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Section B • Page 3
The University Daily Kansan
thursday, October 26, 2000
New bar offers classy experience
By Lindsay Kilion
and Matt Merkel-Hess
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Opening a new business without advertising might not seem like the best business plan, but it's worked for Abe and Jake's Landing, a new night spot next to the Lawrence Riverfront Mall on 6th Street.
Patrons gather around the bar at Abe and Jake's Landing, a new business next to the Lawrence Riverfront Mall on 6th Street. Beginning Saturday, it will also feature a coffee shop and more. Photo by Jamie Roper/KANSAN
Abe and Jake's opened its bar last month and beginning Saturday, it will also feature a coffee shop, candy store, art gallery, antique shop, soda fountain and ice cream parlor.
Ryan Holm
Abe and Jake's is located in the renovated Consolidated Barb Wire building, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. The old factory is now bathed in the warm glow of hardwoods and bronze art, which has proved popular with students.
Omaha, Neb., junior
Ryan Holm, Omaha, Neb., Junior,
said Abe and Jake's was trying to
cater to an older crowd.
"If I was going to take a girl out for a drink, I would take her there," he said. "It's not your typical Lawrence bar."
"It's not your typical Lawrence bar.
Holm said one drawback was that it was expensive — so he probably wouldn't stay there all night.
Owner Mike Elwalt started work on the building 10 years ago when the mall was almost finished. The 24,000 square foot area houses a vast collection of art, including huge bronze frogs, pigs and a Javahawk playing basketball.
He said that even though he hadn't advertised, business was steady and he hoped the atmosphere, interior and location on the river would keep customers coming back.
Sara Gillham, Germantown,
Tenn., junior, said that the bar was
refreshing because it wasn't really
a place a person would see leopard
skin and tube tops.
Rachel Hardesty, a Lawrence resident who is a waitress at Abe and Jake's, said she was impressed by renovations and said people should stop by at least once just to see the building.
"It a little bit more classy than other Lawrence bars," she said. "It would really appeal to upperclassman and grad students."
"When I walked in the first time my jaw dropped," she said. "The whole package is really neat because you can go there with a
bunch of friends or just one person and have a good time."
Abe and Jake's is open Tuesday through Saturday evenings for 21 and older. The pub offers blues music on Thursdays, piano and bass early on Fridays and a dance band later that night.
Edited by Amy Randolph
Local musicians collaborate to open 'Doors'
By Steven Piatt
Special to the Kansan
Jim Morrison is alive and well. Well, not really.
But for 25 songs at 10 p.m. Sunday at the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St., his spirit will be bowling at the moon.
Billed as the "Doorz Resurrection," members of local bands have come together to deliver a musical costume concert for Halloween.
The four-piece tribute to the Doors consists of keyboardist Ben Singer from Embious Trio, drummer Matt Miner of Four Score, guitar soloist Derek Smith and vocalist Cory Phillips of the New World Gypsies.
Phillips, Lawrence's free-spirited, bare-chested, barefoot chub in black jeans, bears a haunting resemblance to Morrison. He did not have to stretch too far to act for this show, but he did. Phillips has read Doors biographies, listened to every Doors CD, bootleg concert tape and anthology that exists, and watched movies and dusty concert videos.
"He's submersed himself in Morrison's soul for
two months for this show," said Steve Danner of Puss Schrödinger Entertainment and manager of Phillips' band, the New World Gypsies. "It's gotten to the point that Lawrence's tight-knit community can't tell where Jim ends and Cory begins."
Topeka producer John "Brer" Cabrera has come out of retirement to produce the show.
Cabrerra worked with Singer and Miner when he was production engineer for their former band, Einstein Electric. He has been following Phillips' career closely, and news of combination of these
the commitment of musicians made it an easy sell for him.
"I knew this was an eventuality," he said. "And the second I caught wind of Cory as Jim Morrison, I told them I would run their sound for free if I had to, just to be a part of it."
wnat "it" has become is a time-warp back to a
bygone era. Liquid lights bubble across the screen as back lighting illuminates the four-piece throwback to Los Angeles 1969.
Women burst onto the stage and pour champagne on their bodies for one dance with the gyrating, leather-clad, dark prince of poetic genius, only to be whisked away by a uniformed police officer. Few have gone to such great lengths just to don an October mask.
stan Sheldon, former bassist for Peter Frampton and member of local band Son Venezuela, wasn't surprised to hear that Phillips was planning this project.
"I've known Cory for a long time, and his dedication and faithfulness to the ground-breaking music of the '60s and '70s are elements sadly missing from most of the younger musicians recording today," Sheldon said. "A lot of musicians talk about their influences, but few actually display that influence with a genuine passion for what came before them. Cory is one musician that does."
By Meghan Bainum and Debra Steele write@kansan.com
Kansas staff writers
Transyivanian transvestites will be out in full force tonight at the Kansas Union Ballroom — and it's a good bet they will be doing the Time Warp.
All of the freaky festivities are for the Student Union Association's annual showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show and will take place at 9 tonight at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
- Edited by Shawn Hutchinson
Rocky Horror Veteran Megan McQueen, Alma sophomore, said the event was not to be missed.
"Everyone is excited about it," she said. "People dress up and you feel like you're part of the movie."
Another way audience members get into the Rocky Horror experience is with prop packs, which included rice, burnt toast, water guns and newspapers. Viewers throw the objects at the screen at different points in the movie.
Angela Cox, feature films coordinator for SUA, said that the movie was an interactive experience.
"It isn't just a movie you sit down and watch," the Wichita junior said. "It's like going to a party."
McQueen said that the prop packs would be another reason students should take the Rocky Horror plunge.
"You will never ever get to throw stuff at a movie screen without getting thrown out of the theater," she said. "So pay the $6, get the prop pack and throw all the cool stuff at the screen."
The fee also covers students' entrance to the movie, which starts at 11 p.m. Before it begins, students can learn the "Time Warp Dance"—the big dance number featured in the movie, as well as learn all the callback phrases to yell at the screen after certain bits of dialogue.
A costume contest and a DJ spinning tunes will complete the *Rocky Horror* mood. Students can dress as characters from the movie or in whatever costume they desire. Winners of the costume contest will receive prizes ranging from *Rocky Horror* T-shirts to gag gifts from Priscilla's.
Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Rakes for People in Crowdwatch Watching the Rocky Horror Picture Show
1. Don't make fun of those who choose to dress as characters from the movie no matter what they are wearing.
2. In the *Rocky* horror world, strange is not always bad.
2. Don't get jealous if you have a oostime similar to somebody else a'. There are only a limited number of roles in the movies, so they aren't really over yet he smooth Frank N. Furtune?
How to Dress for Success
3. Obey the rules. Don't throw your props a people and generally have a good time.
4. Don't constantly call Brad Majors by nickname, its boring — be inventive!)
Basic Rocky Horror Picture Show costume
**wildly**!
1. Brad Majors and Janet Weiss — Go early retro 1970s in some conservative polyester outfits. Janet wears white shoes with a matching purse.
2. Columbia — We wear a black jacket and black shorts, fishnet stockings, turquoise ankleocks and some tap shoes covered in glitter. Add a sequined top hat and a dog collar.
3. Frank N. Furter — Put on a black curly wig, black lace corset, garters, fishnets, black skin cape, platform shoes, a bracelet, an ankle bracelet, or for all.
4. Magenta — Find a maid's costume,
carly curly wig, flannel stockings and
a hat.
5. Riff Raff — Go formal with a black tux
tails with tales, black fingerless gloves, white
bloody vest and bald wig. Stuff the tux
jacket to make a hump.
6. Rocky Horror — Wear a blight wig, gold short with a red "R" and golden lace.
Source: The Kansas City Star
Cox said that the evening was fun and crazy, especially for newcomers who watched the veterans, some whom have been coming for years.
She said she saw the movie for the first time last year, and she was not left out of the excitement — even though she was a bit surprised by the Rocky Horror veterans' level of interaction.
"The movie starts, and you're so confused at first because they're talking back to the screen and yelling out bad words," Cox said. "It's a shock—but then you get into it yourself, and you're dancing the Time Warp before you know it."
— Edited by Shawn Hutchinson
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