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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.102,NO.118
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1993
Lawrence's musical underground
The Outhouse provides the pulse of alternative music's local vein
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By James J. Reece Kansan staff writer
hey call it the pit.
hey can it the pic.
It's a dance floor like no other in Lawrence — a place where adrenaline is king.
where elbows pump, shoulders bump and bodies collide in a frenzy of shredded drummsticks and unraveled steel guitar strings. Where beer- and sweat-soaked dancers stumble away bleeding or are dragged away unconscious.
The pit is under the flat roof of The Outhouse, a 60-by-40-foot blue cinder block shell of a building four miles east of Lawrence.
Forget fraternity and sorority members bopping to a happy-faced disc jockey. Forget basketball players in snake-skin boots two-stepping in a cowboy
less of name, the music is what has given the secluded Outhouse a notoriety unmatched by other Lawrence venues.
"It's not the most cushy of accommodations," says Shelle Rosenfeld, assistant editor of The Note, a Lawrence-based music and entertainment periodical. "But it serves a purpose as a home for alternative music."
She says the Outhouse is a testing ground for new bands in Lawrence. It also showcases older bands. It catches some, like Nirvana, before their crusades into mainstream music. Others, like Fear, the early 1980s punk band that recently reuphol, appear on reconstruction tours. The Outhouse catches still others, like Ice T's Body Count, in mid-swing.
The recent Body Count and Fear politics had both the music and the politics
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Beer bill concerns merchants
By Ben Grove Kansan staff writer
Kansas liquor store representatives yesterday asked state legislators not to take away a vital part of their livelihood — the sale of certain types of beer.
That is what would happen, they said, if the House passed a bill that would allow grocery and convenience stores to sell "strong beer." Such stores now only can sell beer with 3.2 percent alcohol or less. Only liquor stores can sell beer with
owners are worried the legislature rob them of much of that
*store owners told the House and State Affairs Committee much as half of their sales or sales.
incensed as a sole proprietor rail store that the big chains ill hundreds and thousands of sal that they must take 50 pery beer business to show a said Patricia Oppitz, a Topeka store owner.
chita liquor store owner point that liquor stores are permitted to sell only alcoholic beverend that beer was only a small other stores' total sales.
in they take our one item it be devastating," Carl Mitchell it's like asking us to run a race, putting one of our legs off and us to be competitive."
Webb, owner of Webb's Fine Spirits, 800 W. 23rd St., was it of the 12 bill opponents to
in a college town," Webb said. young crowd. Young is beer." assession during the hearings also with the social issue of making with higher alcohol content at more locations.
the hearing, his said his busi-
so would be hit hard by the lega
1 because beer made up about
sent of his total sales.
as stated that the amount of ng stronger beer would not se—that it was simply a matter it was bought," said Francis a state and national Christian rance Union volunteer. "I dis Availability is the key here. Ifdy, you buy it."
r bill opponents warned the entatives that if grocery and nience stores got 5.0 beer, the ture would soon see a glut of nience store requests to sell any of liquor.
Pandora's box will be open," hardy Ferguson, president of s Retail Liquor Dealers Associ-
ponents of the bill spoke on ay. No action was taken.
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