Up and Coming Weekly is a weekly publication in Fayetteville, NC and Fort Bragg, NC area offering local news, views, arts, entertainment and community event and business information.
Issue link: https://www.epageflip.net/i/54147
Going Native TV by DEAN ROBBINS COMING THE CROWN... February G T 2......................... FireAntz vs Pensacola Ice Flyers 3......................... Ron White: Moral Compass Tour 4......................... FireAntz vs Augusta RiverHawks 4-5..................... Gun & Knife Show 14....................... FireAntz vs Augusta RiverHawks 14....................... Community Concerts presents Rock of Ages 17....................... FireAntz vs Huntsville Havoc 19....................... Mike Epps: I'm Still Standing Tour 22....................... FireAntz vs Knoxville 23-24................. Tyler Perry's The Haves and Have Nots 24-26................. Carolina Home and Garden Show 24....................... FireAntz vs Augusta RiverHawks 25....................... Miranda Lambert: On Fire (TICKETS ON SALE NOW) 27-Mar. 3.......... Eastern Regional High School Basketball Championship 2 Fi A P l I Fl March 1-3..................... Eastern Regional High School Basketball Championship 2-4..................... RV Expo 4.........................FireAntz vs Columbus Cottonmouths 8-11................... Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus 15.......................FireAntz vs Knoxville Ice Bears 17.......................FireAntz vs Pensacola Ice Flyers 21...................... North Carolina Symphony 23.......................FireAntz vs Columbus Cottonmouths 24-25................. American Girl Fashion Show The River (Tuesday, 9 p.m., ABC) is a new series that crosses Heart of Darkness with The Blair Witch Project, to good effect. Emmet Cole (Bruce Greenwood) was beloved for his TV nature series, in which he explored the world with his perfect family: son Lincoln (Joe Anderson) and wife Tess (Leslie Hope). As The River begins, Emmet is presumed dead in the Amazon, and Tess drags a reluctant Lincoln and a camera crew out in search of him. As they travel up river, they discover that Emmet was involved in some scary supernatural stuff, courtesy of the native tribes. And we learn that the family wasn't as perfect as it seemed on TV. As in Blair Witch, the footage we see is purportedly captured by the camera crew. This conceit strains credulity at times, but it also allows for some spooky sequences of ghostly phenomena shot from a limited P.O.V. Lincoln, for one, starts to have grave reservations about following in his father's footsteps, pleading with his mom, "Let's go home!" But mom wants to stick it out. And frankly, so do I. I Just Want My Pants Back Thursday, 11 pm (MTV) MTV scores with this new comedy about post-college friends in New York City. The dialogue is pitch-perfect, tossing off cultural references with exqui- sitely tuned irony. Brace yourself for a half-hour of pure raunch. "Do you think I'm a slut?" asks the one-night-stand who steals our hero's (Peter Vack) titular pants. "Only in the best, most positive way," he answers. Both the male and female singles think about sex all the time and have it all the time, joking about the subject in a low- key way that feels real. I prefer this frank treatment to the smarmy one you see on broadcast-network sitcoms. In other words, I Just Want My Pants Back is sex-obsessed, but only in the best, most positive way. Secrets of Eden Saturday, 8 pm (Lifetime) Lifetime has a knack for TV-movie murder mysteries that, while nothing spe- cial, are just intriguing enough to pull you in. In Secrets of Eden, a small-town detective (Anna Gunn) investigates a murder-suicide involving an abusive hus- band and his beautiful wife. The wife had recently been baptized by the town's suspiciously good-looking pastor (John Stamos). Hmmm. True, other suspects abound. But would the insanely sexy Stamos — in tight clothes and a $400 haircut — really have been chosen to play a holy man unless he were up to something unholy? Either Stamos is guilty of something, or the Lifetime casting director has taken leave of her senses. Super Bowl Sunday, 6:30 pm (NBC) New York Giants, New England Patriots, field position, yada yada yada. As an entertainment writer, I'm concerned with the halftime show, and this year's — featuring Madonna — should be a doozy. In 2004, Janet Jackson accidentally caused tsunamis and earthquakes when her costume slipped for a second, show- ing a blurry bit of still-covered-up breast. Years of investigations, finger-wagging and fines ensued. Uvpxr6hvyhiyr6Uur88rr7Pspr Uvpxrhr p 6yyUvpxrhrPyr 6q7Qur ' &#$ " 20 UCW FEBRUARY 1-7, 2012 Wvvrivr hurp p hqAyyAhprixUvr pprrp WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM Jackson and Madonna had a legendary rivalry back in the day, with Madonna working hard to be the undisputed queen of cultural provocation. Is there any way she will pass up the chance to top Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction"? If her show includes anything less than blasphemy, unnatural sexual acts and a same- sex marriage ceremony performed right on stage, I will lose all respect for her. The River discovers unnatural phenomena in the Amazon