Entertainment briefs
Women’s Film Festival 2000
The Women’s Film Festival begins Friday at 8 p.m.
in 177 Lawrence with '“One Fine Day,” Kay Weaver’s
classic celebration of the American woman from the
1800s to the present.
The festival continues Saturday with movies begin
ning at 8 p.m. and wraps up Sunday, starting at 3 p.m.
The festival is free and open to all ages. Free food
and beverages will be provided, and free childcare is
available upon request. Call 346-4095 for information.
Transformation in Dance
Hsing-Yun Huang, a candidate for a master’s degree
in dance at the University, will present her master’s
project of “Transformation in Dance: Past, Future and
Present” at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Dougherty Dance
Theatre, on the third floor of Gerlinger Annex.
Huang has choreographed three works combining
modem dance with Chinese dance as well as Chinese
opera. For more information, call 346-3386.
Photography exhibit
A color photography show, highlighting works
from 23 student artists, opens Friday night at Prove- -
nance Gallery, 2 5 E. Eighth Ave. {
An artists’ reception takes place Friday at the
gallery from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Clumsy Lovers perform at L.A.W. Festival
The Clumsy Lovers from Coquitlam, British Colum
bia, perform Friday at the Land, Air, Water Conference
at Agate Hall. The show starts at 9 p.m. with Casey
Neill opening, tickets are $8
Bijou
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The building was sold to him
after the First Congregational
Church outgrew the building’s ca
pacity.
McGaffey and his family lived
upstairs from the embalming and
casket room in a smaller structure
connected by a long hall to the
chapel. There was a master bed
room that overlooked 13th Av
enue, a living room, a kitchen and
three bedrooms for McGaffey’s
children. The bathroom was
downstairs across the hall from
where the bodies lay.
McGaffey’s children had slum
ber parties with their friends, most
of whom were “spooked by the
place,” McGaffey says. Usually
the children told ghost stories,
and during those sleepovers Mc
Gaffey would go downstairs to the
chapel and play the pipe organ to
scare the children.
“Initially the kids were scared
to come over,” he says, “but we
had a number of slumber parties. ”
When the theater opened, Mc
Gaffey was curious about how the
building had changed. Looking
back, he says, “It felt eerie walk
ing around knowing what it once
was.”
McGaffey hasn’t been back to
see a movie since.
Thomas, who started working
at the Bijou in 1985 and quit eight
months ago, initially had her own
reservations about the building.
When she first began working at
the Bijou she didn’t like locking
up the theater, knowing what the
Oscar-watching
party at the Bijou
What: Benefit for local non-profit
organization to be named
When: Sunday, March 26, 5 p.m.
Where: 492 E.13th Ave.
For more information call the Bi
jou at 686-2458.
building used to be. Every noise
she heard meant there was a ghost
or someone was standing behind
her, waiting to scare her.
Today, however, she knows
every corner of the building and
has since gotten used to its noises.
“Dead people, whatever,” she
says.
Still, simple acts such as going to
the bathroom can be a trying expe
rience that prompt many moviego
ers to look over their shoulders.
“Everyone freaks out about the
bathrooms,” Krizan says.
The narrow walls and low ceil
ing give a claustrophobic feeling
and several Bijou regulars have
felt “a spirit in the bathroom,”
Thomas claims.
Many who are unfamiliar with
the structure believe that the mor
tuary’s bodies used to rest inside a
small room behind a brown
wooden door on the right wall
leading to the bathrooms, Thomas
says, quickly rolling her eyes at
the ridiculous notion.
The box-size room actually
houses a furnace and has never
been seen by the public. McGaffey
verifies the room’s harmless past,
contending that the whole area
used to be a storage room.
Krizan does admit that some
times the ghostly rumors are “just
a little too much.”
“The spookiest part of the
whole theater for me is closing
down theater two,” Krizan says.
That particular auditorium
used to be a garage for the hearse,
McGaffey says, as well as the limou
sine for die family, a pallbearer car
and “the first call car,” which was a
small hearse that initially brought
the bodies to the mortuary.
Krizan admits that when he
locks the theater, he doesn’t turn
the lights off until the last possible
second, and then he shuts the
door quickly behind him.
Krizan believes that the space
between the theater door and the
door leading to the booth “is the
freakiest spot, energy wise, in the
theater.”
Other employees feel a pres
ence in that area too, Krizan says.
. “Theater one is the spooky-look
ing one, but it’s theater two and that
area that does it,” he adds.
Whether there is a spirit in the
bathroom or spoons falling from
the heavens, people make their
own judgments and impressions
about the Bijou. The building can
give people goose bumps upon
learning its past, but curiosity aris
es about troubled souls that were
left behind.
Today it’s a mecca for movie
lovers, earning a reputation over
the past 20 years that has made it a
permanent part of the communi
ty’s vocabulary. People revel in
the fact that the dead once lay in
the medieval-styled chapel where
they now watch their favorite art
house movies.
Hip hop
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times they don’t take into consid
eration that people are talking
about what they see every day as
they walk out their front door,”
Fourmet says. This is a point that
Roberts elaborates on.
“Celine Dion [in her songs] may
take you on a wild escapade
through a jungle — wonderful,
I’ve never been to the jungle,”
Roberts says. “But, you have gone
down the street, and someone
honked their horn, made you up
set, and you thought ‘I could get
mad’ or say, ‘Oh, never mind.’
“There’s a lot of things to talk
about that these kids in Eugene
have really addressed well and
can relate to a lot of kids that can
stop a lot of Kip Kinkels and a lot
of other things from going on. ”
The Top of the World show ran
the gamut from a Britney Spears
like performance from local Lisa
Towner to a more hard-core,
Beastie Boys approach from a Eu
gene group called Strange Folks.
The latter band jump-started a tir
ing audience with its near-mid
night stunt of rushing on stage,
armed with high-powered water
guns, spraying the quick-to-dis
perse crowd.
Phil Bauer, business adminis
tration major and member of
Strange Folks, knew the action
might draw flak from his peers. He
points out, however, that the per
ception of shoot-’em-up, take-’em
out hip-hop shows is foolish. Be
sides, attempting to restrain what
in essence is a freestyle form of
music just doesn’t work.
“It’s a medium where political
correctness takes a backseat if it’s
even in the car at all,” Bauer says.
“Shock value really plays a part.”
Still, Roberts says, a certain
amount of professionalism is neces
sary if hip-hop is going to expand
beyond its ardent local fan base, al
beit limited at this time. Groups
such as Logic and Strange Folks cer
tainly don’t have the seemingly un
limited resources of a DMX or Lox,
so they have to rely on veterans with
outside experience.
Hip-Hop happenings
What: Free-form cyphering
Where: Agate Hall
When: Every other Sunday from 3
p.m. to 5 pm.; the next event is
scheduled for March 12.
Who: MCs, Dfs, b-boys, b-giris and
writers
Sponsored by LCC's Hip-Hop Stu
dent Union—active participants
only
“In Eugene, there’s a very limit
ed amount of people who’ve real
ly done this and been out there in
that environment to reflect on it,”
says Roberts, who has performed
in Miami, among other big cities.
“So, everyone’s basically running
around like chickens with their
heads cut off, trying to get the right
answers to go about this the cor
rect way. If we present ourselves
as mature people doing business,
and a very good business that
could help a lot of individuals at
the same time, I think they’ll ac
cept it fine.”
“I think a lot of the resistance
from the community is they don’t
want to go to a show and see
someone that they went to high
school with that was a quiet little
kid in the choir,” Bauer says, “and
then hear that same kid that they
grew up with talk about how he’s
been pimpin’ his whole life.”
Bauer and other artists describe
losing themselves in the hip-hop
world, sometimes cyphering for
hours, coming up with lyrics for
their beats. Bottom-line, that’s what
will make hip-hop a success of fail
ure in Eugene, the pure emotion
and passion poured into the music.
“Even if I never got any money,
it wouldn’t matter,” Sechrist says.
Although a little scratch never
hurt anyone.
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