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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WHAT'S HAPPENING
WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 2004
WEDNESDAY JULY 21
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith continues at Murphy Hall's Inge Theatre. The play runs today through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 5 p.m. Tickets are $12.
Sting and Annie Lennox will perform at the Verizon Wireless Ampitheatre, 633 N.130 St., Bonner Springs, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tickets range from $31.50 to $127. This is an all ages show.
Lawrence ministers will host a panel discussion on the history of African-American churches in Lawrence. The discussion begins at 7 p.m.at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. and will be accompanied by a photo display.
Bockman's Euphio and Joe Stickley's Blueprint will play at The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., beginning at 10 p.m. This is an 18 and older show.
THURSDAY JULY 22
NEON, the best in '80s pop, electro, hip hop and punk, will perform at the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., beginning at 10 p.m. The 18 and older show costs $5 at the door.
Comedian Ron White will perform at the Topeka Performing Arts Center, 214 SE 8th Ave., Topeka, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $32.75 for this all ages show.
The Cup, 6th and Monterey Way, will host Words by the Cup, a reading of local poets beginning at 7 p.m. Featured poets this week are Beth Dorsey and Shannon Musgrave.
FRIDAY, JULY 23
This is Needed. a benefit for the
Centennial Bowl Skate Park will run all day. The benefit to raise money for the Lawrence skate park will include a trick competition, barbecue, art show of hip-hop and skating culture and concert. Local skaters want to raise $50K to $75K for a concrete bowl or snake run to be installed adjacent to the existing park.
5-8 pm --- Barbecue/DJs spinning at the skate park, Centennial Park between Sixth and Ninth streets on Rockledge.
7 - 8 pm — "Best Trick" competition (prizes TBA).
8 - 10pm — Art opening at the Bottleneck. (pieces are for sale).
10 - close — Hip-hop artists. Currently scheduled: Rain Closet, E.M.C., Nezbeat, Al Japro, Unknown Stuntman (punk rock).
The music showcase will be $5 for people 21 and older and $7 for people 18 to 20. To enter the skate competition, it will be $5.
- Reggae at the Groove featuring New Primitives, worldbeat reggae from Minneapolis, Minn., will perform at
DINING OUT
Peking Taste offers good food for an even better price
One classic college staple is the cheap Chinese takeout meal. No matter what diet you may be on this week, Chinese food is the one item that can make almost anyone fall off the wagon. In Lawrence, there are a few good places to go, but no one makes it as fast or as cheap as Peking Taste, 2210 Iowa.
The menu lists 143 different food items, ranging in price from the lunch and dinner combinations for $3.45 to the $6.95 Chef's Specials.
The best bets at Peking Taste are the lunch and dinner combinations.
Choose from every type of Chinese food imaginable, throw in a crab rangoon or an egg roll and you are good to go for less than four bucks. Their sesame chicken comes with two heaping scoops of rice and a generous serving of chicken. The chicken pieces
PEKING TASTE
Address: 2210 Iowa Specialties: Chinese food Hours: Vary by day Grade: B
aren't small either, and the brown sauce that covers them is excellent. The sweetness of the sauce and the crunch of the chicken make for a great meal, and the chicken isn't even soggy from the sauce.
Another standout is the sweet and sour chicken. With or without vegetables, this meal comes with a huge tub of sweet and sour sauce and a load of chicken pieces. The option to pour on your own sauce is much appreciated, as your chicken doesn't end up drowning in the sauce.
The egg rolls and crab rangoes are not spectacular, but when dipped in the sweet and sour sauce you will have leftovers that taste great.
One dish that didn't live up to expectations was the beef and broccoli. The meat wasn't tender, but a little chewy, and the broccoli wasn't very high quality. It tasted as though it had been steamed for a little too long and was already wilting.
One drawback right now for Peking Taste is that it is going through some major renovations. Their lunch and dinner buffet is on hold until the restaurant is reworked. This creates a few problems, as takeout service is much slower and delivery isn't always available.
The location right behind Hastings is a little scary too. It's tucked back in the corner next to dumpsters and broken down cars, and the Bubba's bar crowd is always hanging out near by. Hopefully the renovations will class up a small restaurant with great deals and delicious food.
Meagan Kelleher
DVD REVIEW
Murder City Devil's tour video reveals little for fans
The Murder City Devils can be best described as a rock 'n' roll muscle car barreling down the road for a fiery crash into an ex-lover's home — leaving behind a trail of empty Jack Daniels bottles and broken, bleeding hearts. From 1996 to 2001 the Devils combined meaty guitars, a haunting organ, a throttling rhythm section and whiskey-soaked lyrics of lost love, truckers and mythology onto five albums of chaotic rock 'n' roll fury.
Instead of capturing this chaotic fury on film in The Murder City Devils in... Rock & Roll Won't Wait, James Bazan and Jeff Baker capture a chaotic mess while documenting the Devil's 2000 In Name and Blood tour.
Rock & Roll Won't Wait opens up with the standard "how the band
THE MURDER CITY DEVILS
**Title:** The Murder City Devils in . . .
Rock & Roll Won't Wait
Artist: the Muder City Devils
Director: James Bazan
Distributor: Music Video Distributors
Grade: C
started" interviews of members Coady Willis (drums), Leslie Hardy (keyboards), Dan Galluci (guitar), Nate Manny (guitar), Spencer Moody (vocals) and Gabe the Roadie and then moves onto the clips of live shows, including a scene from a Los Angeles performance where an overzealous female fan straddles Moody while performing the grinding ode to '70s rocker Iggy Pop,"Broken Glass."
Aside from the interviews and live
clips, the rest of Rock & Roll Won't Wait is camera running and collecting of a hodge-podge of inside jokes, youhad-to-be-theres and traditional rock star partying that is about as much fun to watch as being sober at a kegger.
Aside from a drunken run-in with NBA star Dennis Rodman backstage at a Pearl Jam concert (where the band chases down Rodman after he steals liquor from them) and seeing Spencer Moody deck a homophobic punk rocker, the band's antics leave the viewer scratching his head and saying "huh?"
Bazan and Baker hit all of the key points of the rock documentary — live clips, interviews and band antics — but none of these would interest anyone but a fan already familiar with the Murder City Devils.
— Neil Mulka
the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., beginning at 10 p.m. This is an 18 and older show.
Singer/Songwriter Mike Roberts will perform at Bambino's Italian Cafe, 1801 Massachusetts St., from 6 to 9 p.m. This is a free, all ages show.
Cheyyene, The Billions and The Sound You Say will perform at the Jackpot Saloon and Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts St., beginning at 10 p.m. This is a 21 and older show and tickets are $5 at the door.
Ralph Stanley and His Clinch Mountain Boys perform at Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St. beginning at 7:30 p.m. Stanley is a 77-year-old Bluegrass Hall of Fame legend. Tickets are $23-$27 for this all ages
show.
SATURDAY, JULY 24
Incubus and The Vines will perform at Kemper Arena in Kansas City beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the all ages show are $33.50.
Swing Canyon will perform at the Jazzhaus, 926 1/2 Massachusetts St. beginning at 10 p.m. Tickets for the 21 and older show are $4.
Cairo on the Kaw X, a Middle Eastern dance festival, will perform at the Lawrence Community Theatre, 1501 New Hampshire St., beginning at 8 p.m. This is the 10th Annual Middle Eastern Concert, which runs through Sunday.
Trick Bag will perform at Stu's
Midtown Tavern, 925 Iowa St., beginning at 9 p.m. Tickets are $4 for this mix of funk, blues and classic rock.
SUNDAY JULY 25
Bullfrogs "Live," 4115 Southwest Huntoon in Topeka, will hold a CD release party for folk band On the Shoulders of Giants. It will be a 21 and older show.
Rock bands Finch, Recover, Counterfeit and 5 Speed will perform at The Bottleneck,
737 New Hampshire St. The doors will open at 8 p.m. and the cost will be $12.
Gaslight Tavern and Coffeehouse, Locust Street next to Johnny's Tavern, will host Dirty Boogie beginning at 10 p.m. The show, which features DJ Konsept spinning doo-wop, blues and old soul,