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OCTOBER CONCERTS
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Sat. BE A MARCHING DUCK!
9/30 Children’s Concert Series 9 a.m., Autzen Stadium
$2 General Admission, $5 for a family ticket
Sun. MARK BEUDERT, Tenor
10/1 Faculty Artist Series 4 p.m., Beall Hall
Music by Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughan Williams
$7 General Admission, $4 students & senior citizens
Thu. VALERIE ZAMORA, Piano
10/5 Deaf classical pianist performs at Student Forum.
FREE Admission 1 p.m., Beall Hall
Thu. KATHRYN LUCKTENBERG, Violin
10/12 MARY ELIZABETH PARKER, Piano
Faculty Artist Series 8 p.m., Beall Hall
Music by Stravinsky, Bartok, Marsalis, O’Connor
$7 General Admission, $4 students & senior citizens
Fri. HOMECOMING CONCERT
10/20 UO’s top ensembles perform 8 p.m., Beall Hall
FREE Admission
Sun. UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY
10/22 UO Ensemble 3 p.m., Beall Hall
$5 General Admission, $3 students & senior citizens
Tue. OCTUBAFEST
10/24 UO Ensembles & Guests 8 p.m., Beall Hall
$5 General Admission, $3 students & senior citizens
Wed. JOSEPH BROOKS, Saxophone
10/25 Guest Artist Recital 8 p.m., Beall Hall
$7 General Admission, $4 students & senior citizens
Thu. EMERSON STRING QUARTET
10/26 Chamber Music Series 8 p.m., Beall Hall
Reserved seats $15, $25, $30, available at the Hult Center
(682-5000) or EMU (346-4363).
Fri. THE JAZZ CAFE
10/27 UO Jazz Combos 8 p.m., Room 186 Music
$5 General Admission, $3 students & senior citizens
Sat. SONGFEST
10/28 Children's Concert Series 10:30 a.m., Beall Hall
$3 adults, $2 children & students, or $5 for a family
Mon. JAZZ ARRANGERS CONCERT
10/30 Oregon Jazz Ensemble & Guest Artist 8 p.m., Beall Hall
$5 General Admission, $3 students & senior citizens
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exuberance, romance.
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Comedy Central
experiments with
cyber-'South Park’
By Jeffrey Bair
The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH — Snippets of the
foul-mouthed video antics of Cart
man, Stan and the rest of the zany
“South Park” gang have been trad
ed freely on the Internet for years.
Now the show’s network, Come
dy Central, wants to know whether
fans will pay a few bucks for digi
tal, commercial-free episodes of the
animated show to view on their
computers.
With the network,
SightSound.com of suburban Pitts
burgh announced Monday it has
purchased a license to sell via the
Internet six episodes each of
“South Park” and “Dr. Katz: Profes
sional Therapist.”
The entertainment industry has
been reluctant to offer its content
for download on the World Wide
Web. It is worried about copy pro
tection software being hacked and
bootleg copies of TV shows and
movies circulating freely on the In
ternet — as music has via Napster
and other file-sharing applications.
Ken Locker, Comedy Central’s
senior vice president of enterprise
and new media, considers the
“South Park” release an experi
ment.
“Video for download is in its
very early days,” he said. “For us,
this is a great opportunity to under
stand the level of user acceptance
on the other end.”
A strange and silly saga of preco
cious Colorado school kids laced
with biting social commentary,
“South Park” is the network’s
biggest hit, Locker said.
The “South Park” audience, main
ly 18- to 24-year-olds and slightly
more males than females, is the de
mographic group with the fastest
computer connections, he said.
And there are 12 million college
students who have free high-speed
Internet access through their uni
versities — and don’t necessarily
have televisions, said Scott Sander,
SightSound’s chief executive.
The episodes, in Microsoft Win
dows Media format with copy pro
tection software, will each will take
up 110 megabytes of storage space.
Sander estimated a five- to 20
minute download time per episode
on computers with high-speed ca
ble modem or DSL connections.
Downloading via regular modem
connection would take hours.
The per-episode price is $2.50 for
a download that expires after two
days and $4.95 for permanent copy.
Dr. Ruth
continued from page 2B
Dr. Ruth, on the other hand, recom
mends making excuses for not suc
cumbing to peer pressure to smoke
marijuana: “You could say you
have a cold ... Or, since nobody is
going to be closely watching you,
you could just fake inhaling.” But
what about being an adult? She
says in order to be treated like an
adult, you have to take responsibil
ity for your actions. Certainly, ex
cuses are not responsible.
Regardless, when it comes to re
lationships, she knows what she’s
talking about. After all, besides sex,
relationships are the matter she
deals with most in her career. Her
biggest piece of advice, which she
mentions repeatedly, is to think of
yourself as a turtle, “who needs to
stick his head out sometimes.”
With all that in mind, remember
that this book is not for everyone.
Dr. Ruth does a good job of target
ing high school seniors and college
freshman, those who are starting
out in a new world. But for those of
you who already have a couple of
years of college behind you, leave
this book on the shelf.
‘Princess Bride’
continued from page 2B
quiet humor to his role as Inigo
Montoya, the Spanish swordsman.
Deceased WWF legend Andre the
Giant is sweetly funny, though at
times unintelligible, as Fezzik the
giant.
Billy Crystal, Peter Falk (of
“Columbo” fame), Fred Savage and
Christopher Guest (“This is Spinal
Tap”) all make cameo appearances,
but their performances are not the
strongest part of the film. The script
by William Goldman, who also
wrote the novel, is filled with su
perb lines and excellent biting wit.
Combined with Reiner’s steady
hand directing the film, Goldman’s
characters are not merely actors
playing characters, but heroes and
villains that could quite possibly
have come straight from any child’s
storybook.
All in all, “The Princess Bride,”
much like “The Goonies” or
“Raiders of the Lost Ark,” is a kind
of movie that appealed to children
of the ’80s yet retains its fun and
magic today. Not going to the video
store and seeing it again would be,
well, inconceivable!
Music scene
continued from page 5B
needs. It offers new and used mu
sic, along with CD players, video
game systems, DVDs and just about
everything else related to playing
music. The catalog changes rapidly
here, so if you don’t find what
you’re looking for, you can always
check back next week.
One record shop that doesn’t get
nearly enough attention around Eu
gene is the Record Garden Annex.
This place has hands-down the
most incredible selection of posters
in Eugene. All I’m saying is stop by
this place — you won’t be disap
pointed. It also carries used music,
vinyl and videos.
Lastly, for the electronic music
people out there, there’s one place
that directly caters to your craving.
Stylus Grooves is a very small,
highly independent offering from a
local DJ entrepreneur. In terms of
floor space, it can’t compete with
other stores, or even with the aver
age-size bedroom. But Stylus
Grooves makes up for all that with
the simple love of electronic music.
You won’t find another place in
town that is so dedicated to the
sound from the underground. If
you’re down with the electro beats
or have a thirst for the brain dance,
this should be your first stop.
There are countless other places
to see live music in Eugene and
people dedicated to their muse.
However, these are a few good
places to start if you’re looking to
cover the basics on your record col
lection and live performances.
Eric Pfeiffer is a columnist for the Emer
ald. He can be reached at