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This is a listing of the events
open to the public in the Columbia
area for this weekend.
The Big Apple ? 1000
Hampton Street ? A solo exhibition
of Columbia native Richard TJ
Bryan's modem sculpture will be
held Sunday from 2 to 4:30 p.m. X.
Club 18 ? 1350 Bush River
Road (beside Target at Bush River ""I
Mall). On Friday, live DJ. On Saturday,
Frozen Heart will play. $4 A
cover both nights.
The Cockpit ? 922 Main St mm
Tonight, Public Ayes at 10:30 p.m. ^
Cover is $3. On Saturday, D.J.
Mad Max. Cover is $2.
Cracker jacks ? 1325 Long- Jfl
creek Dr. Featured Friday and Saturday,
live DJ. Happy hour from
6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Open 4 p.m. to 4 pF
a.m. on Saturday. Cover is $1.
w Koger center ? ine use
concert and symphonic bands will
give their annual Parent's Day
concert on Sunday at 3 p.m. Admission
is free.
Greenstreet's ? 1101
Harden St. Featured tonight, Wide
spread Panic. Cover is $9. On Saturday,
Freedom of Expression and TO
cover is $5. On Sunday, the Vul- Th
gar Boatmen, with a $3 cover. Per- R
sons age 18 and older admitted. _
Shows are at 8 p.m. and 10:15
p.m. Persons age 21 and over
admitted.
Rockafeila's ? 2112 Devine
St. Featured tonight, Aleka's Attic,
featuring River Phoenix. Cover is
$5. On Saturday, Kilkenny Cats
with Watershed. Cover is $6. On
Sunday, an all-ages show at 6 p.m. A
with BOA and God's Water. M
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acoustic night. Persons age 18 and ^
over admitted.
# The Township ? 1703 Taylor
St. The musical "Phantom of
the Opera" will play Saturday at 8
p.m. Tickets are $25.50.
# The Punchline ? 634
Harden St. Tonight and Saturday, A
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Are now reopening the selection process for c
of the following committees:
Travel and Tour
Ideas and Issues
Cultural Arts
Applications are due April 12, 1991 by 5:
cations are available in the CPU office, room 2C
For more information, please come by or call
These activities are paid for, in part, by Student A
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film experience
By KATHY HEBERGER
Carolina Life Editor
Driving past the Nickelodeon Theatre on a weekend night, one
might see clumps of people in conversation, laughing, frowning
and smiling.
They're probably talking about the film they've just seen or questioning
someone who has just seen it, said Nickelodeon volunteer
Jerry McAnich, who has been going to the theater since 1979.
"Going to the Nickelodeon is a personal experience. You get to
know the people who work there and who go there. The experience of
going to the theater is as important as the movie you're going to see,"
media arts junior Mandy Langston said.
Founded in 1979 by USC graduates Carl Davis and Linda
O'Connor, the Nickelodeon Theatre specializes in classic, rare and
foreign films. It will continue its showing of Oscar-winning Cyrano
de Bergerac this weekend.
Davis, O'Connor and their film-loving classmates from college,
missed the classic, rare films the Russell House Theater showed when
they attended USC. The couple sent fliers to ardent film-goers in the
community, asking them if they would be willing to pay $10 per year
to finance a film society.
The response in favor of creating the film society was overwhelming,
theater director Dale Campbell said. "At first they showed their
films in the nursing building ? anvwhere thev could." he said.
Then in January 1979 the society paid several thousand dollars for
its building at 937 Main St., a former C&S Bank. After painting the
walls black, installing 70 seats, a screen and a sound system, the Columbia
Theatre Society had a theater.
"We've upgraded the building tremendously over the years. Now
we're got a new sound system and updated projectors," said Campbell,
who has been director at the Nickelodeon since 1981, when Davis
and O'Connor left for Hollywood to pursue careers in film.
Watching a film at the Nickelodeon is a "wonderful film experience,"
said USC librarian and Nickelodeon volunteer Deborah Yerkes.
"It's closer to watching films with friends in a home than going to an
octi-plex at the mall. You can always find someone to talk to," she
said.
David Nations, a sophomore French major, said his first impression
of the Nickelodeon was a memorable one. 'There was this room, all
painted black, with really crude lighting. I remember thinking that
they would slowly dim the lights before the film started. Not at the
Nickelodeon. Someone hit a switch, and the place went completely
black," he said.
Since that trip to the Nickelodeon to see The Music Teacher, a
French film, Nations has been back often and may become a member
of the society next semester.
"It's big enough to hold everybody but small enough to have an
intimate atmosphere. You know you're seeing something you won't
see anywhere else. Sometimes you really have to have an open mind
to appreciate the movies," he said.
The theater had to close for five months in 1988 when another rare
film theater opened in Five Points. "There just wasn't enough demand
to keep both theaters in business," Campbell said.
Since the Nickelodeon's rebirth, it has been growing stronger than
ever. The society, which now has about 800 members, is entirely volunteer
with the exception of Campbell. "It's an amazing cultural phenomenon
to get so many people to roll up their sleeves and work to
keep the theater going," Campbell said.
Cyrano de Bergerac shows at the Nickelodeon at 7 p.m. and 9:30
p.m. tonight through Sunday. Admission is $3 for Columbia Film
Society members and $4 for non-members. Membership is $10 yearly
for students, $20 for the public.
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