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This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM) at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Montana Kaimin, 1898-present by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Montana Kaimin Weekly Arts and Entertainment Guide • Nov. 19__25, 1996 EYE ® SPY ( Born in the Big Shy Missoula filmmaker Joel M. Rice j^es local talent and scenery for ... ^is feature-length debut about * brotherly love, punk rock and vampires. Eye Spy's Andy Smetanka gets the scoop on the world premiere of "Questions in the Night"

Inside: Music from the Grateful Dead _Arts Photography, and writer Jerry McGahan 2 Eye Spy, Tuesday, November 19,1996 On the road again, the German way side door handle. Needless to Well, I’ve done it. I bought _ pie’s car” started around the summer of 1976, when I first got say, this didn’t work and the vehicle. Yep, almost a year to VW proceeded to drag me down the day that I got rid of my last behind the wheel of a Volkswagen. My father, a for­ the driveway. set of wheels. Kind of like an It was about this time that anniversary present to myself, mer import car enthusiast, my mother came running out of payback for all ofthe mud, rain, owned a bright yellow Type 3 the house sereaming at the top snow and wind I pedaled sedan. He parked the car at the top of our uphill of her lungs, as you can well through during driveway in New imagine she would after seeing thelastyear.lt York, pointed her own son being dragged down was a tough Brian Hurlbut Morgan Sturges Column straight down to a gravel driveway by a two-ton decision. I was Eye Spy Writer VW. Having no idea what she Eye Spy Editor planning on fay the road about 40 yards away. was saying, I assumed she was waiting until Brian Hurlbut telling me to let go, so I did, just Justin Grigg spring, ensuring Well, one day I Andy Smetanka before the VW went hauling one more winter decided to pre­ Eye Spy Writer Eye Spy Designer across the street, crashing into ofMountain tend like I was the ditch on the other side of the T.inp and bike adventures, but I driving the VW, so I opened up road. I remember thinking to Lee Douglas Ross Jeffcoat found the deal of a lifetime. the door and climbed in. Now, myself, “Man, that was fun!” On-line Guru I consider myself an automo­ remember I was only SIX Eye Spy Writer although rm sure my mother bile aficionado of sorts. I mean, YEARS OLD at the time, and I HAD NO IDEA WHAT I WAS didn’t feel quite the same emo­ Dave Steele it’s not like Tm this super mechanic or anything, but more DOING. Somehow I managed to tions. Photography Intern Well, my dad sold the of a history buff. I love cars, and undo the emergency brake and crashed-up VW soon after I REALLY love old cars. So slip the stickshift out of gear. THAT little incident. Bought when it came time for me to Well, you can imagine what eye spy is a publication of the Montana Kaimin, himself a Ford Pinto, thus bring­ start thinking about buying happened next. The car started ing an end to his import-owning and is distributed every Tuesday, except holidays another one, I didn’t want some­ rolling slowly, picking up speed years and ushering in a new era when we decide to put it out any time we want to. thing new or something all too as it went down the driveway, common. I had to narrow it heading straight toward the of Torinos, Impalas and We’ll gladly accept any letters, suggestions or com­ Camaros. But a flair for foreign ments, although we reserve the right to do nothing down, but it wasn’t hard: I want­ ditch on the other side of the ed a Volkswagen. They have road at the end of the driveway. cars has lived on with me. You with them. For further information contact us at style, they have class, and most Somehow I had the presence of see, I bought a 1976 Volkswagen Transporter (more commonly Room 206, School of Journalism, University of of all they have German mind to jump out of the car, but Montana, Missoula, MT 59812. (406)243-4310. Engineering. You know, like air­ I DIDN’T have the presence of known as a ‘bus’). Kind of ironic, Reach us on the internet at [email protected], cooled engines and brown vinyl mind to run away from the same year as that time when I first drove a Volkswagen 20 or check out our ultra-cool web page seats, real high-tech stuff like rolling car. What’s even worse, and I swear I am not making years ago. All right, not exactly http://www.umt.edu/Kaimin/eyespy.html that. But there are deeper rea­ sons as well. this up, I tried to STOP the car drove, but I WAS behind the My infatuation with the “peo- by hanging on to the driver’s wheel.

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After a long day of hunting and gathering, nothing could satisfy a prehistoric appetite more Childhood games with Blily the Kid than a hearty bowl of primordial soup. Eye Spy, Tuesday, November 19, 1996 3 Column by

The Wandering Eye Missoulians not so kind to their zbest friends'

Eye think a friend put it passersby and hoping to avoid best once, saying, “People who the occasional bike-tire-over- bring puppies to bars should the-tail that make me think be thrown into a pit of wild anyone who thinks coming to dogs, because Fm pretty sure college is somehow signified that’s how their puppies feel.” by getting a dog and anyone Friend is right. The sight of who thinks having a dog those puppies, huddled shak­ would just cement the image ing and sneezing from smoke he or she’s been going for in the arms of their ‘masters’ should just be dragged onto makes me want to snatch some cold sidewalk and left to them up and take them sit there for two or three * straight to the Humane hours with nowhere to shit Society. Fd rather see them but on himself and no one to looking wistfully at visitors talk to except the pavement from inside cages than see and the only hope for affection them subjected to the terrors or companionship coming and humiliations of being The from the passing stumbling Dog In The Bar. college kids, who, if they don’t Missoula is a dog town like step on you, might give you no other. College towns often the occasional sympathetic are, but Missoula seems to pat and mutter evil things have taken dog mania to a about your owner. higher level. To give credit where credit The dogs in Missoula seem is due, sensitive university to belong disproportionally to students are not the only Photo by Jordan Lq Ri the population composed of Missoula population that reg­ dual personalities in her humorous and exciting people who think a pet speaks ularly mistreats its dogs. of your connection with the However, three and a half environment, your earth­ years of observation has yield­ friendly nature, your indepen­ ed a pretty clear pattern. Meaning behind movement dence and ability to care for Whoever the culprits, it’s not only yourself, but a help­ time Missoula got its head out ■ 'Infomances' included in this year's Dance Showcase less creature dependent on of its Hate Free Zone and Morgan Sturges you and only you. The Dance Showcase runs a Program I piece where microbrew festival and coffee Eye Spy ~ from Nov. 19-23 in the Every drumming circle has house ass, stopped talking dancers are “speaking and at least three Alaskan “Open Space” of the PAR/TV moving a Southern story of about thinking globally and This fall’s Dance Huskies in varying stages of building. The showcase runs female lust,” Ragsdale said. acted locally to do something Showcase of student and development frolicking about a culture that says dogs as two separate programs, “Program II is a little bit community members’ chore­ around, and the Top Hat on don’t deserve your respect, presented on alternating lighter than Program I,” ography and dance has an almost any night is a mecca just your admiration. nights. Program I runs Ragsdale said. “But both added feature. Two of the for little golden retrievers, Here’s a little test to see Tuesday, Thursday and have blends of funny and performances are designed black labs and the ever pre­ whether you’re ready to have Saturday evenings at 7:30 serious.” to help audience members sent Huskies curled up on the a pet: p.m. Program II is on Program I includes sidewalk. who feel stumped by dance If you’re standing in the Wednesday and Friday dances choreographed by It’s this Really Sensitive or want to know more about pet store thinking you can evenings at 7:30 p.m. and a Jennifer Opitz, Marie Arts, population, however, that dis­ the choreographers’ mean­ provide a really great home Saturday matinde at 2 p.m. Daren Eastwold, Tana proportionally brings its terri­ ing or process. Amy for that little puppy because The two “Informances,” Hauck, Lindsay Gilmour fied new puppies into area Ragsdale, head of UM’s you have a big yard, lots of one for each program, are on and Clare Thesing, Heidi bars, while friends and assort­ time to spend with your new Department of Drama/Dance Thursday evening (Program Schneider, Louisa Carey and ed drunks coo over them, pet dog and enough money to feed dance division, said she will I) and Saturday’s matinee Brooke Riley. them clumsily and blow their it, you’re probably ready. talk to the audience during (Program II). Program II was choreo­ beer-soaked breath into the If you’re standing there the performance about what hapless animals’ oh-so-sensi- As for the shows them­ graphed by Greg Johns, thinking that dog would look each choreographer is trying tive noses. selves, both programs offer a Holly Rollins, Michelle great crouched on the peanut- to achieve. And it’s this population great variety of dance Antonioli, Kirsten Quande, covered floor of the Silver “We recommend that peo­ that leaves those dogs, once including a Lindsay Gilmour, Michael Dollar bar with a cigarette ple who feel bewildered by they’ve grown enough to be cellist/dancer/visual artist McDermott and Aishinn butt on its head... get a plant. dance come to these perfor­ left alone, tied to parking collaboration in Program II O’Connor, Brittiny Hollow mances,” Ragsdale said. meters in front of those bars, (By the Wandering Eye. We (“3 - An Improvisation”) and and Kristin Tovson. or those coffee houses, or the encourage and support the Liberal Arts building. stringent adoption standards Ifs no line! Access us on the Net: And it’s those dogs, whim­ of the Missoula Humane pering on the sidewalk in the Society, and only wish pet cold, looking mournfully at ■ stores would do the same.) eye spy online http://www.umt.edu/kaimin/eyespy.html 4 Eye Spy, Tuesday, November 19, 1996 Montana-made movie debuts this week Andy Smetanka that the kids just don’t care anymore. Especially in Eye Spy Missoula, where the Film is one of those things Hamlets play a no-comers that gets people honking on gig with the Phantom and on, even if and especial­ Imperials, who appear as ly when they have no idea themselves. A clear case of what they’re talking about. art imitating life, as anyone If I had a nickel for every who has.ever played Jay’s time some blowhard has Upstairs (which also bent my ear about “filmic” appears as itself) can tell - this and “semiotic” that, I’d you. Thd Hamlets’ van be bankrolling Joel Rice’s breaks dawn on the way out of town,find the apparent next film. Hell, I should start asking for the nickel. Bauhaus’enthusiasts who Let the record show that offer them food and shelter armchair Fellinis and bath­ at their pad turn out to be a tub Bergmans get no play in rather unsavory lot of...dare - my ride and will be roundly one say it? Hell yeah! VAM­ objurgated. PIRES! But this is something else If all that sounds sort of again...a 100% locally-made, nutty, well...it IS! If the feature-length debut featur­ narrative is a bit hard to ing a cast of Missoula follow in parts, it only adds Photo by IJedee Brown unknowns, tons of local to the budget allure of the music and some of the most film, which was shot in the ADAM (Tofer) and Jonathon (Matthew Singleton) await their fates in the Vampires’Basement gritty and elegant shots of dead of winter with no sec­ new cinematic view of middle of spring ‘96, several taking for a first-time direc­ the Garden City ever com­ ond takes and only hot cocoa Missoula as a bastion of months after the bulk of the tor! Even Ingmar Bergman mitted to film! That’s right, and the thrill of film immor­ burnouts and fucked-up other outdoor scenes were made a few soap commer­ film. Not video. “Questions tality to marshal its actors. kids. But for all its gritti­ shot. “We started out filming cials before he started in the Night,” written, As Rice notes, all the camera ness, Rice’s film succeeds in in a ton of snow,” he contin­ cranking out the heavy bum­ directed, produced and work was done on a Russian capturing some tasty, thick ues, “and by the time we got mers. “Questions in the everything else by local film­ 16 mm Krasnogorsk wind-up images of Missoula and its everyone out for the re-shoot Night” traces its roots back maker Joel M. Rice, will camera, which only allowed environs: snow and dead it was April and everything to 1989, when Rice was 19 have its premiere this week­ for a 22-second run between wood, guns, slow decay and was blooming.” years old. “That’s when I end at the Front Street windups. Caprices of the streetlights, each one ringed One of the vampire actors wrote the book which Theatre, and here’s hoping camera make for some unex­ by a watery nimbus. Fans of had also left Missoula by became the movie,” Rice this titanic event will usher pected surprises on the final movies that come right out this point, which called for says. “After I realized how in a new wave (well, I guess print; in parts of the film, and hand it to you would be some jury-rigging on Rice’s horribly I’d failed to write a there wasn’t really an old Tofer’s character zips part: “The old “Plan Nine” novel, I realized that I’d better served at the one) of young Turks to put around like a Keystone Kop Cineplex, Imepolex, whatev­ trick,” he says. “We had actually tried to write a up and make films that, like because minus 20 degree er. But if you’re looking for someone wear his clothes movie in novel form. But this one, are just plumb temperatures managed to stylish, perversely beautiful and we didn’t shoot their once I found my artistic COOL. freeze the spring mechanism action and a raw new look at head. I can’t tell you how it method, I wanted to make As with any movie, it’s of the Russian-made camera. affects an audience, but as sure this was the first thing Missoula, drop by this best to see “Questions in the “The camera was running Saturday and support a local slower and slower,” Rice director I’m 100% aware of it that got put down on film.” Night” without knowing too filmmaker. Proceeds go to all the time, how we jimmied To this end, Rice much about it. By way of a says, “which actually make making an actual print of the film look speeded-up. It everything.” spins a skewed yarn about short synopsis, though: The the film to enter in different was a nightmare. It would Pretty ambitious under­ fleeting fame and wayward film tracks the fifteen min­ youth, which festivals. While you’re at it, utes of fame of the Post also freeze break out the super-8 and on my skin, combine Nuclear Hamlets, a leg­ somewhat shoot some movies of your endary Portland punk band and I’d violently at own before they stop making who rock the free world and have to peel the film. “It’s a labor of love, it away, rip­ the end of the put out one really bitchin’ film. Western first last and only,” says album before drifting into ping off a Montana resi­ Rice. Catch it while you can. obscurity and breaking up. layer or dents used to Kind of like Spinal Tap, two.” ft After f seeing their “Questions in the except the Hamlets’ front­ state in big- Night” will be shown at the man Adam Lynoschau parts of |he ger-than-life Front Street Theatre, (played by local rocker Tofer) original * nostalgic Saturday, November 23. hears voices and kills his footage glory in Showings at 6:00 and 8:00 brother (Adam Jelinski) to were inad­ movies like P.M. Admission is $6, and keep the band together. vertently “Legends of refreshments will be provid­ Except all that happened destroyed the Fall” and ed. The shadowy and little- before they released the by a Seattle “A River understood Phantom album. Five years later, film lab, Runs Imperials will be opening Adam gets another messian­ Rice had to Photo by Jeffrey Edmonds Through It” the show with material from ic whiff of the ol’ Higher call for might be sur­ their new double-live album, Purpose and gets the band some re­ Tofer and Director Joel M. Rice talk over a scene by the “M” on .Mount Sentinel prised at this “Hmong Thunder.” back together, only to find shots in the Eye Spy, Tuesday, November 19,1996 5 Fine Arts photography 'Condor' brings Runa Indians to U.S. Lee Douglas today. coming into its own Eye Spy Based on the Andean legend Lee Douglas ing) something else but “I am Pilar. One name in of the condor, Eye Spy they’re real hard-core pho­ front of the sun.” who brings the tographers.” “My name is Soona...” sun into the sky The UM School of Fine Fromm has hopeful “I am Payita...” each day, the Arts will begin offering visions for bringing more “My name is Phuyu...” novel is later bachelor of arts, bachelor of digital equipment into the Simple greetings, casual invi­ combined with fine arts, master of arts and program, and providing an tations. This is the way we enter McGahan’s zoo­ master of fine arts degrees outlet for students interest­ into the lives of 27 generations of logical expertise. in photography next fall if ed in the computer manipu­ Runa Indian women through the Driven into exile the proposed curriculum is lation of their work. pen of Arlee author Jerry like her mothers, A NOVE I BY JE R R Y.MCC* A H A N approved and se| in action. “There are plenty of stu­ McGahan, who will read at Pilar’s journey Its about tin^. dents who have the interest Barnes and Noble this Saturday. takes her to Perhaps we dffl remember in doing this but haven’t If they were native to our cul­ America, where the commotion created by been able to.” ture, the openness of these she is redefined some photo students last In addition to the basic women would surely translate by the voice of semester over poor ventila­ photography, independent differently. They might say, Arnie, the tion and light leaks in the study and one experimental “Welcome to Peru, to the native American who Fine Arts darkroom. Its photo class currently land of the Runa. Welcome to brings her from hard to imagine photogra­ offered, the degree curricula the town of Wasi, to its outer Peru to the U.S., phy gaining such decisive proposed by Fromm will ‘savage place’ and to their sur­ and introduced footing in less than a year. offer four new courses in rounding canyon. Welcome to to the American Until recently, UM has photography: our centuries, long before yours, bear. offered only an emphasis in Photography III - stu­ to our ways and our hearts.” The strong historical and zoo­ “peeled ones,” meaning Incas photography for Fine Arts dents are expected to pro­ We become that familiar, this logical foundation of this book and Spaniards, and “illas,” for majors, lagging behind most duce a body of work while quickly. draws a compelling metaphor. the Runa’s worshipped stone universities with like facili­ examining “alternative” Told in the persona of five McGahan, who has a doctorate animals, lay the framework of ties. cameras as well as modern Runa women, “A Condor Brings in zoology, really grounds him­ this ancient language in transla­ There are currently 82 printing and presentation the Sun” transcends genera­ self in heavy research, bringing tion. Missoula readers may have BA degrees offered nation­ methods. tions, spanning the evolution of the Run a’s union with nature a hard time imagining Pilar wide, along with just as . Photography Practicum - their heritage and culture over into play in an American wilder­ among us in some U.S. scenes, many associate degrees, and will offer students positions 500 years. Factually based and ness. but the metaphor she brings is 60 graduate degrees. For a in beginning labs and . colored by vision, this novel “A Condor...” defeats most certainly meant for bear country university with a full dark­ encourage independent weaves the tale in and out of the first novel sinkers. Strong in its dwellers. room, UM certainly lacks examination of theory and voice of modern-day Pilar, who persona, it draws the reader Fans can catch McGahan at adequate instruction and criticism. retains the stories of her “27 through Pilar’s many obscure Barnes and Noble this Saturday accreditation in photogra­ History of Photography - mothers” through oral tradition. relations with relative ease. for a 7-8 p.m. reading. Other phy; a problem which has a study of the history of the Chiefly, we come to understand Individual Runa voices differ works by McGahan can be found forced many Fine Arts stu­ camera and applications of their plight for preservation, just enough to be separate peo­ in “Northern Lights” and the dents to get their much- photography, with inquiry both of their lives and of their ple, but are alike enough hi their “Iowa Review,” and his feature desired photography credits into the work of specific pho­ culture, from the rule of the syntax and terminology to on the Andean condor has been through national exchange tographers. Incas in 1487 to that of the belong to the same ancient cul­ published in “National programs. Digital Imaging - will Spaniards who remain in power ture. Common words like Geographic.” When asked about the familiarize students with probability of instituting the digital cameras, electronic curriculum, Dean of Fine scanners and computer Arts Jim Kriley said he felt alteration of images. NOW §0RVING flLb Of IT. the proposal was “a quality If adopted, each degree program” proposed by “a program would require the quality instructor,” referring completion of all seven pho­ flLh TtiC TIMS to Martin Fromm. tography courses, in addi­ “It certainly fits the pat­ tion to a number of art and tern of the other degrees we graduate credits. The bache­ Saturday, 5pm-midnight offer,” Kriley said. lor’s degree would require Sunday, 5pm-9pm Photography instructor 48 credits in art, and the Martin Fromm seems confi­ master’s degree 30 graduate dent. Since his arrival at credits beyond that. The UM five years &o, he has bachelor of fine arts degree built the existing photogra­ would require 78 credits in phy curriculumiip from just art, and the additional mas­ a single class and has been ter of fine arts degree 60 an advocate for a remodeled graduate credits. darkroom, something the Fromm defines the BFA School of Fine Arts should as being “a more complete see on its fourth floor after studio degree than a BA” this winter break. and the MA and MFA as “We have a good, solid teaching degrees, the MFA core of students who are set being terminal and “what up for (a degree program),” you need to teach at a col­ he said. “Many are (pursu­ lege level.” We've seen the light 6 Eye Spy, Tuesday, November 19, 1996 Van Gogh’s Ear

man spreading the gospel by their more memorable songs have a few, and not as many telling us in “Sunken which would anchor the live studio records as live ones, this Treasure” that “music is my shows they were famous for. To is an excellent inclusion to your Ratings savior.” Hey Jeff, Tm a believ­ commemorate this, Arista collection, one that will save er, and Tm ready to be saved Records has issued two new you a few bucks too. oooo Buy me, now! too. Time to bow to the altar releases that represent some of Also being released is Borrow me. that is Wilco. the highlights of the label’s “Dozin’ At the Knick,” a 1990 ooo —Brian Hurlbut long relationship with the live performance from Worth a listen. oo band. “Grateful Dead: The Knickerbocker Arena in o We dare you. Arista Years,” a fine two-disc Albany, N.Y. The mammoth k set that includes tracks from three-disc set includes 28 most­ the five studio albums and ly newer Dead songs, captured laden rest of the album. Even three live albums released by over a three-day span of perfor­ the pumped-up songs have the label, is a must for Dead mances. Fans disappointed that country tinge—not so fans who don’t have some of with last year’s “Hundred Year much amplified as electrified. the band’s more recent record­ Hall” should be happier with On the second disc, only the The Grateful Dead ings, especially so for the inclu­ this collection. It captures the uptempo antics of “Dreamer In The Arista Years sion of five songs from 1987’s band’s sound during the last My Dreams” keep it from being (Arista) “In The Dark” and five from few years of five shows almost Wilco a thoroughly mellow, acoustic 1989’s “Built To Last.” This perfectly, including a psyche­ affair that includes plenty of oo makes having those single delic nine-minute “Drums.” It Being There steel guitar, banjo and piano. records almost unnecessary, shows how the band had pro­ (Reprise) There’s plenty of those on especially for the budget-con­ gressed into a more electronic ooo the first disc as well, especially scious. phase, compared to the tradi­ in the beautiful “Far, Far, Most Dead fans prefer, the tional drum breaks of years ! In “Sunken Treasure,” the Away” and “Forget the live recordings, represented ago, with synthesizers and first song on the second CD of Flowers.” However, the upbeat here by “Dire Wolf” and other gadgets taking over. Wilco’s remarkable two-disc set catchiness of “Outtasite (Outta “Cassidy” from 1980’s excellent Some of the better inclu­ “Being There,” lead singer Jeff mind),” “Monday,” “Hotel Dozin' at the Knick acoustic release “Reckoning,” , sions are “Terrapin Station,” Tweedy tells us he was “named Arizona,” and the seventies- (Arista) “Feel Like A Stranger” and “Jack-A-Roe,” “Stella Blue,” from rock-n-roll” and “tamed sounding “I Got You (At the QQQ z “Franklin’s Tower” from 1980’s “Hell In a Bucket” and covers by rock^i-roll.” Prophetic End of the Century)” set the “Dead Set,” and the 16-minute of Dylan’s “When I Paint My words from Tweedy, who was two apart. “Eyes of the World” from 1990’s Masterpiece” and “All Along first cast in the rock spotl igh t It’s clear from “Being There” In 1976, after the Grateful awesome “Without A Net.” the Watchtower.” Garcia’s as being half the genius that that Tweedy is right where he Dead’s own label folded and If you don’t have many of voice sounds terrific through­ was Uncle Tupelo, and who wants to be, making the music left the band in a state of finan­ the studio albums of the late out, and the band is as good as settles down even more on he was bom to make, moving cial and creative upheaval, the seventies, “The Arista Years” ever save for a sometimes dis­ ■Wilco’s latest release to let his out of the shadow cast by the San Francisco group known gives you some of the best jointed “Unde John’s Band.” country influences shine right Uncle Tupelo saga and his split more for its live shows than songs from 1977*8 “Terrapin While overall not as impres­ through the hole in his acoustic with former bandmate Jay studio albums signed a record­ Station,” 1978’s “Shakedown sive as the same year’s guitar. Farrar. It’s also clear that ing deal with Arista Records, Street,” and 1980’s “Go To “Without A Net,” “Dozin’ At the It’s no surprise that Tweedy, Wilco’s 1995 debut record ushering in a new era for the Heaven.” The best include Knick” is probably mo re repre­ who penned some of Tupelo’s “A.M.” was just a predecessor band that would last until lead “Estimated Prophet,” “Fire On sentative of Dead shows you more country-based times, has to the album Tweedy really singer Jerry Garcia’s death The Mountain,” “I Need A and I have attended over the gone in this direction. It’s also wanted to make. almost 20 years later. Miracle,” “Saint of last ten years. For that reason, no surprise that Wilco has One gets the feeling that The era marked a new Circumstance,” and the upbeat and the fact that any live Dead turned one of the best releases Tweedy could chum out beginning of sorts for America’s “Alabama Getaway.” is good to have (especially of the year, a 19-song effort records like this twice a year if most successful touring band Bottom line on this compila­ three CD’s worth!), this set is a that includes a few upbeat not more. It seems as though ever, one that would see the tion: If you have all the Dead worthy purchase. rockers among the country­ the songs come easy for him, a Grateful Dead write some of records, skip it. If you only —Brian Hurlbut

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• Jae Won Lee’s ceramic exhibit “On the UC Copper Commons this Thursday, Longing” continues at the University Nov. 21. Opening will be locals the Riff Center Gallery. Hours are Monday Rats. Tickets are $10 for students/facul- through Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. ty/staff and $12 for the general public, •Martin Cauley and Charles and are on sale at all Tic-It-Ez outlets. Dewolfe’s mixed media installation, •Patricia Goedicke reads from her “Elmo: The Third Voice,” continues at new book of poetry this Friday, Nov. 22, the Gallery of Visual Arts in the Social at 8 p.m. in room 122 of the Gallagher Science building. Hours are 11 a.m. -3 Business Building. p.m., Monday through Saturday. Also •Warner Brothers recording artist showing in the gallery is Robin Iris Dement plays the UC Ballroom on Starbuck’s “Read This Way.” Wednesday, Dec. 4, at 7:30 p.m. Also •Greg Patent dishes out some new appearing will be the Troublemakers recipes from his “New Cooking from the and Maia Sharp. Tickets are $10 for Old West,” this Tuesday, Nov. 19, from students, $12 everyone else, and are 7-8 p.m. at Barnes & Noble. available at all Tic-It-Ez outlets. •UC Programming presents •UM Productions presents Missoula’s own acapella folk group Off singer/songwriter Richard Buckner on Monday, Dec. 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the UC the Record, on Wednesday, Nov. 20, at Courtesy of Marty Salzman Management Copper Commons. Tickets will be avail­ 7:30 p.m. in the UC Atrium. FREE. JUNIOR WELLS brings his legendary blues sound to UM Thursday. •Junior Wells and his blues band able on Nov. 20, for $5 students and $7 The show starts at 8 p.m., and frosty beverages will be available. stops in Missoula for an 8 p.m. show in general admission a| 7jq-It.-J2?/)jij4ejts. . 8 Eye Spy, Tuesday, November 19, 1996

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