ENTERTAINMENTpage 21 Technique • Friday, September 3, 2004 • 21 CAN YOU SPARE A DIME? COULD BE FUNNIER What do you do when you’re walking Comedy open mic night at UTC ENTERTAINMENT down North Avenue and a homeless gives a few laughs but underperforms person approaches you? Page 15 overall. Page 22 Technique • Friday, September 3, 2004 Calling all elven clerics Dysfunction, laughs abound in Battle This weekend it’s the one, the only, By Jessica Luza DragonCon, the only place on the Staff Writer whole planet where you can discuss, in full view of the public, just how Honestly, would it be surprising many dragons your dwarven warrior to anyone that “the longest running has slain. The event takes place at production in Atlanta theater his- the Hyatt Regency Atlanta starting tory” is worth catching? Friday at 1 p.m. and runs until 5 p.m. Held over through November Saturday. Tickets cost $60 - $70 in 21st at the Ansley Park Playhouse advance and $85 at the door. on Peachtree Street, Peachtree Battle premiered in September 2001 with amazing reviews and has held sold- out performances ever since. Wind through Playwrights John Gibson and MAiZE of corn Anthony Morris were selected by Because it’s too weird to pass up, why not spend your Labor Day “Peachtree Battle Weekend wandering around a laby- chronicles a day in rinth of corn? The MAiZE at Cagle is open weekends from Sept. 4 to the life of Trudy Nov. 21, Fridays 3:30 to 11 p.m.; Habersham...and the Saturdays 10 to 11 p.m.; Sundays 1 to 6 p.m. The maze is at Cagle’s strained relationship Dairy, 362 Stringer Road, Canton. she has with her Tickets cost $8. dysfunctional Party with blues family.” and barbecue Jezebel Magazine as “Atlanta’s Top Come see Mudcat, the Breeze Movers & Shakers,” and the show Boys, Blues Boy Slim and many has been featured in the “Best of others this weekend at the Mas- Atlanta” section in such publications querade and enjoy some tasty fare as Atlanta Magazine and Creative while you’re at it. The party kicks Loafing. off at 11 a.m. and tickets will cost Peachtree Battle chronicles a day $15 for adults. The show is free for in the life of Trudy Habersham, children under 12. an upper-class Buckhead socialite, and focuses upon the strained re- lationship she has with her highly Egypt exhibit dysfunctional family. Trudy’s alcoholic mother, cheat- visits High ing husband, gay eldest son and Photo courtesy Ansley Park Playhouse weight-conscious daughter all meet Through September 19, the High Trudy Habersham (Deborah Childs) and Azalea Wieuca (Anna House) catch a glimpse of Ansley (Mike at their Buckhead mansion for a Museum of Art is showcasing a Clements) with fiancée Tiffani Storrs (Toi Mekhi). Peachtree Battle is celebrating three years of sold- collection of more than 200 pieces out perfomances at Atlanta’s Ansley Park Playhouse. See Peach, page 23 of Egyptian art from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Items in the exhibit range over 4,200 years from Twelve Girls Band plays Variety on U.S. tour the third millennium B.C. to the fourth century A.D. Tickets cost $8 By Hillary Lipko for you students and $10 for the rest Entertainment Editor of you unwashed heathens. Kids 6 to 17 are $6. Kids under 6 are free. Centuries ago, during the Tang Dynasty, all-female ensembles called Yue Fang played in the royal courts Poker? Poke ‘em of ancient China. Xiaojing Wang, the man who is back! known as the father of Chinese rock, was inspired by the idea of Yue Fang Every Tuesday, Fado Irish Pub and created an all-female ensemble of and Restaurant hosts a Texas Hold traditional Chinese musicians. ‘em tournament at 7 p.m. So if you’re The result was Twelve Girls Band, in the mood for a little drink, a little a group of 12 conservatory-trained poker and fancy the tin-whistle as a instrumentalists in their twenties viable musical instrument, you might who play a variety of ancient Chinese want to stop on by. Fado is across musical instruments. the street from ESPN Zone at 2974 Wang knew from the inception Grandview Ave NE in Buckhead. of his idea that the band would have to have 12 members. Twelve is a very important number in Chinese See lasers over numerology and is considered to be lucky. Stone Mountain If the band’s success so far is any indication, they have indeed been Every day this Labor Day Week- very lucky. end at 9:30 p.m., Stone Mountain In Japan alone their debut album Park off of U.S. Highway 78 East sold over two million copies and is hosting a laser light and music spent 30 weeks at the top of the show. Pack a blanket and a picnic charts. Twelve Girls Band released By Hillary Lipko/ STUDENT PUBLICATIONS and head out to the show. The cost their first album in the US, Eastern Twelve Girls Band is an instrumental ensemble from the People’s Republic of China. The members play is $7 per vehicle for admission and traditional and ancient Chinese instruments and perform a wide variety of tunes ranging from the music parking. See Twelve, page 29 that is traditionally played on their instruments to popular songs like Coldplay’s “Clocks.” 22 • Friday, September 3, 2004 • Technique ENTERTAINMENT Comedy open mic night opens fire on old jokes By Min Pastorelli of Patrick McKeon and the coun- depends on its delivery and Kinion Contributing Writer try-hick remarks of Bob McKrosky did that well, and therefore was (whose lines were accompanied by quite popular with the crowd. But Tech’s aspiring comedians got the whistling bomb sounds from was the audience laughing with him in their share of laughs at Under the less-than-thrilled audience) to or at him? the Couch last Friday with jokes the frank freshman Patrick Jahn, Then again, does it really matter? about GPS-guided sex, squirrels on who “sucked by default,” the night Not really. This took place in front fire and the easily-targeted Richard was filled with various styles of of a crowd where half of them raised Simmons. amusing scatology, the generation their hands to the question, “who They were the self-proclaimed gap notwithstanding. here likes Bush?” nerds of the Institute, whose proud This was a stand-up comedy event lack of women, among other scarci- where the self-righteous right-wing ties, was aptly used as punch-line “comics” were just a little too fond material. “Ludovice is a man of gay-bashing. Of the dozens of students in the of an interesting It was fueled by some dumb audience (which was largely com- hometown rivalry that wasn’t a posed of the performers’ buds), the combination of rivalry at all. Peter Ayanuzi’s list of number of women was a handful talents, showcasing what he hates about Tech included at most. the city of Atlanta, only to be pro- Pete Ludovice was apparently his outspokenness vided with NY-dissing audience bothered by this lack of female with a clean delivery feedback. Here comes the flick-off presence, because he repeatedly contest. reminded the men of the audience of blasé lines...” In the end the three top comedi- of this sad fact. ans were awarded $20 for third place Ludovice is a man of an interest- (Rick McKeon), $30 for second place ing combination of talents, showcas- Apparently the Jackets can’t (Echezona Ukah) and $50 for first ing his outspokenness with a clean appreciate a good ol’ hackneyed place (Mark Peterson). delivery of blasé lines, occasionally cousin-marrying joke when they The winners will get another blurting out his qualifications as hear one. There goes the whistling chance to showcase their stuff on a chemical engineering professor bomb. September 17th at the Nerd Com- (he went to MIT and got a Ph.D. Perhaps what made the premature edy Jam, which will feature female there). exit of Mr. McKrosky all the more comedian Grandma Lee of Last One can only imagine what his painful were the popsicle wrapper Comic Standing fame. Ludovice lectures are like, but supposedly they jokes made by Kenneth Kinion, would approve. By Jon Kaye/ STUDENT PUBLICATIONS are filled with women right out of which came up lacking in terms of Students competed for cash prizes and the opportunity to perform high school. originality. Under the Couch is located on West at the first annual Nerd Comedy Jam at UTC last Friday. The open From the self-deprecating lines Granted, much of a joke’s success Campus under the Couch Building. mic night was hosted by Dr. Pete Ludovice. 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