7 --------------^ The Enemy Is Among Us Pg3A THE ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT SECTION OF THE DAILY NEXUS F o ir T h e W e : o f M a r c h 5 , ]L 9 9 2 HILLARY KAPLOWJTZ/Dtily N m Why Are These Guys Smiling? Because Their Acoustic Guitar Band is the Hottest Act at Local Clubs. As Los Guys, Jeremy Donaldson (left) and Harold Lee, Are Finding Success With a Stripped-Down Sound. Interview, pg:..fiA — 2A Thursday, March 5,1992 ■icore Generation Rap Burn This Examines Societal Angst he Dramatic Arts Department pre­ sents a searing T look at contempor- ary society tonight with the SAT • IvlAFf • premiere o f Lanford W il­ son’s controversial play A celebration of AIDS and B u m This. Directed by graduate stu­ Sexual Awareness dent Victoria Gilbert, B u m in Isla Vista This is a confrontational A piece dealing with the com­ plex issues of sex, ho­ mosexuality, violence, rela­ tionships and the stresses of the thirtysomething genera­ tion. According to Gilbert, the unique production fea­ tures something which will affect everyone in the audience. N “The play has to do with the inability o f the charac­ ters to maintain intimate re­ lationships,” as a result of the alienating society in which they live, she said. Each o f the characters is forced to deal with aliena­ ROGUE CHEDDAR tion on some level during the course o f the play. Because the play deals Miranda Holmes as Anna (left) and with adult themes and con­ Michael Sulprizio as Pale in B u rn This. MILGRAM’S PILGRIMS tains severe language, Gil­ bert cautioned that viewer vertising writer and a vich, and later Eric Roberts, discretion is strongly screenwriter — Gilbert said as Pale, and some consider advised. she tried to avoid turning it a tour de force for any ac­ LOS GUYS the characters into ste­ tor in the lead role. But G il­ The play begins when Pale, an angry man of con­ reotypes by creating them as bert disagrees with this idea. temporary society played by multidimensional human “Every single actor and EARL Michael Sulprizio, enters beings. Each o f the actors character is important,” she s the life o f his dead brother’s was required to research said. The play is more of an roommate, Anna, a modem their characters to trans­ ensemble, focusing on the dancer/choreographer form them into genuine lives o f all four characters played by Miranda Holmes. people rather than mere and the problems they en­ The story develops with characters on a stage. counter, not just Pale’s Anna’s attraction to Pale, B u m This is a workshop story. despite her serious relation­ production, using limited ship with Burton, an in­ space and lighting. Gilbert B u m This opens tonight creasingly successful described the production as in the Old Little Theater at 8 Q' screenwriter played by Jeff “actors’ theater” — the fo­ p.m. It will also be pre­ SHOW STARTS AT Graham. The play also de­ cus being detracted from the sented Friday, March 6 at 8 lves into the life o f Anna’s production and setting and p.m. and Saturday, March 7 current roommate Larry, a concentrated on acting and at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. A $1 do­ gay advertising copywriter. directing. nation will be collected at Despite the nature of the Wilson’s play was origi­ the door. N N characters — an angry man, nally performed on Broad­ a modem dancer, a gay ad- way starring John Malko- — Karen Skanderson 0 Local Bands Featured At Awareness Concert Anisq’ Oyo’ Park will be the site o f ened age group, and we still don’t know the “Wake Up,” an AIDS awareness concert frets about how AID S is transmitted,” Ka­ Saturday afternoon, featuring local bands plan said. Y Rogue Cheddar, Los Guys, Graceful Park veterans Los Guys — who, like Punks, Made of This, and Milgrim’s each o f the participants, are donating their Pilgrims. time — are planning some topical set The event is being sponsored by the A.S. changes in honor o f the event The taller Program Board and the A ID S Awareness half of the band, Jeremy Donaldson, said, Task Force. Speakers from several organi­ “W e’re absolutely not doing it for the mo­ zations involved in both A ID S and sexual ney, because there is absolutely no awareness issues will be giving brief educa­ money.” tional talks between the sets. The concert is scheduled to run from 0 Marc Kaplan, the event’s organizer, was noon until 6 p.m. and is absolutely free. W ÊÊÊIÊÊÊÊ^^Êm BÉ involved in a similar event in Northern Ca­ Complimentary condoms will also be lifornia and has since become eager to available. For more information, call bring something like this to the Santa Bar­ 893-3536. PARK bara college crowd. “W e ’re supposed to be the most enlight­ —Alex Maclnnis It’s Easy! It’s Fun! It’s Hypo-Alergenic! FIND THE VIDEO GUY Drop Your Answer Off At the Nexus Office _________ Underneath Storke Tower... please.__________ Contributors Bonnie Bills R ENCORE staff Dylan Callaghan Denis Faye Assistant Editor Charles Hornberger K Anna Kent Pax Wassermann Alex Maclnnis Bill Mathieson Editor Alex Salkever Karen Skanderson PLAZA Brian Banks * á á ~ . i t lil t LVtll 111 I I 1111 licore mice Thursday, March 5,1992 3 A ■ CONCERT REVIEW Word to the Masses In an Explosive Show at the Anaconda, Public Enemy Lets Loose on Racism, Their Image, and Arizona By Bonnie Bills and Charles Hornberger t took over an hour for Public Enemy to get to the stage Wednesday night at the Anaconda Theater, but once the spotlights hit Flavor Flav, Chuck D and Ter­ I minator X, there was no doubt that everyone was go­ ing to get exactly what they paid for. They rocked the Anaconda to its knees. They pumped up the volume past all acceptable levels. They soliloquized. They dissed Arizona. And Flavor Flav even took his hat off. Stalking the stage like a barrel-chested panther for over an hour, Chuck D belted out the lyrical assault P.E. is fam­ ous for, while his bony-kneed partner strutted around in classic Flavor style, grinning and slapping hands with fans. Though Flavor's birdlike prancing — and an impressive headful of dreads — may have caught most of the crowd’s attention, his solo performance o f “Y o ’ Nigger” proved he can stand up against Ice-T, KRS-One or anyone else you’d care to name. Aside from some unfortunate skips on Terminator X’s turntables (due to the Anaconda’s snaky stage), the show was seamless from start to finish. H ie only problem was that it had to finish at all. Heavy touring apparently hasn’t tired Public Enemy, who looked — and performed— as if they just came back from a weekend in Phoenix, where they d efinitely wouldn’t have worn themselves out bringing down the house like they did in Isla Vista. And when Chuck D started droppin’ knowledge, you knew Governor Mecham wasn’t far from his mind. And he d id dis’ Arizona. As political as ever, Chuck D put the hip hop on hold for 15 minutes for a litany on rac­ ism, the media’s portrayal o f P.E., Christopher Columbus BBSS mw r % and the historical destruction o f Black culture in America. “W e’re agents for the preservation o f the Black mind,” he told the cheering, mostly white audience. They may be the one and only group that can stop a roof­ shaking show for a political speech without alienating the audience. In fact, P.E.’s politics were as welcome as their music. After Chuck D finished, Flavor took the mic and con­ tinued with the lesson, talking mainly about the allegations that Public Enemy is racist. “H o w can we be racist when we ■ ■ ■ bring all these Black and white people together and pro­ claim them brothers and sisters?” he asked. And then he said it. “Yeaaaaah Boyyyyyyy” As Terminator X ’s beats pounded through the thick, 90-degrec air of the Anaconda, the crowd exploded. Heads bobbed, a sea o f arms waved and some guy fainted in the mm front row. In the end, all you could do was marvel at the band’s abil­ ity to not only pump out some of the best hip-hop ever made, but also leave their audiences with a powerful politi­ cal message. Too bad Babs couldn’t make it Front top» clockwise: Chuck D addresses the crowd, tit th eiiA n acon da Theatre Wednesday about a variety of topics, including Public Enemy’s image and a * Black: culture; A member of the SIWs (Security of the First World) surveys the m scene; Flavor Flav plays to bis audience; Chuck D busts a rhyme; Flavor Flav shows everybody what tip1« it is. Photos-bv Hlllary Kaplowite/Pailv Neaus 4A Thursday, March 5,1992 Score ne might consider added. “But they were not a sense o f humor bought They were never that refers to for­ bought No one would have mer Soviet Premier told you so, but you under­ OKonstantin Chernenko as a stood very well — Barbara “comic figure” and com­ Streisand was playing a Jew­ munism as “Kafkaesque ab­ ish girl who was openly J ew- surd Soviet reality” as some­ ish and the word ‘Jewish’ what cynical.