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RhythmaiBVIBWS FRIDAY. JANUARY 30. 1998 ‘Three Tall Women’ Edward Albee ’s' Pulitzer Prize winningplay is now on stage at the Lord Leehrick Theatre Emerald PAGE 8 Music showcase The French duo Air is featured in the KWVA Top 10 this week PAGE 9 Volume 99, Issue 86 ■ The Lane Coun- ' ty Music Show case tonight at 8 will feature the Metropolitan Saxophone Quar tet and local artists Brain washers and The Vipers. The show will be performed in the Agate Auditorium at 18th Avenue and Agate Street. Tickets are $4 for j students, $5 for the general public, j • Tibetan inspired works are among the vessels, jewelry and sculptures by Lin Cook at the Jacobs Gallery in the Hult Center. The display is free and open to the public, but today is the last day to see the artwork. ■ Storyteller, bluesman and folk artist Greg Brown will per form two shows at WOW Hall on Sunday, Feb. 1 at 4 and 7. Brown's music mixes country, blues, gospel, rock and jazz. Tickets are $12.50 In advance or $14.50 at the door. ■ Up-and coming funk band Galactic is tour ing in support of their album, ‘Coolin'Off.'The group will per form at the Wild Duck Music Hall on Feb. 4 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5 for students and $6 for the general public. NOTHIN’ ON CHRIS HUTCHINSON/Emerald By Evan A. Denbaum j Entertainment Editor So I’m in my off-campus apartment, chatting with the TCI guy as he in stalls my cable, and he asks me if I | know that the very first cable wired in the I United States was in Astoria, Oregon. I j tell him that I’m an East Coast native and L | Evan A. j Denbaum mat i nau iiu mea mat was the case. The guy seems to be quite proud of the distinc tion Oregon holds, and he gives me a little les son about the history of cable and goes on to explain just how old the wires were running through my apartment complex, i tnougnt it was all pretty cool at the time. I don’t think it’s so cool anymore. 1 wasn’t thinking of the distinct possi bility that old wires meant outdated wires — ones that had been degrading for years and couldn’t carry the number of chan nels 1 had grown accustomed to back home in New England. I certainly wasn’t thinking that with a premium cable package in Eugene I would receive only 37 channels, some with sketchy reception. I mean, Bruce Springsteen released the song "57 Chan nels (And Nothin’ On)” back in 1992, and we’ve only got 37 here in 1998! And I wasn't thinking that so few chan nels would mean cable staples would be left off the lineup: the culty Comedy Cen tral and the sports junky paradise ESPN2 (affectionately called “The Deuce”), just to name a couple. I was also surprised to see that other mainstays such as Lifetime and Pay-Per-View vanished, only to be replaced (as far as 1 could tell from watch ing) by networks such as Animal Planet. And I know this may offend, but I’m more interested in watching a PPV prize fight than a female locust bite off its mate’s head. (Then again, recent prize fighters have been doing their fair share of biting, but I digress.) Anyway, this couch potato was natu rally thrilled to hear that TCI was at tempting to make amends by introduc ing digital cable in our area. As of yesterday, local TCI subscribers can up grade to the new technology, which of fers 36 more channels, nifty new features and more reliable service. So now, 1 thought, all those who criti cized TCI for killing Lifetime would be avenged. All the fans of the cult-phenom enon “South Park” can close their Quick time bootlegs of “The Spirit of Christmas" and watch die real thing on Comedy Cen tral. And all the sports fanatics such as myself will get their double dose of bas ketball and hockey on The Deuce. I mean, with three dozen new channels, TCI couldn’t possibly fail to add those most obvious of choices, could they? Well, the answer is, “Oh yes, they could.” For one reason or another, all of the above have been excluded from TCTs new digital package. The main reason for the oversights is that the digital system is part of a nationally launched campaign to fend off the surge of 18-inch satellite dish sub scribers. The digital channels are the same everywhere, and because most areas al ready get far more channels than Eugene subscribers, little old Eugene loses out be cause of that attempt to avoid overlap. The second major reason for the exclu sions is because of network trepidation over making the move to digital. The Turn to TCI, Page 9 New digital cable TCI is offering a new service to bolster the weak lineup of local analog cable and to combat the popularity of 18-inch satellite dishes. ■ FEATURES: 36 new video channels, including Bravo, Clas sic Sports Network and Pay Per-View, 10 audio channels, a nifty navigator screen and more reliable, node-networked ser vice ■ PRICE: An extra $10 a month on top of normal cable costs, plus $3.30 a month to rent the digital cable box, plus a one-time installation fee of $12.95 ■ AVAILABILITY: Available to Eugene subscribers now Lorca’s ‘Blood Wedding’ opens in Robinson Theatre With other than-human elements and a great deal of symbolism, the play features Death as a primary character By Tammy Salman Oregon Daily Emerald Passion, deceit, murder, poetry. “Blood Wedding,” Federico Garcia Lor ca’s haunting account of deception and death, contains all of these elements and be gins today at Robinson Theatre. The play, which premiered in 1933, tells the tragic story of a bride who runs away with her lover on her wedding day, only to end up losing both her lover and her hus band to Death, a character in the play. Lorca, bom Fuente Vaqueros in Granada, Spain, was a poet, playwright, artist and musician. He was murdered in 1936 by na tionalist partisans not long after the start of the Spanish Civil War. “The play challenges a theater company to develop an acting style and visual ele ments to match the intensity of Lorca’s po etry and passion,” said director Jack Wat son, head of the theater arts department. “Lorca’s poetic vision of this fated love is not lyrical, but rather fierce and visceral,” he said. The pervasiveness of violence and the urgency of death are the compelling forces in this play, he said. Melanie Moseley, a master’s degree can didate in theater arts who plays Death, agrees with Watson. “The play is extremely symbolic,” she said. “It is certainly not realism. You have to let the music and imagery flow over you.” According to Watson, the play introduces elements other than human and makes them human, which is why the character Death is featured as part of the main cast. Turn to PLAY, Page 10 n_mwmm am.m. i WENDY FULLER/Emerald The Bride and Bridegroom sit unth Death in the play Blood Wedding.'
