THE ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT SECTION OF THE DAILY NEXUS 2A Thursday, September 26,1991 UCSB Associated Students Program Board in conjunction with the UCSB Rowing Team present i i ..hilariously spontaneous, a tremendous comic talent who tickles the ethnic funnyhone! P D D □ □ □ □ □ 1■ D G C 3 □ □ 1 D ^ □ In Concert Comedian PAUL RODRIGUEZ ■ r 5 CSB General Admission: $12, Students $8 Tickets Available At: Associated Student Ticket Office All Ticketmaster Locations Mominglory Music — I.V. To order by phone, call: 893-2064 Tickets on Sale Thursday, September 26,1991 Score ul let in Thursday, September 26,1991 3 A CONCERT ene SERIES SPECIAL BEAT c * * A R T W FEATURING: RANKIN' ROGER (Ex-English Beat) WITH SPECIAL GUESTS NEVILLE STABLES (Ex-Specials) KM A R U 1 C TOMORROW HORACE BANTER (Ex-Specials) I t I M K F 9 GRAEME HAMILTON ItA L II# !! NIGHT! (Ex-fine Young Cannibals) f t J A A M | j l | PLUS ... FINNY, BR A D , SE A N FLOW ERDEW , . „ ANTHONY HARTY and CHICO HAMILTON * REBEL PEH US MICHAEL MARTIN/Special to the Nexus SEP 27 20 local bands make up the roster for the Sun Day Festival, September | 29 at the County Bowl. FRI/ 6PM SANTA BARBARA BOWL f | 1 his is the week that Tickets are only $11.50, ab- life would be changed fore­ is, the time when out the price of a sociology ver when a flower-child I classes start and reader at Kinko’s. postman changes his route A N EVENING WITH entertainment ven­ j ust to stop by her apartment ues pull out all the stops in • The Pub, in addition to each day and give her tips hopes of attracting an eager featuring fine snacks at af­ on memorizing her nine­ LINDA (and for a month anyway, fi­ fordable prices (EN C O R E digit zip code. nancially secure) student recommends the nachos), RONSTADT audience. So get out those also showcases the Bone- A r t full wallets and fork over daddys in concert on Wed­ • You’d be crazy to miss the I IN A CONCERT OF some change while you still nesday, Oct. 2. Look for UCSB Art Studio Faculty have it. Just a piece of free contests in Storke Plaza to Exhibition, the one chance [ TRADITIONAL advice, though: Check out coincide with the concert, you’ll have to see every Art I those events that promise including a chance to ap­ Studio professor get naked f MEXICAN SONGS those magical two words — pear on the soap opera for the sake of sheer exhibi­ FEATURING: n o ch arg e. “Santa Barbara,” a show ab­ tion. Well, actually, it’s a I LOS M u sic: out SB filmed in L.A. with chance to see the collected I • The aptly titled Sun Day not a single character who is works of faculty emeriti, I CAMPEROS THIS concert will take place the a UCSB student. Perhaps a current instructors and vis-1 SATURDAY! appropriate day of the week young female freshman iting faculty. The exhibit,] DENATI (also known as Sept. 29) be­ could be introduced who along with the video art ex­ CANO ginning at 2 p.m. at the was forced to attend UCSB hibition “Eye For I: Video I Santa Barbara County after she was expelled from Self-Portraits,” runs! Bowl. The concert features Columbia for eliciting sex through Oct. 30 at the Uni­ SEP 28 four hours of live music from professors in exchange versity Art Museum, and re­ SAT/ PM from the realms of reggae, for scientific equations. member, admission is al-l SANTA BARBARA BOWL 7 latin salsa and world beat. Now living in Isla Vista, her ways free. Where do you shop for music in Isla Vista? ON SALE morningjory NOW! Established 1969 Established 1990 OCT 12 New Releases New Releases SPECIAL GUEST SAT/6PM SANTA LITTLE FEAT BARBARA $11.99 * 12.99 BOWL Regular CD's: Regular CD's: «13.98 & «14.98 «14.69 & «15.69 Our U.C.S.B. Top Ten: Their Billboard Top Ten: $11.99 or less «12.99 McENTIRE 1 .Red Hot Chili Peppers 1 .Garth Brooks WITH SPECIAL GUEST 2. Guns N’ Roses 2. Metallica 3. The Cult 3. Natalie Cole AARON TIPPIN 4.Siouxsie and the Banshees 4. Color Me Bad S.Smashing Pumpkins 5. Bonnie Raitt UCSB 6. Mr. Bungle 6. Boyz II Men STUDENTS WITH ON SALE 7. Metallica 7. C & G Music Factory R EG .CAR D NOW! 8. Ned's Atomic Dustbin ($9.99)8. Michael Bolton GET A 9. Hole 9. R.E.M. d iscoun t! lO.Mary's Danish 10-Rush VISIT A.S. NOV 2 Tickets?: Yes Non Tickets? Yesn No TICKET SAT/3PM Guitar Stuff? Yes®^ Non Guitar Sti,ff? Yesn No®^ SANTA BARBARA BOWL OFFICE Most Imports? Yes Non Most Imports? Y esn No i n T-Shirts? Yes Non T-Shirts? YesO No ®^ Tickets available at all outlets including The Compact Disc and Tape Store (Goleta), and Mommglory M usk (I.V.). Tickets also available at the Arlington Theatre and Santa Barbara Bowl ^ f S A Any questions? box offices. To charge by phone call (805) 583*8700. Santa Barbara Concert line: (805) 964-2999. ^ — KTYDwS» 4A Thursday, September 26,1991 Hcore rSvie reviews Barton9s Sibling Revelry The Coens Are Established as Righteous Brothers f | ^ here is a special talk of Broadway. So much momentmnmpnt in BR aartnn rto n so,sn in fartfact, , that it earns him a I F in k , just minutes screenwriting job in Holly­ after the opening wood, where he meets credits have rolled, that is as traveling salesman Charlie much a signature for the Meadows (a brilliant turn by film as an opening pan. It John Goodman) who re­ So What's There drags you in, knifing sides in the hotel in which through the glitz and super­ Capitol Pictures has Fink ficiality of a posh New York housed. For a Gaucho to Do eatery, ending with a first- The best actor award Tur­ person look at that which turro won at the Cannes In This Town? the Coen brothers have had Film Festival for his perfor­ an ongoing love affair with mance in this film is well- for quite some time now. To deserved. He touches on INTRAMURAL BOWLING them, the peculiarities of Fink’s pathos, his inability the grotesque, it seems, are to empathize with anything AT ORCHID BOWL! not so much a theme but a outside his private, personal way of life. world with such care that Wednesdays and Sundays In Barton Fink, writer/ you at once think both the starting at 9:00 pm director Joel and writer/ world and nothing of him. producer Ethan poke, prod The Coens wrote Char­ and wrench this topic ab­ lie’s part especially for • Earn 1/2 unit of P.E. Credit out, eventually stuffing it Goodman, who becomes • Automatic scoring makes it fun down your throat and leav­ the “common man” Barton • Open Lanes Weekends & Weekdays ing you to struggle to digest seems so desperate to reach. some quite disturbing and But it is the grotesque, the • Minutes from UCSB utterly fascinating commen­ muddy quirks behind the re­ tary. The look in the open­ ality, that the two so exper­ ing sequence belongs to tly communicate, from Bar­ OPEN 24 HOURS Barton Fink (John Tur­ ton’s very appearance dur­ turro), a young and self- ing a brutal heat wave, to ORCH/D BOWL consumed New York play­ Charlie’s deep and horribly m wright, whose new play of energizing secret. 5925 Calle Real • Hwy 101 at Fairview in Goleta •967-0128 the “common man” is the But it is the collaboration Barton thinks: John Turturro and hair con­ that makes this a true Coen template the moment in the Coen brothers’ effort. It is seen especially in contribution to brilliance. the supporting cast, as Mi­ chael Lemcr’s movie mogul matography that, as in the ping wallpaper). Costume Jack Lipnick and Tony Coens’ M iller’s Crossing designer Richard Hornung Shalhoub’s producer Ben and Blood Simple before it, and set designer Dennis Geisler are part caricature gives the movie life. Roger Gassner are picture-perfect MOVE SOMEPLACE and part commentary, and Deakins’ photography is in sculpting this “period show that an utter disregard both simple and ingenious, piece,” and brother Joel’s of one’s fellow man can also employing Barton’s seedy direction is subtly brilliant be very, very funny. hotel room bleakness so as All of which combine to give This ensemble effort car­ to characterize Barton him­ us the true star of the film — COOLER... self (with a particular nod to the film itself. ries into the technical as­ pects as well. It is the cine- the shots of the rotted, drip­ —Josh Elliott Hoodco Gurus Incomplete Attempt Patti Smith World Party Simple Minds Roughness Offers No Surprises Replacements Squeeze Toad the Wet Sprocket Doomed from the start, football movies and their in­ Stranglers B-52's Echo & The Bunnymen herent predictability are al­ most impossible to enjoy. It’s always some dumb jock 10,000 Maniacs U2 Talking Heads who kisses the girl, wins the game and brings home the The Alarm Edie Brickell bacon to boot. Not surpris­ Lenny Kravitz ingly, Necessary Rough­ n ess, starring Scott Bakula Kate Bush Michelle Shocked The Church of “Quantum Leap” fame, has fumbled into this rut of trite story lines and not-so- The Clash Crowded House The Police snappy one-liners.