Erfierald
Volume 100, Issue 12
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SPOTLIGHT |
■ The Clumsy
Lovers, “Vancou- f
ver's psychoceltic 1
overlords,” ac
cording to their |
publicity compa- |
ny, are coming to 1
town tonight for a i
show at Sam
Bond’s Garage at
9:30 p.m. Their
“feisty musical
concoctions,"
along with open
ing band Havllah, f
can be seen for $2 I
to $5.
■ The reggae
sounds of Boom |
Shaka will be on |
aural display
tonight at the
WOW Hall, The |
show begins at 9 1
p.m., and tickets I
are $6 in advance, \
$8 at the door.
■ TheHultCen- |
ter’s 1998 Sum- |
mer Park Concert I
series continues I
today with a per- I
formance by local f
favorite Caliente jj
at Washington/ 1
Jefferson Park. f
The free show will |
run from 6 to 8
p.m. The series f
continues Tuesday I
with the Barbara I
Healy Bandatthe f
Westmoreland
Center, same time, |
same price.
■ The Saturday \
Market Stage will j
be headlined by 1
the Olem Alves f
Band's classic and I
original blues at 3 !
p.m. Love, Death
and Agriculture, 1
Sunshadow. Joe
Ross and Peter
Thomas open the i
day beginning at \
10 a.m.
m jTchkung!
brings its swelter
ing tribal industrial
sound to the WOW
Hall on Saturday at
8p.m.Threscher
and 9th Life open
the show, tor
which tickets are
$6 at the door
only.
■ Cafe Paradiso
will host a jazz jam
with the Kenny
Reed Band on
Saturday at 8:30
p.m. The price of
admission is $1 to
$3.
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pWnni, a.k.a. Darkside
ions, is helping to nduri,
ip-hop scene in Eugene
By Rob Moseley
Associate Editor
It’s 3:30 p.m. on a hot and muggy summer
day in Eugene, but even in the air-condi
tioned offices of the Emerald, Karim
Panni can’t sit still.
ror Panni, the proprietor of
Darkside Productions who fidgets
through an entire 45-minute in
terview, there is too much to do
in anticipation of an event
that’s still two weeks away. Be
fore Del the Funky Homosapi
en gets to town for an August
13 show at the Wild Duck,
Panni still must complete his
contracts with the venue, hire ^
enough security to placate the , ^
Wild Duck’s owners, who are \
wary of bringing a large hip- s
hop crowd together under one
roof, and still find time to publi- V,
cize the show. t.
It’s no wonder Panni can’t sit
still. Combine his quest to bring hip
hop to Eugene under the Darkside guise, j
uate from school with a radio broadcasting de
gree, run or participate in no less than five radio
shows a week on KWVA and presumably enjoy
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use, grad- \
out.
That first show was in the EMU during the
fall of 1997 and featured the Alkoholiks along
with Kool Keith, Mocha Only and the Organ
ics. It was Panni’s first effort at producing
his own show, something he’s been
preparing himself for since high
school.
A hip-hop tan since the days
of break dancing, Panni at
tended Serra High in San
Francisco. A pseudo-intern
ship at Bay Area hip-hop bas
tion KMEL put Panni in the
epicenter of the culture be
fore he caught his first break
working live events.
“I had an opportunity after
high school and started going
to all the shows,” he says. “I
met a couple people and started
doing little security jobs. My first
big thing was I got to do security at
a De La Soul show. I got to kick back
with them and watch them. I was just
in awe back then. But then I started
r passing out fliers in San Francisco and
started doing my own thing and going from
there. I just gof involved. I never had my own
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of nervous tension is justifiable.
“1 do everything, pretty much,” Panni says. “I’m
my own stage manager, I do my own booking, I do
everything. Darkside Productions is pretty much just me. That’s
why I get so tense. I almost had a damn nervous breakdown at that
first show because there were, like, 800 people there and for me it
was hell of hectic. The sound was messing up and I was tripping
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Panni’s parents moved to Eugene in 1995, and
Panni followed a year later after spending the sum
mer of '96 in New York. After meeting the Organ
ics, Panni hooked up with the University Cultural
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gene and the EMU.
Turn to OARKSIDE, Page 6
Darkside
Productions
■ NEXT SHOW:
Live hip-hop featur
ing Del the Funky
Homosapien along
with Organic Com
pound, Hungry
Mobb, Dirtbag
Foundation, DJ
Rogue and DJ Di
rek.
■ WHEN: Thurs
day, August 13,8
p.m.
■ WHERE: The
Wild Duck, 169 W.
6th, Eugene
■ HOW MUCH:
$10 in advance,
$12 at the door.
Tickets available at
House of Records,
Record Exchange
and the EMU Ticket
Office.
■ ON THE RADIO:
KWVA, 88.1 FM
Mon. 2-4 p.m.
Thurs. 12-2 p.m.
Fri. 9-12 a.m.
Sat. 8-11 p.m.
Sun. 7-9 p.m.
Saturday Market to be merrier than ever this weekend
Between acts, this weekend’s
market will feature a wedding
for the first time in its history
By Peter Breaden
Oregon Daily Emerald
Visitors to this week’s Saturday Market
may be caught off guard by the main stage
performance schedule.
The billing will feature the folk trio Sun
Shadow, funk/folk band Love Death and
Agriculture and a traditional wedding
sandwiched between the two shows.
Anthony Cormier and Eileen Polk, who
met at last year's Rainbow Gathering and
Hemp Expo, will take their vows at 1 p.m.
Saturday. For the 37-year-old Cormier, who
is originally from San Diego, it has been a
long road to Eugene.
“When my house burned down 11 years
ago, it was a chance for me,” he said. “It
was my first opportunity to live in a place
that was beautiful and peaceful.”
Cormier is a professional tree-trimmer.
His trade took him up and down the West
Coast doing work mostly for friends. He is
currently enrolled in the computer graph
ics program at Lane Community College
and is also pursuing a multimedia pro
gramming degree there.
Polk, a 44-year-old photojournalist, was
also attracted by Eugene’s unique atmos
phere. Originally from New York, she
wanted to relocate to the West Coast. When
her mother developed Alzheimer’s disease,
Polk felt that Oregon’s senior care facilities
would suit her best.
“I felt that Eugene would be a good place
to be a photographer and was also an es
cape from New York,” she said. “I like the
alternative culture flavor and the fact that
it’s a university town.”
The two had just started dating when
Cormier was in a motorcycle accident with
a bus. As he was suffering from a painful
back injury, Polk helped him through. Inci
dentally, the two fell in love.
“She did everything. She was instrumen
tal,” Cormier said. “I fell totally in love with
her.”
The ceremony will be the first in the
market’s 29-year history. The matrimonial
ceremony seems odd even for the usually
counter-cultured market, said Kim Still, as
sistant manager of the Saturday Market.
“I’m sure there will be some people
strolling through the market who will be
surprised that there’s a wedding there,” she
said.
For the ceremony, the couple will ex
Turnto WEDDING, Page 6
Saturday
Market
m WHAT: The
marriage of Eileen
F. Polk and An
thoney D. Cormi
er, plusm'tsic,
crafts, eft
■ WHEN: All day
Saturday with the
ceremony at 1
p.m.
■ WHERE: On the
Park Blocks at 8th
and Oak in down
town Eugene.