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Get your dancin' duds out and stroll on down to Georgia Hall to
night to hear the big band sounds of the Woody Herman Or
chestra, directed by Frank Tlberi. Music starts at 8 p.m. Tickets
are $3 for students, $7 general admission.
$hackler: ‘Outlandish’
show for AIDS benefit
From staff reports
Rattle those chains, smell that
leather and feel the pain of
Shackler, the “four boys in love”
who pretty themselves up with
zebra stripes, heels and inches of
makeup to play their brand of
hard, raw straight-forward rock
and roll. The local band will be
playing the Georgia Theatre to
night with the energetic, perfor
mance -oriented group, Twinkie.
The show is a benefit for the AIDS
foundation in Atlanta.
Lead singer “Shackler”
said,‘The show is in the vein of the
Boy Butante AIDS benefit at the
Rockfish this week — like a benefit
for a benefit. This all sort of has to
do with the fact that this is Na
tional Gay Pride Month.”
$hack)er is a band with a sense
of humor and an eye for the un
usual. According to “Skull Love”,
the guys perform in “total drag
New York Dolls style.”
‘This is not an act. This is the
way we really are. We spend most
of our time in New York hanging
out looking like this,” “Love” said.
A Shackler show is like a chaotic
trip into a twisted world. There are
rumors that for this show the lead
singer is planning to cut himself
and splash blood on the audience.
What could be more exciting?
“Sometimes we’re just so caught
up in the theatrics of playing that
anything and everything can
happen," “Shackler” said.
Twinkie also has a background
rich with theatrical exploits. The
band once suspended a whole raw
chicken in midair with a lawn
leafblower on stage. They also re
enacted a battle scene from “Star
Trek,” complete with appropriate
costumes, while playing the show’s
theme music.
The performance tonight is
guaranteed to surprise even the
most seasoned club goer. This out
landish spectacle will certainly go
down in Athens musical history.
Shackler and Tu'inkie will play a
benefit show at the Georgia Theatre
tonight. Tickets are $3 and all sales
will be donated to the AIDS foun
dation in Atlanta. The show starts
at 10 p.m.
Bart Simpson under
attack by educators
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Bart Simpson,
the goggle-eyed cartoon kid with a
corrugated hairdo, is catching flak
from educators who say his smart-
alecky attitude on “The Simpsons”
gives children the wrong message.
Bart is fast becoming the fic
tional youth American children
identify with most. But his attitude
bothers some critical school offi
cials.
Last month, Principal Bill
Krumnow of Lutz Elementary
School in Ballville Township, Ohio,
banned Bart’s “Underachiever:
And Proud of It, Man,” T-shirt.
To be proud of being an in
competent is a contradiction of
what we stand for,” Krumnow said.
“We strive for excellence and to in
still good values in kids.” The
show, he said, “teaches the wrong
thing to students.”
The shirt also was banned at
Cambridge Elementary School in
Orange, Calif., and last week in
Kentucky, Principal Lonnie Watts
of Taylor Mill Elementary School
declared the Bart shirt a dress-
code violation.
"Simpsons” creator Matt
Groening and Fox officials prefer to
let Bart defend himself with
statements like: “I have no com
ment. My folks taught me to re
spect elementary school principals,
even the ones who have nothing
better to do than tell kids what to
wear.”
The uproar caused J.C. Penney
Co. Inc., which created Simpsons
boutiques in its stores, to remove
the offending "underachiever”
shirt and another that reads: “I’m
Bart Simpson. Who the hell are
you?"
Even drug czar William J. Ben
nett took a swipe at Bart. On a
May 16 tour of a Pittsburgh drug-
treatment center, Bennett saw a
poster of Bart and told recovering
addicts they shouldn’t follow Bart’s
lead as an underachiever.
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Shackler: Spyder, Shackler, Skull Love and Puppet Head. Dressing up in drag is an everyday thing says
their lead singer. The band will perform at the Georgia Theatre at 10 p.m. tonight.
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JtiEvening
Big Band Music by
The Woody Herman Orchestra
directed by
Frank Tiberi
Come and Ballroom Dance . . .
... or just listen!
Wednesday, May 23,1990
8:00 p.m. Georgia Hall
$3.00 UGA Students (with ID)
$7.00 General Admission
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