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weekend preview This weekend you can sample a variety of cultures including Persian, Pakistani, Indian, Yugoslavian, Indochinese, and American folk through films, crafts, music and poetry, for $2 or less. And much of it is offered free. Concerts spanning the spectrum, from classical to traditional blues to folk to jazz to rock are available up and down the valley, concentrated in Eugene. Documentary type flicks abound. A selection of new plays opens this week on campus and elsewhere. Looks like something for everyone. Tonight you can enjoy strains of the University Symphonic Wind EnsemDle at a special student rate of $1. The concert, under the direction of Robert Vfegner, begins at 8 p.m. in the School of Music recital hall. NUC is sponsoring a pair of documentaries tonight at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. concerning law enforcement and the military in the U.S. Both “Law and Order,” filmed during 250 hours with the Kansas City, Mo., police, and CBS’s “The Selling of the Pentagon” received Emmies. Admission is $1. In honor of the birthday of the late Malcolm X the Muslim Students’ Association will run a film, “The Battle of Algiers” at 7 and 9 p.m. tonight in 150 Science. $1 per viewer will be levied at the door. People into textile production take note of this week’s Friday lecture by art and architecture. Jane Gehring, art education, will speak on Balinese and Javanese textiles in 177 Lawrence at 4:30 p.m. Her lecture is free. One dollar on-campus flicks Friday night include “'Hie Exterminating Angel” by Bunuel at 7:30 p.m. in 177 Lawrence, and “Calcutta” by Louis Malle at 8 p.m. in 150 Science. The latter reel is based on Kiplingish observations on overpopulation and related universally human problems in the midst of the exotic. The OSU Symphony orchestra is giving a free recital in our recital hall Friday at 8 p.m. An evening of Pakistani culture beginning at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the Newman Center will feature food, films and politics sponsored by the Pakistan Student Association. Everyone is welcome. It’s free. If you’re contemplating redecorating your domicile, you may want to investigate a Persian rug auction Friday at the Thunderbird Motel. Free brochures, a film on rug construction and interior design consultants will be present at the exhibition from 2 p.m. The auction proper begins at 7:30p.m. Even if you can’t afford a new rug, you may pick up knowledge on how to judge a used one. Up the valley Boz Scaggs and Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show are doing a Friday session at Portland’s Paramount Northwest. Scaggs, the featured performer, has been associated with Steve Miller, and sang his way across Europe as a streetman. With his new eight-man band which includes some horns and strings he’ll be cranking out down-home rock beginning at 8 p.m. You can secure tickets for as little as $4 if you have con nections in the City; at the door, $5. Only one tip for Saturday. Charas Ah Kahn will give a sarod concert of classical Indian music at Scarborough Faire Saturday evening. The sarod is a small, mellow version of the si tar. Admission to the 8:30 p.m. excursion into Oriental sound is $1. Don’t forget Saturday Market, the all-day craftsfair at 8th and Oak. Sunday afternoon the University’s women’s association is sponsoring a “Women’s Picnic” in the Skinner’s Butte Park at 1 p.m. It’s a bring-your-own affair; music, food, games and kids, if you have any or Greg Smith and Shades of Brown will accompany Cold Blood in a May 26 concert at the Lane County Fairgrounds. Tickets are now on sale at the EMU main desk and the usual outlets for $3. Tickets for the 9 p.m. concert will cost $3.50 at the door. all. Members will pass the hat for donations to support a women’s coffeehouse and center. For those of you into “funky, get-down hot and heavy jazz,” check Les McCann Sunday in the EMU ballroom. McCann, a jazz pianist will appear in two concerts, at 7 and 9 p.m. Tickets are $2.50. See “Pat & Mike” (Hepburn and Tracy) at 7 or 9:15 p.m. in the_University Theater Sunday. At Mama’s Home Fried Truckstop the Goodwill Band plays from 6 p.m. til closing every Sunday. Due to the overwhelming number of listeners Mama’s will be requiring a 75 cent minimum purchase. The band specializes in acoustic “goodtime.” On to pan-weekend events. Exhibits and festivals are popping out all over. A photo exhibit by George Beltran and Bemie Freemesser of the photojournalism department will be on display in the University Art Museum through the weekend. Water Colors of Oregon are on exhibit in the EMU second floor gallery through the 26th. Photographs by David Featherstone are showing now at the Koinonia Center (1414 Kincaid). Five plays are currently being produced by the University Theatre. For information on admission and times see pages 8 and 9. South Eugene High is doing “The Bad Seed,” by Maxwell Anderson, tonight through Saturday. Per formances begin at 8 p.m. All tickets are reserved; $1. In Portland the Lewis and Clark campus theater is featuring a play by Jean-Claude van Itallie that explores contemporary feelings of guilt in conjunction with assassinations of prominent figures, JFK, Martin Luther King. Performances of ‘"Die Serpent” will be given at 8 p.m. through Saturday, and 2 p.m. on Sunday. Student tickets are $1. The Association of Medical Aid to Indochina is sponsoring a weekend of poetry readings and theater to raise funds for Asian relief. Friday the Guerrilla Theater, poets and speakers will do an event in the EMU from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. On Saturday the group will move to Saturday Market at 2 p.m. On Sunday they’ll do a Bach Mai (hospital destroyed by U.S. bombs) Benefit Poetry Reading at 8 p.m. in 150 Science, requesting a $2 donation for admission. Hie department of dance is holding its own all weekend function, a Shrovetide Concert (Friday and Saturday) and a Shrovetide Festival (Saturday and Sunday). Shrovetide traditionally precedes Lent, but due to scheduling problems this one is being held in May. Admission to the concerts, which start at 8 p.m. in the Gerlinger annex is $1. The Festival, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, and til 4 p.m. Sunday features folk music and dance with a special slide show on Yugoslavian lore Sunday. Admission to the Festival events is 75 cents each day. The largest event scheduled on campus is the 3rd Annual Willamette Valley Folk Festival. Beginning at 3:30 p.m. on the EMU terrace, Friday’s festivities will conclude in an old fashioned barn dance at 8 p.m. A string band and caller to direct the dancing will rule the EMU ballroom Friday evening. Activities move out doors to the School of Music amphitheatre Saturday to accommodate a crowd of up to a thousand folk lovers. Twelve acts will perform between noon and 5 p.m. At 8 p.m. Saturday Mance Lipscomb, a 75-year-old Delta blues player will appear in concert in the EMU ballroom to wind up the festival. Tickets to Lipscomb’s concert are $2; everything else is free for the listening. So there you have it, all the events of the weekend on which I have been informed. With the selection of indoor and outdoor goings-ons, passive and active, hope there’s something for you. Terry Sotta rock on Well, if this weather has made you want to get out and do something a little different, next weekend will be your chance. The once famous sock hops will make a return appearance in the EMU Ballroom. You don’t really get much of a chance to get up and dance anymore so if you have the feeling and want to let loose a little bit here’s the opportunity. In addition to the regular festivities that include dance contests and a lot of grease an added feature at this one, “A Rock n’ Roll Revival” will include a movie called the "T.A.M.I. Show.” The movie was produced by the original rock and roller Allen Freed in 1965 and filmed in Santa Monica. It’s a kind of "Woodstock indoors” and features the Rolling Stones, James Brown, the Supremes, the Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, Leslie Gore, the Marvelettes and many more. A special portion of the sock hop this time will be devoted to the “surf sounds” with a surf-dance contest that will highlight the show. Tickets are only a buck so if you feel like getting loose and having a good time Friday night, May 25th is for you. Ever tune in the tube and get hit with those special record offers from K-Tel Records? Four hundred of your favorite all-time oldies but goodies and all on one album for the fantastic low price of only $5.98. Well, old K-Tel seems to have a little trouble on its hands. Many of the tunes they released were owned by Roulette Records and it seems that K-Tel had an agreement with Roulette but they went a little further than they were supposed to, and now they find themselves involved in a million dollar court battle. “New York” magazine reports that Columbia Records President Clive Davis will receive a salary of $259,000 this year. I wondered where all my money was going. Another interesting salary that was reported was that of New York disc-jockey Don Imus of WNBC, this year he will get $200,000. Not bad for pushing records ....The Staple Singers are scheduled to film a TV documentary that will be shown some time next year.Mick Jagger’s brother Chris is about to release his first album on Asylum Records in the next few weeks.Cold Blood and Shades of Brown will play next Saturday night at the Fairgrounds....A new album that should create quite a stir is the offering from Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin of the Mahavishnu Or chestra. That one should be out later this month If you plan to split Eugene this summer you may get a chance to see the annual summer British invasion. Both Jethro Tull and Led Zeplin will tour the states and both groups have been readying acts that will include elaborate stage settings.Later this month, Dick Clark will begin taping his 20th Anniversary Show in the American Bandstand series. The fifties portion of the show will be broadcast in mono with the sixties simocast in stereo and the seventies parts will be in quad. What a novel idea.If you have a few extra bucks you might pick up the new album that features the Siegal-SchwaU Band and the San Francisco Symphony, Seiji Ozawa con ducting. The album is on the Deutsche-Grammophon label and a single, “Three Pieces For Blues Band” has been released as a single. The first single ever for classically orientated Deutsche-Grammophon.More new albums that will be out soon include, “Rocky Mountain Cowboy” from John Denver, a new album from Yes, and an offering from Jose Feliciano that will feature back-ups from Leon Russell, Seals & Crofts, Loggins & Messina and Bill Withers.Oh, and don’t forget a week from tonight in the Portland Coliseum, the Alice Cooper extravaganza, should be quite a show. Bruce Micklus
