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1 ■ BEST BET They won't rock you too hard, and they're not particularly ex citing or frightening, but Low do play beautiful, hypnotic music that Is hard to resist. Let them take you under their spell at the 40 Watt tonight. The Red and Black • Wednesday, January 17, 1996 • 5 A&E Exhibit to feature African-American life By SUZANNE HATCH Staff Writer Stefanie Jackson, an associate professor of art at the University, will present a slide lecture of her artwork entitled “A Stone of Hope: Images of African- American Life" tonight at 6 p.m in Room 116 of the Visual Arts Building. The Museum Studies Program at the Georgia Museum of Art and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Week Committee are co sponsoring the lecture, which will feature slides portraying a series of Jackson’s oil paintings, etchings and lithographs. Along with the lecture, Jackson will present an exhibi tion of her hand-colored etchings and lithographs at the African- American Cultural Center. The prints in this exhibition are part of a larger series of works creat ed by the artist since 1976. It’s composed of mostly black and white images, but also includes two color prints. Jackson said her works are about African-American life and culture. “I am generally inspired by themes of survival and redemp tion within the African-American community," she said. “Caged in the Circus of Civilization” is an eight-color lithograph featured in the exhib it. Jackson said this work depicts her artistic vision of Detroit, the city in which she grew up. The lithograph “Dark Madonna of Desire Projects" de picts the triumph of motherhood within the public housing pro jects of New Orleans, Jackson said. Josephine Bloodgood, curator of the exhibit, said the works re flect the impact of the civil rights movement on American culture. “Jackson s work reveals a con sciousness in accord with the philosophy and depth of human ity of Dr. King himself," she said. Ft* Fine and Mellow: lithograph ATHENS MUSIC: Athens has become mainstream (i From page 1 As Athens contin*ie8 to garner national press, however, the city al most became a victim of its own and other cities' success, Clark said. “In the late '80s, the Atlanta scene started to pick up speed, while at the same time Athens kind of got watered down as bands moved there, simply so they could say they recorded in Athens," Clark said. If Athens is to overcome this feeling of malaise, Aaron said, it must rediscover what made it fa mous in the first place “Everything that Athens was has become part of the mainstream, so the challenge is what to do now to rebel against that,” Aaron said. Derogatis said he misses the chance to go to Athens when he in terviews its favorite sons, who now as often as not hold court for the media in more glamorous settings “The last time I interviewed (Michael) Stipe, we flew to Los Angeles to do it," Derogatis said. “I was disappointed that we didn't get to go to Athens again." Book asserts girls benefit from sports By MARC LANCASTER BOOK REVIEW Remember those Nike commercials from a few months ago with the little girls telling how much better their lives would lie if we let them “play sports”? A new book from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Madeliene Blais af firms the assertions of those young girls. “In These Girls, Hope Is A Muscle,” just out in paperback, recounts the story of the Amherst (Mass.) Regional High School girls basketball team’s quest for the 1993 state ti tle. But this is not a basketball book, per se. Before beginning this book, Blais was, by her own admission, mostly ignorant of sports. She explains in the prologue that as a girl grow ing up in the 1950’s, her athletic options were more than limited, so she never developed an interest in sports. Consequently, the story' is more a celebra tion of the girls as people, with the self-confi dence they pick up in basketball carrying over to their everyday struggles. The setting, Amherst, is a typical rural New England col lege town. Life is good, as the beer commer cials say. There is little to no crime, and ev eryone knows their neighbors. But there are behind-the-scenes troubles all over. Many of the 12 team members have been raised by a single parent or have di vorced parents. There are conflicts between the two best players on the team, Jamila Wideman and Jen Pariseau — problems which spill over to their friendship outside the gym. Wideman and Pariseau are the twin cen terpieces of the story, as seniors leading their team on and off the court. As juniors, the pair watched the team self-destruct in a playoff loss to arch-rival Northampton, but this year would be different. This would be their quest for a title. What really makes “In These Girls” an amazing book is the amount of access Blais has to the inner workings of the players and the team. She cites diary passages and details many of the girls’ private frustrations and tri umphs. While the surface of the story is the team's championship drive, the true message seems to be along the lines of what Nike was going for (without the com- mercialism ). These girls do in deed seem to feel pretty good about themselves and what they are do ing... without worrying much about such ’90’s teenage epi demics as AIDS, pregnancy or anorexia. They are be sieged by young girls — and boys — for auto graphs. They are recognized on the street. The community rallies behind them. I recom mend this book for any arrogant (mostly male) sports fans who believe funding wom en’s sports is a waste simply because most col legiate women’s sports programs don’t make money. That’s the point of this book — these girls will never play in the NBA, but I’d be willing to bet they get a lot more out of their high school playing experience than many young men who readily admit they see high school and college as mere stepping stones on the road to the professional ranks. These girls play the game for the right rea son. ‘Triple Snaps’ an insulting treat By C. TRENT ROSECRANS Staff Writer Okay, I admit it, sometimes I just can’t come up with the perfect momma joke, but that should be much easier with the release of “Triple Snaps," All you need to know about this book is on the front cover, which has a sample joke, “Your mother is so fat, she thinks gravy is a beverage,” and it reveals the forward is written by Ice-T. A snap, for those who don’t know, is what we used to call a “cut down” when I was young. Included in the book are the rules for snapping, which are: Never touch your opponent, choose a referee, snap in front of a crowd, and don’t spit. James Percelay, Monteria Ivey and Stephen Dweck, who go by the name of 2 Bros. & A White Guy, wrote and com- BOOK REVIEW piled this se ries of differ ent snaps. The three have already published two previous vol umes, “Snaps" and “Double Snaps," as ^ well as producing a “Snaps" special -for HBO, an anti-violence campaign 'for MTV, and a “Snaps” CD and CD-ROM. “Triple Snaps” includes some great jokes like, “I could have been your father, but the line was too long.” and “your fa ther is so stupid, when I told him to take the garbage out, he asked ‘Is it Mother's Day already?” Sure, there are some snaps, such as “Your father’s feet are so nasty, they have more crust than Pizza Hut,” which fall flat. But winners like “Your sister is so nasty, she thinks penicillin is a vita min." just make the whole thing worth while. THE LOWDOWN -Triple Snaps" by James Percelay, Monteria Ivey and Stephen Dweck Is the third Installment of the "Snaps" series. It's a great col lection of your mother... type jokes. Some are lame, but others are gems. Low turnout why few art films show in Athens By JOSH MASSEY Staff Writer When the Oscar nominations are an nounced next month, some selections may leave Athens residents confused. “Dead Man Walking?” Never heard of it. “Leaving Las Vegas?” They made a movie out of a Sheryl Crow song? “Richard III?” I never even saw “Richard” 1 or 2! Don’t worry, you weren’t in a cultural coma or sleepwalking through the movie theatres. Low-budget films, as these are, rarely make it to the Classic City. The local theaters have little or no say in the product they receive: this decision is left to the company’s corporate headquar ters. And when the executives look at the past performances of “art-house” films in Athens, its easy to see why Athens isn’t get ting a more diverse product. Quint Michael, an assistant manager at Beechwood Cinemas, cites the lackluster reception of such films as “Mighty Aphrodite” and “The Postman (II Postinoj.” “Barely anyone” showed up for the films, he said. “(Smaller) films usually last a week... if they’re lucky, two weeks." Kim Manning, a manager at Carrnike Georgia Square 5 (outside), has encoun tered the same problem. When the theatre played the low-budget films “Kids” and “Jeffrey,” only “about 200 people a week” bought tickets. “That’s pretty bad,” she said. Chip Recchio, a manager at Carrnike Georgia Square 4 (inside), said, “Many peo ple wait until after opening weekend to see a movie, but what they don’t realize is if they don’t go, there won’t be a second week end.” Many of the films that opened in larger markets last year, such as New York and Los Angeles, may be headed to Athens soon. “Sense and Sensibility," the Jane Austen adaptation starring Emma Thompson, “Mr. Holland's Opus," for which Richard Dreyfuss was nominated for a Golden Globe, and Kenneth Branagh’s lat est Shakespeare adaptation, “Othello," are headed to local theatres Friday. “Shakespeare movies usually come to town,” Recchio said, so Sir Ian McKellan’s World War I modernization of “Richard III” can also be expected in the coming months As for “Dead Man Walking" and “Leaving Las Vegas," arguably the most highly praised films of 1995. they will prob ably have to be nominated for multiple Academy Awards before seeing the light of day in Athens. “Vegas," the story of an al coholic (Nicolas Cagei who drinks himself to death, and “Dead Man," Tim Robbins death-row drama, have been very’ hard tickets to come by in Atlanta even though they consistently sell out every seat. MUSIC 40 Watt: Low/Rosewater Elizabeth Atomic Music Hall: Snapneck Carnival/Tone Deaf Radio Boneshakers: Retro Disco Inferno D.T.’s Down Under: The Sountains Flanagan's: Old Toby Half Moon Pub: Brides of Jesus W.A. Cooper's: Tommy Kittle and the Condors Washington Street Tavern: Colby Cardin MOVIES Alps: Get Shorty, Copy Cat Beechwood: Bio-Dome, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood. Dunston Checks In, Father of the Bride Part II, Four Rooms, Heat, Jumanji, The Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace, Tom and Huck, Two if By Sea Commerce Drive-In: Jumanji Georgia Square Mall: Grumpier Old Men, Nixon, Sabrina. Toy Story Georgia Square Mall (outside): The American President. Dracula: Dead and Loving It, Sudden Death, 12 Monkeys, Waiting to Exhale Georgia Theatre: Raising Arizona Tate Theater: Dreams WMMMMMMMMMMNMMMN All you wantedfor Christmas... 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