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010215 Communitu Canter tar the renaming Arts 8th it Lincoln ■ Tonight ■ Funktoberfest with ABAKADUBI Freedom Funk Ensemble, Papa’s Soul Kitchen, The Dubious Brothers lank $8 door, 8:oo pm mFriday ■ The Breeders wtth chevron Rock $13 advance, $15 door, 8:oo pm ■ Saturday ■ 7th Annual Witches’ Ball with Onomatopoeia, Serpentina Ala Mar Costume liaJJ Admission on a sliding scale, $6 to $io doe*;, 8:30 pm ■ Wednesday ■ Halloween with The Disco Biscuits Techno Jam Rock $10 advance, $12 door, 8:00pm All Ages Welcome • 687-2746 Fridays dr Saturdays at 8:00 PM October 26 & 2?. 2001 November 2, 3, 9 & 10, 2001 Actors Cabaret, 996 Willamette Halloween Performance1 Wednesday, October 31 McDonald Theater Downtown Eugene Get your tickets now at ACE! l ickcts Information: 683-4368 WILD DUCKWUSIC HALL tickets now available at www.wildduckbrewery.com GARA3f MAHAL "k THURSDAY OCTOBER 25 Advance tickets available NOW at Fastixx and eugene.com Groovy Weekly Reader Polls. Vote online. See results instantly. n9iew.dailgemerald.eom Make a date with “Peanuts” ■Good grief! Hallowed era passes as holiday specials fade By David Biancuili New York Daily News (KRT) When the animated TV special “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” is repeated Thursday night at 8 ET, it will not be shown by CBS, the net work that presented the “Peanuts” Halloween cartoon for the first time in 1966 and has aired it annually since. It will be televised by ABC. Between now and the end of the year, “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” and the animated holiday genre’s ultimate classic, “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” will be on ABC, too. CBS, after restoring them a few years ago, let Charles Schulz’s most famous TV specials defect to ABC, whose Disney owners know the value of cherished, fam ily-based animation. It’s not quite the end of an era, but it is another sign that we are taking some of our cultural televi sion treasures for granted and cer tainly are doing nothing to re place them. As late as the mid-1970s, be fore the advent of home VCRs, television was the only way to enjoy certain TV treats, and their annual broadcasts were major events. For example, in the ’70s, reruns of “The Wizard of Oz” routinely ranked among the top movie tele casts each year. And live and taped broadcasts of Mary Martin in “Peter Pan,” though not annu al events, were eagerly anticipat ed specials. Around the holidays, so were “How the Grinch Stole Christ mas,” “Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol” and other family fare — re peated over enough years to make them TV institutions. The classic movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” — first an exclusive, then ubiqui tous, now exclusive again — con tinues to draw loyal audiences. But when it comes to television specials that still qualify as ap pointment television, there are fewer of them all the time. Home-video availability, cable universe competition and multi set TV households explain part of it. The rest of the dip in the ap peal of holiday TV specials is ex plained by a familiar yet perti nent phrase: They just don’t make ’em like they used to. Watching “It’s the Great Pump kin, Charlie Brown” today is a warming, almost foreign, experi ence. The animation is crude, even in the set-piece action se quence in which Snoopy, atop his doghouse, imagines himself as a World War I flying ace in a dog fight (so to speak) with Germany’s Red Baron. Vince Guaraldi’s musical score, some of it lifted and slightly re arranged from “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” is jazzy and mature. And the plot, such as it is, has a bunch of preschoolers interact ing on Halloween night — mak ing costumes, hunting for candy and, in the case of Linus, waiting loyally for an appearance by the Great Pumpkin. “On Halloween night,” Linus explains, “the Great Pumpkin ris es out of his pumpkin patch and flies through the air with his bag of toys for all the children.” He rises each year, Linus adds, from the pumpkin patch “he feels is the most sincere,” prompting the sole true believer Linus to for go the collection of Halloween candy in lieu of his eventually lonely vigil. Is Linus rewarded for his un shaken faith? Not this year — but that doesn’t shake him either, which makes this special so sen sitive and impressive. Has anything made for children for the holidays in the last decade been as resonant as these Hal loween and Christmas “Peanuts” specials? Not even close. Don’t take them for granted, even if some of the networks do. © 2001, New York Daily News. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services. Agate Hall continued from page 7 but said she’s “kind of a ham.” Davidson said her music has “tinges of hippieness.” Hazard saved his best musical praise for Mirah. "I like her because she captures a lot of awkwardness,” he said. Mirah said she writes “self-help” songs for herself simply because she enjoys doing it. She said most of her songs are metaphors for life and the immediate things she experiences. She doesn’t think much about the future, and when asked where she was going, she replied, “I’m going to Salt Lake City right now.” Dear Nora and Mirah have been touring together around the West Coast since Oct. 16, and Mirah said all the shows have been good. A per sonal highlight for her was getting to play inside a volcano crater near Flagstaff, Ariz., for a family friend’s wedding. Mirah said she usually plays smaller venues or house shows in stead of large shows such as the one on Friday. Mirah’s last visit to Eu gene, in the spring, was a small house show. “It was, like, the best house show I’ve ever done,” she said. Mirah appreciates venue variety. “It is good,” she said, “to play in volcanoes, basements and col leges.” Mirah recently released a five song LP, “Small Sale,” though not all the tunes on it are new. Some of the songs were previously recorded on a cassette, “parts of human de sire,” which is now out of print. Some of the songs on that recording were included in her CD “you think it’s like this but really it’s like this,” UO School of Music Chamber Music Series IT’S TIME. /ftlonica ^tlends IIS TIME. For those who yearn for the authenticity of chamber music performed on period instruments, this concert is a dream come true. Monica Huggett, direc tor of the Portland Baroque Orchestra, has an interna tional reputation as a soloist, director, and chamber musician. With baroque violinist Jolianne van Einem, baroque cellist Marc Vanscheeuwijck, and harpsi chordist Sue Jensen, she will perform “Italian Influ ences on Bach,” including selections by Handel, Marini, Corelli, and Vivaldi. Sunday, Oct. 28 • 4 p.m. BEALL CONCERT HALL Free Musical Insights by Robert Hurwitz, 3 p.m. One of the foremost baroque violinists of our time ... Monica Huggett Reserved Seats $25, $20, $10 at the Hult Center (682-5000) or UO Ticket Office in the EMU (346-4363) r- ^ ♦ ■% •» (she said the title came to her while swimming in a lake), but Mirah said she wanted the other songs to be made available. “Small Sale” is an interlude before the release of Mirah s new album in March. She said most of the songs she has been performing have been from those two recordings. On her recordings, Mirah pairs up with other friends and artists to add additional elements to her songs be yond guitar and vocals. But when she performs, she usually plays solo. “I write the songs by myself, so when I play them live in that fash ion, it’s the truest form they can be,” she said. The show starts at 9 p.m. and tickets are $6 for general admission and $5 with student identification. Mason West is the senior Pulse reporter for the Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be reached at masonwest@dailyemerald.com. ror me week beginning Friday, Oct, 26th MULHOLLANDi DRIVE ^rom r>avid Lynch “fts investigation into the power of movis* pierces a void from which you can hear the screams of a ravenous demon whose appetites wt!i never be staked.' Stephen Harden, NEW YORK TIMES 4:45,7:45 & 10:45pm- Sun Mat 1:45pm® hedwig the Angry Inch ‘A rock and roll movie that remembers what it is to truly rock and roll." - J. Anderson, S F EXAMINER 5:15,7:25 1 9:30pm Nightly ® Soon: Ghost Wood & Jio-Roh: Wolf Brigade .iittiamiMti sb mme fTY m THfi HxyO^IL 11:55pm - $4.00 Thu-Sat, $3.00 Sun-Wed ateo Sunday Mittnee 3:00pm-$4.00 ea
