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Features Editor: John Liebhardt johnliebhardt@dailyemerald.com I »l 1 •I r C 1/ f I < h r I T - •= l i •* r 1 1 ( ‘Starlight5 star bright Students can watch old movies with drive-in flair on the Knight Library lawn. Page 10 Thursday, May 2,2002 Adam Jones Emerald Shawn Mediaclast, the curator of the Museum of Unfine Arts & Records in downtown Eugene, is presenting the show ‘Find the Hidden Bigfoot: An Exhibit of Sasquatches by Area Artists.’ Composed mostly of public entry, this show roots from Mediaclast’s own fascination of the legendary beast since his early childhood. ■A local galley and record store owner will display a series of art shows through May 14 called ‘Find the Hidden Bigfoot’ By Alix Kerl Oregon Daily Emerald Bigfoot will finally have a chance to be part of the modern art scene, thanks to Shawn Mediaclast and his Museum of Unfine Art & Records in Eugene. The downtown Eugene store is part avant garde gallery and part eclectic record store. The store contains more than 100 ties, a child’s tiger suit, Manic Panic hair dye, dusty records and cigarettes. Buttons that read “Old Fart” and “Re porters Tell Stories” lay behind the counter. An old telephone booth functions as a changing room to try on polka-dot shirts and puffy vests. The walls are galleries, filled with ever-chang ing pieces of art. The subtitle of Mediaclast’s business card reads, “Musique, Art & Fashion Concrete.” The latest in a series of art shows at the store is “Find the Hidden Bigfoot: An Exhibit of Hidden Turn to Unfine Art, page 11 Courtesy Photo Bigfoot researcher to present finding Autumn Williams said she had her first encounter with Bigfoot when she was three years old as she was gather ing firewood with her mother in Washington. As they were looking for sticks> her mother stopped in front of her and Williams slammed into her back, startled. “I stopped and looked up, and there were a couple of big hairy peo ple in front of me,” Williams said. “The hig one was dark and the little one was lighter. My mom said, ‘Au tumn, walk, don’t run, walk back to the house.'” Williams will be one of three speak ers talking about Bigfoot research, be ginning at 7:32 p,m. Friday at the Mu seum of Unfine Art & Records. Williams said she is frustrated by peo ple’s emphasis on the actual sighting, because she was so young at the time that she doesn’t remember every detail. “What I do know is that we saw a couple of things that weren’t supposed to be there,” Williams said, “But, when you are three years old, you don’t know that big hairy people aren’t sup posed to be walking around,” she said. The thing that really struck her about the creatures was their eyes, because she saw a human intelligence in a non human face, Turn to Bigfoot, page 10 George Clinton’s mothership to land in Eugene ■ Parliament & Funkadelic bring their funky attitudes and diverse backgrounds to the McDonald Theatre on Sunday By Alix Kerl Oregon Daily Emerald The name George Clinton is synonymous with funk. George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic are scheduled to land in Eigene at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Mc Donald Theatre. For the past three decades, Clinton has been the forerunner of numerous musical groups. He started the doo-wop group The Parliaments, then created the rock band Funkadelic. Through the years, various incarnations of these groups showed up as Parliaments, Bootsy’s Rubber Band, Parlet, The Brides of Funken stein, Jimmy Jam & the Tackheads, George Clin ton (solo artist), the P-Funk All Stars and finally George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic. Nick Rossoff, security manager for the McDon ald Theatre, has seen some incarnation of George Clinton’s group play more than 20 times. “It’s a rotating cast of characters, and you never know who you’re going to see,” Rossoff said. “The concerts are long and loud.” Like Clinton himself, the current group has a long history. Rossoff said that Parliament/Funkadelic started out as a singing group called The Par liaments and a backup group called Funkadel ic. The legendary Maceo Parker was in the group in the early days and part of the original horn section, Rossoff said. Rossoff said that the more than 25-member group usually includes six or seven guitar play ers, two or three bassists, four horn players, three keyboardists and five or six back-up singers. “It’s just crazy,” he said. “They play rock, they play funk, they play blues, they play jazz. They bring it together.” Turn to Clinton, page 8 Fiesta’s emphasis remains on ‘Latin’ ■This weekend’s Fiesta Latina will showcase food, music and art from North and South American cultures By John Liebhardt Oregon Daily Emerald There will be no hot dogs sold at this year’s Fiesta Latina. No cheese dogs, ei ther. That’s just the way Rebeca Urhausen likes it. Instead, the three-day festival, run ning Friday through Sunday, will fea ture authentic cuisine, art and music from Latin American countries. “We feature real traditional food,” said Urhausen, Fiesta Latina commit tee chair. “We want to show the com munity the best we Urhausen expects that this weekend, | rain or shine, more 1 than 20,000 people will descend onto Washington/Jeffer- f son Park, located § at Fifth Avenue and Washington | Street. The cost is | a $3 donation. This year’s festi- | val offers 16 tradi- f tional food booths, featuring authentic : cuisine from Peru, : El Salvador and § Mexico, bands run ning all three days at the sound stage and an artistic ex hibit featuring 10 international and local artists. have to offer. Heading to Fiesta Latina? Lane Transit District is offering a free shuttle to and from this weekend's Fiesta Latina festival at the Washington/ Jefferson Park at Fifth Avenue and Washington Street. Free shuttles wit! run every 20 minutes from LTD’s Eugene Station. The festival is Eugene’s version of Cinco de Mayo, which is celebrated in many cities across the United States with large Chicano popula tions. Cinco de Mayo honors the Mexican army’s defeat of French forces at the “Batalla de Puebla” on May 5, 1862. While the holiday is generally a Mexican and Chicano fes tival, Fiesta Latina celebrates the tra ditions of Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas. “We don’t want it to be an all-Mexi can event, we want it to be a Latin American event,” Urhausen said. To do this, the Fiesta Latina organiz ers have set two rules for any food ven dor, music group or artist who wants to show their wares at the festival: They must be of Latin descent or they must cover Latin themes. Fiesta Latina “will give students a chance to get in touch with a commu nity that you may not always have the chance to be in touch with,” Univer sity graduate student Maria Ladona Schaad said. Urhausen said she always tries to bring in new talent into the music line up each year. This year, three new bands will be playing. Son Melao will open the Turn to Fiesta Latina, page 12
