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Thursday ‘Welcome’ to disappointment The latest CD from the surf rock trio Red Elvises turns out to be a complete sham. PAGE 11 PULSE EDITOR: BEVIN CAFFERY bcaffery@gladstone.uoregon.edu UNO, K, IKS, cium The community will celebrate Cinco de Mayo with food, music and dancing at the Fiesta Latina By Bevin Caffery Oregon Daily Emerald Picture 150 brightly colored pa per .pinatas fluttering in a soft breeze, children lining up to hear about bike safety and re ceiving 200 free bike helmets, and families scoping out the food booth of their choice. This will be the scene at this weekend’s Fiesta Latina, a Cinco de Mayo festival presented by Ade lante Si. Events will kick off Friday and continue through Sunday at Washington Jefferson Park, trans forming the area into a traditional Latin American street festival. Highlights will range from several live Latin music performances, complete with a salsa dance con test, authentic Latin American food and traditional arts and crafts on display. This year is the 10th anniversary of the festival, and the Fiesta Latina chairwoman, Rebeca Urhausen, has been a'part of organizing the celebration since its inception. Along with Alfonso Cabrera, this year’s operations manager, Urhausen was part of a group that wanted to throw a party for the community on Cinco de Mayo. “It started out as a street party on Fifth [Avenue],” she reflected. To emphasize how far the festi val has come in a decade, this year will be especially festive in decora tion and spirit, utilizing balloons and pinatas in the park and offering a free traditional Sunday Mass at noon. Urhausen is especially thrilled about the musical lineup for the festival. “We have a very strong lineup from the moment we open,” she said. Urhausen said that the festival is bringing back the salsa contest, which they haven’t held for a few years because it takes so much or ganization to put together. Starting out the musical events at 6 p.m. Friday will be the Brazillian style Sun Bossa, followed by The Caribbean Ensemble of the Bailar Dance Studio and the Latin rhythms of Abakadubi. The semifi nals of the Fiesta Latina Salsa Dance Contest will occur, along with the Latin funk of Rubberneck. On Saturday, the musical stage will include Toca of Rubberneck, Los Mex-Pistols Del Norte, the fi nals of the Salsa Dance Contest, the Columbian craze known as Sonora Dinamita and Latin Expression. Wrapping up the festival on Sun day will be a traditional Mariachi Mass, Sonora Dinamita and Mari achi Los Cabos. Urhausen wants to make sure that the family environment is maintained and promoted this weekend. The party will be com pletely alcohol free and will offer numerous children’s activities. Kids not only will be able to learn about bike safety but will also have Turn to Fiesta, page 13 I IRIACHI IDS ma SONORA DINAMITA Courtesy of Phil Bauer. Gurantee of the Collective will perforin tonight at the Lyrical Fest. A NEW WAVE Of LYRICAL FLOW ■ Northwest Lyrical Fest will bring local hip-hop artists together again at the WOW Hall By Bevin Caffery Oregon Daily Emerald Iet’s be honest. Images of Eugene do not typically involve visions of swift lyricism and deft word play. But the groups performing at tonight’s Northwest Lyrical Fest will claim other wise. Not only does our drowsy little col lege town have a scene of local artists who like to rap, they even kick up a mean flow. After a four-year break, Northwest Lyrical Fest is back, thanks to the deter mination and enthusiasm of one Uni versity student, Phil Bauer. Bauer, as the key organizer, heads up the 14 group showcase tonight at the WOW Hall. In addition to organizing the event, Bauer will be a performer in Strange Folks, a local hip-hop group. This is the third Northwest Lyrical Fest to storm the WOW Hall, except this concert is a bit late — the last Lyri cal Fest was in 1997. Bauer said that hip-hop generally develops in waves, so the four-year wait was for the new sounds and performers to step into the spotlight. Northwest Lyrical Fest is composed of Eugene and Portland groups, and Bauer hopes to give listeners a sense of the city of Eugene and a taste of the state of Oregon. The gathering is “a huge compila tion of Oregon groups on stage at the same time,” Bauer said. “[This will] give local artists a chance to be seen and heard.” The idea started as a desire to hold an event for his own group, Strange Folks, but Bauer decided to go all the way to in clude other local groups. He planned to Turn to Lyrical fest, page 13
