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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