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PAGE 16 April 3, 2001 Erica Smith's idle banter Michelle Jabes 27 blooms in spring 26 Jamie Peck tries Adam Craigmiles 23 to Get Over It survives a hangover 27 pnsert name here Little to Prove, a Lot to Gain Supa DJ Dmitry Has Come a Long Way From Deee-Lite by a n n a k a P. l a n ANNA KAPLAN elcome back, dear Sitting outside the Retriever Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff readers. Did you office one day toward the end W miss your favorite of the week before break with Last Saturday's ArtGazm column over the last two Jenn, the editor in chief, who event featured DJ talent both weeks? Of course you did. was supposed to be one of local and international. The head Were you scared when HAL [INH] 's traveling companions, lining act was Supa DJ Dmitry, an 9000 conducted a temporary the two discussed alternate electronic music artist whose coup of it? Of course you were. plans. First, they thought of fame stems from the success of Well, it's all better now. HAL going to New York because, the pioneering dance group Deee has been unplugged, its beady well, it's New York and it's Lite. Now a solo artist, Dmitry is red eye is dull and dusty. And always fun. And [INH] has traveling the world promoting his [INH] · is back to entertain you family living there, so money new mix CD, Scream of once more with its pathetic could be saved on hotel bills. Consciousness, which was pleas for contest entries. But disheartened by the recent released on Wax Trax!/TVT Before the immense relief falling through of The Perfect Records last November. of Spring Break rescued us all Spring Break Plan (New The record is a collection of from the drudgeries of class, Orleans), the two took deep remixes plus a few originals. [INH] told you it was going to drags off their Camel Lights Dmitry collaborated with many New Orleans for vacation. and decided apathetically they different artists, some of them Well, that did not happen. You did not feel like getting up the leading international DJs, to know, people have to work, energy required for the Big make this record. A few tracks cars break down and get stolen, Apple. feature vocalist Julee Cruise, hotels get booked before you "So, where else can we go? including Dmitry's rendition of call them, etc. And [INH] real There's no way I'm spending David Bowie's classic "Space Krista Brocenos I Retriever Weekly Staff ly did want to go to New my entire break in Baltimore," Oddity." His set at ArtGazm Into the Groove: DJ Dimitry spins his own eclectic blend of Orleans. Bourbon Street, said [INH]. "Where do you reflected the same eclectic col dancerific techno at Saturday's Artgazm party. voodoo stuff, Bourbon Street, want to go, Jenn?" lage of styles that the rest of his really neat cemeteries, Jenn thought for a while and solo work does - he combines a smiling entourage. Tired from orange, curly dark hair piled into Bourbon Street, jazz, Bourbon responded with, "Actually, I different electronic subgenres to his flight from Tijuana, where he a ponytail on top of his head. He Street . oh, and Bourbon really want to go see my broth create seamless dance tracks. spun on Friday, Dmitry spared a wasn't happy when I told him he Street, of course. So this col er. He lives in Roanoke, He showed up an hour before few minutes for an interview. He umn was not happy when it ~irginia." She later informed his set with a trunk of records and was dressed in bright safety see DIMITRY, page 24 found out the trip was not hap pening. see INSERT, page 25 Electra a Hit in the Making MICHELLE JABES B ~nt & a~~nt Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff One-woman shows seem to be all the rage lately. From Anna Blast From the Past Deveare Smith's compelling 26- C'mon, Get Happy at Kitschy Cafe character hit Fires in the Mirror up to the more current Vagina JAMIE PECK let those with ample amounts of Monologues, Eve Ensler's liber Retriever Weekly Senior Writer visible chest hair and gold chains ating brainchild which spawned pass the velvet rope. This is one its own following and holiday, You're familiar with That '70s of those venues with a dress code these fantastically morphing Show? Well, think of downtown - no hats, shirts must be tucked playwrights/actresses seem to be Baltimore's Have a Nice Day in, etc. - that might not permit popping up everywhere. Cafe as That '70s Club. such fashion. Last Wednesday, here at the OK, the comparison is a little However, travel up the escala UMBC Women's Center, I hap off. Have a Nice Day Cafe also tor once you've gained admit pened to catch a glimpse of some incorporates a bit of the '80s and tance - a nice touch - and one who may very well end up '90s into its explosion of pop-cul you'll notice the bartenders are being the next in line for this ture artifacts passing as a exempt from said regulations. "Wonder Woman" status. For the bar/nightclub. But even though They're a friendly lot dressed in ftrst time on the UMBC campus, the place is highly decorated clothes representative of Have a Susan McCully presented a read with, as Moe on The Simpsons Nice Day's internal timewarp ing of her new play Cyber (slogan T-shirts, bellbottoms, Becomes Electra: An Errata( ca). might say, a lot of crap tacked to Jeremy Wustner-Brown I Retriever Weekly Staff the wall, it's a rarity - a theme etc.). They're great with patrons, Performance artist, author and Picture of a Playwright: The magically morphing Susan Mc hangout where the kitsch is actu too, known to eagerly hop up to visiting assistant professor of Cully is pure genius as Gene the Geneticist. ally fun and inviting. the blinking, Saturday Night English, McCully presents work For starters, Have a Nice Fever-esque dance floor when that is fresh, innovative and hilar feminism, identity, sexuality, sade to bear a child both surprises Day's goofily inviting logo is a called upon by the DJ s to bust a iously honest. She manages to cyberspace and modem life. and amuses her girlfriend, a fast gigantic smiley face - that irre few dance moves of the past with deliver this highly complex, The story goes something like talking intellectual who has big pressible feel-good symbol of the the more eager revelers. bizarre and twisting story line this: Electra, a successful com ideas and uses big words. Woodstock era. But don't think The Have a Nice Day clientele with apparent ease. Through the puter programmer/feminist/les Meanwhile, Electra's "Doomy that, just because the club has a is 21 + only, with the exception of embodiment of eight totally dif bian suddenly becomes victim to Donna," (an erotic computer backwards feel going on, you women on Wednesday's Outta ferent characters, McCully her biological clock and decides game originally made for Electra slide into your best John Travolta expresses some funny, but also that she will do anything in her white suit; the bouncers might not see OUT & ABOUT, page 25 very meaningful insights about power to get pregnant. This cru- see CYBER, page 29 .