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.. A5 Annual Ita I ian fest offers foOd, entertainment By ANDREW JOYCE tionals as potato pancakes and frozen yogurt. Aquinas. Staff Writer The variety of f<J9Cis displayed could tempt even the most finicky of customers. The 16th annual La Festa Izaliana filled The festival also offered constant enter the courthouse square this past Labor Day tainment from the stage area located across weekend with food and entertainment. It from the post office on L;nden Street gathered together over 70 different vendors Music and dance pieces were performed from the greater Scranton area. by local orginizations for the benefit of a The tents lining Linden and Spruce streets mostly older crowd. · and Adams and Washington avenues offered The University's Jazz Band performed many diverse oppurtunities for the 200,000 Saturday night to a mixed crowd lined along people which the festival boasts catering to. Washington Avenue. Many University students availed them The dunk-a-cop concession offered those selves the opportunity to sample some of the interested a chance to sink one of Scranton's area's fmer Italian eateries. The festival of Finest into a large tank of water. The line for fered a brief respite from the Mulbeny Street a chance attested to the popularity of this establishments so often associated with comical display. University students discuss Italian Fest events during last weekend's activities. student's tastes. The festival closed Monday night, but you From left to right: PaJ Guinan, Jim Buckridge, Mike Duke and Eric Dobrzynski. Among the splattering of pizza and pasta may be able to notice lingering traces if a visit varieties, one could also fmd such non-tradi- through the square behooves you. .- .. ..: :' . by JOE REotNGTON. · = . _MARKa~~LLwAN . _Making ·NOiSe: ·A more ·complete album list Aquinas· Staff. Writers.··. .· The Unofficial Stu(ient. Guide ··David Gilmour's powerful guitar Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spi~ 7. The Who - Quadrophenia: viously achieved with some of his distributed in the boo~tore·:con~ ··fills, and Richard Wright•s haunt-:. ders from Mars: This album about The Who's pinnacle album describes most poignant and embittered tained a list of the 25 greateSt. ·R()ck ··ing k~yboards combine flawiessly an alien rock star's self-destruction a young "mod's" attempts to deal songs. Unlike Bam to Run, where and Roll albums of all tinle:accord- :.«>evoke ~ sense of emotional eol- . propelled Bowie to super - star with his splintering world Excel the music overpowers the singing, il1g to Spin Mag02ine. The. list was = lapse and alienation. Gre_at. at par- dorn. 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The Clash pulled out all the stops mix that characterized their sound. est Band," has been on hiatus since with the wife of ·his best friend, : 4: Vulgar Boatmen - You and on this double album that combines The hits Roxanne and Can't Stand the death of Joe "Momma" Berres George Harrison: Clapton vents his Your Sister: Don't be fooled by the punk rage with a variety of musical Losing -You pale when compared to et al., but their last album clearly pain and frustration with the help name, this band is neither vuJgar styles ranging from rockabilly to the album's other offerings, such as stand<> head and shoulders above of Duane Allman on slide guitar, In nor hard - core punk. ·Their debut reggae. While it lacks the brutal Next To You and Be My Girl- Sally. the poseur metal bands of today. its raw emotion it comes closest to album combines the repetitive chord nihilism of the Sex Pistols, the van Outlandos d'Amour contains the The quiet restraint of (Listen to duplicating the blues o(. the ·men riffs of the Velvet Underground with ety of subject matter, ranging from energy and sense of humor that be the) Flower People, the lyrical who influenced Clapton. the laid back sound of The Byrds. personal isolation in modern soci- came less common as Sting became clarity of Tonile I'm Going to Rock 2 Pink Floyd.- Dark Side of. the Lyrically they have fo'!lld the voice ety (Lost in the Supermarket) to po a much more serious fellow. You Tonight, and the sensitivity Moon: The Floytr s bieakthrough of the twenty something generation litical revolution (Spanish Bombs) 9. Bruce Springsteen - Dark and loving nature of Sex Farm and album and the longest: charting struggling against apathy and to lovers' laments (/'rain In Vain), ness on the Edge of Town: In this Big Bottom, make this a true tour album in recording history. Roger searching for direction. makes this album punk's most elo- follow up to Born to Rwz, Spring de force of metal mayhem and Waters' dark and disturbing lyrics; 5. David Bowie- The Rise _and quent statement steen surpasses the ~eights he pre- musical majesty. _..;.____ Classifieds----- ATTENTION KOOCIDE! GEr nas Classilleds Manager is seeking TRAVEL FREE!! Sell Spring A l.JFE. - Love, Scranton assistance with the weekly typing. Break trips to Jamaica, Cancun, Ba 9V._m•rlty >••ap.• SCRANTON ULT~ATE If interested please leave a message hamas, Margarita Island Best com Lotum.• Lipsticq FRISBEE - WE EXIST! Anyone missions paid. 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