THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Spanish performer Buika sings one of her songs in the Eisenhower
Auditorium on Thursday night.
Spanish artist entices
audience with lyrics
By Heather Panetta
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Even though all of Buika's
songs were in Spanish, some
audience members still under
stood the emotion behind them
all. And that's exactly what the
Spanish singer said would hap
pen.
"I'm not very brave to talk at
the microphone," Buika said in
English after her first song.
"Music is the language for every
one. It's very difficult to talk for
me but it's easy to sing. Even
though the songs are not in your
language, I know you under
stand. They are about fears. love
and freedom."
Buika, whose full name is
Concha Buika, performed to stu
dents and residents at
Eisenhower Auditorium last
night as part of her first North
American tour.
"During this tour around North
America I'm discovering real
secrets of life," Buika explained
to the audience. "The last drink is
never the last drink, and the last
love is never the last love. To me
it's a celebration. I will take this
message to Spain, even though
they already know this," she said
to a chuckling audience.
Three musicians accompanied
Buika on piano, double bass and
percussion. In her raspy voice,
she sang each song with her eyes
closed. She was expressive in her
movements during each song
dancing and clapping during
them all. After each song, Buika,
with a wide smile across her face,
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would laugh and graciously thank
her audience.
Buika's free spirit and person
ality gave her ease throughout
her performance. Although shy
when she would speak to her
audience, once she started
singing she became confident
and filled with strength and emo
tion. She also continually inter
acted with her musicians.
In the middle of one of her
songs, titled "Memories" in
English, she grabbed a camera
off of a table and took photos of
her band during the instrumental
solos.
Lindsay Lombardo (freshman
kinesiologv) attended the show to
fulfill a requirement for her class.
She said she never heard of the
Spanish singer before. but
thought it would be really inter
esting to learn about a different
culture and Buika's music.
"I thought she was really good
and she was really cute and
entertaining," Lombardo said.
Sandra Rueda (graduate-com
puter science) came to see the
performance after reading an
article describing Buika's music
as a mix of blues, jazz and fla
menco. Rueda, who is a Spanish
speaker, said she was amazed by
the show and by how expressive
the singer was.
"There was a little bit of the
atre with her music in mixing the
songs and expressing what she is
saying," Rueda said. "This is the
way she's feeling and she goes
and says it."
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ENTERTAINMENT
Comedians perform 'hallow' show
By Karim Yficel
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Second Floor Stand Up's
Halloween Spooktacular killed
their show on Thursday night.
The comedy team focused their
theme for this show around the
upcoming holiday by celebrating
the "eve, eve, eve of the hallow,"
Greg Tarbell, MC for the night
said.
Each comedian was dressed
for the occasion, playing a charac
ter for the whole of his act.
The comedy troop got the audi
ence into the mood by playing
classic Halloween songs such as
"Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr.
and "Thriller" by Michael
Jackson.
Carnegie's cinema room was
almost filled to the brink with
about 75 attendees in the audi
ence. Throughout the audience,
many were in the spirit of the hol
iday and, were dressed up in cos
tume, like the comedians.
Before the event even started,
there was a buzz throughout the
room. Many audience members
are veterans to Second Floor's
shows and brought friends to
experience the show for the first
time.
Kevin Neal and Erickson
Amundson said they have both
been to previous Second Floor
shows.
rNTo convicted in Smith drug case
By Linda Deutsch
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES A boyfriend
and two doctors who were part of
Anna Nicole Smith's inner circle
in her final days and were
charged with enabling her pre
scription drug use were acquitted
of most drug charges Thursday,
but two were convicted of con
spiring to use false names to get
her prescriptions.
Howard K. Stern, Smith's
boyfriend-lawyer, and Dr.
Khristine Eroshevich, her psychi
atrist, were convicted of conspir
ing to get the former Playboy
model and reality TV star
painkillers and sedatives.
Prosecutors contended during
the nine-week trial that the defen
dants were dazzled by Smith's
glamor and filled her demands for
prescription drugs to protect
their insider status in her person
Sarah Finnegan 'Collegian
The comedy sketch group Go Grapefruit! performed at The Second
Floor Stand-up Spooktacular Thursday night.
They agreed that their favorite
performer is Dan Long.
"Dan Long is awesome," Neal
(senior-kinesioloW said. "We saw
him on our way in, he went all out
[in costume] for this."
Amundson (senior-secondary
education) said that Long has a
great stage presence and coupled
with Long's dry sense of humor
makes for must-see comedy.
Long was the first comedian to
perform except he wasn't Dan
Long, he was "one-fourth dollar
a.k.a. 25 cent," Long said.
Long went into a talk about how
hard life is to be a rapper from
Bellefonte, PA.
"I been shot five times," Long
said. "Pdl by me."
There were eight more acts
al life and her celebrity world.
Defense attorneys countered
by portraying the defendants as
angels of mercy who were trying
to help Smith cope with her
chronic pain, particularly after
she gave birth to her daughter by
cesarean then quickly lost her 20-
year-old son, Daniel, to a drug
overdose.
Smith eventually died of an
accidental drug overdose in
Florida in 2007, but the defen
dants were not charged in her
death at age 39.
The jury convicted Stern of
conspiring with Eroshevich to
obtain drugs through the use of a
false name and misrepresenta
tion. Eroshevich also was found
guilty of using a false name and
misrepresentation to obtain pre
scriptions for the painkiller
Vicodin for Smith.
Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, the physi
cian who prescribed most of her
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that followed Long, including the
sketch comedy group Go
Grapefruit!
Each comedian was in full
character ranging from celebri
ties such as Matthew
McConaughey, to English-men, to
ghosts and ghasts (gay ghosts).
Matt Rain was the last to per
form at Second Floor's
Spooktacular, playing the role of
Yariv, a foreigner from an
unknown country that has a love
of KFC chicken.
In fact, Rain threw the whole
bucket of leftovers onto unsus
pecting audience members in the
front row, who were not pleased
with the stunt.
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pain medications, was acquitted
of all charges in a verdict he
called a triumph for the medical
profession.
"This is not just a victor for
me, but for patients evei - ,‘lvhere
who suffer chronic pain." an
emotional Kapoor said outside
court.
His lawyer Ellyn Garofalo said
it also was a victory for Smith.
"The jury found she was not an
addict," Garofalo said.
Stern originally faced 11 counts
of conspiracy, excessive prescrib
ing of opiates and sedatives to an
addict, and fraudulently obtaining
drugs by using false names but
was convicted of only two conspir
acy counts. The judge previously
dismissed two charges against
him.
As he left the courthouse, Stern
told reporters, "Everything relat
ing to the appropriateness of the
medication, I was acquitted of."