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16 UCW OCTOBER 28 - NOVEMBER 3, 2015 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM Principals are always thinking of creative ways to raise funds for the needs of America's future leaders. That is why Ferguson-Easley Elementary School will host a Blast from the Past dinner and dance event on Friday, Oct. 30 from 7 p.m. – 10 p.m. at E. E. Smith High School's cafeteria. "A number of schools such as ours have very little money in the budget to do a lot of the things that we need to have done for our students," said Dr. Mary Hales, principal of Ferguson-Easley Elementary School. "Our parent facilitator has been very instrumental and has worked very hard to help secure money since she has been here with us." Hales added that they are doing the event to be able to fund field trips, activities, iPads, computers, new technology tools and the different instructional materials that the students need. Her goal is to raise $3,500. "This will prove to be one of the most exciting fundraisers that we will host for this school year," said Eloise Melvin, coordinator of the event. "We are inviting all friends, adults and paren t s o f Fe rg u s o n - E a s l ey to a t te n d t h i s wo n d e r f u l a n d exc i t i n g eve n t ." M e lv i n a d d e d t h a t t h ey a re e n c o u ra g i n g t h o s e i n a t te n d a n c e to we a r c l o t h e s f ro m t h e 7 0 s e ra s u c h a s b e l l - b o t to m e d p a n t s , l o n g c o l l a r s h i r t s , m i n i - s k i r t s a n d wh a teve r h a i rd o t h ey s e l e c t f ro m t h e 1 9 7 0 s . The event will feature music from the 70s and the disc jockey of the event is Calvin P from 1077 Jamz. "We will have a meal that will be very enjoyable," said Melvin. "We will have dancing and give away prizes for the best dressed couple." Melvin added that they will also have the Soul Train scramble board in which participants will have 60 seconds to unscramble a set of letters pertaining to popular singing groups of the 70s. Other games will be played that evening. "The parents of our students are a lot younger and do not know much about the 70s era," said Hales. "We try to teach the whole child culturally, socially and personally if we can." Hales added that the younger parents need to be exposed to cultural events, activities and various eras so that they can help their own children understand and know about life during those particular times. "We want this to be enjoyable for all in attendance and we want it to be profitable for our PTA," said Melvin. "We especially look forward to having our Fayetteville community coming out to support us." Ticket cost is $10 for individuals and $15 for couples. For more information call 483-4883. A Blast from the Past Event for Ferguson-Easley Elementary School by DR. SHANESSA FENNER DR. SHANESSA FENNER, Principal, WT Brown Elementary School, Contributing Writer. COMMENTS? Editor@upandcomingweekly. com. 910.484.6200 The Green Inferno (100 minutes) is not particularly innovative or revelatory. To someone who spends a lot of time watching video nasties, B-horror, Mondo films and other super-inappropriate fair, it's not even all that shocking. While falling short of the more vicious excesses present in the Italian cannibal horror films of the seven- ties, it is essentially a remake of Cannibal Holocaust and Cannibal Holocaust II with a bigger budget and better production values. The title even comes from the film- within-the-film; Cannibal Holocaust featured a documen- tary called The Green Inferno. A Very Pretty Girl named Justine (Lorenza Izzo) is rich and privileged in New York. Her father is an attorney for the United Nations and her college roommate is A Terrible Person (Sky Ferreira). Lost in a sea of ennui, she listens to a lecture on Female Genital Mutilation and decides that it is her life's mission to make people stop behaving in a way that makes her deeply uncomfortable with her privileges. Disregarding all the imperialistic connotations of her political position, she runs straight to Daddy and asks him to use the power of his Rich Heterosexual White Male authority to make everyone be nice to each other. When he tells her that it would take more than one lawyer more than a couple of days to end a practice embedded in hundreds of cultures over the last two millennia she decides to fall in love with a politico named Alejandro (Ariel Levy) and hop on a plane to protest an oil company. It must be awesome to have that kind of (a) free time (b) expendable income and (c) self-righteous confidence. Once on the ground in Peru, they head down the Amazon River to chain themselves to trees, reasoning that as long as they can stream the protest live the loggers won't be able to shoot them and dump their bodies in the river because, and this gets a little unclear, it would be bad PR for the com- pany. I'd suggest they look up the number of anonymous dead in various environmental conflicts around the world and stop being stupid, but at this point I just want to see some of that xenophobic, stereotype-promoting, exploitative violence I've been waiting through half the movie to see. In other words, I'm getting bored. Make with the cannibalism already! Finally, the film closes out the nuance and char- acter development portion of the story with a plane crash in the Amazon jungle. Some of the main cast is killed instantly, while others live long enough for local tribespeople to find them for a game of Spear, Mutilate, Tranquilize. The survivors awake to find themselves headed down the river to a large village full of Eli Roth's idea of what a cannibalistic, Amazonian tribe would look like. This includes a lot of nudity, loin clothes and facial piercings. There, the survivors are tortured in various, not all that imaginative, ways. Overall, I respect Eli Roth and what he does. I think Cabin Fever and Hostel reflected a love of classic horror and willingness to completely wipe out an entire cast, leaving no one safe. I do wonder if he was traumatized by a bad vacation when he was younger; it seems most of his films involve terrible things happening to people who dare to leave home (Thanksgiving notwithstand- ing). However, I would respect him a lot more if he weren't trending away from equal opportunity slaughter. When a male writer/ director spends so much time damaging the female body on screen, it veers into mere misogyny rather than an artistic statement about moral ambiguity and the nature of violence. Now playing at Patriot 14 + IMAX. Anthropopaghy at It's Most Exploitive The Green Inferno (Rated R) by HEATHER GRIFFITHS HEATHER GRIFFITHS, Contributing Writer. COMMENTS? Editor@ upandcomingweekly.com. 910.484.6200. On Oct. 30, Ferguson-Easley Elementary School is hosting a Blast from the Past dinner and dance