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The show ends Nov. 9, so EN C O R E s ta f f reliever Norm Charlton to pitch against the Braves under get there early before you catch that post-Halloween Contributors______________________ the guise of not wanting to affect the outcome of the divi crunch. Tickets are probably too much-to be included in sional race, and not reinstate Atlanta leadoff man Otis the press release, but you can find out by calling 962-8606. Dave Brooks Nixon for the pennant drive? Think if we beat White silly Lecture: D enis Faye he’d bleed Dodger blue? • Climber Kevin Steele speaks while scaling Mt. McKinley. Ross French Fans of the 24 teams currently not involved in a divi Actually, he speaks about scaling Mt. McKinley, but that A.J. Goddard sional race have plenty to get excited about this week in the may be just as interesting. Steele, a mountain-climbing entertainment world. So go out, spend some money, and if Santa Barbaran, will give his free lecture (repeat, FREE lec Scott Lawrence you run into Commissioner White, give hint a solid chop in ture) on Monday, Oct. 7 at 8 p.m. Christian Lincoln jaw for all of us here at ENCORE. P.E.A.C.E. Film: Music: Karen Skanderson • Men, get out those attack whistles. Everyone’s favorite • Our Band Which Should Wear a Skirt But Doesn’t Award Pax Wassermann girls with guns are back, and this time, Thelma & Louise goes to the Tannahill Weavers, a Scottish group caught sus aren’t taking any crap. The film plays Friday, Oct. 4 at 7 and piciously wearing Levis. Doesn’t anybody have any na Assistant Editor 9:30 p.m. in Campbell Hall. Just one question — why is it tional pride anymore? If you catch this act, which plays Jamie Reilly OK for a man to have a mid-life crisis, but when a woman Tuesday, Oct. 8 at 8 p.m., and they aren’t wearing kilts, be Editor has one, she is considered a raving lunatic bent on unleash sure to heckle them loudly. Chanting the Scotland national ing her frustration on the male community? anthem should do the trick. Brian Banks mTs/a Vista* mu 'Kccrtrfïon & "Park.F D f istrict i s"Prescrits r a: A 'R ’E G-GrAE. & KOCK " F f S T / VAL— §msnuM/EiL3AM OCTOBER% 5 &(o ,, CIRCUS UFE j X- C.T.A ü m n - 3 - O U E R ELECTRIC BLUE . T> ÑOOHEUKHOW fyvsfóyejhr/u A UUY K Y COMMON SEHS TREE ADMISSION Y ■ CRUCIA-L13 This is an Isla Vista Recreation & Park District Event Co-Sponsors: Shadowfax Audio Systems, KCQR-FM, Bayshore Chevrolet, Sam’s-To-Go • % v» a # ' 4 ifIcore ISrents Review 3A A mind-boggling, hair-raising, lip-flipping; Somewhere to Blow eye-popping extravaganza S. B. Hosts Jazz Lovers' Festival from the United Kingdom! he words Santa Barbara and Jazz to achieve the unity and excitement of a Festival had almost become a classic outdoor jaZZ festival. running joke in the music indus The following year, Butefish succeeded * try. Though the area had some with the free beach festival package that is fine shows in the past (including a string at continued in 1991’sshow. Set on Leadbet- the long-defunct Oscar’s, and an occa ter Beach, just off the edge of the City Col sional surprise, like Wynton Marsalis at lege campus, the bill features jaZZ piano the Long Bar) it seemed as though a full- stud Les McCann, salsa big-guy Poncho scale festival might never get off the SancheZ, the Cal Tjader Band/Radcliffe ground. Summer Solstice, even with its and one of the big daddies of acoustic cheesy Wave jaZZ, only made it a couple of blues, Spencer Davis. years, and attempts at large shows, like the The festival begins Friday night, Oct. 4, Pacific Coast Jazz Festival, scheduled to with The Avant Gardners at six, and the take place on this very campus with Wyn Spencer Davis Duo at nine. Saturday and ton Marsalis, Etta James and, yes, Stevie Sunday’s lineups begin at about noon each Ray Vaughan, petered out due to flaky day, with Les McCann at 7 p.m. Saturday funding sources. (followed by the Zydeco Party band), and In 1989, Ventura businessman Jack Poncho SancheZ at 4:15 on Sunday. Make Butefish, with a pittance of city money, put an effort to catch the Billy G. Watts Band, a together the Santa Barbara Jazz Festival. blues act that smoked last year’s festival, The show was scattered about the Santa also on Sunday at 3 p.m. Barbara area, with big-ticket names like As with last year’s event, there will be Poncho SancheZ at the County Bowl, and some fine local food and, yes, booZe (beer David Benoit and the late Stan GetZ at the served in a glass(!) and nifty waftable “SMART AND WITTY. Arlington. The only free part of the festival wines) on hand. So check this thing out A cross between early John Lennon was a sparsely attended day show at De la while we’ve still got it. I’ve heard rumors Guerra plaZa. Though the festival organiZ that the city has denied funding for next and Monty Python.” ers understood the aesthetics of fine ven year’s event ... word. -Stephen Holden. NEW YORK TIMES ues and classy accoutrements, they failed — Pax Wassermann “IN A WORD, IT’S FUN.” -Stewart Klein. 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VICTORIA ST. • 9 6 5 -1 8 8 6 9999909999999 9 Q QOQQQQQQQQQQQQ TTT 4A ovie Still Fantasia n Nov. 1,1991, Fantasia will die. to dull considerably on the television yet This is the date set by the won- sweep one off one’s feet at the cinema have d ers of technology and the evils of become beneficiaries of this recent restora excessive capitalism for Fantasia tion technology. Lawrence Of Arabia has, O for the first time since director David to be released on video cassette. That shouldn’t be. Lean’s cut, been restored to its original This film is more than 24 images per sec three-and-a-half hour length. Spartacus, ond flickering on a screen to give die illu too, has been recently restored to what its sion of motion while some classical music director, Stanley Kubrick, had in mind — plays in the background. It’s an event that something that die censors of 1960 found a happens eveiy few years where parents try bit too racy. to show young children the power of this These two, and Fantasia, are movies masterpiece. Somewhere between the ran featured in Arts & Lectures film series this dom animated images and eclectic music, quarter, Rediscovered, Restored and Re- most children seem to respond to the film released. Other films to fall under the “re with disorientation and tired sobs. It’s an stored” part of this series are Orson Welles’ event where adolescents try to ignore the Citizen Kane, Tabu, the 1931 Best Cine confused and bored crying of younger matography Academy Award Winner, and children and suddenly realiZe that the con Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante. cept of the “stoney trip” was alive before With the sudden resurgence in interest even their parents were. It’s an event that with ’30s “cabaret star” Josephine Baker, Mile. Upanova and a ballet corps of alligators perform Amilcare the excesses of a VCR would only ruin. two of her recendy discovered films could Ponchielli’s “Dance of the Hours”, part of the rereleased F a n ta sia . Too much of a good thing and all that. prove to be quite interesting. They are Zou This isn’t the only film to bruise when Zou and Princess Tam Tam. kovsky’s Nutcracker Suite to Stravinsky’s equipment. shoved into the small screen. Films like However, above all these films is the Rites of Spring. It was recentiy said that after the video is 2001 are meant to be painted on 30-foot masthead of this series, Fantasia.