C()e Cabet A&L Editor A&L Staff Eric Gannon ISUR Sean Griffis A pril 14, 2000 Caliet Page 7 A&L Briefs Vegetarian Food isn't all Five-Star CD's Nuts and Berries CHICAGO (AP) — Hugh by Eric Gannon to our table and read that night’s menu. Hefner may get his Way after all. A «& L Editor The menu for the evening contained After heated debate, a City Coun­ one vegetarian meal, a vegan meal, a cil committee on Tuesday ap­ When she first mentioned that I dinner salad and a meatless pasta (for proved naming a street after should stop by her vegetarian restau­ the timid). We ordered one of each Hefner, who started his Playboy rant sometime I laughed at the idea of item so as to give everything a fair try. empire here in the 1950s. On Mon­ me eating tofu and soybeans for a meal. Our dinners were served after the day, the committee voted down the Somehow one week later I found my­ dinner salads right as the evening crowd proposed “Hugh M. Hefner Way” self there, eating tofu and soybeans. began trickling in. I had ordered a rice No-Doubt Dimitri From Paris after listening to arguments that I was on the Timberframing FTX dish with a mock indian cheese made Travis A Night at the Playboy Mansion Hefner’s work is degrading to when I started talking to Lorrie, a from soymilk. Also at the table were the The Man Who Return of Saturn women. But the street got the OK Timberframing guild member who was three cheese pasta and the tofii cutlets Independiente/Epic, 20(X) Trauma/Interscope Astralwerks after Hefner’s daughter took cen­ helping build the scout rifle range shel­ with Jalepeno mashed potatoes. All of ter stage a day later and called her ter. In the conversation the fact came the plates looked great, and upon trying father’s story one of “quintessen­ up that she owned a local restaurant them no one could complain. Though by tial American success.” that specialized in a vegetarian menu. themselves many of these foods, like Mission to Mars is a Sci-Fi Flop Blue Heron Cafe. I jokingly told her tofii, are tasteless, they were all cooked I’d stop by sometime soon and try it so well that everything had a fine dis­ movie. Another onscreen couple Apollo 13 type cinematography. LONDON (Reuters) - out. Come to find out, it was less than tinct taste. The portions for these meals by Sean Griffis has been selected for the team. Tim Once on the planet, the Crooner Tony Bennett will have a a week later that I was there. My par­ were also tremendous. My plate took CabttA&LStaff Robbins and Sharon Stone play team discovers the secret of the selection of his paintings exhibited ents were in town from California and determination to finish while no one else Ready for some serious sci- husband and wife. Their undying mysterious “face” on the planet's at a London gallery. The 73-year- were looking for a pl&ce to eat so I sug­ fmished all of theirs. fi space cheese? Mission to Mars is love and affection for each other surface. After which they make old singer is showing a range of gested we go to Blue Heron Cafe. Blue Heron Cafd is open Mon­ your ticket. For those of you who saw infects the plot and becomes nau­ contact with a really lame-looking his work, including watercolors, When you enter the restaurant, day through Saturday for lunch and for the previews and said, “Whoa...that seating. Several shameless plugs alien. The highly superior extra­ oils, sketches and prints, in the ex­ you are immediately struck by its dinner on Friday and Saturday. The looks cool”; you’ve been grossly de­ for equality in the workplace find terrestrial looks like an incandes­ hibition titled “What My Heart homely atmosphere—a linen tablecloth menu rotates continually and meals ceived. In fact, the only really cool their way into film as well as subtle cent combination of the traditional Has Seen,” at the Catto Gallery in covers each table, the silverware is mis­ range from $8-$ 14. If you have a free parts of the movie arc given away in civil rights messages. This is sup- Unsolved Mysteries artist rendi­ Hampstead. The exhibition, under matched and you can look straight into evening and a desire for great food, the previews. The story takes place in po.sed to be a science fiction movie tion, a jellyfish, and a sequined Las his real name Anthony Benedetto, the kitchen over a short counter. After stop by. It’s right off Main on Wash­ the not so distant future. NASA has not a fantastic voyage to planet P.C. Vegas showgirl. runs from May 16 until June 16 being greeted at the door we were taken ington St. the capability to send a manned re­ Mission to Mars lacks If you still want to see the and follows the release of his lat­ search mission to Mars, and has picked what made 2001: A Space Odys­ movie, I’m sorry. One should ex­ est Grammy-winning album a crack team for the job. sey and Star Wars so absolutely pect more from a film named Mis­ “Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot and Win Free Pizza From the beginning of the awesome, huge powerful stuff, and sion to Mars. Mars colonization Cool.” - Conqpleted Puzzle wins Domino's Pizza Party* - movie one can smell the foreboding amazing space footage. MTM and exploration is not a new sci-fi smell of unnecessary melodrama. Gary made no attempt at grandeur or theme. When you have to compete Sinese plays the main character, a down earth shattering special effects. with a classic like Total Recall, MAMARONECK, N.Y. and out, introspective, melancholy Take Armageddon for example, it sporting Arnold, explosions, Mar­ (AP) — A sixth-grader suspended hero. The audience soon learns that his was a cheesy love story twisted into tian nudity, and a nasally extracted for reciting a naughty rhyme to wife and former co-commander of the a sci-fi film but no one got sick be­ tracking device. Mission to Mars two girls on the playground re­ Mars Mission has died due to a tragic cause the special effects rocked. could have at least thrown in some turned to school Tuesday after his sudden illness, and she is annoyingly Mars’ space ship scenes were neat, gratuitous violence or massive ex­ punishment was cut from five days brought up throughout the rest of the but they were a stale evolution of plosions. to three. The 11-year-old was pun­ ished last week for saying: “Roses are red, violets are black, your chest is as flat as your back.” The VAST: Visual Audio Sensory Theater boy’s parents offered to have him apologize, but school officials said by Derrick Bodkin a pounding melody while Jon exclaims, my temptation,” Crosby screams. he had violated sexual harassment ^ b e t Guest Writer “I’ll never find someone quite like you It leads right into “Three Doors,” a guidelines. Lawyers for the boy’s again.” song about making choices. “This family and the district agreed to I’m convinced this is the most ne­ “Dirty Hole” is a slow, melodic is your only chance at immortal­ his reinstatement. glected album of the decade. VAST dirge that deals with a less-than-pris- ity...” offers a musical trip off the beaten path. tine woman. The next track “Pretty “The Nile’s Edge” is a slow, What makes this album so different is When You Cry” became the main single gentle tune that shadows the story of NEW YORK — Larry the style. Put together Benedictine off the album, receiving meager radio Moses. Jon asks, “Do you regret what Linville, best known for his por­ monk chants, searing guitars, lush elec­ and video rotation. The theme for this you saw floating softly at the Nile’s trayal of the power-hungry and tronics and you get an idea of what song is a sadistic relationship where the edge”. I neurotic Maj. Frank Burns on thfe you’re in store for with this album. I’m girl is’used, then brought to tears.’ Jon “Somewhere Else to Be” fol­ CBS television show “M A S H” at a loss pigeonholing VAST into any sings, “How can this be love?” lows, with an untitled track that ties died Monday at Memorial Sloan- one genre. From gothic to industrial to “I’m Dying” goes even deeper by it to the final track, “You”—a mel­ Kettering Cancer Center. He was hard rock to alternative, the debut al­ delving into religion. Jon asks, “Jesus low close to the album. 60. Linville suffered from cancer bum covers all the bases. Christ, are you the savior of the All in all. Visual Audio Sen­ and had a lung removed in 1998 Down Jon Crosby is the lead vocalist world?...I want to see...” sory Theater by VAST is one cf the after a malignant tumor was dis­ 1 The height of the Lancashire holi 23 Assume job suits one (5) and mastermind behind the band, much “Flames” is in the middle of the best albums I’ve heard in a while. If covered. Longtime manager Barry day season (9,5) Across like Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails. CD, and is a gentle interlude. The you like bands like Nine Inch Nails, M. Greenberg of Los Angeles said The opening track "Here” starts slow fiames are fiames of desire expressed Tool, or the Moody Blues, give it a Linville was hospitalized Sunday 2 Works university removed from I Brother undone by overindul and gentle, then explodes into a grind­ by Crosby set amidst a string orches­ listen.