Long Thanksgiving weekend cran-cylinders
Hey, anyone thankful for Italian cinema?
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Sure, entertainment options everywhere tend to dry out around Thanksgiving, but you must hand it to Madison: We make the holiday seem eminently survivable. If you're dreading your Thursday dose of family time, a Wednesday-night campus screening of Fellini's Amarcord will remind you that embracing your sentimental side doesn't have to mean checking your adolescent horniness at the door, and that there are scarier things to have in your face than that mystery-mash of a stuffing. After that, work out all that repressed aggression with local rappers The Crest and comedian Nate Craig at the High Noon Saloon, or with John Masino's blizzard of flashy guitar licks at The Frequency.
On the day itself, there's damn near nothing going on, but it's worth show-hopping a bit on Friday to catch Natty Nation's homecoming show at the High Noon, math-metallers The Unnecessary Gunpoint Lecture at The Frequency, and power-pop group The Shabelles at Mickey's Tavern. The real antitode to Black Friday, though, is a stage adaptation of David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries, opening Friday at the Bartell Theatre.
The Puritans would've found Saturday's offerings predestined to abstraction, thanks to the noise-pop of Peaking Lights at Mickey's, the tangled guitar-pop of Grooms at the Project Lodge, a set of twisted electronic twiddling from The Cemetery Improvement Society at The Frequency, and Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros At The High Noon.
