( )r*j{on IXuly l-'meraiifs Weekly Mu»k, TheiUer, Dance, Movie, Video ,nui Nightlife Guide
Music
Friday, January 8
Sun Runner (original funk, rock) in th« I MU Beer
Garden Doors open at 4 pm, mus* at S pm
Jimmy Lloyd Rea and The Switchmakers
al Good T imes 9 30 pm
Ganja Farmer* (rock) at Taylors 9 |>m
Elvis Birthday Bash (rock) at John Henry n 10 pm
Unshakable Mace and The Dubslitutes rap *rxJ
reggae) at the WOW Hail 9 30 pm
Saturday. January 9
Walker T Ryan al Det>erl s 8 30 pm
Jimmy Lloyd Rea and The Switchmaster* Uu«?
at Good T imes 9 30 pm
Sons of Cain (rock; at T ay lor s 9 30 pm
Oswald Five O/The Smugglers/Compost/The
Evaporators <rock) at John Henry's 10 pm
Tha Strangers and Sun Runner rock; at the
WOW Hall 9 30 pm
Sunday, January 10
Ranch Romanes (the Northwest Country Hand or
the Year) at John Henry s 8 30 poi
Monday, January 11
Rooster * Blues Jam at Good TImes 9 30 pm
Stsv* Ibach (acoustic) al John Henry s 10 pm
Tuesday, January 12
Stagger Is* and Goodie iacou ti. lat Defcefl1
8 30 pm
Local H# rod. os I in Transit (acoustic) at Good
I imes 9 30 pm
My NanWVoodoo Gaarshift/Supsrnova
I rock) al John Henry s 10 pm
Wednesday, January 13
Skylight Cafe Acoustic Jam (open mike acoustic
onty) with hosts Walker T Ryan and l aura Kemp in
the EMU Skytujht lounge ?-10 pm Sign up in
advance at trie Culuraii T omm office located m the
EMU. of cal 346-43/3
Bob Parker (toft Ml Dekiert s 8 30 pm
Loat Creek Gang frock) at Good Times 9 30 pm
The Treepeopte/funneihead/Oeep Down Trauma
Heada/Did Boy at John Henry s 10 pm
Roots Renegades (world heal) at t aytor s 9 pm
Thursday, January 14
Mark Alan (acoustic) at Detxirt s 8 30 pm
Deadpan Cool i work] btial/ at Good T imes 9 30
pm
Emergency Broadcast Systems (rock) at John
Henry's to pm
Visual Arts
Huhuiti oI Art walercolors parted *1 1946 to
jhj’Jf.di? trie ettefvv.il edition ol Francts Parkman s
The Oregon Trail‘ Presetted Hi confuntion with
in* iWlh anniversary celebration of Ihe Oregon
TraS Opens Jan 10. continues through Feb 28
Museum of Natural Mielory ‘Threads of
Cortmulty I hreads of Change Coslume as
Communtcalion m Highland Guatemala and Ilie
Color of TradHion tnckgenous Women of Memco
and Gualemala’ Noon • 5 pm. Wed - Sun 1680 F
ian Ave
EMU AM Gallery Marlin lulfter King. Jr
invlalionat An Show F ealures local artisls work lo
coincide with the Martin lulher King. Jr
Celebration aclrvities Jan 8 —28 wth opening
reception Jan IS
ICC An Department Gallery ‘Recent Work- t/y
Craig Sptlman includes ittagko prrts Shows
through Jan 22 with an artul lecture on Jan 14 al
10 am lo*owed by a reception al 11 30 a m (ICC
Art Gallery)
Maude Kerne Art Center ‘Oregon S Visions * new
works by live local artists portraying Oregon land
scapes and Honda Slone s "Human Ettrapmett
Series ‘ photographs Opening reception Jan 8 7-9
pm 345-1571 for more into
Miscellaneous
Pocket Playhouse presents ‘Springtime.- a play by
Marta Irene Forties Jan 7, 8 and 9 al 5 p m in
VMard Halt
Poets Stacie Smlh-Rowe and Amadee Smth wfl
read from their work Jan 14 at 7 30 p m al Maude
Kerns Art Center, 1910 E 15lhAve Fourth of run#
monthly programs m the Wtndlal Reading Senes
Call 344-1053 lor Information
threads of Continuity
Cow*!ny Pho<
Photograph from Elizabeth Raid a traveling exhibit at the Museum of Natural History
Story In katv MoHiur
Photographer Kli/aboth Rent has had
tin1 rare experience of living and wink
mg wilh Native Americans who Iiv• ■ in
remote areas of Mexii o and ( luatemala
She h i . captured hi*r tini(|iir m
perienc.es on film and an exhibition of
her work entitled "Thu (odor ol
Tradition Indigenous Women ol
Mexico and (ioatemala ’ is iv tilable lot
viewing at the Museum ol Natural
History until lebruary .lit
Keid. a resident of Santa ( tu/.
California , spent 11 months living m
several villages learning about their day
to day life and photographing women
doing their various daily tasks
Women berame the focus ol Reid's
exhibit because "they were the hardest
to get near " Kent said that many ol the
men knew Spanish and were able to
communicate with her In spile ol the
language barrier. Keel said she was able
to still able to communicate with the
women on an "unspoken level
"When I said goodbye to one of the
women I lived with and lold her that I
would i omit bank, I know she undcr
slood mu."
The first village that Kent lived m was
Tenepipa in the stale of Chiapas.
Mexico During her visit, she hiked
through the mountains with the women
and helpixi pick coffee lieans
She has captured this experience with
her camera and in her exhibition there
are pictures of women puking ripe red
coffee beans as well as other vegetables
In another village. I’arrainos Chit|Uil<>,
which is located in northern Guatemala.
Keid picked beans and vegetables with
Ihe women and children While the men
plant and harvest the corn, the women
.ire responsible for Ihe maintenance of
other crops
Turn to CONTINUITY, Page 10
Reading the Latest
Sailor Song
bv Ken Kesey
Review by I A Spurlm
ll look 520 pages of v igneltes, flash
backs, and mu' of his children's stories to
firing Ken Kesey out of the woodwork
with tm latest novel, 'Sailor Song
1'he story is set mostly in an Alaskan
fishing village/garbage dump sometime
in the early 21st century, with seemingly
irrelevant sidetracking to Fresno, La
Jolla, the Oregon Caves, and a religious
cult leader's cooperative farm/prison
camp.
"Sailor Song” does not go far enough
into the future to be called fantasy; more
than anything it is merely speculation.
Designer drugs have a small but inter
esting role in the story, and the United
Nations is implicated as at least a region
al governing-type fixture, but that point
is never made very’ clear
into the garbage dump comes
Hollywood to film "The Sea Lion."
Kesey’s children's story, and to the
dump's bay comes a monstrosity <>f a
molor-yachl; basically, a shiny metal
object for the socially deprived residents
of the dump,
Villagers band together in the Loyal
Order of the Underdogs for the purpose,
really, of raising hell and shooting guns
in the name of boredom.
All the characters are highly devel
oped, and every detail of every location
is described beyond necessity, but the
story' just wanders; no wonder the twok
is so long.
"Sailor Song" has at least six major
sub-plots, but no central focus, no real
reason to be save merely random enter
tainment.
Yet the story is so hilar. it uses
vicious, dark comedy so wi,, pointed
one can't help but smell the same gamey
fish-rot Kesey smelled, and taste the
same nasty Mad Dog.
But il goes nowhere Why dors Kesey
lt*ll about the hydrocephalic girl and hrr
mother7 How cornu one of I hr most
interesting sub-plots is rrsolvrd most
hackhnndedly? Do th« two gratuitous
fishing scrnrs exist only so the book's
title can, however remotely, relate to tin
story? How come there is no main theme
to the story?
Perhaps the most infuriating example
of Krsey's neglect involved how one of
the more interesting characters. Billy the
Squid, died He wasn't identified when
they found the body, only later did it get
mentioned in passing, as if by accident.
All the loose ends .ire left to total spei ■
ulation on the reader's part Granted,
everything does not needs to he com
pletely spelled out in the end. But there
are so many questions unanswered,
"Sailor Song" is a great big SO WHAT.