Entertainment Editor:
Jeremy Lang
jlang@gladstone.uoregon.edu
Oregon Daily Emerald
Can’t keep a good feature down
The Promo Photo of the Week finally
returns, with some giant leafy friends in tow.
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DIRTY POP PLEASURES
■Though Tuesday heralded the
release of *NSYNC’s new album,
campus-area record stores weren’t
exactly flooded with fans
By Jeremy Lang
Oregon Daily Emerald
Despite the prevailing stereotype of
students hitting the books with in
die or alternative rock, punk and
the occasional 1980s retread play
ing in the background, college kids dig
bubble-gum pop.
A springtime jaunt around the resi
dence halls, greek houses and apartment
complexes in the University neighbor
hoods will reveal all the Total Request
Live staples from Britney Spears to Han
son blasting from open windows.
But on Tuesday, when the long-await
ed second-coming of *NSYNC arrived
and the new album, “Celebrity,” hit the
shelves, few college students rushed to
the campus independent record stores
to indulge their pop pleasures.
Instead, they slunk toward chain
stores and mall shops, but with caution
and under a cloak of anonymity.
At Face the Music on 13th Avenue, no
body camped outside waiting hungrily for
the doors to open so they could get their
hands on the 13 Jeep-bumpin’ tracks. Emi
ly Singleton, a worker at the store, said the
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atmosphere was, at most, anti-climatic.
“I haven’t thought about it much,” she
said.
Singleton said her store ordered 20
copies of the album, compared with
about 140 for “Kid A” and “Amnesiac”
from Radiohead, a current pop icon
dominating the college music scene
much like *NSYNC rules the TRL charts
and junior high schoolers’ hearts.
Farther down 13th Avenue at House of
Records, Greg Sutherland said he ordered
two copies of the album and one on tape,
but by early afternoon Tuesday, none of
the copies had been snatched up.
Sutherland added that he expected to
unload his copies, but probably not to
the college crowd that comes in looking
for local bands, punk rock and classic al
bums on vinyl.
“Moms come in here with kids,” he
said. “They still seem to sell.”
The situation was even more bleak for
collegiate *NSYNC fans who turn to Sty
lus Grooves for their house, techno and
DJ-ready beats. Ben Colgan said his store
didn’t stock a single copy on Tuesday,
let alone a copy on vinyl for a DJ to spin
at summer college parties.
“We wouldn’t carry an *NSYNC al
bum,” he said. “Unless it happens to be
one hell of a bad-ass remix. ”
Students spending their summer in the
Turn to *NSYNC, page 8
Jessie Swimeley Emerald
Jessie Swimeley Emerald
Blake (above), who refused to share her last name, contemplates the dirty little pleasures of “Celebrity,” *NSYNC’s new album.
Not afraid to show their *NSYNC pride, Katie Victorson, Rachel Burge and Mara McCornack (left), all age 10, stand by their
men. Ail three girls think that Lance—the one in the middle, in case you didn’t know—is the best.
HOT TIMES,
SUMMER
IN THE CITY
■ Life in Eugene will get spicier this
weekend as chili cooks and salsa dancers
take over the downtown area for the
Eugene Chilibration
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
Chili lovers, take note. The first Eugene
Chilibration is here — and event organ
izers promise the two-day salsa compe
tition and chili cook-off will be even
hotter than the winning bowl of chili.
Hosted by the same group that sponsors
the Eugene Celebration and First Night Eu
gene, the Chilibration will be held downtown
at the intersection of Broadway and
Willamette streets.
The gates open at 5 p.m. Frichif* end those
who show up between 5 and 6 p.m. that day
can buy a two-day pa^Tor $5;~r- after that, it
will be $8 for botbdays or sJlfpr just Satur
day.
Admission comes with a
and a napkin — and then parncl
free to sample chili creations froml
15 cooks expected to attend, saic
Tvenge, the marketing director for
town Events Management,dhe grou^_
ing the event. | / /V—
Cooks are encouraged to use their own
style and to be as flamboyant as possible, shp.,
added, with awards give^uto the rook, with
the best booth as wel\ a^thb best chili
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the “Chili Belle.” Levine^^describes her
self as having “a long-tim#' int«|r^t in hot
food,” will provide the crowd Ivlth samples
of her very own “Love Chili.”
Eating this chili infuses a person with love,
she said, but she won’t divulge what goes
into her heart-felt recipe.
“Just as love is a mystery, so is the secret in
greghent in Love Chili,” she said.
an added bonus to the Chili
Is that organizers have obtained a per
.ihlt allowing festival-, attendees to drink alco
hbl put side t]ae©, bear garden — which,
according^ Levinef is a key ingredient to a
pfoppr chili cook-off.
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thesaid.
dffi community members, Levine
bp dancing at the Chilibration, per
^fp|ming a ijange of spicy dance styles such as
Krgentine-tango, Cajun and salsa.
i|ye miisic will be another feature of the
bth Friday night’s entertainment in
perfor^§nces by blues artists Skip
and Npflpn Buffalo and the Knockouts,
a renowned harmonica player, has
tourg4f|viik the Steve Miller Band and has
poptded songs with former Grateful Dead
hummer Mickey Hart.
On Saturday, events begin at 11 a.m. with
a Corvette and vintage motorcycle show,
crafts and activities for children, and a John
Wayne memorabilia exhibition. There will
also be music performances throughout the
day by Los Mex Pistols del Norte, LaZoo
and other artists.
But the main event of the Chilibration will
be the chili cook-off itself, with cash prizes
totaling $1,000 up for grabs to the best chef.
Following the salsa competition on Saturday,
judges will sample the cooks’ chili and select
a winner based on criteria such as color, tex
ture, smell, taste and spiciness.
Mrs. Lane County, Annette Konnie, will
be one of the competition judges. A first
time chili judge the contestant in the up
coming Mrs. Oregon competition said she
volunteered for the job because “I love
chili.”
As this is the first year for the event, Kon
nie said she’s not sure what to expect, but she
plans on having a good time.
“I’m just looking forward to meeting some
really wonderful people,” Konnie said. “And
hopefully not spilling anything on myself.”