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University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 7, 1992
ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT
HAPPENINGS
BARS
Benchwarmers Sports Bar & Grill, 1601 W.23rd St.
Friday: Jack O'Pierce, 10.p.m.-1
10.a.m.; cover charge: 6
Saturday: Pop Poppins, 10.p.m.-1
10.a.m.; cover charge: 6
The Bottleneck
Bogarts of Lawrence
611 Vermont St.
Saturday: Lonesome Hounddogs,
9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.
cover charge: $3
The Bottleneck
737 New Hampshire St.
Friday: Nic Cosmos/Kents,
10 p.m.-2 a.m.; cover charge: $3
Saturday: Caribe, 10 p.m.-
2 a.m.; cover charge: $3
Monday: Open mike; 9:30 p.m.-
2 a.m.; no cover charge
Wednesday: Fang O'Love,
10 p.m.-2 a.m.
Dos Hombres, 815 New Hampshire St.
The Brass Apple, 3300 W. 15th St.
Tuesday: Karaoke night, p.m.-1
3 a.m.; no cover charge
Wednesday: Karaoke night, 10 p.m.; no cover charge
Flamingo Club, 501 N. Ninth St.
Friday, Saturday: topless
dancers, dnoon-1 a.m.
cover charge: $2 or a two-drink
minimum
Thursday Karaoken night
9 p.m.-2 a.m.; no cover charge
Monday: Poetry Slam, 7p.m.
The Jazzhaus of Lawrence, 926 1/2 Massachusetts St.
Henry T's Bar & Grill, 3520 W Sixth St.
Friday, Saturday: L.A. Rambers;
10 p.m.-1:30 a.m.
cover charge:$3
Wednesday: Brave Combo, 10
p.m.1-30 a.m.; cover charge: $3
Thursday: The Picadors, $1
n.a.m.
1:30 a.m.; cover charge: $3
Johnny's Tavern, 401 N. Second St.
Friday, Saturday: SocialCircle;
9:30 p.m-2 a.m.; cover charge:
$1
The Power Plant, 901 Mississippi St.
Friday, Sunday: alternative musicnight
Riverside Bar and Grill 520 N. Third St
Riverstone Bar and Grim
520 N. Third St.
Friday: NiteCrew
9 p.m.-1 a.m.; cover charge: $2
Saturday: Streets
9 p.m.-1 a.m.; cover charge: $2
Shiloh, 1003 E. 23rd St.
Friday, Saturday; cover rock; 9
p.m.-1 a.m.; cover charge: $3
Saturday; Dance lessons,
7:45-8:45 p.m.
ART EXHIBITIONS
The Yacht Club, 530 Wisconsin St
Tuesday: Karaoke night
9 p.m.-1 a.m.; no cover charge
Spencer Museum of Art Beyond the Floating World: Japanese Prints in the Twentieth Century runs through March 15
Mexican Retablo Painting:
The Art of Private Devotion
runs through March 8
Documenting the American Dream: FSA Photographs of the Great Depression runs through March 8
THEATER
Lawrence Arts Center
Ninth and Vermont streets
Saturday: 10:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.
Sunday: 1:30 p.m. & 3:30 p.m.
"American Tall Tales"
admission: $4
Inge Theater Tuesday, Saturday: "The Blonde"
8 p.m.: $3. students
KU Theater for Young People
Saturday: "Crying to Laugh"
Crafton-Premier Theater
2:30 & 7 p.m.; all tickets: $3
MUSIC
Friday, Saturday: Joshua Bell violin, Crafton-Prayer Theater 8.p.m.; tickets: $8 and $.50
Monday: Winter Concert: Jazz Ensemble I and KU Jazz Singers Crafton-Preyer Theater 7:30 p.m.; tickets: $2 students
The Lawrence Arts Center
200 W. 9th St.
Thursday: "A Celebration of the Life and Work of Langston Hughes";
7:30 p.m.; $5 donation
LITERARY EVENTS
CRAZY FER COUNTRY
By Kris Belden
NEDAY A STRANGER WITH A GEE-TAR RODE INTO TOWN.
'Light country' crosses over
Kansan staff writer
A town that until then was full of college students who listened to alternative pop music.
But over the airwaves, the stranger twanged his way into some of the lil' whippersnappers' hearts.
The stranger was country music, and the town could be Lawrence. More and more Americans are listening to "light country" artists like Garth Brooks, and college students are no exception.
"My parents listen to country music, and they said that I'd listen to it when I got older," said Jillene Wahl, College senior. "Sure enough, I do."
Country is everywhere in Lawrence, from jukeboxes at bars to student radio stations. Students are buying more country tapes and compact discs than ever, and some are even learning to dance to country music.
The recent Garth Brooks television special helped attract people to country music because Brooks came across as straightforward and likeable, MacWilliams said. The image country musicians present during interviews and in their music makes the music more appealing, he said.
"A lot of people are fed up with the over-slickness of pop music," said Bob McWilliams, announcer for the KANU "Flint Hills Special" radio show. "The mainstream, over-produced stuff is fairly impersonal. There's not much humanity in it."
Scott MacWilliams, Lawrence senior, runs the KJHK radio show, "Lawnchair Review," which features Cajun, Irish, bluegrass and country music. He said that more people than usual called to request country songs this semester.
Musicians like Brooks attract people who are not or ordinarily country music fans and do not like the twangy sound of most country music, MacWilliams said.
It is this human aspect of country music that attracts some students to country instead of Top 40 music, he said.
Karri Wene, Overland Park junior, said that it was good that country music is becoming more popular but that the kind of country music that is becoming popular had not really become so in its own right.
"It's bad that it has to come back on a more pop-
mic scale." Wene said.
Streetside Records employee Doug Shultz said that he had seen a recent increase in the number of college students buying country music.
Most students buy what Shultz called "light country" music. "Light country" includes music by artists such as Brooks, and does not have the "deep country" sound of artists like Hank Williams, he said.
Shultz said Brooks' recent popularity attracted college students to country music. Brooks has an unprecedented three albums on the country music charts at the same time. At the American Music Awards, Brooks was voted the best male country artist of 1991. His song "The Thunder Rolls" won top country single honors for last year, and his "No Fences" was voted best country album
Randy Travis, Clint Black and George Strait are also considered popular "light country" musicians.
Students sometimes act embarrassed when they buy the albums, Shultz said.
"They sort of apologize for it," Shultz said.
Susie Jauerning, Leavenworth sophomore, said she thought country music no longer had the traditional country sound.
"It's not aswangy as it used to be," she said.
Country music has more meaning than rock music, and the increasing number of younger country musicians makes it easier for college students to identify with it. Jaunergaid is.
Vern Oelschlag, owner of Shiloh, a country-western bar and dance club in Lawrence, said he had seen a sudden increase in college-age students attending the dances
"We've been getting a younger group here," he said.
One country music fan, Amy Stout, Wichita junior, has been going to Shiloh for at least two years.
"All through my school, I thought,
I'm the last person on God's green earth who will like country music," she said. "Never say never."
Garth Brooks, shown on a poster above, and other country music artists have become increasingly popular. Many local bars and night clubs play country music as much as they play traditional music.
Plot, script of 'Shining Through' don't sparkle
By Kris Belden
Kansanstaff reviewer
Take a passionate love affair and add to it a World War II spy mission. What sound like ingredients for a fan fiction do not deliver in "Shining Through."
The two plots in "Shining Through" are divided, not intertwined. The first half is comical and deals with the beginning of a relationship between Ed (Michael Douglas) and Linda (Melanie Griffith). The second half of the movie is an action-packed spy thriller. If these two elements would have been combined throughout the movie, it could have been excellent.
Except for Linda, none of the characters are fully developed. The first half of the movie depicts Linda anything but the average woman of the
★★★ Decent entertainment
Ratings:
★ Buy a few beers instead
★ Wait and rent the video
★ Decent entertainment
★ Don't miss it
late 1940s. She is clever, bold and honest. In fact, she is more daring than the woman of the late 1800s Griffith played in the movie "Working Girl." Ed remains a man of mystery throughout the movie.
Along with being underdeveloped, the script is at times very unrealistic.
passport or any border checks. Realistic? No. Especially since Linda and Ed have so many problems leaving Germany at the end of the movie.
When Linda goes to Germany as a spy, armed with a fancy fake-bottomed spy purse, she miraculously rides a train into Germany without a
But the movie is not without some positives. Any movie starring the duo of Griffith and Douglas is not all bad. Despite the underdeveloped plot, both are fantastic in their roles.
and the movie has a realistic and intense post-breakup confrontation. When Ed returns from the war after breaking up with Linda because of their differences concerning the war, the two first talk with a tone of forced civility. But as their anger increases, they squabble and cry.
"Shining Through" has great actors and a great scenario. But the underdeveloped plot and the poorly written script prevents the movie from being one of the season's blockbusters.
Billboard magazine sez:
TOP TWENTY ALBUMS
1. "Ropin' the Wind," *Garth Brooks*
2. "Nevermind," *Nirvana*
3. "No Fences," *Garth Brooks*
4. "Dangerous," *Michael Jackson*
5. "Cooleyhigharmony," *Boyz II Men*
- "C.M.B.." Color Me Badd
6. "C.M.B.," Color Me Badd
7. "Too Legit to Quit," Hammer
8. "Time, Love and Tenderness," Michael Bolton
9. "Achtung Baby," U2
10. "Metallica," Metallica
11. "Diamonds & Pearls" Pt.
11. Diamonds & Pearls, Prince
12. "Unforgettable," Natalie Cole
13. "Emotions," Mariah Carey
14. "We Can't Dance." Genesis
15. "Luck of the Draw," Bonnie Raitt
16. "Use Your Illusion I," Guns N' Roses
17. "Garth Brooks," Garth Brooks
18. "Use Your Illusion II," Guns N' Roses
19. "Waking Up the Neighbors," Bryan Adams
20. "It Only Hurts When I Cry," Dwight Yoakam
TOP TWENTY SINGLES
1. "I'm Too Sexy," Right Said Fred
2. "I Love Your Smile," Shanice
2. Blow Your Mind, Balance
3. "Diamonds & Pearls," Prince
and the N.P.G.
4. "Don't Let the sun Go Down on Me," George Michael e elton John.
5. "To Be With You," Mr. Big
6. "All Love, Color Me Badd"
7. "Tell Me What You Want Me To Do."
8. "Tevin Campbell"
8. "Remember the Time," Michael Jackson
9. "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Nirvana
10. "Can't Let Go," Mariah Carey
11. "Finally," CeCe Peniston
12. "Mysterious Ways," U2
13. "The Way I Feel About You," Karvn White
14. "Good For Me," Amy Grant
15. "Zleget 2 Quat, Hammer"
16. "Vibeology," Paula Abdul
18. Vineology, Mike Abun
19. "Keep It Comin.", Keith Sweat
17. "Keep It Comin," Keith Sweat
18. "I Can't Make You Love Me,"
Bonnie Raitt
19. "Masterpiece," Atlantic Starr
20. "Black or White," Michael Jackson
The Associated Press
MTV is here to stay, cable company learns the hard way
The cable television company that dropped MTV for a pay-per-view music video channel is learning to its craft, like MTV, rock 'n' roll, is here to stay.
Dallas-based Sammons Communications Inc., with about 50 cable systems in 19 states and 920,000 subscribers overall, on Jan. 1 dropped MTV from its systems serving Johnson City, Tenn.; Bensalem, Pa.; and Vineland, N.J.
The cut affected about 109,000 households. At the same time, Sammons hooked up the Video Jukebox Network, a Miami-based music video service which uses a 900-number call in system and charges up to $2.50 for each viewer request.
This was a Very Bad Idea, even though it made business sense. Instead of paying MTV for its service, say about 20 cents a subscriber, the cable system would actually receive a share of the jukebox earnings.
Good business, bad public relations: Viewers' reactions were instantaneous, vocal and outraged.
Grass-roots groups sprang up overnight, sponsoring call-in protests, rallies, petition drives, cable office picketing and other political ructions.
In Vineland and Bucks County, the Viewers Voice for MTV urged a boycott of movie and sports TV channels. It even pressured a local government to table Sammons system's license application until the issue was resolved.
Sen. Albert Gore Jr., D-Tenn., visited the T-Cities (Johnson City, Kingsport and Elizabethton) drumming up local support for a cable regulation bill that whizzed through the Senate last week, 73-18.
MTV, meanwhile, is trying to put the best face on things.
"Obviously, cable operators pay license fees to their valuable services, to ESPN and CNN and MTV," said Marshall Cohen, senior vice president for research and strategic planning at MTV Networks, the music channel's
parent.
"And MTV is certainly one of the most valuable services that a cable operator has to offer, especially when you consider the demographics of the 18-to 34-year-old, the 12 to 34," Cohen said.
Those are the homes that are the biggest subscribers to cable, Cohen said. "In the younger demographics, cable today is viewed almost as a necessity."