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Five Points by day
BY BRIAN RAY
THE GAMECOCK
Even though it’s summertime
and Christmas is half a year away,
you can still throw on your san
dals and spend a day shopping.
At Gentleman’s Closet, manag
er and third-year finance student
Justin Northcutt brought out two
of the finest suits in America from a
walk-in safe that once housed jew
elry.
“This place was built in the
‘30s,” he said and laid a $3,000
three-piece Kashmir suit on the
counter on sale for $300.
Gentleman’s Closet can cover
you head to toe with clothing good
enough to wear to an interview or
on the job. This store promises to
cradle the budget of fresh gradu
ates. The owner even runs a shoe
factory in South Africa and sells
the sin-plus at half price.
Natural Vibrations displays a
collection of ceremonial masks
from Africa. Owner Illey Wildes
said tribesmen wear the masks to
celebrate good harvest, weddings
and coming of age.
One of the most interesting as
pects of the Indonesian figurines
was that most of them had no mid
sections.
“It represents a disconnection
between reality and the spiritual,”
Wildes said.
Natural Vibrations sells hand
carved figurines from Indonesia,
hard-to-find avenues of Reggae
music and more than 30 kinds of
incense by 12 different tribes. One
of their more popular seasonal
items is Senegal drums, which the
owners purchase from the west
coast of Africa at 15 times market
price to benefit the Senegalese.
College kids on a tight budget
trying'to spruce up a new apart
ment can drop by Frameland and
flip through their catalog of hun
dreds of vintage posters. Some of
our favorites were a monkey sit
ting on a box taking a swig of beer,
dogs gathered around a pool table
and a painting of USC’s Horseshoe.
You can find
posters scream
ing originality
that beat the sta
tus quo hands
down for $30.
Here you’ll also
find framed
Confederate dol
lars and coins
starting at $120.
Frameland also
lives up to its name with five walls
of samples.
Dr. Books across from
Yesterday’s could make an inter
esting alternative to Barnes and
Noble with its old bookshelves
that give the place the feel of an at
tic. Here you’ll find autographed
novels on shelves and books for a
dollar. Dr. Books has more than
10,000 books in stock.
Owners Don Rosick and
Patricia Mason buy postcards by
the box at shows and auctions and
sell them for a dollar a piece. We’re
talking postcards from the ‘50s and
‘60s, black and white postcards
from Frankfurt and Nuremberg
that could be 70 years old.
“Buildings in these postcards
might have been bombed into
oblivion,” said Rosick.
They make great novelties, sure
to please relatives and pen pals on
birthdays and Christmas.
Mason said students usually
find a book or two to help with re
search projects, and she’ll give col
Left, ceremonial masks at
Natural Vibrations, a New Age
specialty shop. Below, the
price tags of nice, cheap coats
at Gentleman’s Closet.
PHOTO BY PASCALE SEXTON/THE GAMECOCK
lege students a 10 percent dis
count. Mason said students are
welcome to venture here to get
away from the hustle bustle and
sip a hot latte on a sofa.
“Just don’t spill it on the
books,” she said. And you’ll have
to bring your own coffee or buy it
from Adriana’s.
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MOVIE REVIEW
Movie has horror with heart
28 DAYS LATER”
Directed by Danny Boyie
★★★★ out of ☆☆☆☆☆
BY GABRIELLE SINCLAIR
THE GAMECOCK
You wake up, and not only is it
the end of the world but you’re
trapped in England and sur
rounded by zombies.
This is the premise of “28 Days
Later,” the most recent adaptation
of Richard Matheson’s classic
book, “I Am Legend,” a story of
loneliness, fear and human na
ture.
“28 Days Later,” directed by
Danny Boyle, begins where “12
Monkeys” left off. A group of ac
tivists have freed some laboratory
rats only to realize they carry a
deadly virus that is contracted via
blood and takes 20 seconds to
“zombify.” Our hero Jim awakes
from a coma into this post-apoca
lyptic silence. The audience dis
covers along with him that nothing
around him will ever be the same.
The commercials want you to
believe that “28 Days Later” is
about zombies, and maybe it is.
But this Brit Flick is something
much more than that. The zombie
premise is only a guise for a true
work of art, dabbling in anarchy
and morality. Boyle even manip
ulates the backdrops of some
scenes, giving it an otherworldly
quality.
“Terminator 3: Rise of the
Machines,” which cost $160 mil
lion, waits in anticipation for the
end of the world but loses its audi
ence in flashy meaningless effects
and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s
churned out one-liners.
“28 Days Later” toys with the
audience, twisting stereotypes and
♦ MOVIE, SEE PAGE 9
BOOK REVIEW
Potter leaves youth
audience behind
“HARRY POTTER AND THE
ORDER OF THE PHOENIX”
J. K. Rowling
★★★★ out of ☆☆☆☆☆
BY PIERCE COOK
THE GAMECOCK
If ever I could hope to fly on
a broomstick, do magic, and
fight evil wizards, I have with
out a doubt found the place to
doit.
Enter the world of Harry
Potter, whose fifth year at
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft
and Wizardry delivers not only
a masterful story, but also
more than its fair share of
magic.
Through the word paintings
of author J.K. Rowling, Harry
is drawn deeper into the world
♦ HARRY, SEE PAGE 9