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hursday, September 29,2011
Arts & Life
Page 3
Jesse Sidlauskas, Arts & Life Editor
N rDailyArtsLife@gmail.com
Shimmies, seduction and
sparkles steal the spotlight
Sharon Lynn
Contributing Writer
The lights are low Friday night
at Denton's Simone Lounge as
Onyx Fury slinks onto the stage
clad in a lacy pink and black two -
piece with a matching mask. After
much anticipation, the burlesque
Soul Show heats up. When the
Soul Show was scheduled to
begin, a mere eight customers
were at the bar. Fifty-three
minutes later, about 50 burlesque
enthusiasts have crowded into
the packed bar, and the show is
finally ready to kick off.
The Soul Show, held Sept. 23
at the Simone Lounge in Denton,
is one of many burlesque shows
that Honey Cocoa Bordeauxx
puts on. Bordeauxx is a burlesque
dancer and teaches the dance in
Denton and Flower Mound. The
Soul Show showcased a variety
of talents: burlesque solos and
group acts, a belly dancer and
even a banjo player.
Many are not familiar with
the Denton burlesque scene.
Bordeauxx said a good burlesque
dancer makes a patron feel as
though he or she is the only one
in the room.
She admits that when she tells
people she does burlesque, most
people are not sure what it is.
"They normally pretend like
they know what it is, and then
later on, they'll be like, 'So... You
take off your clothes?"' she said,
laughing. "It's not like a strip
club."
With an arsenal of burlesque
awards under her belt, Bordeauxx
is no stranger to the spotlight.
She won "Most Classic" at the
Southern-Fried Burlesque March
this year in Atlanta and was in
the top five this May for Plot Rods
and Heels 2011 Texas Performer
of the Year.
Bordeauxx, 25, graduated
from Texas Woman's University
in 2009, earning her bachelor's
degree in sociology. She works full
time putting together burlesque
shows and teaching burlesque
aerobics classes. Performing, to
her, is a creative outlet to express
herself and live out fantasies.
She said she strives to preserve
the art and history of burlesque
by sharing the dance in perfor-
mances and in her classes.
The shows also give the
performers an opportunity to
have fun with their dance, try
new things and interact with the
crowd.
Burlesque dancer Frostine Shake performs at the Simone Lounge in Denton.
"They normally pretend like
they know what it is, and then
later on, they'll be like, So...
You take off your clothes?"
-Cocoa Bordeauxx
Burlesque dancer
Onyx Fury 25, the only male
performer at the show, does
the dance style known as "boy-
lesque." For this show, he said
he had to re-think the way he
normally dances. "I'm such a
fast-paced dancer, so for this
show, I had to slow everything
down," Fury explained. The Soul
Show gave him the opportunity
to experiment with a new dance
style, he said.
David Jared, 23, a UNT grad-
uate student working on his
teaching certification, has been
to a few of their shows.
"You could tell some of the
guys were a little tense at first to
see a guy dancer," Jared said. But
after a while, he said guys in the
crowd loosened up and seemed
OK with it because "he really is
one of best dancers [he'd] seen
at any of the shows."
His popularity was made clear
by the overwhelming cheers of
the crowd every time he took the
stage. He has only been dancing
Photo courtesy of Sharon Lynn
for a year and four months,
with no previous dance expe-
rience, and he has dedicated a
great deal of his time to prac-
ticing to hone his talent.
"My right a- cheekis Pinky,
my left a- cheekis Brain, and
we're about to take over the
world," Fury said.
If you're interested in
finding out what burlesque
is like firsthand, you can catch
the Black Magic Burlesque
show at 10 p.m. Oct. 22. The
Simone Lounge is at 222
W. Hickory St. just off the
Square.
For those who are feeling
a little more adventurous,
try Honey Cocoa's Burlesque
Aerobics classes held at 7
p.m. Monday nights at the
Green Space Arts Collective
in Denton for $15 a class. For
more information, visit www.
thehoneycocoa.com.
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Neighborhoods/Blink-182
conic punk band
roars back to life
North Texas Daily
Review
Daisy Silos
Staff Writer
Album
It's been eight long years
since Blink-182 released its last
album and during that time the
band has broken up. Some of
the members started new bands
and drummer Travis Barker was
in a plane crash that took the
life of close friend DJ AM. With
all that in mind, the men went
through more than enough to
sing about in their latest album,
"Neighborhoods."
Blink-182 is made up of
lead singer and guitarist
Tom DeLonge, bass guitarist
Mark Hoppus and drummer
Barker.
The album starts off with
"Ghost On The Dance Floor."
The song is about DJ AM and
is a gloomy yet heartfelt tune.
Hoppus leads the track with his
catchy guitar riffs introducing
DeLonge's soulful voice. Lyrics
like "I saw your ghost tonight/
I know it felt so real/Your eyes
they write on mine / The music
starts to heal," prove that their
time spent apart helped the
band do some growing up.
Their first single, "Up All
Night," sounds a little more like
DeLonge's other band, Angels
& Airwaves, than Blink-182.
It's a good song, but for the
first single, they should've gone
with "Heart's All Gone," the
second single on the album.
"Heart's All Gone" shines the
light on Hoppus and Barker's
amazing skills. It starts off with
a small drum solo by Barker,
which gives it an upbeat tempo
before it segways to Hoppus'
edgy voice, making this song
one you can belt out at the top
of your lungs and really rock
out to.
Concert
The album that was released
Tuesday was just the begin-
ning for Blink-182 fans in
Dallas. Later that day, the band
members celebrated the release
of their album headlining the
Honda Civic Tour with Matt
& Kim and My Chemical
Romance at the Gexa Energy
Pavilion.
"Get ready for action!" Those
were the words that kicked
off the show Tuesday night
opening with their 2003 hit
"Feeling This," a perfect fit to
get the crowd pumped. The
arena was packed with fans
filling the lawn section from
top to bottom, leaving only
enough room for fans to pump
their fists in the air.
To celebrate the release of
their sixth album, the guys
played four of their new songs
that included their first two
singles and "After Midnight,"
but it was their greatest hits
that had fans singing along.
The guys goofed around
introducing songs like "Always,"
by saying it was about vagina
and played fan favorites like
"Rock Show" and "I Miss
You."
The show closed out with
a big confetti explosion to
"Damnit" that followed Barker's
impressive drum solo, which
was delivered from a stage held
up by crowd members as he
drifted over the mosh pit with
his drum set.
The show was filled with
strobe lights and colorful back-
grounds all through the night.
It just goes to show that some
time apart isn't always that
bad.
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Students accused o SA' ' scam
Geraldine Baum
(MCT)
NEW YORK - A 19-year-old
college student was arrested
and charged Tuesday with
taking college entrance exams
for six Long Island high school
students in exchange for
payments of up to $2,500.
Sam Eshaghoff, a 2010 grad-
uate of Great Neck North High
School and second-year student
at Emory University in Atlanta,
faces charges for scheming to
defraud and criminal imper-
sonation that carry a sentence
of up to four years in jail.
The six current students at
Great Neck North were arrested
on misdemeanor charges.
Eshaghoff, who prosecutors
say used the money he raised
as a test taker to pay for a gym
membership, was led in hand-
cuffs Tuesday afternoon into a
Long Island courtroom, where
he pleaded not guilty and was
held on $1,000 bond or $500
bail.
His mother left court without
commenting. The six high
school students, whose names
were being withheld because
of their ages, were arraigned
in a closed courtoom Tuesday,
leaving without comment
and with coats draped over
their heads, according to The
Associated Press.
Nassau County District
Attorney Kathleen Rice said
in a statement that teachers at
Great Neck North, considered
one of the best schools in the
U.S., had heard rumors earlier
this year that someone using
fraudulent identification was
taking the SAT for students.
Adminstrators reviewed
records of Great Neck North
students who had taken the
SAT at other schools, where
proctors wouldn't know them.
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discrepancies between the SAT
scores and the academic perfor-
mance of the six students who
have been charged.
Prosecutors say Eshaghoff
flew home from Atlanta at least
once primarily to impersonate
two students and that he took
the SAT twice in one weekend.
Eshaghoff allegedly demanded
a fee of between $1,500 and
$2,500 per student to take a
test.
Rice's office is investigating
whether he also took the exam
for students at other high
schools in Nassau County. ETS
spokesman Tom Swing said
this kind of scandal involving
a breach in the ETS security
standards is rare.
"It's not an issue that surfaces
very often," Ewing said in an
interview. "The vast majority
of cheating cases involve one
student copying off another."
Rice used the arrests Tuesday
to warn students taking SATs
this Saturday that "if you cheat,
you can face serious criminal
consequences."
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