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8 « The Red and Black Weekend » Friday, October 2, 1992
AFTER HOURS
7 have never met Napoleon
but I plan to find the time'
-Steely Dan
40 WATT
•Oct 2: Vic Cheenutt & Friends.
Vic opened a show for hyped but
hapless guitarist Richard Johnson
and blew him away.
•Oct 3: Hear It Love It Dance It.
Don & Dan said it's the coolest
since chinchilla fur coats, and Don
& Dan never lie. Regina Strap
opens.
•Oct 5: Scoot on down to the Watt
for the R.E.M. listening party, fol
lowed by disco with Jim McKay.
•Oct 6: The Chills with Freddy
Johnsons, no relation to Richard.
•Oct 7: David Ryan Harris is feeling
better, thank you, and Follow For
Now will be pumping their rock with
newcomers Mr. Right Now opening.
•Oct 8: 360's and Seven Hundred
Miles. Do what?
DOWNSTAIRS
Oct. 2: Dashboard Saviors, with
Mariee MacLeod in an acoustic
show.
Oct. 3: Shaking Ray Levis, and
Flap.
Oct. S: Simon Bonney, with J.D. on
guitar, and Put The Strange Damsel
to Work.
GEORGIA THEATRE
•Oct. 2: Free show with Sugar
Daddies, The Carvers, Blue Groove,
Kinchafoonee Cowboys, Northern
Lights, and, last but not least, the
formidable Plus Others.
•Oct 3: So crazy they're giving it
away!! Yet another free show with
the Crytn’ Cowgirls, Ben Reynolds,
Downright, and again, the intimidat
ing Plus Others.
•Oct 5 & 6: Widespread Panic
records a live set. and — horrors
bell— it's all sold out. I just
laughed...
•Oct 7: Where you want to be...
The Braves take on the Pirates in
the National League Playoffs.
Game starts at three, followed by
yet another free show with Soul
Hat, a country-blues-rock outfit from
Austin, Tex.
•Oct. 8: The return of Col. Bruce
Hampton & the Aquarium Rescue
Unit.
CHAMELEON CLUB
•Oat. 2: Uncle Green. Earthworms
open.vor Is it opens?
•Octi 3: Go Figures, and Athens'
favorite The Woggles
•Oct. 5: The Vouts. The perennial
Sugar Daddy opens with their
smooth jazz.
•Oct.Ellen James Society.
CLUB Ft^D
•Oct. 2: Call. Still the greatest
band ever,
•Oct. 3: Prepare to be scalded
when Rapid Boil opens for Jack O'
Nuts.
•Oct. 5: Mercy Union. Uncle
Messy opens.
HOYT STREET STATION
•Oct. 2:1 just dare you to keep up
with Shonen Knife.
•Oct. 6: Catfish Jonklns.
SUGARBOWL
•Oct. 2: Chris & Dave are gonna
be humiliated by the ultra-cool
Normaltown Flyers.
•Oct. 3: It seems I owe Jay
Memory & Bubba Doan an apology.
•Oct. S: Nathan Sheppard. Uh ..hey
man...can you do "Panama Red"
again?
•Oct. 6: Dollar Night with The
Barfly*.
LOWERY'S
•Oct. 2: Two for One drinks with
Animal Farm. Please Drink
Responsibly.
-Parker C. "Mind Bomb" Smith
OLD TIME WEEK
Oct. 3: The Ginkgo Jamboree plays
all day downtown. Dr. Horsehair's
Old-Time Minstrel Show will provide
some folk music in College Square
starting around 10 a.m. Then, from
7 to 8:30 that night, local legend
John Berry will play on top of the
College Avenue parking deck.
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TATE CENTER THEATER (542-
3816)
• Frlday-Saturday: Daughters of the
Dust. O.K., so this Isn't entirely
mainstream, but I think it's wonder
ful that Cinematic Arts is bringing
this profoundly beautiful film by
Julie Dash as a weekend movie.
Sure to be an important cinematic
experience.
• Midnight (Friday-Saturday):
Better Off Dead Turn off your mind,
relax, and laugh yourself silly in this
mindlessly fun comedy.
• Sunday: Solaris. This sci-fi spec
tacle by Russian director Andrei
Tarkovsky is a definite big-screen
event. A guaranteed mind blower!
• Monday: The Preston Sturges po
litical and Hollywood satires of “The
Great McGinty’ and "Sullivan's
Travels."
• Tuesday: Two more madcap
Sturges comedies: “The Lady Eve"
and “The Palm Beach Story.” This
Is a unique entertainment/educa
tional opportunity for the entire cam
pus community.
• Wednesday: Manhattan. Woody
Allen's wide screen masterpiece is
perhaps the greatest portrait of
American culture yet made. This Is
so epic, it's worth seeing twice in a
row!
• Thursday: LA. Story. To contrast
the essence of the Northeast, Steve
Martin's West Coast comedy is
equally hilarious, touching, and In
sightful. I lived In Los Angeles for
11 years, and let me just say that
Martin nails the scenario on the
head.
BEECHWOOD CINEMA (546-1011)
• Mr. Baseball. Tom Selleck stars
as a run-down American baseball
player who accepts a position on a
Japanese team with all of the mad
cap cultural conflicts that go along
with it. But I'm sure everything will
start working out, they'll win the
championship, Selleck will learn
deeply valuable lessons about
mankind, and he'll decide to remain
on the team for the next season.
• Captain Ron. I haven't seen it, so
I guess I shouldn't prejudge. It's
just that the idea of Kurt Russell as
a drunken sailor causing problems
for Martin Short and family makes
me seasick.
• School Ties. Thank the vast
empty universe that I'm in college.
• Husbands and Wives: Can you be
lieve it? Woody is actually making a
profit from from his latest rendering
of existential relationships.
GEORGIA SQUARE MALL (inside:
543-1632/ outside: 548-9460)
• The Last of the Mohicans. I've
taken a lot of slack for my ruthless
pan of this boring tour de nothing
ness. Believe me when I say that
Daniel Day-Lewis Is completely
breathg/V/ng, for when I snore, I in
hale very deeply.
• Mr. Saturday Night. This is over-
the-top sappiness interspersed with
a few funny comedy routines by Billy
Crystal. Wait for the video.
• Hero. This is, by far, the grandest
Hollywood movie to come out In a
long time. I laughed, I cried, I gave
birth.
• The Mighty Ducks. Emilio
Estevez, the brilliant writer/direc
tor/star of such classics as
"Wisdom" and “Men at Work," stars
as some average yuppie guy who's
sentenced to manage a youngster's
hockey team for community service.
• Bob Roberts. Still believe that the
American political system acts in
honesty and integrity? See this
truth-telling flick and you'll agree
that cheap land in Iceland keeps
looking better and better.
• Sarafina: I’ll get to this Whoopi
Goldberg anti-apartheid musical over
the weekend and give you a full re
port next week.
• Innocent Blood. I’m avoiding this
like leeches in my spaghetti.
Basically, some vampchick bites
and kills gangsters, forgets to kill
one, he becomes an evil vampgang-
ster, she gains the trust of a detec
tive by sleeping with him wlthoug
biting him, and then they go out to
kill evil vamp-gangsters. I can't wait.
• Sneakers. It turns out that Dan
Aykroyd collects high-tech surveil
lance equipment in real life. So
that's how he got the part in the film.
• Singles. The hip, lighthearted
Cameron Crowe comedy is a must for
the college relationship scene.
ALPS CINEMA (548-5256)
• 7:30: Prelude to a Klee. If you
haven't seen this yet, you should
give it a chance. Looking back at the
blandness of the '92 cinematic sum
mer, this beautiful film shines as one
of my fondest memories.
• 9:45: Basic Instinct. Just when I
thought it was out, they pull It back
in! No thanks, I've already had my
shock-value experience.
• Saturday-Sunday: 1:30 & 5:10 is
Beauty and the Beast. 3:20 is
Pinocchlo. From Glossy to Eerie.
CLASSIC TRIPLE (543-6543)
• Lethal Weapon III. Positives and
negatives, together again.
• Patriot Games. I have nothing to
say except that I wish it would go
away.
• Stay Tuned. Turn it off.
• Housesitter. Go see the Preston
Sturges film festival at the Tate the
ater this Monday-Tuesday to see
what a real screwball comedy is all
about.
— Jason “Eight Sequels" Wells
The Normaltown Flyers, fresh off another appearance on the
Nashville Network, will play at the Sugar Bowl tonight Better
catch these guys while you can...local stars keep leaving town,
and they may be big enough to leave next.
North Ga. folk festival
is all-day entertainment
By JANELL HOBSON
Staff Writer
Georgia Old Time
Week ends tomorrow
with the ninth annual
North Georgia Folk
Festival, an all-day cele
bration with music,
dance, crafts, and food.
The festival at Sandy
Creek Park will begin at
1 p.m. and last until
about 9 p.m.
Ned Bridges, the
Concert Committee
Chairman of Athens Folk
Music and Dance
Society, said, “I’m very
excited about this festi
val. It’s a serious event,
one of the largest in the
Southeast, and it’s good
every year.’
Bridges, who has been
involved with the folk
festival for all nine of its
years, also said the per
formers are all volun
teers, invited by AFMDS, _
o W f h aT ntth * P90ple The North Georgia Folk Festival is
“We have no profes- today at Sandy Creek Park.
sionals in the show," he
said, “And just about everyone may
have been a student at the
University."
In addition to performances,
there will be 25 visual artists,
demonstrating crafts such as
blacksmithing, weaving, and quilt
ing and selling their wares. There
will also be food served, represent
ing authentic Southern culture,
from Cajun food to soul food, festi
val coordinator Angela Kudon said.
She added that the show itself
will include a cultural variety of
Southern music and dance perfor
mances.
“(Students) could learn a lot
about North Georgia history," she
said. “They’ll hear blues, blue-
grass, gospel, an old-time string
band, and popular folk music.”
Kudon also said that at least
five different dances - from square
dancing to an original African-
American dance - will be show
cased.
“It’s a real cultural heritage fes
tival," she said.
The festival performances on
the main stage will open with the
Hard Luck String Band, will con
tinue with various musical groups
such as the folk trio The Warblers,
the Brown’s Chapel Choir, a gospel
group, and the Bullfrog doggers,
and will close with Hair of the Dog,
an Atlanta band.
The smaller Campfire Stage will
showcase individual musicians,
storytellers, and a show by magi
cian Doc Johnson.
“We’re really honored to be
here," said Katie Ford, a Tennessee
native and singer-guitarist in The
Warblers. This is the most unique
gathering in Athens emphasizing
all the music and crafts in this re
gion; it’s real eclectic."
Ford, who is performing with
two University alumni, encourages
students to come out and spend the
day.
Kudon said she hopes students
will come and enjoy the show.
“The music performed on stage
is the basis for most popular music,
so students can come out and lis
ten," she said. "This would be both
educational and entertaining.”
Tickets are $6 for adults, $3 for
children ago 7 to 12, free for chil
dren under 7, and are available at
the Sandy Creek Park main gate.
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Educator
• Present career
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For additional information contact:
The Career Planning &
Placement Center
542-3375
Athens, Georgia
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