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The Red and Black • Tuesday, June 5, 1990 • 6
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Local artists play benefit for friend
By COLEEN BROOKS
Entertainment Writer
Tonight concerned artists in the
Athens community will come to
gether in order to raise money for
local musician Jay Smith. The jam
session style benefit show will fea
ture members of many local bands,
including White Buffalo and Wide
spread Panic.
Jay Smith has been involved in
the Athens music scene for many
years. He has played in numerous
local bands such as Dixie Grease
and is currently a part of In Flight,
a jazz band which frequently plays
the City Bar, and the eclectic band
Cat Daddy. Smith is also a man
fighting a battle for his life.
John Keane pwns John Keane
Recording Studios and is a long
time friend of Smith’s. He said that
a few months ago Jay was diag-
Smith must fly to
Nebraska for bone
marrow transplants
and his medical bills
are piling up once
again.
nosed with lymphoma, a cancer of
the lymphoid tissue.
“I got several bands together to
play a benefit to raise funds for the
big medical expenses he was get
ting. The money was used for Jay’s
treatment and they got rid of all of
the cancer present at the time,”
Keane said.
Then a few weeks ago, Smith
found out the cancer had spread to
his bone marrow, Keane said.
Smith must fly to Nebraska for
bone marrow transplants and his
medical bills are piling up once
again. This time Todd Nance of
Widespread Panic decided to orga
nize a benefit.
Nance said Smith needs help to
pay for the plane trips and expen
sive treatments and transplants.
"We wanted to do something to
help Jay out. I’ve been asking some
friends of mine in bands to come
and play with us and raise money
for Jay’s fund," Nance said.
Athens has been a town flooded
with benefits lately but this show
is to accomplish something defi
nitely worth the price of admission.
Pay the $3 cover charge at the
Georgia Theatre and watch mem
bers of the Athens music commu
nity come out in a show of support
for one of their own.
Widespread Panic: Todd Nance, John Bell, Mike Houser and Dave Schools are some of
the members of the band who will be playing at the Georgia Theatre
Elevating art: Henry Rice, a physical plant employee,
builds a podium for sculptures in front of the art building
The Grit: Refreshing veggies
By DEV JARRETT
Entertainment Writer
In the last few weeks of the
school year, you might be looking
for a change. Bored with dining
hall food, your innards revolting
from too much greasy delivery
pizza, you might want to try a
dinner at The Grit, a vegetarian
restaurant, in its new location on
Prince Street.
At present, The Grit manage
ment is hard at work trying to com
plete a few last minute details, but
they expect to re-open late this
week or early next week.
“Right now we’re really just
waiting for the inspectors to come
give us the okay to open,” said Jes
sica Greene, co-owner of The Grit.
Greene and her partner, Jenna
Smith, have been running The Grit
for the past year and a half on Hoyt
Street, but closed up shop in De
cember because Hoyt Street wasn’t
a very good location for the restau
rant.
Their new building on Prince
Street is owned by Michael Stipe,
but rumors of Stipe bankrolling the
entire operation are completely un
founded.
‘The building on Prince Street
was about to fall down, and since
Stipe is the landlord, he’s reno
vating it," Greene said.
Greene also said that there will
be entertainment at The Grit on
some evenings, but that she doesn’t
want to have a band there every
night the way The Downstairs op
erates. She said they are open to
suggestions for evening entertain
ment, from local bands to perfor
mance art and whatever there is
between.
So if after a final you feel like a
hearty vegetarian meal, try The
Grit at its new location on Prince
Street. Tell ’em Dev sent you, and
they’ll probably only look at you
funny.
Black life depicted in 3 plays
The Black Theatrical Ensemble
will present three one-act plays to
night at Georgia Hall in the Tate
Center. “Born With a Tan” will in
clude productions of “Missing
Pieces,” “Jungle Bunnies" and
“Misunderstandings.”
Thom Ellis, assistant professor
of drama and director of “Jungle
Bunnies” and “Missing Pieces,”
said the play deals with a variety of
topics on black life.
He said the plays “Misunder
standings” and “Missing Pieces”
are about “how blacks tend to mis
understand each other and antago
nize each other,” respectively.
The Black Theatrical Ensemble
The Black Theatrical
Ensemble is sponsored
by Minority Affairs.
is a student drama group spon
sored by Minority Affairs. The en
semble has been working on the
production for six weeks. The cast
and production is made up of
around 20 people.
“Bom With a Tan” will start at 8
p.m. in Georgia Hall of the Tate
Center and admission is free.
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Contest Reporter
By this time Wednesday the
closets of two University stu
dents will be a little more full.
Local retailer Dick Fergu
sons and trends magazine
are co-sponsoring The Great
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Contest. The contest, which
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Grand prize for the contest
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