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~ arts & Iteisure ^1 4 Television, Radio, Advicc, Music Musical Notes Frankie Beverly, Maze I ' v to headline area concert
a. a ^ * |\,W6 j^B l I Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, tions like "Little Red Corvette" and Ashford and Simpson and Kashif will 1 his new single, "Delirious," but also vHm appear in concert at the Greensboro jf ' VT debuted a quartet of new tunes: "Com- j|mXA |^ ^F^V BmH Coliseum Sunday, Sept. 4, at 8 p.m. puter Blue," "Let's Get Crazy," "I 1^Jl I Tickets are $12 and $11 and are on Would Die For You" and "Electric In- " sale at the Coliseum box office and Ticketron outlets in Greensboro, High When will the public have the Point, Winston-Salem, l»>^ It e^MI * Burlington, to hear the new songs? Probablyopportunity m^l nAl until tka * *> »' Durham, Raleigh, Danville, '* uvi umai iiiv I1CA1 III1IWC Lr , mc f ^1 H Lynchburg and Roanoke.Martinsville,soundtrack from a film which Prince H * ^ BhB|| Mk£ ^LJ[V JZSta^l "We the latest ft im Arc One," album plans to start shooting with Vanity 6 H l ^bfl^V release by Maze, is currently among the and The Time in November. H B^ j^gSIW pi J^pSe*SI^^_ V ^KL~--~--. ^ La.%^ " . top 10 best-selling black LPs. "Love is 9 B*.*^L ^7 ^LrtSiI ^ jk m F /*J*!!F2' the Key," "Right on Time," and Strange Bedfellows V9 I I KiBI V v^B(L^ ^K "Never Let You Down" are the top Jjv * from the album. * ".' singles . Midnight Star's new album, "No ^r ff ^^-:;v^ry^SR^Fi^g Ashford and Simpson's MHighriseM On The Dance jfl his moved to within the 20 best- Parking Floor/' (Solar) H top was the second-highest entering LP on H selling black singles. / "~ the se- - charts in I J '"'*' - pop recently, coming 4 , ^: ;" *" Kashifs latest ~» >«&. ^-JP funk-rock fusion that generate hit ex- I The evenfwasa Prince-headline itement, direct and meaningful:44 that raised $23,000 for the concert But to Reggie Calloway, the group's I Dance Theatre at the MinnesotaFirst leader, Midnight Star will always be Avenue Club, which seats 1100. The the he used to rehearse in his terrible of rock group enfant played composi Please see page A10
tfH undry and The Wrinkled Look
Theother day at the laundromat, i decid- your pants without them out 4 I I coining of the .creases. ed what definitely woulcin't do if I had a dryer two mm» inchesihprter. I don't know why my shirts and pants turn million bucks : my laundry ^ jn weanng shirts that look college; ed like » out as they do, especially since I am so used aluminum foil served a purpose. A careful not to buy anything that isn't At present, I have three with wrinkled shirt labeled dirty clothes: options my severely yoi as a nent press. (I do buy most of my clothespermaion studious student, one too busy with the sale, but 1 wouldn't think a mark-down in books to take proper care of your cl< I to >thes. price would cancel the permanent press.) 1) could send them the cleaners - if I But out in the working world, w could afford to. rinkled And, considering the past performance of my permanent press garments, I'm er wash them for A to that means v- :: ing think permanent press beginn.you iii 43!^»0^^i«L^^#;';i: :^;' , me, but driving 63 miles ' f tflllAf lliilP each Wednesday have to iron the as as it lasts. .1... evening to have my laun I ^ garment long I ljj|| i dry done proved Maybe the day will come when wrinkles > economically infeasible. CAM&urx* arf* | | tlM By John Slade are the I've seen women wear j | ®||; 3)And, of course, I cou style. long ild do wash them sweat shirts for dresses, and Michael 1?^ i4 * ite the fact that I d|. lj||| Jackson has spawned a high-waters fad in clothes will label you as just what yc >u are: the country. So, perhaps I could make sloppy. wrinkles fashionable. wmmmm >e wrong with an Just the other day, when I was doi ing my Since I haven't had much luck in the you can complete laundry here in town, I really learne< 9 i what Reader's million-dollaF 12 years school, fou Digest sweepstakes, public r years of college, people think of wrinkles. When I pul! led I I'll either back to or usher He's at It again. This time, an Inqu learn to calculate the my guess go college Isittve John Slade Just can't teem to parallax of the Big Dip- pants out of thedryer, the place got q uiet all in The Wrinkled Look. figure out why his clothes come out < )f the wrinkled James per - taking into consider; dryer (photo by ation the Doppler of sudden. The best I can figure out is that Then wash-and-wear will really mean Parker). Effect, of course - but nlot had never seen with seven o learn to wash they pants t eight what it says.
Spotlight \ Kashifc W<)rking hard to sculpt°The New York City Sound' In less than two years, native New Yor ker Kashif ducers seemed to be from a bad case of suffering most innovative styles of black popular music since . their hometown of New York. has not only established himself as a pi olific and disco were inherited hangover. They trapped by the beginning of the 80s. George says the Los Angeles Kashifs as a talented songwriter and producer, he has also, and arranging cliches into making records George acknowledges prominence with rhythmic black pop music scene "set the standard for a more black pop music trend-setter, as well as one of the through fertile creative alliance fcllov / producer with little appeal outside the cloistered world of New black and Paul Lawrence Jones III a overtly sophisticated, studio-slick, pop style." foremost producer-songwriters and is "perhaps the songwriters ind Morris York's dance clubs." This new standard became state-of-the-art black to re-establish New York C strongest force" on the New York City black pop Brown, helped City's wan- Consequently, for the last five years, Los music and Los was no known inn l«a/(*vekm in fiaM. pop Angeles longer just music scene today. tig ivuuwi jmp 114 viiw iiviu v/i uiavK pu(; in and oroducers based recording artists, songwriters Angelesusic. as a rock'n roll heaven. to the In a recent article in The New York 77mes music as According George: "During past year, such Quincy Jones, Michacl Jackson, Rod Kashif and Paul Lawrence Jones, however, were Kashif has written and black hits for critic Nelson George pointed out that, "New York's Leon Rick produced major Temperton, Sylvers, James and Shalamar, convinced that they could carve a formidable niche as Evelyn King, Howard Johnson, Melba Moore, mainstream black pop songwriters and nscord pro- just to name a few, have been creating some of the and of black music in producers songwriters pop Please see page A10 TV/Radio I » m MEACfootballshow to air thisft
"The MEAC Review/* a half-hour a sports Mid-Atlantic Communications Inc., shows the trei mendous support available to JB?XSSs highlight program which aims to cover "tlle Greensboro-based minority-owned and historically b lack institutions from com- ? best sports and social events" of this year 's television company. munications o -operated production utlets in their coverage areas**. > football season, has been cleared for airii lg "MEAC Rc | on Sunday nights at 11 p.m. on WJTM-TV, Says Stuart Davis, president of Mid- Sunday, Sept. Channel 45, in Winston-Salem. Atlantic: "Wc are extremely pleased with the the week the S Carolina State-Delaware response from television stations throughout State matchupJouth The program, which will spotlight educ a- the MEAC institutions' home states. The Last season tional achievements of Mid-Eastern Athletic has been scheduled for television in ference ' program chamf Conference administrators, alumni, studen ts Fayettevillc, Raleigh/Durham, The Sept. and student-athletes, will feature a game j Afl * " .A>» sJ ^