he said. “The point of a community garden is to do it together. The community garden can be a place where we can get Arlington to start growing all of its food. Once you learn how to garden and teach others how to garden, you set an example for rest of gardeners there.”

ALLEN [email protected]

Growing an AudienceEnvironmental Society hosts Autumn Harvest Festival on

Saturday

Autumn Harvest Festival

Where: UTA’s Community Garden, corner of UTA Boulevard and Summit AvenueWhen: 1-5 p.m. SaturdayCost: Free

The Shorthorn: Richard Hoang

Marigolds bloom Tuesday in the UTA Community Garden. The Environmental Society will host the Autumn Harvest Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m., which will feature an open mic, works from local artists and food harvested from the Community Garden.

typical of mainstream hip-hop art-ists. Forget the bling and cars. She digs deeper.

“Am I going to talk about what kind of flashy car I have when I’m driving a Honda Accord?” she said sarcastically. “No. I’m not driving a Bugatti. I try to stay as true as pos-sible. So my inspiration is just the people around me. My mom, my grandmother and those in hip-hop that have come before me.”

Reflecting on her music, Ander-son, or Linlin the Terrorist, her stage name, said she’s noticed a progres-sion in her music. For her, it’s a match-up of Lindsey vs. her stage persona.

“Rap is about being a linguistic queen. A linguistic king. You have to master words,” she said. “That sounds silly, but you give yourself a challenge and throw yourself into this word battle. How can I mix this up and make it better than someone else? Or make it better than anything that’s ever happened? And so when you mix stuff up like that and you realize it’s more of a linguistic battle against yourself, challenging yourself — I’ve progressed so much just realizing that. These are words. How can we twist and relate them back to some-thing that is seemingly unrelated but is very topical and relevant?”

However, Anderson said her coursework comes first. Even in her studies, she’s finding ways to relate it back to her passion.

“It’s put me in my zone more so than usual,” she said. “This is the time in the semester for crunch down. I’m in a historical research class, so I’m doing really, really in-tense independent research. History is where my heart is, it’s where I get a lot of my material.”

Anderson has moved from the lounge by the bar and is now in Mc-Cullough’s chair. She’s ready to get her hair styled. Today, she’s getting it a bit darker brunette and adding a platinum blonde tip. While Mc-Cullough begins to paint the color on, they begin to banter back and forth. It’s evident these two Lind-seys, both artists in their own right, are best friends. Their minds move together. They think alike. “This is what I’ve been working on, this is our material,” Anderson said. “This is what I wanna do with a passion and we’re doing it at the same time, which I think is more powerful and makes it more moving.”

T.J. [email protected]

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BY LINDSEY JUAREZ The Shorthorn staff

A young woman walks out of a coffee shop, a cup clinched in one hand and keys in the other, about to proceed with her normal day. Suddenly, she stops in her tracks at the sight of a thin, blonde policewoman sitting outside talking with another officer. The young woman with the coffee cup recom-poses herself and walks casually to her car, glancing at the policewoman occasionally. She gets in her car, turns on the ignition and pulls on her sunglasses. She has just one intention: get the attention of the po-licewoman. So, she pulls out of the parking space and floors it.

This scene sets up the story for Pursuit, a short film made by film and video graduate student Patty Newton. The film will play Fri-day with nine others at Lunafest, a traveling film festival with short features for women.

Lunafest was established in 2000 by Luna, the makers of the Luna Bar, as a way to show the work of female filmmakers. Desiree Hen-derson, Women’s and Gender Studies program interim director, said Lunafest’s mission is a great thing to bring to campus.

“While women are becoming increasingly successful in the film industry, they remain less recognized overall than male filmmakers,” she said.

Henderson invited a student filmmaker to show her short feature. Newton’s film, which is not a part of Lunafest, will premiere for a public audience the night of the film festival.

“I’m really excited to have a UTA student

filmmaker have the opportunity to show her film to a wide audience of people who care about women’s issues and care about film,” Henderson said. “It’s a great coincidence and a great alignment of values that I’m excited about.”

Newton has worked professionally in the film industry doing TV projects such as NBC’s Crossing Jordan. She said she thought of the

idea behind Pursuit from her own experience with a policewoman on a motorcycle.

When Newton went to a coffee shop on her way to work, the parking spot she wanted was taken by the policewoman. Newton found another parking spot and walked to the coffee shop. The same policewoman was standing at the door holding it open for her.

“I thought if I was single and not on my

way to work, I might break some laws to spend some more time with this woman,” Newton said. “So, I went home that night and wrote the script.”

Canadian filmmaker Andrea Dorfman is showing her film How to be Alone at Lunafest. This is her first time participating at Lunafest, and one thing she likes is the money it raises for charities. The proceeds will benefit the Breast Cancer Fund and the Women’s and Gender Studies program.

“What a great idea to go all over North America and help other people support local charities. I think it was just such a great brainchild,” Dorfman said.

Newton said Lunafest allows people to see a story told from a woman’s perspective and it’s important to watch films from both men’s and women’s voices.

“It’s important for everybody to see films by men and by women to be able to hear each other’s stories and to understand each other’s mind frame,” she said. “I think the whole ‘men are from Mars, women are from Venus’ doesn’t have to exist if we participate in each other’s lives.”

LINDSEY [email protected]


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Leading ladies

Women represent at traveling film festival

Lunafest When: 7 p.m. FridayWhere: Lone Star AuditoriumPrice: Student discount tickets for $5 can be purchased in advance at www.lunafest.org/arlington. Tickets at the door are $10, cash only.

Films:• Every Mother Counts: Obstetric Fistula by

Christy Turlington Burns• I am a Girl! by Susan Koenen• Life Model by Lori Petchers• A Reluctant Bride by Shideh Faramand• Worst Enemy by Lake Bell• How To Be Alone by Andrea Dorfman• Lady Razorbacks by Laura Green • Missed Connections by Mary Robertson• The Wind is Blowing on My Street by Saba Riazi

The Shorthorn: Casey Holder

Film and video graduate student Patty Newton poses in her office in the Fine Arts Building. Newton’s short film Pursuit will be shown in addition to the Lunafest film festival at 7 p.m. on Friday in the Lonestar Auditorium.

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