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arts&entertainment Right.-The good folks at the Nexus — how many newspapers, by the way, sound like a cosmetic soap? — the good folks at the Nexus h ave asked me to tell you about another terrific novel by a hot con­ temporary writer that I discovered long after the rest of the world knew about him. Maybe this is their subtle revenge for all those grade changes I didn’t approve, we weisstl Anyway, with all the lunatic glee of someone who has just discovered the Pythagorean Theorem, allow me to introduce you to Orson Scott Card, and to Ender’s Game, w h ich is one of the best science fiction novels you’re ever going to read.

Cancel that: it’s one of the don’t know the end of the best novels you’re going to book, and it’s so brilliant that read. "Science Fiction,” I wouldn’t give it away for after all, is a ghetto term — the world. like “lady novelist,” "Black But even from this short newsman,” or "Polish Pope” summary, you should see — that says more about the how brilliant is Card’s basic prejudice (read: goofiness) concept. Good God, all the of the person using it than it cliches of trash science does about the subject to fiction rolled into one book: which it is applied. Anyway: buggy invaders, heroic and "Ender’s Game” is a novel baffled male hero, battles in about the initiation of a space. Etc. Etc. And Card young man into a sense of simply takes them, reworks his own role as individual, as them, and shows you that savior of the human race, as there’s life in the old cliches member of society, and yet. finally as a fully mature Ender’s Game. If you know human being. In other chess, you hear endgame in words, it's about what all the title, the last part of any novels worth reading are chess game, the part where about, which is to say, the most strategies fall down, story of your own life the where the game reveals its way you wish it would turn real and terrifying psychic out. It’s also got spaceships, violence, where you win or laser guns, telepathy, some lose and where whether you class-A violence and armed win or lose, at least in chess, combat, plus an invading there is no one to blame for losing horde of buglike aliens from except yourself. Chess is the beyond the stars who are all first war game, the model for but omnipotent, absolutely all computer games, and — devoid of human emotion if you’ve ever played it and — well, hell, neat. seriously — the game that These aliens — called, more than any other naturally enough, the reminds you that there are, "buggers” — have already Rambo/Buddha, and who is that he cannot afford to lose ultimately, no games — just twice had battle with Earth taken to an orbital station for a single game, that he more or less close ap- spaceships, both times battle training — zero-gee cannot be less tha perfect, proximations of the indecisive, but now the pitched battles of young boys and also that he doesn’t like hazardous reality in which whole Earth — united, for and girls, games described to be perfect, if that means we all live our waking lives, once, against a threat from with all the violence of a pro hurting other people: St. The novel is, simply, Out There (Reagan wouldn’t football game and all the Francis forced to act like stunning in its interweaving even have known this was cold logic of chess (the Alexander the Great. (Mr. of personal fate, cosmic fate, fiction!) — the whole Earth, I meanest game in the world) Card is, actually, a pretty gameplaying as the central say, knows its only hope is to — so that the teachers/- subtle moralist.) stuff of life and, finally, breed and train a perfect conditioners/trainers can So he wins and wins and something like a religious warrior to command its fleet decide if he is really The wins, finally defeats all the perception of the final shape in the last, climactic battle: to One. Ender, who is buggers — every damn one of human experience and grow its own messiah, in preternaturally wise — as of’em — and then has to live the final possibility of that other words. Enter Ender are most five year olds with his own greatness (he’s rarest of rare elements, Wiggin,a boy of five who has before the school system not yet 17 by the time he charity, been monitored since birth tells them now dumb they does this). Now you know as this potential synthetic really are — understands the end of the story, but you (See e n d e r ’s , p.3) humor is an attempt to find sanity amidst the insanity of our world.

Tickets for the most fun there's been in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall for a long time are only $3 for UCSB students and are available now at the Arts & Lectures Ticket Office; any remaining tickets will be sold at the door. There will also be a free panel discussion with the artists in the UCen Pavilion at 4 PM on the day of the show.

U krainian Poetic Cinema International Cinema forges ahead with the SoCal premiere of A Spring for the Thirsty on Sunday, February 19 at 8 PM in Campbell Hall. Splendidly shot in black and white, Ukrainian Yuri Ilyenko's 1965 work is one of the more important films recently released in the USSR. It offers an austere impression of an old man and his family on the edge of a desert. Ilyenko's expressive images sometimes veer toward surrealism, while others take on an almost documentary realism.

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W o m e n ' s C o m e d y depending on the audience and the laws of the state... " Tune in to N i g h t KTYD's morning show from 7 AM to 10 AM tomorrow, which Gomez will Three very funny comedians from the co-host.) San Francisco Bay Area will bring their experiences as women and their Linda Moakes' (rhymes with jokes) thoughtful humor to UCSB for an specialty is "serious comedy"; she Coming Soon To A evening of laughter, fun and insight presents a world where humor is on Friday, February 17 at 8 PM in Lotte healing and empowering, and where Recital H all. .. Lehmann Concert Hall. sneakers and pearls are a way of life. Although you'll find out more about "Yes, I've always been cool," she jokes. the duo concert to be given by virtuoso Despite their diverse cultural "I was cool as a fetus. I lived alone, violinist Joshua Bell (who's only 21) backgrounds, Marga Gomez, Linda danced, played and ran around naked and French master pianist Jean-Yves Moakes and Karen Williams share a all the time. I had food sent in and Thibaudet (who's only 26) in next similar perspective: the unique vision garbage taken out..." week's paper, it is important to note of being women. that the piano lecture-demonstration Thibaudet will give in French has been Karen Williams is a "self-proclaimed m oved. Marga Gomez' comedy reflects being socialite" who escaped her native New Latin, female and a general misfit. She York to confront her fears on won the San Francisco Bay Area The originally scheduled time and Southern California's beaches. "I date (that's Wednesday, February 22 at Cabaret Gold Awards for Entertainer of recall being paralyzed with fear by the the Year and Outstanding Female 4 PM) are the same, but the location is sound of the crashing waves at Malibu now Campbell Hall. This lecture- Comedy Solo. Her humor isn't and yet, I'd ridden the subway with conventional; she says "I try to aim my demonstration is free and a great muggers daily and didn't bat an eye — opportunity to engage your rusty (or cut at people in power. I talk about it was culture shock." Williams personal stuff as much as I can, your perfectly fluent) knowledge of French in an exciting and meaningful context.

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02* 16*89 — u u . z ^ u SA INDIA'S SIGN OF THE TIMES A Film Review of the Vic's Salaam Bombay! his forced withdrawal. Manju, another of the main characters, is the eight- year-old daughter of Baba and a prostitute. Living in JONATHAN BOLT'S the whorehouse, she wanders around seeking a playmate, seeking a childhood, where none is to be found. Eventually she gives up at the house and joins Chaipau on the street. We are struck with their THREADS capacity to enjoy whatever small amount of pleasure is to be found. As an Indian native, director Nair is thoroughly DIRECTED BY familiar with life in the periphery. She recognizes that what may be tragically sad to Western eyes can be WILLIAM GLOVER taken in stride by those most affected, by those for whom tragedy is business as usual. Only in India can you encounter headlines such as The critical acclamation of Salaam Bombay! may have FEBRUARY 23 - MARCH 4 "Daughter Mortgaged," "3-Year-Old Sacrificed For gone too far. Mira Nair’s first attempt at fiction (she Treasure,” or "Monkey Slaps Woman to Death." It’s a had previously made four documentaries) is good but STUDIO THEATRE - 8PM crazy place. And only in the midst of such craziness suffers from overkill. Nair presents Chaipau’s can children become the majority of the homeless catastrophes like machine gun fire. Eventually the NO LATE SEATING population. Salaam Bombay!, up for an Academy viewer, perhaps due to an ingrained craving for Award for Best Foreign Film, is a fictitious tale of the justice, finds it difficult to remain completely engaged, social reality of an overpopulated, underdeveloped and leaves the theater with an uncomfortable sense of A NEW PLAY BY urban poverty center that is Bombay. helplessness. Granted, this may have been the in­ Although the subject of the film is conducive to tention of the director; it nevertheless detracts from documentary style, director Mira Nair skillfully intense and genuine compassion, and instead we R o b e r t P o t t e r reaches beyond the simple conveyance of information leave mumbling, ‘That’s India — what a God-forsaken to create characters with whom we can sympathize. In place." this transition, even the most tragic of events become — kathleen v. buckley h e i n t h e somehow commonplace. This banalizing perspective T L A D Y finds its focus in the main character, a 10-year-old village boy who has two crucial survival qualities: a resilient nature and a goal. Krishna-Chaipau, as he becomes known to his labyrinth fellow street kids, is kicked out of his house until he can come up with 500 rupees to pay for his brother’s DIRECTED BY bike. He ends up in the red light district of Bombay in a futile attempt to save the 500. Seeking security in his JANE RIDLEY chaotic world, Chaipau befriends 16-year-old drug dealer Chillum, who sells for a pimp, Baba. During a temperamental fit, Baba fires Chillum, in effect cutting MARCH 2-4 and 9-11 off his supply of "brown.” Chaipau becomes the parent for the pitiful addict, supporting him through MAIN THEATRE 8PM EN D ER ’S BOX OFFICE 9 6 1 -3 5 3 5 (Continued from p.lA) UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA That Orson Scott Card could ac­ as one of the best critics in America, complish this sort of triumph in a Joe Bob Briggs: two dead bodies SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA science fiction novel is just another (human), ten billion dead bodies (alien); indication — do we really need more? no breasts; psychological harrassment; — of the fact that the best minds of our brother-sister kinkiness; un­ time are not just “working in," but sympathetic asshole teachers; zero-gee drawing strength and grace from, the Fu; shower-room Fu; computer game popular forms of myth that the official Fu; grand finale molecular disrupter on academy too often ignores. a planetary scale Fu. Five stars. Frank Or, to paraphrase the man I think of sez: check ¡tout.

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IMAGINE EN T B ilA IN M EN W * ROLLINS-MORRA-BREZhffi? honx»» THE M B S ' BRUCE DERN CARRE FISHER RICK DUC0MMUN« COREY FELDMAN ""iD A N A O tSEN ""»JERRY GOLDSMITH »M SJAM ES HSEENCER JKM ROBERT STEVENS DANA 01S&J SU lS|IW 4& IHf LARRY BREZNER«MICHAEL RNNBi JOE DANTE AJ&9&S& OPENS FRIDAY AT A THEATRE NEAR YOU. BLACK HISTORY MONTH On tap for February Program Board Sambo to Eddie Murphy” with The is a series of events that will enlighten Mooney Twins. Richard Berry, the as well as entertain. February is Black songwriter of “Louie, Louie" (which we History Month, which exhibits the all know as the favorite cover tune for important contributions African- Isla Vista party bands), originated the Americans have made to our society. Doo Wop sound of the '50s and Feb. 21 is the anniversary of the provides knowledge on the evolution of assassination of Malcolm X, and for this rock music. date A S. Program Board presents A sa part of Black History Month, The Living Colour with The Beatnigs in Campbell Mooney Twins are appearing with Hall at 8 p.m. Richard Berry on Wednesday, Feb. 22, These two bands have integrated the in The Pub at 8 p.m. powerful message of inspirational On Feb. 24, footage of the takeover leadership that continues to enliven of North Hall by the Black Student audiences the world over. A film Union will be shown along with Don’t showing Malcolm X as El Hajj Malik- Bank on Amerika. Showings will occur Shabazz will be shown at 1 p.m. in the hourly in Isla Vista Theater. UCen Pavilion to kick off the an­ Lastly, on Feb. 25, MichaelMcCurtis and niversary. the Delegates will play in Campbell Hall at The next night, A.S. Program Board 8 p.m. This gospel sensation will be will present the “History of Rock and sure to affect you emotionally and Roll” with Richard Berry and the “History spiritually to give powerful ending to of African-American Comedy from Black History Month.

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When Living Colour and The Beatnigs take the stage at Camp­ bell Hall next Tuesday night, it would be a very good idea to throw all expectations out the window. Living Colour’s album Vivid defied all expectations with its mix of metal and funk, and despite initial resistance from radio programmers used to practicing musical apartheid, “Cult of Personality” is now in the Billboard Top 30. Much has been written about Living Colour's lead guitarist Vernon Reid and his fretboard pyrotechnics; his lightning speed and microscopic precision will undoubtedly amaze the most jaded Yngwie Malmsteen fan. Their live sound, without the glossy production, comes through as tighter, rougher and stronger. The Beatnigs, even more than Living Colour, are more difficult to put into an easy package. Great Britain's New Musical Express described them as "Malcolm X 's children chatter(ing) revolutionary

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WATERBOYS DELIVER FIRE FROM 1 There’s not a shattered dream, humorously embarassing. “And A Bang Neville Brothers Co broken heart, or empty life that Mike On The Ear" lists all the girlfriends The first time I saw The Neville Brothers they were busy blowing Scott doesn't know about. The lead Scott’s had, describing one as stirring Lou Reed off the Forum stage at the first L.A. Amnesty show. Busy is singer of The Waterboys, Scott sings chicken soup and working for an the key word here, because when these boys get in front of a crowd about every human anguish possible on auctioneer. But Scott's genuine honesty they really work it — like men with something to prove. Fisherman’s Blues. The product of an in depicting life's other losses makes up One of those groups that can actually rock with vivid, soulful extended visit to Ireland, the album for the red-faced moments. rhythm, The Nevilles bring their show to the Graduate next also attempts to blend traditional Celtic Despite the lead singer’s need for Tuesday night straight from playing two gigs nightly during Mardi sounds with modern pop. The com­ self-revelation, Fisherman’s Blues is far Gras week in their home town, New Orleans. These guys are hot, bination works well, especially on a from depressing. The upbeat “jig-like” and recently their momentum has been building enough to get song like "Sweet Thing," where the music balances the melancholy topics them their own upcoming HBO special. Their variety of fans, guitar segues nicely into fife and fiddle. of the singer, leaving us with the feeling deadheads to dance freaks, knows the recognition is overdue. The biggest draw is Scott’s sense of that even the worst moments in life A bar band of the first order, the Nevilles have been at it since angst. When he asks “Has Anybody yield something to be desired. The the '50s. But this is no “legends of rock" oldies show. They play Here Seen Hank?” he’s not just looking Waterboys may be singing the blues, their own music, pushing much of their recent stuff — not to for his own friend, but everybody’s but they manage to avoid completely long-lost Hank. Once in a while his wallowing in self-pity. promote it, but because it’s some of their best. My buddies who turned me on to the album still rave about the need to purge the soul can be — shalmali pal Fiyo on the Bayou wildest party they saw at Mardi Gras, a Nevilles show. 2* 16*89 SOULED OUT A Review of the Replacement's Don't Tell a Soul Dear Paul (Westerberg, lead singer/- Tommy (Stinson, your bass player) songwriter of the Replacements), said in the interview that you guys What the hell happened? I bought kicked Bob (Stinson, ex-lead guitar your guys' new tape Don't Tell A Soul playing dynamo/fool) out of the band and I nearly barfed. I thought that because you felt that you all were maybe the guy at Morninglory Records growing up and he wasn't. Well, if this slipped me the new Europe tape or record is growing up, then growing up something, but you guys don’t even means stupid rhymes, bubble gum “oh have as much guitar in your new crap yeah”s and synthesizers. I'd rather not as they do. grow up if that’s the case; in fact, lead Think about that, Paul, Europe has me to Bob's new band. more guitar than you guys.... Also in the interview you suggest that I got into you guys in 1984 when you this record is the way you’ve always put out Let It Be . You did a Kiss cover wanted to write. You said that when (“Black Diamond") on that album; you Bob was in the band you felt you had to thrashed on "We’re Cornin’ Out,” and write thrash for him, and when he left you were suprisingly sensitive without you felt you had to write rockers for being wimpy on “Unsatisfied" and Tommy. Well, there are no rockers in “Sixteen Blue." this tape. I saw you that year, too, at this Congratulations. country shit-kick bar in L.A. All you Your current songs are weak guys, it turned out, were drunk, but imitaions of mediocre ballads. “Achin’ that didn’t stop you from kicking the To Be" is fairly decent, but stick that hell out of us and playing raw rock and song on any of your other records and it roll. would just be an average song in Ever since then you guys have been comparison to the monsters you've my favorite band because you done in the past. reminded me how rock and roll should “Talent Show " kicks off the new tape be played: loud, fast and stupid. and it talks about the fears bands have So what’s this new crap? It's like when they feel like they've gone in over asking for a brew and getting a their heads. It’s not a bad song, but teaspoon of beer and 11 ounces of even high school talent show bands rip R UP AND COMING water for $6.98. If you got a beer like a little — even when they're insecure. that, you’d probably throw it back at the You guys don't even attempt to rip on ip- epithets inside Test Department’s oil drums, The Last Poets spit bartender’s face — even if he was your this album. It's depressing even to ow assassin's tracers into the electrical storm of Tackbead, Ciin- favorite bartender in the world. think about it. tonesque irony shaves the stubbly polemics of the Clash, Fela Well, maybe that’s what I'm doing. What happens when the best rock of stones the shiny streamlined tardis of Kraftwerk and Bad Brains This record sucks. and roll band in the world records i io rip the innards out of Big Black." I read your interview in this month’s without guts or guitars? It becomes of Tuesday has another, more subtle, but far more meaningful, Musician and I understand that you want Don’t Tell A Soul. significance as well. Twenty-four years ago to the day, Malcolm X a "hit.” Stick a dollar sign in front of hit It's all a big joke, isn’t it? Please say 1st was assassinated. and what do you got? Let me spell ¡tout yes. ed To say that Malcolm X has had an influence on these bands for y o u ... $hit. — tony pierce ed would be putting things lightly, and I’m expecting they will not let the date, or its significance, pass unnoticed, gh figu< The chance to see Living Colour and the Beatnigs should not be missed. There are still a few tickets available from Program Board HOT TUBING :to and in the usual locations; It has the makings of a truly conscious ess party. iry — doug arellanes

{îîîtîîîlîîfj The Tubes Saturday at the Savoy Acclaimed in the 1970s for their Talk to You Later and She’s a Beauty, as well concept performances, The Tubes are as material from their upcoming album, now back in the public light. Sans ex­ tentatively titled, Hoods from Outer lead singer, Fee Waybill, the band from Space. Frisco has been getting positive receptions for their club dates in Go see 'em. After all, the promo \s4j*ù.éL XsAsû/û Europe, Canada and the United States. packet says The Tubes are “returning On Saturday, those crazy Tubes will to the muscular powerhouse be playing at the Savoy Theater, 409 musicianship and a rediscovered tone State Street in Santa Barbara. They will and attitude that is quintessentially rs Come to the Graduate be featuring some of their older hits like classic Tubes.” ng Recently the Nevilles recorded “Sister Rosa," a stirring tribute pis to Rosa Parks, the “mother of the civil rights movement.” Cyril h6 Neville can still remember his mother’s reaction after hearing Women's Comedy Night Friday in Lotte Lehman about Park’s refusal to move to the back of a bus in 1955: “Well ful thank you, Miss Rosa.” Growing up with “White Only" signs has Due to the fact that the majority of stand-up comedians are male, ext given their musical legacy a legitimate dose of the blues, but this a performance entirely by female comedians is a welcome change rdi only reinforces their determination to rage when party time comes. of pace. At Women's Comedy Night on Friday at 8 p.m., three of the Bay Area’s most promising female comedians will perform at ot, Go, go, go. the Lotte Lehman Concert Hall. get ns, This Saturday, Hothouse Flowers is playing the Ventura Theatre. One of the comedians, Marga Gomez, was named Entertainer of Most of their L.A. shows have been sold out, and this is probably the Year and Outstanding Female Comedian at the Bay Area ice the last small-venue tour for the critically acclaimed band from Cabaret Gold Awards Ceremony last year. Also in the lineup is lay Ireland. Though their Dublin origin and socially conscious music Linda Moakes, who claims she was “cool" when she was a fetus. to has garnered many comparisons to U2, the Flowers' new album Karen Williams will also be performing her therapeutic socialite ho People brings to mind early Springsteen, a la “Darkness on the Edge of humor. tie Town. Live, however, they wanna rock, and tickets are going fast. There will be a free panel discussion with the three comedians at Call 648-1936. — jesseengdahl the UCen Pavilion at 4 p.m. on Friday.______THE BUZZ WORD ON FLY II Sequels are never as good as the original, and The Fly II is no exception. But the movie industry does know what the consumers want, and the buzzword on The Fly II i$ "Big Hit." The plot centers on the son of the SANTA BARBARA S CONNECTION star of the original remake of The Fly, who has "inherited a legacy of horror" FO R \ from his brilliant father. It seems as though he's got some growth - accelerating fly genes in him, and by the time he’s five years old, he has • LIVE MUSIC matured enough that he looks, talks, and acts like Eric Stoltz, star of Mask. Luckily, he is played by Eric Stoltz, star of Mask. Anyway, so there’s some basic plot stuff, evil men and a lot of things that ( K v are supposed to be eerie. Then he • COMEDY meets up with “fiesty computer programmer” Daphne Zuniga, star of 'fèz* Spaceballs. They have a “Love Montage" together in which they dance, do § computer stuff, laugh, and end up “doing the nasty.” And just when DAN CIN G a GOOD T IM E S everybody's happy, the plot kicks in. i Fm You see, they’ve got these transportation pods that don’t really work correctly, because they can’t transport living matter. Whereas in the original Fly, Seth I g t Brundle experimented with baboons (eliciting a kind of primal eerieness), in The Fly II, they just go for cheap sympathy by turning only the cutest of dogs into IM s slithering, slobbering doormats. Ask yourself, “Where are the self-respecting, law-abiding scientists who use tiny vermin like mice for their experiments?" You’ll get an idea of the filmmaker's disregard for logic. DANCE CLUB t . Which brings us to the big word of the week about The Fly II\ EXPLOITATION. Where the original Fly remake was some serious art by David (Dead Ringers, Scanners) Cronenberg — all about how man is being changed by machines, how COUPON love won't work in a technological society, etc. — Son of Fly is all about getting teenagers out on a date to have somewhere to go make goofy jokes about gore. present this coupon at door (Most of the audience will probably have a harder time dealing with the wed, fri, or sat & get in free lovemaking scenes than the face melting.) But you really can’t complain too much about this kind of movie. Eric Stoltz gives a pretty good performance as a misunderstood, smart teen with a skin affliction (doesn’t he always play this character?). The gore looks great and it’s a fun movie. 500 anacapa st. • 966-6411 Still, horror films with endings that have poetic justice should have been given up after, the '50s. The moral of this review: don’t go see this movie expecting The Fly, but something more akin to a high-tech IW as a Teenage Werewolf. ______je*freyc. whalen and adam liebowitz

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One can only hope that Paulina Porizkova will start You can bet Paulina’s going to have that problem. refusing roles that type-cast her as the naive Eastern And one can’t talk about this movie without bringing TAP MASTER CLASSES bloc babe that comes to the United States to find up the Magnum P.l. thing. Alibi co-star Thomas Selleck freedom but instead ends up in all sorts of dumb has a sidekick that looks a whole lot like Higgins, which with JON ENGSTROM trouble. really doesn’t matter, it's just kind of funny. And you Dance Captain, original Broadway production Her Alibi is the second such movie in a row with this know how he always makes cute little diatribes ® Director/Choreographer, upcoming SBCLO production sort of plot. But watching it, the type-cast thing isn’t through the course of Magnum episodes? Well he does really apparent yet because her other starring role, that all the way through this flick, only it’s supposed to Sunday February 19 & 26 Anna, didn’t do very well at the box office. be entries he's making in a book he’s writing (he plays It's probably going to be a while before she can get an author). a Dance Mfarehouse 1:00 p.m. % her hands on some really meaningful roles (Her Alibi is The comedy probably could have been better had it 9 Some tap experience required. Class size w ill be limited, so advance § a big ball of corn). And even then, extraordinarily not been so drawn out. Also, the sometimes slapstick/- ® registration is suggested. For more information, call the Santa © beautiful women that try to portray “regular" people sometimes serious tone of the movie doesn’t always 9 Barbara Civic Light Opera at 964-1442. § are usually very unconvincing. Remember when work. 9990900090090000990999000909000999990900 Farrah Fawcett, a serious babe in her own right, was As previously mentioned, the movie is real corny, in that T.V. movie a few years back called The Burning and although the plot is rather non-innovative, it's BetP. It was about a woman who torched her husband good fun, really. This is the kind of movie where you one night because he was such a jerk. Well, they can eat a lot of food and even get up and go to the can smeared dirt on her face, made her wear cheap, or to get more food and not worry about being lost crappy clothes; basically tried to make her look nor- when you come back. mal. It didn’t work, she still looked hot.______— wadedaniels THEATER Series Film Gonza the Spearman Tonight in Campbell Hall 26 So. Chestnut Downtown Ventura 648-1888 The wacky folks over at Arts and Lectures are still at century courtiers. RITA COOLIDGE it with the excellent International Cinema series, The story of love and betrayal centers around a Feb From Ireland continuing this Thursday night with Gonza the samurai who, in times of peace, finds himself without Spearmen, an entry from Japan. the job he was trained to do. Instead of physical 18 HOTHOUSE FLOWERS Most of us only know Japanese cinema from combat, he must play the games which will allow him to Feb DEAD HEAD NIGHT Godzilla movies or, if you're really into film, something achieve a good life. The traditional honor we in the 19 with Happy Trails by Kurosawa. However, despite its unusual title, Gonza west have come to expect of a film about samurai has a the Spearman does not have any six-inch-high Island whole new meaning. Feb L E G E N D S OF priestesses singing songs to a moth god. Worth seeing if only for its unusual visual style, Gonza 23 CHICAGO BLUES Based on a Japanese bunraku shadow puppet the Spearman plays Campbell Hall Thursday at 8:00. • Jimmy Rogers • Pinetop P e rk in s play, Gonza is a stylized romantic tragedy about 17th- — adam liebowitz • Hubert Sumlin Feb PONCHO SANCHEZ L 24 The Estrada Brothers If you haven’t Feb KMGQ FUSION MAGIC w/ 25 THE BRANDON FIELDS been bowling lately, B A N DlRippingtons) you ought to see UNCLE FESTIVE w/guest Luis Conte DOUG CAMERON / Thurs. Feb. 16 I.V. Theater what you’re missing. Mar 7 «9* 11p.m. 1 LIVE BOXING AUTOMATIC Spon. by I Mar The Band that Rocked Neil Young A.S. Call Line SCORERS CRAZY HORSE Mar TOWER OF POWER Fun and excitement are the name of the game when 4 Raw Silk you bowl at the ORCHID BOWL! Automatic FULL Mar Heck M u sic Center presents the Scoring keeps score for you and shows it in color on 5 VENTURA MUSIC EXPO BAR a 25” screen. Watch TV while you bowl, too! It’s (ÚMG Major manufacturers display their 1989 a Ball! musical instrument product line 935 EmbarcaderoEmbarcad del Norte Home of UCSB’s Intercollegiate Bowling Team Mar Coming Feb 21st Intram ural Bowling-Wed. & Sun. 7 KARYN WHITE Minutes from UCSB! 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Chestnut Downtown Ventura For Dinner Reservations & Ticket Information Tickets Available at Rock House C A LL (805) 648-1888 CONCERT LINE (805) 648-1936 and all Ticket M aster Outlets OPEN 10-10 DAILY, 10-8 SUNDAYS 910 Em barcadero Del Norte. Isla Vista 968-4665 AND ALL TJCKmefâzàxrm*' LOCATIONS For more info call "■ sÿfcïw fss TICKETS FOR LOCAI AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EVENTS M AY COM PANY • M USIC PLUS ft J A IL H O U S E RECORDS THt HOMt Of ORtA T ROCK N ROLL 683-5786 FOLGNER PRODUCTIONS 8 A Thursday, February 16,1989 Daily Nexus As part of Black History Month, A.S. Program Board proudly T brings to you... H A Richard Berry T & P E T The Mooney Twins R If you don’t immediately recognize Richard Berry’s former is accomplished with no pain at all. Their act name, you certainly know his music. He is the genius includes African-American comedy ranging from O behind the masterpiece that we all know and love.,. “Sambo” to Eddie Murphy, but there is a serious and L That’s right, “Louie, Louie.” We have all sung to, we important message behind every laugh. Daryl and have all danced to it, come and meet the man who Dwayne have been given several awards including wrote it. Humanitarian Comedians of 1984. The Mooney Twins, Daryl and Dwaye, are Don’t miss out on this exciting evening of original recognized and respected for their comedy and their thought and entertainment. Both Berry and the goal, which is to educate while entertaining. And the Mooney Twins will appear in the Pub Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 7 pm, $4 students, $6 general, available at the A.S. Ticket Office.

McCurtis and his professional group, The COMING: Delegates, have taken their Him highly emotional music to many places and people and Malcolm X each time have received "B Hajj high acclaim from those Malik- who chanced to listen. The show will take place on Shabazz" Saturday, Feb. 25 at 8 pm in 1 pm Campbell Hall. Tickets are UCen Pavilion on sale now at Morninglory, A.S. Ticket Office and Ticketmaster.

PUB NITE • PUB NITE • PUB NITE • PUB NITE Extravaganza z TONIGHT! 3CO CL IN TH E PU B m Is C o m in g • e 111 TU 0 c 09 F The Biggest THE z and Best Event GROOV of the Year Ever since their opening for the Busboys, locel hipsters T The Groov have been taking audiences by storm all over This is the biggest event on campus and students are Z Southern California with their dynamic rhythm section H CO and innovative style of jazz, rock and RErB. Their horn needed to help put it on. Come join in on the fun. 3section alone will blow your mind and Bruce Sweet's E Committee meetings are every Wednesday from 4-5 pm 0. voice is just that. You don't want to miss these guys, • they're the real thing. in UCen room 1. Call the Program Board office for more LU information. ! and • 3i i n and • b i i n and • b i i n and • b i i n B E Do you have a guitar? Do you desire fame and fortune? Well, we can help you with the fame E anyway. A.S. Program Board would like to announce ... H The LIVING COLOUR 1 V GUITAR - OFF! E Come show off your best stuff in two minutes of guitary virtuosity in front o f a gnarly amp stack. W The event will take place Tuesday at noon in Storke Plaza. You have to sign up to play, but not to watch. Sign-up E sheet is in the A.S. Program Board Office on the third floor of the UCen, room 3167. D. The Saturday PUB Series Continues featuring... David Lindley A & El Rayo Ex M i R. w ith 8 Little Women T w o S h o w s 8 Saturday, Mar. 4 7 and 10:30 pm P

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