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Clemson's Guide to Entertainment & the Arts Volume I, No. 1 Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina January 20, 1994 Brooks Center Open! tME- OUT The Gathering Phridaz page 5 Erik Martin /interim head photographer Cayce Crenshaw practices her flute playing in one of the Brook's Center practice rooms Performing arts dances into future , ^ , _P„JL... ^ <-™L- ^HHPH that a np.rfnrminj? arts Dr. Mark Hosier. "A good facility proves by Caroline■ Godbey Cook added that a performing arts the value of the performing arts, and the staff writer building has been envisioned for quite a long time, and recently the need was ad- arts are important to students no matter After six years of planning, numerous dressed by President Max Lennon. what your major is." The outside may not be so pleasing to The 2 Tone delays, and lots of talk, the Brooks Center Six years ago he met with campus the eye since the landscaping is not com- for the Performing Arts is finally open. planners and an outside consultant to plete, but the inside is a totally different Collection Located behind the Strom Thurmond In- project the program's needs. Approxi- story. "It's really nice once you're inside stitute and next to Lehotsky Hall, the mately 150 possible designs were submit- and have gotten around the mud," said Brooks Center will serve students who are ted from architectural firms all over the Birma Gainor, who is involved in chorus involved in music, drama and dance. As country, Cook said. The firm who submit- and has a music theory class in the Brooks The Melvins new home of these students, it will put ted the chosen design was Sert, Jackson them all together for the first time, bring- and Associates of Cambridge, Center. The second floor has offices, classrooms, ing orchestra and band from the basement Masachusetts. rehearsal rooms and a dance studio with a of Holtzendorf, along with chorus and The Performing Arts department will spring floor. Downstairs you will find theater from Daniel. Director of the Brooks benefit from the Brooks Center in many Tom Petty ways. "We finally have a facility here plenty of practice rooms - every one Center Dr. Bruce Cook said that, "Hope- equipped with its own piano-as well as the fully this will give us more visibility as a comparable to what other major universi- see Brooks, page 6 group." ties have," said Assistant Director of Bands page 2 L.T. Fields: "upscale" eating on campus:-? A , „*J „ , TheTI,„ second,^^A is,c atmosphere.,tmntnhpr<. Uselisp of "tang" to them than I was used to havirhaving, by Sean Cook but they were very good. The ribs were § interim Time-Out editor Applebee's/Bennigan's style green uphol- stered furniture and green carpeting good and messy (as ribs should be) and comparable to ribs I have had in several ' Clemson students and faculty have a complement the pop-rock restaurant-style music coming over the house radio. The area eateries. They were served with a new on-campus eatery. warm, wet napkin for cleaning sauce off L.J. Fields, located next to Harcombe in setting is much nicer than Harcombe and \ Schilletter and definitely comparable to the fingers. Finally, the ribeye was well ■ the Union, features a wide range of up- some off-campus restaurants of the same prepared and cooked to my liking (me- scale selections. From tangy buffalo wings, dium well) without being overdone. The grilled tuna, babyback ribs and ribeye type. It's fairly clear that the designers of the interior were somewhat taken with the meal, overall, was surprisingly good, and I steak to shrimp primavera, angel hair left the restaurant practically bursting at Philadelphia marinara and pesto pasta, the restaurant style of Applebee's and Bennigan's. Not the seams. departs from traditional on-campus fare in very original, but it is nice. The third is the open kitchen policy. I didn't take advantage of the kitchen several different ways. tour, but I think it is comforting to know The first is quality of selections. Compa- Diners can meet the chef and come into the kitchen to watch their meals being that the staff doesn't seem to have any- page 2 rable to the Applebee's/Bennigan's class thing to-hide. I was served by Clemson of restaurants, L.J. Fields offers a variety of made. I ate at L.J. Fields last Friday. I had students who were polite and obliging. traditional steak-and-shrimp types of en- Drink refills are free and they serve two trees, alongside "heart-healthy choices" buffalo wings, a half-rack of ribs, a 10 ounce ribeye and fries. The buffalo wings (these are clearly marked on the menu) to see Fields, page 6 Much more! stir fry favorites, burgers and sandwiches. were spicy and had a somewhat different m mmimmmmmmuaammiimmlaaBuausD Page 2 pus* our! January 20,1994 2 Tone Collection: Rating System: •*••• Excellent •*•• Pretty Good Ska Label had a checkered past *** Good ** Fair Various Artists Mighty Mighty became affiliated with Chrysalis * Poor Bosstones. In Records when that company 2 Tone Collection England, however, signed the Specials in 1979. both arresting and fresh, with ••••& ska found its fol- The 2 Tone Collection is a lyrics which are something that lowing in the dis- double disc collection that fea- most, if not all black people affected youth of tures 44 A-side singles from acts should sit up and listen to, if to by Sean Cook England's punk such as the Special AKA, the do nothing else but to voice an interim editor scene, who were Specials, the Selecter, the Beat opinion in response to it. already drawn to (known in the U.S. as the English There were really no weak Much has been said in praise reggae out of ad- Beat), the Higsons, the tracks on the album. Notewor- of reggae. Its slow, cool and spiri- miration for that Apollinaires, J.B.'s All-Stars, thy tracks were "Malcolm," tual nature (not to mention its genre's outlaw he- Roddy Radiation and Neville which caught the message from endorsement of smoking grass) roes. Reggae had Staples, the only 2 Tone A-side Malcolm X and passed it on, has made millions of Americans been incorporated single not on the album is "I Can't Tom Petty "Love," which talks about the into self-declared Rastamen. But into sets of some Stand Up for Falling Down" by subject from a slightly different only your hard-core reggae reviv- popular punk Elvis Costello and the Attractions. &the point of view and "Pop," which alists give much .credence to the bands (most nota- Costello produced the first Spe- very very simply deals with pop real roots of reggae, the under- bly the Clash). cials album and was a 2 Tone Heartbreakers music from the point of view of appreciated art form called ska. Some groups, artist for a brief time while having a musician who knows where Ska, reggae's predecessor, however found ska to be a better a dispute with his record Greatest Hits the genre comes from. drew on heavily on horns and was complement to their set because company's corporate parent. That ••••• The entire album is very deep, a bit faster and more dance- it was easier to play. One label single was never officially released and should not be taken lightly, on 2 Tone, but was released on B;y Sean Cook friendly than reggae. Bob Marley emerged to market ska to the for technique or for message. another label after Costello re- interim editor himself was in a ska band before English masses. That label was 2 he and the Wailers practically Tone Records, the creation of solved his legal dispute. What more do you need to invented reggae and thrust it on Jerry Dammers, an Indian immi- From "Tears of a Clown," by the Beat to "Three Minute Hero," know about this album? The the world. grant and art student who started by the Selecter to "What I Like title says it all. Tom Petty and While reggae managed to make his ska career in a group called Best About You is Your Girlfriend" the Heartbreakers spent over its way into the states, its more the Automatics. This group later and "Nelson Mandela" by the 18 years in the making of this eclectic cousin has never really became the Special AKA, then album. Sixteen tracks come caught hold here on a wider scale. the Specials and even later, the Special AKA, the 2 Tone Collec- tion provides listeners with a com- from the 8 albums the band Only recently has the U.S. seen Special AKA again. prehensive retrospective of (if not has made since 1976. Two more interest in ska, fueled by the Over 7 years, 2 Tone released tracks are new. All are great. If ska influence of acts such as the 29 singles and eight albums. It an introduction to) ska. you like Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, this album is 1 an essential collection-compl- Hanks Philadelphia: Oscar time? eter. Tom Petty and The Heart- The Melvins breakers: Greatest Hits. Houdini Enough said. •••• Movieviewers "experience" fear of AIDS lookers, but we experience first- than suits its content. Tom Hanks' Larry Barthelemy IV Philadelphia hand how a character is treated powerful turn as the AIDS-in- staff critic Starring Tom Hanks & or how he or she treats other flicted Beckett is a role that will characters in the film. surely not be forgotten when Denzel Washington If Metallica turned alterna- Philadelphia's only flaw is its Academy Award nominations are tive, their name would be the •••••& lackluster approach to present- announced in February.

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