weekend preview
This is a good week-end to leave town.
Not that there isn’t more than usual happening
in Eugene—there is.
It’s just that all kinds of things are happening
in other towns and the possible combinations fen*
activities are almost limitless.
For example, you could begin the week-end
tonight in Portland at the Rare Earth and Doobie
Brothers concert in the Coliseum. You could spend
the night in Portland and take in Quicksilver
Messenger Service at the Paramount Northwest
Theater Friday night.
From there you can go to Corvallis—providing
you bought one of the already sold-out-student
tickets—for the Saturday afternoon basketball
game with Oregon State. If you don’t have a ticket,
you can watch the game on television beginning at
2:30 p.m.
After that it’s back up to Portland for
Saturday night’s indoor track meet at the
Coliseum. People like Steve Prefontaine and Steve
Smith, who recently set a new indoor pole vault
record, will be competing.
But if you miss the Doobie Brothers tonight,
you can still catch them Saturday night—
providing you skip the track meet. The Doobies
and Steely Dan will be playing at the Salem Ar
mory.
However, if all this is too much for you, there’s
more than usual going on right here, so you don’t
really have to leave town to have fun.
NUC is putting on “El Chacal de Nahueltoro”
tonight in 177 Lawrence at 7 and 9:15 p.m. Ad
mission for this flick, which will be showing with
“Chile puts On Long Pants,” is $1. El Chacal, the
Jackal, is the realistic reenactment of a famous
Chilean murder case in which a poor peasant kills
a woman and her five children, is caught, tried,
found guilty and executed. The actions of the
sensational press, the ironic conversion of the
murderer during imprisonment and the stark
photographic images combine to make one of the
most powerful anti-capital punishment films ever
put together. The second feature is a documentary
on the new Chile.
If you don’t feel like going out tonight, you can
watch a re-run of Dick Cavett’s “VD Blues” on
channel 7 at 7 p.m. The show, which features many
rock musicians and other entertainers will be
Jazzman Washington in EMU Sunday
repeated at 1:30 p.m. Jan. 29, 10 a.m. Jan. 30 and
31 and 1:30 p.m. Jan. 31.
If you don’t want to start the week-end until
Friday, there’ll still be plenty to do.
The musical, comedy “Where’s Charley”
begins a five-day run at LCC Friday night. Under
the direction of Ed Eagozzino, the players will
perform again Saturday night at the same 8 p.m.
curtain time. Other performances will be
presented Jan. 31, Feb. 1 and Feb. 3. (A 2 p.m.
matinee performance will also take place Feb. 3.)
All tickets cost $2 and can be reserved by calling
747-4501, ext. 310.
On campus Friday night, the East Asian
Society will present “King of Swordsmen,” a film
about a young swordsman avenging the murder of
his family. The color film is directed by Kwok
Nan-hung and has English and Chinese subtitles.
The movie will be shown at 7 and 9 p.m. Friday
night in 180 PLC.
On Saturday you have a chance to help a good
cause and see a good flick at the same time. The
Student Union Against the War will be showing the
Marx Brothers in “Monkey Business,” one of their
best. Hie show will begin at 7 and 9 p.m. in 180
PLC. Tickets are only 75 cents.
Also on Saturday (during the day) the new
monthly Saturday Crafts Fair—a winter version of
the Saturday Market—'will begin in the Lane
County Fairgrounds front round building.
Original arts, crafts, wares and other unique
creations will be sold from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Admission to the fair will cost 25 cents for adults
and 10 cents for children. (Hie money covers the
costs of renting the building.)
On Sunday the ASUO Cultural Forum has two
potential activities to make your day an enjoyable
one. First is the movie “Sunday, Bloody Sunday,”
which is being shown at 3,6 and 9 p.m. in 180 PLC.
Admission is one dollar. The film is the classic
iove triangle: a middle-aged man and woman are
both in love with the same young man. Peter
Dinch and Glenda Jackson as the people in love
with the young man turn in very good per
formances.
The second ASUO offering Sunday is a con
cert—really two concerts—by jazz man Grover
Washington, Jr. He’ll be playing his sax at 7:30
and again at 10 p.m. Performing with Washington
will be “Coal,” a local rock band.
Hckets for the concert are $2.50 and are
available at the Sun Stop, Chrystalship and the
EMU main desk.
Also available for week-end entertainment is
University Theater’s production of Endgame. The
main stage performance begins at 8 p.m. tonight,
Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Before seeing
Endgame, you can see “Cox and Box” in the
Pocket Playhouse. (See story page 8.)
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a documentary on the new Chile.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 25
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7:00 A 9:15 P.M.
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an incredibly realistic re
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Melbourne Film Festivals.
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tone: a combination of :
frimness and compassion." j
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aspects... he has succeeded >
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