■ BLACK C A T. CONCERT
Saturday. Oct 30 9pm
455 W 1st St
The featured bands will be
Onomatopoeia and guitar player
Scott Huckabay
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By Jake Berg
Oswald r>-() was No 1 on k\\ \ A s
request list this week, and they may
have been tops at the The S< row last
Friday.
One of Eugene's best and most
highly followed groups, Oswald a ll
made their message quit k and to the
point, playing a short set that left a
..■■■-. great aftertaste
Jake"*
Corner
LOCAL SHOWS
nt the screw,
the KVVVA
sponsored out
door tnusii.
show on the
KMU lawn
Though loose
ly defined as
Oswald r>-0 didn't get people up and
siaminin' like Two Minutes Hate did
— people who kno< ked down speak
ers and lights alike
As a matter of fact, very few peo
ple danced at all for the group,
maybe because the music wasn't as
danceable as that of Lincoln Brigade
or Boogie Patrol Kxpress. The
Screw's opening and closing bands
And Floater, the third group to
play his! Friday, won the award for
being the heav lest hand ol the
evening.
But there was one thing that
Oswald 5-0 had that all of the others
did not: flying drums
It provided some nice cornu relief
to an evening of otherwise serious
ness It also made one look into the
past when knocking overequipment
and nverage-at-liest vex als were par
i auRA STR06F m# f m«raks
Two Minutes Hate played during the
darker hours ol the Screw, as the
singer joined the crowd In Its dancing
frenzy at the front of the stage.
for the course tor "punk music
While ploying what l>e< amn the
group's final tune, u cymbal from the
drummer's set fell down, either the
victim of a hard hit or of a constant
beat that tipped it over
I he drummer, stopping to get off
of his seat, pit ked up the cymbal
ami its stand and let it flv off of the
hack of the stage Along with drums
And pedals And his seal. And other
things
find of set f orget if it was short It
was sweet. too
Kind of tasted like the sut kers that
Boogie Patrol I xpress threw to the
many people dancing Along with
the light sabers And the hula hoops
find of show forget if Boogie
Patrol fix press started with the lion
tlrr Woman theme People danced
I AUWA STttOUH.lol If*. I -.i-i
Lincoln Brigade (above) opened
The Screw last Friday Oswald
5-0 followed up In the second
spot and ended when their
drummer's set took a stage
dive at the end of their set (left)
Eugene
S C E N E
■ RENEGADE SAINTS
Saturday. Oct 30. 9 p m
WOW Hall
The Renegade Saints, always one
ol Eugene's most popular bands,
plays an all-ages Halloween show
Friday, Oct. 29
Jimmy Lloyd Rea &
The Swithchmasters CO
Release Party
Good Times Cale and Bar
9 30 p m Admission: $6
Boogie Patrol E «press
WOW Hall. 9 pm*
Tickets $5 and $6
Saturday, Oct. 30
Lenny Kravitz and Blind Melon
Salem Armory, 8 p.m
T ickets are sold out
Unshakable Race Halloween
CD Release Party
Good Times Cafe and Bar
9 30 p m Admission $5
Halloween Dance under
Washington-Jefferson Bridge
8 to 11p m
Admission is free
Renegade Saints
WOW Hall. 9 pm.
Admission $8
Parsons Dance Company
Holt Center. 8 p.m
Tickets: $18 and $14
Sunday, Oct. 31
Halloween Carnival
Westmoreland Community
Center. I545 W 22nd Ave
5 to 7 p m
Admission is tree
Monster Mast) Bash
Red Lion Inn, 3280 Gateway
8 pm
Admission is tree, costumes
are encouraged
Joshua Redman Quartet with
Pat Metheny. Billy Higgins
and Christine McBride
Key Largo (Portland)
7 4 10pm
Tickets $17 50. 21 and older
Wednesday, Nov. 3
Ursula K Le Gun
Hull Center. 7 30 p m
Tickets S'O
Thursday, Nov. 4
Unshakable Race. Jumbalassy
WOW Hall. 8 p m
Tickets S5 and$6
BOXING HELENA
★ ★★
STARRING. Sherilyn Fenn
and Julian Sands
DIRECTOR: Jennifer
Chambers lynch
RATING: R
RUNNING TIME: 145 mm
PLAYING AT: Movies 12
By Kaly Soto
OtQQon P<*ity Emat&kt
From the outset, Boxing Helma was surrounded
by controversy.
First. Kim Basinger broke her oral contract to
do the movie, leaving producers in a lurch (but
the producers bad the last laugh when they won
a lawsuit in excess of $() million). 1 ben the film
hod trouble obtaining an K rating because of the
violence and sexual content. Finally, when it was
released, both feminists and fundamentalists boy
cotted it.
In spite of all of these factors, the movie was
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