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• Saturday: The Woggles The
Penetrat ora Mondo Topless. The
Woggles are the original Athens punk.
Mondo Topless is a loud. fast, stupid,
cheesy, trashy, fun band from Philty.
They've got a single out on Atlanta's
Worrybird label that's fantastic' Get
there earty i$5)
• Monday: Btoodloss Jucifer. This is
Mark Arm of Mudhoney and members
of Lubricated Goat. My fnend Jim in
Pennsylvania would be dam happy
about that and would be banging at
the door at noon. Of course, he's irv
sane i hear Jucifer is great (S3)
• Wednesday: Fred Schneider. Yep.
the Fred Schneider of the B52s. Fred
gets the Rosecrans Props of the
Week for renumbering his roots and
plavm Athens The folks at the 40
Watt say he will be joined by an All
Star Lineup. Your guess is as good
as mine. i$8>
• Thursday: Evan & Jaron. Local
acoustic punks. I think vou should go
and mob them Why. I don't know. I'm
just wacky. Shoot me Please. i$5'
ATOMIC MUSIC MAU (5437114)
• Friday: Redneck Greece Detux
The Continentals. The way country is
supposed to be played Yeppers As
good as it gets
• Saturday: Hayride Podunk. Local
ROCK" *echo effect' ROCKOCK-CK-K!
Hayride plays a big rock sound that
won't let you down
• Monday: Mecca Normal 2 Foot
Flame.
• Tuesday: The Quietmen Tone Deaf
Radio Otd No 9.
• Wednesday: Let's Go Bowling.
Yeah, let s'"
Hayride
ALIEN'S HAMBURGERS (353-9341)
• Friday: House Beats.
• Saturday: House Party Hell.
• Monday: Underground Cabaret.
• Tuesday: Cheap As Hell Night. Yep.
you just can't beat it.
• Wednesday: Retro Disco.
• Thursday: Club X.
Trent 'out of town, so don 't call dar
nit wen. it's not hke you e\er do any
way. you just don t love me'
Rosecrans
'Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny
leather.’
- Lou Reed m *Venus m Fur “
D. T. S DOWN UNDER (543-9276)
• Friday: The Fountains. Just some
good Ol' rock n roil.
• Saturday: Rachel and Andy. Coders
and onginals
• Monday: King Daddy Zeb. King
Daddy Zeb plays New Orleans style
blues and funk.
• Tuesday: Tommy Gunn. Members of
the Shadowcaste and The Sessions
playing covers and onginals.
• Wednesday: Mark Wiggins.
• Thursday: Good Herbs. It's just
some good reggae.
FLANAGAN S (543-3183)
• Monday: Old Toby. More covers and
onginals. ($2)
• Tuesday: Neal Pattman Unplugged.
Hey. plug Neal back in. ($2)
GEORGIA THEATRE (353-3405)
• Friday: Nathan Sheppard Band.
Acoustic folk rock for the folk rocker in
all of us. I$4)
• Saturday: Soul Rebel. Free reggae
after the bike race.
• Wednesday: Old Toby. (S3)
• Thursday: Cravin Melon. (SI)
HALF MOON PUB (208-9712)
• Saturday: Day By The River. Day by
the River plays some biues-onented
Southern rock. ($2)
• Wednesday: Kingfish. ($2)
• Thursday: Jeet-Na-Ju. Expenmental
jazz and such. ($2)
HIGH HAT BLUES CLUB (549-5508)
• Friday: Quin Quo Quintet/ Fuzzy
Sprouts Big Fish Ensemble. Quin
Quo Quintet plays for the 6 p.m. hap
py hour. ($3)
• Saturday: The Fits /The Lot
Lizards The Gentle Readers
Stonybrooks/JuJu Root. The Gentle
Readers are an Atlantabased quintet
who put their own spin on Southern
rock. Stonybrooks and JuJu Root play
Chicago style blues. ($3)
• Monday: Dayroom. ($2)
• Tuesday: Hot Burrttos/The
Fountains. Folky. country rock. ($2)
• Wednesday: The Possibilities/
Kincaid. Kincaid plays cool punky stuff
if you're into indie rock. ($2)
• Thursday: Greg Ross and the
Immigrants, i S3)
THE LANDFILL (208-9815)
• Friday: EH Power/Freemasonry
- Heather 'Wee Willie Winkie’ Harvey
'One is never get involved in a land
war in Asia. "
- Wallace Shawn as Vizzini in 'The
Princess Bride.' explaining to Fezzik
and Inigo Montoya one of the two
famous rules.
LOWERY S (548-7573)
• Friday: Simpletons. Rock covers,
onginals and a loyal following.
• Saturday: Simpletons Simpletons
= Lowery's. Rock covers and onginals.
• Monday: free pool.
• Tuesday: Free Pool.
• Wednesday: FREE POOL'!!
• Thursday: Simpletons. Rock covers
and onginals. The joke here is just too
easy to make. Try it.
THE NIGHT OWL LOUNGE (543-
8081)
• Friday: Isingard. Rock n' roll.
Pronounce rock “rawk."
• Saturday: Contagious.
Contagious, the super country band.
Contagious, the music. Contagious,
the pneumonic strain of the black
death. Ergo Contagious, the boot
scoot event of the weekend. Abbott
& Costello dialogue that never made
the cut: “What is that thar music?"
“Contagious." “Yer right, but what’s
the name of the band?'
ROADHOUSE (613-2324)
• Saturday: Brides of Jesus. The
band released a CD recently.
“Who’s Gonna Set You Free?" Alas,
no nuns playing death metal
(Supposedly there's a problem with
that m Norway, where the term
“death metal" gets taken literally)
It's unusually heavenly rock 'n' roll,
anyway.
THE BOOT (543 0470)
• Friday: Lance Halsey and the
High Life. I bet if they play 'Magic
Carpet Ride." the place gets really
cold and women in bikinis appear.
Acoustic country and classic rock.
• Saturday: Lance Halsey and the
High Life. Acoustic country and clas
sic rock.
WASHINGTON STREET TAVERN
(613 7817)
• Monday: Sunny Ledford. Bluesy
rock played by one energetic and
passionate guy.
- Nicki 'queen of the Bondo"
Hendrix
• Wednesday: Sandfly. $1)
• Thursday: Kip Jones. SI)
BONESHAKERS (5431555)
. re jooorenvy back on the
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'MW000 (546-1011)
oort II: The Next Kumite (R)
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• vou got it baby! Pat’Mr
. ta k cks some Daniei-san
- :rg*u extravagarja.
Pride (PG-13) 2:25 4 30. '
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tars Dar' Avkrovd and
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man’s yearrxngto bnng
down the successful Mack man. DhJ I
mention Dan Avkrovd stars 7
• Executive Decision (R) 2V5. 4:40.
7:10 and 9 40 p.m. Kurt Russell
saves a plane full of innocents from
some evil tenonsts. It's much better
than the similar 'Passenger 57." but
nothing toos *Oe Hard.* the greatest
action flick eve* iB)
• Flirting With Disaster (R) 2:10
4.20. 7 35 and 9:55 P.m Ben Stiller
(“Reality Bites* goes on a hilarious
search for his Mo ogical parents ana
brings Patnea A’quette and Tea Leoni
(TV's ‘The Naked Truth") along for the
ride. Mary Tyler Moore and AJan Aida
co-star. (B+>
• Mrs. Winterbourne (PG-13) 2:15.
4:35. 7.15 and 9 35 p.m. Ricki Lake,
better known as The Downfall Of Our
Civilization, is mistaken for a wealthy
dead ladv and gets down an funky
with Shtriey MacLame and Brendan
Fraser Movies like this make you
think. “You know. Celtic Pnde' looks
prettv good * .Di
• The Quest (PG-13) 2:30. 4 55
7:25 and 9 45 p.m. Jean Claude Yan
Damme tnes both acting and directing
m this advent-re about a fighting tour
nament m which the winner -s the onN
one who doesn t die. “Btoocsoon ill:
Another Doggone Kumite 7 *
The Quest
• Sgt BHko (PG) 2:35 arc * 3Com.
Steve Mart n passes the time as a
sergeant who doesn't nave the first
due about military tradition Co-star
Phil Hartman s much funnier tor free
on TV's News Radio * but if your de
cision is between *Biiko' arc 'Mrs.
Winterbourne ' jom this arm> &
• The Substitute (R) 2.
and 9.50p.m. An 'hcomprehens.C'e
mess that goes from dumb to dumber
to dumbest. Tom Berenger apparently
confused his movie about a canng
teacher with “Platoon II.“ (C-)
• A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
(R) 2:20. 4:45 7:05 and 9:25 p.m
Last week, it was printed that I gave
*Thm Une.* the disastrous wannabe
comedy-thniler starring Martin
Lawrence, a D. But it was. m every
essence, a typo. I would never a ant
my loyal readers to think I liked it that
much, in reality , and it does make a
Mg difference, this wreck of a movie
gets a (D-i.
- Josh 'Death Hates Me’ Massey
"Every Fnday night. 1 call your butt up
on the phone A deeper voice answers
and says U re not at N?me Now if u
think that im some too who n go 4
any hne. Then, honey, putdowr ail
your money — i d win every Dime. *
- Pnnce m 'irresistible B—*
COMMERCE DRIVE4N (3332486)
Shows start at S p.m. Fncay. Saturday
and Sunday
Th,$ double feature has beer here
since the \oon administration, so
there s no need for me to go mto
peat deta ’'ere
• Broken Arrow (R) 0-
• Rumble In the Bronx (R) A
Another Doubiefeature on Screen 2.
• The Birdcage (R) A
• Down Periscope (PG-13) And down
with this movie! Yes. that joke is sbii
iame. but it's also about the same
>evei of humor as this Kelsey
Grammer Lauren Holley nightmare
Another exampe: *Yo momma's so
fat. she got nng around the collar on
her tank too-’ <D
GEORGIA SQUARE MAU (inside 543
1632)
You mtgnc find it hard to be'ieye but
there s a limit to the w-ttv oon mots 1
car joie out on this page week after
week. So. I'm sharng the nside
movies with the ove/v and talented
Knsta over at the mall, who has no
end of wit. so court *our blessings.
• Fargo (R) 4:25 and 9 25 p.m.
Frances McDormaro the sexiest preg
nant woman alive, s devastating in
the Coen brothers scathing satire of
corruption in small town Minnesota,
where the air is cold and the women
are colder. (A-*- Krista: 'See it if you
haven't, and if even if you have, go
see it again and again, it'll be leaving
very soon."
• James and the Giant Peach (PG)
2. 3:40. 5:20. 7:10 axJ 9:15 p.m. A
giant peach stirs up trouble in stop-an
imation land. Krista: 'The jury's out
on James. I've heard good things
from people, but they liked 'Pnmal
Fear. too. So I can t ready trust
them.’
Muihotiand Falls'
• Muiholland Falls (R) 210. 4:35. 7
and 9:25 p.m. On. this looks promis
ing. Nick Norte and Melanie Griffith
star m what just might be more
painful than my Journalism 514 class.
Krista; Hey. t gets betted One of the
Penn brothers s in it. 1 think it s Chns.
and there's Michael Madsen and that
actor who s m everything. Chazz
Palmmten. and the mackdaddy of all
mackdaddys. John Malkovtch — a
good reason to see any film.'
• Primal Fear (Ri 2. 4:30. 7 and 9:30
p.m Krista; This stars Rchard Gere,
the king of mediocre moyies. as a
crooked lawyer Have you noticed tie s
a sure sign of mediocrity m film?" B-
• Up Close and Personal (PG-13)
2.05 and 7.05 p.m. (C-)
GEORGIA SQUARE MAU (outside
548-94601
• Angels and Insects (NR) 2. 4 25
and 7 p.m Trie felts at trie Mai; Ae
think it s from another country. It's
some kmd of artsy thing. Bntsh.
That s all we know We haven t seen it
yet.’ (My guess is this is just another
showing of "Fear.")
• The Birdcage (R) 2. 4:25. 7:05 and
9:25 p.m. (A-)
• Fear (R) 2:20. 4:35. 7:10 and 9:10
p.m. Mark) Mark terronzes anony
mous blonde Reese Witherspoon in
this atrocious 'Teen Fatal Attraction "
A 60-year-old Alycia Milano ("Who s
the Boss') co-stars. (D)
• Kids in trie Hall: Brain Candy (R)
9:25 p.m. The kids squish your heads
and waste your time m this mediocre
adaptation of their once cuttingedge
TV show. (C)
• Sunset Park (R) 2:15. 4:30. 7:10
and 9:15 p.m. Another ‘white person
saves black kids from violence, drugs,
loud music bad TV. constipation,
blah. blah, blah" deal stamng Rhea
Perlman and some black kids (the lat
ter is probably crucial to the formula!.
It would be hombly offensive if it
wasn't for its nifty R&B rap sound
track. How can you diss that 7
• Trie Truth about Cats and Dogs
(PG-13) 2:10. 4:30. 7:10 and 9:20
p.m. Another ‘attractive 20-some-
thirgs whine about their tedious lives
m superangstvision" deal stamrg
Janeane Garofaio and Uma Thurman.
If it s anything like the 765 similar
films that nave preceded it. we can
look forward to a keen altemateen
soundtrack How can you slag that?
GEORGIA THEATRE (549-9918)
• Dazed and Confused (R) iMonday
at 7 and 10 p.m.) I suggest seeing
Richard Lmkiater s TSiacker'i sopho
more film if you haven t before, but
what are the chances of that 7 (C+)
• Fritz trie Cat (X) i Tuesday at 7 and
10 p.m.) This is a twisted and per
verse, and thus fatnful. adaption of
the work of my nero Robert Crumb.
Ralph Bakshi The New Adyentures of
Mghty Mouse') provides the anima
tion. so feast your eyes on some titil
lating another word for cat that I can t
onnt here but would be really funny if I
could. I guess you II just nave to In
fur). (Oh. I don t rate pom. It somehow
sullies the purity of the art form.)
- Stephen Ho! Ho! Ho! Hof"
Robinson
‘She was in your apartment, big as
life. And I do mean 'big.''
- Reese to Travis about his lover
'Bunny' in 'Savannah'
TATE THEATER (54-UNION)
Most showtimes 3. 5:15. 7:30 and
9:45 p.m. Special showtimes listed.
• Friday/Saturday: Les Miserables
(R). 3. 6. and 9 p.m. This is not the
musical. I repeat: This is not the mu
sical. Jean Paul Belmondo stars in a
World War II version of the classic
Victor Hugo novel directed by Claude
Lelouch.
• Midnight: La Femme Nikita (R).
This is not the Bridget Fonda movie.
I repeat: This is not the Bridget
Fonda movie. This movie was the ba
sis for her film, "Point of No
Return." Anne Parillaud does it first,
in French, and better than us
Americans. (B+)
• Sunday: Toto the Hero (PG-13).
This is not a seqsel to "The Wizard
of Oz." I repeat: This is not a sequel
to ‘The Wizard of Oz." In this 1991
film, a paranoid man believes he
was switched at birth with his next-
door neighbor.
• Tuesday: Moscow Does Not
Believe in Tears (NR). 3. 6. and 9
p.m. This does not cost $2.1 repeat:
This does not cost $2. The second
free film in Tate s film senes from
Central and Eastern Europe is about
three girls who move to that big
Russian city to find their happiness.
• Wednesday: The Big Sleep (NR). I
will not reveal whodunit I repeat: I
will not reveal whodunit. Bogey and
Bacall learn to whistle all over again
m this classic Howard Hawks film
noir. based on the Phillip Marlowe
detective novel by Raymond
Chandler.
• Thursday: Midnight Cowboy (R).
This is not X rated anymore. I re
peat This is not X-rated anymore.
Dustin Hoffman, playing the slimy
Ratso Rizzo, and Jon Voight. playing
a male prostitute, hit the skids and
hit some taxi cabs with their fists in
this 1969 Best Picture Oscar win
ner.
- Benjamin 'Hey. I'm walking here!'
Can
■ morning with a
aught m my throat —
-fieri / choked
. of Sprang n 'For Want Of'
x Clarke County Pubkc
mry (613 3650): See a variety
if -cuding Valerie Frey’s
e . Senes.' paintings by crirt-
■if Montesson School
> b, Connee Flynn and a
■ enealogy exhibit, on dls
. . gh next week 2025
« Sky Coffee (3S+0B»0):
ewick s paintings, on dis
„gh April, make for fun con-
pieces on trios* awkward
■?s .not tftat I v* riad anyi.
- .- egr Ave
• Classic Center Theatre (357-
4444): Emma Kelly will headline a
benefit for Trie Athens Symphony on
Saturday Trie symphony will play be
fore and after Kelly s sets A Tea
Dance will be held from 5:30 to 7:30
p.m. Tenets are $50 Following trie
dance will be a Pops Concert at 8.
Tickets are $15. 300 N. Jackson St.
• Trie Clayton Street Ga*ery (549-
9299): Check out 'Trie Five Ring
Circus' before it ruts trie road May
15 The exhibit. Xeaturng local art. is
Dromobng a soon to-be-released CO
with local bands 351 Clayton St
• Department of Drama (542-2102):
Caroline Jackson Smith, associate
professor at Oberim College, will lec
ture on 'Adrienne Kennedy m Stages'
April 29 from 5 to 7 p.m. m trie Cellar
Theatre of trie Fine Arts Building
• Dogwood Cafe (548-5187): SoM
colors and shapes make Marc P
Johnson s oil paintings conventional,
yet cool. Vou car see them through
next week 311 £ Broad St
• Dream Catcher (543-2S18): S
Kqfk Martens paintings 'More Than
Abstract Larxjscaoes.' are on dKpley
until April 30. Also, check out Ryan
Berg's sculptures. 163 N. Jackson
St
• Espresso Roy ale Caffe (613-7449):
A fnend compared Ryan Sheadman s
pambngs to Edward Munch's. Stop by
and make your own ocirnon.
• Georgia Museum of Ait (542-
3255): Giorgio Bonsanb. director of
me Accaoemia Museum r Florence.
Italy, will give a public lecture. 'Giotto:
Scientific Discovenes from Recent
Restorations.' tonight at 7:30 m the
M Smith Griffith Auditorium. A recep
tion will follow
•Take a look at the multiple exhibits
at the museum — sculptures by Jane
Manus. Italian Renaissance paintings
Eurooean partings from the colfectwr
of Bob Jones University pambngs by
llustrators Albert Pfekriam Ryder and
Howard Pyle, pnntmaking from France
m the 1890s and Tiffany Glass.
• Trie Grit (5*3*592): Stencil draw
ings by Deoma Marm are on display.
• Guaranteed 12084)962): Jeff
Lackey s black and white photographs
nave a rainy-day feel
• frttwry Jo* s (5*83116): If you
haven t seen pambngs by John
Mobilio and Tim Conley, you'd better
hurry. They II be taken down Sunday.
• Lyndon House Art Center 613
3623): The 'Grant Show.' on display
untl Tuesday, features works by local
recipients of grants from the Georgia
Council for the Arts. 293 Hoyt St
• Morton Theatre (6133771): The
Athens Master Chorale will perform at
4 p.m Sunday Tickets are $5.
- Jenny ‘Sack to trie Future*
Summerour
'Aisf because I work for trie federal
government doesn t mean I know any
thing about cockroaches.'
- Scudy m 'The Xfiles'
• Oconee County Civic Center (769-
3902): The Oconee Cultural Arts
Foundabor displays more than 40
works in mixed media. 2661 Hog
Mountain Rd.
• Park Ha* (542-1261): Georgia
Review Poetry Reading by Jane Mead,
author of 'The Lord and the General
Dm of the World.' Tuesday. 4:15
p.m.. Room 265
• Potfemong Arts Center (5*2
1668): Faculty recital featuring Ronald
Wain on flute and Margaret Straw on
ptanc Monday at 8 p.m. m Ramsey
Ha*
•Facility members D»id
Starkweather cello, and Martha
Thomas, piano day Thursday at 8
p.m. in Ramsey Hall.
• Russel Library Auditorium (542
2846): Associate Professor Sandra
Pierson Pnor lectures 'A Woman's
Place Is n the Romance' Friday from
12:10 to 1 pjri.
• School of Music (5423737):
Amanda Kelly performs soprano.
Tuesday at 6 p.m. m Edge Hall
•Tma Auston. soprano, and Phillip
Sfkjitz. baritone, perform Wednesday
at 8 p.m. m Edge Hall.
•New Music and Dance Festival
Performance. Thursday. 8 p.m . Roger
and Phyllis Dancz Center for New
Music. Tickets are $4/7.
• State Botanic ai Gardens (542
1224): Rene Guenn s oil paintings.
Landscapes of Oconee County.' are
on display through Sunday.
• 'Nabve American Skills.' presenta
tion by Primitive Technologist Scott
Jones. Saturday, 9 a.m. Tickets are
$18/20 for non-members.
•'Earfy Farmers: An Introduction to
Southeastern Indian Agriculture.' a
lecture by Greg Keyes. Wednesday 7
p.m. Free Preregistrabon required
• Strand 15498074): John Wnght s
drawings 1625 S. Lumpkin St
• Tat* Gaffery (542-6396): Face to
Face: Love Has No Color.' a lecture by
Bryan Smith featuring the African
American Choral Ensemble. Monday.
8 p.m.. Tate Theater.
•Celebrate Japanese culture with
food, dance, music and more at Super
Japan Nght, Saturday from 6 to 8
p.m m Georgia Hall Tickets are $7.
•National Anxiety Disorders Screening
Day. Wednesday. tO a.m to 2 p.m..
Tate Reception Hall
•9th Annual Student Photography
Show in the galfery
• Visual Art* Building (542-1511):
The Ceiitnik's Southeast Invitational,
featuring groovy teapots by Matthew
Metz and l indn Sikoia. is on display
through May 10
• Student Ail Snciety presents a free
screening ol "mitonian" and 'low.'
dims, hy hiifnvsui lames Herbert.
Tuesday. I to p.m Room 116.
• Washington Street Tavern (613
7817): II yen tiequent this aunt you
might Ik. immuitnli/nd m on* ol Brian
Clean’s Ikowingk ol imtions
•Oil on l anvoo hy Ilnlly Walker 318
£. Washington VI
• William I ItMMiwun Gallery (5*2-
2468) luiidyWha' an inlet active
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HNntreily mil then Ogletre*