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BY TORY BARRINGERThe Shorthorn staff

The first thing one might notice walking into The Blue Danube Eu-ropean Restaurant and Café is the stage. The second, could be Miro-slav Badonsky, the restaurant’s owner, as he approaches with a wide grin.

Born and raised in a small town in Yugoslavia, Badonsky moved to Texas 26 years ago. In town on vacation to visit his family, he met the woman who would become his wife and decided to stay. After years of selling electronics and practicing cooking on the side, he finally decided to get training and opened The Blue Danube in 2006.

“I figured I could make a living out of my hobbies,” he said.

The menu offers fare from

countries that the Danube River flows through including Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary. The restaurant also boasts more than 160 beers, though Badonsky warned not to order a Coors or Budweiser.

“I try a beer. If I like it, I sell it,” he said. “That’s the secret. Know what people like to drink.”

Badonsky was reluctant to pick a favorite brew, saying that it was like trying to choose a favorite child. From the menu, he recom-mends the Slovak sausage, a favor-ite of his since childhood.

“I cannot live without it,” he said. “It was probably my first solid food. My parents said, ‘Here’s a sausage. Here’s a piece of bread. Now leave us alone.’”

Everything on the menu is com-

pletely homemade, from the bread to the sausages made from meat ground in-house. Badonsky shies away from processed foods, rea-soning that if he can buy a pre-pre-pared item so can his customers. Not only does this make for fresh food, it allows the cooks to impro-vise and prepare off-menu specials as they like.

As varied as the menu is, the draw for repeat customers is the owner’s welcoming nature. Badon-sky relishes spending time with his diners, sometimes even having din-ner along with them. Many online reviews at Urbanspoon and Yelp cite the staff ’s friendliness as the primary attraction, but Badonsky laughed and shrugged.

“They’re making stuff up,” he said. “I bribe them.”

When he was growing up, Badonsky’s parents owned two businesses. Customers often came to his house to seek help, so he got used to dealing with people for a living.

Badonsky’s wife, Laura, is a psychology alumni from UTA. He joked that she “never worked in her field a minute of her life,” instead opting to work with her husband by preparing desserts for The Blue Danube.

Also in the kitchen is Andrea Nelson, who cooks, bartends and serves. An employee since August, she said she knew when she first ate at The Blue Danube that she wanted to work there.

“I bugged him [Badonsky] until I got my job,” she said.

Nelson agreed with Badon-sky that The Blue Danube’s sau-sages are the best of the menu. The quality comes from the en-tirely in-house preparation, she said.

The Blue Danube’s take-home menu explains that the goal is to offer an authentic Eu-ropean dining experience. This means patrons can expect to be there for a long time as they eat and socialize. The restaurant

offers a quicker service for people who call ahead, but Nelson said she believed the non-rushed expe-rience makes for a better time.

“The food is worth the wait,” she said. “We don’t want to turn you and burn you.”

In addition to food and fellow-ship, The Blue Danube also offers live music. One of UTA’s jazz en-sembles play at least once a semes-ter. Dan Cavanagh, associate direc-tor of jazz studies, also comes with a jazz band that includes graduates and faculty once a month.

“It kind of turns into a jazz club for a little bit,” Cavanagh said. “It’s a nice thing you don’t really get around here.”

Like many others, Cavanagh ex-pressed admiration for Badonsky’s customer service.

“He’s so friendly to his custom-ers,” Cavanagh said. “He’s really in-terested in making Arlington and Pantego more of a destination.”

He may be outwardly easygo-ing, but Badonsky takes great pride in his dedication to his craft. He displays dozens of different beer glasses, each designed specifically for certain beers.

“I’m picky about what glass I serve it in,” Badonsky said. “I be-lieve if you’re going to do some-thing, do it right.”

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The Blue Danube is trip for taste buds

Restaurant boasts friendly service, more than 160 beer types

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Hot pink, orange and purple lights warm the dark background at uptown Dallas’ Aura Lounge. Pa-trons can party like a rock star at this upscale dance club filled with tantalizing beats and glittering chan-deliers.

“I’m basically a professional par-tyer,” patron Amra Kolenovic said. “There’s not many actual dance clubs uptown, so Aura is a hot spot. It’s always happening on the weekends, you just can’t go wrong.”

Patrons can pop, lock and drop it on the dance floor as the disc jockey spins top 40s, hip-hop and house. The entire club is the dance floor no matter where you stand. Every night features a different resident DJ and guest DJs are brought in for special events and parties.

DJ Rev has been spinning for nine years, two at Aura. He spins on Thursdays and said Aura is the best club uptown.

“The crowd is always energet-ic and they have an awesome DJ booth,” he said.

After working up a sweat, visi-tors can cool off with a Vegas bomb from one of the two bar stations or pop bottles with the bottle service offered. Bartender Trevor Gentzel has worked at Aura since it opened three years ago. He said he takes pride in the fast bar service provided for patrons.

“We have the fastest bar service in Dallas, hands down,” he said. “We’re one of two dance clubs in uptown, we’re at a great location and an easy walk for anyone who lives in the neighborhood.”

McKinney Avenue’s upscale din-ing and retail makes Aura an attrac-tive fit for the uptown neighborhood nightlife.

Patron Lauren Smart lives within walking distance of the club and vis-ited Aura for the first time.

“I’ve mostly been to uptown bars,” she said. “But out of the few clubs

I’ve been to, this is my favorite, so far.”

Modern European decor, open space and VIP lounge seating that runs along the walls make Aura a glamorous scene. White couches give the club a fresh and clean look that adds to the posh ambience.

General manager Shaul Sultan said patrons should dress to impress, so show off your pretty-boy swag and pretty-girl rock with your attire.

Aura features theme parties once a month, including a masquerade ball or Egyptian night.

“We have some of the hottest par-ties in town,” Sultan said.

The atmosphere drew patron Mi-chelle Fagbeyiro to the club.

“It’s a nice mix of people, dif-ferent ages and backgrounds, it’s a nice little mix,” she said. “The people here are people I can relate to and wouldn’t mind partying with.”

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With great comics, comes great storytellingDocumentary highlights how comic books are

used to teach students reading techniquesBY ALLEN BALDWIN

The Shorthorn staff

In the 1950s, psychologist Fredric Wertham sug-gested comic books were corrupting children.

Now, more than 50 years later, comic books are teaching children to read and write.

The Dallas Museum of Art will show University of North Texas alumnus Todd Kent’s new documen-tary Comic Book Literacy on Saturday.

Kent said the focus of the documentary is how comic books are being used in school.

“One big hurdle with children is to get their at-tention,” he said. “Kids are naturally drawn to comic books. It’s engaging.”

Kent said young children learn the idea of se-quential narrative from comic books.

“One of the things they talk about in the docu-mentary is the need for visual literacy, being able to decode all of the visual imagery we are inundated with,” he said. “The story is being told in part by the words, dialogue and narrative, but also in part by the pictures, so kids can learn to identify it and extrapolate from it. “

English assistant professor Carolyn Guertin uses comics in class to help her students create digital narratives. She believes comics should be taught to children because they help them understand information by using a more visual approach to presenting it.

“Comic books are the fastest-growing form of storytelling,” she said. “I think it’s really a good ap-proach to making [information] understandable, and they’re fun. You can never beat the fun factor in learning. It’s very important to making it accessible.”

English graduate student Cliff Garner said he started reading comic books the same time he began learning to read, and that comic books helped him do so.

“When you’re reading comics, you’re still pro-cessing text,” he said. “Some comic book writers use fairly sophisticated vocabulary and cultural refer-ences that might help you develop your literacy.”

Garner said he began reading comics in kinder-garten. He’s currently working on a dissertation relating to the medium.

“I have a background as a visual artist myself, so I’m very interested in the interaction in the textual and the visual,” he said.

Guertin said she uses comic books to teach her Computers and Fiction Writing class.

“My students are learning how to create digital narratives, so we start by looking at visual narratives

and the most familiar is comics,” she said. “The old-est form of visual narrative is comics. We can take them back to the Aztec or Egyptian narratives told with images.”

Guertin said understanding visual media is im-portant because it helps people sort through and categorize information.

Kent said he worked on the documentary on and off for about four years when he could get in-terviews.

The documentary includes interviews with big names in the comic book industry including Art Spiegelman, the creator of Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, James O’Barr, the creator of The Crow and Joe Quesada, a former editor-in-chief of Marvel comics.

“I wouldn’t have been able to make the film without the people I interviewed,” Kent said. “It was a challenge because I didn’t want to look stupid in front of them, so I did my homework and research.”

In order for Kent to talk about comic books, he had to look into the history of the medium, includ-ing fears of comic books in the past.

The moral outrage that followed the publica-tion of Wertham’s book, Seduction of the Innocent, led the comic book industry to create the Comics Code Authority in the ‘50s to regulate the industry. Comics had to meet certain criteria to earn a seal of approval from the Comics Code Authority. Most retailers refused to sell comics without the seal.

“You couldn’t do much with comics,” Kent said. “No social commentary, no violence, no sex or drugs; the industry really kind of neutered themselves, and they put out a bad product for several years.”

Kent said while people were scared of comics in the ‘50s, it wore off after a few decades. He said now there are few people actively crusading against the medium.

“I really looked hard for someone like that,” Kent said. “I wanted a villain for this film. People’s opin-ions on comics these days are either they love them or they are indifferent. There’s really no one waving the anti-comic flag.”

Kent says he hopes the documentary will clear up any misconceptions people have with comic books.

“A lot of people think of comics as a genre and not a medium,” he said. “When they think of comics they think of superheroes. It’s like thinking of television as only cooking shows. It’s not just one thing. It’s a medium that’s capable of going in any direction.”

ALLEN [email protected]

“One big hurdle with children is

to get their attention. Kids are

naturally drawn to comic books. It’s engaging.” Todd Kent,Comic Book Literacy director

When and where

What: Comic Book Literacy

Where: Dallas Museum of Art

When: 11:30 a.m. Saturday

Cost: $5 with student ID

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Title: Comic Book Literacy

Director: Todd Kent

Genre: Documentary

What it’s about: Though comic books are

often misunderstood, they can be used to

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Todd Kent, Comic Book Literacy director, interviews Art Spiegelman, creator of Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, at the TOON Books offices.

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Kent interviews Paul Dini, writer and producer of animated series “Tiny Toon Adventures,” at Titan Comics for the Comic Book Literacy documentary.

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By Allen BAldwinThe Shorthorn staff

The music industry needs to start taking notes from Radiohead. In 2007, In Rainbows outsold all of Radiohead’s other albums, said frontman Thom Yorke in a inter-view with Wire magazine, despite the band letting people pay what they wanted for the record.

With The King of Limbs, Ra-diohead dismissed all pre-release hype and anxiety by releasing the album less than a week after it was announced. Why the band wanted to sneak the album under the radar is a mystery, because it’s quite good.

The King of Limbs was released Feb. 18 digitally through the band’s website. The physical release is March 29 in the U.S.

With The King of Limbs, Radio-head drifts farther into electronic territory. Songs like “Bloom” and “Feral” sound more like a blend of Yorke’s solo album The Eraser and Flying Lotus’ Cosmogramma. The percussion is fast and all over the

place. It’s often hard to tell whether the beat is coming from a drum-mer or a computer.

No song illustrates the electronic influence better than the unsettling “Feral.” The song starts with heavily produced drums and synth sounds that fade in and out. The drum’s volume crescendos and fades several times over the course of the song. A synth takes over for the bass guitar halfway through the song. Yorke’s wordless moans ebb and flow with the rest of the instruments.

For the most part, guitarist Jonny Greenwood’s thumbprint on The King of Limbs is subtle. “Morning Mr. Magpie” begins with an energetic palm-muted clean guitar with another guitar com-ing in the second half of the song to play a quiet melody. The guitar often echoes the vocal melody like in “Little By Little” and “Give Up the Ghost.” The guitar on album closer “Separator” ends the album on a high note.

Colin Greenwood’s bass is, un-

fortunately, pretty low in the mix and is hard to hear. When he is audible, he does a fantastic job. His understated melody in “Separator” has a nice groove to it, and the muted bass in “Morning Mr Mag-pie” complements the guitar well.

Yorke’s vocals are fantastic as usual. But when he moves into a higher register, like in “Little By Little,” they sound strained. His voice is usually laced with varying amounts of reverb, which turns his normal melancholic vocals into a haunting ghostly wail. Reverb isn’t the only effect Yorke uses as “Give Up The Ghost” is full of lay-ered vocals hidden behind varying amounts of static and fuzz that build up to the end, surrounding the listener with voices moaning, “Don’t hurt me.” This gives listen-ers with headphones the creepy feeling of voices in their heads.

Yorke’s lyrics are fairly minimal. A nature motif runs throughout the album with lyrics like, “Slowly we unfold as lotus flowers, ‘cause

all I want is the moon upon a stick,” from “Lotus Flower” and, “The sweetest flowers and fruits were hanging from the trees, falling off a giant bird that’s been carrying me,” from “Separator.”

The King of Limbs starts to sag around the middle of the album with “Lotus Flower” and “Codex.” “Lotus Flower” is bogged down by Yorke’s higher vocals and the song is a little longer than it should be. The gloomy “Codex” is a quiet, piano-driven number that feels a little too slow and stripped down compared to the rest of the album.

The King of Limbs is Radio-head without the hype and epic feeling or grandiosity of Kid A or OK Computer. While it certainly won’t get the amount of acclaim those albums received, the short runtime makes the album easier to digest for listeners unfamiliar with the band.

Allen [email protected]


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‘King of Limbs’ not the king of Radiohead albumsNewest falls short of bands earlier masterpieces

The King of Limbs

Artist: RadioheadLabel: Self releasedRelease Date: March 29Rating: Four out of five stars

By Tory BArringerThe Shorthorn staff

Cedar Rapids might be the best demonstration of too many cooks spoiling a broth. The movie and its star-packed cast manage to deliver laughs, but the rest of the movie is a mess.

The Office’s Ed Helms stars as Tim Lippe, an insurance salesman whose passion for the job is matched only by his na-ivete. After one of his cowork-ers dies in an unseemly sexual accident, Tim is selected to rep-resent his company at a confer-ence in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

At the conference, his efforts to avoid trouble are subverted when he meets conference vet-erans Dean (John C. Reilly) and Ronald (The Wire’s Isiah

Whitlock Jr.) The situation gets more complicated when Tim starts spending time with mar-

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New comedy starring Ed Helms trips over itself, loses direction

Cedar Rapids Director: Miguel Arteta Starring: Ed Helms, John C. Reilly, Anne Heche, Isiah Whitlock Jr.Distributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures Rated: RRelease: Feb. 11 (limited)Score: Two out of five stars

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ried flirt Joan (Anne Heche). The saturated cast is ad-

ditionally supported by Kurt-wood Smith, Stephen Root and Sigourney Weaver. Each of the characters is strong in their own right, but placed all to-gether, the jokes start to get muddy. The stars all try to outdo each other by making it difficult for the viewer to care about any of them.

The pace of the movie is also odd. The main plot gets underway rapidly, but Tim and the other characters go off track too often. It wouldn’t be a problem if the side stories were explored more, but many of them go nowhere. For example, Reilly’s character hints a few times that he wishes for rec-onciliation with his estranged wife, but that story thread is forgotten by the end.

Then there’s the predict-ability. Most viewers should be able to figure out Tim’s entire story arc within a few minutes of seeing the character. The lack of surprise kills his character’s jokes and renders him flatter than most of the supporting cast.

The movie does have its charms that keep it from being a waste. Reilly outshines the rest of the cast by not know-ing when to step back. His

character’s sleaze quickly turns into a quirky charm. Root is also hilarious as Tim’s boss, a high-strung time bomb who has insultingly little faith in his employee.

Root’s character best sums up the movie with his judg-ment of Lippe as a kid who has all the potential to get some-where but doesn’t. With its talented comedic cast, Cedar Rapids has a lot going for it. Unfortunately, the movie has a bad and frequent habit of get-ting in its own way.

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Ed Helms portrays Tim Lippe in Cedar Rapids who’s job is relocated.


Pulse’s guide to arts and entertainment in the Metroplex

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MoviesHall PassDirector: The Farrelly brothersStarring: Owen Wilson, Jason Su-deikis, Jenna Fischer and Christina Apple-gateRated: RWhen: Opens FridayWhere: Wide ReleaseCost: VariesThe brotherly duo behind There’s Some-thing About Mary, Kingpin and Dumb and Dumber returns with this tale about two men who are given “hall passes” by their wives with no ques-tions asked. These men, who are very much stuck in arrested development, don’t re-alize they are losers with hot wives.

Outside the LawDirector: Rachid BoucharebStarring: Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem and Sami BouajilaRated: Not RatedWhen: Opens Friday

Where: The Angelika Dallas5321 E. Mockingbird LaneDallas 75206Cost: $10 for adults $8 for studentsThis film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Academy Awards. The story takes place in France during the 1950s. The film follows the lives of three broth-ers as they become involved in the French colonial wars.

Live EventsMy Wooden LegWhen: 10 p.m. FridayWhere: Capital Bar3017 Morton St.

Fort Worth 76107Cost: FreeFrom the same vaga-bond vanguard as Gogol Bordello, My Wooden Leg mixes nonsensical lyrics with a vaudeville stage show. Bring your best vest, cane and fedora for a cabaret styled night at the Capital Bar.

Chrisette MicheleWhen: 8 p.m. SundayWhere: House of Blues2200 N. Lamar St.Dallas 75202Cost: $25 standing room in advance, $30

standing room day of showGrammy winning singer-songwriter Chrisette Michele brings “church” to the House of Blues on Sunday. Mi-chele appeals to fans of “Girlfriends,” Tyler Perry and The Roots through her collaborations with each. Lack-ing the sex appeal of Rihanna, the

“wow factor” of Nicki Minaj or the progressive substance of Erykah Badu, Michele’s fans embrace her for her loud pipes and clean image.

Sunday Oscar Watching PartiesThe Third Annual Gordon and the Whale O.S.C.A.R. Watching PartyWhen: 5:30 p.m.Where: The Texas Theatre231 W. Jefferson Blvd.Dallas 75208Cost: FreeComplimentary hairstyles and make-up will be available. A Tinseltown-themed photo booth will be available for patrons to give their best “post-Oscar win” pose. Pre-show begins at 5:30 p.m. with local filmmakers in attendance. Gifts, including two badges to the 2011 Dallas Interna-tional Film Festival, two badges to the 2011 Dallas Video Fest and gift cards to Oak Cliff’s own Eno’s Pizza Tavern, will be raffled off. I Fratelli Pizza will cater the event.

Oscar Night 2011 at The ModernWhen: 6 p.m.Where: The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth3200 Darnell St. Fort Worth 76107Cost: FreeThe broadcast will be shown live via satellite in the auditorium with snacks and drinks available for pur-chase. Prizes will be handed out dur-ing commercial breaks and artist Ty Walls will be on hand to create a portrait sof patrons as Toy Story 3 characters.

Not all RSVP to culture clubAs Black History Month

ends, writers discuss its need

This week Scene editor Lee Escobedo and Scene reporter Tesia Kwarteng discuss the relevancy of celebrating Black History Month. As the month comes to a close, they chat about how they did or did not celebrate the month-long event. Comment online at theshorthorn.com, and post what you did and wheth-er you celebrated at any of the on-campus events.

Escobedo: How did you celebrate Black History Month?Kwarteng: You know I didn’t really “celebrate.” I’ve always seen black history as a part of American history anyway. I think the events hosted in Black History Month to celebrate the culture are awesome but I haven’t attended any.Escobedo: I haven’t either. I agree with your analysis. I didn’t see any events this year that caught my eye or felt exclusive.Kwarteng: It wasn’t a matter of catching my eye or being exclusive for me. I, honestly, just didn’t have the time to, and it’s not like I didn’t want to. I just celebrate who I am every month of the year. I do remember celebrating more when I was younger.Escobedo: If it’s a persons cultural month, and they decide to do nothing, are they taking celebrating their heritage for granted?Kwarteng: I don’t think so because people celebrate things differently, it’s like birthdays. Some people make a big to-do about it and others are fine doing ab-solutely nothing. Does that mean they take their life for granted? I don’t think so.Escobedo: You seem passionate about this subject. I guess I’m not so much be-cause I don’t identify with any race. Kwarteng: That’s fine I think if you could identify with a race it might change your view on celebrating cultures. Black History Month is a celebration of a culture that black Americans literally had to create, which makes it significant like any other cultural celebration.Escobedo: Yeah, but it’s redundant to celebrate it separately if it’s part of Amer-ican history. Celebrating Obama’s election was American history, not black history. And you might be right, it might change it, or it might not, because if I ended up identifying with white I wouldn’t have a month to celebrate.Kwarteng: Well, not everyone sees black history as a part of American history. I don’t think anyone said Obama’s election was only black history, it was just the first time in the history of this country a black man was elected so that was a huge deal.Escobedo: He was only half black, and Caucasians don’t have a month. Kwarteng: Does everyone need a month to celebrate their culture?Escobedo: Hypothetically, no. If textbooks were honest enough we wouldn’t.Kwarteng: That’s a whole different topic for another day, but I do think Black History Month is worth celebrating, and however you do so is up to you.

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