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By Kellye Way
Staff Reporter
kjw2o3@psu.edu
Artist: Joss Stone
Album: Mind, Body, and Soul
Release Date:
September 28, 2004
Number of Tracks:l4
(plus one untitled hidden track)
****
Young, talented, and spunky,
Britain’s princess of soul is tak
ing the world by storm - one
song at a time. Joss Stone’s
Mind, Body, and Soul, the fol
low-up album to her 2003 debut
The Soul Sessions, can easily
be summed up in one word:
chillin’. Stone’s smooth, rich
voice blends nicely with the
accompanying music to pro
duce a musical massage for
the overworked brain. This
album is great for sitting back
and relaxing and could serve
as the essentially calming
soundtrack to a long night of
cramming for midterms.
In Mind, Body, and Soul,
Stone certainly got the soul part
right by bringing the musical
genre to an entirely different
and untapped market. At the
tender age of just seventeen,
she surpasses musical coun
terparts in vocal ability and lyri
cal subject matter. She
explores so many different
musical styles in her second
album that she will probably
have the opportunity to re
invent herself in countless ways
in the future.
The most standout character
istic to Stone is her ultra-low,
cool alto voice. This ability has
allowed her to stand out much
the same way that Mariah
Carey did with her octave-bust
ing high notes of early 90’s pop.
However, Stone proves herself
worthy as a qualified soprano
also on several tracks of her
album. Her songs relate very
independent, grown-up topics
for a teenager and are relatable
to every kind of love...new, old,
good, and bad. The first track
on the album “Got A Right To
Be Wrong” especially demon
strates a maturity on the part of
Stone, who co-wrote eleven of
the fourteen tracks.
Overall, fans of Mary J. Blige,
Macy Gray, and Nelly Furtado
should add Stone to their diva
soul collection. For those
already familiar with her first
single “You Had Me” it should
be pointed out that this track is
one of the only really upbeat,
danceable songs, while the rest
of the songs are more mellow
and classically soulful.
Regarding her second album,
Stone says, “For me, personal
ly, Mind, Body, and Soul is my
real debut.”
Photo courtesy of Google Images
Not your average sports bar
By Elizabeth Wingate
Staff reporter
eawl9l@psu.edu
When I imagine a sports bar, I
picture a dingy cave of nicotine
yellow walls, ancient, faded
memorabilia, and depraved men
swilling beer, screaming at the
television for practically no rea
son while their waitress blows
huge bubbles with her gum and
looks too bored for words. In
short, I am afraid.
Thanks to our modern age of
self-help books, however, l am
enlightened enough to admit
when I’m wrong. Enter
KoKoMo’s Downtown, a sports
bar that keeps the sports in the
bar without keeping the ladies
and all other non-sports fanatics
away. KoKoMo's is a great place
to grab a drink with friends and
wile away chilly autumn
evenings without draining your
bank account to the point where
you have to call mom and dad
and beg for a loan.
With a prime location at the cor
ner of Second and Pine Streets,
right next to the Hardware Bar,
KoKoMo’s is where the action is
on Harrisburg’s ever-evolving
Restaurant Row. Plate glass win
dows encapsulate a space that is
at once intimate and rollicking,
with booths along one length of
thq, restaurant and a long, well
stocked bar on the other. Neon
beer signs, and yes, memorabil
ia, cover the walls but the effect
is more cheery than grungy, and
at night the lighting is pleasantly
mellow. Bar-height tables line the
middle of KoKoMo’s and round
out the seating ensuring that
patrons never miss a play on one
of the restaurant’s TVs.
Speaking of TVs, what would a
sports bar be without screens
blazing every imaginable game?
KoKoMo’s boasts more than 30
Monthly poetry reading theraputic for students, faculty
Students and faculty recite
poetry Tuesdays at night
By Molly E. Kane
Staff Reporter
meklB7@psu.edu
Writing poetry can be cleansing
but reading it out loud can be
downright therapeutic. Once a
month a group of students, facul
ty, staff and community members
meet at Town Square to discuss
their love of poetry. They each
bring their favorite works or orig
inal creations to share with the
rest of the group.
The meetings are growing in
size and the members are grow
ing together. “Sharing poetry is
like sharing a part of yourself.
You can’t help but feel connected
to the people who now carry
around a part of you” said
Andrea L. Bierly, a junior English
major who has reads her own
work at the open mikes.
Others introduce their favorite
poems and poets. So far this
semester Federico Garcia Lorca,
Emily Dickinson, Pablo Neruda
and Wilfred Owen have been
read and warmly welcomed. Still
others come just to listen or to
offer their thoughts on these
works.
Some of the events tie the
works together under a common
theme, like response to war,
TVs, from a 48-inch hanging
plasma screen to 14-inchers at
each booth and every size in
between. Grabbing a booth
ensures that at least one TV will
be tuned to the channel of your
choice, and one table of girls was
watching Friends while their
masculine counterparts took in
Monday Night Football- every
one was happy.
Photo by Elizabeth Wingate
Not to be overlooked is the
game room at the back of the
bar, where patrons can shoot
pool or play an arcade game
while they watch the game. This
space gets crazy on weekends
as college kids and other young
revelers hang out before hitting
the clubs. There’s a convenient
ATM too- who wants to run down
the street in the cold for beer
money???
Because this KoKoMo’s is in the
city, it lacks the square footage
that is typical of its suburban sib
lings, creating an almost frenetic,
party-like atmosphere, even in
while others are open readings
where participants can read
whatever they feel moved to
share
Dr. Patricia Johnson has been
instrumental in organizing the
ongoing events. She was moti
vated by student suggestion and
wanted to build an activity that
would involve on and off campus
students with the faculty and
staff. “We’ve had a tradition of
being a commuter campus and
parts of that will continue, but
now we have new dorms and
more students on campus. I
think this is an excellent time to
start new on-campus activities to
build community and to extend
learning beyond the classroom.”
Johnson hopes that the events
will also be able to tie into the
Tarnhelm, the creative arts and
writing magazine published by
PSH students in the Spring.
While many of the core group
are English or Humanities
majors and faculty, all majors are
invited to share their common
interest in writing and creativity.
Anyone who would like to
explore their thoughts through
poetry is welcome to join the
group for one or more of the
events. The groups meet on
select Tuesday evenings from
5:00-6:00. The next meeting will
be October 19. The optional
theme of this reading will be Fall
the middle of the week. The serv
ice is friendly and brisque, and
cute blond waitresses in jeans
and t-shirts make sure the beer
flows and everyone has a good
time.
Unless you live under a rock,
you’re probably aware that as a
sports bar, KoKoMo’s specializes
in wings. They do. 19 kinds, to be
more precise, running the gamut
from plain to garlic honey bbq to
super spicy “Sudden Death” to
“Chicago style”, extra wet wings
over fries in a bowl. Prices start
at $3.99 for 6 and round out at
$33.99 for 75, with a $1 charge
for to-go orders. Specials include
.35 cent wings Monday, Tuesday,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
from 6 pm to 9 pm and Ipm to 9
pm on Sundays, while
Wednesday night is .25 cent
wings from spm to 9pm.
As it may not be humanly pos
sible to ingest wings without
beer, KoKoMo’s has 14 beers on
tap and many more by the bottle,
Photo by Vincent Balistrieri
‘One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish’ - Students and
faculty gather together to share in an ocean of poetic
favorites.
or Halloween, but any and all
poems are welcome regardless
of theme.
John Stuart Mill once said that
poetry is “the natural fruit of soli
tude and meditation” and while it
including Labatts Blue, Killians
Red, and Woodchuck Amber to
complete the rainbow of choices.
There are daily beer specials,
just ask your server.
KoKoMo’s certainly does not
want you to leave hungry.
Classic American appetizers
such as potato skins, cheese
planks, fried ‘shrooms and
steamed clams are just a few of
the many offerings, and new
menu items are always popping
up. The 'tSamplerMer Twe” 4s a
great way to get some variety if
you’re out with a group, and
when you get fries your way-
Cajun, seasoned, or with melted
cheese- they just taste better.
The rest of the menu has so
many options that you might get
a little lost. I did and concluded
that I couldn’t go wrong with a
cheeseburger, which was right
on- medium rare on a huge bun
with lots of cheese, lettuce and
tomato and a pile of hot fries.
The menu also includes numer-
can be this, to many people, the
monthly open mic group strives
to make the process and prod
ucts of poetry into a community
activity.
ous salads, sandwiches, pizzas,
chicken, soups and chili, as well
as veal Parmesan, surf & turf,
and New York Strip. Most of the
items on the menu are under
$lO, while entrees such as filet
mignon are just a tad more.
One of the best elements of
KoKoMo’s Downtown is its rela
tively diverse crowd. The bar
was a mix of young profession
als, lots of women out having
drinks after work, and in the
more colorful realm, a guy who
probably moonlights as an Elvis
impersonator. This eclectic group
surprisingly represented
Harrisburg in 2004- optimistic,
evolving, and in the case of Elvis,
a few kinks to be worked out, all
in good time. Yes, there was
considerable screaming at the
TVs, and after a while, I
screamed along. At KoKoMo’s,
it’s all part of the game.
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HOURS:
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AMENITIES:
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300 N. 2 ND ST.
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...It seemed that out of battle I
escaped
Down some profound dull tunnel,
long since scooped
Through granites which titanic
wars had groined.
Yet also there encumbered sleep
ers groaned,
Too fast in thought or death to be
bestirred.
Then, as I probed them, one
sprang up, and stared
With piteous recognition in fixed
eyes,
Lifting distressful hands, as if to
bless.
And by his smile, I knew that
sullen hall,-
By his dead smile I knew we
stood in Hell.
With a thousand pains that
vision’s face was grained;
Yet no blood reached there from
the upper ground,
And no guns thumped, or down
the flues made moan.
‘Strange friend,’ I said, ‘here is no
cause to mourn.’
‘None,’ said that other, ‘save the
undone years,
The hopelessness. Whatever
hope is yours,
Was my life also; I went hunting
wild
After the wildest beauty in the
world,
Which lies not calm in eyes, or
braided hair,
But mocks the steady running of
the hour,
And if it grieves, grieves richlier
than here.
For by my glee might many men
have laughed,
And of my weeping something
had been left,
Which must die now. I mean the
truth untold,
The pity of war, the pity war dis
tilled...
- Taken from “Strange Meeting,”
by Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)