24 • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WHAT'S HAPPENING
WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 2004
JULY 14
The Lawrence City Band is playing tonight at South Park, 11th and Massachusetts streets. The outdoor concert is open to all ages and is free.
Pickin Up and Movin On will include stories of the Underground Railroad told by Tracy Milsap. The presentation will appeal to children ages 5 to 12 and is open to all ages. The presentation is free and will begin at 10:30 a.m.
A Gallery Concert featuring John Jarvis will take place tonight at Signs of Life, 722 Massachusetts St. The concert is open to all ages and free. It starts at 7 p.m.
Bagheera and Raging Hormones will play at 9 p.m. at The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St. The rock and punk concert is open to all ages.
JULY 15
311 will perform at Verizon Wireless Ampitheatre, 633 N. 130th St., Bonner Springs, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the all ages show cost $32.
Gang of Hours will play at The Jazzhaus, 926 1/2 Massachusetts St. The rock concert starts at 10 p.m. and is 21 and over. The cost is $3.
NEON will be at The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St. The 18 and over event starts at 10 p.m. and will include a mix of '80s pop, electro, Hip-Hop and punk music. Tickets are $5. Drink specials include $0.75 draws and $2.50 double wells.
The Sidewalk Sale will begin in downtown Lawrence, Massachusetts St., between 6th and 11th streets. Downtown stores looking to clear out summer left-overs will display merchandise outside their store. Stores open at 8:30 a.m. and close at 6 p.m.
JULY 16
She Stoops to Conquer, a play by Oliver Goldsmith, starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Inge Theatre, Murphy Hall, University of Kansas. The Kansas Summer Theatre will be performing its version of the 18th century play through July 25. Tickets cost $12.
The Band That Saved the World will play at the Jazzhaus, 926 1/2 Massachusetts St. The funk and rock concert starts at 10 p.m. and is 21 and over. The cost is $5.
Singer and songwriter Kyle Morelan will perform at Signs of Life, 722 Massachusetts St. The performance will include live music, coffee, books and art. The show is free and open to all ages.
Shameless will be at The Eighth Street Tap Room, 801 New Hampshire St. Two DJs will spin retro, electro and disco music. The dance concert is 21 and over and the cost is $2.
DINING OUT
75th Street Brewery revives tough restaurant location
In the parking lot of a Hy-Vee, where Emerson Biggins Sports Bar and Grill used to be, 75th Street Brewery has taken over. The bar and grill revived the location that was often overlooked into an exciting and delicious restaurant with an interesting menu and a comfortable atmosphere. One of the most interesting spots in the entire restaurant is the exposed cooper brewing machinery behind the bar.
The 75th Street Brewery offers up some classic bar and grill favorites like chicken tenders, sandwiches and burgers. Their "Brewen," an average sized Rueben sandwich, is not spectacular, but tastes delicious nonetheless. A variety of sides, including cottage cheese, compliment the corned beef and sauerkraut sandwich. The sauerkraut was
75TH STREET BREWERY
Where: 3512 Clinton Parkway
Business hours: 11 a.m. to 2 a.m.
Kitchen hours: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Grade: B+
really the stand out of the sandwich and was the perfect combination of crunchy and cooked. The sandwich wasn't that large for it's price of $7.50, even though it had a generous amount of meat.
If you are looking for something a little different, Mama's Mac and Cheese is a rich and delicious dish that delivers. This isn't your boxed macaroni either. Jumbo shell pasta, mozzarella, provolone and cheddar cream sauce are topped with bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese. It was creamy and crunchy at the same time, although the cheese could be a
little overwhelming. The dish is also served with a big chunk of toasted bread. The dish cost $7.95 and served up a large amount of food. Chicken or broccoli could be added for $1.50 and would make a nice addition to the cheesy pasta.
Other menu options include a variety of appetizers, salads, pasta entrees and their huge list of beers. The service was friendly enough and outdoor seating in a fenced off patio area created a nice ambiance, even though traffic on Clinton Parkway was rumbling in the background. Plus, as with almost any restaurant, outside patrons end up losing out on some of the service inside eaters get. Overall, if you are looking for a classic bar and grill on the west side of Lawrence, 75th Street Brewery will deliver.
Meagan Kelleher
BOOK REVIEW
Berry's 'Remembering' stirs readers' emotions throughout
The novel Remembering is my first encounter with author Wendell Berry. The range of emotion he expressed and the broad spectrum of issues he explored in a mere 100 pages were surprising.
The focus of this book is Andy Catlett's journey from an agricultural convention in San Francisco, where the participants are interested in "academic careerism and the politics and business of agriculture" to his farm in Port William, Ky.
Andy lost his right hand while fixing a picker during harvest. Anger at the injury creates a rift between Andy and his wife and kids. That hand was his connection to the soil. It was his partner in expressing affection to his wife and children and in completing the day's myriad chores. It was his bond to others
'REMEMBERING'
Author: Wendell Berry
■ Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, also available from Counterpoi in Three Short Novels
Grade: A
Regaining that hold is the purpose of Andy's journey. Andy's memory of past lives reveals a kinship between his forbears and the land that contrasts deeply with the great disconnect he now feels between himself and everything else.
when a handshake silently sealed a deal and said thanks.
his machines, an ulcer, an eternal debt to creditors and no neighbors.
He recalls Bill Meikelberger's 2,000 acre farm, which he visited while working for the periodical Scientific Farming. Andy felt a cold sterility on the farm. Meikel伯贤 lived there with his wife,
Andy found comfort in the small, 80-acre spread of Isaac. His old parents and young children each had a place on the farm. The Amish community, made up of families and farms like Isaac's had all it needed.
By patching together his past, Andy mends the present.
Berry's Remembering is worthy of your time.
Not your typical summer-beach fare. Remembering explores history and family, grief and anger, old ways versus new ways, man versus machine, needs and wants and the decline of rural America and rural values.
— Wheaton Elkins
If you read this book, you will find that all of its words resemble the people and places it describes.
MUSIC REVIEW
Lali Puna's newest effort continues innovative ways
The newest album of Munich, Germany's electro-garage-pop band Lali Puna, Faking the Books, is just another addition to the mounting pile of good ones to come from Morr Music, a Berlin-based label.
The label includes Mum, the spooky group of Icelandic musicians who haunted Lawrence just two weeks ago and B. Fleishmann, whose uplifting vocals and groovy dance beats amount to a kind of existential self-help (for cool people, of course).
Faking the Books continues the band's impressive trend of innovating and progressing from album to album. The best songs feature waves of crackling bass fuzz and calculated but always relaxed
'FAKING THE BOOKS'
Artist: Lali Puna
Album: Faking the Books
Label: Morr Music
Grade: B
boreal beats, finally adorned with the concise beauty of pop melody. The soothing voice of lead singer Valerie Treveljahrs glides over the cacophony.
Her lyrics speak of a quiet desperation that Thoreau knew, but that only our post-modernists can so grinningly express. There is occasionally a poetic anxiety in the lyrics but, unfortunately, it often deteriorates to pessimism and complaint.
The vocals never sound whiney, even if the lyrics do,and the music is fascinating--although one may detect a latent dissatisfaction in the wavering of distorted guitars. Other lyrics speak of genuine estrangement, more so than histrionic depression, and these lyrics fit the music better. The lines that confess of "my whole past behind glass," from "Small Things," and the "strange news from outside," in "Geography-5," are disturbing, but true. At times, our own past is as foreign as another persons present.
There is something perpetually fresh about minimal break-beats in light of a verse-chorus structure any way, and such a reunion of songwriting and electronica promises even more genre-warping, laptop music in days to come. Lali Puna's Faking the Books is worth a listen, especially in the gloaming of a summer evening.
Matt Gertken