ERIC JAFFEStaff Writer

Will Ferrell is an actor who works best in two extremes: outright crazy or abnormally subdued.

Anyone who has had the privilege of seeing the Saturday Night Live alumnus in action knows which of these two extremes seems to take priority over the other.

Everything Must Go, standing along-side 2006’s excellent Stranger Than Fiction, is a member of the rare latter category—a film that finds Ferrell shout-

ing on the inside and not the out.

Directed by first-timer Dan Rush, Everything Must Go tells the story of Nick Halsey, an alco-holic career salesman who loses his wife and his job after a falling out at the office.

Based on the short story “Why Don’t You Dance?” by acclaimed author Raymond Carver, the film follows our pro-

tagonist as he attempts to rid himself of all of his possessions via yard sale.

In the process, he finds a friend in Kenny Loftus (Christopher Wallace), a neighborhood teenager who may be the reason Nick has been searching for to put himself back together.

Like other films in the “unexpected guest gives tortured individual’s life

new meaning” subgenre (think along the lines of Up, Bad Santa and The Karate Kid), Every-thing Must Go follows the usual formula: Nick starts out at a low point, resists help, and as time moves forward, begins his slow march toward normality.

The film is cliché, but fortunately that isn’t

ZACHARY GOLDSTIENPhotographer

There are certain things students look for when choosing where to eat: price, location and (some-times) the quality of the food. College campuses are

known for being surround-ed by at least a few cheap and delicious eateries, and Tallahassee is no exception, with local spots surround-ing every corner of Florida State University’s red brick campus. Still, there’s always room for something new, and El Ranchito is just that.

El Ranchito is one of those places where diners are not quite sure what to expect when they fi rst walk in. Formerly home to a Mex-ican restaurant, El Ranchito is now in the middle of a full-fl edged conversion to a Salvadoran joint. But don’t let the change put you off: the food is cheap, damned tasty and within easy walk-ing distance of the east side of campus.

Nestled right off the cor-ner of Macomb and Tennes-see Streets, the restaurant’s bright orange façade gives way to an unpretentious interior featuring some tables, a food-bar and a window that leads back to

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EL RANCHITOWHERE

460 W. TennesseeStreet

HOURS

Monday-Saturday, 11a.m. through 9 p.m., closed Sunday

PHONE NUMBER

(850) 981-2700

LionsgateWill Ferrell and Christopher Wallace star as unlikely friends in the new drama ‘Everything Must Go.’

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Zachary Goldstein/FSViewCandida Hernandez cooks her signature pupusas in the kitchen of El Ranchito.

J. MICHAEL OSBORNEEditor-in-Chief

If you’ve missed the rise of L.A. rap collective Odd

Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All and the head to their Voltron, Tyler, the Creator, then you proba-bly don’t care much about what music blogs are talk-ing about, and if that’s the case, fi rst of all, good for you. If you do care about that kind of thing, given their more recent notori-ety on said blogs, it may surprise you to know that

Tyler’s new record Gob-lin is the fi rst thing any-one in Odd Future’s done that’s actually been sold in stores.

The scarily precocious 17-to-24-year-olds spent the last three or so years posting their entirely homemade mixtapes as free downloads on their Tumblr, and so have ex-isted in a weird bubble

that’s already made them inescapable for a certain age group with a certain degree of Web savvy, and still almost completely unknown to most outside of that bubble—for now, anyway. The reason mu-sic bloggers have been piling onto OFWGKTA, and 20-year-old Tyler in particular, is because they have “next big thing” writ-

ten all over them, and ev-eryone with a Twitter ac-count wants to put their two or three or four cents in on the music before they jump ship and say they were more into OF’s early stuff. This isn’t a crit-icism—it’s just how things work now—but Goblin is Tyler’s fi rst major move to step outside of his self-

RENEE RODRIGUEZAssistant Editor

Memory Map with Sendaway Stranger, Sad Kids and The Popheads—Tuesday, May 17, doors 8 p.m. at The Farside. Ad-mission: $5 to sup-port touring band

Hailing from Bloom-ington, Ind., Memory Map is an indie quartet consisting of Matt To-bey, Mike Bridavsky, Mixie Dixon and Josh Morrow, all of whom are ex-and-current members of Good Luck, Abe Froman, Matty Pop Chart and Rapider than Horse-power.

The Midwest four-piece recently re-leased their debut LP, Holiday Band, on May 10 via 12” 180gm red and black vinyl.

Local-act-by-way-of-Gainesville Sendaway Stranger will be among the opening acts for Memory Map, along with fellow locals Sad Kids, consisting of Tommy and Mick from Jack Jackie as well as The Popheads, a psy-chedelic/indie band whose sound is locally referred to as “the Par-tridge family on acid.”

Menace Beach: Did You Know It’s Every Friday? Edition with Team Jaguar, Mas-terbot, Ben Danner and Truewill—Fri-day, May 20, doors 9 p.m. at The Engine Room. Admission: $5 ($7 under 21), ladies FREE until 11 p.m., $10 after midnight

The Engine Room’s once bi-weekly party is now going down every Friday night through-out the summer, giv-ing students stuck in town for the summer something to do on an otherwise quiet night in Tally.

Resident DJs Team Jaguar and Ben Dan-ner will provide the night’s entertainment along with Masterbot, aptly described as a “drum machine with the heart of a man,” while the crowd’s fa-vorite bearded man Truewill and others spin tunes out on the deck (weather permit-ting).

As always, a keg’s worth of free PBR is available before they run out and for all the female newbies—NO heels allowed, seri-ously.

Dangerous Ponies with Birdlips, Let-ters Home, Aircraft and Lucy—Sunday, May 22, show at 8 p.m. at The Farside. Admission: $5

Coming all the way from Philadelphia, Pa., seven-piece Danger-ous Ponies is known for putting on a fun, energetic show for fans.

According to The Farside, Dangerous Ponies is a band worth watching, claiming

‘Everything Must Go’ never lets goStrong performances brighten an otherwise dull and formulaic fi lm

Tyler, the Creator kills them all with ‘Goblin’

El Ranchito serves up a feastNew restaurant offers Salvadoran dishes for student prices

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Odd Future’s full-on debut is a bonafi de shock to hip-hop’s system

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