R IwthniBEVieWS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17. 1997 Emerald Nexus has The Cure The band’s keyboardist and drummer will play remixes and Cure classics Sllisiiiilisii PAGE 14A Bright Lights ► 7he Ixnie ESD Planetarium bos a trio of new laser light shows ! and brand-newfacilities PAGE 11A Volume 99, Issue 33 ■ Robert Kaiser, whose photographs are now being displayed in the EMU Art Gallery, will hold a reception to day between 5 and 7 p.m. The reception offers students the op portunity to meet the photographer and to view the art work. ^Today the School of Music's annual Homecom ing concert wel- | comes alumni, parents and stu dents to a program | that features four of the school's top | ensembles in an 8 J p.m. concert in Beall Concert Hall, 1 961 E. 18th Ave. Admission is free and open to the public. The four ensembles are the | University Sym phony, the Oregon | Wind Ensemble, 1 the Oregon Jazz Ensemble and the | University Singers. | ■ On Sunday, ex- f perience “Metal Madness” asTes- | tament comes to WOW Hall. With them is the Port land band Village | Idiots, a 4-mem ber hard rock band. HEkoostik Hookah, a Mid west band with rhythms rooted in g folk, jazz, blues | and rock, will bring | their high-energy music to the EMU | Ballroom on Tues- I day. It is an all ages show, and tickets are $9 in advance and $10 at the door. Hookah will open for Calobo, with doors opening at 7 p.m. ‘Water’ submerges museum Cultural Forum grinds out bands The Oregon Grind is a free music festival, filled this year with a diverse group of West Coast bands By Alex Hughes Freelance reporter Appearing in a new time and place, the Third Annual Oregon Grind will kick off Sunday with sounds of funk and good vibes on the field behind MacArthur Court at 1 p.m. For the first time, the yearly event will take place in the fall instead of its usual spring scheduling. “We wanted to give the Grind its own flavor,” said Jonathan Zwickel, EMU Cul tural Forum coordinator. "In the past, it’s always been crammed together with the Folk Festival.” The free music festival, filled with a di verse group of West Coast bands, will close out the weekend’s list of homecoming events. This year’s headliner is one of Los Angeles’ hottest bands, Weapon of Choice, which features what Zwickel describes as a “dirty, nasty, funky” style. Seattle funk band Phat Sidy Smoke house will bring their large horn section to Eugene after recently playing a sold-out show on a tour with Phishbone. Returning to town are R&B groove-oriented Mumblin’ Jim, who appeared in the Spring 1997 Grind, and Chief Broom, who has played at the Willamette Valley Folk Festival and is coming off this summer’s Horde Tour. Adding to the wide mix are the poetic lyrics of San Francisco’s Broun Fellinis and the locally known Jive Talkin’ Robots. Although this is only the Third Annual Grind, it is the fifth year of the music festi val’s existence. Two years ago, the Cultur al Forum received enough funding to make the Grind an annual event. When the festi Turn to GRIND, Page 13A COURTESY PHOTO The headliner this year at the Oregon Grind is Los Angeles' Weapon of Choice. ‘Water: The Renewable Metaphor' is the subject of the University art museum’s new exhibit By Thomas Valinoti Freelance Reporter Human beings share an intricate rela tionship with water, a relationship that is showcased in the University Museum of Art’s latest exhibit, “Water: The Renewable Metaphor." The exhibit, which opens tonight from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., is an engaging group of pieces from nine con temporary photographers. The primary focus of the exhibit is to examine the environment human beings dwell in and, subsequently, what they have done with it. But more than this, the art is meant to capture what society has forgotten about nature. The pieces are visual representations of a wide range of human thought and philoso phy. The artists featured are Dieter Ap pelt, Bernd and llilla Beeher, Peter Coin, Angela Grauerholtz, Gary Hill, Mark Ruwedel, Erasmus Schroter and Bill Viola. Together, their pieces form an examination of “cultural identity, self-doubt, spiritual survival, human ity’s relationship to nature, geology vs. human time, industrialization and the element as beautiful object.” Many of the pieces seem to be metaphorical representations of that which humans leave in their wake. One striking piece, "Boy Fishing Behind Rye Patch Dam,” by Coin, shows a boy who is simply fishing on a pond. However, this pond is so polluted the dead fish have all washed up on shore a few yards away from him. It wasn’t neces Turn to ART, Page 13A PHOTO This provocative Dieter Appelt photograph is titled ‘Der Augentrum' ‘Water’ Art Program TODAY GERLINGER LOUNGE 9-10:30 a.m.: Water Mythol ogy and Im agery 10:45-12:15: j The Rhine and the Amazon 2-3:30: Keynote Ad- f dress 7-8:30: River Ecology SATURDAY GERLINGER LOUNGE 9-10:30 a.m.: Rivers and Agriculture 10:45-12:45: Bathing 2-3:30: Sprites 3:45-5:15: Water in the West 5:15: Closing Remarks SUNDAY morning: op tional river outing